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Subtitle B—Discretionary 
Spending Limits 
SEC. 211. ENFORCING DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 
(a) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—Sections 
251(b) and (c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control of Act of 1985 are amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT.—As used in 
this part, the term ‘discretionary spending limit’ means— 
‘‘(1) with respect to fiscal year 2007— 
‘‘(A) $860,703,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$403,372,107,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(2) with respect to fiscal year 2008— 
‘‘(A) $879,638,466,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$403,931,766,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category;
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‘‘(3) with respect to fiscal year 2009— 
‘‘(A) $868,990,512,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$403,779,838,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(4) with respect to fiscal year 2010— 
‘‘(A) $918,768,304,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$403,253,992,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(5) with respect to fiscal year 2011— 
‘‘(A) $938,981,206,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$402,330,807,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(6) with respect to fiscal year 2012—
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‘‘(A) $959,638,793,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$400,985,728,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(7) with respect to fiscal year 2013— 
‘‘(A) $980,750,846,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$399,193,005,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(8) with respect to fiscal year 2014— 
‘‘(A) $1,002,327,365,000 in new budget 
authority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$396,925,653,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; and 
‘‘(9) with respect to fiscal year 2015—
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‘‘(A) $1,024,378,567,000 in new budget 
authority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$394,155,384,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category; and 
‘‘(9) with respect to fiscal year 2016— 
‘‘(A) $1,046,914,895,000 in new budget 
authority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$390,852,562,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $lllll in outlays of which no 
more than $lllll shall be for the non-
defense category;’’. 
(b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT POINT
OF 
ORDER.—Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (as amended by section 214(a)) is further amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT POINT OF 
ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolu-
tion, amendment, or conference report that— 
‘‘(1) increases the discretionary spending limits 
for any ensuing fiscal year after the budget year; or
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‘‘(2) would cause the discretionary spending 
limits for the budget year to be breached.’’. 
(c) ADVANCE APPROPRIATION POINT OF ORDER.— 
Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as 
amended by this section) is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) ADVANCE APPROPRIATION POINT OF ORDER.— 
It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives 
or the Senate to consider any appropriation bill or joint 
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report 
thereon, that provides advance discretionary new budget 
authority that first becomes available for any fiscal year 
after the budget year at an amount for any program, 
project, or activity above the amount of appropriations for 
fiscal year 2005 for such program, project, or activity.’’. 
SEC. 212. ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDGET PROTECTION DIS-
CRETIONARY ACCOUNT. 
‘‘BUDGET PROTECTION DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNT 
‘‘SEC. 321. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—The 
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House 
of Representatives and of the Senate shall each maintain 
an account to be known as the ‘Budget Protection Discre-
tionary Account’. The Account shall be divided into entries 
corresponding to the subcommittees of the Committee on
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Appropriations of that House and each entry shall consist 
of the ‘Budget Protection Balance’. 
‘‘(b) COMPONENTS.—Each entry shall consist only of 
amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry of 
a negative amount shall be made. 
‘‘(c) CREDITING OF AMOUNTS TO ACCOUNT.—(1) 
Whenever a Member or Senator, as the case may be, offers 
an amendment to an appropriation bill to reduce new 
budget authority in any account, that Member or Senator 
may state the portion of such reduction that shall be— 
‘‘(A) credited to the Budget Protection Balance; 
‘‘(B) used to offset an increase in new budget 
authority in any other account; or 
‘‘(C) allowed to remain within the applicable 
section 302(b) suballocation. 
If no such statement is made, the amount of reduction 
in new budget authority resulting from the amendment 
shall be credited to the Budget Protection Balance, as ap-
plicable, if the amendment is agreed to. 
‘‘(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), the chair-
man of the Committee on the Budget of the House or Sen-
ate, as applicable, shall, upon the engrossment of any ap-
propriation bill by the House or Senate, as applicable, 
credit to the applicable entry balances amounts of new 
budget authority and outlays equal to the net amounts of
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reductions in budget authority and in outlays resulting 
from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill. 
‘‘(3) When computing the net amounts of reductions 
in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from 
amendments agreed to by the House or Senate, as applica-
ble, to an appropriation bill, the chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Budget of that House shall only count those 
portions of such amendments agreed to that were so des-
ignated by the Members offering such amendments as 
amounts to be credited to the Budget Protection Balance, 
or that fall within the last sentence of paragraph (1). 
‘‘(4) The chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
of the House and of the Senate shall each maintain a run-
ning tally of the amendments adopted reflecting increases 
and decreases of budget authority in the bill as reported 
to its House. This tally shall be available to Members or 
Senators during consideration of any bill by that House. 
‘‘(d) CALCULATION
OF
LOCK-BOX
SAVINGS
IN 
HOUSE AND SENATE.—(1) For the purposes of enforcing 
section 302(a), upon the engrossment of any appropriation 
bill by the House or Senate, as applicable, the amount of 
budget authority and outlays calculated pursuant to sub-
section (c)(3) shall be counted against the 302(a) alloca-
tion provided to the Committee on Appropriations as if
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the amount calculated pursuant to subsection (c)(3) was 
included in the bill just engrossed. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of enforcing section 302(b), upon 
the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House 
or Senate, as applicable, the 302(b) allocation provided to 
the subcommittee for the bill just engrossed shall be 
deemed to have been reduced by the amount of budget 
authority and outlays calculated, pursuant to subsection 
(c)(3). 
‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 
‘appropriation bill’ means any general or special appro-
priation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making sup-
plemental, 
deficiency, 
or 
continuing 
appropriations 
through the end of fiscal year 2006 or any subsequent fis-
cal year, as the case may be.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 319 the following 
new items: 
‘‘Sec. 320. Budget protection mandatory account. 
‘‘Sec. 321. Budget protection discretionary account.’’. 
SEC. 213. REVENUE ADJUSTMENT. 
If an amendment is designated to be used to offset 
a decrease in receipts for a fiscal year pursuant to section 
320(c)(1)(D) or section 321(c)(1)(D) of the Congressional
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Budget Act of 1974, then the applicable level of revenues 
for such fiscal year for purposes of section 311(a) of such 
Act shall be reduced by the amount of such amendment. 
Subtitle C—Long-term Unfunded 
Obligations 
SEC. 221. LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title IV of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
PART C—LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 441. ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGA-
TIONS. 
‘‘Beginning in fiscal year 2007, the President’s budg-
et submission shall include an analysis of long-term un-
funded obligations. This analysis shall include: 
‘‘(1) An analysis of the impact of long-term un-
funded obligations in applicable entitlement pro-
grams on the long-term level of unified budget out-
lays and the unified budget surplus or deficit, in re-
lation to the projected level of the Gross Domestic 
Product. 
‘‘(2) A report on the impact of legislation en-
acted during the previous session of Congress that 
increases the long-term unfunded obligation in any 
applicable group of entitlement program.
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‘‘(3) An analysis of the impact of legislation 
proposed in the President’s budget on the long-term 
unfunded obligation in any applicable entitlement 
program. 
‘‘SEC. 442. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION IN-
CREASING LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGA-
TIONS. 
‘‘It shall not be in order in the House of Representa-
tives or in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, 
motion, amendment, or conference report that would in-
crease the long-term unfunded obligation in any applicable 
group of entitlement programs. 
‘‘SEC. 443. STANDARD FOR DETERMINING INCREASE IN 
LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGATION. 
‘‘For the purpose of this part, legislation shall be con-
sidered to increase the long-term unfunded obligation of 
an applicable group of entitlement programs if it either— 
‘‘(1) increases the excess of the discounted 
present value of the expenditures of programs in the 
group above the discounted present value of the 
dedicated receipts of programs in the group over a 
long-term estimating period by more than an appli-
cable threshold; or 
‘‘(2) increases the dollar level of the expendi-
tures of programs in the group above the dedicated
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receipts of programs in the group above the dedi-
cated receipts of programs in the group in the last 
year of the estimating period by more than the ap-
plicable threshold. 
‘‘SEC. 444. LONG-TERM UNFUNDED OBLIGATION ANALYSES 
BY CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE. 
The Director of the Congressional Budget Office 
shall, to the extent practicable, prepare for each bill or 
resolution of a public character reported by any committee 
of the House of Representatives or the Senate (except the 
Committee on Appropriations of each House), and submit 
to such committee— 
‘‘(1) an estimate of any increase of the long- 
term unfunded obligation of any applicable entitle-
ment program which would be incurred in carrying 
out such bill or resolution as measured by the in-
crease of the excess of the discounted present value 
of the expenditures of such program above the dis-
counted present value of the dedicated receipts of 
such program over a long-term estimating period by 
more than an applicable threshold; and 
‘‘(2) an estimate of any increase in the dollar 
level of the expenditures of such program above the 
dedicated receipts of such program above the dedi-
cated receipts of such program in the last year of
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the estimating period by more than the applicable 
threshold. 
The estimates and description so submitted shall be in-
cluded in the report accompanying such bill or resolution 
if timely submitted to such committee before such report 
is filed. 
‘‘SEC. 445. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘As used in this part— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘applicable entitlement program’ 
shall be defined as any one of the following pro-
grams: 
‘‘(A) Old Age, Survivors, and Disability In-
surance. 
‘‘(B) Medicare. 
‘‘(C) Civilian retirement and disability 
(combined Civil Service Retirement System and 
Federal Employees Retirement System). 
‘‘(D) Foreign Service Retirement and Dis-
ability (combined Foreign Service Retirement 
and Disability System and Foreign Service Pen-
sion System). 
‘‘(E) Retired Employees Health Benefits. 
‘‘(F) Military Retirement System. 
‘‘(G) Uniformed Services Retiree Health 
Care System.