tising requirement for Federal Government purchases and 
sales). 
SEC. 205. PERSONNEL AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE MAT-
TERS. 
(a) PERSONNEL MATTERS.— 
(1) COMPENSATION.—Members shall not be 
paid by reason of their service as members of the 
Commission. 
(2) TRAVEL
EXPENSES.—Each member shall 
receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions 
under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(3) DIRECTOR.—The Commission shall have a 
Director who shall be appointed by the chair. The 
Director shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the 
maximum rate of basic pay for GS–15 of the Gen-
eral Schedule. 
(4) STAFF.—The Director may appoint and fix 
the pay of additional personnel as the Director con-
siders appropriate. 
(5) APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN CIVIL SERVICE 
LAWS.—The Director and staff of the Commission 
shall be appointed subject to the provisions of title 
5, United States Code, governing appointments in 
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the competitive service, and shall be paid in accord-
ance with the provisions of chapter 51 and sub-
chapter III of chapter 53 of that title relating to 
classification and General Schedule pay rates. 
(b) OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.— 
(1) POSTAL
AND
PRINTING
SERVICES.—The 
Commission may use the United States mails and 
obtain printing and binding services in the same 
manner and under the same conditions as other 
agencies. 
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE
SUPPORT
SERVICES.— 
Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-
trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-
mission, on a reimbursable basis, the administrative 
support services necessary for the Commission to 
carry out its duties under this title. 
(3) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The Com-
mission may procure temporary and intermittent 
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 206. FUNDING. 
(a) USE
OF EXISTING FUNDS.—The Commission 
shall be carried out using amounts otherwise appropriated 
or made available to the House of Representatives and the 
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Senate. No additional funds are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act. 
(b) ALLOCATION BETWEEN HOUSE AND SENATE.— 
Of the amounts used to carry out this title— 
(1) 50 percent shall be derived from the appli-
cable accounts of the House of Representatives; and 
(2) 50 percent shall be derived from the contin-
gent fund of the Senate. 
TITLE 
III—REAUTHORIZATION 
CYCLE FOR DISCRETIONARY 
PROGRAMS 
SEC. 301. ESTABLISHMENT OF REAUTHORIZATION SCHED-
ULE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall sub-
mit to Congress a legislative proposal, consistent with the 
requirements of subsection (b), that establishes a reau-
thorization schedule for Federal programs funded by dis-
cretionary spending. Such proposal shall be considered 
under the procedures set forth in subsections (c) and (d). 
(b) PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS.—The legislative pro-
posal submitted under subsection (a) shall provide for the 
following: 
(1) A reauthorization cycle under which, during 
any fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2019, any 
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Federal program funded by discretionary spending 
that will expire during that fiscal year but that Con-
gress does not want to terminate is reauthorized, 
pursuant to a legislation schedule as Congress deems 
appropriate, for a period not to exceed three years. 
(2) A sunset provision for any program so reau-
thorized that terminates any such program on the 
date that is not later than 3 years (as the case may 
be) after the date of such reauthorization. 
(3) With respect to any program that is unau-
thorized, as determined by Congress, a budgetary 
level reduction in the manner and amounts as pro-
vided under section 102. 
(4) A mechanism under which any such reduc-
tion may, with respect to any fiscal year, be nullified 
by the enactment into law, before such fiscal year 
begins, of a measure reducing direct spending in an 
amount equal to the total amount of any budgetary 
level reduction that is expected to occur under proce-
dures established pursuant to paragraph (3). Such 
reduction may occur over a period not to exceed ten 
years following the fiscal year in which such measure 
is enacted. 
(c) PROCEDURE IN THE HOUSE.— 
(1) INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 
days after the date that a proposal is submitted 
under subsection (a), the chair of the Commis-
sion, or a Member of the Commission des-
ignated by the chair, shall introduce in the 
House of Representatives, not later than 60 
days thereafter, a bill to carry out the proposal. 
The bill introduced may take into consideration 
any recommendations of any Member or stand-
ing committee of the House of Representatives 
to amend such proposal to the Commission, but 
only if the recommendations are submitted not 
later than 60 days after the proposal is sub-
mitted under subsection (a). 
(B) REFERRAL.—Any committee of the 
House of Representatives to which a bill intro-
duced under subparagraph (A) is referred shall 
report it to the House without amendment not 
later than the fifth legislative day after the date 
of its introduction. If a committee fails to re-
port the bill without amendment within that pe-
riod or the House has adopted a concurrent res-
olution providing for adjournment sine die at 
the end of a Congress, such committee shall be 
automatically discharged from further consider-
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ation of the bill and it shall be placed without 
amendment on the appropriate calendar. 
(2) 
EXPEDITED
CONSIDERATION
IN
THE 
HOUSE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than five leg-
islative days after the bill introduced under 
paragraph (1)(A) is reported or the committees 
of referral have been discharged from further 
consideration thereof, it shall be in order to 
move to proceed to consider the bill in the 
House. Such a motion shall be in order only at 
a time designated by the Speaker in the legisla-
tive schedule within two legislative days after 
the day on which the proponent announces an 
intention to the House to offer the motion. The 
previous question shall be considered as ordered 
on the motion to its adoption without inter-
vening motion. 
(B) CONSIDERATION.—If the motion to 
proceed is agreed to, the House shall imme-
diately proceed to consider the bill introduced 
under paragraph (1)(A) in the House without 
intervening motion. Such bill shall be consid-
ered as read. All points of order against such 
bill and against its consideration are waived. 
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The previous question shall be considered as or-
dered on such bill to its passage without inter-
vening motion except 2 hours of debate equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent and one motion to limit debate on the 
bill. 
Æ 
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