In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
October 28, 2015. 
Resolved, That the House agree to the amendment of the 
Senate to the bill (H.R. 1314) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an 
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of 
tax-exempt status of certain organizations.’’, with the fol-
lowing 
HOUSE AMENDMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT: 
In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the 
amendment of the Senate, insert the following: 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bi-
partisan Budget Act of 2015’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this 
Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 
Sec. 101. Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
Sec. 102. Authority for fiscal year 2017 budget resolution in the Senate. 
TITLE II—AGRICULTURE 
Sec. 201. Standard Reinsurance Agreement. 
TITLE III—COMMERCE 
Sec. 301. Debt collection improvements.
TITLE IV—STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE 
Sec. 401. Strategic Petroleum Reserve test drawdown and sale notification and 
definition change. 
Sec. 402. Strategic Petroleum Reserve mission readiness optimization. 
Sec. 403. Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown and sale. 
Sec. 404. Energy Security and Infrastructure Modernization Fund. 
TITLE V—PENSIONS 
Sec. 501. Single employer plan annual premium rates. 
Sec. 502. Pension Payment Acceleration. 
Sec. 503. Mortality tables. 
Sec. 504. Extension of current funding stabilization percentages to 2018, 2019, 
and 2020. 
TITLE VI—HEALTH CARE 
Sec. 601. Maintaining 2016 Medicare part B premium and deductible levels con-
sistent with actuarially fair rates. 
Sec. 602. Applying the Medicaid additional rebate requirement to generic drugs. 
Sec. 603. Treatment of off-campus outpatient departments of a provider. 
Sec. 604. Repeal of automatic enrollment requirement. 
TITLE VII—JUDICIARY 
Sec. 701. Civil monetary penalty inflation adjustments. 
Sec. 702. Crime Victims Fund. 
Sec. 703. Assets Forfeiture Fund. 
TITLE VIII—SOCIAL SECURITY 
Sec. 801. Short title. 
Subtitle A—Ensuring Correct Payments and Reducing Fraud 
Sec. 811. Expansion of cooperative disability investigations units. 
Sec. 812. Exclusion of certain medical sources of evidence. 
Sec. 813. New and stronger penalties. 
Sec. 814. References to Social Security and Medicare in electronic communica-
tions. 
Sec. 815. Change to cap adjustment authority. 
Subtitle B—Promoting Opportunity for Disability Beneficiaries 
Sec. 821. Temporary reauthorization of disability insurance demonstration 
project authority. 
Sec. 822. Modification of demonstration project authority. 
Sec. 823. Promoting opportunity demonstration project. 
Sec. 824. Use of electronic payroll data to improve program administration. 
Sec. 825. Treatment of earnings derived from services. 
Sec. 826. Electronic reporting of earnings. 
Subtitle C—Protecting Social Security Benefits 
Sec. 831. Closure of unintended loopholes. 
Sec. 832. Requirement for medical review. 
Sec. 833. Reallocation of payroll tax revenue. 
Sec. 834. Access to financial information for waivers and adjustments of recovery.
Subtitle D—Relieving Administrative Burdens and Miscellaneous Provisions 
Sec. 841. Interagency coordination to improve program administration. 
Sec. 842. Elimination of quinquennial determinations relating to wage credits for 
military service prior to 1957. 
Sec. 843. Certification of benefits payable to a divorced spouse of a railroad work-
er to the Railroad Retirement Board. 
Sec. 844. Technical amendments to eliminate obsolete provisions. 
Sec. 845. Reporting requirements to Congress. 
Sec. 846. Expedited examination of administrative law judges. 
TITLE IX—TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT 
Sec. 901. Temporary extension of public debt limit. 
Sec. 902. Restoring congressional authority over the national debt. 
TITLE X—SPECTRUM PIPELINE 
Sec. 1001. Short title. 
Sec. 1002. Definitions. 
Sec. 1003. Rule of construction. 
Sec. 1004. Identification, reallocation, and auction of Federal spectrum. 
Sec. 1005. Additional uses of Spectrum Relocation Fund. 
Sec. 1006. Plans for auction of certain spectrum. 
Sec. 1007. FCC auction authority. 
Sec. 1008. Reports to Congress. 
TITLE XI—REVENUE PROVISIONS RELATED TO TAX COMPLIANCE 
Sec. 1101. Partnership audits and adjustments. 
Sec. 1102. Partnership interests created by gift. 
TITLE XII—DESIGNATION OF SMALL HOUSE ROTUNDA 
Sec. 1201. Designating small House rotunda as ‘‘Freedom Foyer’’. 
TITLE I—BUDGET 
ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 101. AMENDMENTS TO THE BALANCED BUDGET AND 
EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985. 
(a) REVISED DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.— 
Section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(c)) is amended by 
striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(3) for fiscal year 2016—
‘‘(A) for the revised security category, 
$548,091,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) for the revised nonsecurity category 
$518,491,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(4) for fiscal year 2017— 
‘‘(A) for the revised security category, 
$551,068,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) for the revised nonsecurity category, 
$518,531,000,000 in new budget authority;’’. 
(b) DIRECT SPENDING ADJUSTMENTS
FOR FISCAL 
YEARS 2016 AND 2017.—Section 251A of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
U.S.C. 901a), is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (5)(B), by striking ‘‘paragraph 
(10)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (10) and (11)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(11) IMPLEMENTING DIRECT SPENDING REDUC-
TIONS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2016 AND 2017.—(A) OMB 
shall make the calculations necessary to implement 
the direct spending reductions calculated pursuant to 
paragraphs (3) and (4) without regard to the amend-
ment made to section 251(c) revising the discre-
tionary spending limits for fiscal years 2016 and 
2017 by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
‘‘(B) Paragraph (5)(B) shall not be implemented 
for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.’’. 
(c) EXTENSION OF DIRECT SPENDING REDUCTIONS 
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025.—Section 251A(6) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
U.S.C. 901a(6)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B), in the matter pre-
ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘and for fiscal year 
2024’’ and by inserting ‘‘for fiscal year 2024, and for 
fiscal year 2025’’; 
(2) by striking subparagraph (C) and redesig-
nating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (C); and 
(3) in subparagraph (C) (as so redesignated), by 
striking ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 
2025’’. 
(d) 
OVERSEAS
CONTINGENCY
OPERATIONS 
AMOUNTS.—In fiscal years 2016 and 2017, the adjustments 
under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
901(b)(2)(A)) for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global 
War on Terrorism appropriations will be as follows: 
(1) For budget function 150— 
(A) for fiscal year 2016, $14,895,000,000; 
and 
(B) for fiscal year 2017, $14,895,000,000.
(2) For budget function 050— 
(A) for fiscal year 2016, $58,798,000,000; 
and 
(B) for fiscal year 2017, $58,798,000,000. 
This subsection shall not affect the applicability of section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 102. AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 BUDGET RESO-
LUTION IN THE SENATE. 
(a) FISCAL YEAR 2017.—For the purpose of enforcing 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, after April 15, 2016, 
and enforcing budgetary points of order in prior concurrent 
resolutions on the budget, the allocations, aggregates, and 
levels provided for in subsection (b) shall apply in the Sen-
ate in the same manner as for a concurrent resolution on 
the budget for fiscal year 2017 with appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2026. 
(b) COMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS, AGGREGATES, AND 
LEVELS.—After April 15, 2016, but not later than May 15, 
2016, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
Senate shall file— 
(1) for the Committee on Appropriations, com-
mittee allocations for fiscal year 2017 consistent with 
discretionary spending limits set forth in section 
251(c)(4) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency