Separate Enrollment and Line Item Veto Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4889
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Appropriations
Authorization
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional conference committees
Congressional investigations
Congressional joint committees
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Emergency Management
Expedited congressional procedure
Government Operations and Politics
House Appropriations
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Injunctions
Item veto
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Off-budget expenditures
Performance measurement
Senate Appropriations
Senate rules and procedure
Sunset legislation
Supreme Court
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax expenditures
Tax preferences
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
Separate Enrollment and Line Item Veto Act of 2006 - Prohibits the congressional appropriations committees from reporting any appropriations measure that fails to contain the same level of detail on the allocation of a proposed item of appropriations set forth in the accompanying committee report.
 
Prohibits any congressional committee from reporting an authorization measure that contains new direct spending or a new limited tax benefit unless it presents each as a separate item, and the accompanying committee report contains a level of detail clearly indentifying its allocation.
 
Prohibits a conference committee from filing a conference report that fails to contain the level of detail and the separate itemization of each direct spending or limited tax benefit required by this Act.
 
Makes it out of order in the House to consider any measure reported or presented in violation of this Act.
 
Provides for separate enrollment of each item of every appropriation and authorization measure containing new direct spending or new targeted tax benefits passed by Congress in the same form.
 
Requires the Joint Committee on Taxation toidentify any limited tax benefits contained in any revenue or reconciliation measure amending the Internal Revenue Code that is being prepared for filing by a conference committee.
 
Makes it out of order to consider any measure containing an emergency designation if it also provides an appropriation or direct spending for any other item or contains any other matter. Allows the measure to contain rescissions of budget authority or reductions of direct spending, or reduce amounts for that emergency.
 
Provides for expedited judicial review of this Act.
 
Requires the President to submit legislation for the periodic review, reauthorization, and sunset of tax expenditures with his FY2008 budget.
 

 
Makes it out of order in the House to consider any measure containing a tax expenditure unless it terminates the tax expenditure within 10 years.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in House