Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027.

Bill: 115-hconres-71
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemical and biological weapons
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Congressional committees
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Corporate finance and management
Defense spending
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability assistance
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Executive agency funding and structure
Fires
Food assistance and relief
Forests, forestry, trees
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
House of Representatives
Housing and community development funding
Immunology and vaccination
Income tax rates
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Infrastructure development
International law and treaties
Legislative rules and procedure
Medicaid
Medical research
Medicare
Members of Congress
Military operations and strategy
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nuclear weapons
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Roads and highways
Sanctions
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Taxation of foreign income
Technology transfer and commercialization
Terrorism
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding
U.S. Postal Service
User charges and fees
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-21
text: 
Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2018 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2019-FY2027. 
 
Recommends levels and amounts for FY2018-FY2027 for:
 
 
federal revenues, 
 
new budget authority, 
 
budget outlays, 
 
deficits (on-budget), 
 
debt subject to limit, 
 
debt held by the public, and 
 
the major functional categories of spending. 
 
 
Includes reconciliation instructions directing 11 specified House authorizing committees to submit deficit reduction legislation to the House Budget Committee by October 6, 2017. 
 
Sets forth budget enforcement procedures addressing: 
 
 
 long-term direct spending; 
 
 allocations for Overseas Contingency Operations/ Global War on Terrorism; 
 
 changes in mandatory programs; 
 
 estimates of debt service costs, credit programs, macroeconomic effects, and energy saving performance contracts; 
 
 adjustments to spending levels; 
 
 advance appropriations; 
 
 transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund; 
 
 Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees; and 
 
 Federal Reserve System surpluses. 
 
 
Establishes reserve funds for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 the commercialization of air traffic control, 
 
 investments in national infrastructure, 
 
 comprehensive tax reform, or
 
the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
 
 
Sets forth policy statements on several fiscal and domestic policy issues. 

action_date: 2017-07-21
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) 
 
Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2018 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2019-FY2027. 
 
TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 
 
(Sec. 101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2018-FY2027 for: 
 
 
 Federal Revenues, 
 
New Budget Authority, 
 
 Budget Outlays, 
 
 Deficits (On-Budget), 
 
 Debt Subject to Limit, and 
 
 Debt Held by the Public. 
 
 
(Sec. 102) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2018-FY2027 for each major functional category, including: 
 
 
 National Defense; 
 
 International Affairs; 
 
 General Science, Space, and Technology; 
 
 Energy; 
 
 Natural Resources and Environment; 
 
 Agriculture; 
 
 Commerce and Housing Credit; 
 
 Transportation; 
 
 Community and Regional Development; 
 
 Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; 
 
 Health; 
 
 Medicare; 
 
 Income Security; 
 
 Social Security; 
 
 Veterans Benefits and Services; 
 
 Administration of Justice; 
 
 General Government; 
 
 Net Interest; 
 
 Allowances; 
 
Government-wide Savings and Adjustments; 
 
 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts; 
 
 Overseas Contingency Operations/ Global War on Terrorism; and 
 
 an Across-the-Board Adjustment. 
 
 
TITLE II--RECONCILIATION AND RELATED MATTERS 
 
(Sec. 201) Includes reconciliation instructions directing 11 House authorizing committees to submit to the House Budget Committee no later than October 6, 2017, legislation to reduce the deficit by specified amounts over FY2018-FY2027. (Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.) 
 
TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement 
 
(Sec. 301) Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate whether legislation (other than appropriations measures) would cause a net increase in direct spending in excess of $2.5 billion over any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning in FY2027. Establishes a point of order against legislation (other than appropriations measures) with a net effect of increasing direct spending by more than $2.5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods. Specifies that this provision has no force or effect after September 30, 2018. 
 
(Sec. 302) Provides the House Appropriations Committee with a separate allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism and specifies procedures for enforcing and adjusting the allocation. 
 
(Sec. 303) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) in appropriations legislation for FY2018-FY2020. Limits CHIMPs that reduce budget authority in the budget year but do not decrease outlays over the period of the total of the current year, budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently agreed to budget resolution. Limit the CHIMPS to: $19.1 billion for FY2018, $17 billion for FY2019, and $15 billion for FY2020. 
 
(Sec. 304) Prohibits advance appropriations unless: (1) the appropriation is provided for an account listed as an exception in the report accompanying this resolution, and (2) total advance appropriations do not exceed specified limits. (Under this resolution, an advance appropriation is any new discretionary budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for the fiscal year following FY2018.) 
 
(Sec. 305) Permits the chair of the House Budget Committee to direct the CBO to include changes in debt service costs in estimates of legislation except for authorizations of discretionary programs or appropriation measures. 
 
Specifies that: (1) this section applies to changes in the authorization level of appropriated entitlements, and (2) the estimates are advisory and may not be used for budget enforcement. 
 
(Sec. 306) Requires the CBO, upon request of the chairman of the House Budget Committee, to include supplemental fair-value estimates in estimates for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program. 
 
Requires the CBO to provide a supplemental fair-value estimate for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program for student financial assistance or housing (including residential mortgage). 
 
Requires the CBO to include estimates, on a fair-value and credit reform basis, of loan and loan guarantee programs for student financial assistance, housing (including residential mortgage), and other major loan and loan guarantee programs in its &quot;Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2027.&quot; 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the fair-value estimates provided pursuant to this section for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(A fair-value estimate is an alternative to federal credit program estimates required by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 [FCRA]. Under FCRA, cash flows are discounted using Treasury interest rates for estimating subsidy costs. The fair-value method incorporates market risk by using market rates.) 
 
(Sec. 307) Requires the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation to incorporate macroeconomic effects in estimates of specified legislation (commonly referred to as dynamic scoring). 
 
(Sec. 308) Authorizes the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations and levels in this resolution if legislation decreases direct spending in any fiscal year and authorizes appropriations for the same purpose. 
 
(Sec. 309) Directs the CBO to estimate legislation that affects the use of energy savings performance contracts or utility energy service contracts on a net present value basis (in today's dollars) using calculations that meet specified requirements. Specifies that the contracts are to be scored as direct spending and that savings resulting from the contracts may be not be used as an offset for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(Under an energy savings performance contract, a private party agrees to fund energy-efficient upgrades for a federal facility, and the federal agency agrees to pay the private party from reductions in the agency's energy costs. Under a utility energy service contract, the services and equipment are provided by a utility.) 
 
(Sec. 310) Requires transfers of funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund to be counted as new budget authority and outlays in the year the transfer occurs. 
 
(Sec. 311) Prohibits transfers of surpluses of the Federal Reserve System from being counted as offsets for budget enforcement purposes. (This section prevents the transfers from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.) 
 
(Sec. 312) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used for budget enforcement purposes. (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgages and charge the fees to guarantee the payment of principal and interest. This section prevents the fee increases from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.) 
 
Subtitle B--Other Provisions 
 
(Sec. 321) Specifies that the administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are reflected in the allocation to the House Appropriations Committee to ensure that the committee retains control over the expenses through the annual appropriations process. 
 
Requires the administrative expenses to be included in the cost estimates used to determine if an appropriations bill exceeds the spending limits in this resolution. 
 
(Sec. 322) Sets forth procedures for the adjustment of allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels included in this resolution. 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust other appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution depending on congressional action on pending reconciliation legislation. 
 
(Sec. 323) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in this resolution for any change in budgetary concepts and definitions pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 
(Sec. 324) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, reconciliation targets, and other levels in this resolution for any changes that the CBO makes to its baseline for FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 325) Waives the point of order that would otherwise apply to appropriations legislation that exceeds the statutory limits on discretionary spending if the legislation would not cause this resolution's 302(a) allocation for the appropriations committee to be exceeded. 
 
(Sec. 326) Affirms that the adoption of this budget resolution is an exercise of the House's rulemaking power and that the House has the constitutional right to change these rules. 
 
TITLE IV--RESERVE FUNDS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
Establishes reserve funds that permit the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the levels and allocations included in the budget resolution to accommodate health, tax, and transportation legislation that meets specified conditions. 
 
(Reserve funds provide the House Budget Committee Chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria.) 
 
(Sec. 401) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that commercializes the operations of the air traffic control system and reduces discretionary spending limits by the amount that would otherwise be appropriated to the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control. 
 
(Sec. 402) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that invests in national infrastructure and is deficit neutral over the period of FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 403) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that provides for comprehensive tax reform and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 404) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that extends the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) allotments and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 405) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that repeals or replaces the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 
 
TITLE V--POLICY STATEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
(Sec. 501) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should propose a balanced budget constitutional amendment for ratification by the states. 
 
(Sec. 502) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should enact legislation that reforms the congressional budget process. 
 
(Sec. 503) States that the policies of resolution regarding federal regulatory budgeting and reform.
 
(Sec. 504) States the policies of this resolution regarding unauthorized appropriations.
 
(Sec. 505) States the policy of this resolution that the House should reform government-wide budget and accounting practices so Members of Congress and the public can better understand the fiscal condition of the United States and the best options to improve it. 
 
(Sec. 506) States the policy of this resolution that legislation should be enacted that establishes a Commission on Budget Concepts to review and revise budget concepts and make recommendations to create a more transparent federal budget process. 
 
(Sec. 507) States the policy of this resolution that the House should enforce this resolution by: 
 
 
 adopting the budget resolution before considering tax or spending legislation, 
 
 assessing measures for compliance with budget rules, 
 
 passing legislation to strengthen enforcement of the budget resolution, 
 
 complying with discretionary spending limits, 
 
 preventing the use of accounting gimmicks to offset higher spending, 
 
 modifying scoring rules to encourage the commercialization of government activities that can best be provided by the private sector, and 
 
 discouraging the use of savings identified in the budget resolution as offsets for spending or tax legislation. 
 
 
(Sec. 508) States the policy of this resolution that an independent commission should be established to: (1) find tangible solutions to reduce total improper payments by 50% within the next 5 years, and (2) develop a more-stringent system of agency oversight to achieve this goal. 
 
(Sec. 509) States the policy of this resolution that: (1) the House should reassert its constitutional prerogative to control federal spending and exercise rigorous oversight over federal agencies, (2) Congress should subject all fees paid by the public to federal agencies to annual appropriations or authorizing legislation. and (3) a share of these proceeds should be reserved for taxpayers in the form of deficit reduction.
 
(Sec. 510) States the policies of this resolution regarding health care reform and regulations. 
 
(Sec. 511) States the policy of this resolution to save Medicare for those in or near retirement and strengthen the program's solvency for future beneficiaries. Sets forth the assumptions of this resolution regarding Medicare reform. 
 
(Sec. 512) States the policy of this resolution on combating opioid abuse. 
 
(Sec. 513) States the policy of this resolution regarding the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. 
 
(Sec. 514) States the policy of this resolution on funding and regulations regarding medical innovation.
 
(Sec. 515) States the policy of this resolution regarding public health preparedness, including the funding of activities to develop and stockpile medical countermeasures to infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents. 
 
(Sec. 516) States the policies of this resolution regarding Social Security, including the Disability Insurance program and Social Security solvency. 
 
(Sec. 517) States the policy of this resolution regarding Medicaid work requirements. 
 
(Sec. 518) States the policies of this resolution regarding Welfare reform and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) work requirements.
 
(Sec. 519) States the policies of this resolution regarding state flexibility with respect to SNAP. 
 
(Sec. 520) States the policies of this resolution regarding: (1) promoting college affordability, access, and success; and (2) workforce development. 
 
(Sec. 521) States the policy of this resolution that Congress, in coordination with the Administration, should develop both a long-term funding mechanism that would allow supplemental wildfire suppression funding and reforms on reducing hazardous fuel loads on federal forests and lands that could decrease wildfires. 
 
(Sec. 522) States the policy of this resolution that the House should require the Veterans Administration to conduct an audit of its programs named on Government Accountability Office' 's &quot;high-risk&quot; list and report its findings to specified congressional committees. 
 
(Sec. 523) States the policy of this resolution that all receipts and disbursements of the U.S. Postal Service should be included in the congressional budget and the budget of the federal government. 
 
(Sec. 524) States the policy of this resolution regarding payments from the Judgment Fund. 
 
(Sec. 525) States the policy of this resolution to identify savings that can be achieved through greater productivity and efficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of the House of Representatives. 
 
(Sec. 526) States the policy of this resolution that the House should consider comprehensive tax reform legislation that simplifies the tax code, reduces individual rates and the number of brackets, repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax, reduces the corporate tax rate, and transitions the tax code to a more competitive system of international taxation.

action_date: 2017-10-05
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
 
Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2018 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2019-FY2027. 
 
TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 
 
(Sec. 101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2018-FY2027 for: 
 
 
 Federal Revenues, 
 
New Budget Authority, 
 
 Budget Outlays, 
 
 Deficits (On-Budget), 
 
 Debt Subject to Limit, and 
 
 Debt Held by the Public. 
 
 
(Sec. 102) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2018-FY2027 for each major functional category, including: 
 
 
 National Defense; 
 
 International Affairs; 
 
 General Science, Space, and Technology; 
 
 Energy; 
 
 Natural Resources and Environment; 
 
 Agriculture; 
 
 Commerce and Housing Credit; 
 
 Transportation; 
 
 Community and Regional Development; 
 
 Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; 
 
 Health; 
 
 Medicare; 
 
 Income Security; 
 
 Social Security; 
 
 Veterans Benefits and Services; 
 
 Administration of Justice; 
 
 General Government; 
 
 Net Interest; 
 
 Allowances; 
 
Government-wide Savings and Adjustments; 
 
 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts; 
 
 Overseas Contingency Operations/ Global War on Terrorism; and 
 
 an Across-the-Board Adjustment. 
 
 
TITLE II--RECONCILIATION AND RELATED MATTERS 
 
(Sec. 201) Includes reconciliation instructions directing 11 House authorizing committees to submit to the House Budget Committee no later than October 6, 2017, legislation to reduce the deficit by specified amounts over FY2018-FY2027. (Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.) 
 
TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement 
 
(Sec. 301) Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate whether legislation (other than appropriations measures) would cause a net increase in direct spending in excess of $2.5 billion over any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning in FY2027. Establishes a point of order against legislation (other than appropriations measures) with a net effect of increasing direct spending by more than $2.5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods. Specifies that this provision has no force or effect after September 30, 2018. 
 
(Sec. 302) Provides the House Appropriations Committee with a separate allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism and specifies procedures for enforcing and adjusting the allocation. 
 
(Sec. 303) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) in appropriations legislation for FY2018-FY2020. Limits CHIMPs that reduce budget authority in the budget year but do not decrease outlays over the period of the total of the current year, budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently agreed to budget resolution. Limit the CHIMPS to: $19.1 billion for FY2018, $17 billion for FY2019, and $15 billion for FY2020. 
 
(Sec. 304) Prohibits advance appropriations unless: (1) the appropriation is provided for an account listed as an exception in the report accompanying this resolution, and (2) total advance appropriations do not exceed specified limits. (Under this resolution, an advance appropriation is any new discretionary budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for the fiscal year following FY2018.) 
 
(Sec. 305) Permits the chair of the House Budget Committee to direct the CBO to include changes in debt service costs in estimates of legislation except for authorizations of discretionary programs or appropriation measures. 
 
Specifies that: (1) this section applies to changes in the authorization level of appropriated entitlements, and (2) the estimates are advisory and may not be used for budget enforcement. 
 
(Sec. 306) Requires the CBO, upon request of the chairman of the House Budget Committee, to include supplemental fair-value estimates in estimates for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program. 
 
Requires the CBO to provide a supplemental fair-value estimate for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program for student financial assistance or housing (including residential mortgage). 
 
Requires the CBO to include estimates, on a fair-value and credit reform basis, of loan and loan guarantee programs for student financial assistance, housing (including residential mortgage), and other major loan and loan guarantee programs in its &quot;Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2027.&quot; 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the fair-value estimates provided pursuant to this section for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(A fair-value estimate is an alternative to federal credit program estimates required by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 [FCRA]. Under FCRA, cash flows are discounted using Treasury interest rates for estimating subsidy costs. The fair-value method incorporates market risk by using market rates.) 
 
(Sec. 307) Requires the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation to incorporate macroeconomic effects in estimates of specified legislation (commonly referred to as dynamic scoring). 
 
(Sec. 308) Authorizes the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations and levels in this resolution if legislation decreases direct spending in any fiscal year and authorizes appropriations for the same purpose. 
 
(Sec. 309) Directs the CBO to estimate legislation that affects the use of energy savings performance contracts or utility energy service contracts on a net present value basis (in today's dollars) using calculations that meet specified requirements. Specifies that the contracts are to be scored as direct spending and that savings resulting from the contracts may be not be used as an offset for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(Under an energy savings performance contract, a private party agrees to fund energy-efficient upgrades for a federal facility, and the federal agency agrees to pay the private party from reductions in the agency's energy costs. Under a utility energy service contract, the services and equipment are provided by a utility.) 
 
(Sec. 310) Requires transfers of funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund to be counted as new budget authority and outlays in the year the transfer occurs. 
 
(Sec. 311) Prohibits transfers of surpluses of the Federal Reserve System from being counted as offsets for budget enforcement purposes. (This section prevents the transfers from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.) 
 
(Sec. 312) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used for budget enforcement purposes. (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgages and charge the fees to guarantee the payment of principal and interest. This section prevents the fee increases from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.) 
 
Subtitle B--Other Provisions 
 
(Sec. 321) Specifies that the administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are reflected in the allocation to the House Appropriations Committee to ensure that the committee retains control over the expenses through the annual appropriations process. 
 
Requires the administrative expenses to be included in the cost estimates used to determine if an appropriations bill exceeds the spending limits in this resolution. 
 
(Sec. 322) Sets forth procedures for the adjustment of allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels included in this resolution. 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust other appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution depending on congressional action on pending reconciliation legislation. 
 
(Sec. 323) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in this resolution for any change in budgetary concepts and definitions pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 
(Sec. 324) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, reconciliation targets, and other levels in this resolution for any changes that the CBO makes to its baseline for FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 325) Waives the point of order that would otherwise apply to appropriations legislation that exceeds the statutory limits on discretionary spending if the legislation would not cause this resolution's 302(a) allocation for the appropriations committee to be exceeded. 
 
(Sec. 326) Affirms that the adoption of this budget resolution is an exercise of the House's rulemaking power and that the House has the constitutional right to change these rules. 
 
TITLE IV--RESERVE FUNDS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
Establishes reserve funds that permit the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the levels and allocations included in the budget resolution to accommodate health, tax, and transportation legislation that meets specified conditions. 
 
(Reserve funds provide the House Budget Committee Chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria.) 
 
(Sec. 401) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that commercializes the operations of the air traffic control system and reduces discretionary spending limits by the amount that would otherwise be appropriated to the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control. 
 
(Sec. 402) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that invests in national infrastructure and is deficit neutral over the period of FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 403) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that provides for comprehensive tax reform and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 404) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that extends the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) allotments and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027. 
 
(Sec. 405) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that repeals or replaces the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 
 
TITLE V--POLICY STATEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
(Sec. 501) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should propose a balanced budget constitutional amendment for ratification by the states. 
 
(Sec. 502) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should enact legislation that reforms the congressional budget process. 
 
(Sec. 503) States that the policies of resolution regarding federal regulatory budgeting and reform.
 
(Sec. 504) States the policies of this resolution regarding unauthorized appropriations.
 
(Sec. 505) States the policy of this resolution that the House should reform government-wide budget and accounting practices so Members of Congress and the public can better understand the fiscal condition of the United States and the best options to improve it. 
 
(Sec. 506) States the policy of this resolution that legislation should be enacted that establishes a Commission on Budget Concepts to review and revise budget concepts and make recommendations to create a more transparent federal budget process. 
 
(Sec. 507) States the policy of this resolution that the House should enforce this resolution by: 
 
 
 adopting the budget resolution before considering tax or spending legislation, 
 
 assessing measures for compliance with budget rules, 
 
 passing legislation to strengthen enforcement of the budget resolution, 
 
 complying with discretionary spending limits, 
 
 preventing the use of accounting gimmicks to offset higher spending, 
 
 modifying scoring rules to encourage the commercialization of government activities that can best be provided by the private sector, and 
 
 discouraging the use of savings identified in the budget resolution as offsets for spending or tax legislation. 
 
 
(Sec. 508) States the policy of this resolution that an independent commission should be established to: (1) find tangible solutions to reduce total improper payments by 50% within the next 5 years, and (2) develop a more-stringent system of agency oversight to achieve this goal. 
 
(Sec. 509) States the policy of this resolution that: (1) the House should reassert its constitutional prerogative to control federal spending and exercise rigorous oversight over federal agencies, (2) Congress should subject all fees paid by the public to federal agencies to annual appropriations or authorizing legislation. and (3) a share of these proceeds should be reserved for taxpayers in the form of deficit reduction.
 
(Sec. 510) States the policies of this resolution regarding health care reform and regulations. 
 
(Sec. 511) States the policy of this resolution to save Medicare for those in or near retirement and strengthen the program's solvency for future beneficiaries. Sets forth the assumptions of this resolution regarding Medicare reform. 
 
(Sec. 512) States the policy of this resolution on combating opioid abuse. 
 
(Sec. 513) States the policy of this resolution regarding the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. 
 
(Sec. 514) States the policy of this resolution on funding and regulations regarding medical innovation.
 
(Sec. 515) States the policy of this resolution regarding public health preparedness, including the funding of activities to develop and stockpile medical countermeasures to infectious diseases and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents. 
 
(Sec. 516) States the policies of this resolution regarding Social Security, including the Disability Insurance program and Social Security solvency. 
 
(Sec. 517) States the policy of this resolution regarding Medicaid work requirements. 
 
(Sec. 518) States the policies of this resolution regarding Welfare reform and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) work requirements.
 
(Sec. 519) States the policies of this resolution regarding state flexibility with respect to SNAP. 
 
(Sec. 520) States the policies of this resolution regarding: (1) promoting college affordability, access, and success; and (2) workforce development. 
 
(Sec. 521) States the policy of this resolution that Congress, in coordination with the Administration, should develop both a long-term funding mechanism that would allow supplemental wildfire suppression funding and reforms on reducing hazardous fuel loads on federal forests and lands that could decrease wildfires. 
 
(Sec. 522) States the policy of this resolution that the House should require the Veterans Administration to conduct an audit of its programs named on Government Accountability Office' 's &quot;high-risk&quot; list and report its findings to specified congressional committees. 
 
(Sec. 523) States the policy of this resolution that all receipts and disbursements of the U.S. Postal Service should be included in the congressional budget and the budget of the federal government. 
 
(Sec. 524) States the policy of this resolution regarding payments from the Judgment Fund. 
 
(Sec. 525) States the policy of this resolution to identify savings that can be achieved through greater productivity and efficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of the House of Representatives. 
 
(Sec. 526) States the policy of this resolution that the House should consider comprehensive tax reform legislation that simplifies the tax code, reduces individual rates and the number of brackets, repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax, reduces the corporate tax rate, and transitions the tax code to a more competitive system of international taxation.

action_date: 2017-10-19
text: 

Highlights: 

 
This concurrent resolution establishes the FY2018 congressional budget resolution, which provides a framework for congressional consideration of legislation addressing revenues, spending, and other budget-related issues. The budget resolution is a nonbinding framework used by Congress and cannot be signed into law or vetoed by the President. 
 
The resolution establishes budget enforcement procedures by setting forth rules for applying budget points of order to various legislative proposals. 
 
It also includes reconciliation instructions directing various congressional committees to report legislation that meets specified requirements regarding the effect on the deficit. Reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate. 
 
The resolution also includes reserve funds that provide the chairmen of the congressional budget committees with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. 
 

Full Summary: 

 
Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2018 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2019-FY2027. 
 
TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 
 
Subtitle A--Budgetary Levels in Both Houses 
 
(Sec. 1101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2018-FY2027 for: 
 
 
 federal revenues, 
 
 new budget authority, 
 
 budget outlays, 
 
 deficits, 
 
 public debt, and 
 
 debt held by the public. 
 
 
(Sec. 1102) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2018-FY2027 for each major functional category, including: 
 
 
 National Defense; 
 
 International Affairs; 
 
 General Science, Space, and Technology; 
 
 Energy; 
 
 Natural Resources and Environment; 
 
 Agriculture; 
 
 Commerce and Housing Credit; 
 
 Transportation; 
 
 Community and Regional Development; 
 
Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; 
 
 Health; 
 
 Medicare; 
 
 Income Security; 
 
 Social Security; 
 
 Veterans Benefits and Services; 
 
 Administration of Justice; 
 
 General Government; 
 
 Net Interest; 
 
 Allowances; 
 
 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts; and 
 
 Overseas Contingency Operations. 
 
 
Subtitle B--Levels and Amounts in the Senate 
 
(Sec. 1201) Recommends Senate levels for FY2018-FY2027 for Social Security revenues, outlays, and administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 1202) Recommends Senate levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2018-FY2027 for U.S. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. 
 
TITLE II--RECONCILIATION 
 
(Title II includes reconciliation instructions directing congressional committees to submit legislation to the budget committees. Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.) 
 
(Sec. 2001) Includes reconciliation instructions directing: (1) the Senate Finance Committee to report changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by no more than $1.5 trillion over FY2018-FY2027, and (2) the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to report changes in laws within its jurisdiction that reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over FY2018-FY2027. 
 
Requires the committees to submit the recommendations to the Senate Budget Committee by November 13, 2017. 
 
(Sec. 2002) Includes reconciliation instructions directing: (1) the House Ways and Means Committee to submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by no more than $1.5 trillion over FY2018-FY2027, and (2) the House Natural Resources Committee to submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over FY2018-FY2027. 
 
Requires the committees to submit the recommendations to the House Budget Committee by November 13, 2017. 
 
(Section 5113 of this resolution modifies the reconciliation instructions for the House committees and specifies that section 2002 shall have no force and effect.)
 
TITLE III--RESERVE FUNDS 
 
Establishes reserve funds that provide the Senate Budget Committee Chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. 
 
(Under the reserve funds, the chairman may revise committee allocations, aggregates and other appropriate levels in this resolution, and the Pay-As-You-Go [PAYGO] ledger. Deficit-neutral reserve funds generally apply to legislation that: (1) addresses specified policy issues, and (2) does not increase the deficit over a specified time period or periods. The resolution also includes two reserve funds that do not include a requirement regarding the effect on the deficit.) 
 
(Sec. 3001) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to repealing or replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 
 
(Sec. 3002) Establishes a revenue-neutral reserve fund for legislation that: (1) reforms the Internal Revenue Code, (2) is revenue neutral, and (3) would not increase the deficit over the FY2018-FY2017 period. 
 
(Sec. 3003) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation considered pursuant to the reconciliation instructions included in section 2001 of this resolution. 
 
Specifies that legislation for which the chairman has exercised authority pursuant to this section is exempt from the point of order against legislation increasing the short-term deficit. (The point of order prohibits the Senate from considering legislation that would cause a net increase in the deficit in excess of $10 billion in any fiscal year provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution unless it is fully offset over the period of all fiscal years provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution.)
 
(Sec. 3004) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to an extension of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). 
 
(Sec. 3005) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 addressing the opioid and substance abuse crisis; 
 
 protecting and assisting victims of domestic abuse; 
 
 foster care, child care, marriage, and fatherhood programs; 
 
 making it easier to save for retirement; 
 
 reforming the public housing system; 
 
 the Community Development Block Grant Program; or 
 
 extending expiring health care provisions. 
 
 
(Sec. 3006) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
amending the Higher Education Act of 1965; 
 
 ensuring state flexibility in education; 
 
 enhancing outcomes with federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs; 
 
 the consolidation and streamlining of overlapping early learning and child care programs; 
 
 educational programs for individuals with disabilities; or 
 
 child nutrition programs.
 
 
 (Sec. 3007) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the American banking system. 
 
(Sec. 3008) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 the farm bill; 
 
 American energy policies; 
 
 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; 
 
 North American energy development; 
 
 infrastructure, transportation, and water development; 
 
 the Federal Aviation Administration; 
 
 the National Flood Insurance Program; 
 
 state mineral royalty revenues; or 
 
soda ash royalties.
 
 
(Sec. 3009) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 improving military readiness, including deferred Facilities Sustainment Restoration and Modernization;
 
military technological superiority; 
 
 structural defense reforms; or 
 
strengthening cybersecurity efforts.
 
 
 (Sec. 3010) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and service members. 
 
(Sec. 3011) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 
 
 forest health and wildfire prevention and control,
 
 resources for wildland firefighting for the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior; 
 
 the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program (PILT), or 
 
 the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination program.
 
 
(Sec. 3012) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: securing the U.S. border, ending human trafficking, or stopping the transportation of narcotics into the United States. 
 
(Sec. 3013) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: reducing costs to businesses and individuals stemming from federal regulations, increasing commerce and economic growth, or enhancing job creation. 
 
(Sec. 3014) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to modifying statutory budget controls. 
 
(Sec. 3015) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the prevention of taxpayer bailouts of pension plans. 
 
(Sec. 3016) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to implementing work requirements in all means-tested federal welfare programs. 
 
(Sec. 3017) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the Medicare program, which may include repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board. 
 
(Sec. 3018) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to making the cost of child and dependent care more affordable and useful for American families. 
 
(Sec. 3019) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to worker training programs. 
 
(Sec. 3020) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation relating to providing disaster funds for relief and recovery to areas devastated by hurricanes and flooding in 2017. 
 
(Sec. 3021) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the Medicaid program and extending the life of the Medicare Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. 
 
(Sec. 3022) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include lowering taxes on families with children.
 
(Sec. 3023) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include the provision of tax relief for small businesses, along with provisions to prevent upper-income taxpayers from sheltering income from taxation at the appropriate rate.
 
(Sec. 3024) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include reducing federal deductions such as the state and local tax deduction to ensure relief for middle-income taxpayers.
 
(Sec. 3025) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include provisions to make the American tax system simpler and fairer for all Americans.
 
(Sec. 3026) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing per-child federal tax relief, which may include amending the child tax credit.
 
(Sec. 3027) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include international tax provisions that provide or enhance incentives for businesses to invest in America, generate American jobs, retain American jobs, and return jobs to America.
 
(Sec. 3028) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to eliminating tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs to foreign countries.
 
(Sec. 3029) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing full, permanent, and mandatory funding for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
 
(Sec. 3030) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include tax reform proposals to ensure that the reformed tax code parallels the existing tax code with respect to relative burdens and does not shift the tax burden from high-income to lower- and middle-income taxpayers.
 
(Sec. 3031) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to significantly improving the budget process. 
 
TITLE IV--BUDGET PROCESS 
 
Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement 
 
(Sec. 4101) Updates the existing point of order against advanced appropriations to conform to the new budget window. (Under this section, an advanced appropriation is any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2018 that first becomes available after FY2018, or any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2019 that first becomes available after FY2019. The point of order limits advanced appropriations to specified accounts and prohibits total advanced appropriations from exceeding $28.852 billion in new budget authority in each year). 
 
(Sec. 4102) Extends the point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPS) to appropriations legislation for FY2018-FY2020. Limits CHIMPS that reduce budget authority in the budget year but do not decrease outlays over the period of the total of the current year, budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently adopted budget resolution. Limit CHIMPS to: $17 billion for FY2018, $15 billion for FY2019, and $15 billion for FY2020. 
 
(Sec. 4103) Establishes a point of order against appropriations legislation that includes CHIMPS that would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund for FY2018 to exceed $11.224 billion. 
 
(Sec. 4104) Establishes a point of order against a provision designating FY2018 funds as for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). 
 
(Sec. 4105) Establishes a point of order against amendments to reconciliation bills considered pursuant to section 2001 if the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee is unable to determine the effect that the amendment or motion would have on budget authority, outlays, direct spending, entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, or surpluses. 
 
(Sec. 4106) Repeals the existing Senate Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) point of order that prohibits the consideration of legislation that would cause or increase an on-budget deficit over specified six- and eleven-year time periods. 
 
Replaces the point of order with a new PAYGO point of order that continues the six-year and eleven-year time periods and adds two additional time periods during which the legislation may not cause or increase an on-budget deficit: (1) the current year, and (2) the budget year. 
 
(Sec. 4107) Directs the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation to provide estimates of the macroeconomic effects of major legislation. (These estimates are frequently referred to as dynamic scoring and include estimates of the budgetary effects from changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, interest rates, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the legislation.)
 
Requires the estimates, to the extent practicable, to include the distributional effects across income categories resulting from major legislation. 
 
(Sec. 4108) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, allocations, and levels included in this resolution if, during the 115th Congress, a measure becomes law that amends the discretionary spending limits established under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
 
(Sec. 4109) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust: (1) discretionary spending limits established under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; and (2) committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, allocations, and levels included in this resolution for legislation during the 115th Congress that provides wildfire suppression funding. 
 
(Sec. 4110) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations, aggregates and other levels in this resolution, and the PAYGO ledger if legislation decreases direct spending for any fiscal year and authorizes appropriations for the same purpose. 
 
(Sec. 4111) Repeals points of order: (1) against voting on passage of legislation unless the CBO cost estimate was available on CBO's website at least 28 hours before the vote, and (2) protecting savings in reconciliation legislation from amendments that increase the deficit. 
 
(Sec. 4112) Makes technical corrections to provisions regarding the designation of emergency spending. 
 
(Sec. 4113) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to file in the Congressional Record committee allocations enforcing this resolution if the resolution passes both the House and Senate in identical form, a conference committee is not convened, and a joint explanatory statement is not produced. 
 
Subtitle B--Other Provisions 
 
(Sec. 4201) Directs Senate committees to review programs and tax expenditures within their jurisdiction to identify waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication and increase the use of performance data to inform committee work. 
 
(Sec. 4202) Requires the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the budget resolution to include amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service in the allocations to the appropriations committees. Specifies that, in the Senate, the amounts must be included in estimates of the total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure that are used to enforce committee allocations. 
 
(Sec. 4203) Sets forth procedures for adjustments of the allocations and aggregates included in the budget resolution. 
 
(Sec. 4204) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust levels and allocations in this budget resolution to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 
 
(Sec. 4205) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to make adjustments to the levels and allocations included in this resolution to reflect legislation that was enacted before this resolution was agreed to by Congress and was not incorporated in the June 2017 update to CBO's baseline. 
 
(Sec. 4206) Declares that the provisions in this title are promulgated under the Senate's rulemaking power and will be considered part of the rules of the Senate. 
 
TITLE V--BUDGET PROCESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 
Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement
 
(Sec. 5101) Requires the CBO to estimate whether legislation (other than appropriations measures) would cause a net increase in direct spending in excess of $2.5 billion over any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning in FY2027. Establishes a point of order against legislation (other than appropriations measures) with a net effect of increasing direct spending by more than $2.5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods. Specifies that this provision has no force or effect after September 30, 2018.
 
(Sec. 5102) Provides the House Appropriations Committee with a separate allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism and specifies procedures for enforcing and adjusting the allocation.
 
(Sec. 5103) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPS) in appropriations legislation for FY2018-FY2020. Limits CHIMPS that reduce budget authority in the budget year but do not decrease outlays over the period of the total of the current year, budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently agreed to budget resolution. Limit the CHIMPS to: $19.1 billion for FY2018, $17 billion for FY2019, and $15 billion for FY2020.
 
(Sec. 5104) Prohibits advance appropriations unless: (1) the appropriation is provided for an account listed as an exception in the report accompanying this resolution, and (2) total advance appropriations do not exceed specified limits. (Under this section, an advance appropriation is any new discretionary budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for the fiscal year following FY2018.)
 
(Sec. 5105) Permits the chair of the House Budget Committee to direct the CBO to include changes in debt service costs in estimates of legislation except for authorizations of discretionary programs or appropriation measures. 
 
Specifies that: (1) this section applies to changes in the authorization level of appropriated entitlements, and (2) the estimates are advisory and may not be used for budget enforcement.
 
(Sec. 5106) Requires the CBO, upon request of the chairman of the House Budget Committee, to include supplemental fair-value estimates in estimates for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program. 
 
Requires the CBO to provide a supplemental fair-value estimate for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program for student financial assistance or housing (including residential mortgage). 
 
Requires the CBO to include estimates, on a fair-value and credit reform basis, of loan and loan guarantee programs for student financial assistance, housing (including residential mortgage), and other major loan and loan guarantee programs in its &quot;Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2027.&quot; 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the fair-value estimates provided pursuant to this section for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(A fair-value estimate is an alternative to federal credit program estimates required by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 [FCRA]. Under FCRA, cash flows are discounted using Treasury interest rates for estimating subsidy costs. The fair-value method incorporates market risk by using market rates.)
 
(Sec. 5107) Requires the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation to incorporate macroeconomic effects in estimates of specified legislation (commonly referred to as dynamic scoring).
 
(Sec. 5108) Authorizes the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations and levels in this resolution if legislation decreases direct spending in any fiscal year and authorizes appropriations for the same purpose.
 
(Sec. 5109) Directs the CBO to estimate legislation that affects the use of energy savings performance contracts or utility energy service contracts on a net present value basis (in today's dollars) using calculations that meet specified requirements. Specifies that the contracts are to be scored as direct spending and that savings resulting from the contracts may be not be used as an offset for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(Under an energy savings performance contract, a private party agrees to fund energy-efficient upgrades for a federal facility, and the federal agency agrees to pay the private party from reductions in the agency's energy costs. Under a utility energy service contract, the services and equipment are provided by a utility.)
 
(Sec. 5110) Requires transfers of funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund to be counted as new budget authority and outlays in the year the transfer occurs.
 
(Sec. 5111) Prohibits transfers of surpluses of the Federal Reserve System from being counted as offsets for budget enforcement purposes. (This section prevents the transfers from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.)
 
(Sec. 5112) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used for budget enforcement purposes. (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgages and charge the fees to guarantee the payment of principal and interest. This section prevents the fee increases from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.)
 
(Sec. 5113) Modifies the reconciliation instructions included in this resolution for House committees to: (1) specify that section 2002 of this resolution shall have no force and effect, and (2) direct the House Ways and Means Committee to report to the House of Representatives by November 13, 2017, changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by no more than $1.5 trillion over FY2018-FY2027. 
 
Subtitle B--Other Provisions 
 
(Sec. 5201) Specifies that the administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are reflected in the allocation to the House Appropriations Committee to ensure that the committee retains control over the expenses through the annual appropriations process.
 
Specifies that, in the House, the amounts must be included in estimates of the total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure that are used to enforce committee allocations.
 
(Sec. 5202) Sets forth procedures for the adjustment of allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels included in this resolution. 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust other appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution depending on congressional action on pending reconciliation legislation.
 
(Sec. 5203) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in this resolution for any change in budgetary concepts and definitions pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
 
(Sec. 5204) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, reconciliation targets, and other levels in this resolution for any changes that the CBO makes to its baseline for FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5205) Waives the point of order that would otherwise apply to appropriations legislation that exceeds the statutory limits on discretionary spending if the legislation would not cause this resolution's 302(a) allocation for the appropriations committee to be exceeded.
 
(Sec. 5206) Permits the allocations and lists included in this resolution to be enforced in the House if this resolution is adopted in the House without the appointment of a conference committee. 
 
Requires the chairman of the House Budget Committee to submit for a publication in the Congressional Record a statement specifying: (1) committee allocations; and (2) programs, projects, and activities identified as advance appropriations for the purpose of enforcing section 5104 of this resolution.
 
(Sec. 5207) Affirms that the adoption of this title and section 2002 of this budget resolution is an exercise of the House's rulemaking power and that the House has the constitutional right to change these rules.
 
Subtitle C--Adjustment Authority
 
(Sec. 5301) Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the committee allocations, aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained this resolution if, during the 115th Congress, a measure becomes law that amends the discretionary spending limits established under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to increase the limit for the revised security category for FY2018 to $640 billion.
 
Subtitle D--Reserve Funds
 
Establishes reserve funds that permit the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the levels and allocations included in the budget resolution to accommodate health, tax, and transportation legislation that meets specified conditions. 
(Reserve funds provide the House Budget Committee Chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria.) 
(Sec. 5401) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that invests in national infrastructure and is deficit-neutral over the period of FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5402) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that provides for comprehensive tax reform and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5403) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that extends the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) allotments and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5404) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that repeals or replaces the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

action_date: 2017-10-26
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on October 19, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 

Highlights: 

 
This concurrent resolution establishes the FY2018 congressional budget resolution, which provides a framework for congressional consideration of legislation addressing revenues, spending, and other budget-related issues. The budget resolution is a nonbinding framework used by Congress and cannot be signed into law or vetoed by the President. 
 
The resolution establishes budget enforcement procedures by setting forth rules for applying budget points of order to various legislative proposals. 
 
It also includes reconciliation instructions directing various congressional committees to report legislation that meets specified requirements regarding the effect on the deficit. Reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate. 
 
The resolution also includes reserve funds that provide the chairmen of the congressional budget committees with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. 
 

Full Summary: 

 
Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2018 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2019-FY2027. 
 
TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 
 
Subtitle A--Budgetary Levels in Both Houses 
 
(Sec. 1101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2018-FY2027 for: 
 
 
 federal revenues, 
 
 new budget authority, 
 
 budget outlays, 
 
 deficits, 
 
 public debt, and 
 
 debt held by the public. 
 
 
(Sec. 1102) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2018-FY2027 for each major functional category, including: 
 
 
 National Defense; 
 
 International Affairs; 
 
 General Science, Space, and Technology; 
 
 Energy; 
 
 Natural Resources and Environment; 
 
 Agriculture; 
 
 Commerce and Housing Credit; 
 
 Transportation; 
 
 Community and Regional Development; 
 
Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; 
 
 Health; 
 
 Medicare; 
 
 Income Security; 
 
 Social Security; 
 
 Veterans Benefits and Services; 
 
 Administration of Justice; 
 
 General Government; 
 
 Net Interest; 
 
 Allowances; 
 
 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts; and 
 
 Overseas Contingency Operations. 
 
 
Subtitle B--Levels and Amounts in the Senate 
 
(Sec. 1201) Recommends Senate levels for FY2018-FY2027 for Social Security revenues, outlays, and administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 1202) Recommends Senate levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2018-FY2027 for U.S. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. 
 
TITLE II--RECONCILIATION 
 
(Title II includes reconciliation instructions directing congressional committees to submit legislation to the budget committees. Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.) 
 
(Sec. 2001) Includes reconciliation instructions directing: (1) the Senate Finance Committee to report changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by no more than $1.5 trillion over FY2018-FY2027, and (2) the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to report changes in laws within its jurisdiction that reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over FY2018-FY2027. 
 
Requires the committees to submit the recommendations to the Senate Budget Committee by November 13, 2017. 
 
(Sec. 2002) Includes reconciliation instructions directing: (1) the House Ways and Means Committee to submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by no more than $1.5 trillion over FY2018-FY2027, and (2) the House Natural Resources Committee to submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction that reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over FY2018-FY2027. 
 
Requires the committees to submit the recommendations to the House Budget Committee by November 13, 2017. 
 
(Section 5113 of this resolution modifies the reconciliation instructions for the House committees and specifies that section 2002 shall have no force and effect.)
 
TITLE III--RESERVE FUNDS 
 
Establishes reserve funds that provide the Senate Budget Committee Chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. 
 
(Under the reserve funds, the chairman may revise committee allocations, aggregates and other appropriate levels in this resolution, and the Pay-As-You-Go [PAYGO] ledger. Deficit-neutral reserve funds generally apply to legislation that: (1) addresses specified policy issues, and (2) does not increase the deficit over a specified time period or periods. The resolution also includes two reserve funds that do not include a requirement regarding the effect on the deficit.) 
 
(Sec. 3001) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to repealing or replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 
 
(Sec. 3002) Establishes a revenue-neutral reserve fund for legislation that: (1) reforms the Internal Revenue Code, (2) is revenue neutral, and (3) would not increase the deficit over the FY2018-FY2017 period. 
 
(Sec. 3003) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation considered pursuant to the reconciliation instructions included in section 2001 of this resolution. 
 
Specifies that legislation for which the chairman has exercised authority pursuant to this section is exempt from the point of order against legislation increasing the short-term deficit. (The point of order prohibits the Senate from considering legislation that would cause a net increase in the deficit in excess of $10 billion in any fiscal year provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution unless it is fully offset over the period of all fiscal years provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution.)
 
(Sec. 3004) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to an extension of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). 
 
(Sec. 3005) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 addressing the opioid and substance abuse crisis; 
 
 protecting and assisting victims of domestic abuse; 
 
 foster care, child care, marriage, and fatherhood programs; 
 
 making it easier to save for retirement; 
 
 reforming the public housing system; 
 
 the Community Development Block Grant Program; or 
 
 extending expiring health care provisions. 
 
 
(Sec. 3006) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
amending the Higher Education Act of 1965; 
 
 ensuring state flexibility in education; 
 
 enhancing outcomes with federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs; 
 
 the consolidation and streamlining of overlapping early learning and child care programs; 
 
 educational programs for individuals with disabilities; or 
 
 child nutrition programs.
 
 
 (Sec. 3007) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the American banking system. 
 
(Sec. 3008) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 the farm bill; 
 
 American energy policies; 
 
 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; 
 
 North American energy development; 
 
 infrastructure, transportation, and water development; 
 
 the Federal Aviation Administration; 
 
 the National Flood Insurance Program; 
 
 state mineral royalty revenues; or 
 
soda ash royalties.
 
 
(Sec. 3009) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 improving military readiness, including deferred Facilities Sustainment Restoration and Modernization;
 
military technological superiority; 
 
 structural defense reforms; or 
 
strengthening cybersecurity efforts.
 
 
 (Sec. 3010) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and service members. 
 
(Sec. 3011) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: 
 
 
 the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 
 
 forest health and wildfire prevention and control,
 
 resources for wildland firefighting for the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior; 
 
 the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program (PILT), or 
 
 the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination program.
 
 
(Sec. 3012) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: securing the U.S. border, ending human trafficking, or stopping the transportation of narcotics into the United States. 
 
(Sec. 3013) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: reducing costs to businesses and individuals stemming from federal regulations, increasing commerce and economic growth, or enhancing job creation. 
 
(Sec. 3014) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to modifying statutory budget controls. 
 
(Sec. 3015) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the prevention of taxpayer bailouts of pension plans. 
 
(Sec. 3016) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to implementing work requirements in all means-tested federal welfare programs. 
 
(Sec. 3017) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the Medicare program, which may include repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board. 
 
(Sec. 3018) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to making the cost of child and dependent care more affordable and useful for American families. 
 
(Sec. 3019) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to worker training programs. 
 
(Sec. 3020) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation relating to providing disaster funds for relief and recovery to areas devastated by hurricanes and flooding in 2017. 
 
(Sec. 3021) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the Medicaid program and extending the life of the Medicare Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. 
 
(Sec. 3022) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include lowering taxes on families with children.
 
(Sec. 3023) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include the provision of tax relief for small businesses, along with provisions to prevent upper-income taxpayers from sheltering income from taxation at the appropriate rate.
 
(Sec. 3024) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include reducing federal deductions such as the state and local tax deduction to ensure relief for middle-income taxpayers.
 
(Sec. 3025) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include provisions to make the American tax system simpler and fairer for all Americans.
 
(Sec. 3026) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing per-child federal tax relief, which may include amending the child tax credit.
 
(Sec. 3027) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include international tax provisions that provide or enhance incentives for businesses to invest in America, generate American jobs, retain American jobs, and return jobs to America.
 
(Sec. 3028) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to eliminating tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs to foreign countries.
 
(Sec. 3029) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing full, permanent, and mandatory funding for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
 
(Sec. 3030) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal tax laws, which may include tax reform proposals to ensure that the reformed tax code parallels the existing tax code with respect to relative burdens and does not shift the tax burden from high-income to lower- and middle-income taxpayers.
 
(Sec. 3031) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to significantly improving the budget process. 
 
TITLE IV--BUDGET PROCESS 
 
Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement 
 
(Sec. 4101) Updates the existing point of order against advanced appropriations to conform to the new budget window. (Under this section, an advanced appropriation is any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2018 that first becomes available after FY2018, or any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2019 that first becomes available after FY2019. The point of order limits advanced appropriations to specified accounts and prohibits total advanced appropriations from exceeding $28.852 billion in new budget authority in each year). 
 
(Sec. 4102) Extends the point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPS) to appropriations legislation for FY2018-FY2020. Limits CHIMPS that reduce budget authority in the budget year but do not decrease outlays over the period of the total of the current year, budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently adopted budget resolution. Limit CHIMPS to: $17 billion for FY2018, $15 billion for FY2019, and $15 billion for FY2020. 
 
(Sec. 4103) Establishes a point of order against appropriations legislation that includes CHIMPS that would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund for FY2018 to exceed $11.224 billion. 
 
(Sec. 4104) Establishes a point of order against a provision designating FY2018 funds as for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). 
 
(Sec. 4105) Establishes a point of order against amendments to reconciliation bills considered pursuant to section 2001 if the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee is unable to determine the effect that the amendment or motion would have on budget authority, outlays, direct spending, entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, or surpluses. 
 
(Sec. 4106) Repeals the existing Senate Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) point of order that prohibits the consideration of legislation that would cause or increase an on-budget deficit over specified six- and eleven-year time periods. 
 
Replaces the point of order with a new PAYGO point of order that continues the six-year and eleven-year time periods and adds two additional time periods during which the legislation may not cause or increase an on-budget deficit: (1) the current year, and (2) the budget year. 
 
(Sec. 4107) Directs the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation to provide estimates of the macroeconomic effects of major legislation. (These estimates are frequently referred to as dynamic scoring and include estimates of the budgetary effects from changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, interest rates, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the legislation.)
 
Requires the estimates, to the extent practicable, to include the distributional effects across income categories resulting from major legislation. 
 
(Sec. 4108) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, allocations, and levels included in this resolution if, during the 115th Congress, a measure becomes law that amends the discretionary spending limits established under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
 
(Sec. 4109) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust: (1) discretionary spending limits established under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; and (2) committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, allocations, and levels included in this resolution for legislation during the 115th Congress that provides wildfire suppression funding. 
 
(Sec. 4110) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations, aggregates and other levels in this resolution, and the PAYGO ledger if legislation decreases direct spending for any fiscal year and authorizes appropriations for the same purpose. 
 
(Sec. 4111) Repeals points of order: (1) against voting on passage of legislation unless the CBO cost estimate was available on CBO's website at least 28 hours before the vote, and (2) protecting savings in reconciliation legislation from amendments that increase the deficit. 
 
(Sec. 4112) Makes technical corrections to provisions regarding the designation of emergency spending. 
 
(Sec. 4113) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to file in the Congressional Record committee allocations enforcing this resolution if the resolution passes both the House and Senate in identical form, a conference committee is not convened, and a joint explanatory statement is not produced. 
 
Subtitle B--Other Provisions 
 
(Sec. 4201) Directs Senate committees to review programs and tax expenditures within their jurisdiction to identify waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication and increase the use of performance data to inform committee work. 
 
(Sec. 4202) Requires the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the budget resolution to include amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service in the allocations to the appropriations committees. Specifies that, in the Senate, the amounts must be included in estimates of the total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure that are used to enforce committee allocations. 
 
(Sec. 4203) Sets forth procedures for adjustments of the allocations and aggregates included in the budget resolution. 
 
(Sec. 4204) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust levels and allocations in this budget resolution to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 
 
(Sec. 4205) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to make adjustments to the levels and allocations included in this resolution to reflect legislation that was enacted before this resolution was agreed to by Congress and was not incorporated in the June 2017 update to CBO's baseline. 
 
(Sec. 4206) Declares that the provisions in this title are promulgated under the Senate's rulemaking power and will be considered part of the rules of the Senate. 
 
TITLE V--BUDGET PROCESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 
Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement
 
(Sec. 5101) Requires the CBO to estimate whether legislation (other than appropriations measures) would cause a net increase in direct spending in excess of $2.5 billion over any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning in FY2027. Establishes a point of order against legislation (other than appropriations measures) with a net effect of increasing direct spending by more than $2.5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods. Specifies that this provision has no force or effect after September 30, 2018.
 
(Sec. 5102) Provides the House Appropriations Committee with a separate allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism and specifies procedures for enforcing and adjusting the allocation.
 
(Sec. 5103) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPS) in appropriations legislation for FY2018-FY2020. Limits CHIMPS that reduce budget authority in the budget year but do not decrease outlays over the period of the total of the current year, budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently agreed to budget resolution. Limit the CHIMPS to: $19.1 billion for FY2018, $17 billion for FY2019, and $15 billion for FY2020.
 
(Sec. 5104) Prohibits advance appropriations unless: (1) the appropriation is provided for an account listed as an exception in the report accompanying this resolution, and (2) total advance appropriations do not exceed specified limits. (Under this section, an advance appropriation is any new discretionary budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for the fiscal year following FY2018.)
 
(Sec. 5105) Permits the chair of the House Budget Committee to direct the CBO to include changes in debt service costs in estimates of legislation except for authorizations of discretionary programs or appropriation measures. 
 
Specifies that: (1) this section applies to changes in the authorization level of appropriated entitlements, and (2) the estimates are advisory and may not be used for budget enforcement.
 
(Sec. 5106) Requires the CBO, upon request of the chairman of the House Budget Committee, to include supplemental fair-value estimates in estimates for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program. 
 
Requires the CBO to provide a supplemental fair-value estimate for legislation establishing or modifying a loan or loan guarantee program for student financial assistance or housing (including residential mortgage). 
 
Requires the CBO to include estimates, on a fair-value and credit reform basis, of loan and loan guarantee programs for student financial assistance, housing (including residential mortgage), and other major loan and loan guarantee programs in its &quot;Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2027.&quot; 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the fair-value estimates provided pursuant to this section for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(A fair-value estimate is an alternative to federal credit program estimates required by the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 [FCRA]. Under FCRA, cash flows are discounted using Treasury interest rates for estimating subsidy costs. The fair-value method incorporates market risk by using market rates.)
 
(Sec. 5107) Requires the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation to incorporate macroeconomic effects in estimates of specified legislation (commonly referred to as dynamic scoring).
 
(Sec. 5108) Authorizes the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust committee allocations and levels in this resolution if legislation decreases direct spending in any fiscal year and authorizes appropriations for the same purpose.
 
(Sec. 5109) Directs the CBO to estimate legislation that affects the use of energy savings performance contracts or utility energy service contracts on a net present value basis (in today's dollars) using calculations that meet specified requirements. Specifies that the contracts are to be scored as direct spending and that savings resulting from the contracts may be not be used as an offset for budget enforcement purposes. 
 
(Under an energy savings performance contract, a private party agrees to fund energy-efficient upgrades for a federal facility, and the federal agency agrees to pay the private party from reductions in the agency's energy costs. Under a utility energy service contract, the services and equipment are provided by a utility.)
 
(Sec. 5110) Requires transfers of funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund to be counted as new budget authority and outlays in the year the transfer occurs.
 
(Sec. 5111) Prohibits transfers of surpluses of the Federal Reserve System from being counted as offsets for budget enforcement purposes. (This section prevents the transfers from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.)
 
(Sec. 5112) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used for budget enforcement purposes. (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgages and charge the fees to guarantee the payment of principal and interest. This section prevents the fee increases from being used to offset provisions that increase the deficit in determining whether a budget point of order applies to legislation.)
 
(Sec. 5113) Modifies the reconciliation instructions included in this resolution for House committees to: (1) specify that section 2002 of this resolution shall have no force and effect, and (2) direct the House Ways and Means Committee to report to the House of Representatives by November 13, 2017, changes in laws within its jurisdiction that increase the deficit by no more than $1.5 trillion over FY2018-FY2027. 
 
Subtitle B--Other Provisions 
 
(Sec. 5201) Specifies that the administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are reflected in the allocation to the House Appropriations Committee to ensure that the committee retains control over the expenses through the annual appropriations process.
 
Specifies that, in the House, the amounts must be included in estimates of the total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure that are used to enforce committee allocations.
 
(Sec. 5202) Sets forth procedures for the adjustment of allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels included in this resolution. 
 
Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust other appropriate levels in this concurrent resolution depending on congressional action on pending reconciliation legislation.
 
(Sec. 5203) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in this resolution for any change in budgetary concepts and definitions pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
 
(Sec. 5204) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to adjust the aggregates, allocations, reconciliation targets, and other levels in this resolution for any changes that the CBO makes to its baseline for FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5205) Waives the point of order that would otherwise apply to appropriations legislation that exceeds the statutory limits on discretionary spending if the legislation would not cause this resolution's 302(a) allocation for the appropriations committee to be exceeded.
 
(Sec. 5206) Permits the allocations and lists included in this resolution to be enforced in the House if this resolution is adopted in the House without the appointment of a conference committee. 
 
Requires the chairman of the House Budget Committee to submit for a publication in the Congressional Record a statement specifying: (1) committee allocations; and (2) programs, projects, and activities identified as advance appropriations for the purpose of enforcing section 5104 of this resolution.
 
(Sec. 5207) Affirms that the adoption of this title and section 2002 of this budget resolution is an exercise of the House's rulemaking power and that the House has the constitutional right to change these rules.
 
Subtitle C--Adjustment Authority
 
(Sec. 5301) Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the committee allocations, aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained this resolution if, during the 115th Congress, a measure becomes law that amends the discretionary spending limits established under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to increase the limit for the revised security category for FY2018 to $640 billion.
 
Subtitle D--Reserve Funds
 
Establishes reserve funds that permit the chairman of the House Budget Committee to adjust the levels and allocations included in the budget resolution to accommodate health, tax, and transportation legislation that meets specified conditions. 
(Reserve funds provide the House Budget Committee Chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria.) 
(Sec. 5401) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that invests in national infrastructure and is deficit-neutral over the period of FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5402) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that provides for comprehensive tax reform and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5403) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that extends the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) allotments and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2018-FY2027.
 
(Sec. 5404) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that repeals or replaces the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-26
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-10-26
text: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 212 (Roll no. 589). (text: CR H8230-8242)
action_date: 2017-10-26
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 212 (Roll no. 589).(text: CR H8230-8242)
action_date: 2017-10-26
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2017-10-26
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 580, the House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Senate amendment to H. Con. Res. 71.
action_date: 2017-10-26
text: Mrs. Black moved that the House agree to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H8230-8254)
action_date: 2017-10-25
text: Rule H. Res. 580 passed House.
action_date: 2017-10-24
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 580 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 71 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. Provides for consideration of the Senate amendment and the motion, offered by the chair of the Committee on the Budget, that the House concur in the Senate amendment.
action_date: 2017-10-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 49. Record Vote Number: 245.
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 49. Record Vote Number: 245.
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6593-6630)
action_date: 2017-10-18
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6492-6532)
action_date: 2017-10-17
text: Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S6424-6427)
action_date: 2017-10-17
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 47. Record Vote Number: 219. (CR S6424)
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Received in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 245.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 219 - 206 (Roll no. 557).
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 219 - 206 (Roll no. 557).
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H. Con. Res. 71.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole resumed with 10 minutes of general debate on H. Con. Res. 71.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: The Committee resumed its sitting.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: The Committee of the Whole rose informally to receive a message.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 553, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Yarmuth amendment in the nature of a substitute.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 553, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the McClintock amendment in the nature of a substitute.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7846-7882)
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H. Con. Res. 71 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: On motion moved that the committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Mr. MacArthur moved moved that the committee rise.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7834-7835)
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H. Con. Res. 71 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: On motion that the Committee now rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Mr. Ferguson moved that the Committee now rise.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Scott (VA) substitute amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Scott (VA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 553, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Scott (VA) amendment in the nature of a substitute.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Grijalva substitute amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Grijalva demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to provisions of H.Res. 533, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 mintues of debate on the Grijalva amendment in the nature of a substitute.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with four hours of general debate on H. Con. Res. 71.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Doug Lamborn to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 553 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Rule provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 71 with 4 hours of general debate. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 553. (consideration: CR H7777-7834; text of measure as reported in House: CR H7805-7817)
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Rule H. Res. 553 passed House.
action_date: 2017-10-03
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 553 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 71 with 4 hours of general debate. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.
action_date: 2017-07-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 172.
action_date: 2017-07-21
text: The House Committee on the Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 115-240, by Mrs. Black.
action_date: 2017-07-21
text: The House Committee on the Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 115-240, by Mrs. Black.
action_date: 2017-07-21
text: Introduced in House