Title: Do Your Job Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Do Your Job Act
This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to create points of order against resolutions providing for: (1) the adjournment of the House for more than three days during August until the House has approved all of the annual appropriation bills, or (2) the adjournment of either the House or the Senate for more than three days between October 1 and the end of the session of Congress until all of the annual appropriation bills have been presented to the President.
The bill also prohibits a congressional recess or adjournment longer than 24 hours during a calendar year until Congress agrees to a budget resolution that projects a balanced budget by the last fiscal year covered by the resolution.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1936 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1936

 To prohibit congressional recesses until Congress adopts a concurrent 
 resolution on the budget that results in a balanced Federal budget by 
    the last fiscal year covered by such resolution, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 5, 2017

Mr. Gallagher introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit congressional recesses until Congress adopts a concurrent 
 resolution on the budget that results in a balanced Federal budget by 
    the last fiscal year covered by such resolution, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Do Your Job Act''.

SEC. 2. HOUSE AND SENATE APPROVAL OF REGULAR APPROPRIATION BILLS.

    Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(g) House and Senate Approval of Regular Appropriation Bills.--
            ``(1) Point of order in the house of representatives 
        against adjourning in august until house passage of all 
        appropriation bills.--It shall not be in order in the House of 
        Representatives to consider any resolution providing for an 
        adjournment period of more than three calendar days during the 
        month of August until the House of Representatives has approved 
        annual appropriation bills providing new budget authority under 
        the jurisdiction of all the subcommittees of the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives for the fiscal 
        year beginning on October 1 of such year.
            ``(2) Points of order in the house of representatives and 
        senate against adjourning until house and senate passage of all 
        appropriation bills.--Beginning on October 1 of a session of 
        Congress and during the duration of that session, it shall not 
        be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to 
        consider any resolution providing for an adjournment period of 
        more than three calendar days for the duration of that session 
        until the annual appropriation bills providing new budget 
        authority under the jurisdiction of all the subcommittees of 
        the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate for the fiscal year beginning on 
        October 1 of such year have been presented to the President 
        under section 7 of article I of the Constitution.
    ``(h) No Congressional Recesses.--Neither the Senate nor the House 
of Representatives may recess or stand adjourned for a period of longer 
than 24 hours during any calendar year unless and until Congress has 
agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 
beginning on October 1 of that calendar year which concurrent 
resolution projects a balanced budget for the Government by the last 
fiscal year covered by that concurrent resolution.''.
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