‘‘(12) for each proposal in the budget for legis-
lation that would establish or expand a Government
activity or function, a table showing—
‘‘(A) the amount proposed in the budget
for appropriation and for expenditure because
of the proposal in the fiscal year for which the
budget is submitted;
‘‘(B) the estimated appropriation required
because of the proposal for each of the 4 fiscal
years after that year that the proposal will be
in effect; and
‘‘(C) the estimated amount for the same
activity or function, if any, in the current fiscal
year,
and, except for detailed budget estimates, the per-
centage change (in the case of each category re-
ferred to in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C)) be-
tween the current year and the fiscal year for which
the budget is submitted.’’.
(d) Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘new budget authority
and’’ before ‘‘budget outlays’’.
(e) Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code,
(as amended by sections 412(b) and 521(a)) is further
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graphs:
‘‘(35) a comparison of levels of estimated ex-
penditures and proposed appropriations for each
function and subfunction in the current fiscal year
and the fiscal year for which the budget is submit-
ted, along with the proposed increase or decrease of
spending in percentage terms for each function and
subfunction.
‘‘(36) a table on sources of growth in total di-
rect spending under current law and as proposed in
this budget submission for the budget year and the
ensuing 4 fiscal years, which shall include changes
in outlays attributable to the following: cost-of-living
adjustments; changes in the number of program re-
cipients; increases in medical care prices, utilization
and intensity of medical care; and residual factors.’’.
(f) Section 1109(a) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended by inserting after the first sentence the follow-
ing new sentence: ‘‘For discretionary spending, these esti-
mates shall assume the levels set forth in the discretionary
spending limits under section 251(c) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
adjusted, for the appropriate fiscal years (and if no such
limits are in effect, these estimates shall assume the ad-
justed levels for the most recent fiscal year for which such
levels were in effect).’’.
SEC. 612. THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET.
Section 301(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 (as amended by section 103) is further amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting at the end
the following: ‘‘The basis of deliberations in develop-
ing such joint resolution shall be the estimated
budgetary levels for the preceding fiscal year. Any
budgetary levels pending before the committee and
the text of the joint resolution shall be accompanied
by a document comparing such levels or such text to
the estimated levels of the prior fiscal year. Any
amendment offered in the committee that changes a
budgetary level and is based upon a specific policy
assumption for a program, project, or activity shall
be accompanied by a document indicating the esti-
mated amount for such program, project, or activity
in the current year.’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end of subparagraph (H), by striking the period and
inserting ‘‘; and’’ at the end of subparagraph (I),
and by adding at the end the following new subpara-
graph:
‘‘(J) a comparison of levels for the current
fiscal year with proposed spending and revenue
levels for the subsequent fiscal years along with
the proposed increase or decrease of spending
in percentage terms for each function.’’.
SEC. 613. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE REPORTS TO
COMMITTEES.
(a) The first sentence of section 202(e)(1) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by inserting
‘‘compared to comparable levels for the current year’’ be-
fore the comma at the end of subparagraph (A) and before
the comma at the end of subparagraph (B).
(b) Section 202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the first sen-
tence the following new sentence: ‘‘Such report shall also
include a table on sources of spending growth in total di-
rect spending for the budget year and the ensuing 4 fiscal
years, which shall include changes in outlays attributable
to the following: cost-of-living adjustments; changes in the
number of program recipients; increases in medical care
prices, utilization and intensity of medical care; and resid-
ual factors.’’.
(c) Section 308(a)(1)(B) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 is amended by inserting ‘‘and shall include
a comparison of those levels to comparable levels for the
current fiscal year’’ before ‘‘if timely submitted’’.
SEC. 614. OUTYEAR ASSUMPTIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY
SPENDING.
For purposes of chapter 11 of title 31 of the United
States Code, or the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,
unless otherwise expressly provided, in making budgetary
projections for years for which there are no discretionary
spending limits, the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget and the Director of the Congressional Budget
Office shall assume discretionary spending levels at the
levels for the last fiscal year for which such levels were
in effect.
Subtitle B—The Byrd Rule
SEC. 621. LIMITATION ON BYRD RULE.
(a) PROTECTION OF CONFERENCE REPORTS.—Sec-
tion 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is
amended—
(1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘and again
upon the submission of a conference report on such
a reconciliation bill or resolution,’’;
(2) by striking subsection (d);
(3) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (d); and
(4) in subsection (e), as redesignated—
(A) by striking ‘‘, motion, or conference re-
port’’ the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘,
or motion’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘, motion, or conference re-
port’’ the second and third places it appears
and inserting ‘‘or motion’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The first sentence
of section 312(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
is amended by inserting ‘‘, except for section 313,’’ after
‘‘Act’’.
Subtitle C—Spending
Accountability Lock-box
SEC. 631. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Spending Account-
ability Lock-box Act of 1998’’.
SEC. 632. SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY LOCK-BOX LEDGER.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LEDGER.—Title III of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by sec-
tions 104(b) and 105(a)) is further amended by adding
after section 317 the following new section:
‘‘SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY LOCK-BOX LEDGER
‘‘SEC. 318. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF LEDGER.—The
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House
of Representatives and the chairman on the Committee
on the Budget of the Senate shall each maintain a ledger
to be known as the ‘Spending Accountability Lock-box
Ledger’. The Ledger shall be divided into entries cor-
responding to the subcommittees of the Committees on
Appropriations. Each entry shall consist of three compo-
nents: the ‘House Lock-box Balance’; the ‘Senate Lock-
box Balance’; and the ‘Joint House-Senate Lock-box Bal-
ance’.
‘‘(b) COMPONENTS OF LEDGER.—Each component in
an entry shall consist only of amounts credited to it under
subsection (c). No entry of a negative amount shall be
made.
‘‘(c) CREDIT OF AMOUNTS TO LEDGER.—(1) In the
House of Representatives or the Senate, whenever a Mem-
ber offers an amendment to an appropriation bill to reduce
new budget authority in any account, that Member may
state the portion of such reduction that shall be—
‘‘(A) credited to the House or Senate Lock-box
Balance, as applicable; or
‘‘(B) used to offset an increase in new budget
authority in any other account;
‘‘(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 House or Senate Lock-box Bal-
ance, as applicable, if the amendment is agreed to.
‘‘(2)(A) Except as provided by subparagraph (B), the
chairmen of the Committees on the Budget shall, upon
the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House
of Representatives and upon the engrossment of that bill
by the Senate, credit to the applicable entry balance of
that House amounts of new budget authority and outlays
equal to the net amounts of reductions in new budget au-
thority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed
to by that House to that bill.
‘‘(B) When computing the net amounts of reductions
in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from
amendments agreed to by the House of Representatives
or the Senate to an appropriation bill, the chairmen of
the Committees on the Budget shall only count those por-
tions of such amendments agreed to that were so des-
ignated by the Members offering such amendments as
amounts to be credited to the House or Senate Lock-box
Balance, as applicable, or that fall within the last sentence
of paragraph (1).
‘‘(3) The chairmen of the Committees on the Budget
shall, upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to any
appropriation bill, credit to the applicable Joint House-
Senate Lock-box Balance the amounts of new budget au-
thority and outlays equal to—
‘‘(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of
(i) the amount of new budget authority in the House
Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the amount of new budg-
et authority in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that
bill; and
‘‘(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum
of (i) the amount of outlays in the House Lock-box
Balance plus (ii) the amount of outlays in the Sen-
ate Lock-box Balance for that bill.
‘‘(4) CALCULATION OF LOCK-BOX SAVINGS IN SEN-
ATE.—For purposes of calculating under this section the
net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and
in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by the
Senate on an appropriation bill, the amendments reported
to the Senate by its Committee on Appropriations shall
be considered to be part of the original text of the bill.
‘‘(d) 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 a fiscal year.
‘‘(e) TALLY DURING HOUSE CONSIDERATION.—The
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House
of Representatives shall maintain a running tally of the
amendments adopted reflecting increases and decreases of
budget authority in the bill as reported. This tally shall
be available to Members in the House of Representatives
during consideration of any appropriations bill by the
House.’’.
(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 317 the following
new item:
‘‘Sec. 318. Spending accountability lock-box ledger.’’.
SEC. 633. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF SECTION 302(a) AL-
LOCATIONS AND SECTION 302(b) SUBALLOCA-
TIONS.
(a) ALLOCATIONS.—Section 302(a) of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by section 422)
is further amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(7) ADJUSTMENT
OF
ALLOCATIONS.—Upon
the engrossment of Senate amendments to any ap-
propriation bill (as defined in section 318(d)) for a
fiscal year, the amounts allocated under paragraph
(1) or (2) to the Committee on Appropriations of
each House upon the adoption of the most recent
joint resolution on the budget for that fiscal year
shall be adjusted downward by the amounts credited
to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Bal-
ance under section 318(c)(2). The revised levels of
new budget authority and outlays shall be submitted
to each House by the chairman of the Committee on
the Budget of that House and shall be printed in the
Congressional Record.’’.
(b) SUBALLOCATIONS.—Section 302(b) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at
the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Whenever an adjust-
ment is made under subsection (a)(7) to an allocation
under that subsection, the Committee on Appropriations
of each House shall make downward adjustments in the
most recent suballocations of new budget authority and
outlays under this subparagraph to the appropriate sub-
committees of that committee in the total amounts of
those adjustments under section 318(c)(2). The revised
suballocations shall be submitted to each House by the
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of that
House and shall be printed in the Congressional Record.’’.
SEC. 634. PERIODIC REPORTING OF LEDGER STATEMENTS.
Section 308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following
new sentence: ‘‘Such reports shall also include an up-to-
date tabulation of the amounts contained in the ledger and
each entry established by section 318(a).’’.
SEC. 635. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY
SPENDING LIMITS.
The discretionary spending limits for new budget au-
thority and outlays for any fiscal year set forth in section
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the amounts set
forth in the final regular appropriation bill for that fiscal
year or joint resolution making continuing appropriations
through the end of that fiscal year. Those amounts shall
be the sums of the Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balances
for that fiscal year, as calculated under section 302(a)(7)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That bill or joint
resolution shall contain the following statement of law:
‘‘As required by section 636 of the Spending Accountabil-
ity Lock-box Act of 1998, for fiscal year [insert appro-
priate fiscal year] and each outyear, the adjusted discre-
tionary spending limit for new budget authority shall be
reduced by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] and
the adjusted discretionary limit for outlays shall be re-
duced by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] for
the fiscal year and each outyear.’’. Notwithstanding sec-
tion 904(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, sec-
tion 306 as it applies to this statement shall not apply.
This adjustment shall be reflected in reports under sec-
tions 254(f) and 254(g) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Subtitle D—Automatic Continuing
Resolution
SEC. 641. AUTOMATIC CONTINUING RESOLUTION.
(a) AMENDMENT TO TITLE 31.—Chapter 13 of title
31, United States Code, is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 1310 the following new section:
‘‘§ 1311. Continuing appropriations
‘‘(a)(1) If any regular appropriation bill for a fiscal
year does not become law prior to the beginning of such
fiscal year or a joint resolution making continuing appro-
priations is not in effect, there is appropriated, out of any
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and
out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and
funds, such sums as may be necessary to continue any
project or activity for which funds were provided in the
preceding fiscal year—
‘‘(A) in the corresponding regular appropriation
Act for such preceding fiscal year; or
‘‘(B) if the corresponding regular appropriation
bill for such preceding fiscal year did not become
law, then in a joint resolution making continuing ap-
propriations for such preceding fiscal year.
‘‘(2) Appropriations and funds made available, and
authority granted, for a project or activity for any fiscal
year pursuant to this section shall be at a rate of oper-
‘‘(c) Appropriations and funds made available, and
authority granted, for any project or activity for any fiscal
year pursuant to this section shall cover all obligations or
expenditures incurred for such project or activity during
the portion of such fiscal year for which this section ap-
plies to such project or activity.
‘‘(d) Expenditures made for a project or activity for
any fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be charged
to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization
whenever a regular appropriation bill or a joint resolution
making continuing appropriations until the end of a fiscal
year providing for such project or activity for such period
becomes law.
‘‘(e) This section shall not apply to a project or activ-
ity during a fiscal year if any other provision of law (other
than an authorization of appropriations)—
‘‘(1) makes an appropriation, makes funds
available, or grants authority for such project or ac-
tivity to continue for such period, or
‘‘(2) specifically provides that no appropriation
shall be made, no funds shall be made available, or
no authority shall be granted for such project or ac-
tivity to continue for such period; or
‘‘(f) For purposes of this section, the term ‘regular
appropriation bill’ means any annual appropriation bill
making appropriations, otherwise making funds available,
or granting authority, for any of the following categories
of projects and activities:
‘‘(1) Agriculture, rural development, and relat-
ed agencies programs.
‘‘(2) The Departments of Commerce, Justice,
and State, the judiciary, and related agencies.
‘‘(3) The Department of Defense.
‘‘(4) The government of the District of Colum-
bia and other activities chargeable in whole or in
part against the revenues of the District.
‘‘(5) The Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and related agen-
cies.
‘‘(6) The Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and sundry independent agencies,
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices.
‘‘(7) Energy and water development.
‘‘(8) Foreign assistance and related programs.
‘‘(9) The Department of the Interior and relat-
ed agencies.
‘‘(10) Military construction.
‘‘(11) The Department of Transportation and
related agencies.
‘‘(12) The Treasury Department, the U.S.
Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President,
and certain independent agencies.
‘‘(13) The legislative branch.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 202(e)(3)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by
inserting ‘‘and on or before September 30’’ before ‘‘of each
year’’.
(c) CHAPTER ANALYSIS.—The analysis of chapter 13
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting
after the item relating to section 1310 the following new
item:
‘‘1311. Continuing appropriations.’’.
(d) EFFECT
OF AMENDMENTS.—Nothing in the
amendments made by this subsection shall be construed
to affect Government obligations mandated by other law,
including obligations with respect to social security, medi-
care, and medicaid.
TITLE VII—BUDGETING IN AN
ERA OF SURPLUSES
SEC. 701. PAYGO REQUIREMENTS AND THE ON-BUDGET
SURPLUS.
(a) Section 252(a) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to as-
sure that direct spending or receipts legislation does not
increase the deficit or exceed the on-budget surplus.’’.
(b) SEQUESTRATION.—(1) Section 252(b)(1) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 is amended by inserting ‘‘minus the amount for the
budget year, if any, estimated under paragraph (3)’’ after
‘‘as calculated under paragraph (2)’’.
(2) Section 252(b) of such Act is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) ESTIMATE
OF ON-BUDGET SURPLUS.—
OMB estimates for the budget year of the excess of
receipts over outlays (if any) as set forth in the
OMB sequestration update report as calculated pur-
suant to section 254(c)(3). These estimates shall not
include outlays and receipts of the Federal Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal
Disability Insurance Trust Fund, or any other off-
budget entity.’’.
(c) CLARIFICATION OF EXISTING LAW.—Section 252
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985 (as amended by section 404) is further
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(f) MEANING
OF NET DEFICIT INCREASE.—For
purposes of this section, a net deficit is the amount by
which decreases in revenues plus increases in outlays ex-
ceeds increases in revenues plus decreases in outlays.’’.
(d) REPORTS.—
(1) PREVIEW.—Section 254(c)(3) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985 is amended by adding at the end the following
new subparagraph:
‘‘(D) The estimated excess of receipts over
outlays for the budget year (if any) (assuming
the levels appropriated if all regular appropria-
tions (or a continuing appropriation) are en-
acted minus any amounts sequestered for that
year under section 251, but if that is not the
case, then assuming compliance with the ad-
justed discretionary spending limits set forth in
section 251(c)) (but if no such limits are in ef-
fect for such year, then assume compliance with
such limits for the last fiscal year for which
such limits were in effect) without taking into
account the effect of direct spending and re-
ceipts legislation for such year calculated under
section 252(d) enacted after the date of enact-
ment of this subparagraph.’’.
(2) FINAL.—Section 254(f)(3) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
is amended by adding at the end the following new
sentence: ‘‘Notwithstanding subsection (j), actual
levels of enacted discretionary appropriations or up-
to-date adjusted discretionary spending limits (but if
no such limits are in effect for such year, then as-
sume such limits for the last fiscal year for which
such limits were in effect), as applicable, shall be
used in the final pay-as-you go report regarding in-
formation required by subsection (c)(3)(D) to be in-
cluded in the pay-as-you-go sequestration preview re-
port.’’.
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