(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘at
least every three years’’ and inserting ‘‘at
least every 4 years except that strategic
plans submitted by September 30, 2003,
shall be updated and revised by Sep-
tember 30, 2006’’;
(3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘five
years forward’’ and inserting ‘‘six years
forward’’; and
(4) in subsection (c), by inserting a
comma after ‘‘section’’ the second place it
appears and inserting ‘‘including a stra-
tegic plan submitted by September 30,
2004 2003, meeting the requirements of
subsection (a)’’.
(g)
(f) 
PERFORMANCE
PLANS.—Section
2803(a) of title 39, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in the matter before paragraph
(1), by striking ‘‘an annual’’ and inserting
‘‘a biennial’’;
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting
after ‘‘program activity’’ the following:
‘‘for both years 1 and 2 of the biennial
plan’’;
(3) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’
after the semicolon;
(4) in paragraph (6), by striking the
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(5) by adding after paragraph (6) the
following:
‘‘(7) cover each fiscal year of the bien-
nium beginning with the first fiscal year
of the next biennial budget cycle.’’.
(h) (g) COMMITTEE VIEWS OF PLANS AND RE-
PORTS.—Section 301(d) of the Congressional
Budget Act (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by
adding at the end ‘‘Each committee of the Sen-
ate or the House of Representatives shall re-
view the strategic plans, performance plans,
and performance reports, required under sec-
tion 306 of title 5, United States Code, and sec-
tions 1115 and 1116 of title 31, United States
Code, of all agencies under the jurisdiction of
the committee. Each committee may provide
its views on such plans or reports to the Com-
mittee on the Budget of the applicable
House.’’.
(i) (h) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The amendments
made by this section shall take effect on
March 1, 2005.
(2) AGENCY ACTIONS.—Effective on and
after the date of enactment of this Act,
each agency shall take such actions as
necessary to prepare and submit any
plan or report in accordance with the
amendments made by it.
SEC. 9. BIENNIAL APPROPRIATION BILLS.
(a) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—(1)
Clause 2(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subpara-
graph:
‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided by subdivision
(B), an appropriation may not be reported in
a general appropriation bill (other than a sup-
plemental appropriation bill), and may not be
in order as an amendment thereto, unless it
provides new budget authority or establishes
a level of obligations under contract authority
for each fiscal year of a biennium.
‘‘(B) Subdivision (A) does not apply with
respect to an appropriation for a single fiscal
year for any program, project, or activity if
the bill or amendment thereto containing that
appropriation includes a provision expressly
stating the following: ‘Congress finds that no
additional funding beyond one fiscal year will
be required and the [Insert name of applica-
ble program, project, or activity] will be com-
pleted or terminated after the amount pro-
vided has been expended.’.
‘‘(C) For purposes of paragraph (b), the
statement set forth in subdivision (B) with re-
spect to an appropriation for a single fiscal
year for any program, project, or activity may
be included in a general appropriation bill or
amendment thereto.’’.
(2) Clause 5(b)(1) of rule XXII of the House
of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘or
(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘or (3) or 2(c)’’.
(b) IN THE SENATE.—(1) Title III of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631 et
seq.) (as amended by section 7) is further
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘CONSIDERATION OF BIENNIAL APPROPRIATION
BILLS
‘‘SEC. 319. 317. It shall not be in order in
the Senate in any odd-numbered year to con-
sider any regular appropriation bill providing
new budget authority or a limitation on obli-
gations under the jurisdiction of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations for only the first fis-
cal year of a biennium, unless the program,
project, or activity for which the new budget
authority or obligation limitation is provided
will require no additional authority beyond
one year and will be completed or terminated
after the amount provided has been ex-
pended.’’.
(2) The table of contents set forth in sec-
tion 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by
adding after the item relating to section 318
316 the following new item:
‘‘Sec. 319. 317. Consideration of biennial appropriation bills.’’.
SEC. 10. ASSISTANCE BY FEDERAL AGENCIES TO STANDING
COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE AND THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
(a) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY AP-
PROPRIATIONS
REQUESTS.—To 
assist 
each
standing committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate in carrying out
its responsibilities, the head of each Federal
agency which administers the laws or parts of
laws under the jurisdiction of such committee
shall provide to such committee such studies,
information, analyses, reports, and assistance
as may be requested by the chairman and
ranking minority member of the committee.
(b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY PRO-
GRAM ADMINISTRATION.—To assist each stand-
ing committee of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate in carrying out its re-
sponsibilities, the head of any agency shall
furnish to such committee documentation,
containing information received, compiled, or
maintained by the agency as part of the oper-
ation or administration of a program, or spe-
cifically compiled pursuant to a request in
support of a review of a program, as may be
requested by the chairman and ranking mi-
nority member of such committee.
(c) SUMMARIES
BY
COMPTROLLER
GEN-
ERAL.—Within thirty days after the receipt of
a request from a chairman and ranking mi-
nority member of a standing committee hav-
ing jurisdiction over a program being re-
viewed and studied by such committee under
this section, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall furnish to such committee
summaries of any audits or reviews of such
program which the Comptroller General has
completed during the preceding six years.
(d) 
CONGRESSIONAL
ASSISTANCE.—Con-
sistent with their duties and functions under
law, the Comptroller General of the United
States, the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office, and the Director of the Con-
gressional Research Service shall continue to
furnish (consistent with established proto-
cols) to each standing committee of the House
of Representatives or the Senate such infor-
mation, studies, analyses, and reports as the
chairman and ranking minority member may
request to assist the committee in conducting
reviews and studies of programs under this
section.
SEC. 11. REPORT ON TWO-YEAR FISCAL PERIOD.
Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget shall—
(1) determine the impact and feasi-
bility of changing the definition of a fis-
cal year and the budget process based on
that definition to a 2-year fiscal period
with a biennial budget process based on
the 2-year period; and
(2) report the findings of the study to
the Committees on the Budget of the
House of Representatives and the Senate
and the Committee on Rules of the House
of Representatives.
SEC. 12. SPECIAL TRANSITION PERIOD FOR THE 108TH
CONGRESS.
(a) PRESIDENT’S BUDGET SUBMISSION
FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2004.—The budget submission of
the President pursuant to section 1105(a) of
title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year
2004 shall include the following:
(1) An identification of the budget ac-
counts for which an appropriation should
be made for each fiscal year of the fiscal
year 2004–2005 biennium.
(2) Budget authority that should be
provided for each such fiscal year for the
budget accounts identified under para-
graph (1).
(b) REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE
COMMITTEES
ON APPROPRIATIONS.—The Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate shall review the
items included pursuant to subsection (a) in
the budget submission of the President for fis-
cal year 2004 and include its recommenda-
tions thereon in its views and estimates made
under section 301(d) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 within 6 weeks of that
budget submission.
(c) ACTIONS
BY
THE COMMITTEES
ON
THE
BUDGET.—(1) The Committee on the Budget of
the House of Representatives and the Senate
shall review the items included pursuant to
subsection (a) in the budget submission of the
President for fiscal year 2004 and the rec-
ommendations submitted by the Committee
on Appropriations of its House pursuant to
subsection (b) included in its views and esti-
mates made under section 301(d) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974.
(2) The report of the Committee on the
Budget of each House accompanying the con-
current resolution on the budget for fiscal
year 2004 and the joint explanatory statement
of managers accompanying such resolution
shall also include allocations to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of its House of total
new budget authority and total outlays
(which shall be deemed to be made pursuant
to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 for purposes of budget enforce-
ment under section 302(f)) for fiscal year 2005
from which the Committee on Appropriations
may report regular appropriation bills for fis-
cal year 2004 that include funding for certain
accounts for each of fiscal years 2004 and
2005.
(3) The report of the Committee on the
Budget of each House accompanying the con-
current resolution on the budget for fiscal
year 2004 and the joint explanatory statement
of managers accompanying such resolution
shall also include the assumptions upon
which such allocations referred to in para-
graph (2) are based.
(d) GAO PROGRAMMATIC OVERSIGHT ASSIST-
ANCE.—(1) During the first session of the 108th
Congress the committees of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate are directed to
work with the Comptroller General of the
United States to develop plans to transition
program authorizations to a multi-year sched-
ule.
(2) During the 108th Congress, the Comp-
troller General of the United States will con-
tinue to provide assistance to the Congress
with respect to programmatic oversight and
in particular will assist the committees of
Congress in designing and conforming pro-
grammatic oversight procedures for the fiscal
year 2005–2006 biennium.
(e) CBO AUTHORIZATION REPORT.—On or
before January 15, 2004, the Director of the
Congressional Budget Office, after consulta-
tion with the appropriate committees of the
House of Representatives and Senate, shall
submit to the Congress a report listing (A) all
programs and activities funded during fiscal
year 2004 for which authorizations for appro-
priations have not been enacted for that fiscal
year and (B) all programs and activities fund-
ed during fiscal year 2004 for which author-
izations for appropriations will expire during
that fiscal year, fiscal year 2005, or fiscal year
2006.
(f) PRESIDENT’S BUDGET SUBMISSION
FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2005.—The budget submission of
the President pursuant to section 1105(a) of
title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year
2005 shall include an evaluation of, and rec-
ommendations regarding, the transitional bi-
ennial budget process for the fiscal year 2004–
2005 biennium that was carried out pursuant
to this section.
(g) CBO TRANSITIONAL REPORT.—On or be-
fore March 31, 2004, the Director of the Con-
gressional Budget Office shall submit to Con-
gress an evaluation of, and recommendations
regarding, the transitional biennial budget
process for the fiscal year 2004–2005 biennium
that was carried out pursuant to this section.
SEC. 13. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as provided by sections 8, 11, and
12, this Act and the amendments made by it
shall take effect on January 1, 2005, and shall
apply to budget resolutions and appropria-
tions for the biennium beginning with fiscal
year 2006.
Union Calendar No. 176
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 981
[Report No. 107–200, Parts I and II]
A BILL
To provide a biennial budget for the United States
Government.
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
Reported from the Committee on Rules with amendments
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
Committee on Government Reform discharged; com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed