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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1013
To amend the Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974
to establish procedures for the expedited consideration by the Congress
of certain proposals by the President to rescind amounts of budget
authority.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 18, 1993
Mr. STENHOLM (for himself, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. PAYNE of
Virginia, Mr. GLICKMAN, Mr. PENNY, Mr. ARMEY, Mr. ANDREWS of
Texas, Mr. BACCHUS of Florida, Mr. BAESLER, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr.
BEREUTER, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. BROWDER, Mr. BRYANT,
Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. BUYER, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CLEMENT, Mr.
CLINGER, Mr. CONDIT, Mr. COPPERSMITH, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. DIAZ-
BALART, Mr. DORNAN, Mr. EDWARDS of Texas, Mr. FINGERHUT, Mr.
PETE GEREN of Texas, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. GOSS, Mr.
HALL of Texas, Mr. HAMILTON, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. HAYES, Mr. HERGER,
Mr. HOBSON, Mr. HUGHES, Mr. INSLEE, Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut,
Mr. KLINK, Mr. KLUG, Mr. LAROCCO, Mr. LANCASTER, Mr. LAUGHLIN,
Mr. LEHMAN, Mr. MANN, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas, Mr.
MINGE, Mr. MONTGOMERY, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. NEAL of North Caro-
lina, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. PARKER, Mr. PETERSON of Florida, Mr. PETER-
SON of Minnesota, Mr. PETRI, Mr. POMBO, Mr. POSHARD, Mr. RAMSTAD,
Mr. ROEMER, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. ROWLAND, Mr. SHAYS, Mr.
SKELTON, Mr. SLATTERY, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. SPRATT, Mr.
SWETT, Mr. TANNER, Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi, Mr.
UPTON, Mr. VOLKMER, Mr. WELDON, Mr. WILSON, Mr. WOLF, Mr.
WYDEN, and Mr. ZELIFF) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred jointly to the Committees on Government Operations and Rules
A BILL
To amend the Congressional Budget Control and Impound-
ment Act of 1974 to establish procedures for the expe-
dited consideration by the Congress of certain proposals
by the President to rescind amounts of budget authority.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited Consider-
ation of Proposed Rescissions Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PRO-
POSED RESCISSIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title X of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by redesignating sections
1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, re-
spectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following
new section:
‘‘EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED
RESCISSIONS
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) PROPOSED RESCISSION OF BUDGET
AUTHORITY.—In addition to the method of rescinding
budget authority specified in section 1012, the President
may propose, at the time and in the manner provided in
subsection (b), the rescission of any budget authority pro-
vided in an appropriations Act. Funds made available for
obligation under this procedure may not be proposed for
rescission again under this section or section 1012.
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—
‘‘(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of en-
actment of an appropriation Act, the President may
transmit to Congress a special message proposing to
rescind amounts of budget authority provided in
that Act and include with that special message a
draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that
budget authority. That bill shall clearly identify the
amount of budget authority that is proposed to be
rescinded for each program, project, or activity to
which that budget authority relates.
‘‘(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that
includes accounts within the jurisdiction of more
than one subcommittee of the Committee on Appro-
priations, the President in proposing to rescind
budget authority under this section shall send a sep-
arate special message and accompanying draft bill
for accounts within the jurisdiction of each such sub-
committee.
‘‘(3) Each special message shall specify, with
respect to the budget authority proposed to be re-
scinded, the matters referred to in paragraphs (1)
through (5) of section 1012(a).
‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS SUBJECT TO RESCIS-
SION.—
‘‘(1) The amount of budget authority which the
President may propose to rescind in a special mes-
sage under this section for a particular program,
project, or activity for a fiscal year may not exceed
25 percent of the amount appropriated for that pro-
gram, project, or activity in that Act.
‘‘(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1)
shall only apply to amounts specifically authorized to
be appropriated for a particular program, project, or
activity.
‘‘(d) PROCEDURES
FOR
EXPEDITED
CONSIDER-
ATION.—
‘‘(1)(A) Before the close of the second day of
continuous session of the applicable House after the
date of receipt of a special message transmitted to
Congress under subsection (b), the majority leader
or minority leader of the House of Representatives
shall introduce (by request) the draft bill accom-
panying that special message. If the bill is not intro-
duced as provided in the preceding sentence, then,
on the third day of continuous session of the House
of Representatives after the date of receipt of that
special message, any Member of that House may in-
troduce the bill.
‘‘(B) The bill shall be referred to the Commit-
tee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives. The committee shall report the bill without
substantive revision and with or without rec-
ommendation. The bill shall be reported not later
than the seventh day of continuous session of that
House after the date of receipt of that special mes-
sage. If the Committee on Appropriations fails to re-
port the bill within that period, that committee shall
be automatically discharged from consideration of
the bill, and the bill shall be placed on the appro-
priate calendar.
‘‘(C) During consideration under this para-
graph, any Member of the House of Representatives
may move to strike any proposed rescission or re-
scissions of budget authority if supported by 49
other Members.
‘‘(D) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be
taken in the House of Representatives on or before
the close of the 10th calendar day of continuous ses-
sion of that House after the date of the introduction
of the bill in that House. If the bill is passed, the
Clerk of the House of Representatives shall cause
the bill to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to
the Senate within one calendar day of the day on
which the bill is passed.
‘‘(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representa-
tives to proceed to the consideration of a bill under
this section shall be highly privileged and not debat-
able. An amendment to the motion shall not be in
order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider
the vote by which the motion is agreed to or dis-
agreed to.
‘‘(B) Debate in the House of Representatives
on a bill under this section shall not exceed 4 hours,
which shall be divided equally between those favoring
and those opposing the bill. A motion further to
limit debate shall not be debatable. It shall not be
in order to move to recommit a bill under this sec-
tion or to move to reconsider the vote by which the
bill is agreed to or disagreed to.
‘‘(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relat-
ing to the application of the Rules of the House of
Representatives to the procedure relating to a bill
under this section shall be decided without debate.
‘‘(D) Except to the extent specifically provided
in the preceding provisions of this subsection, con-
sideration of a bill under this section shall be gov-
erned by the Rules of the House of Representatives.
‘‘(3)(A) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursu-
ant to paragraph (1)(C) shall be referred to its Com-
mittee on Appropriations. The committee shall re-
port the bill without substantive revision and with or
without recommendation. The bill shall be reported
not later than the seventh day of continuous session
of the Senate after it receives the bill. A committee
failing to report the bill within such period shall be
automatically discharged from consideration of the
bill, and the bill shall be placed upon the appropriate
calendar.
‘‘(B) During consideration under this para-
graph, any Member of the Senate may move to
strike any proposed rescission or rescissions of budg-
et authority if supported by 14 other Members.
‘‘(C) A vote on final passage of a bill transmit-
ted to the Senate shall be taken on or before the
close of the 10th calendar day of continuous session
of the Senate after the date on which the bill is
transmitted. If the bill is passed in the Senate with-
out amendment, the Secretary of the Senate shall
cause the engrossed bill to be returned to the House
of Representatives.
‘‘(D) If the bill is amended in the Senate solely
as provided by subparagraph (B), the Secretary of
the Senate shall cause an engrossed amendment (in
the nature of a substitute) to be returned to the
House of Representatives. Upon receipt of that
amendment from the Senate, the House shall be
deemed to have agreed to the Senate amendment
and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall
enroll the bill.
‘‘(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to
the consideration of a bill under this section shall be
privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the
motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order
to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion
is agreed to or disagreed to.
‘‘(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill under this
section, and all debatable motions and appeals in
connection therewith, shall not exceed 10 hours. The
time shall be equally divided between, and controlled
by, the majority leader and the minority leader or
their designees.
‘‘(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable
motion or appeal in connection with a bill under this
section shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to
be equally divided between, and controlled by, the
mover and the manager of the bill, except that in
the event the manager of the bill is in favor of any
on the day after the date on which either House defeats
the bill transmitted with that special message.
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘appropriation Act’ means any
general or special appropriation Act, and any Act or
joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or
continuing appropriations; and
‘‘(2) continuity of a session of either House of
Congress shall be considered as broken only by an
adjournment of that House sine die, and the days on
which that House is not in session because of an ad-
journment of more than 3 days to a date certain
shall be excluded in the computation of any period.’’.
(b) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—Section
904 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and 1017’’ in subsection (a)
and inserting ‘‘1013, and 1018’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘section 1017’’ in subsection (d)
and inserting ‘‘sections 1013 and 1018’’; and
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 682(5))
is amended—
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘1013’’
and inserting ‘‘1014’’; and
(B) in paragraph (5)—
(i) by striking ‘‘1016’’ and inserting
‘‘1017’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘1017(b)(1)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘1018(b)(1)’’.
(2) Section 1015 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685)
(as redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place
it appears and inserting ‘‘1012, 1013, or
1014’’;
(B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking
‘‘1012’’ and inserting ‘‘1012 or 1013’’;
(C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking
‘‘1013’’ and inserting ‘‘1014’’; and
(D) in subsection (e)(2)—
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of
subparagraph (A);
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph
(B) as subparagraph (C);
(iii) by striking ‘‘1013’’ in subpara-
graph (C) (as so redesignated) and insert-
ing ‘‘1014’’; and
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph
(A) the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(B) he has transmitted a special message
under section 1013 with respect to a proposed
rescission; and’’.
(3) Section 1016 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686)
(as redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended by
striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place it appears and
inserting ‘‘1012, 1013, or 1014’’.
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sections
for subpart B of title X of such Act is amended—
(1) by redesignating the items relating to sec-
tions 1013 through 1017 as items relating to sec-
tions 1014 through 1018; and
(2) by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 1012 the following new item:
‘‘Sec. 1013. Expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions.’’.
SEC. 3. APPLICATION.
Section 1013 of the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 (as added by section 2)
shall apply to amounts of budget authority provided by
appropriation Acts (as defined in subsection (g) of such
section) that are enacted during the One Hundred Third
Congress.
SEC. 4. TERMINATION.
The authority provided by section 1013 of the Con-
gressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
(as added by section 2) shall terminate effective on the
date in 1994 on which Congress adjourns sine die.
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