An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.

Bill: 114-sconres-11
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2015-03-20
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting and auditing

Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Alternative and renewable resources

Appropriations

Aviation and airports

Bank accounts, deposits, capital

Banking and financial institutions regulation

Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Child health

Child safety and welfare

Civil actions and liability

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits

Comprehensive health care

Computer security and identity theft

Congressional oversight

Constitution and constitutional amendments

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Crime victims

Crimes against children

Currency

Defense spending

Department of Defense

Department of Energy

Department of Veterans Affairs

Department of the Treasury

Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Disability and paralysis

Disability assistance

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Economic performance and conditions

Economic theory

Education programs funding

Electric power generation and transmission

Elementary and secondary education

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Employee hiring

Employment and training programs

Energy assistance for the poor and aged

Energy efficiency and conservation

Energy research

Environmental regulatory procedures

Executive agency funding and structure

Financial services and investments

Fires

Food assistance and relief

Forests, forestry, trees

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government lending and loan guarantees

Government studies and investigations

Government trust funds

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Health care quality

Health facilities and institutions

Health personnel

Health programs administration and funding

Health technology, devices, supplies

Higher education

Housing and community development funding

Housing finance and home ownership

Infrastructure development

Intellectual property

Labor-management relations

Land use and conservation

Law enforcement administration and funding

Lawyers and legal services

Legislative rules and procedure

Manufacturing

Marine and inland water transportation

Medicaid

Medical education

Medical research

Medicare

Members of Congress

Mental health

Military operations and strategy

Mining

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Nuclear power

Nuclear weapons

Oil and gas

Outdoor recreation

Performance measurement

Postal service

Poverty and welfare assistance

Prescription drugs

Property tax

Protection of officials

Public contracts and procurement

Public-private cooperation

Radioactive wastes and releases

Research administration and funding

Research and development

Roads and highways

Rural conditions and development

Sales and excise taxes

Science and engineering education

Senate

Sex offenses

Social security and elderly assistance

Soil pollution

State and local finance

State and local taxation

Student aid and college costs

Tariffs

Tax reform and tax simplification

Terrorism

Trade agreements and negotiations

Transportation programs funding

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. territories and protectorates

User charges and fees

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Veterans' medical care

Veterans' pensions and compensation

Water quality

Water resources funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-05-06
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-20
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2016 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2017-FY2025. </p> <p>Recommends levels and amounts for FY2016-FY2025 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, debt held by the public, federal tax expenditures, Social Security, Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses, and the major functional categories. </p> <p>Includes reconciliation instructions directing the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to each submit to the Senate Budget Committee legislation reducing the deficit by at least $1 billion over FY2016-FY2025. Requires the legislation to be submitted by July 31, 2015. </p> <p>Establishes deficit-neutral and spending-neutral reserve funds that provide flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation addressing a wide range of specified issues across the federal budget. </p> <p>Sets forth budget enforcement procedures for legislation considered in the Senate. Extends procedures for waivers and appeals of specified points of order. Makes permanent Senate points of order against legislation that violates Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules or increases the short-term deficit. Repeals the point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase the deficit or reduce a surplus. </p> <p>Provides directions to the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation regarding the scoring of specified legislation and the contents of required reports. </p>

action_date: 2015-03-20
action_desc: Reported to Senate without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)</p> <p>Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2016 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2017-FY2025. </p> <p>TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS </p> <p>(Sec. 101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2016-FY2025 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, debt held by the public, and federal tax expenditures. </p> <p>(Sec. 102) Recommends levels for FY2016-FY2025 for Social Security revenues, outlays, and administrative expenses. </p> <p>(Sec. 103) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for U.S. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. </p> <p>(Sec. 104) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for each major functional category, including: </p> <ul> <li>National Defense; </li> <li>International Affairs; </li> <li>General Science, Space, and Technology; </li> <li>Energy; </li> <li>Natural Resources and Environment; </li> <li>Agriculture; </li> <li>Commerce and Housing Credit; </li> <li>Transportation; </li> <li>Community and Regional Development;</li> <li>Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; </li> <li>Health; </li> <li>Medicare; </li> <li>Income Security; </li> <li>Social Security; </li> <li>Veterans Benefits and Services; </li> <li>Administration of Justice; </li> <li>General Government; </li> <li>Net Interest; </li> <li>Allowances; and </li> <li>Undistributed Offsetting Receipts.</li> </ul> <p>TITLE II--RECONCILIATION </p> <p>(Sec. 201) Includes reconciliation instructions directing the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to each submit to the Senate Budget Committee legislation to reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over the FY2016-FY2025 period. Requires the legislation to be submitted by July 31, 2015. (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.) </p> <p>TITLE III--RESERVE FUNDS </p> <p>Establishes spending-neutral, deficit-neutral, and deficit-reduction reserve funds that permit the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to revise the committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, and other levels in the budget resolution to accommodate legislation that meets specified conditions. </p> <p>(Reserve funds provide the chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. Deficit-neutral and spending-neutral reserve funds permit the chairman to make the adjustments if the legislation meets the specified criteria and does not increase the deficit over designated time periods. Revenue increases are permitted to be used as an offset in deficit-neutral reserve funds, but not in spending-neutral reserve funds. Deficit-reduction reserve funds permit the chairman to make adjustments to ensure that savings achieved in legislation are used for deficit reduction.)</p> <p>(Sec. 301) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing the pace of U.S. economic growth and private sector job creation without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 302) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to enhanced funding for national security or domestic discretionary programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 303) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to repealing, replacing, or reforming the Affordable Care Act if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 304) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving access to affordable health care for low-income children, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 305) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for health legislation relating to the requirement to purchase or provide health insurance; Medicare provider payments; expiring health care provisions; the health care needs of first responders; medical research, innovation, and safety; or program integrity initiatives if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 306) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to child nutrition programs, replacing ineffective policies and programs with evidence-based alternatives that improve the welfare of vulnerable children, or protecting children from sexual predators without raising new revenue if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 307) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the improvement of the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 308) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reforming the tax code, extending expiring tax relief provisions, innovation and manufacturing jobs, or operations and administration of the Department of the Treasury if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 309) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investment in the infrastructure of the United States if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods and does not include transfers from other trust funds. Permits transfers from the general fund of the Treasury that are offset. </p> <p>(Sec. 310) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal spending on civil air traffic control services if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 311) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade legislation that would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 312) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the administration of disability benefits and the improved employment of disabled workers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 313) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 314) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation that does not raise new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 315) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation revising environmental statutes to promote job growth if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 316) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving flood control, expanding opportunities for commercial navigation, and improving the environmental restoration of the nation's waterways without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 317) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reducing reliance on mineral imports or deducting amounts for mineral revenues payable to states without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 318) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 319) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing timber production from federal lands and providing funding to local governments until timber production levels increase, decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads, improving stewardship contracting, or reforming the budgeting process for wildfire suppression operations without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 320) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 321) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to regulatory relief for small financial firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 322) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the processing of earnings reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 323) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the implementation of agreements between the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free Association without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 324) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals and creating sustainable access for rural communities without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 325) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging state Medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 326) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision of services under Medicare without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 327) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting and improving community health centers without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 328) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 329) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting exports if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 330) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to 529 college savings plans without raising new revenues if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 331) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 332) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for welfare legislation if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 333) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to land and water conservation or making changes to the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 or the PILT program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 334) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation related to changes at the Internal Revenue Service, including establishing a process to notify taxpayers about tax scams and determine whether returns were filed using their personal information, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 335) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to career and technical education if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 336) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to enhancing the preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to disasters if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 337) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 338) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving opportunities for new biomedical researchers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 339) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 340) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to benefits for aliens without legal status in the United States, including prohibiting qualification for certain tax benefits, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 341) Establishes a deficit-reduction reserve fund for legislation achieving savings through the elimination, modification, or the reduction in frequency of reports required of federal agencies if the legislation reduces the deficit over either the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. Permits the chairman to adjust the Senate's Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) ledger to ensure that the savings achieved are used only for deficit reduction.</p> <p>(Sec. 342) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 343) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening the civilian workforce if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 344) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving Department of Defense financial management if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 345) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 346) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to energy efficiency, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), or federal land and water conservation programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 347) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Department of Veterans Affairs collaboration with law school clinics serving veterans if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 348) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to nuclear waste cleanup by the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 349) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 350) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Department of Justice, which may include ending of the Operation Choke Point program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 351) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the federal government, except in the case of natural disasters, from providing funds to state and local governments to prevent receivership, facilitate exit from receivership, or to prevent default on its obligations by a state government, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>TITLE IV--BUDGET PROCESS </p> <p>Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement </p> <p>(Sec. 401) Extends procedures in the Senate for waivers and appeals of specified budget points of order with a vote of three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and sworn (currently 60 votes) through September 30, 2025. </p> <p>Makes Senate points of order against legislation violating Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules or increasing the short-term deficit permanent. (The PAYGO point of order prohibits the consideration of legislation that would cause or increase an on-budget deficit over specified time periods. The short-term deficit point of order applies to 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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 402) Revises the existing point of order against legislation that would increase long-term deficits. Applies the point of order to legislation that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution. (The existing long-term deficit point of order applies to deficits rather than on-budget deficits.)</p> <p>Exempts legislation for which the chairman has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, and limits in this resolution, pursuant to the deficit-neutral reserve fund included in Section (303)(1) for legislation relating to the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act.</p> <p>(Sec. 403) Updates the existing point of order against advanced appropriations to conform to the new budget window. (Under the resolution, an advanced appropriation is any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2016 that first becomes available after FY2016, or any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2017 that first becomes available after FY2017. 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). </p> <p>(Sec. 404) Increases the vote threshold for waiving points of order against legislation with unfunded intergovernmental mandates from a simple majority to three-fifths of Members duly chosen and sworn (currently 60 votes). </p> <p>(Sec. 405) Repeals the point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase the deficit or reduce a surplus. </p> <p>(Sec. 406) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) in appropriations legislation. Restricts CHIMPs that reduce budget authority but do not decrease outlays by setting a $19 billion limit for these provisions in FY2016. Reduces the limit in each subsequent fiscal year until FY2021, when no CHIMP that fails to reduce outlays will be permitted in appropriations legislation. </p> <p>(Sec. 407) Establishes a point of order against voting on passage of legislation if no Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimate was made publicly available at least 28 hours before the vote. </p> <p>(Sec. 408) Applies to the Senate a House point of order protecting savings in reconciliation legislation from amendments that increase the deficit. </p> <p>(Sec. 409) Establishes a point of order against a provision designating Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds that would cause total OCO funds to exceed $57.997 billion for FY2016 or $59.500 billion for FY2017. </p> <p>(Sec. 410) Establishes a point of order against appropriations legislation that includes changes in mandatory programs that affect the Crime Victims Fund. </p> <p>(Sec. 411) Directs the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, for budget enforcement purposes, to disregard the budgetary effects of timing shifts and rescissions that do not reduce outlays.</p> <p>(Sec. 412) Requires CBO to provide supplemental cost estimates for direct loan and loan guarantee programs by measuring cost on a fair value basis to account for the cost of market risk. </p> <p>(Sec. 413) Directs CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to provide estimates of the macroeconomic effects of major legislation for informational purposes. (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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 414) Provides directions regarding the scoring of legislation relating to a transition from the paper dollar to the dollar coin. </p> <p>(Sec. 415) Provides directions to CBO regarding the scoring of certain energy savings contracts. </p> <p>(Sec. 416) Requires CBO to provide estimates of the budgetary effects over FY2016-FY2045 for legislation increasing discretionary spending limits or transferring amounts from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund. (Most CBO estimates are currently provided over a 5- or 10-year period). </p> <p>(Sec. 417) Requires CBO to provide projections of federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the 30-year period beginning with the budget year in its required annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook. </p> <p>(Sec. 418) Requires CBO to provide estimates to Congress on tax expenditures that include: (1) an estimate of the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for the budget year and the 9 years following the budget year, and (2) Data on the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for each fiscal year beginning with FY1965 and ending with the budget year. </p> <p>(Sec. 419) Directs CBO to provide estimates of outlay changes during the second and third decade of enactment of legislation if: (1) either of the budget committee chairs requests the estimate, or (2) the legislation has an outlay impact in excess of 0.25% of the U.S. gross domestic product during the first decade or in the tenth year. </p> <p>(Sec. 420) Requires CBO to provide specified estimates regarding the changes in direct spending and revenues associated with the Affordable Care Act, including the net impact on deficits with both on-budget and off-budget effects. </p> <p>(Sec. 421) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used in the Senate to determine budgetary impacts for evaluating budget points of order. (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.) </p> <p>Subtitle B--Other Provisions </p> <p>(Sec. 431) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 432) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 433) Sets forth procedures for adjustments of the allocations and aggregates included in the budget resolution. </p> <p>(Sec. 434) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust levels and allocations in this budget resolution to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. </p> <p>(Sec. 435) 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. </p>

action_date: 2015-03-27
action_desc: Passed Senate amended
text: <p>Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2016 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2017-FY2025. </p> <p>TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS </p> <p>(Sec. 101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2016-FY2025 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, debt held by the public, and federal tax expenditures. </p> <p>(Sec. 102) Recommends levels for FY2016-FY2025 for Social Security revenues, outlays, and administrative expenses. </p> <p>(Sec. 103) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for U.S. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. </p> <p>(Sec. 104) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for each major functional category, including: </p> <ul> <li>National Defense; </li> <li>International Affairs; </li> <li>General Science, Space, and Technology; </li> <li>Energy; </li> <li>Natural Resources and Environment; </li> <li>Agriculture; </li> <li>Commerce and Housing Credit; </li> <li>Transportation; </li> <li>Community and Regional Development;</li> <li>Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; </li> <li>Health; </li> <li>Medicare; </li> <li>Income Security; </li> <li>Social Security; </li> <li>Veterans Benefits and Services; </li> <li>Administration of Justice; </li> <li>General Government; </li> <li>Net Interest; </li> <li>Allowances; and </li> <li>Undistributed Offsetting Receipts.</li> </ul> <p>TITLE II--RECONCILIATION </p> <p>(Sec. 201) Includes reconciliation instructions directing the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to each submit to the Senate Budget Committee legislation to reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over the FY2016-FY2025 period. Requires the legislation to be submitted by July 31, 2015. (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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 202) Creates a point of order against considering reconciliation legislation, pursuant to Section 201, that would increase the public debt limit during the period of FY2016-FY2025. Permits the point of order to be waived by a two-thirds vote of the Members duly chosen and sworn. </p> <p>TITLE III--RESERVE FUNDS </p> <p>Establishes spending-neutral, deficit-neutral, and deficit-reduction reserve funds that permit the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to revise the committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, and other levels in the budget resolution to accommodate legislation that meets specified conditions. </p> <p>(Reserve funds provide the chairman with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. Deficit-neutral and spending-neutral reserve funds permit the chairman to make the adjustments if the legislation meets the specified criteria and does not increase the deficit over designated time periods. Revenue increases are permitted to be used as an offset in deficit-neutral reserve funds, but not in spending-neutral reserve funds. Deficit-reduction reserve funds permit the chairman to make adjustments to ensure that savings achieved in legislation are used for deficit reduction.)</p> <p>(Sec. 301) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing the pace of U.S. economic growth and private sector job creation without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 302) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to enhanced funding for national security or domestic discretionary programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 303) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to repealing, replacing, or reforming the Affordable Care Act if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 304) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving access to affordable health care for low-income children, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 305) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for health legislation relating to the requirement to purchase or provide health insurance; Medicare provider payments; expiring health care provisions; the health care needs of first responders; medical research, innovation, and safety; or program integrity initiatives if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 306) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to child nutrition programs, replacing ineffective policies and programs with evidence-based alternatives that improve the welfare of vulnerable children, or protecting children from sexual predators without raising new revenue if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 307) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the improvement of the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 308) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reforming the tax code, extending expiring tax relief provisions, innovation and manufacturing jobs, or operations and administration of the Department of the Treasury if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 309) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investment in the infrastructure of the United States, including programs that expedite the deployment of broadband to rural areas, if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods and does not include transfers from other trust funds. Permits transfers from the general fund of the Treasury that are offset. </p> <p>(Sec. 310) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal spending on civil air traffic control services if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 311) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade legislation that would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 312) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the administration of disability benefits and the improved employment of disabled workers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 313) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 314) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation that does not raise new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 315) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation revising environmental statutes to promote job growth if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 316) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving flood control, expanding opportunities for commercial navigation, and improving the environmental restoration of the nation's waterways without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 317) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reducing reliance on mineral imports or deducting amounts for mineral revenues payable to states without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 318) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 319) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing timber production from federal lands and providing funding to local governments until timber production levels increase, decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads, improving stewardship contracting, or reforming the budgeting process for wildfire suppression operations without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 320) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 321) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to regulatory relief for small financial firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 322) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the processing of earnings reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 323) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the implementation of agreements between the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free Association without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 324) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals and creating sustainable access for rural communities without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 325) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging state Medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 326) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision of services under Medicare without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 327) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting and improving community health centers without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 328) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 329) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting exports if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 330) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to 529 college savings plans without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 331) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 332) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for welfare legislation if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 333) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to land and water conservation or making changes to the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 or the PILT program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 334) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation related to changes at the Internal Revenue Service, including establishing a process to notify taxpayers about tax scams and determine whether returns were filed using their personal information, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 335) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to career and technical education if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 336) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to enhancing the preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to disasters if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 337) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 338) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving opportunities for new biomedical researchers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 339) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 340) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to benefits for aliens without legal status in the United States, including prohibiting qualification for certain tax benefits, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 341) Establishes a deficit-reduction reserve fund for legislation achieving savings through the elimination, modification, or the reduction in frequency of reports required of federal agencies if the legislation reduces the deficit over either the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. Permits the chairman to adjust the Senate's Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) ledger to ensure that the savings achieved are used only for deficit reduction.</p> <p>(Sec. 342) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 343) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening the civilian workforce if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 344) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving Department of Defense financial management if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 345) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 346) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to energy efficiency, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), or federal land and water conservation programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 347) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Department of Veterans Affairs collaboration with law school clinics serving veterans if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 348) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to nuclear waste cleanup by the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 349) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 350) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Department of Justice, which may include ending of the Operation Choke Point program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 351) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the federal government, except in the case of natural disasters, from providing funds to state and local governments to prevent receivership, facilitate exit from receivership, or to prevent default on its obligations by a state government, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 352) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting individuals who are guaranteed benefits under Medicaid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 353) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the health outcomes and lowering the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 354) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs, including legislation that strengthens quality and timely access to health care, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 355) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to maintaining and enhancing access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 356) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting equal pay if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 357) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation submitted to Congress by the President to protect current beneficiaries of the Social Security program and prevent the insolvency of the program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 358) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to addressing student loan debt if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 359) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: protecting watersheds or other sources of drinking water by using scientific evidence; providing certainty to landowners or rural communities, and preserving existing exemptions for agriculture, ranchers, and forestry; if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 360) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that the federal jurisdiction under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) is focused on water quality without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 361) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to extending the life of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 362) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to United States policy toward Israel if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 363) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving workplace benefits and reducing health care costs, which may include paid sick time, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 364) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 365) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Pell Grant program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 366) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increased disclosure of any Affordable Care Act taxes or other provisions in health insurance monthly premium statements if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 367) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increased disclosure of any Affordable Care Act tax in health insurance monthly premium statements if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 368) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to carbon emissions, which may include prohibitions on federal taxes or fees imposed on carbon emissions, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 369) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to permitting states to opt out of Common Core State Standards or other specific academic standards without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 370) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to small business tax relief if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 371) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the disposal of federal land that is not within the boundaries of a national park, preserve, or monument without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 372) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to funding for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to ratification and adoption of implementing legislation without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 373) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Iran, including efforts to impose sanctions if the President cannot certify that Iran is complying with the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 374) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting U.S. citizens held hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 375) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing employment opportunities, preventing employment discrimination, and providing accommodations for pregnant workers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 376) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal income tax laws, including eliminating the estate tax, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 377) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting national security, economic growth, and public health by addressing human-induced climate change through increased use of clean energy, energy efficiency, and reductions in carbon pollution if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 378) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, including a prohibition on withholding highway funds from states that refuse to submit State Implementation Plans required under the Clean Power Plan, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 379) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting communities, businesses, recreationists, farmers, ranchers, or other groups that rely on privately held water rights and permits from federal takings if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 380) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the awarding of government construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 381) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening the U.S. Postal Service if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 382) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to preventing American jobs from being moved overseas, which may include a reduction in the corporate income tax rate, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 383) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring equal treatment of married couples, which may include ensuring that all legally married spouses have access to Social Security and veterans benefits, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 384) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reaffirming the ability of states to adopt minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage level commensurate with the cost of living in the state if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 385) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to deterring the attempted migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras into the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 386) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to extending and expanding refundable tax provisions that benefit working families, childless workers, and the middle class if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 387) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to critical habitat designations, which may include requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to examine the cumulative economic effects of the designation, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 388) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to compliance with the national do-not-call registry if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 389) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to any bank holding companies with over $500 billion in total assets to better protect taxpayers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 390) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that all Members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and all political appointees procure their health insurance on the individual exchange in the same way as Americans at the same income level if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 391) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing funding for United States embassies, which may include the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 392) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to revising or repealing the discretionary spending limits or sequestration process included in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. </p> Applies to legislation that provides relief from sequestration and the reduction in discretionary spending limits for FY2016 and FY2017 that is: (1) split evenly between the revised security category and the revised nonsecurity category, (2) is offset through changes in mandatory or discretionary spending programs (not pertaining to Social Security) and tax expenditures, and (3) would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. <p>Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to include the estimated effects of amendments to the discretionary spending limits for the purposes of determining deficit-neutrality under this section. <p>(Sec. 393) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by U.S. citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 394) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 395) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing tax equity for death benefits paid to the families of public safety officers who lose their lives in the line of duty if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 396) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 397) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 398) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: strengthening and reforming federal Offices of Inspectors General; reducing vacancies in the offices; and providing for improvements in the overall economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Inspectors General if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving retirement security by easing the administrative burden on small businesses that provide retirement plans and encouraging individuals to increase their savings if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399a) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving basic science research and development programs in the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399b) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which may include requiring state conservation plans for the northern long-eared bat to be given flexibility to be successful so as to preserve and protect local and rural economies before any federal listing decision is made, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399c) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increased sharing of cybersecurity threat information while protecting individual privacy and civil liberties interests if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399d) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation entering into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399e) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by federal agencies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399f) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399g) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399h) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing funding to support efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399i) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to preventing access to edible marijuana products by children in states that have decriminalized marijuana if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399j) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399k) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399l) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399m) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Small Business Administration's Small Business Investment Company Program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399n) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to online child sex trafficking, which may include the detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow the websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399o) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to assisting states in carrying out drought prevention plans if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399p) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or issuing any regulation that would reduce the reliability of the electricity grid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399q) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the open Internet and promoting further innovation and investment in Internet services, content, infrastructure, and technologies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399r) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changing the federal regulatory process without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399s) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under Medicare if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399t) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening waterborne commerce in ports and harbors, which may include increasing the amounts expended from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund that are dedicated to port infrastructure and maintenance, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399u) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to: modernizing the triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems, the nuclear command and control system, and the nuclear weapons stockpile; and supporting related infrastructure if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399v) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening our national security, which may include fully funding the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399w) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the nuclear force improvement program of the Air Force if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399x) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting economic growth and job creation by making it easier for small businesses to plan their capital investments and reducing the uncertainty of taxation if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399y) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to employer penalties under the Affordable Care Act, which may include changes to the definition of &quot;full time employee&quot; under that Act, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399z) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the federal regulatory process if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399aa) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the processing of award submissions, which may include the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399bb) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in federal facilities if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399cc) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399dd) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to alleviating disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ee) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Corporation for National and Community Service if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ff) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that all Department of Justice attorneys comply with all legal and ethical obligations in criminal prosecutions if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399gg) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal investments in precision medicine and biomedical research if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399hh) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to expanding efforts to combat heroin and methamphetamine abuse in the United States without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ii) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to developing methods that ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have access to equipment like eye tracking accessories for speech generating devices and speech generating devices if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399jj) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prioritization of the federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States on projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors of the National Highway System without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399kk) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ll) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to Yemen by the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399mm) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving higher education data and transparency if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399nn) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965 if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399oo) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Native children, which may include establishing a commission to examine existing federal programs to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of services delivered to Native children to improve outcomes, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399pp) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the personal information of consumers from data breaches if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399qq) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to achieving savings through the use of performance data or scientifically rigorous evaluation methodologies for the elimination, consolidation, or reform of federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives, or the sale of federal property if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399rr) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the September 11th terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the Shanksville crash site, which may include extending medical monitoring and treatment services, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ss) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to construction of Native American schools if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399tt) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Surety Bond Guarantee Program of the Small Business Administration, which may include exploring or raising the range for surety bonds, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399uu) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting a comprehensive multi-year partner capacity building and security cooperation plan in the Indo-Pacific region if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399vv) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to addressing methamphetamine abuse in the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ww) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to achieving theatre security cooperation goals, which may include funding for the National Guard State Partnership Program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399xx) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the improvement of prevention and treatment measures to mitigate agricultural impacts from an agricultural virus outbreak if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399yy) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to financial literacy education if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399zz) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to comprehensive mental health reform, which may include providing increased access to individuals suffering from mental illness and greater workforce opportunities for mental health professionals, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399aaa) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to initiatives that would improve oral health care for children and pregnant women under Medicaid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399bbb) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the protection, preservation, or restoration of the National Park System, which may include a National Park Centennial Fund or other dedicated funding, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ccc) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing college completion, which may include expanding federal Pell Grant eligibility, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ddd) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging freight planning and investment that incorporates all modes of transportation, including rail, waterways, ports, and highways, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399eee) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting at-sea and dockside monitoring for fisheries that have received economic disaster assistance if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399fff) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to establishment of a public-private partnership tasked with reviewing training and funding allocations for first responders responding to hazardous materials incidents on railroads if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ggg) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to enhancing and improving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to reduce the patent application backlog if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399hhh) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to funding for international counter-propaganda communications in order to combat misinformation, undermine ideologies of violence and hatred, and ensure moderate voices are heard if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399iii) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reforming and strengthening elementary and secondary education if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399jjj) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the authority of the Department of the Interior to designate funds for water projects, which may include authorized rural water projects or tribal water rights settlements or irrigation projects, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399kkk) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to sexual assault at institutions of higher education, which may include the implementation of an online survey tool developed and administered by the Department of Education to measure the prevalence of sexual assault at institutions of higher education, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399lll) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to simplifying and expanding tax incentives for higher education if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399mmm) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting children eligible to receive health care furnished under the laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, including by allowing children to retain eligibility until age 26, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399nnn) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing funds for programs that support workforce development through apprenticeship if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ooo) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to broad-based criminal justice reform if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ppp) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening the economy by accelerating the transfer of technologies from laboratories of the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to the marketplace if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399qqq) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting trade and travel at ports of entry, which may include construction at ports of entry or increased staffing at ports of entry, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399rrr) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399sss) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to student loan reform, which may include establishing a policy of risk-sharing to require institutions of higher education to assume some of the risk for student loans, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399ttt) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal investments in the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) discretionary grant program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399uuu) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting the use of college savings accounts while students are in elementary school and secondary school if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399vvv) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting innovation in higher education, which may include establishing a new outcome-based process for authorizing innovative higher education providers to participate in programs under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399www) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to community policing if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399xxx) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal investments in scientific research and development if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399yyy) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing funding to support the government of Ukraine in reestablishing its sovereignty and territorial integrity, which should include the provision of lethal defensive articles, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399zzz) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing funding for programs to counter anti-Semitic activity in Europe, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399aaaa) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing students and families with transparent, easily understood information about postsecondary education financial aid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399bbbb) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing full and dedicated funding for the Contract Tower Program of the Federal Aviation Administration if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399cccc) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to underground and surface mining safety and health research if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399dddd) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investing in advanced fossil energy technology research and development at the Department of Energy to reduce the impacts of climate change while ensuring the reliability of the electric grid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 399eeee) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to interagency cooperation, which may include expedited interagency cooperation to identify foreign nationals subject to sanctions under title IV of the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. <p>(Sec. 399ffff) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to special treatment of the income tax credit for research expenditures for startup companies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>TITLE IV--BUDGET PROCESS </p> <p>Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement </p> <p>(Sec. 401) Extends procedures in the Senate for waivers and appeals of specified budget points of order with a vote of three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and sworn (currently 60 votes) through September 30, 2025. </p> <p>Makes Senate points of order against legislation violating Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules or increasing the short-term deficit permanent. (The PAYGO point of order prohibits the consideration of legislation that would cause or increase an on-budget deficit over specified time periods. The short-term deficit point of order applies to 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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 402) Revises the existing point of order against legislation that would increase long-term deficits. Applies the point of order to legislation that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution. (The existing long-term deficit point of order applies to deficits rather than on-budget deficits.)</p> <p>Exempts legislation for which the chairman has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, and limits in this resolution, pursuant to the deficit-neutral reserve fund included in Section (303)(1) for legislation relating to the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act.</p> <p>(Sec. 403) Updates the existing point of order against advanced appropriations to conform to the new budget window. (Under the resolution, an advanced appropriation is any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2016 that first becomes available after FY2016, or any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2017 that first becomes available after FY2017. 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). </p> <p>(Sec. 404) Increases the vote threshold for waiving points of order against legislation with unfunded intergovernmental mandates from a simple majority to three-fifths of Members duly chosen and sworn (currently 60 votes). </p> <p>(Sec. 405) Repeals the point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase the deficit or reduce a surplus. </p> <p>(Sec. 406) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) in appropriations legislation. Restricts CHIMPs that reduce budget authority but do not decrease outlays by setting a $19 billion limit for these provisions in FY2016. Reduces the limit in each subsequent fiscal year until FY2021, when no CHIMP that fails to reduce outlays will be permitted in appropriations legislation. </p> <p>(Sec. 407) Establishes a point of order against voting on passage of legislation if no Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimate was made publicly available at least 28 hours before the vote. </p> <p>(Sec. 408) Applies to the Senate a House point of order protecting savings in reconciliation legislation from amendments that increase the deficit. </p> <p>(Sec. 409) Establishes a point of order against a provision designating Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds that would cause total OCO funds to exceed $57.997 billion for FY2016 or $59.500 billion for FY2017. </p> <p>(Sec. 410) Establishes a point of order against appropriations legislation that includes changes in mandatory programs that affect the Crime Victims Fund. </p> <p>(Sec. 411) Directs the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, for budget enforcement purposes, to disregard the budgetary effects of timing shifts and rescissions that do not reduce outlays.</p> <p>(Sec. 412) Requires CBO to provide supplemental cost estimates for direct loan and loan guarantee programs by measuring cost on a fair value basis to account for the cost of market risk. </p> <p>(Sec. 413) Directs CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to provide estimates of the macroeconomic effects of major legislation for informational purposes. (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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 414) Provides directions regarding the scoring of legislation relating to a transition from the paper dollar to the dollar coin. </p> <p>(Sec. 415) Provides directions to CBO regarding the scoring of certain energy savings contracts. </p> <p>(Sec. 416) Requires CBO to provide estimates of the budgetary effects over FY2016-FY2045 for legislation increasing discretionary spending limits or transferring amounts from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund. (Most CBO estimates are currently provided over a 5- or 10-year period). </p> <p>(Sec. 417) Requires CBO to provide projections of federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the 30-year period beginning with the budget year in its required annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook. </p> <p>(Sec. 418) Requires CBO to provide estimates to Congress on tax expenditures that include: (1) an estimate of the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for the budget year and the 9 years following the budget year, and (2) Data on the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for each fiscal year beginning with FY1965 and ending with the budget year. </p> <p>(Sec. 419) Directs CBO to provide estimates of outlay changes during the second and third decade of enactment of legislation if: (1) either of the budget committee chairs requests the estimate, or (2) the legislation has an outlay impact in excess of 0.25% of the U.S. gross domestic product during the first decade or in the tenth year. </p> <p>(Sec. 420) Requires CBO to provide specified estimates regarding the changes in direct spending and revenues associated with the Affordable Care Act, including the net impact on deficits with both on-budget and off-budget effects. </p> <p>(Sec. 421) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used in the Senate to determine budgetary impacts for evaluating budget points of order. (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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 422) Requires the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust the allocation to the Senate Appropriations Committee provided pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and all other aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits included in this resolution if legislation is enacted that amends the discretionary spending limits or the sequestration procedures included in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Limits the adjustments in FY2016 and FY2017 to $37 billion for security spending and $37 billion for nonsecurity spending in each fiscal year. </p> <p>(Sec. 423) Requires CBO to include in deficit projections a one-page statement that: (1) summarizes and categorizes total outlays including tax expenditures, receipts, surpluses, and deficits on a unified basis; and (2) includes subtotals for outlays for mandatory and discretionary programs; outlays, tax expenditures, payroll tax revenue, and offsetting receipts for Social Security and for Medicare; the surplus or deficit of revenues over outlays for Social Security and Medicare; and revenues. </p> <p>(Sec. 424) Authorizes the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits included in this resolution if legislation is enacted that permits adjustments to discretionary spending limits to accommodate wildfire suppression funding. </p> <p>Subtitle B--Other Provisions </p> <p>(Sec. 431) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 432) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 433) Sets forth procedures for adjustments of the allocations and aggregates included in the budget resolution. </p> <p>(Sec. 434) Permits the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust levels and allocations in this budget resolution to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. </p> <p>(Sec. 435) 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. </p>

action_date: 2015-04-14
action_desc: Passed House amended
text: <p>Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2016 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2017-FY2025. </p> <p>TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS </p> <p>(Sec. 101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2016-FY2025 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits (on-budget), debt subject to limit, and debt held by the public. </p> <p>(Sec. 102) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for each major functional category, including:</p> <ul> <li> National Defense; </li> <li>International Affairs; </li> <li>General Science, Space, and Technology; </li> <li>Energy; </li> <li>Natural Resources and Environment; </li> <li>Agriculture; </li> <li>Commerce and Housing Credit; </li> <li>Transportation; </li> <li>Community and Regional Development; </li> <li>Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; </li> <li>Health; </li> <li>Medicare; </li> <li>Income Security; </li> <li>Social Security; </li> <li>Veterans Benefits and Services; </li> <li>Administration of Justice; </li> <li>General Government; </li> <li>Net Interest; </li> <li>Allowances; </li> <li>Government-wide Savings; </li> <li>Undistributed Offsetting Receipts; </li> <li>Overseas Contingency Operations/ Global War on Terrorism; and </li> <li>Across-the-Board Adjustment. </li> </ul> <p>TITLE II--RECONCILIATION </p> <p>(Sec. 201) Includes reconciliation instructions directing 13 House authorizing committees to submit to the House Budget Committee by July 15, 2015, legislation reducing the deficit by specified amounts over FY2016-FY2025. (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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 202) Requires the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) January 2015 baseline when estimating the costs of legislation. Permits the chairman to determine whether adjustments to the baseline made after this resolution is adopted should be used. Requires the committees directed to submit reconciliation legislation to determine the most effective methods for repealing the Affordable Care Act. Permits the chairman to revise budgetary levels and allocations to reflect the impact of reconciliation legislation. </p> <p>(Sec. 203) Authorizes the chairman to develop additional guidelines providing further information, budgetary levels and amounts, and other explanatory materials to guide committees required to submit reconciliation legislation. </p> <p>TITLE III--SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE </p> <p>(Sec. 301) Requires specified House committees to submit to the House Budget Committee findings identifying changes in law to achieve savings through eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. Requires the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress on legislative changes the committees may make to improve the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of programs within their jurisdiction. </p> <p>TITLE IV--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT </p> <p>(Sec. 401) Requires CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation to incorporate macroeconomic effects in estimates of specified legislation (commonly referred to as dynamic scoring). </p> <p>(Sec. 402) Prohibit Congress from considering legislation in FY2016 that reduces the actuarial balance of the Social Security trust funds below specified levels. </p> <p>(Sec. 403) Provides 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 404) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 405) Prohibits advanced appropriations unless: (1) the appropriation is provided for an account listed as an exception in the report accompanying this resolution, and (2) total advanced appropriations do not exceed a specified amount. (Under this resolution, an advanced appropriation is any new discretionary budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for the fiscal year following FY2016.) </p> <p>(Sec. 406) Requires CBO, upon request of the chairman or ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, to include an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ''fair value'' of assets and liabilities in estimates for certain federal credit programs under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990. Permits the chair to use the estimates to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budget enforcement controls. </p> <p>(Sec. 407) Establishes a point of order against legislation with a net effect of increasing direct spending by more than $5 billion in any of the four consecutive ten-year periods beginning in FY2026. </p> <p>(Sec. 408) Provides the House Appropriations Committee with a separate allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism and specifies procedures for enforcing the allocation. </p> <p>(Sec. 409) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 410) Sets forth procedures for the adjustment of allocations, aggregates, and other levels included in this resolution. </p> <p>(Sec. 411) Affirms that the adoption of the budget resolution is an exercise of the House's rulemaking power and that the House has the constitutional right to change these rules. </p> <p>TITLE V--RESERVE FUNDS </p> <p>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 reform, trade, education, retirement, transportation, and defense legislation that meets specified conditions. </p> <p>(Sec. 501) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that repeals or modifies the Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. </p> <p>(Sec. 502) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform legislation that would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 503) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that repeals Medicare spending decreases included in the Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 504) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that extends the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 505) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms, expands access to, and improves graduate medical education programs and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 506) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that implements a trade agreement and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 507) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms the tax code and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 508) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that decreases revenue and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 509) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms policies and programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility, without adversely impacting job creation or increasing the deficit over the period of FY2016 -FY2025. </p> <p>(Sec. 510) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that maintains the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 511) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms, improves, and updates the federal retirement system and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2016-FY2025. </p> <p>(Sec. 512) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that supports specified defense activities and would not increase the deficit (without counting any net revenue increases in the legislation) over the period of FY2016-FY2025. </p> <p>TITLE VI--ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING </p> <p>(Sec. 601) Provides estimates for the rate of growth in means-tested and non-means-tested direct spending and proposes changes to Medicare, Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), and federal employee retirement contributions. </p> <p>TITLE VII--RECOMMENDED LONG-TERM LEVELS </p> <p>(Sec. 701) Recommends long-term levels for revenues, outlays, deficits, and debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product of the United States in FY2030, FY2035, and FY2040. </p> <p>TITLE VIII--POLICY STATEMENTS </p> <p>(Sec. 801) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should pass and send to the states for approval a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to require an annual balanced budget. </p> <p>(Sec. 802) States the policy of this resolution that Congress must restructure and reform the budget process, reassert its role as the government's spending authority, and change the treatment of tax cut extensions in the baseline. </p> <p>(Sec. 803) States the policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job creation. </p> <p>(Sec. 804) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should enact legislation that provides comprehensive tax reform to promote economic growth, create jobs, increase wages; and benefit consumers, investors, and workers. </p> <p>(Sec. 805) States the policy of this resolution to pursue international trade, global commerce, and a modern and competitive U.S. international tax system to promote job creation in the United States. </p> <p>(Sec. 806) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should work on a bipartisan basis to make Social Security sustainably solvent and reform the Disability Insurance program prior to its insolvency in 2016. </p> <p>(Sec. 807) States the policy of this resolution to repeal the Affordable Care Act and promote health care reforms. </p> <p>(Sec. 808) States the policy of this resolution to preserve Medicare for those in or near retirement and strengthen the program for future beneficiaries. Sets forth the assumptions of this resolution regarding Medicare reform. </p> <p>(Sec. 809) States the policy of this resolution to support the work of medical innovators, including the private sector, medical centers and the National Institutes of Health. </p> <p>(Sec. 810) States the policy of this resolution that the public is currently burdened by excessive regulation and that Congress should enact legislation protecting the public from additional, unnecessary regulations. </p> <p>(Sec. 811) States the policies of this resolution for addressing higher education affordability and the failings in the current workforce development system. </p> <p>(Sec. 812) States the policy of this resolution to support the continued oversight efforts of the Department of Veterans Affairs by Congress and its committees. </p> <p>(Sec. 813) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should adopt reforms of budget and accounting practices to enable the public to better understand the fiscal situation of the United States and the options best suited to improving it. </p> <p>(Sec. 814) States the policy of the House of Representatives to more effectively allocate and accurately enforce budget targets by agreeing to a procedure for addressing the direct out-year budgetary effects of changes to mandatory programs included in appropriations legislation. </p> <p>(Sec. 815) States the policy of this resolution that each authorizing committee must submit to the House Budget Committee recommendations for reductions in spending that result from oversight activities, and that each congressional committee must annually review its programs to ensure they are operating efficiently and effectively. </p> <p>(Sec. 816) States the policy of this resolution that congressional committees should identify and achieve savings for deficit reduction through the cancellation or rescission of unobligated balances. </p> <p>(Sec. 817) States the policy of this resolution that Congress must reassert its constitutional prerogative to control spending and conduct oversight by enacting legislation requiring programs funded through fees, offsetting receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new budget authority annually. </p> <p>(Sec. 818) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 819) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should agree to a budget resolution every year and that compensation for Members of Congress should be withheld if either chamber has not agreed to a budget resolution by April 15, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. </p> <p>(Sec. 820) States the policy of this resolution to ensure robust funding for national defense while maintaining overall fiscal discipline and to encourage an immediate reevaluation of federal government priorities to maintain the strength of America's national security posture.</p>

action_date: 2015-04-29
action_desc: Conference report filed in House
text: <p>Establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2016 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2017-FY2025. </p> <p>TITLE I--RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS </p> <p>Subtitle A--Budgetary Levels in Both Houses </p> <p>(Sec. 1101) Recommends levels and amounts for FY2016-FY2025 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, and debt held by the public. </p> <p>(Sec. 1102) Recommends levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for each major functional category, including:</p> <ul> <li>National Defense; </li> <li>International Affairs; </li> <li>General Science, Space, and Technology;</li> <li>Energy; </li> <li>Natural Resources and Environment; </li> <li>Agriculture; </li> <li>Commerce and Housing Credit; </li> <li>Transportation; </li> <li>Community and Regional Development; </li> <li>Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services; </li> <li>Health; </li> <li>Medicare; </li> <li>Income Security; </li> <li>Social Security Retirement and Disability; </li> <li>Veterans Benefits and Services; </li> <li>Administration of Justice; </li> <li>General Government; </li> <li>Net Interest; </li> <li>Allowances; </li> <li>Undistributed Offsetting Receipts; and </li> <li>Overseas Contingency Operations. </li> </ul> <p>Subtitle B--Levels and Amounts in the Senate </p> <p>(Sec. 1201) Recommends Senate levels for FY2016-FY2025 for Social Security revenues, outlays, and administrative expenses. </p> <p>(Sec. 1202) Recommends Senate levels of new budget authority and outlays for FY2016-FY2025 for U.S. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. </p> <p>TITLE II--RECONCILIATION </p> <p>(Title II includes reconciliation instructions directing congressional committees to submit deficit reduction 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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 2001) Includes reconciliation instructions directing the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to each submit to the Senate Budget Committee legislation to reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over the FY2016-FY2025 period. Requires the legislation to be submitted by July 24, 2015. </p> <p>Creates a point of order in the Senate against considering reconciliation legislation, pursuant to Section 2001, that would increase the public debt limit during the period of FY2016-FY2025. Permits the point of order to be waived by a two-thirds vote of the Members duly chosen and sworn. </p> <p>(Sec. 2002) Includes reconciliation instructions directing the House Education and Workforce Committee, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the House Ways and Means Committee to each submit to the House Budget Committee legislation to reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion over the FY2016-FY2025 period. Requires the legislation to be submitted by July 24, 2015. </p> <p>Requires the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the baseline underlying the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) March 2015 update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 (January 2015) when estimating the costs of legislation. Permits the chairman to determine whether adjustments to the baseline made after this resolution is adopted should be used. Permits the chairman to revise budgetary levels and allocations to reflect the impact of reconciliation legislation. </p> <p>Requires the House committees directed to submit reconciliation legislation to determine the most effective methods for repealing the Affordable Care Act. </p> <p>TITLE III--BUDGET ENFORCEMENT </p> <p>Subtitle A--Budget Enforcement in Both Houses </p> <p>(Sec. 3101) Revises the existing Senate point of order against legislation that would increase long-term deficits. Applies the point of order to legislation that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5 billion in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution. (The existing Senate long-term deficit point of order applies to deficits rather than on-budget deficits.) </p> <p>Exempts Senate legislation for which the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, and limits in this resolution, pursuant to the deficit-neutral reserve fund included in Section 4303(1) for legislation relating to the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act. </p> <p>Establishes a point of order in the House against legislation with a net effect of increasing direct spending by more than $5 billion in any of the four consecutive ten-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted budget resolution. </p> <p>Exempts House legislation for which the chairman of the House Budget Committee has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in this concurrent resolution pursuant to sections 4501, 4502, or 4503, which establish deficit-neutral reserve funds for health care legislation, including the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. </p> <p>(Sec. 3102) Provides the appropriations committees with separate allocations for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism and specifies procedures for enforcing and adjusting the allocations. </p> <p>(Sec. 3103) Establishes a point of order restricting the inclusion of certain changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) in appropriations legislation for FY2016-FY2019. Limits CHIMPs that reduce budget authority but do not decrease outlays to $19.1 billion for FY2016, $19.1 billion for FY2017, $17 billion for FY2018, and $15 billion for FY2019. </p> <p>(Sec. 3104) Establishes a point of order against full-year FY2016 appropriations legislation that includes changes in mandatory programs that affect the Crime Victims Fund and exceed $10.8 billion for FY2016. </p> <p>(Sec. 3105) Requires CBO, upon request of the chairman of either the House or Senate Budget Committees to include an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the ''fair value'' of assets and liabilities in estimates for certain federal credit programs under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990. Requires CBO to provide fair-value estimates for legislation related to a housing, residential mortgage, or student loan program. Permits the chairman of the House Budget Committee to use the estimates to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budget enforcement controls. Permits the Senate to use the estimates only for informational purposes. </p> <p>(Sec. 3106) Provides directions regarding the scoring of legislation relating to a transition from the paper dollar to the dollar coin. </p> <p>(Sec. 3107) Requires CBO to provide estimates of the budgetary effects over FY2016-FY2045 for legislation increasing discretionary spending limits or transferring amounts from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund. (Most CBO estimates are currently provided over a 5- or 10-year period.) </p> <p>(Sec. 3108) Requires CBO to provide projections of federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the 30-year period beginning with the budget year in its required annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook. </p> <p>(Sec. 3109) Directs CBO to provide estimates of outlay changes during the second and third decade of enactment of legislation if: (1) either of the budget committee chairs requests the estimate, or (2) the legislation has an outlay impact in excess of 0.25% of the U.S. gross domestic product during the first decade or in the tenth year. </p> <p>(Sec. 3110) Prohibits increases in Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) guarantee fees from being used to determine budgetary impacts for evaluating budget points of order. (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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 3111) Requires CBO to include in deficit projections a one-page statement that: (1) summarizes and categorizes total outlays, receipts, surpluses, and deficits on a unified basis; and (2) includes subtotals for outlays for mandatory and discretionary programs; outlays, payroll tax revenue, and offsetting receipts for Social Security and for Medicare; the surplus or deficit of revenues over outlays for Social Security and Medicare; and revenues. </p> <p>(Sec. 3112) Directs CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) 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. In the Senate, the estimates would be provided for informational purposes only.) </p> <p>Subtitle B--Budget Enforcement in the Senate </p> <p>(Sec. 3201) Extends procedures in the Senate for waivers and appeals of specified budget points of order with a vote of three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and sworn (currently 60 votes) through September 30, 2025. </p> <p>Makes Senate points of order against legislation violating Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules or increasing the short-term deficit permanent. (The PAYGO point of order prohibits the consideration of legislation that would cause or increase an on-budget deficit over specified time periods. The short-term deficit point of order applies to 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.) </p> <p>(Sec. 3202) Updates the existing point of order against advanced appropriations to conform to the new budget window. (Under the resolution, an advanced appropriation is any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2016 that first becomes available after FY2016, or any new budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for FY2017 that first becomes available after FY2017. 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 fiscal year). </p> <p>(Sec. 3203) Increases the vote threshold for waiving points of order against legislation with unfunded intergovernmental mandates from a simple majority to three-fifths of Members duly chosen and sworn (currently 60 votes). </p> <p>(Sec. 3204) Repeals the Senate point of order against reconciliation legislation that would increase the deficit or reduce a surplus. </p> <p>(Sec. 3205) Establishes a Senate point of order against voting on passage of legislation unless the CBO cost estimate was available on CBO's website at least 28 hours before the vote. </p> <p>(Sec. 3206) Applies to the Senate a House point of order protecting savings in reconciliation legislation from amendments that increase the deficit.</p> <p>(Sec. 3207) Provides directions to CBO regarding the scoring of certain energy savings contracts. </p> <p>(Sec. 3208) Authorizes the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to adjust aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits included in this resolution if legislation is enacted that permits adjustments to discretionary spending limits to accommodate wildfire suppression funding. </p> <p>Subtitle C--Budget Enforcement in the House of Representatives </p> <p>(Sec. 3301) Prohibits the House from considering legislation in FY2016 that reduces the actuarial balance of the Social Security trust funds below specified levels. </p> <p>(Sec. 3302) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 3303) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 3304) Prohibits advanced appropriations unless: (1) the appropriation is provided for an account listed as an exception in the report accompanying this resolution, and (2) total advanced appropriations do not exceed $63.271 billion for veterans accounts and $28.852 billion for other accounts in FY2017. (Under this resolution, an advanced appropriation is any new discretionary budget authority provided in appropriations legislation for the fiscal year following FY2016.) </p> <p>(Sec. 3305) Requires the House of Representatives to assess the implementation of section 3207 of this concurrent resolution through a collaborative assessment with the Senate and CBO of the appropriate scorekeeping methodology for energy savings performance contracts. </p> <p>Subtitle D--Other Provisions </p> <p>(Sec. 3401) Directs congressional committees to review programs within their jurisdiction to identify waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication and increase the use of performance data to inform committee work. Directs the committees to include recommendations for improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports submitted to the budget committees. </p> <p>(Sec. 3402) Provides that the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are reflected in the allocation to the appropriations committees to ensure that the committees retains control over the expenses through the annual appropriations process. Requires the administrative expenses to be included in the cost estimates for appropriations legislation for budget enforcement purposes. </p> <p>(Sec. 3403) Sets forth procedures for adjustments of the allocations and aggregates included in the budget resolution. </p> <p>(Sec. 3404) Permits the chairmen of the budget committees to adjust levels and allocations in this budget resolution to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. </p> <p>(Sec. 3405) Declares that the provisions in this title are promulgated under the rulemaking powers of the House and Senate with full recognition of the constitutional right of either chamber to change those rules. </p> <p>TITLE IV--RESERVE FUNDS </p> <p>Establishes reserve funds that permit the chairmen of the budget committees to revise the committee allocations, budgetary aggregates, and other levels in the budget resolution to accommodate legislation that meets specified conditions. </p> <p>Subtitle A--Reserve Funds in Both Houses </p> <p>(Sec. 4101) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to policies and programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans, without adversely impacting job creation or increasing the deficit over the FY2106-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>Subtitle B--Reserve Funds in the Senate </p> <p>(Reserve funds in this subtitle provide the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee with flexibility in applying budget enforcement rules to legislation that meets specified criteria. Deficit-neutral and spending-neutral reserve funds permit the chairman to make the adjustments if the legislation meets the specified criteria and does not increase the deficit over designated time periods. Revenue increases are permitted to be used as an offset in deficit-neutral reserve funds, but not in spending-neutral reserve funds. Deficit-reduction reserve funds permit the chairman to make adjustments to ensure that savings achieved in legislation are used for deficit reduction.) </p> <p>(Sec. 4301) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing the pace of U.S. economic growth and private sector job creation without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4302) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to enhanced funding for national security or domestic discretionary programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4303) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act and the health care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4304) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving access to affordable health care for low-income children, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4305) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for health legislation relating to the requirement to purchase or provide health insurance; expiring health care provisions; the September 11th attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville crash site; medical research, innovation, and safety; or program integrity initiatives if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4306) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to child nutrition programs, replacing ineffective policies and programs with evidence-based alternatives that improve the welfare of vulnerable children, or protecting children from sexual predators if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4307) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the improvement of the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4308) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reforming the tax code, extending expiring tax relief provisions, innovation and manufacturing jobs, or operations and administration of the Department of the Treasury if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4309) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investment in the infrastructure of the United States, including programs that expedite the deployment of broadband to rural areas, if the legislation does not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods and does not include transfers from other trust funds. Permits transfers from the general fund of the Treasury that are offset. </p> <p>(Sec. 4310) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal spending on civil air traffic control services if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4311) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade legislation that would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4312) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the administration of disability benefits and the improved employment of disabled workers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4313) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4314) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation that does not raise new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4315) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation revising environmental statutes to promote job growth if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4316) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving flood control, expanding opportunities for commercial navigation, improving the environmental restoration of the nation's waterways, assisting states with drought prevention plans, strengthening waterborne commerce, or the authority of the Department of the Interior to designate funds for rural water projects and Indian irrigation and water settlement projects without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4317) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reducing reliance on mineral imports or deducting amounts for mineral revenues payable to states without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4318) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4319) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing timber production from federal lands and providing funding to local governments until timber production levels increase, decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads, improving stewardship contracting, or reforming the budgeting process for wildfire suppression operations without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4320) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4321) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to regulatory relief for small financial firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4322) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the processing of earnings reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4323) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the implementation of agreements between the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free Association without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4324) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals and creating sustainable access for rural communities without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4325) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging state Medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4326) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision of services under Medicare without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4327) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting and improving community health centers without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4328) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4329) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to 529 college savings plans if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4330) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4331) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4332) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4333) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to benefits for aliens without legal status in the United States, which may include prohibiting qualification for certain tax benefits, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4334) Establishes a deficit-reduction reserve fund for legislation achieving savings through the elimination, modification, or the reduction in frequency of reports required of federal agencies if the legislation reduces the deficit over either the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. Permits the chairman to adjust the Senate's Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) ledger to ensure that the savings achieved are used only for deficit reduction. </p> <p>(Sec. 4335) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to addressing heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4336) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening the civilian workforce if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4337) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving Department of Defense financial management if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4338) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4339) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to energy efficiency, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), federal land and water conservation programs, or the reduction of duplicative federal green building programs if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4340) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Department of Justice, which may include ending the Operation Choke Point program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4341) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the federal government, except in the case of natural disasters, from providing funds to state and local governments to prevent receivership, facilitate exit from receivership, or to prevent default on its obligations by a state government, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4342) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the health outcomes and lowering the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4343) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to maintaining and enhancing access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4344) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting equal pay if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4345) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation submitted to Congress by the President to protect current beneficiaries of the Social Security program and prevent the insolvency of the program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4346) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to addressing student loan debt if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4347) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that federal jurisdiction under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) is focused on water quality without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4348) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to United States policy toward Israel and the prevention of anti-Semitism in Europe if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4349) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving workplace benefits and reducing health care costs, which may include tax credits for employers providing paid family and medical leave, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4350) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4351) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Pell Grant program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4352) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increased disclosure of any Affordable Care Act taxes in health insurance monthly premium statements if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4353) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to carbon emissions, which may include prohibitions on federal taxes or fees imposed on carbon emissions, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4354) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the federal government from requiring states to adopt the Common Core State Standards and allowing states to opt out of the Standards without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4355) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the disposal of federal land that is not within the boundaries of a national park, preserve, or monument without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4356) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to funding for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to ratification and adoption of implementing legislation without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4357) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Iran, including efforts to reimpose waived sanctions or impose new sanctions if the President cannot certify that Iran is complying with the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4358) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to supporting U.S. citizens held hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4359) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing employment opportunities, preventing employment discrimination, and providing accommodations for pregnant workers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4360) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changes in federal income tax laws, including eliminating the estate tax, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4361) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions, which may include a prohibition on withholding highway funds from states that refuse to submit State Implementation Plans required under the Clean Power Plan, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4362) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting communities, businesses, recreationists, farmers, ranchers, or other groups that rely on privately held water rights and permits from federal takings if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4363) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the awarding of government construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4364) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to preventing American jobs from being moved overseas, which may include a reduction in the corporate income tax rate, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4365) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reaffirming the ability of states to adopt minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage level commensurate with the cost of living in the state if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4366) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to deterring the attempted migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras into the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4367) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to critical habitat designations, which may include requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to examine the cumulative economic effects of the designation, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4368) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to any bank holding companies with over $500 billion in total assets to better protect taxpayers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4369) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that all Members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and all political appointees procure their health insurance on the individual exchange in the same way as Americans at the same income level if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4370) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increasing funding for United States embassies, which may include the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4371) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by U.S. citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4372) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4373) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing tax equity for death benefits paid to the families of public safety officers who lose their lives in the line of duty if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4374) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4375) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4376) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening and reforming federal Offices of Inspectors General; reducing vacancies in the offices; and providing for improvements in the overall economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Inspectors General if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4377) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving retirement security by easing the administrative burden on small businesses that provide retirement plans and encouraging individuals to increase their savings if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4378) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving basic science research and development programs in the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4379) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which may include requiring state conservation plans for the northern long-eared bat to be given flexibility to be successful so as to preserve and protect local and rural economies before any federal listing decision is made, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4380) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to increased sharing of cybersecurity threat information while protecting individual privacy and civil liberties interests if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4381) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation entering into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4382) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by federal agencies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4383) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4384) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4385) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing funding to support efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4386) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to preventing access to edible marijuana products by children in states that have decriminalized marijuana if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4387) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4388) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4389) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4390) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Small Business Administration's Small Business Investment Company Program if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4391) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to online child sex trafficking; which may include the detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow the websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children; if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4392) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or issuing any regulation that would reduce the reliability of the electricity grid if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4393) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to protecting the open Internet and promoting further innovation and investment in Internet services, content, infrastructure, and technologies if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4394) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to changing the federal regulatory process without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4395) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under Medicare if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4396) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to modernizing the triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems, the nuclear command and control system, and the nuclear weapons stockpile; and supporting related infrastructure if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4397) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to strengthening our national security, which may include fully funding the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4398) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the nuclear force improvement program of the Air Force if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4399) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to promoting economic growth and job creation by making it easier for small businesses to plan their capital investments, reducing the uncertainty of taxation, and supporting at-sea and dockside monitoring for fisheries that have received economic disaster assistance if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4400) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to employer penalties under the Affordable Care Act, which may include changes to the definition of &quot;full time employee&quot; under that Act, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4401) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the federal regulatory process if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4402) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the processing of award submissions, which may include the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4403) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in federal facilities if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4404) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4405) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to alleviating disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4406) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the Corporation for National and Community Service if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4407) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to ensuring that all Department of Justice attorneys comply with all legal and ethical obligations in criminal prosecutions if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4408) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal investments in precision medicine and biomedical research if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4409) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to developing methods that ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have access to equipment like eye tracking accessories for speech generating devices and speech generating devices if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4410) Establishes a spending-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to prioritization of the federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States on projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors of the National Highway System without raising new revenue if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4411) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4412) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to Yemen by the United States if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4413) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to improving higher education data and transparency if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4414) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to Native children or the construction of Bureau of Indian Education schools if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4415) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to funding for international counter-propaganda communications in order to combat misinformation, undermine ideologies of violence and hatred, and ensure moderate voices are heard if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4416) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to reforming and strengthening elementary and secondary education if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4417) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to federal investments in scientific research and development if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4418) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to providing support to the government of Ukraine, which may include the provision of lethal defensive articles, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4419) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to underground and surface mining safety research if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>(Sec. 4420) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation relating to extending the life of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which may include creating a point of order against legislation that accelerates the insolvency of the Fund, if the legislation would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2020 or the FY2016-FY2025 periods. </p> <p>Subtitle C--Reserve Funds in the House </p> <p>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 reform, trade, education, retirement, transportation, and defense legislation that meets specified conditions. </p> <p>(Sec. 4501) Establishes a reserve fund for legislation that consists solely of the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the health care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. </p> <p>(Sec. 4502) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care reform legislation that would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4503) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that repeals Medicare spending decreases included in the Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4504) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that extends the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4505) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms, expands access to, and improves graduate medical education programs and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4506) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that implements a trade agreement and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4507) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms the tax code and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4508) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that decreases revenue and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4509) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that maintains the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and would not increase the deficit over the FY2016-FY2025 period. </p> <p>(Sec. 4510) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that reforms, improves, and updates the federal retirement system and would not increase the deficit over the period of FY2016-FY2025. </p> <p>(Sec. 4511) Establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation that supports specified defense activities and would not increase the deficit (without counting any net revenue increases in the legislation) over the period of FY2016-FY2025. </p> <p>TITLE V--ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES </p> <p>(Sec. 5001) Provides estimates for the rate of growth in means-tested and non-means-tested direct spending and proposes changes to Medicare and Medicaid. </p> <p>TITLE VI--POLICY STATEMENTS </p> <p>Subtitle A--Policy Statements in Both Houses </p> <p>(Sec. 6101) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should pass and send to the states for approval a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to require an annual balanced federal budget. </p> <p>(Sec. 6102) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should work on a bipartisan basis to preserve Social Security for current and future generations and that to achieve that goal: </p> <ul> <li>Congress should enact legislation prevent the near-term insolvency of the Disability Insurance program, improve the administration and coordination of benefits, and increase employment opportunities for disabled workers; and </li> </ul> <ul> <li>the President should submit legislation to Congress addressing the long-term insolvency of both the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program and the Disability Insurance program. </ul> <p>Subtitle B--Policy Statement in the House of Representatives </p> <p>(Sec. 6201) States the policy of this resolution that Congress must restructure and reform the budget process, reassert its role as the government's spending authority, and change the treatment of tax cut extensions in the baseline. </p> <p>(Sec. 6202) States the policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job creation. </p> <p>(Sec. 6203) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should enact legislation that provides comprehensive tax reform to promote economic growth, create jobs, increase wages; and benefit consumers, investors, and workers. </p> <p>(Sec. 6204) States the policy of this resolution to pursue international trade, global commerce, and a modern and competitive U.S. international tax system to promote job creation in the United States. </p> <p>(Sec. 6205) States the policy of this resolution to repeal the Affordable Care Act and promote health care reforms. </p> <p>(Sec. 6206) States the policy of this resolution to preserve Medicare for those in or near retirement and strengthen the program for future beneficiaries. Sets forth the assumptions of this resolution regarding Medicare reform. </p> <p>(Sec. 6207) States the policy of this resolution to support the work of medical innovators, including the private sector, medical centers and the National Institutes of Health. </p> <p>(Sec. 6208) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should enact legislation to change the federal regulatory process and eliminate unnecessary regulations. </p> <p>(Sec. 6209) States the policies of this resolution for addressing higher education affordability and the failings in the current workforce development system. </p> <p>(Sec. 6210) States the policy of this resolution to support the continued oversight efforts of the Department of Veterans Affairs by Congress and its committees. </p> <p>(Sec. 6211) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should adopt reforms of budget and accounting practices to enable the public to better understand the fiscal situation of the United States and the options best suited to improving it. </p> <p>(Sec. 6212) States the policy of this resolution that each authorizing committee must submit to the House Budget Committee recommendations for reductions in spending that result from oversight activities, and that each congressional committee must annually review its programs to ensure they are operating efficiently and effectively. </p> <p>(Sec. 6213) States the policy of this resolution that congressional committees should identify and achieve savings for deficit reduction through the cancellation or rescission of unobligated balances. </p> <p>(Sec. 6214) States the policy of this resolution that Congress must reassert its constitutional prerogative to control spending and conduct oversight by enacting legislation requiring programs funded through fees, offsetting receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new budget authority annually. </p> <p>(Sec. 6215) 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. </p> <p>(Sec. 6216) States the policy of this resolution that Congress should agree to a budget resolution every year and that compensation for Members of Congress should be withheld if either chamber has not agreed to a budget resolution by April 15, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. </p> <p>(Sec. 6217) States the policy of this resolution to ensure robust funding for national defense while maintaining overall fiscal discipline and to encourage an immediate reevaluation of federal government priorities to maintain the strength of America's national security posture. </p>

tv_txt: III Calendar No. 31 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. CON. RES. 11 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 20, 2015 Mr. Enzi , from the Committee on the Budget , reported, under authority of the order of the Senate of March 19, 2015, the following original concurrent resolution; which was placed on the calendar CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.

1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 (a) Declaration Congress declares that this resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. (b) Table of Contents The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016. TITLE I—Recommended levels and amounts Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. Sec. 102. Social Security. Sec. 103. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. Sec. 104. Major functional categories. TITLE II—Reconciliation Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the Senate. TITLE III—Reserve funds Sec. 301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States. Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities. Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable healthcare choices for all. Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the Children's Health Insurance Program. Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms. Sec. 306. Spending-neutral reserve fund for child welfare. Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers. Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration. Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America. Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation. Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade. Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers. Sec. 313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform. Sec. 314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation. Sec. 315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes. Sec. 316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation. Sec. 317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights. Sec. 318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program. Sec. 319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health. Sec. 320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government. Sec. 321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform. Sec. 322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration. Sec. 323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states. Sec. 324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities. Sec. 325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled. Sec. 326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare. Sec. 327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers. Sec. 328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process. Sec. 329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for export promotion. Sec. 330. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans. Sec. 331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States. Sec. 332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to achieve savings by helping struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence. Sec. 333. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to conserving Federal land, enhancing access to Federal land for recreational opportunities, and making investments in counties and schools. Sec. 334. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect taxpayers from identity fraud. Sec. 335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to career and technical education. Sec. 336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to FEMA preparedness. Sec. 337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sec. 338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote the next generation of NIH researchers in the United States. Sec. 339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States. Sec. 340. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit. Sec. 341. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification. Sec. 342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin and prescription opioid abuse. Sec. 343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce. Sec. 344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform. Sec. 345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs. Sec. 346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation. Sec. 347. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to enable greater collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and law school clinics serving veterans. Sec. 348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase funding for Department of Energy nuclear waste cleanup. Sec. 349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical department infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events. Sec. 350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment. Sec. 351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments. TITLE IV—Budget process Subtitle A—Budget enforcement Sec. 401. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate. Sec. 402. Senate point of order against legislation increasing long-term deficits. Sec. 403. Point of order against advance appropriations. Sec. 404. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates. Sec. 405. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation. Sec. 406. Point of order against changes in mandatory programs. Sec. 407. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score. Sec. 408. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills. Sec. 409. Point of order against exceeding funds designated for overseas contingency operations. Sec. 410. Senate point of order against provisions of appropriations legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund. Sec. 411. Accuracy in budget enforcement. Sec. 412. Fair value estimates. Sec. 413. Honest accounting estimates. Sec. 414. Currency modernization. Sec. 415. Certain energy contracts. Sec. 416. Long-term scoring. Sec. 417. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits. Sec. 418. Reporting on tax expenditures. Sec. 419. Congressional Budget Office estimates. Sec. 420. To require transparent reporting on the ongoing costs and savings to taxpayers of Obamacare. Sec. 421. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset. Subtitle B—Other provisions Sec. 431. Oversight of Government performance. Sec. 432. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. Sec. 433. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. Sec. 434. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. Sec. 435. Exercise of rulemaking powers. I Recommended levels and amounts 101. Recommended levels and amounts The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2025: (1) Federal revenues For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution: (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,666,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,763,328,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,858,131,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $2,974,147,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,099,410,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,963,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,388,688,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,550,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,722,144,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,905,648,000,000. (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $0. Fiscal year 2017: $0. Fiscal year 2018: $0. Fiscal year 2019: $0. Fiscal year 2020: $0. Fiscal year 2021: $0. Fiscal year 2022: $0. Fiscal year 2023: $0. Fiscal year 2024: $0. Fiscal year 2025: $0. (2) New budget authority For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,003,274,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,894,221,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,958,672,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,107,799,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,228,534,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,337,729,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,455,558,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,525,594,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,624,025,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,646,263,000,000. (3) Budget outlays For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,037,267,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,928,317,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,945,067,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,080,929,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,185,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,308,296,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,449,532,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,497,247,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,576,890,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,614,976,000,000. (4) Deficits For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $370,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $164,989,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $86,936,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $106,782,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $86,102,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $66,333,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $60,844,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: –$53,141,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: –$145,254,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: –$290,672,000,000. (5) Public debt Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate levels of the public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $19,009,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $19,396,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $19,718,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $20,055,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $20,375,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $20,676,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $21,008,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $21,195,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $21,254,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $21,207,000,000,000. (6) Debt held by the public The appropriate levels of debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,799,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $14,042,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $14,222,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $14,445,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $14,674,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $14,912,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $15,230,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $15,419,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $15,500,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $15,538,000,000,000. (7) Federal tax expenditures The levels of Federal tax expenditures are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $1,481,800,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $1,593,500,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $1,670,800,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $1,738,019,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $1,810,158,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $1,890,648,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,973,922,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $2,064,520,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $2,160,235,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $2,261,769,000,000. 102. Social Security (a) Social Security Revenues For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of revenues of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $792,776,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $824,342,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $857,154,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $890,609,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $925,760,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $962,188,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,000,637,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $1,040,394,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $1,081,476,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $1,123,748,000,000. (b) Social Security Outlays For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $778,032,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $825,829,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $882,521,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $941,034,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $1,005,632,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $1,073,227,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,145,188,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $1,222,754,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $1,305,622,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $1,394,327,000,000. (c) Social Security Administrative Expenses In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for administrative expenses are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $5,026,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,089,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $5,175,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,190,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $5,345,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,316,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $5,518,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,487,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $5,699,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,668,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $5,881,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,849,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $6,072,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,039,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $6,266,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,232,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $6,462,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,428,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $6,665,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,630,000,000. 103. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Postal Service for discretionary administrative expenses are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $267,000,000. (B) Outlays, $266,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $277,000,000. (B) Outlays, $277,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $288,000,000. (B) Outlays, $288,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $299,000,000. (B) Outlays, $298,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $310,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $321,000,000. (B) Outlays, $320,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $334,000,000. (B) Outlays, $333,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $346,000,000. (B) Outlays, $345,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $358,000,000. (B) Outlays, $357,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $371,000,000. (B) Outlays, $370,000,000. 104. Major functional categories Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2016 through 2025 for each major functional category are: (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $620,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, $605,189,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $544,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $576,934,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $557,744,000,000. (B) Outlays, $558,049,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $571,019,000,000. (B) Outlays, $564,685,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $585,310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $573,614,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $599,627,000,000. (B) Outlays, $586,038,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $600,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $596,103,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $615,997,000,000. (B) Outlays, $603,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $631,771,000,000. (B) Outlays, $611,920,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $648,836,000,000. (B) Outlays, $632,992,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $47,791,000,000. (B) Outlays, $48,227,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $41,839,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,656,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $42,802,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,642,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $43,749,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,565,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $44,754,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $45,276,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,795,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $46,553,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,424,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $47,593,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,153,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $48,681,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,023,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $49,786,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,943,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $30,007,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,007,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $30,596,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,529,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $31,286,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,165,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $31,981,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $32,706,000,000. (B) Outlays, $32,400,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $33,433,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,022,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $34,192,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,756,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $34,953,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $35,745,000,000. (B) Outlays, $35,290,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $36,545,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,084,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, –$1,947,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,365,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $2,483,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,112,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $76,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$731,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $90,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$753,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $128,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$668,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $97,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$543,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $62,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$465,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $36,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$393,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $2,869,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,521,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $2,963,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,655,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $36,277,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,983,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,685,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,866,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $37,680,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,719,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $39,125,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,486,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $41,066,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,098,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $40,951,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,232,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $41,844,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,992,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $43,240,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,467,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $44,125,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,663,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $45,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,966,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $20,628,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,585,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $24,247,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,696,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $23,204,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,471,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $22,083,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,401,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $20,974,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,498,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $21,078,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,613,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $20,914,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,476,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $21,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $21,620,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,125,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $21,834,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,416,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $2,260,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$11,365,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, –$3,959,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$18,302,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, –$1,264,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,095,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, –$1,316,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$21,170,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $55,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$20,567,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, –$75,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$15,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $1,341,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$15,789,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $2,452,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$15,942,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $3,648,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $4,520,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,011,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $71,528,000,000. (B) Outlays, $88,436,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $72,392,000,000. (B) Outlays, $83,756,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $73,286,000,000. (B) Outlays, $80,329,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $74,077,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $74,826,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,935,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $75,549,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,708,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $76,221,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,973,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $76,840,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,228,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $77,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,123,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $78,208,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,426,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (450): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $17,388,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,325,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $18,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,002,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $18,606,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,457,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $18,862,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,314,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $18,870,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $18,771,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,474,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $18,782,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,323,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $18,861,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,747,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $18,975,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,313,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $19,140,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,384,000,000. (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services (500): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $86,251,000,000. (B) Outlays, $95,717,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $87,848,000,000. (B) Outlays, $92,889,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $90,703,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,534,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $89,535,000,000. (B) Outlays, $88,889,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $91,991,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,556,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $93,353,000,000. (B) Outlays, $93,315,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $94,970,000,000. (B) Outlays, $94,734,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $96,575,000,000. (B) Outlays, $96,383,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $98,439,000,000. (B) Outlays, $98,178,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $100,362,000,000. (B) Outlays, $100,129,000,000. (11) Health (550): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $414,326,000,000. (B) Outlays, $424,711,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $385,565,000,000. (B) Outlays, $389,710,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $388,629,000,000. (B) Outlays, $390,503,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $402,511,000,000. (B) Outlays, $403,324,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $425,526,000,000. (B) Outlays, $415,791,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $433,351,000,000. (B) Outlays, $433,395,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $452,426,000,000. (B) Outlays, $452,523,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $471,644,000,000. (B) Outlays, $471,719,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $489,491,000,000. (B) Outlays, $489,587,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $512,965,000,000. (B) Outlays, $513,163,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $567,213,000,000. (B) Outlays, $567,122,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $562,941,000,000. (B) Outlays, $562,881,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $562,143,000,000. (B) Outlays, $562,102,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $619,228,000,000. (B) Outlays, $619,148,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $657,658,000,000. (B) Outlays, $657,564,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $698,284,000,000. (B) Outlays, $698,188,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $776,034,000,000. (B) Outlays, $775,930,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $787,879,000,000. (B) Outlays, $787,681,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $797,075,000,000. (B) Outlays, $796,964,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $902,467,000,000. (B) Outlays, $902,349,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $529,494,000,000. (B) Outlays, $528,778,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $458,455,000,000. (B) Outlays, $455,293,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $466,015,000,000. (B) Outlays, $458,848,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $460,943,000,000. (B) Outlays, $457,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $471,826,000,000. (B) Outlays, $467,468,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $481,804,000,000. (B) Outlays, $477,132,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $493,877,000,000. (B) Outlays, $493,223,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $502,550,000,000. (B) Outlays, $498,468,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $512,932,000,000. (B) Outlays, $504,310,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $521,641,000,000. (B) Outlays, $517,044,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $33,878,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,919,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,535,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,407,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $42,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,634,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $46,104,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,104,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $49,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $53,547,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $57,455,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,455,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $61,546,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,546,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $65,751,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,751,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $166,708,000,000. (B) Outlays, $170,152,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,905,000,000. (B) Outlays, $164,449,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $163,101,000,000. (B) Outlays, $162,477,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $174,989,000,000. (B) Outlays, $174,175,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $179,899,000,000. (B) Outlays, $178,942,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $184,172,000,000. (B) Outlays, $183,222,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $196,530,000,000. (B) Outlays, $195,502,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $193,156,000,000. (B) Outlays, $192,124,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $189,999,000,000. (B) Outlays, $188,884,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $203,895,000,000. (B) Outlays, $202,761,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $52,543,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,757,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $57,030,000,000. (B) Outlays, $58,576,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $56,787,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,929,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $58,512,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,973,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $60,284,000,000. (B) Outlays, $59,888,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $62,239,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,690,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $64,815,000,000. (B) Outlays, $64,224,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $66,745,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,238,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $68,717,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,091,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $70,550,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,922,000,000. (17) General Government (800): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $23,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,708,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $24,046,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,958,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $24,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,573,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $25,485,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,089,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $26,202,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,782,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $26,958,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,551,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $27,766,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,375,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $28,493,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,114,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $29,022,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,671,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $29,809,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,399,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $366,579,000,000. (B) Outlays, $366,579,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $415,132,000,000. (B) Outlays, $415,132,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $478,693,000,000. (B) Outlays, $478,693,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $532,670,000,000. (B) Outlays, $532,670,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $580,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, $580,522,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $614,725,000,000. (B) Outlays, $614,725,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $645,841,000,000. (B) Outlays, $645,841,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $671,301,000,000. (B) Outlays, $671,301,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $690,987,000,000. (B) Outlays, $690,987,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $703,419,000,000. (B) Outlays, $703,419,000,000. (19) Allowances (920): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, –$12,271,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$5,520,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $12,975,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,923,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, –$10,750,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$14,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, –$15,199,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,838,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, –$46,590,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$44,799,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, –$54,803,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$51,787,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, –$98,454,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$80,798,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, –$112,036,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$101,438,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, –$90,119,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$83,225,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, –$250,580,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$234,419,000,000. (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, –$69,397,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$69,408,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, –$78,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$78,278,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, –$84,231,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$84,250,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, –$83,179,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$83,200,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, –$83,577,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$83,600,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, –$86,773,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$86,798,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, –$92,337,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$92,362,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, –$99,646,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$99,672,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, –$109,004,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$109,030,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, –$121,370,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$121,397,000,000. II Reconciliation 201. Reconciliation in the Senate (a) Committee on finance The Committee on Finance of the Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (b) Committee on health, education, labor and pensions The Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (c) Submissions In the Senate, not later than July 31, 2015, the Senate Committees named in subsections (a) and (b) shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. Upon receiving all such recommendations, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall report to the Senate a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. III Reserve funds 301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) growing the economy; (2) creating more private sector jobs and enhancing worker rights such as Davis-Bacon reform and card check; (3) lowering the after-tax costs of investment, savings, and work; (4) reducing the costs to business and individuals from the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (5) reducing the costs borne by economic activity in the United States stemming from Federal regulations, including the costs incurred by individuals in complying with Federal law when starting a business; (6) reducing the costs of frivolous lawsuits; (7) creating a more competitive financial sector to support economic growth and job creation while enhancing the credit worthiness of lending institutions; or (8) improving the ability of policy makers to estimate the economic effects of policy change through the enhanced use of economic models and data in scoring legislation; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to enhanced funding for national security or domestic discretionary programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable healthcare choices for all The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) the full repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 119) and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ; 124 Stat. 1029); or (2) the replacing or reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 119) or the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ; 124 Stat. 1029); by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the Children's Health Insurance Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving access to affordable health care for low-income children, including the Children’s Health Insurance Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) the requirement to individually purchase, or jointly provide, health insurance; (2) increasing payments under, or permanently reforming or replacing, Medicare payments for providers; (3) extending expiring health care provisions; (4) the health care needs of first responders to domestic acts of terror; (5) improvements in medical research, innovation and safety; or (6) strengthening program integrity initiatives to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal health care programs; by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 306. Spending-neutral reserve fund for child welfare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) child nutrition programs; (2) replacing ineffective policies and programs with evidence-based alternative that improve the welfare of vulnerable children; or (3) policies that protect children from sexual predators in our schools or communities; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the improvement of the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers, including: (1) eligibility for both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation (concurrent receipt); (2) the reduction or elimination of the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and Veterans' Dependency and Indemnity Compensation; (3) the improvement of disability benefits or the process of evaluating and adjudicating benefit claims for members of the Armed Forces or veterans; (4) the infrastructure needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including constructing or leasing space, to include leases of major medical facilities, and maintenance of Department facilities; (5) supporting the transition of servicemembers to the civilian workforce, including by expanding or improving education, job training, and workforce development benefits, or other programs for servicemembers or veterans, which may include streamlining the process associated with Federal and State credentialing requirements; (6) improving access to and reducing wait times for Department of Veterans Affairs health care, including through hiring medical providers, and improving the quality of such care; or (7) providing or improving specialty services, including mental health care, homeless services, gender specific health care, fertility treatment, and support for caregivers; by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reforming the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (2) amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring tax relief provisions; (3) innovation and high quality manufacturing jobs, including the repeal of the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device manufacturers; or (4) operations and administration of the Department of the Treasury, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation shall not include transfers from other trust funds but may include transfers from the general fund of the Treasury that are offset, provided further that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal spending on civil air traffic control services, which may include air traffic management at airport towers across the United States or at facilities of the Federal Aviation Administration, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) suspending or reducing tariffs on miscellaneous imports; (2) reauthorization of trade related Federal agencies; (3) implementing international trade agreements; (4) reauthorizing preference programs; or (5) enhancing the protection of United States intellectual property rights at the border and abroad; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the administration of disability benefits and the improved employment of disabled workers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports that amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ) by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reform of the management of civilian and defense nuclear waste; (2) reform and reauthorization of programs at the Department of Energy related to research and development of alternative or renewable forms of energy, fossil fuel exploration and use, nuclear energy, or the electricity grid; (3) expansion of North American energy production; or (4) reform of the permitting and siting processes for energy infrastructure; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reform of environmental statutes to promote job growth by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving flood control, expanding opportunities for commercial navigation, and improving the environmental restoration of the nation’s waterways without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reducing reliance on mineral imports; or (2) the authority to deduct certain amounts from mineral revenues payable to States; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq. ) without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) increasing timber production from Federal lands and providing bridge funding to counties and other units of local government until timber production levels increase; (2) decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads; (3) improving stewardship contracting; or (4) reform of the process of budgeting for wildfire suppression operations; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to regulatory relief for small financial firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the processing of earnings reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the implementation of agreements between the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free Association without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals and creating sustainable access for rural communities, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging State Medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision of services under Medicare, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting and improving community health centers, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for export promotion The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting exports, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase total deficits over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 330. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reforms, improvements, and enhancements of 529 college savings plans, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to achieve savings by helping struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to welfare legislation to help struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 333. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to conserving Federal land, enhancing access to Federal land for recreational opportunities, and making investments in counties and schools The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal programs for land and water conservation and acquisition or the preservation, restoration, or protection of public land, oceans, coastal areas, or aquatic ecosystems, making changes to or providing for the reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 ( 16 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. ), making changes to or providing for the reauthorization of the payments in lieu of taxes program under chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, or making changes to or providing for the reauthorization of both laws, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 334. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect taxpayers from identity fraud The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to changes at the Internal Revenue Service, which may include establishing a process by which taxpayers may (1) receive notification of tax scams and (2) determine whether a return may have been filed using their personal information, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to career and technical education The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to career and technical education, which may include work- or skills-based learning opportunities or which creates rigorous career and technical education curricula in schools, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to FEMA preparedness The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to enhancing the preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to disasters, which may include those on land and in the oceans caused or exacerbated by human-induced climate change, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote the next generation of NIH researchers in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to policies and programs that improve opportunities for new biomedical researchers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in the United States, which may include educational or research and development initiatives, public-private partnerships, or other programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 340. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to benefits for aliens without legal status in the United States, which may include prohibiting qualification for certain tax benefits without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 341. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating that achieve savings through the elimination, modification, or the reduction in frequency of congressionally mandated reports from Federal agencies, and reduce the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. The Chairman may also make adjustments to the Senate’s pay-as-you-go ledger over 6 and 11 years to ensure that the deficit reduction achieved is used for deficit reduction only. The adjustments authorized under this section shall be of the amount of deficit reduction achieved. 342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin and prescription opioid abuse The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening our civilian workforce, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of either the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving Department of Defense financial management, which may include achieving full auditability or eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reducing inefficient overlap, improving access, and enhancing outcomes with Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase total deficits over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) energy efficiency; (2) the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; or (3) Federal programs for land and water conservation, including the Land and Water Conservation Fund; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 347. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to enable greater collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and law school clinics serving veterans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Department of Veterans Affairs collaboration with law school clinics serving veterans, which may include legislation that supports law school clinics that provide veterans with pro-bono legal support and assistance assembling benefits claims, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 to 2025. 348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase funding for Department of Energy nuclear waste cleanup The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to Federal investments in the Office of Environmental Management, which may include measures to meet the Federal Government's legacy responsibilities for cleanup of liquid radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic and mixed/low-level waste, or contaminated soil and water, and which may also include measures deactivating and decommissioning excess facilities at 16 nuclear waste sites created by the Manhattan Project and Cold War programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical department infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one of more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical Department infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events, including sea-level rise, flooding, and increased storm surge, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Department of Justice, which may include ending of the Operation Choke Point program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to a prohibition, except in the case of Federal assistance provided in response to a natural disaster, on any entity of the Federal Government from providing funds to State and local governments to prevent receivership or to facilitate exit from receivership or to prevent default on its obligations by a State government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. IV Budget process A Budget enforcement 401. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate (a) Extension of Congressional Budget Act of 1974 points of order (1) In general Notwithstanding any provision of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ), subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3) of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 note) shall remain in effect for purposes of Senate enforcement through September 30, 2025. (2) Repeal In the Senate, section 205 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply. (b) Other points of order (1) Pay-As-You-Go Section 201(d) of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, is repealed. (2) Increasing short-term deficit Section 404(e) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010, is repealed. 402. Senate point of order against legislation increasing long-term deficits (a) Congressional budget office analysis of proposals The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare for each bill and joint resolution reported from committee (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations), and amendments thereto, amendments between the Houses in relation thereto, and conference reports thereon, an estimate of whether the measure would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget. (b) Point of order It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods described in subsection (a). (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal in the senate (1) Waiver Subsection (b) may be waived or suspended only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (b). (d) Limitation The provisions of this section shall not apply to any bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, amendment between the Houses, or conference reports for which the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in this resolution pursuant to section 303(1). (e) Determinations of budget levels For purposes of this section, the levels of net deficit increases shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (f) Repeal In the Senate, section 311 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. 403. Point of order against advance appropriations (a) In general (1) Point of order Except as provided in subsection (b), it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would provide an advance appropriation for a discretionary account. (2) Definition In this section, the term advance appropriation means any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2016, or any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2017. (b) Exceptions Advance appropriations may be provided— (1) for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution under the heading Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority in each year; (2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and (3) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a). (d) Form of point of order A point of order under subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 644(e) ). (e) Conference reports When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 404. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 425(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 658d(a) ) shall be subject to the waiver and appeal requirements of subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3), respectively, of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 note). 405. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation Section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply in the Senate. 406. Point of order against changes in mandatory programs (a) Definition In this section, the term CHIMP means a provision that— (1) would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 902 ) (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) if the provision was included in legislation other than an appropriations bill or joint resolution; and (2) does not result in a net decrease in outlays over the period of the total of the current year, the budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget. (b) Point of order (1) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to consider an appropriations bill or joint resolution, or an amendment to, conference report on, or amendment between the Houses in relation to such a bill or joint resolution, that contains a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the total budget authority of all such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (2). (2) Amount The amount specified in this paragraph is— (A) for fiscal year 2016, $19,000,000,000; (B) for fiscal year 2017, $16,000,000,000; (C) for fiscal year 2018, $12,000,000,000; (D) for fiscal year 2019, $8,000,000,000; (E) for fiscal year 2020, $4,000,000,000; and (F) for fiscal year 2021, and each fiscal year thereafter, $0. (c) Determination The determination of whether a provision is subject to a point of order under subsection (b) shall be made by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (d) Supermajority waiver and appeal Subsection (b) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (b). (e) Repeal In the Senate, section 314 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. 407. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score (a) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to vote on passage of matter that requires an estimate described in section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ), unless such estimate was made publicly available on the website of the Congressional Budget Office not later than 28 hours before the time the vote commences. (b) Supermajority waiver and appeal (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a). 408. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills In the Senate, section 310(d)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 641(d)(1) ) shall apply and may be waived in accordance with the procedures applicable to a point of order raised under section 310(d)(2) of such Act. 409. Point of order against exceeding funds designated for overseas contingency operations (a) Point of order It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a provision in any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that designates for overseas contingency operations, in accordance with section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A) ), funds that would cause the total amount of funds designated for overseas contingency operations— (1) for fiscal year 2016, to be more than $57,997,000,000; or (2) for fiscal year 2017, to be more than $59,500,000,000. (b) Determination The determination of whether a provision is subject to a point of order under this section shall be made by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section. (d) Form of point of order A point of order under this section may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 644(e) ). (e) Conference reports When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator under this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 410. Senate point of order against provisions of appropriations legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund (a) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to consider any appropriations legislation, including any amendment thereto, motion in relation thereto, or conference report thereon, that includes any provision or provisions affecting the Crime Victims Fund, as defined by section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 ( 42 U.S.C. 10601 ), which constitutes a change in a mandatory program that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) were they included in legislation other than appropriations legislation. A point of order pursuant to this section shall be raised against such provision or provisions as described in subsections (d) and (e). (b) Determination The determination of whether a provision is subject to a point of order pursuant to this section shall be made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section. (d) General point of order It shall be in order for a Senator to raise a single point of order that several provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report violate this section. The Presiding Officer may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the provisions against which the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Senator raised the point of order, then only those provisions (including provision of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions against which the point of order was raised. Such a motion to waive is amendable in accordance with rules and precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer ruled. (e) Form of the point of order When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 411. Accuracy in budget enforcement (a) Timing shifts (1) Definition In this subsection, the term timing shift means— (A) a delay of the date on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur from 1 fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or (B) an acceleration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur from 1 fiscal year to the previous fiscal year. (2) Scoring In the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall not count timing shifts in estimating the budgetary effects of a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report for purposes of enforcing— (A) the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ); (B) any allocation, aggregate, or level under a concurrent resolution on the budget; or (C) any written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (b) Prohibition of rescissions that don't save money In the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall not count any rescission of budget authority or contract authority that does not have an effect on outlays in estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues of a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report for purposes of enforcing— (1) the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ); (2) any allocation, aggregate, or level under a concurrent resolution on the budget; or (3) any written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 412. Fair value estimates Any estimate prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office for a bill, joint, resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report under the terms of title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 661 et seq. ), shall include, when practicable, an additional estimate of the cost, measured on a fair value basis, of changes that would affect the amount or terms of new Federal loans or loan guarantees or of modifications to existing Federal loans or loan guarantees arising from the bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report. 413. Honest accounting estimates (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Budget The term budget means— (A) a concurrent resolution on the budget; or (B) a written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (2) Budgetary effects The term budgetary effects means changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues. (3) Major legislation (A) Definition The term major legislation means any bill, resolution, conference report, or treaty— (i) for which an estimate is prepared under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) that indicates that not less than 1 of the amounts described in subparagraph (B), before incorporating macroeconomic effects, is greater than $15,000,000,000 in any fiscal year of the estimate; or (ii) designated as major legislation by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate or the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. (B) Amounts The amounts described in this subparagraph are— (i) the sum of the individual positive changes in budgetary effects, not including timing shifts, resulting from such measure; and (ii) the sum of the absolute value of the individual negative budgetary effects, not including timing shifts, resulting from such measure. (4) Timing shifts The term timing shifts means— (A) a delay of the date on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or (B) an acceleration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year. (b) Requirement for CBO estimates An estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) for any major legislation shall provide, in addition to the estimate of budgetary effects without macroeconomic effects, an estimate of the budgetary effects from changes in economic output, employment, interest rates, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the major legislation. The total budgetary effects shall delineate between revenue and outlay effects. (c) Requirement for JCT estimates (1) In general An estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 601(f) ) for any major legislation shall provide an estimate of the distributional effects across income categories resulting from major legislation. (2) Delineation The total budgetary effects shall delineate between revenue and outlay effects. (d) Contents of estimates An estimate required to be provided under subsection (b) or (c) shall include— (1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsections (b) and (c)) of the major legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning after the last fiscal year of the most recently adopted budget that sets forth appropriate levels required under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 ); and (2) an identification of the assumptions and the source of data underlying the estimate. 414. Currency modernization In the Senate, for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ), any allocation, aggregate, or level under a concurrent resolution on the budget, or any written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, any estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision in a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report relating to a transition from the $1 note to a $1 coin shall— (1) record the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision in the first year in which the provision takes effect; (2) determine the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision based on a net present value estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision over a 30-year period; and (3) incorporate the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision due to behavioral changes. 415. Certain energy contracts (a) Definition In this section, the term covered energy savings contract means— (1) an energy savings performance contract authorized under section 801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8287 ); and (2) a utility energy service contract, as described in the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Federal use of energy savings performance contracting, dated July 25, 1998 (M–98–13), and the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on the Federal use of energy saving performance contracts and utility energy service contracts, dated September 28, 2012 (M–12–21), or any successor to either memorandum. (b) Estimates In the Senate, for purposes of enforcing any point of order established under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the Houses modifying the authority to enter, the scope or terms of, or the use of covered energy savings contracts shall— (1) record in the first year in which the authority would become effective, the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues (as estimated in accordance with paragraph (2)) of any modifications to the authority to enter the covered energy savings contracts; (2) in estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the legislation, calculate the costs and savings arising from covered contracts on a net present value basis by adding market risk over the useful life of the services or product to the discount rate in section 502(5)(E) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 ( 2 U.S.C. 661a(5)(E) ); and (3) classify the effects of the provision to be changes in spending subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) Rule of construction Nothing in subsection (b) shall be construed to modify the methodology for estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision that does not relate to covered energy savings contracts in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the Houses that contains a provision described in subsection (b). 416. Long-term scoring (a) Scoring of legislation increasing the discretionary spending caps An estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) for any bill, resolution, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that increases the discretionary spending limits under section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(c) ) shall provide, in addition to the estimate under that section, an estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues under the legislation over the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045. (b) Scoring of legislation relating to the Highway Trust Fund An estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) for any bill, resolution, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that transfers amounts from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund shall provide, in addition to the estimate under that section, an estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues under the legislation over the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045. 417. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits When the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office shall provide a projection of Federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the 30-year period beginning with the budget year, expressed in terms of dollars and as a percent of gross domestic product, as part of its annual update required by Public Law 93–344 . 418. Reporting on tax expenditures The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall include in the report submitted under section 202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 the following: (1) An estimate of the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for the budget year and the 9 years following the budget year. (2) Historical data on the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 1965 and ending with the budget year. 419. Congressional Budget Office estimates (a) Request for supplemental estimates In the case of any legislative provision to which this section applies, the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare, to the extent practicable, an estimate of the outlay changes during the second and third decade of enactment. (b) Legislative provisions to which this section applies This section shall apply to any spending legislative provision— (1) which proposes a change or changes to law that the Congressional Budget Office determines has an outlay impact in excess of 0.25 percent of the gross domestic product of the United States during the first decade or in the tenth year; or (2) with respect to which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of either the Senate or the House of Representatives has requested an estimate described in subsection (a). 420. To require transparent reporting on the ongoing costs and savings to taxpayers of Obamacare When the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office shall report changes in direct spending and revenue associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ), including the net impact on deficits, including both on-budget and off-budget effects, in its annual update required by Public Law 93–344 . The information shall be presented in a format similar to that of table 2 of the Congressional Budget Office’s March 20, 2010 estimate of the budgetary effects of the Health Care and Educational Reconciliation Act of 2010, in combination with the effects of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as passed by the Senate. 421. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset In the Senate, for purposes of determining budgetary impacts to evaluate points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this resolution, any previous budget resolution, and any subsequent budget resolution, provisions contained in any bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increases or extends the increase of, any guarantee fees of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation shall not be scored with respect to the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues contained in such legislation. B Other provisions 431. Oversight of Government performance In the Senate, all committees are directed 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. Committees are also directed to review the matters for congressional consideration identified on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk list and the annual report to reduce program duplication. Based on these oversight efforts and performance reviews of programs within their jurisdiction, committees are directed to include recommendations for improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632(d) ) to the Committees on the Budget. 432. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses In the Senate, notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a)(1) ), section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 note), and section 2009a of title 39, United States Code, the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its allocations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committees on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service. 433. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates (a) Application Any adjustments of allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall— (1) apply while that measure is under consideration; (2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and (3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable. (b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) as allocations and aggregates contained in this resolution. (c) Budget Committee Determinations For purposes of this resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. 434. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing for a change in concepts or definitions, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may make adjustments to the levels and allocations in this resolution in accordance with section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b) ). 435. Exercise of rulemaking powers Congress adopts the provisions of this title— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of the Senate and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change those rules at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any other rule of the Senate.

March 20, 2015 Placed on the calendar

tv_txt: 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. CON. RES. 11 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.

1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 (a) Declaration Congress declares that this resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. (b) Table of Contents The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016. TITLE I—Recommended levels and amounts Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. Sec. 102. Social Security. Sec. 103. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. Sec. 104. Major functional categories. TITLE II—Reconciliation Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the Senate. Sec. 202. Limit on Senate consideration of reconciliation. TITLE III—Reserve funds Sec. 301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States. Sec. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities. Sec. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable healthcare choices for all. Sec. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the Children's Health Insurance Program. Sec. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms. Sec. 306. Spending-neutral reserve fund for child welfare. Sec. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers. Sec. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration. Sec. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America. Sec. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation. Sec. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade. Sec. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers. Sec. 313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform. Sec. 314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation. Sec. 315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes. Sec. 316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation. Sec. 317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights. Sec. 318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program. Sec. 319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health. Sec. 320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government. Sec. 321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform. Sec. 322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration. Sec. 323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states. Sec. 324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities. Sec. 325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled. Sec. 326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare. Sec. 327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers. Sec. 328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process. Sec. 329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for export promotion. Sec. 330. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans. Sec. 331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States. Sec. 332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to achieve savings by helping struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence. Sec. 333. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to conserving Federal land, enhancing access to Federal land for recreational opportunities, and making investments in counties and schools. Sec. 334. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect taxpayers from identity fraud. Sec. 335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to career and technical education. Sec. 336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to FEMA preparedness. Sec. 337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sec. 338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote the next generation of NIH researchers in the United States. Sec. 339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States. Sec. 340. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit. Sec. 341. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification. Sec. 342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin and prescription opioid abuse. Sec. 343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce. Sec. 344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform. Sec. 345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs. Sec. 346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation. Sec. 347. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to enable greater collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and law school clinics serving veterans. Sec. 348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase funding for Department of Energy nuclear waste cleanup. Sec. 349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical department infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events. Sec. 350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment. Sec. 351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments. Sec. 352. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicaid beneficiaries from benefit cuts. Sec. 353. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve health outcomes and lower the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid. Sec. 354. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect and strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs, hire more health care professionals for the Department, and ensure quality and timely access to health care for all veterans. Sec. 355. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to maintain and enhance access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program. Sec. 356. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay. Sec. 357. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect and strengthen Social Security. Sec. 358. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option. Sec. 359. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the protection of clean water using scientific standards while maintaining the traditional role of agriculture. Sec. 360. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal Water Pollution Control Act focused on the protection of water quality. Sec. 361. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to saving Medicare. Sec. 362. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Israel. Sec. 363. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation to allow Americans to earn paid sick time. Sec. 364. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to care. Sec. 365. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program. Sec. 366. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to consumer price transparency. Sec. 367. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to transparency in health premium billing. Sec. 368. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to carbon emissions. Sec. 369. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to requiring the Federal Government to allow states to opt out of Common Core without penalty. Sec. 370. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to small business tax relief. Sec. 371. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of certain Federal land. Sec. 372. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding of international organizations during the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation. Sec. 373. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reimposing waived sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Iran for violations of the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Sec. 374. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981. Sec. 375. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers. Sec. 376. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the Federal estate tax. Sec. 377. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to addressing climate change. Sec. 378. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions. Sec. 379. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately held water rights and permits. Sec. 380. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting awarding of construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations. Sec. 381. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening the United States Postal Service. Sec. 382. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent American jobs from being moved overseas by reducing the corporate income tax rate. Sec. 383. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring equal treatment of married couples under the Social Security program and by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 384. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase wages for American workers. Sec. 385. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to deterring the migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Sec. 386. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to middle class tax relief. Sec. 387. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring proper economic consideration in designation of critical habitat. Sec. 388. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen the national do-not-call registry. Sec. 389. Deficit–neutral reserve fund to end too big to fail bailouts for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets). Sec. 390. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending Washington’s illegal exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Sec. 391. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Sec. 392. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to revise or repeal sequestration. Sec. 393. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sec. 394. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Sec. 395. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide equity in the tax treatment of public safety officer death benefits. Sec. 396. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits. Sec. 397. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication. Sec. 398. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming Offices of Inspectors General and preventing extended vacancies. Sec. 399. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving retirement security. Sec. 399a. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the competitiveness of the United States. Sec. 399b. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that the conservation of northern long-eared bat populations and local economic development are compatible. Sec. 399c. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve cybersecurity. Sec. 399d. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies. Sec. 399e. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies. Sec. 399f. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers. Sec. 399g. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans. Sec. 399h. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy. Sec. 399i. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing access to marijuana edibles by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana. Sec. 399j. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas. Sec. 399k. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers. Sec. 399l. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces. Sec. 399m. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program. Sec. 399n. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet. Sec. 399o. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support State drought prevention plans. Sec. 399p. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the reliability of the electricity grid. Sec. 399q. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to preserve and protect the open Internet. Sec. 399r. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming the Federal regulatory process. Sec. 399s. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program. Sec. 399t. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening waterborne commerce in our ports and harbors. Sec. 399u. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the modernization of the nuclear command, control, and communications architecture of the United States. Sec. 399v. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to BARDA and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund. Sec. 399w. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the nuclear forces and missions of the Air Force. Sec. 399x. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting economic growth and job creation for small businesses. Sec. 399y. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the definition of full-time employee. Sec. 399z. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process. Sec. 399aa. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite awards under the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program. Sec. 399bb. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities. Sec. 399cc. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department. Sec. 399dd. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions. Sec. 399ee. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the Corporation for National and Community Service. Sec. 399ff. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that Department of Justice attorneys comply with disclosure obligations in criminal prosecutions. Sec. 399gg. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote biomedical research. Sec. 399hh. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the heroin and methamphetamine abuse epidemic in the United States. Sec. 399ii. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing access to necessary equipment for Medicare beneficiaries. Sec. 399jj. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prioritizing the construction of infrastructure projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors. Sec. 399kk. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO. Sec. 399ll. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government. Sec. 399mm. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving higher education data and transparency. Sec. 399nn. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting programs funded by the Older Americans Act of 1965. Sec. 399oo. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Native children. Sec. 399pp. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the personal information of consumers from data breaches. Sec. 399qq. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for Government reform and efficiency. Sec. 399rr. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to medical treatment and compensation for first responders, survivors, and their families injured and made ill by the 9/11 attacks. Sec. 399ss. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to construction of Native American schools. Sec. 399tt. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing the guarantee threshold for the Surety Bond Guarantee Program. Sec. 399uu. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Indo-Pacific partner capacity building and strategy. Sec. 399vv. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to addressing methamphetamine abuse in the United States. Sec. 399ww. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the National Guard State Partnership Program. Sec. 399xx. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the prevention and treatment of agricultural virus outbreaks. Sec. 399yy. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the importance of financial literacy education to allow individuals to make informed and effective decisions with their financial resources. Sec. 399zz. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to comprehensive mental health reform. Sec. 399aaa. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving oral health care for children and pregnant women under Medicaid. Sec. 399bbb. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the National Park Service Centennial. Sec. 399ccc. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing college completion. Sec. 399ddd. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging freight planning and investment that incorporates all modes of transportation, including rail, waterways, ports, and highways. Sec. 399eee. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to providing for full funding for at-sea and dockside monitoring for certain fisheries. Sec. 399fff. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to training and resources for first responders responding to hazardous materials incidents on railroads. Sec. 399ggg. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to enhancing and improving the United States Patent and Trademark Office in order to reduce the application backlog. Sec. 399hhh. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to provide additional funding for international strategic communications. Sec. 399iii. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for elementary and secondary education. Sec. 399jjj. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to investing in rural and tribal water infrastructure. Sec. 399kkk. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to sexual assault at institutions of higher education. Sec. 399lll. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to simplifying and expanding tax incentives for higher education. Sec. 399mmm. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to authorizing children eligible for health care under laws administered by Secretary of Veterans Affairs to retain such eligibility until age 26. Sec. 399nnn. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting workforce development through apprenticeship programs. Sec. 399ooo. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the prioritization of broad-based criminal justice reform. Sec. 399ppp. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening the economy by accelerating the transfer of technologies from laboratories of the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to the marketplace. Sec. 399qqq. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting trade and travel at ports of entry. Sec. 399rrr. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption. Sec. 399sss. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming student loan programs. Sec. 399ttt. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the TIGER discretionary grant program of the Department of Transportation. Sec. 399uuu. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the use of college savings accounts. Sec. 399vvv. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to establishing a new outcome-based process for authorizing innovative higher education providers. Sec. 399www. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving community relations with law enforcement officers. Sec. 399xxx. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support research. Sec. 399yyy. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to support for Ukraine, which should include the provision of lethal defensive articles. Sec. 399zzz. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing funding to combat anti-Semitism in Europe. Sec. 399aaaa. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide students and families with transparent, easily understood postsecondary education financial aid information. Sec. 399bbbb. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing adequate funding for the Contract Tower Program of the Federal Aviation Administration. Sec. 399cccc. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to underground and surface mining safety and health research. Sec. 399dddd. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to investing in advanced fossil energy technology research and development. Sec. 399eeee. Deficit-neutral reserve funds relating to foreign persons. Sec. 399ffff. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to special treatment of the income tax credit for research expenditures for startup companies. TITLE IV—Budget process Subtitle A—Budget enforcement Sec. 401. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate. Sec. 402. Senate point of order against legislation increasing long-term deficits. Sec. 403. Point of order against advance appropriations. Sec. 404. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates. Sec. 405. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation. Sec. 406. Point of order against changes in mandatory programs. Sec. 407. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score. Sec. 408. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills. Sec. 409. Point of order against exceeding funds designated for overseas contingency operations. Sec. 410. Senate point of order against provisions of appropriations legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund. Sec. 411. Accuracy in budget enforcement. Sec. 412. Fair value estimates. Sec. 413. Honest accounting estimates. Sec. 414. Currency modernization. Sec. 415. Certain energy contracts. Sec. 416. Long-term scoring. Sec. 417. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits. Sec. 418. Reporting on tax expenditures. Sec. 419. Congressional Budget Office estimates. Sec. 420. To require transparent reporting on the ongoing costs and savings to taxpayers of Obamacare. Sec. 421. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset. Sec. 422. Adjustments for sequestration replacement. Sec. 423. To convey clear information to Congress and the public about projected Federal outlays, revenues, and deficits. Sec. 424. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding. Subtitle B—Other provisions Sec. 431. Oversight of Government performance. Sec. 432. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. Sec. 433. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. Sec. 434. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. Sec. 435. Exercise of rulemaking powers. I Recommended levels and amounts 101. Recommended levels and amounts The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2025: (1) Federal revenues For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution: (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,666,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,763,328,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,858,131,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $2,974,147,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,099,410,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,963,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,388,688,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,550,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,722,144,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,905,648,000,000. (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $0. Fiscal year 2017: $0. Fiscal year 2018: $0. Fiscal year 2019: $0. Fiscal year 2020: $0. Fiscal year 2021: $0. Fiscal year 2022: $0. Fiscal year 2023: $0. Fiscal year 2024: $0. Fiscal year 2025: $0. (2) New budget authority For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,003,274,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,894,221,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,958,672,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,107,799,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,228,534,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,337,729,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,455,558,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,525,594,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,624,025,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,646,263,000,000. (3) Budget outlays For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,037,267,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,928,317,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,945,067,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,080,929,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,185,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,308,296,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,449,532,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,497,247,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,576,890,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,614,976,000,000. (4) Deficits For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $370,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $164,989,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $86,936,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $106,782,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $86,102,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $66,333,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $60,844,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: –$53,141,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: –$145,254,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: –$290,672,000,000. (5) Public debt Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate levels of the public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $19,009,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $19,396,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $19,718,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $20,055,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $20,375,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $20,676,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $21,008,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $21,195,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $21,254,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $21,207,000,000,000. (6) Debt held by the public The appropriate levels of debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,799,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $14,042,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $14,222,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $14,445,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $14,674,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $14,912,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $15,230,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $15,419,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $15,500,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $15,538,000,000,000. (7) Federal tax expenditures The levels of Federal tax expenditures are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $1,481,800,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $1,593,500,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $1,670,800,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $1,738,019,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $1,810,158,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $1,890,648,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,973,922,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $2,064,520,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $2,160,235,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $2,261,769,000,000. 102. Social Security (a) Social Security Revenues For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of revenues of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $792,776,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $824,342,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $857,154,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $890,609,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $925,760,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $962,188,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,000,637,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $1,040,394,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $1,081,476,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $1,123,748,000,000. (b) Social Security Outlays For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $778,032,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $825,829,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $882,521,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $941,034,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $1,005,632,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $1,073,227,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,145,188,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $1,222,754,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $1,305,622,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $1,394,327,000,000. (c) Social Security Administrative Expenses In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for administrative expenses are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $5,026,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,089,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $5,175,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,190,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $5,345,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,316,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $5,518,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,487,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $5,699,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,668,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $5,881,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,849,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $6,072,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,039,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $6,266,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,232,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $6,462,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,428,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $6,665,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,630,000,000. 103. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Postal Service for discretionary administrative expenses are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $267,000,000. (B) Outlays, $266,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $277,000,000. (B) Outlays, $277,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $288,000,000. (B) Outlays, $288,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $299,000,000. (B) Outlays, $298,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $310,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $321,000,000. (B) Outlays, $320,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $334,000,000. (B) Outlays, $333,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $346,000,000. (B) Outlays, $345,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $358,000,000. (B) Outlays, $357,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $371,000,000. (B) Outlays, $370,000,000. 104. Major functional categories Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2016 through 2025 for each major functional category are: (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $620,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, $605,189,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $544,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $576,934,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $557,744,000,000. (B) Outlays, $558,049,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $571,019,000,000. (B) Outlays, $564,685,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $585,310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $573,614,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $599,627,000,000. (B) Outlays, $586,038,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $600,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $596,103,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $615,997,000,000. (B) Outlays, $603,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $631,771,000,000. (B) Outlays, $611,920,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $648,836,000,000. (B) Outlays, $632,992,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $47,791,000,000. (B) Outlays, $48,227,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $41,839,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,656,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $42,802,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,642,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $43,749,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,565,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $44,754,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $45,276,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,795,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $46,553,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,424,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $47,593,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,153,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $48,681,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,023,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $49,786,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,943,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $30,007,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,007,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $30,596,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,529,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $31,286,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,165,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $31,981,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $32,706,000,000. (B) Outlays, $32,400,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $33,433,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,022,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $34,192,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,756,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $34,953,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $35,745,000,000. (B) Outlays, $35,290,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $36,545,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,084,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, –$1,947,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,365,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $2,483,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,112,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $76,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$731,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $90,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$753,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $128,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$668,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $97,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$543,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $62,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$465,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $36,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$393,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $2,869,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,521,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $2,963,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,655,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $36,277,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,983,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,685,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,866,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $37,680,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,719,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $39,125,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,486,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $41,066,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,098,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $40,951,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,232,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $41,844,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,992,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $43,240,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,467,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $44,125,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,663,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $45,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,966,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $20,628,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,585,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $24,247,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,696,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $23,204,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,471,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $22,083,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,401,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $20,974,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,498,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $21,078,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,613,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $20,914,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,476,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $21,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $21,620,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,125,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $21,834,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,416,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $2,260,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$11,365,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, –$3,959,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$18,302,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, –$1,264,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,095,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, –$1,316,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$21,170,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $55,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$20,567,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, –$75,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$15,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $1,341,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$15,789,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $2,452,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$15,942,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $3,648,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $4,520,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,011,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $71,528,000,000. (B) Outlays, $88,436,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $72,392,000,000. (B) Outlays, $83,756,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $73,286,000,000. (B) Outlays, $80,329,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $74,077,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $74,826,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,935,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $75,549,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,708,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $76,221,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,973,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $76,840,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,228,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $77,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,123,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $78,208,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,426,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (450): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $17,414,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,351,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $18,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,002,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $18,606,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,457,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $18,862,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,314,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $18,870,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $18,771,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,474,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $18,782,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,323,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $18,861,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,747,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $18,975,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,313,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $19,140,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,384,000,000. (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services (500): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $86,251,000,000. (B) Outlays, $95,717,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $87,848,000,000. (B) Outlays, $92,889,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $90,703,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,534,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $89,535,000,000. (B) Outlays, $88,889,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $91,991,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,556,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $93,353,000,000. (B) Outlays, $93,315,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $94,970,000,000. (B) Outlays, $94,734,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $96,575,000,000. (B) Outlays, $96,383,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $98,439,000,000. (B) Outlays, $98,178,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $100,362,000,000. (B) Outlays, $100,129,000,000. (11) Health (550): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $414,351,000,000. (B) Outlays, $424,736,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $385,565,000,000. (B) Outlays, $389,710,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $388,629,000,000. (B) Outlays, $390,503,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $402,511,000,000. (B) Outlays, $403,324,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $425,526,000,000. (B) Outlays, $415,791,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $433,351,000,000. (B) Outlays, $433,395,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $452,426,000,000. (B) Outlays, $452,523,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $471,644,000,000. (B) Outlays, $471,719,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $489,491,000,000. (B) Outlays, $489,587,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $512,965,000,000. (B) Outlays, $513,163,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $567,213,000,000. (B) Outlays, $567,122,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $562,941,000,000. (B) Outlays, $562,881,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $562,143,000,000. (B) Outlays, $562,102,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $619,228,000,000. (B) Outlays, $619,148,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $657,658,000,000. (B) Outlays, $657,564,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $698,284,000,000. (B) Outlays, $698,188,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $776,034,000,000. (B) Outlays, $775,930,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $787,879,000,000. (B) Outlays, $787,681,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $797,075,000,000. (B) Outlays, $796,964,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $902,467,000,000. (B) Outlays, $902,349,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $529,494,000,000. (B) Outlays, $528,778,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $458,455,000,000. (B) Outlays, $455,293,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $466,015,000,000. (B) Outlays, $458,848,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $460,943,000,000. (B) Outlays, $457,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $471,826,000,000. (B) Outlays, $467,468,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $481,804,000,000. (B) Outlays, $477,132,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $493,877,000,000. (B) Outlays, $493,223,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $502,550,000,000. (B) Outlays, $498,468,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $512,932,000,000. (B) Outlays, $504,310,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $521,641,000,000. (B) Outlays, $517,044,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $33,878,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,919,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,535,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,407,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $42,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,634,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $46,104,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,104,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $49,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $53,547,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $57,455,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,455,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $61,546,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,546,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $65,751,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,751,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $166,708,000,000. (B) Outlays, $170,152,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,905,000,000. (B) Outlays, $164,449,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $163,101,000,000. (B) Outlays, $162,477,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $174,989,000,000. (B) Outlays, $174,175,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $179,899,000,000. (B) Outlays, $178,942,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $184,172,000,000. (B) Outlays, $183,222,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $196,530,000,000. (B) Outlays, $195,502,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $193,156,000,000. (B) Outlays, $192,124,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $189,999,000,000. (B) Outlays, $188,884,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $203,895,000,000. (B) Outlays, $202,761,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $52,543,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,757,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $57,030,000,000. (B) Outlays, $58,576,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $56,787,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,929,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $58,512,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,973,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $60,284,000,000. (B) Outlays, $59,888,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $62,239,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,690,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $64,815,000,000. (B) Outlays, $64,224,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $66,745,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,238,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $68,717,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,091,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $70,550,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,922,000,000. (17) General Government (800): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $23,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,708,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $24,046,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,958,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $24,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,573,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $25,485,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,089,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $26,202,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,782,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $26,958,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,551,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $27,766,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,375,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $28,493,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,114,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $29,022,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,671,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $29,809,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,399,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $366,579,000,000. (B) Outlays, $366,579,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $415,132,000,000. (B) Outlays, $415,132,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $478,693,000,000. (B) Outlays, $478,693,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $532,670,000,000. (B) Outlays, $532,670,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $580,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, $580,522,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $614,725,000,000. (B) Outlays, $614,725,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $645,841,000,000. (B) Outlays, $645,841,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $671,301,000,000. (B) Outlays, $671,301,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $690,987,000,000. (B) Outlays, $690,987,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $703,419,000,000. (B) Outlays, $703,419,000,000. (19) Allowances (920): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, –$12,322,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$5,571,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $12,975,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,923,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, –$10,750,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$14,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, –$15,199,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$16,838,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, –$46,590,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$44,799,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, –$54,803,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$51,787,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, –$98,454,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$80,798,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, –$112,036,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$101,438,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, –$90,119,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$83,225,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, –$250,580,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$234,419,000,000. (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, –$69,397,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$69,408,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, –$78,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$78,278,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, –$84,231,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$84,250,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, –$83,179,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$83,200,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, –$83,577,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$83,600,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, –$86,773,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$86,798,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, –$92,337,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$92,362,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, –$99,646,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$99,672,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, –$109,004,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$109,030,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, –$121,370,000,000. (B) Outlays, –$121,397,000,000. II Reconciliation 201. Reconciliation in the Senate (a) Committee on finance The Committee on Finance of the Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (b) Committee on health, education, labor and pensions The Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (c) Submissions In the Senate, not later than July 31, 2015, the Senate Committees named in subsections (a) and (b) shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. Upon receiving all such recommendations, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall report to the Senate a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. 202. Limit on Senate consideration of reconciliation (a) Point of order It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a bill or joint resolution reported pursuant to section 201, or an amendment to, conference report on, or amendment between the Houses in relation to such a bill or joint resolution, which would increase the public debt limit under section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, during the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (b) Waiver This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (c) Appeals An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on the point of order raised under this section. III Reserve funds 301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) growing the economy; (2) creating more private sector jobs and enhancing worker rights such as Davis-Bacon reform and card check; (3) lowering the after-tax costs of investment, savings, and work; (4) reducing the costs to business and individuals from the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (5) reducing the costs borne by economic activity in the United States stemming from Federal regulations, including the costs incurred by individuals in complying with Federal law when starting a business; (6) reducing the costs of frivolous lawsuits; (7) creating a more competitive financial sector to support economic growth and job creation while enhancing the credit worthiness of lending institutions; or (8) improving the ability of policy makers to estimate the economic effects of policy change through the enhanced use of economic models and data in scoring legislation; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to enhanced funding for national security or domestic discretionary programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable healthcare choices for all The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) the full repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 119) and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ; 124 Stat. 1029); or (2) the replacing or reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 119) or the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ; 124 Stat. 1029); by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the Children's Health Insurance Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving access to affordable health care for low-income children, including the Children’s Health Insurance Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) the requirement to individually purchase, or jointly provide, health insurance; (2) increasing payments under, or permanently reforming or replacing, Medicare payments for providers; (3) extending expiring health care provisions; (4) the health care needs of first responders to domestic acts of terror; (5) improvements in medical research, innovation and safety; or (6) strengthening program integrity initiatives to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal health care programs; by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 306. Spending-neutral reserve fund for child welfare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) child nutrition programs; (2) replacing ineffective policies and programs with evidence-based alternative that improve the welfare of vulnerable children; or (3) policies that protect children from sexual predators in our schools or communities; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the improvement of the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers, including: (1) eligibility for both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation (concurrent receipt); (2) the reduction or elimination of the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and Veterans' Dependency and Indemnity Compensation; (3) the improvement of disability benefits or the process of evaluating and adjudicating benefit claims for members of the Armed Forces or veterans, including the growing backlog of appeals of decisions regarding claims for disability compensation; (4) the infrastructure needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including constructing or leasing space, to include leases of major medical facilities, and maintenance of Department facilities; (5) supporting the transition of servicemembers to the civilian workforce, including by expanding or improving education, job training, and workforce development benefits, or other programs for servicemembers or veterans, which may include streamlining the process associated with Federal and State credentialing requirements; (6) vocational programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which may include legislation that improves vocational rehabilitation and counseling for veterans with service-connected disabilities and members of the Armed Forces with severe injuries or illness; (7) improving research at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which may include legislation that expands research on post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, or toxic exposures; (8) improving the delivery of health care and benefits to veterans or members of the Armed Forces, which may include legislation that improves delivery of health care and benefits to victims of military sexual trauma; (9) improving the delivery of care and benefits to veterans, which may include legislation that enhances oversight and investigations by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General; (10) maintaining and enhancing access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–146 ); (11) improving access to and reducing wait times for Department of Veterans Affairs health care, including through hiring medical providers, and improving the quality of such care; (12) providing or improving specialty services, including mental health care, homeless services, gender specific health care, fertility treatment, and support for caregivers; or (13) improving outreach, access, and services for rural veterans; by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reforming the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (2) amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring tax relief provisions; (3) innovation and high quality manufacturing jobs, including the repeal of the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device manufacturers; or (4) operations and administration of the Department of the Treasury, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States, including programs that expedite the deployment of broadband to rural areas, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation shall not include transfers from other trust funds but may include transfers from the general fund of the Treasury that are offset, provided further that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal spending on civil air traffic control services, which may include air traffic management at airport towers across the United States or at facilities of the Federal Aviation Administration, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) suspending or reducing tariffs on miscellaneous imports; (2) reauthorization of trade related Federal agencies; (3) implementing international trade agreements; (4) reauthorizing or extending trade adjustment assistance programs; (5) reauthorizing preference programs; or (6) enhancing the protection of United States intellectual property rights at the border and abroad; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the administration of disability benefits and the improved employment of disabled workers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports that amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ) by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reform of the management of civilian and defense nuclear waste; (2) reform and reauthorization of programs at the Department of Energy related to research and development of alternative or renewable forms of energy, fossil fuel exploration and use, nuclear energy, or the electricity grid; (3) expansion of North American energy production; or (4) reform of the permitting and siting processes for energy infrastructure; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reform of environmental statutes to promote job growth by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving flood control, expanding opportunities for commercial navigation, and improving the environmental restoration of the nation’s waterways without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reducing reliance on mineral imports; or (2) the authority to deduct certain amounts from mineral revenues payable to States; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq. ) without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) increasing timber production from Federal lands and providing bridge funding to counties and other units of local government until timber production levels increase; (2) decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads; (3) improving stewardship contracting; or (4) reform of the process of budgeting for wildfire suppression operations; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT), which may include funding the payments in lieu of taxes program at levels roughly equivalent to lost tax revenues due to the presence of Federal land without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to regulatory relief for small financial firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the processing of earnings reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the implementation of agreements between the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free Association without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals and creating sustainable access for rural communities, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging State Medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision of services under Medicare, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting and improving community health centers, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for export promotion The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting exports, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase total deficits over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 330. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reforms, improvements, and enhancements of 529 college savings plans, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to achieve savings by helping struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to welfare legislation to help struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 333. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to conserving Federal land, enhancing access to Federal land for recreational opportunities, and making investments in counties and schools The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal programs for land and water conservation and acquisition or the preservation, restoration, or protection of public land, oceans, coastal areas, or aquatic ecosystems, making changes to or providing for the reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 ( 16 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. ), making changes to or providing for the reauthorization of the payments in lieu of taxes program under chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, or making changes to or providing for the reauthorization of both laws, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 334. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect taxpayers from identity fraud The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to changes at the Internal Revenue Service, which may include establishing a process by which taxpayers may (1) receive notification of tax scams and (2) determine whether a return may have been filed using their personal information, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to career and technical education The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to career and technical education, which may include work- or skills-based learning opportunities or which creates rigorous career and technical education curricula in schools, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to FEMA preparedness The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to enhancing the preparedness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to disasters, which may include those on land and in the oceans caused or exacerbated by human-induced climate change, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote the next generation of NIH researchers in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to policies and programs that improve opportunities for new biomedical researchers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in the United States, which may include educational or research and development initiatives, public-private partnerships, or other programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 340. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to benefits for aliens without legal status in the United States, which may include prohibiting qualification for certain tax benefits without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 341. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating that achieve savings through the elimination, modification, or the reduction in frequency of congressionally mandated reports from Federal agencies, and reduce the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. The Chairman may also make adjustments to the Senate’s pay-as-you-go ledger over 6 and 11 years to ensure that the deficit reduction achieved is used for deficit reduction only. The adjustments authorized under this section shall be of the amount of deficit reduction achieved. 342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin and prescription opioid abuse The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening our civilian workforce, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of either the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving Department of Defense financial management, which may include achieving full auditability or eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reducing inefficient overlap, improving access, and enhancing outcomes with Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase total deficits over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) energy efficiency, which may include weatherization and energy efficiency retrofit programs for low-income individuals; (2) the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which may include seasonal assistance, crisis fuel assistance, or other assistance to low-income individuals; (3) Federal programs for land and water conservation, including the Land and Water Conservation Fund; or (4) the reduction of duplicative Federal green building programs; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 347. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to enable greater collaboration between the Department of Veterans Affairs and law school clinics serving veterans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Department of Veterans Affairs collaboration with law school clinics serving veterans, which may include legislation that supports law school clinics that provide veterans with pro-bono legal support and assistance assembling benefits claims, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 to 2025. 348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase funding for Department of Energy nuclear waste cleanup The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to Federal investments in the Office of Environmental Management, which may include measures to meet the Federal Government's legacy responsibilities for cleanup of liquid radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic and mixed/low-level waste, or contaminated soil and water, and which may also include measures deactivating and decommissioning excess facilities at 16 nuclear waste sites created by the Manhattan Project and Cold War programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical department infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one of more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Department of Defense initiatives to bolster resilience of mission-critical Department infrastructure to impacts from climate change and associated events, including sea-level rise, flooding, and increased storm surge, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Department of Justice, which may include ending of the Operation Choke Point program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to a prohibition, except in the case of Federal assistance provided in response to a natural disaster, on any entity of the Federal Government from providing funds to State and local governments to prevent receivership or to facilitate exit from receivership or to prevent default on its obligations by a State government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 352. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicaid beneficiaries from benefit cuts The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Medicaid, which may include protecting children, pregnant women, individuals with disabilities, low-income adults, and Americans that need long-term services and supports, including nursing home care, who are guaranteed benefits under Medicaid, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 353. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve health outcomes and lower the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the health outcomes and lowering the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid, which may include creating or expanding integrated delivery models or improving care coordination, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 354. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect and strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs, hire more health care professionals for the Department, and ensure quality and timely access to health care for all veterans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which may include legislation that strengthens quality and timely access to health care by hiring more health care professionals at facilities of the Department and making necessary improvements to infrastructure of the Department, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 355. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to maintain and enhance access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to maintaining and enhancing access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 356. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting equal pay, which may include preventing discrimination on the basis of sex and preventing retaliation against employees for seeking or discussing wage information, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 357. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect and strengthen Social Security The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect current beneficiaries of the Social Security program and prevent the insolvency of the program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 358. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to addressing student loan debt, which may include reducing overlapping student loan repayment programs and creating a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 359. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the protection of clean water using scientific standards while maintaining the traditional role of agriculture The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting watersheds, including the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, the Mississippi River system, the Colorado River system, or other sources of drinking water of the United States, which may include clarifying the scope of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. ) to provide certainty for landowners or rural communities, or preserving existing exemptions for agriculture, ranching, or forestry, or to rely on the scientific evidence of impacts on water quality of different types of water bodies by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 360. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal Water Pollution Control Act focused on the protection of water quality The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that Federal jurisdiction under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. ) is focused on water quality, which may include limiting jurisdiction based on the movement of birds, mammals, or insects through the air or over the land, the movement of water through the ground, or the movement of rainwater or snowmelt over the land, or limiting jurisdiction over puddles, isolated ponds, roadside ditches, irrigation ditches, stormwater systems, wastewater systems, or water delivery, reuse, or reclamation systems, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 361. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to saving Medicare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to extending the life of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which may include the creation of a point of order against legislation that accelerates the insolvency of such Trust Fund, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 362. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Israel The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to United States policy toward Israel, which may include preventing the United Nations and other international institutions from taking unfair or discriminatory action against Israel, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 363. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation to allow Americans to earn paid sick time The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to efforts to improve workplace benefits and reduce health care costs, which may include measures to allow Americans to earn paid sick time to address their own health needs and the health needs of their families, and to promote equal employment opportunities, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 364. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to care The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing health care to veterans who reside more than 40 miles driving distance from the closest medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs that provides the care sought by the veteran, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 365. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program, which may include allowing for 1 or more additional payment periods during the same award year, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 366. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to consumer price transparency The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increased disclosure of any Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) taxes or other provisions in health insurance monthly premium statements, including advance premium tax credits, cost sharing reductions, medical loss ratio rebates and savings, free preventive care, coverage of preexisting conditions and prohibitions on premium rating because of gender, the cost of insurance company administrative expenses, and taxes and fees, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 367. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to transparency in health premium billing The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increased disclosure of any Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) tax in health insurance monthly premium statements, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 368. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to carbon emissions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to carbon emissions, which may include prohibitions on Federal taxes or fees imposed on carbon emissions from any product or entity that is a direct or indirect source of emissions, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 369. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to requiring the Federal Government to allow states to opt out of Common Core without penalty The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to prohibiting the Federal Government from mandating, incentivizing, or coercing States to adopt the Common Core State Standards or any other specific academic standards, instructional content, curricula, assessments, or programs of instruction and allowing States to opt out of the Common Core State Standards without penalty, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 370. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to small business tax relief The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to small business tax relief, which may include a permanent increase of the section 179 small business expensing allowance to $1,000,000 or an increase in the investment limitation to $2,500,000, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 371. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of certain Federal land The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to initiatives to sell or transfer to, or exchange with, a State or local government any Federal land that is not within the boundaries of a National Park, National Preserve, or National Monument, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 372. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding of international organizations during the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to funding, which may include prohibiting funding for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat or any international organizations created to support the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 373. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reimposing waived sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Iran for violations of the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive nuclear agreement The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Iran, which may include efforts to immediately reimpose waived sanctions and impose new sanctions against the Government of Iran if the President cannot make a determination and certify that Iran is complying with the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 374. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981 The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 375. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to efforts to increase employment opportunities and prevent employment discrimination, which may include measures to prevent employment discrimination against pregnant workers, to provide pregnant workers with a right to workplace accommodations, and to ensure that employers comply with requirements regarding such workplace accommodations for pregnant workers, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 376. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the Federal estate tax The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to changes in the Federal income tax laws, which may include eliminating the Federal estate tax, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 377. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to addressing climate change The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting national security, economic growth, and public health by addressing human-induced climate change through increased use of clean energy, energy efficiency, and reductions in carbon pollution by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 378. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions, which may include a prohibition on withholding highway funds from States that refuse to submit State Implementation Plans required under the Clean Power Plan of the Agency, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 379. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately held water rights and permits The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting communities, businesses, recreationists, farmers, ranchers, or other groups that rely on privately held water rights and permits from Federal takings by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 380. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting awarding of construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to a prohibition on the awarding of construction contracts on behalf of the Government based upon any solicitations, bid specifications, project agreements, or other controlling documents, that require or prohibit bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to enter into or adhere to agreements with one or more labor organizations or discriminate against or give preference to such bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors based on their entering or refusing to enter into such agreements by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 381. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening the United States Postal Service The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening the United States Postal Service, which may include imposing a moratorium to prevent mail processing plants from closing, reestablishing overnight delivery standards, recognizing the importance of rural delivery, allowing the Postal Service to innovate and adapt to compete in a digital age, or improving the financial condition of the Postal Service by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 382. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent American jobs from being moved overseas by reducing the corporate income tax rate The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to preventing American jobs from being moved overseas, which may include a reduction in the corporate income tax rate, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 383. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring equal treatment of married couples under the Social Security program and by the Department of Veterans Affairs The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring equal treatment of married couples, which may include ensuring that all legally married spouses have access to Social Security benefits after the death of their spouse and to benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 384. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase wages for American workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reaffirming the ability of States to adopt minimum wages higher than the Federal minimum wage level commensurate with the cost of living in the State, which may include the adoption of pro-employment and wage-increasing policies by providing pro-growth tax relief and eliminating excessive government mandates, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 385. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to deterring the migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to deterring the attempted migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras into the United States, which may include the expedited removal of unlawful entrants from noncontiguous countries, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 386. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to middle class tax relief The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to extending and expanding refundable tax provisions that benefit working families, childless workers, and the middle class, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 387. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring proper economic consideration in designation of critical habitat The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to critical habitat designations, which may include requirements that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service examine the cumulative economic effects of the designation, such as on land or property uses or values, regional employment, or revenue impacts on States and units of local government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 388. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen the national do-not-call registry The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to compliance with the national do-not-call registry, which may include adjusting or increasing fines, providing flexibility for the relevant regulatory agency, or modifying the conditions of the safe harbor provisions, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 389. Deficit–neutral reserve fund to end too big to fail bailouts for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets) The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to any bank holding companies with over $500,000,000,000 in total assets to better protect taxpayers, including such measures as capital or leverage requirements, restrictions on the growth, activities, or operations of a company, or divestiture of assets or operations of any company that is unable to present a credible plan to facilitate an orderly bankruptcy or resolution, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 390. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending Washington’s illegal exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to developing methods that ensure that all Members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and all political appointees of the Administration procure their health insurance on the individual exchange in the same way as Americans at the same income level, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 391. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increasing funding for United States embassies, which may include the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 392. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to revise or repeal sequestration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports that amend section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 or the enforcement procedures under section 251A of that Act to revise or repeal the discretionary spending limits and enforcement procedures established under those sections, relating to providing relief from sequestration and the reduction in discretionary spending limits for fiscal years 2016 and 2017, split evenly between both the revised security category and the revised nonsecurity category, and offsetting such relief through targeted changes in mandatory or discretionary spending programs (not pertaining to Social Security) and tax expenditures by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. For purposes of determining deficit-neutrality under this section, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may include the estimated effects of any amendment or amendments to the discretionary spending limits. 393. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 394. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 395. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide equity in the tax treatment of public safety officer death benefits The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing tax equity for death benefits paid to the families of public safety officers who lose their lives in the line of duty, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 396. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits, which may include auditing the hidden backlog of untested sexual assault kits and ensuring that the collection and processing of DNA evidence by law enforcement agencies from crimes is carried out in an appropriate and timely manner, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 397. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 398. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming Offices of Inspectors General and preventing extended vacancies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening and reforming Federal Offices of Inspectors General, reducing vacancies in such Offices, and providing for improvements in the overall economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Inspectors General by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving retirement security The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving retirement security by making it easier for small businesses to provide retirement plans for their employees by easing the administrative burden and by encouraging individuals to increase their savings by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399a. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the competitiveness of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving basic science research and development programs in the United States by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399b. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that the conservation of northern long-eared bat populations and local economic development are compatible The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. ), which may include requirements that State conservation plans relating to the northern long-eared bat are given maximum flexibility to be successful so as to preserve and protect local and rural economies before any Federal listing decision is made with respect to the northern long-eared bat, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399c. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve cybersecurity The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increased sharing of cybersecurity threat information while protecting individual privacy and civil liberties interests, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399d. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation entering into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399e. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies, which may include encouraging Federal agencies to utilize office space unused by the Federal Government before purchasing or renting additional space, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399f. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399g. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399h. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing funding related to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399i. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing access to marijuana edibles by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to preventing access to edible marijuana products by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399j. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399k. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399l. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399m. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Small Business Investment Company Program of the Small Business Administration, which may include raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399n. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to online child sex trafficking, which may include the detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399o. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support State drought prevention plans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to assisting the States in carrying out drought prevention plans by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399p. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the reliability of the electricity grid The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to prohibiting the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or issuing any regulation that would reduce the reliability of the electricity grid by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399q. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to preserve and protect the open Internet The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting the open Internet and promoting further innovation and investment in Internet services, content, infrastructure, and technologies by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399r. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming the Federal regulatory process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) creating an effective mechanism for the review of the existing Federal regulatory burden to identify rules for repeal or modification that— (A) impose paperwork burdens that could be reduced substantially without significantly diminishing regulatory effectiveness; (B) impose disproportionately high costs on small businesses; (C) could be strengthened in their effectiveness while reducing regulatory costs; (D) have been rendered obsolete by technological or market changes; (E) have achieved their goals and can be repealed without target problems recurring; (F) impose the greatest opportunity costs in terms of economic growth; (G) are ineffective; (H) overlap, duplicate, or conflict with other Federal regulations or with State or local regulations; or (I) impose costs that are not justified by benefits produced for society within the United States; (2) reforming the process by which new regulations are made by Federal agencies, including independent agencies, for the purposes of— (A) prioritizing early public outreach in the rulemaking process; (B) ensuring the use of the best available scientific, economic, and technical data; (C) preventing the misuse of guidance documents to skirt public input; (D) ensuring the use of best practices for regulatory analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, into each step of the rulemaking process; (E) facilitating the adoption by Federal agencies of the least costly regulatory alternative that would achieve the goals of the statutory authorization; (F) ensuring more careful consideration of proposed high-cost rules; (G) ensuring effective oversight of the Federal regulatory program, including independent regulatory commissions, by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; (H) improving the consideration of adverse impacts on small businesses; (I) providing greater transparency in the rulemaking process; and (J) improving compliance with section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 ( Public Law 106–554 ; 114 Stat. 2736A–153) (commonly known as the Information Quality Act ), the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 ( 2 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. ), and chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Regulatory Flexibility Act ); (3) enhancing accountability by facilitating fair and effective judicial review of agency actions; and (4) ensuring that Congress can effectively exercise its appropriate role in the regulatory process through legislation and oversight; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399s. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399t. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening waterborne commerce in our ports and harbors The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening waterborne commerce in our ports and harbors, which may include increasing the amounts expended from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund that are dedicated to port infrastructure and maintenance in accordance with section 2101(b) of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–121 ), by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 and the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399u. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the modernization of the nuclear command, control, and communications architecture of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to modernizing the triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems, the nuclear command and control system, and the nuclear weapons stockpile, and supporting related infrastructure, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399v. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to BARDA and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening our national security, which may include fully funding the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399w. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the nuclear forces and missions of the Air Force The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the nuclear force improvement program of the Air Force by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399x. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting economic growth and job creation for small businesses The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting economic growth and job creation by making it easier for small businesses to plan their capital investments and reducing the uncertainty of taxation by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399y. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the definition of full-time employee The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to the employer penalties under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ), which may include changes to the definition of full time employee under that Act, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399z. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399aa. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite awards under the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the processing of award submissions, which may include the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399bb. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399cc. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399dd. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to alleviating disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ee. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the Corporation for National and Community Service The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Corporation for National and Community Service, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ff. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that Department of Justice attorneys comply with disclosure obligations in criminal prosecutions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that all Department of Justice attorneys comply with all legal and ethical obligations in criminal prosecutions, which may include legislation that ensures the disclosure to the defendant in a timely manner of all information known to the Government that tends to negate the guilt of the defendant, mitigate the offense charged or the sentence imposed, or impeach the Government’s witnesses or evidence, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399gg. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote biomedical research The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investments in precision medicine and biomedical research, which may include increasing funding to account for inflation, to support finding ways to prevent, treat, and cure diseases or conditions like Alzheimer’s and other life-threatening or chronic illnesses, and to provide long-term cost savings to the Federal Government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399hh. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the heroin and methamphetamine abuse epidemic in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to expanding efforts to combat heroin and methamphetamine abuse in the United States without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ii. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing access to necessary equipment for Medicare beneficiaries The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to developing methods that ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have access to equipment like eye tracking accessories for speech generating devices and speech generating devices by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399jj. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prioritizing the construction of infrastructure projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the prioritization of the Federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States on projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors of the National Highway System by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399kk. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ll. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the investigation and to the extent practicable the recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government to ensure that such items are not in the possession of or used by radical extremist groups operating in the country by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399mm. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving higher education data and transparency The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving higher education data and transparency, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399nn. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting programs funded by the Older Americans Act of 1965 The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965, which may include supporting congregate and home-delivered meals programs, or other programs of assistance to low-income older individuals, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399oo. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Native children The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Native children, which may include establishing a commission to examine existing Federal programs to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of services delivered to Native children to improve outcomes, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399pp. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the personal information of consumers from data breaches The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating protecting the personal information of consumers from data breaches, which may include providing notification to affected consumers or enhancing data security programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399qq. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for Government reform and efficiency The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to achieving savings through the use of performance data or scientifically rigorous evaluation methodologies for the elimination, consolidation, or reform of Federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives, or the sale of Federal property, and reduce the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. The Chairman may also make adjustments to the Senate’s pay-as-you-go ledger over 6 and 11 years to ensure that the deficit reduction achieved is used for deficit reduction only. The adjustments authorized under this section shall be of the amount of deficit reduction achieved. 399rr. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to medical treatment and compensation for first responders, survivors, and their families injured and made ill by the 9/11 attacks The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the September 11th terrorism attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the Shanksville Crash site, which may include legislation that extends medical monitoring and treatment services and compensation for first responders, survivors, and their families, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ss. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to construction of Native American schools The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to construction of Native American schools, which may include replacement school construction that replaces the entirety or majority of a school campus or replacement facility construction that replaces individual buildings that are beyond cost-effective repair measures, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399tt. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing the guarantee threshold for the Surety Bond Guarantee Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Surety Bond Guarantee Program of the Small Business Administration, which may include exploring or raising the range for surety bonds, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399uu. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Indo-Pacific partner capacity building and strategy The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting a comprehensive multi-year partner capacity building and security cooperation plan in the Indo-Pacific region, including for a regional maritime domain awareness architecture and for bilateral and multilateral exercises, port calls, and training activities of the United States Armed Forces and Coast Guard to further a comprehensive strategy to strengthen United States alliances and partnerships, freedom of navigation, and the unimpeded access to the maritime commons of the Asia-Pacific by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399vv. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to addressing methamphetamine abuse in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to addressing methamphetamine abuse in the United States, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ww. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the National Guard State Partnership Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to achieving theatre security cooperation goals, which may include funding for the National Guard State Partnership Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399xx. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the prevention and treatment of agricultural virus outbreaks The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the improvement of prevention and treatment measures to mitigate agricultural impacts from an agricultural virus outbreak, such as the impacts seen from the avian influenza outbreak, which may include investments in vaccine development or research in pathway analysis, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399yy. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the importance of financial literacy education to allow individuals to make informed and effective decisions with their financial resources The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to financial literacy education, which may include improvements to financial literacy education curricula in schools or which may improve the capacity of teachers to provide effective financial literacy education, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399zz. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to comprehensive mental health reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to comprehensive mental health reform, which may include legislation that provides increased access to individuals suffering from mental illness and greater workforce opportunities for mental health professionals, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399aaa. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving oral health care for children and pregnant women under Medicaid The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to initiatives that would improve oral health care for children and pregnant women under the Medicaid program by the amounts provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399bbb. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the National Park Service Centennial The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the protection, preservation, or restoration of the National Park System, which may include a National Park Centennial Fund or other dedicated funding, for infrastructure or natural, cultural, or historic resource preservation and programs in units of the National Park System, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ccc. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing college completion The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increasing college completion, which may include expanding Federal Pell Grant eligibility by allowing college students to use Federal Pell Grants for more than 2 semesters in an academic year by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ddd. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging freight planning and investment that incorporates all modes of transportation, including rail, waterways, ports, and highways The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports to encourage freight planning and investment that incorporates all modes of transportation including rail, waterways, ports and highways, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399eee. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to providing for full funding for at-sea and dockside monitoring for certain fisheries The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to supporting at-sea and dockside monitoring for fisheries that have received economic disaster assistance by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399fff. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to training and resources for first responders responding to hazardous materials incidents on railroads The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the establishment of a public-private partnership tasked with reviewing training and funding allocations for first responders responding to hazardous materials incidents on railroads, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ggg. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to enhancing and improving the United States Patent and Trademark Office in order to reduce the application backlog The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to enhancing and improving the United States Patent and Trademark Office in order to reduce the patent application backlog by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399hhh. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to provide additional funding for international strategic communications The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to funding for international counter-propaganda communications in order to combat misinformation, undermine ideologies of violence and hatred, and ensure moderate voices are heard, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399iii. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for elementary and secondary education The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reforming and strengthening elementary and secondary education by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399jjj. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to investing in rural and tribal water infrastructure The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to designate funds for water projects, which may include authorized rural water projects or tribal water rights settlements or irrigation projects, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399kkk. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to sexual assault at institutions of higher education The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to sexual assault at institutions of higher education, which may include the implementation of an independent and standardized online survey tool developed and administered by the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Justice, to measure the prevalence of sexual assault at institutions of higher education, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399lll. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to simplifying and expanding tax incentives for higher education The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to simplifying and expanding tax incentives for higher education to boost student attendance and completion at colleges and vocational schools, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399mmm. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to authorizing children eligible for health care under laws administered by Secretary of Veterans Affairs to retain such eligibility until age 26 The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting children who are eligible to receive health care furnished under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, including by allowing such children to retain such eligibility until age 26, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399nnn. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting workforce development through apprenticeship programs The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increasing funds for programs that support workforce development through apprenticeships, and providing additional funds to the Office of Apprenticeship of the Department of Labor to expand apprenticeship programs nationally, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ooo. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the prioritization of broad-based criminal justice reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to broad-based criminal justice reform by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ppp. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to strengthening the economy by accelerating the transfer of technologies from laboratories of the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to the marketplace The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening the economy by accelerating the transfer of technologies from laboratories of the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to the marketplace by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399qqq. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting trade and travel at ports of entry The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting trade and travel at ports of entry, which may include construction at ports of entry or increased staffing at ports of entry, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 and the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399rrr. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399sss. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming student loan programs The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to student loan reform, which may include establishing a policy of risk-sharing to require institutions of higher education to assume some of the risk for student loans by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ttt. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the TIGER discretionary grant program of the Department of Transportation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investments in the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) discretionary grant program by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399uuu. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the use of college savings accounts The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting the use of college savings accounts while students are in elementary school and secondary school, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399vvv. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to establishing a new outcome-based process for authorizing innovative higher education providers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting innovation in higher education, which may include establishing a new outcome-based process for authorizing innovative higher education providers to participate in programs under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq. ), by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399www. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving community relations with law enforcement officers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to community policing, which may include increasing the number of law enforcement officers who walk patrols that enable them to interact and build relationships with community members, increasing and improving training for law enforcement officers, encouraging the responsible and carefully considered use of body cameras and their recordings by law enforcement officers, encouraging law enforcement to de-escalate confrontations whenever feasible, and ensuring that prosecutions of law enforcement officers are fair and impartial, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399xxx. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support research The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investments in scientific research and development, which may include supporting biomedical research to find ways to prevent, treat, and cure diseases or conditions like Alzheimer’s and other life-threatening or chronic illnesses, providing long-term cost savings to the Federal Government, and supporting national security, basic energy research, innovative solutions, and American competitiveness, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399yyy. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to support for Ukraine, which should include the provision of lethal defensive articles The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing funding to support the Government of Ukraine in reestablishing its sovereignty and territorial integrity, which should include the provision of lethal defensive articles, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399zzz. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing funding to combat anti-Semitism in Europe The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing funding for programs to counter anti-Semitic activity in Europe, which may include efforts to empower civil society, including diverse religious and ethnic groups, civil and human rights organizations, and the business community, to fight anti-Semitism and discrimination and convening regular consultations with Jewish community organizations and non-Jewish civil and human rights organizations to demonstrate visible support, listen to concerns, and solicit recommendations on improving security and supporting victims, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399aaaa. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide students and families with transparent, easily understood postsecondary education financial aid information The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing students and families with transparent, easily understood information about postsecondary education financial aid by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399bbbb. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing adequate funding for the Contract Tower Program of the Federal Aviation Administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing full and dedicated funding for the Contract Tower Program of the Federal Aviation Administration by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399cccc. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to underground and surface mining safety and health research The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to underground and surface mining safety and health research by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399dddd. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to investing in advanced fossil energy technology research and development The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to investing in advanced fossil energy technology research and development at the Department of Energy, to reduce the impacts of climate change while ensuring the reliability of the electric grid, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399eeee. Deficit-neutral reserve funds relating to foreign persons (a) Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to imposing sanctions with respect to foreign persons responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights or significant acts of corruption by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (b) Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to interagency cooperation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to interagency cooperation, which may include expedited interagency cooperation to identify foreign nationals subject to sanctions under title IV of the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 ( Public Law 112–208 ), by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 399ffff. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to special treatment of the income tax credit for research expenditures for startup companies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to special treatment of the income tax credit for research expenditures for startup companies by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. IV Budget process A Budget enforcement 401. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate (a) Extension of Congressional Budget Act of 1974 points of order (1) In general Notwithstanding any provision of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ), subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3) of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 note) shall remain in effect for purposes of Senate enforcement through September 30, 2025. (2) Repeal In the Senate, section 205 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply. (b) Other points of order (1) Pay-As-You-Go Section 201(d) of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, is repealed. (2) Increasing short-term deficit Section 404(e) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010, is repealed. 402. Senate point of order against legislation increasing long-term deficits (a) Congressional budget office analysis of proposals The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare for each bill and joint resolution reported from committee (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations), and amendments thereto, amendments between the Houses in relation thereto, and conference reports thereon, an estimate of whether the measure would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget. (b) Point of order It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods described in subsection (a). (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal in the senate (1) Waiver Subsection (b) may be waived or suspended only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (b). (d) Limitation The provisions of this section shall not apply to any bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, amendment between the Houses, or conference reports for which the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in this resolution pursuant to section 303(1). (e) Determinations of budget levels For purposes of this section, the levels of net deficit increases shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (f) Repeal In the Senate, section 311 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. 403. Point of order against advance appropriations (a) In general (1) Point of order Except as provided in subsection (b), it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would provide an advance appropriation for a discretionary account. (2) Definition In this section, the term advance appropriation means any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2016, or any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2017. (b) Exceptions Advance appropriations may be provided— (1) for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution under the heading Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority in each year; (2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and (3) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a). (d) Form of point of order A point of order under subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 644(e) ). (e) Conference reports When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 404. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 425(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 658d(a) ) shall be subject to the waiver and appeal requirements of subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3), respectively, of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 note). 405. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation Section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply in the Senate. 406. Point of order against changes in mandatory programs (a) Definition In this section, the term CHIMP means a provision that— (1) would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 902 ) (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) if the provision was included in legislation other than an appropriations bill or joint resolution; and (2) does not result in a net decrease in outlays over the period of the total of the current year, the budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget. (b) Point of order (1) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to consider an appropriations bill or joint resolution, or an amendment to, conference report on, or amendment between the Houses in relation to such a bill or joint resolution, that contains a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the total budget authority of all such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (2). (2) Amount The amount specified in this paragraph is— (A) for fiscal year 2016, $19,000,000,000; (B) for fiscal year 2017, $16,000,000,000; (C) for fiscal year 2018, $12,000,000,000; (D) for fiscal year 2019, $8,000,000,000; (E) for fiscal year 2020, $4,000,000,000; and (F) for fiscal year 2021, and each fiscal year thereafter, $0. (c) Determination The determination of whether a provision is subject to a point of order under subsection (b) shall be made by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (d) Supermajority waiver and appeal Subsection (b) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (b). (e) Repeal In the Senate, section 314 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. 407. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score (a) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to vote on passage of matter that requires an estimate described in section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ), unless such estimate was made publicly available on the website of the Congressional Budget Office not later than 28 hours before the time the vote commences. (b) Supermajority waiver and appeal (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a). 408. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills In the Senate, section 310(d)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 641(d)(1) ) shall apply and may be waived in accordance with the procedures applicable to a point of order raised under section 310(d)(2) of such Act. 409. Point of order against exceeding funds designated for overseas contingency operations (a) Point of order It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a provision in any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that designates for overseas contingency operations, in accordance with section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A) ), funds that would cause the total amount of funds designated for overseas contingency operations— (1) for fiscal year 2016, to be more than $57,997,000,000; or (2) for fiscal year 2017, to be more than $59,500,000,000. (b) Determination The determination of whether a provision is subject to a point of order under this section shall be made by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section. (d) Form of point of order A point of order under this section may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 644(e) ). (e) Conference reports When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator under this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 410. Senate point of order against provisions of appropriations legislation that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund (a) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to consider any appropriations legislation, including any amendment thereto, motion in relation thereto, or conference report thereon, that includes any provision or provisions affecting the Crime Victims Fund, as defined by section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 ( 42 U.S.C. 10601 ), which constitutes a change in a mandatory program that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) were they included in legislation other than appropriations legislation. A point of order pursuant to this section shall be raised against such provision or provisions as described in subsections (d) and (e). (b) Determination The determination of whether a provision is subject to a point of order pursuant to this section shall be made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section. (d) General point of order It shall be in order for a Senator to raise a single point of order that several provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report violate this section. The Presiding Officer may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the provisions against which the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Senator raised the point of order, then only those provisions (including provision of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions against which the point of order was raised. Such a motion to waive is amendable in accordance with rules and precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer ruled. (e) Form of the point of order When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 411. Accuracy in budget enforcement (a) Timing shifts (1) Definition In this subsection, the term timing shift means— (A) a delay of the date on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur from 1 fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or (B) an acceleration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur from 1 fiscal year to the previous fiscal year. (2) Scoring In the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall not count timing shifts in estimating the budgetary effects of a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report for purposes of enforcing— (A) the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ); (B) any allocation, aggregate, or level under a concurrent resolution on the budget; or (C) any written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (b) Prohibition of rescissions that don't save money In the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget shall not count any rescission of budget authority or contract authority that does not have an effect on outlays in estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues of a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report for purposes of enforcing— (1) the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ); (2) any allocation, aggregate, or level under a concurrent resolution on the budget; or (3) any written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 412. Fair value estimates Any estimate prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office for a bill, joint, resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report under the terms of title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 661 et seq. ), shall include, when practicable, an additional estimate of the cost, measured on a fair value basis, of changes that would affect the amount or terms of new Federal loans or loan guarantees or of modifications to existing Federal loans or loan guarantees arising from the bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report. 413. Honest accounting estimates (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Budget The term budget means— (A) a concurrent resolution on the budget; or (B) a written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (2) Budgetary effects The term budgetary effects means changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues. (3) Major legislation (A) Definition The term major legislation means any bill, resolution, conference report, or treaty— (i) for which an estimate is prepared under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) that indicates that not less than 1 of the amounts described in subparagraph (B), before incorporating macroeconomic effects, is greater than $15,000,000,000 in any fiscal year of the estimate; or (ii) designated as major legislation by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate or the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. (B) Amounts The amounts described in this subparagraph are— (i) the sum of the individual positive changes in budgetary effects, not including timing shifts, resulting from such measure; and (ii) the sum of the absolute value of the individual negative budgetary effects, not including timing shifts, resulting from such measure. (4) Timing shifts The term timing shifts means— (A) a delay of the date on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or (B) an acceleration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year. (b) Requirement for CBO estimates An estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) for any major legislation shall provide, in addition to the estimate of budgetary effects without macroeconomic effects, an estimate of the budgetary effects from changes in economic output, employment, interest rates, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the major legislation. The total budgetary effects shall delineate between revenue and outlay effects. (c) Requirement for JCT estimates (1) In general An estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 601(f) ) for any major legislation shall provide, in addition to the estimate of budgetary effects without macroeconomic effects, an estimate of the budgetary effects from changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, interest rates, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the major legislation and an estimate of the distributional effects across income categories resulting from major legislation. (2) Delineation The total budgetary effects shall delineate between revenue and outlay effects. (d) Contents of estimates An estimate required to be provided under subsection (b) or (c) shall include— (1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsections (b) and (c)) of the major legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning after the last fiscal year of the most recently adopted budget that sets forth appropriate levels required under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 ); and (2) an identification of the assumptions and the source of data underlying the estimate. 414. Currency modernization In the Senate, for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ), any allocation, aggregate, or level under a concurrent resolution on the budget, or any written statement submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate that establishes allocations, aggregates, and levels for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, any estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision in a bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report relating to a transition from the $1 note to a $1 coin shall— (1) record the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision in the first year in which the provision takes effect; (2) determine the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision based on a net present value estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision over a 30-year period; and (3) incorporate the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision due to behavioral changes. 415. Certain energy contracts (a) Definition In this section, the term covered energy savings contract means— (1) an energy savings performance contract authorized under section 801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8287 ); and (2) a utility energy service contract, as described in the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Federal use of energy savings performance contracting, dated July 25, 1998 (M–98–13), and the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on the Federal use of energy saving performance contracts and utility energy service contracts, dated September 28, 2012 (M–12–21), or any successor to either memorandum. (b) Estimates In the Senate, for purposes of enforcing any point of order established under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the Houses modifying the authority to enter, the scope or terms of, or the use of covered energy savings contracts shall— (1) record in the first year in which the authority would become effective, the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues (as estimated in accordance with paragraph (2)) of any modifications to the authority to enter the covered energy savings contracts; (2) in estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the legislation, calculate the costs and savings arising from covered contracts on a net present value basis by adding market risk over the useful life of the services or product to the discount rate in section 502(5)(E) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 ( 2 U.S.C. 661a(5)(E) ); and (3) classify the effects of the provision to be changes in spending subject to the availability of appropriations. (c) Rule of construction Nothing in subsection (b) shall be construed to modify the methodology for estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision that does not relate to covered energy savings contracts in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the Houses that contains a provision described in subsection (b). 416. Long-term scoring (a) Scoring of legislation increasing the discretionary spending caps An estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) for any bill, resolution, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that increases the discretionary spending limits under section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(c) ) shall provide, in addition to the estimate under that section, an estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues under the legislation over the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045. (b) Scoring of legislation relating to the Highway Trust Fund An estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) for any bill, resolution, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that transfers amounts from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund shall provide, in addition to the estimate under that section, an estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, or revenues under the legislation over the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045. 417. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits When the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office shall provide a projection of Federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the 30-year period beginning with the budget year, expressed in terms of dollars and as a percent of gross domestic product, as part of its annual update required by Public Law 93–344 . 418. Reporting on tax expenditures The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall include in the report submitted under section 202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 the following: (1) An estimate of the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for the budget year and the 9 years following the budget year. (2) Historical data on the cost of tax expenditures as a share of gross domestic product for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 1965 and ending with the budget year. 419. Congressional Budget Office estimates (a) Request for supplemental estimates In the case of any legislative provision to which this section applies, the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare, to the extent practicable, an estimate of the outlay changes during the second and third decade of enactment. (b) Legislative provisions to which this section applies This section shall apply to any spending legislative provision— (1) which proposes a change or changes to law that the Congressional Budget Office determines has an outlay impact in excess of 0.25 percent of the gross domestic product of the United States during the first decade or in the tenth year; or (2) with respect to which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of either the Senate or the House of Representatives has requested an estimate described in subsection (a). 420. To require transparent reporting on the ongoing costs and savings to taxpayers of Obamacare When the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office shall report changes in direct spending and revenue associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ), including the net impact on deficits, including both on-budget and off-budget effects, in its annual update required by Public Law 93–344 . The information shall be presented in a format similar to that of table 2 of the Congressional Budget Office’s March 20, 2010 estimate of the budgetary effects of the Health Care and Educational Reconciliation Act of 2010, in combination with the effects of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as passed by the Senate. 421. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset In the Senate, for purposes of determining budgetary impacts to evaluate points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this resolution, any previous budget resolution, and any subsequent budget resolution, provisions contained in any bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increases or extends the increase of, any guarantee fees of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation shall not be scored with respect to the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues contained in such legislation. 422. Adjustments for sequestration replacement (a) Mechanism for implementing increase in discretionary limits If a measure becomes law that amends the discretionary spending limits established under section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(c) ), the adjustments to discretionary spending limits under section 251(b) of that Act ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b) ), or the enforcement procedures established under section 251A of that Act ( 2 U.S.C. 901a ), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall adjust the allocation called for in section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a) ) to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and may adjust all other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained in this resolution, as necessary, consistent with such measure, up to the amounts specified and reserved in subparagraph (b). (b) Amounts specified and reserved The amounts specified (and to be reserved from the allocation called for in section 302(a) allocation of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a) ) to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate until such time as the conditions specified in subsection (a) are met are— (1) for fiscal year 2016— (A) for the revised security category, $37,000,000,000 in budget authority (and the outlays flowing therefrom); and (B) for the revised nonsecurity category, $37,000,000,000 in budget authority (and the outlays flowing therefrom); and (2) for fiscal year 2017— (A) for the revised security category, $37,000,000,000 in budget authority (and the outlays flowing therefrom); and (B) for the revised nonsecurity category, $37,000,000,000 in budget authority (and the outlays flowing therefrom). 423. To convey clear information to Congress and the public about projected Federal outlays, revenues, and deficits As part of the annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook required by section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 602(e) ), and at any other time the Congressional Budget Office releases projections of Federal deficits over any term of years, the Congressional Budget Office shall publish with its projection a 1-page statement— (1) summarizing and categorizing total outlays, including tax expenditures, receipts, surpluses, and deficits of the Federal Government on a unified basis for that same prospective time period; (2) categorizing and subtotaling separately— (A) outlays for mandatory programs and for discretionary programs; (B) outlays, tax expenditures, payroll tax revenue, and offsetting receipts for Social Security and for Medicare; (C) the surplus or deficit of revenues over outlays for Social Security and for Medicare; and (D) revenues. 424. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding If a measure becomes law that amends the adjustments to discretionary spending limits established under section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b) ) for wildfire suppression funding, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may adjust the allocation called for in section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a) ) to the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate, and may adjust all other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained in this resolution, as necessary, consistent with such measure. B Other provisions 431. Oversight of Government performance In the Senate, all committees are directed 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. Committees are also directed to review the matters for congressional consideration identified in the Office of Inspector General semiannual reports and the Office of Inspector General's list of unimplemented recommendations and on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk list and the annual report to reduce program duplication. Based on these oversight efforts and performance reviews of programs within their jurisdiction, committees are directed to include recommendations for improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632(d) ) to the Committees on the Budget. 432. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses In the Senate, notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a)(1) ), section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 note), and section 2009a of title 39, United States Code, the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its allocations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committees on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service. 433. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates (a) Application Any adjustments of allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall— (1) apply while that measure is under consideration; (2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and (3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable. (b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) as allocations and aggregates contained in this resolution. (c) Budget Committee Determinations For purposes of this resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. 434. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing for a change in concepts or definitions, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may make adjustments to the levels and allocations in this resolution in accordance with section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b) ). 435. Exercise of rulemaking powers Congress adopts the provisions of this title— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of the Senate and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change those rules at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any other rule of the Senate.

Passed the Senate March 27 (legislative day, March 26), 2015. Secretary

tv_txt: 114th CONGRESS 1st Session In the House of Representatives, U. S., April 14, 2015 AMENDMENT:

That the resolution from the Senate (S. Con. Res. 11) entitled Concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. , do pass with the following Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 (a) Declaration The Congress determines and declares that this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 2016 and sets forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. (b) Table of Contents The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016. Title I—Recommended levels and amounts Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. Sec. 102. Major functional categories. Title II—Reconciliation Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. Sec. 202. Reconciliation procedures. Sec. 203. Additional guidance for reconciliation. Title III—Submissions for the Elimination of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Sec. 301. Submissions of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. Title IV—Budget Enforcement Sec. 401. Cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects. Sec. 402. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency. Sec. 403. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. Sec. 404. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund. Sec. 405. Limitation on advance appropriations. Sec. 406. Fair value credit estimates. Sec. 407. Limitation on long-term spending. Sec. 408. Allocation for overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism. Sec. 409. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. Sec. 410. Concepts, aggregates, allocations and application. Sec. 411. Rulemaking powers. Title V—Reserve funds Sec. 501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President’s health care law. Sec. 502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform. Sec. 503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the President’s health care law. Sec. 504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Sec. 505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education. Sec. 506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. Sec. 507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. Sec. 508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. Sec. 509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility. Sec. 510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation. Sec. 511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform. Sec. 512. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement. Title VI—Estimates of direct spending Sec. 601. Direct spending. Title VII—Recommended Long-Term Levels Sec. 701. Long-term budgeting. Title VIII—Policy statements Sec. 801. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment. Sec. 802. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform. Sec. 803. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. Sec. 804. Policy statement on tax reform. Sec. 805. Policy statement on trade. Sec. 806. Policy statement on Social Security. Sec. 807. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform. Sec. 808. Policy statement on Medicare. Sec. 809. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation. Sec. 810. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform. Sec. 811. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity. Sec. 812. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 813. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies. Sec. 814. Policy statement on scorekeeping for outyear budgetary effects in appropriation Acts. Sec. 815. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized spending. Sec. 816. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. Sec. 817. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. Sec. 818. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Sec. 819. Policy statement on No Budget, No Pay . Sec. 820. Policy statement on national security funding. I Recommended levels and amounts 101. Recommended levels and amounts The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2025: (1) Federal revenues For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution: (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,666,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,763,328,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,858,131,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $2,974,147,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,099,410,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,963,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,388,688,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,550,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,722,144,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,905,648,000,000. (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $0. Fiscal year 2017: $0. Fiscal year 2018: $0. Fiscal year 2019: $0. Fiscal year 2020: $0. Fiscal year 2021: $0. Fiscal year 2022: $0. Fiscal year 2023: $0. Fiscal year 2024: $0. Fiscal year 2025: $0. (2) New budget authority For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,936,989,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,874,003,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,944,067,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,091,104,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,248,181,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,328,045,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,463,044,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,529,161,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,586,560,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,715,369,000,000. (3) Budget outlays For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels of total budget outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,010,185,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,894,439,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,927,276,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,062,270,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,205,614,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,298,984,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,452,546,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,497,999,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,538,491,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,685,327,000,000. (4) Deficits (on-budget) For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: -$343,430,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: -$131,111,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: -$69,145,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: -$88,123,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: -$106,204,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: -$57,021,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: -$63,858,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $52,389,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $183,653,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $220,321,000,000. (5) Debt subject to limit The budgetary levels of the public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $19,048,915,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $19,395,251,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $19,643,341,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $19,949,858,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $20,263,382,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $20,507,829,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $20,908,840,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $21,078,135,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $20,918,559,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $20,907,169,000,000. (6) Debt held by the public The budgetary levels of debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,839,152,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $14,041,709,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $14,146,945,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $14,340,084,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $14,562,210,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $14,744,287,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $15,130,369,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $15,302,457,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $15,164,550,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $15,237,647,000,000. 102. Major functional categories The Congress determines and declares that the budgetary levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2016 through 2025 for each major functional category are: (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $531,334,000,000. (B) Outlays, $564,027,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $582,506,000,000. (B) Outlays, $572,025,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $607,744,000,000. (B) Outlays, $586,422,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $620,019,000,000. (B) Outlays, $604,238,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $632,310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $617,553,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $644,627,000,000. (B) Outlays, $630,610,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $657,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $648,269,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $670,997,000,000. (B) Outlays, $656,389,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $683,771,000,000. (B) Outlays, $663,936,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $698,836,000,000. (B) Outlays, $683,350,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $38,342,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,923,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $39,623,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,821,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $40,539,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,736,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $41,437,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,214,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $42,390,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,564,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $42,861,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,108,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $44,081,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,868,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $45,070,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,633,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $46,098,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,470,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $47,148,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,349,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $28,381,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,003,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $28,932,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,924,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $29,579,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,357,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $30,227,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,798,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $30,904,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $31,584,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,957,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $32,293,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,637,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $33,003,000,000. (B) Outlays, $32,338,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $33,742,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,059,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $34,488,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,795,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$3,581,000,000. (B) Outlays, $654,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $1,410,000,000. (B) Outlays, $649,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $1,189,000,000. (B) Outlays, $234,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $1,196,000,000. (B) Outlays, $307,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $1,259,000,000. (B) Outlays, $472,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $1,309,000,000. (B) Outlays, $728,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $1,335,000,000. (B) Outlays, $863,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $1,375,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $1,332,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,037,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$964,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$1,215,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $35,350,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,113,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,047,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,268,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $36,385,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,674,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $37,206,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,747,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $38,171,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,304,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $38,367,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,685,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $39,221,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,361,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $40,108,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,319,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $40,962,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,486,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $39,095,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,471,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $20,109,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,164,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $23,064,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,194,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $21,987,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,396,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $20,907,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,275,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $19,835,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,386,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $19,296,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,849,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $19,245,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,830,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $19,821,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,391,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $20,020,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,553,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $20,256,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,851,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$3,269,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$16,617,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$12,373,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$26,620,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$10,252,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$24,998,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$8,801,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$28,587,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$6,903,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$27,479,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$6,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$21,769,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$5,742,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,819,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$4,965,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,306,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$3,991,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,635,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$3,370,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,845,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $36,743,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,181,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $69,381,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,500,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $70,298,000,000. (B) Outlays, $73,623,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $76,397,000,000. (B) Outlays, $76,051,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $77,763,000,000. (B) Outlays, $76,767,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $79,149,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,369,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $80,613,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,946,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $82,128,000,000. (B) Outlays, $81,336,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $83,709,000,000. (B) Outlays, $82,724,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $85,335,000,000. (B) Outlays, $83,983,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (450): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $7,082,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,928,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $7,688,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,753,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $8,089,000,000. (B) Outlays, $15,383,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $8,381,000,000. (B) Outlays, $13,789,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $8,409,000,000. (B) Outlays, $12,567,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $8,305,000,000. (B) Outlays, $12,095,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $8,304,000,000. (B) Outlays, $10,937,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $8,359,000,000. (B) Outlays, $9,345,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $8,447,000,000. (B) Outlays, $8,890,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $8,579,000,000. (B) Outlays, $8,930,000,000. (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services (500): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $80,620,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,389,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $84,746,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,513,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $87,029,000,000. (B) Outlays, $87,366,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $85,514,000,000. (B) Outlays, $85,290,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $87,901,000,000. (B) Outlays, $87,669,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $88,908,000,000. (B) Outlays, $89,276,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $90,148,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,467,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $91,237,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,646,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $92,744,000,000. (B) Outlays, $93,101,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $94,400,000,000. (B) Outlays, $94,734,000,000. (11) Health (550): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $416,475,000,000. (B) Outlays, $426,860,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $360,678,000,000. (B) Outlays, $364,823,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $358,594,000,000. (B) Outlays, $360,468,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $367,103,000,000. (B) Outlays, $367,916,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $387,076,000,000. (B) Outlays, $377,341,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $388,981,000,000. (B) Outlays, $389,025,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $398,136,000,000. (B) Outlays, $398,233,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $408,454,000,000. (B) Outlays, $408,529,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $425,381,000,000. (B) Outlays, $425,477,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $433,945,000,000. (B) Outlays, $434,143,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $577,726,000,000. (B) Outlays, $577,635,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $580,837,000,000. (B) Outlays, $580,777,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $580,782,000,000. (B) Outlays, $580,741,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $639,293,000,000. (B) Outlays, $639,213,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $680,575,000,000. (B) Outlays, $680,481,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $726,644,000,000. (B) Outlays, $726,548,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $808,204,000,000. (B) Outlays, $808,100,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $825,577,000,000. (B) Outlays, $825,379,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $834,148,000,000. (B) Outlays, $834,037,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $927,410,000,000. (B) Outlays, $927,292,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $512,364,000,000. (B) Outlays, $513,709,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $479,836,000,000. (B) Outlays, $475,234,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $481,994,000,000. (B) Outlays, $471,951,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $483,293,000,000. (B) Outlays, $477,470,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $516,193,000,000. (B) Outlays, $510,603,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $502,001,000,000. (B) Outlays, $496,856,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $518,690,000,000. (B) Outlays, $518,542,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $525,230,000,000. (B) Outlays, $519,391,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $532,515,000,000. (B) Outlays, $521,105,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $550,057,000,000. (B) Outlays, $543,361,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $33,878,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,919,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,535,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,407,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $42,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,634,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $46,104,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,104,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $49,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $53,547,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $57,455,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,455,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $61,546,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,546,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $65,751,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,751,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $166,677,000,000. (B) Outlays, $170,121,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,843,000,000. (B) Outlays, $164,387,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $163,009,000,000. (B) Outlays, $162,385,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $174,862,000,000. (B) Outlays, $174,048,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $179,735,000,000. (B) Outlays, $178,778,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $183,969,000,000. (B) Outlays, $183,019,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $196,283,000,000. (B) Outlays, $195,255,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $192,866,000,000. (B) Outlays, $191,834,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $189,668,000,000. (B) Outlays, $188,553,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $203,517,000,000. (B) Outlays, $202,383,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $52,156,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,006,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $55,450,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $55,169,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,659,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $56,854,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,572,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $58,585,000,000. (B) Outlays, $58,392,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $60,498,000,000. (B) Outlays, $59,992,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $63,032,000,000. (B) Outlays, $62,485,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $64,917,000,000. (B) Outlays, $64,355,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $66,844,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,264,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $68,632,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,051,000,000. (17) General Government (800): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $23,593,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,576,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $22,761,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,202,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $22,817,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,279,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $23,252,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,084,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $23,947,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,602,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $24,192,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,309,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $24,981,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,114,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $25,695,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,840,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $26,010,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,878,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $26,968,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,825,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $366,542,000,000. (B) Outlays, $366,542,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $414,802,000,000. (B) Outlays, $414,802,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $477,785,000,000. (B) Outlays, $477,785,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $531,097,000,000. (B) Outlays, $531,097,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $578,726,000,000. (B) Outlays, $578,726,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $612,198,000,000. (B) Outlays, $612,198,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $642,470,000,000. (B) Outlays, $642,470,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $667,176,000,000. (B) Outlays, $667,176,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $684,394,000,000. (B) Outlays, $684,394,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $696,025,000,000. (B) Outlays, $696,025,000,000. (19) Allowances (920): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$33,462,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$17,275,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$29,863,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$24,277,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$32,175,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$28,249,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$34,261,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$31,078,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$39,009,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$35,136,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$42,221,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$38,438,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$46,013,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$42,205,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$49,123,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$45,430,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$50,652,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$47,736,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$48,913,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$48,058,000,000. (20) Government-wide savings (930): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $27,465,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,416,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$15,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$3,005,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$32,429,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$20,148,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$41,554,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$32,383,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$50,240,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$42,168,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$55,831,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$50,276,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$63,954,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$57,849,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$71,850,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$65,124,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$78,889,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$71,689,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$113,903,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$93,929,000,000. (21) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$73,514,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$73,514,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$83,832,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$83,832,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$90,115,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$90,115,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$90,594,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$90,594,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$92,193,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$92,193,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$96,623,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$96,623,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$99,437,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$99,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$104,343,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$104,343,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$111,213,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$111,213,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$117,896,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$117,896,000,000. (22) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority $96,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,442,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,238,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,940,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,191,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,916,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $26,666,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,776,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $9,956,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $2,869,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $278,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $0. (23) Across-the-Board Adjustment (990): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority -$21,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$17,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, -$22,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$20,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$23,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$21,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$23,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$24,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$24,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$25,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$24,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$26,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$25,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$26,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$25,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$27,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$26,000,000. II Reconciliation 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives (a) Submission providing for deficit reduction Not later than July 15, 2015, the committees named in subsection (b) shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives to carry out this section. (b) Instructions (1) Committee on Agriculture The Committee on Agriculture shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (2) Committee on Armed Services The Committee on Armed Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (3) Committee on Education and the Workforce The Committee on Education and the Workforce shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (4) Committee on Energy and Commerce The Committee on Energy and Commerce shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (5) Committee on Financial Services The Committee on Financial Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (6) Committee on Homeland Security The Committee on Homeland Security shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $15,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (7) Committee on the Judiciary The Committee on the Judiciary shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (8) Committee on Natural Resources The Committee on Natural Resources shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (9) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (10) Committee on Science, Space, and Technology The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $15,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (11) Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (12) Committee on Veterans’ Affairs The Committee on Veterans’ Affairs shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $100,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (13) Committee on Ways and Means The Committee on Ways and Means shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 202. Reconciliation procedures (a) Estimating assumptions (1) Assumptions In the House, for purposes of titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair of the Committee on the Budget shall use the baseline underlying the Congressional Budget Office’s Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 (January 2015) when making estimates of any bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon. If adjustments to the baseline are made subsequent to the adoption of this concurrent resolution, then such chair shall determine whether to use any of these adjustments when making such estimates. (2) Intent The authority set forth in paragraph (1) should only be exercised if the estimates used to determine the compliance of such measures with the budgetary requirements included in the concurrent resolution are inaccurate because adjustments made to the baseline are inconsistent with the assumptions underlying the budgetary levels set forth in this concurrent resolution. Such inaccurate adjustments made after the adoption of this concurrent resolution may include selected adjustments for rulemaking, judicial actions, adjudication, and interpretative rules that have major budgetary effects and are inconsistent with the assumptions underlying the budgetary levels set forth in this concurrent resolution. (3) Congressional budget office estimates Upon the request of the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House for any measure, the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare an estimate based on the baseline determination made by such chair pursuant to paragraph (1). (b) Repeal of the president’s health care law through reconciliation In preparing their submissions under section 201(a) to the Committee on the Budget, the committees named in section 201(b) shall— (1) note the policies described in the report accompanying this concurrent resolution on the budget that repeal the Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and (2) determine the most effective methods by which the health care laws referred to in paragraph (1) shall be repealed in their entirety. (c) Revision of budgetary levels (1) Submission Upon the submission to the Committee on the Budget of the House of a recommendation that has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of section 310(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may file with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) of such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates. (2) Conference report Upon the submission to the House of a conference report recommending a reconciliation bill or resolution in which a committee has complied with its reconciliation instructions solely by virtue of this section, the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House may file with the House appropriately revised allocations under section 302(a) of such Act and revised functional levels and aggregates. (3) Revision Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant to this subsection shall be considered to be allocations and aggregates established by the concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 301 of such Act. 203. Additional guidance for reconciliation (a) Guidance In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may develop additional guidelines providing further information, budgetary levels and amounts, and other explanatory material to supplement the instructions included in this concurrent resolution pursuant to section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and set forth in section 201. (b) Publication In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may cause the material prepared pursuant to subsection (a) to be printed in the Congressional Record on the appropriate date, but not later than the date set forth in this title on which committees must submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget in order to comply with the reconciliation instructions set forth in section 201. III Submissions for the Elimination of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse 301. Submissions of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse (a) Submissions providing for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse In the House, not later than October 1, 2015, the committees named in subsection (d) shall submit to the Committee on the Budget findings that identify changes in law within their jurisdictions that would achieve the specified level of savings through the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. (b) Recommendations submitted After receiving those recommendations— (1) the Committee on the Budget may use them in the development of future concurrent resolutions on the budget; and (2) the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House shall make such recommendations publicly available in electronic form and cause them to be placed in the Congressional Record not later than 30 days after receipt. (c) Specified levels of savings For purposes of this section, a specified level of savings for each committee may be inserted in the Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on the Budget. (d) House committees The following committees shall submit findings to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives pursuant to subsection (a): the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on Natural Resources, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the Committee on Small Business, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and the Committee on Ways and Means. (e) Report by the Government Accountability Office By August 1, 2015, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives a comprehensive report identifying instances in which the committees referred to in subsection (d) may make legislative changes to improve the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of programs within their jurisdiction. IV Budget Enforcement 401. Cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects (a) CBO estimates For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 2016, an estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation considered in the House or the Senate during fiscal year 2016 shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. (b) Joint Committee on Taxation estimates For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, any estimate provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for any major legislation shall, to the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such legislation. (c) Contents Any estimate referred to in this section shall, to the extent practicable, include— (1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsections (a) and (b)) of such legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning after the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution sets forth budgetary levels required by section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and (2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the source of data underlying that estimate. (d) Definitions As used in this section— (1) the term major legislation means any bill or joint resolution— (A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects) in any fiscal year over the years of the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget equal to or greater than 0.25 percent of the current projected gross domestic product of the United States for that fiscal year; or (B) designated as such by the chair of the Committee on the Budget for all direct spending legislation other than revenue legislation or the Member who is chair or vice chair, as applicable, of the Joint Committee on Taxation for revenue legislation; and (2) the term budgetary effects means changes in revenues, budget authority, outlays, and deficits. 402. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency (a) In general For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 2016, it shall not be in order to consider in the House or the Senate a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that reduces the actuarial balance by at least .01 percent of the present value of future taxable payroll of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund established under section 201(a) of the Social Security Act for the 75-year period utilized in the most recent annual report of the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act. (b) Exception Subsection (a) shall not apply to a measure that would improve the actuarial balance of the combined balance in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for the 75-year period utilized in the most recent annual report of the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act. 403. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses (a) In General Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the report accompanying this concurrent resolution on the budget or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Service. (b) Special Rule For purposes of enforcing sections 302(f) and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, estimates of the level of total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure shall include any discretionary amounts described in subsection (a). 404. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund For purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or the rules or orders of the House of Representatives, a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that transfers funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund shall be counted as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the transfer occurs. 405. Limitation on advance appropriations (a) In general In the House, except as provided for in subsection (b), any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation may not provide for advance appropriations. (b) Exceptions An advance appropriation may be provided for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the report to accompany this concurrent resolution or the joint explanatory statement of managers to accompany this concurrent resolution under the heading— (1) General Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations . (2) Veterans Veterans Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations . (c) Limitations The aggregate level of advance appropriations shall not exceed— (1) General $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority for all programs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(1). (2) Veterans $63,271,000,000 in new budget authority for programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2). (d) Definition The term advance appropriation means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making general appropriations or continuing appropriations, for the fiscal year following fiscal year 2016. 406. Fair value credit estimates (a) Fair value estimates Upon the request of the chair or ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, any estimate of the budgetary effects of a measure prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office under the terms of title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, credit reform shall, as a supplement to such estimate, and to the extent practicable, also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the fair value of assets and liabilities affected by such measure. (b) Fair value estimates for housing and student loan programs Whenever the Director of the Congressional Budget Office prepares an estimate pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 of the budgetary effects which would be incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolution and if the Director determines that such bill or joint resolution has a budgetary effect related to a housing, residential mortgage or student loan program under title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, then the Director shall also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the fair value of assets and liabilities affected by the provisions of such bill or joint resolution that result in such effect. (c) Enforcement If the Director of the Congressional Budget Office provides an estimate pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the chair of the Committee on the Budget may use such estimate to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budgetary enforcement controls. 407. Limitation on long-term spending (a) In general In the House, it shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations), or an amendment thereto or a conference report thereon, if the provisions of such measure have the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 for any period described in subsection (b). (b) Time periods The applicable periods for purposes of this section are any of the four consecutive ten fiscal-year periods beginning in the fiscal year following the last fiscal year of this concurrent resolution. 408. Allocation for overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism (a) Separate OCO/GWOT Allocation In the House, there shall be a separate allocation of new budget authority and outlays provided to the Committee on Appropriations for the purposes of Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism. (b) Application For purposes of enforcing the separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the first fiscal year and the total of fiscal years shall be deemed to refer to fiscal year 2016. Section 302(c) of such Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. (c) Designations New budget authority or outlays counting toward the allocation established by subsection (a) shall be designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. (d) Adjustments For purposes of subsection (a) for fiscal year 2016, no adjustment shall be made under section 314(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if any adjustment would be made under section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 409. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources (a) Adjustments of discretionary and direct spending levels In the House, if a committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, or offers any amendment thereto or submits a conference report thereon, providing for a decrease in direct spending (budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year and also provides for an authorization of appropriations for the same purpose, upon the enactment of such measure, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may decrease the allocation to such committee and increase the allocation of discretionary spending (budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom) to the Committee on Appropriations for fiscal year 2016 by an amount equal to the new budget authority (and outlays flowing therefrom) provided for in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for the same purpose. (b) Determinations In the House, for the purpose of enforcing this concurrent resolution, the allocations and aggregate levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for fiscal year 2016 and the period of fiscal years 2016 through fiscal year 2025 shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the chair of the Committee on the Budget and such chair may adjust applicable levels of this concurrent resolution. 410. Concepts, aggregates, allocations and application (a) Concepts, allocations, and application In the House— (1) upon a change in budgetary concepts or definitions, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust any allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution accordingly; (2) any adjustments of the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels made pursuant to this concurrent resolution shall— (A) apply while that measure is under consideration; (B) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and (C) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable; (3) section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) shall have no force or effect for any reconciliation bill reported pursuant to instructions set forth in this concurrent resolution; (4) the chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels to reflect changes resulting from the most recently published or adjusted baseline of the Congressional Budget Office; and (5) the term budget year means the most recent fiscal year for which a concurrent resolution on the budget has been adopted. (b) Aggregates, allocations and application In the House, for purposes of this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement— (1) the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget makes adjustments or revisions in the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels of this concurrent resolution shall not be subject to the points of order set forth in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives or section 407 of this concurrent resolution; and (2) revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates included in this concurrent resolution. 411. Rulemaking powers The House adopts the provisions of this title— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of the House of Representatives, and these rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other such rules; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House of Representatives. V Reserve funds 501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President’s health care law In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that consists solely of the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 or measures that make modifications to such law. 502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that promotes real health care reform, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the President’s health care law In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that repeals all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in the Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure extends the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure reforms, expands access to, and improves, as determined by such chair, graduate medical education programs, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that implements a trade agreement, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that decreases revenue, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure reforms policies and programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility, but only if such measure would neither adversely impact job creation nor increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure maintains the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure reforms, improves and updates the Federal retirement system, as determined by such chair, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 512. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement The chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure supports the following activities: Department of Defense training and maintenance associated with combat readiness, modernization of equipment, auditability of financial statements, or military compensation and benefit reforms, by the amount provided for these purposes, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit (without counting any net revenue increases in that measure) over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. VI Estimates of direct spending 601. Direct spending (a) Means-Tested direct spending (1) For means-tested direct spending, the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2016 is 6.8 percent. (2) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal year 2016 is 4.6 percent under current law. (3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent resolution for means-tested direct spending: (A) In 1996, a Republican Congress and a Democratic president reformed welfare by limiting the duration of benefits, giving States more control over the program, and helping recipients find work. In the five years following passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare caseloads fell, and workers’ wages increased. This budget applies the lessons of welfare reform to both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid. (B) For Medicaid, this budget assumes the conversion of the Federal share of Medicaid spending into flexible State allotments, which States will be able to tailor to meet their unique needs. Such a reform would end the misguided one-size-fits-all approach that ties the hands of State governments and would provide States with the freedom and flexibility they have long requested in the Medicaid program. Moreover, this budget assumes the repeal of the Medicaid expansions in the President’s health care law, relieving State governments of the crippling one-size-fits-all enrollment mandates, as well as the overwhelming pressure the law’s Medicaid expansion puts on an already-strained system. (C) For the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, this budget assumes the conversion of the program into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet each State’s needs. The allotment would increase based on the Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and beneficiary growth. Such a reform would provide incentives for States to ensure dollars will go towards those who need them most. (b) Nonmeans-Tested direct spending (1) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2016 is 5.4 percent. (2) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal year 2016 is 5.5 percent under current law. (3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent resolution for nonmeans-tested direct spending: (A) For Medicare, this budget advances policies to put seniors, not the Federal Government, in control of their health care decisions. Future retirees would be able to choose from a range of guaranteed coverage options, with private plans competing alongside the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program. Medicare would provide a premium-support payment either to pay for or offset the premium of the plan chosen by the senior, depending on the plan’s cost. The Medicare premium-support payment would be adjusted so that the sick would receive higher payments if their conditions worsened; lower-income seniors would receive additional assistance to help cover out-of-pocket costs; and wealthier seniors would assume responsibility for a greater share of their premiums. Putting seniors in charge of how their health care dollars are spent will force providers to compete against each other on price and quality. This market competition will act as a real check on widespread waste and skyrocketing health care costs. As with previous budgets, this program will begin in 2024 and makes no changes to those in or near retirement. (B) In keeping with a recommendation from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, this budget calls for Federal employees—including Members of Congress and congressional staff—to make greater contributions toward their own retirement. VII Recommended Long-Term Levels 701. Long-term budgeting The following are the recommended revenue, spending, and deficit levels for each of fiscal years 2030, 2035, and 2040 as a percent of the gross domestic product of the United States: (1) Revenues The budgetary levels of Federal revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2030: 18.7 percent. Fiscal year 2035: 19.0 percent. Fiscal year 2040: 19.0 percent. (2) Outlays The budgetary levels of total budget outlays are not to exceed: Fiscal year 2030: 18.4 percent. Fiscal year 2035: 17.8 percent. Fiscal year 2040: 16.9 percent. (3) Deficits The budgetary levels of deficits are not to exceed: Fiscal year 2030: -0.3 percent. Fiscal year 2035: -1.2 percent. Fiscal year 2040: -2.1 percent. (4) Debt The budgetary levels of debt held by the public are not to exceed: Fiscal year 2030: 44.0 percent. Fiscal year 2035: 32.0 percent. Fiscal year 2040: 18.0 percent. VIII Policy statements 801. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) The Federal Government collects approximately $3 trillion annually in taxes, but spends more than $3.5 trillion to maintain the operations of government. The Federal Government must borrow 14 cents of every Federal dollar spent. (2) At the end of the year 2014, the national debt of the United States was more than $18.1 trillion. (3) A majority of States have petitioned the Federal Government to hold a Constitutional Convention for the consideration of adopting a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution. (4) Forty-nine States have fiscal limitations in their State Constitutions, including the requirement to annually balance the budget. (5) H.J. Res. 2, sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R–VA), was considered by the House of Representatives on November 18, 2011, though it received 262 aye votes, it did not receive the two-thirds required for passage. (6) Numerous balanced budget amendment proposals have been introduced on a bipartisan basis in the House. Twelve were introduced in the 113th Congress alone, including H.J. Res. 4 by Democratic Representative John J. Barrow of Georgia, and H.J. Res. 38 by Republican Representative Jackie Walorski of Indiana. (7) The joint resolution providing for a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution referred to in paragraph (5) prohibited outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. (8) In 1995, a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution passed the House with bipartisan support, but failed of passage by one vote in the United States Senate. (b) Policy statement It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should pass a joint resolution incorporating the provisions set forth in subsection (b), and send such joint resolution to the States for their approval, to amend the Constitution of the United States to require an annual balanced budget. 802. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform (a) Findings (1) In 1974, after more than 50 years of executive dominance over fiscal policy, Congress acted to reassert its power of the purse , and passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. (2) The measure explicitly sought to establish congressional control over the budget process, to provide for annual congressional determination of the appropriate level of taxes and spending, to set important national budget priorities, and to find ways in which Members of Congress could have access to the most accurate, objective, and highest quality information to assist them in discharging their duties. (3) Far from achieving its intended purpose, however, the process has instituted a bias toward higher spending and larger government. The behemoth of the Federal Government has largely been financed through either borrowing or taking ever greater amounts of the national income through high taxation. (4) The process does not treat programs and policies consistently and shows a bias toward higher spending and higher taxes. (5) It assumes extension of spending programs (of more than $50 million per year) scheduled to expire. (6) Yet it does not assume the extension of tax policies in the same way. consequently, extending existing tax policies that may be scheduled to expire is characterized as a new tax reduction, requiring offsets to pay for merely keeping tax policy the same even though estimating conventions would not require similar treatment of spending programs. (7) The original goals set for the congressional process are admirable in their intent, but because the essential mechanisms of the process have remained the same, and reforms enacted over the past 40 years have largely taken the form of layering greater levels of legal complexity without reforming or reassessing the very fundamental nature of the process. (b) Policy statement It is the policy of this concurrent resolution on the budget that as the primary branch of Government, Congress must: (1) Restructure the fundamental procedures of budget decision making. (2) Reassert Congress’s power of the purse , and reinforce the balance of powers between Congress and the President, as the 1974 Act intended. (3) Create greater incentives for lawmakers to do budgeting as intended by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, especially adopting a budget resolution every year. (4) Encourage more effective control over spending, especially currently uncontrolled direct spending. (5) Consider innovative fiscal tools such as: zero based budgeting, which would require a department or agency to justify its budget as if it were a new expenditure; and direct spending caps to enhance oversight of automatic pilot spending that increases each year without congressional approval. (6) Promote efficient and timely budget actions, so that lawmakers complete their budget actions by the time the new fiscal year begins. (7) Provide access to the best analysis of economic conditions available and increase awareness of how fiscal policy directly impacts overall economic growth and job creation. (8) Remove layers of complexity that have complicated the procedures designed in 1974, and made budgeting more arcane and opaque. (9) Remove existing biases that favor higher spending. (10) Include procedures by which current tax laws may be extended and treated on a basis that is not different from the extension of entitlement programs. (c) Budget Process Reform Comprehensive budget process reform should also remove the bias in the baseline against the extension of current tax laws in the following ways: (1) Permanent extension of tax laws should not be used as a means to increase taxes on other taxpayers. (2) For those expiring tax provisions that are proposed to be permanently extended, Congress should use a more realistic baseline that does not require them to be offset. (3) Tax-reform legislation should not include tax increases just to offset the extension of current tax laws. (d) Legislation The Committee on the Budget intends to draft legislation during the 114th Congress that will rewrite the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to fulfill the goals of making the congressional budget process more effective in ensuring taxpayers’ dollars are spent wisely and efficiently. 803. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Although the United States economy technically emerged from recession more than 5 years ago, the subsequent recovery has felt more like a malaise than a rebound. Real gross domestic product GDP growth over the past 5 years has averaged slightly more than 2 percent, well below the 3.2 percent historical trend rate of growth in the United States. Although the economy has shown some welcome signs of improvement of late, the Nation remains in the midst of the weakest economic recovery of the modern era. (2) Looking ahead, CBO expects the economy to grow by an average of just 2.3 percent over the next 10 years. That level of economic growth is simply unacceptable and insufficient to expand opportunities and the incomes of millions of middle-income Americans. (3) Sluggish economic growth has also contributed to the country's fiscal woes. Subpar growth means that revenue levels are lower than they would otherwise be while government spending (e.g. welfare and income-support programs) is higher. Clearly, there is a dire need for policies that will spark higher rates of economic growth and greater, higher-quality job opportunities. (4) Although job gains have been trending up of late, other aspects of the labor market remain weak. The labor force participation rate, for instance, is hovering just under 63 percent, close to the lowest level since 1978. Long-term unemployment also remains a problem. Of the roughly 8.7 million people who are currently unemployed, 2.7 million (more than 30 percent) have been unemployed for more than 6 months. Long-term unemployment erodes an individual's job skills and detaches them from job opportunities. It also undermines the long-term productive capacity of the economy. (5) Perhaps most important, wage gains and income growth have been subpar for middle-class Americans. Average hourly earnings of private-sector workers have increased by just 1.6 percent over the past year. Prior to the recession, average hourly earnings were tracking close to 4 percent. Likewise, average income levels have remained flat in recent years. Real median household income is just under $52,000, one of the lowest levels since 1995. (6) The unsustainable fiscal trajectory has cast a shadow on the country’s economic outlook. investors and businesses make decisions on a forward-looking basis. they know that today’s large debt levels are simply tomorrow's tax hikes, interest rate increases, or inflation and they act accordingly. This debt overhang, and the uncertainty it generates, can weigh on growth, investment, and job creation. (7) Nearly all economists, including those at the CBO, conclude that reducing budget deficits (thereby bending the curve on debt levels is a net positive for economic growth over time. The logic is that deficit reduction creates long-term economic benefits because it increases the pool of national savings and boosts investment, thereby raising economic growth and job creation. (8) CBO analyzed the House Republican fiscal year 2016 budget resolution and found it would increase real output per capita (a proxy for a country’s standard of living) by about $1,000 in 2025 and roughly $5,000 by 2040 relative to the baseline path. That means more income and greater prosperity for all Americans. (9) In contrast, if the Government remains on the current fiscal path, future generations will face ever-higher debt service costs, a decline in national savings, and a crowding out of private investment. This dynamic will eventually lead to a decline in economic output and a diminution in our country's standard of living. (10) The key economic challenge is determining how to expand the economic pie, not how best to divide up and re-distribute a shrinking pie. (11) A stronger economy is vital to lowering deficit levels and eventually balancing the budget. According to CBO, if annual real GDP growth is just 0.1 percentage point higher over the budget window, deficits would be reduced by $326 billion. (12) This budget resolution therefore embraces pro-growth policies, such as fundamental tax reform, that will help foster a stronger economy, greater opportunities and more job creation. (b) Policy on Economic Growth and Job Creation It is the policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job creation. By putting the budget on a sustainable path, this resolution ends the debt-fueled uncertainty holding back job creators. Reforms to the tax code will put American businesses and workers in a better position to compete and thrive in the 21st century global economy. This resolution targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. All of the reforms in this resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and expanding opportunity for all Americans. 804. Policy statement on tax reform (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) A world-class tax system should be simple, fair, and promote (rather than impede) economic growth. The United States tax code fails on all three counts: It is notoriously complex, patently unfair, and highly inefficient. The tax code’s complexity distorts decisions to work, save, and invest, which leads to slower economic growth, lower wages, and less job creation. (2) Over the past decade alone, there have been 4,107 changes to the tax code, more than one per day. Many of the major changes over the years have involved carving out special preferences, exclusions, or deductions for various activities or groups. These loopholes add up to more than $1 trillion per year and make the code unfair, inefficient, and highly complex. (3) In addition, these tax preferences are disproportionately used by upper-income individuals. (4) The large amount of tax preferences that pervade the code end up narrowing the tax base. A narrow tax base, in turn, requires much higher tax rates to raise a given amount of revenue. (5) It is estimated that American taxpayers end up spending $160 billion and roughly 6 billion hours a year complying with the tax code waste of time and resources that could be used in more productive activities. (6) Standard economic theory shows that high marginal tax rates dampen the incentives to work, save, and invest, which reduces economic output and job creation. Lower economic output, in turn, mutes the intended revenue gain from higher marginal tax rates. (7) Roughly half of United States active business income and half of private sector employment are derived from business entities (such as partnerships, S corporations, and sole proprietorships) that are taxed on a pass-through basis, meaning the income flows through to the tax returns of the individual owners and is taxed at the individual rate structure rather than at the corporate rate. Small businesses, in particular, tend to choose this form for Federal tax purposes, and the top Federal rate on such small business income can reach nearly 45 percent. For these reasons, sound economic policy requires lowering marginal rates on these pass-through entities. (8) The United States corporate income tax rate (including Federal, State, and local taxes) sums to slightly more than 39 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Tax rates this high suppress wages and discourage investment and job creation, distort business activity, and put American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with foreign competitors. (9) By deterring potential investment, the United States corporate tax restrains economic growth and job creation. The United States tax rate differential with other countries also fosters a variety of complicated multinational corporate behaviors intended to avoid the tax, which have the effect of moving the tax base offshore, destroying American jobs, and decreasing corporate revenue. (10) The worldwide structure of United States international taxation essentially taxes earnings of United States firms twice, putting them at a significant competitive disadvantage with competitors with more competitive international tax systems. (11) Reforming the United States tax code to a more competitive international system would boost the competitiveness of United States companies operating abroad and it would also greatly reduce tax avoidance. (12) The tax code imposes costs on American workers through lower wages, on consumers in higher prices, and on investors in diminished returns. (13) Revenues have averaged about 17.4 percent of the economy throughout modern American history. Revenues rise above this level under current law to 18.3 percent of the economy by the end of the 10-year budget window. (14) Attempting to raise revenue through new tax increases to meet out-of-control spending would sink the economy and Americans’ ability to save for their retirement and their children's education. (15) This resolution also rejects the idea of instituting a carbon tax in the United States, which some have offered as a new source of revenue. Such a plan would damage the economy, cost jobs, and raise prices on American consumers. (16) Closing tax loopholes to fund spending does not constitute fundamental tax reform. (17) The goal of tax reform should be to curb or eliminate loopholes and use those savings to lower tax rates across the board not to fund more wasteful Government spending. Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. (18) Many economists believe that fundamental tax reform (i.e. a broader tax base and lower tax rates) would lead to greater labor supply and increased investment, which, over time, would have a positive impact on total national output. (19) Heretofore, the congressional scorekeepers the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). (20) Static scoring implicitly assumes that the size of the economy (and therefore key economic variables such as labor supply and investment) remains fixed throughout the considered budget horizon. This is an abstraction from reality. (21) A new House rule was adopted at the beginning of the 114th Congress to help correct this problem. This rule requires CBO and JCT to incorporate the macroeconomic effects of major legislation into their official cost estimates. (22) This rule seeks to bridge the divide between static estimates and scoring that incorporates economic feedback effects by providing policymakers with a greater amount of information about the likely economic impact of policies under their consideration while at the same time preserving traditional scoring methods and reporting conventions. (b) Policy on tax reform It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should enact legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the United States tax code to promote economic growth, create American jobs, increase wages, and benefit American consumers, investors, and workers through fundamental tax reform that— (1) simplifies the tax code to make it fairer to American families and businesses and reduces the amount of time and resources necessary to comply with tax laws; (2) substantially lowers tax rates for individuals and consolidates the current seven individual income tax brackets into fewer brackets; (3) repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax; (4) reduces the corporate tax rate; and (5) transitions the tax code to a more competitive system of international taxation in a manner that does not discriminate against any particular type of income or industry. 805. Policy statement on trade (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Opening foreign markets to American exports is vital to the United States economy and beneficial to American workers and consumers. The Commerce Department estimates that every $1 billion of United States exports supports more than 5,000 jobs here at home. (2) The United States can increase economic opportunities for American workers and businesses through the expansion of trade, adherence to trade agreement rules by the United States and its trading partners, and the elimination of foreign trade barriers to United States goods and services. (3) Trade Promotion Authority is a bipartisan and bicameral effort to strengthen the role of Congress in setting negotiating objectives for trade agreements, to improve consultation with Congress by the Administration, and to provide a clear framework for congressional consideration and implementation of trade agreements. (4) Global trade and commerce is not a zero-sum game. The idea that global expansion tends to hollow out United States operations is incorrect. Foreign-affiliate activity tends to complement, not substitute for, key parent activities in the United States such as employment, worker compensation, and capital investment. When United States headquartered multinationals invest and expand operations abroad it often leads to more jobs and economic growth at home. (5) Trade agreements have saved the average American family of four more than $10,000 per year, as a result of lower duties. Trade agreements also lower the cost of manufacturing inputs by removing duties. (6) American businesses and workers have shown that, on a level playing field, they can excel and surpass the international competition. (7) When negotiating trade agreements, United States laws on Intellectual Property (IP) protection should be used as a benchmark for establishing global IP frameworks. Strong IP protections have contributed significantly to the United States status as a world leader in innovation across sectors, including in the development of life-saving biologic medicines. The data protections afforded to biologics in United States law, including 12 years of data protection, allow continued development of pioneering medicines to benefit patients both in the United States and abroad. To maintain the cycle of innovation and achieve truly 21st century trade agreements, it is vital that our negotiators insist on the highest standards for IP protections. (8) The status quo of the current tax code also undermines the competitiveness of United States businesses and costs the United States economy investment and jobs. (9) The United States currently has an antiquated system of international taxation whereby United States multinationals operating abroad pay both the foreign-country tax and United States corporate taxes. They are essentially taxed twice. This puts them at an obvious competitive disadvantage. A modern and competitive international tax system would facilitate global commerce for United States multinational companies and would encourage foreign business investment and job creation in the United States. (10) The ability to defer United States taxes on their foreign operations, which some erroneously refer to as a tax loophole, cushions this disadvantage to a certain extent. Eliminating or restricting this provision (and others like it) would harm United States competitiveness. (11) This budget resolution advocates fundamental tax reform that would lower the United States corporate rate, now the highest in the industrialized world, and switch to a more competitive system of international taxation. This would make the United States a much more attractive place to invest and station business activity and would chip away at the incentives for United States companies to keep their profits overseas (because the United States corporate rate is so high). (b) Policy on trade It is the policy of this concurrent resolution to pursue international trade, global commerce, and a modern and competitive United States international tax system to promote job creation in the United States. The United States should continue to seek increased economic opportunities for American workers and businesses through the expansion of trade opportunities, adherence to trade agreements and rules by the United States and its trading partners, and the elimination of foreign trade barriers to United States goods and services by opening new markets and by enforcing United States rights. To that end, Congress should pass Trade Promotion Authority to strengthen the role of Congress in setting negotiating objectives for trade agreements, to improve consultation with Congress by the Administration, and to provide a clear framework for congressional consideration and implementation of trade agreements. 806. Policy statement on Social Security (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Security. Since enactment, Social Security has served as a vital leg on the three-legged stool of retirement security, which includes employer provided pensions as well as personal savings. (2) The Social Security Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Social Security’s long-term financial challenges be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial condition of Social Security becomes more precarious and the threat to seniors and those receiving Social Security disability benefits becomes more pronounced: (A) In 2016, the Disability Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted and program revenues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. (B) In 2033, the combined Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Trust Funds will be exhausted, and program revenues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. (C) With the exhaustion of the Trust Funds in 2033, benefits will be cut nearly 23 percent across the board, devastating those currently in or near retirement and those who rely on Social Security the most. (3) The recession and continued low economic growth have exacerbated the looming fiscal crisis facing Social Security. The most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections find that Social Security will run cash deficits of more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years. (4) Lower income Americans rely on Social Security for a larger proportion of their retirement income. Therefore, reforms should take into consideration the need to protect lower income Americans’ retirement security. (5) The Disability Insurance program provides an essential income safety net for those with disabilities and their families. According to the CBO, between 1970 and 2012, the number of people receiving disability benefits (both disabled workers and their dependent family members) has increased by more than 300 percent from 2.7 million to over 10.9 million. This increase is not due strictly to population growth or decreases in health. David Autor and Mark Duggan have found that the increase in individuals on disability does not reflect a decrease in self-reported health. CBO attributes program growth to changes in demographics, changes in the composition of the labor force and compensation, as well as Federal policies. (6) If this program is not reformed, families who rely on the lifeline that disability benefits provide will face benefit cuts of up to 20 percent in 2016, devastating individuals who need assistance the most. (7) In the past, Social Security has been reformed on a bipartisan basis, most notably by the Greenspan Commission which helped to address Social Security shortfalls for more than a generation. (8) Americans deserve action by the President, the House, and the Senate to preserve and strengthen Social Security. It is critical that bipartisan action be taken to address the looming insolvency of Social Security. In this spirit, this resolution creates a bipartisan opportunity to find solutions by requiring policymakers to ensure that Social Security remains a critical part of the safety net. (b) Policy on social security It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should work on a bipartisan basis to make Social Security sustainably solvent. This resolution assumes reform of a current law trigger, such that: (1) If in any year the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund annual Trustees Report determines that the 75-year actuarial balance of the Social Security Trust Funds is in deficit, and the annual balance of the Social Security Trust Funds in the 75th year is in deficit, the Board of Trustees should, no later than September 30 of the same calendar year, submit to the President recommendations for statutory reforms necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and a positive annual balance in the 75th year. Recommendations provided to the President must be agreed upon by both Public Trustees of the Board of Trustees. (2) Not later than 1 December of the same calendar year in which the Board of Trustees submit their recommendations, the President should promptly submit implementing legislation to both Houses of Congress including his recommendations necessary to achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance and a positive annual balance in the 75th year. The Majority Leader of the Senate and the Majority Leader of the House should introduce the President’s legislation upon receipt. (3) Within 60 days of the President submitting legislation, the committees of jurisdiction to which the legislation has been referred should report a bill, which should be considered by the full House or Senate under expedited procedures. (4) Legislation submitted by the President should— (A) protect those in or near retirement; (B) preserve the safety net for those who count on Social Security the most, including those with disabilities and survivors; (C) improve fairness for participants; (D) reduce the burden on, and provide certainty for, future generations; and (E) secure the future of the Disability Insurance program while addressing the needs of those with disabilities today and improving the determination process. (c) Policy on disability insurance It is the policy of this resolution that Congress and the President should enact legislation on a bipartisan basis to reform the Disability Insurance program prior to its insolvency in 2016 and should not raid the Social Security retirement system without reforms to the Disability Insurance system. This resolution assumes reform that— (1) ensure benefits continue to be paid to individuals with disabilities and their family members who rely on them; (2) prevents a 20 percent across-the-board benefit cut; (3) makes the Disability Insurance program work better; and (4) promotes opportunity for those trying to return to work. (d) Policy on social security solvency Any legislation that Congress considers to improve the solvency of the Disability Insurance trust fund also must improve the long-term solvency of the combined Old Age and Survivors Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust fund. 807. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) The President’s health care law put Washington’s priorities first, and not patients’. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has failed to reduce health care premiums as promised; instead, the law mandated benefits and coverage levels, denying patients the opportunity to choose the type of coverage that best suits their health needs and driving up health coverage costs. A typical family’s health care premiums were supposed to decline by $2,500 a year; instead, according to the 2014 Employer Health Benefits Survey, health care premiums have increased by 7 percent for individuals and families since 2012. (2) The President pledged If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Instead, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now estimates 9 million Americans with employment-based health coverage will lose those plans due to the President’s health care law, further limiting patient choice. (3) Then-Speaker of the House, Pelosi, said that the President’s health care law would create 4 million jobs over the life of the law and almost 400,000 jobs immediately. Instead, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the reduction in hours worked due to Obamacare represents a decline of about 2.0 to 2.5 million full-time equivalent workers, compared with what would have occurred in the absence of the law. The full impact on labor represents a reduction in employment by 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent, while additional studies show less modest results. A recent study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University estimates that Obamacare will reduce employment by up to 3 percent, or about 4 million full-time equivalent workers. (4) The President has charged the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel of unelected bureaucrats, with cutting Medicare by an additional $20.9 billion over the next ten years, according to the President's most recent budget. (5) Since ACA was signed into law, the administration has repeatedly failed to implement it as written. The President has unilaterally acted to make a total of 28 changes, delays, and exemptions. The President has signed into law another 17 changes made by Congress. The Supreme Court struck down the forced expansion of Medicaid; ruled the individual mandate could only be characterized as a tax to remain constitutional; and rejected the requirement that closely held companies provide health insurance to their employees if doing so violates these companies’ religious beliefs. Even now, almost five years after enactment, the Supreme Court continues to evaluate the legality of how the President's administration has implemented the law. All of these changes prove the folly underlying the entire program health care in the United States cannot be run from a centralized bureaucracy. (6) The President's health care law is unaffordable, intrusive, overreaching, destructive, and unworkable. The law should be fully repealed, allowing for real, patient-centered health care reform: the development of real health care reforms that puts patients first, that make affordable, quality health care available to all Americans, and that build on the innovation and creativity of all the participants in the health care sector. (b) Policy on promoting real health care reform It is the policy of this resolution that the President's health care law should be fully repealed and real health care reform promoted in accordance with the following principles: (1) In general Health care reform should enhance affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices and responsiveness in health care coverage for all Americans, putting patients, families, and doctors in charge, not Washington, DC. These reforms should encourage increased competition and transparency. Under the President's health care law, government controls Americans’ health care choices. Under true, patient-centered reform, Americans would. (2) Affordability Real reform should be centered on ensuring that all Americans, no matter their age, income, or health status, have the ability to afford health care coverage. The health care delivery structure should be improved, and individuals should not be priced out of the health insurance market due to pre-existing conditions, but nationalized health care is not only unnecessary to accomplish this, it undermines the goal. Individuals should be allowed to join together voluntarily to pool risk through mechanisms such as Individual Membership Associations and Small Employer Membership Associations. (3) Accessability Instead of Washington outlining for Americans the ways they cannot use their health insurance, reforms should make health coverage more portable. Individuals should be able to own their insurance and have it follow them in and out of jobs throughout their career. Small business owners should be permitted to band together across State lines through their membership in bona fide trade or professional associations to purchase health coverage for their families and employees at a low cost. This will increase small businesses’ bargaining power, volume discounts, and administrative efficiencies while giving them freedom from State-mandated benefit packages. Also, insurers licensed to sell policies in one State should be permitted to offer them to residents in any other State, and consumers should be permitted to shop for health insurance across State lines, as they are with other insurance products online, by mail, by phone, or in consultation with an insurance agent. (4) Quality Incentives for providers to deliver high-quality, responsive, and coordinated care will promote patient outcomes and drive down health care costs. likewise, reforms that work to restore the patient-physician relationship by reducing administrative burdens and allowing physicians to do what they do best—care for patients. (5) Choices Individuals and families should be free to secure the health care coverage that best meets their needs, rather than instituting one-size-fits-all directives from Federal bureaucracies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Independent Payment Advisory Board. (6) Innovation Instead of stifling innovation in health care technologies, treatments, medications, and therapies with Federal mandates, taxes, and price controls, a reformed health care system should encourage research, development and innovation. (7) Responsiveness Reform should return authority to States wherever possible to make the system more responsive to patients and their needs. Instead of tying States’ hands with Federal requirements for their Medicaid programs, the Federal Government should return control of this program to the States. Not only does the current Medicaid program drive up Federal debt and threaten to bankrupt State budgets, but States are better positioned to provide quality, affordable care to those who are eligible for the program and to track down and weed out waste, fraud and abuse. Beneficiary choices in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid should be improved. States should make available the purchase of private insurance as an option to their Medicaid and SCHIP populations (though they should not require enrollment). (8) Reforms Reforms should be made to prevent lawsuit abuse and curb the practice of defensive medicine, which are significant drivers increasing health care costs. The burden of proof in medical malpractice cases should be based on compliance with best practice guidelines, and States should be free to implement those policies to best suit their needs. 808. Policy statement on Medicare (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) More than 50 million Americans depend on Medicare for their health security. (2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Medicare’s long-term financial challenges be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial condition of Medicare becomes more precarious and the threat to those in or near retirement becomes more pronounced. According to the Medicare Trustees Report— (A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted in 2030 and unable to pay scheduled benefits; (B) Medicare enrollment is expected to increase by over 50 percent in the next two decades, as 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age each day; (C) enrollees remain in Medicare three times longer than at the outset of the program; (D) current workers’ payroll contributions pay for current beneficiaries; (E) in 2013, the ratio was 3.2 workers per beneficiary, but this falls to 2.3 in 2030 and continues to decrease over time; (F) most Medicare beneficiaries receive about three dollars in Medicare benefits for every one dollar paid into the program; and (G) Medicare spending is growing faster than the economy and Medicare outlays are currently rising at a rate of 6.5 percent per year over the next 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office’s 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook, spending on Medicare is projected to reach 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2043 and 9.3 percent of GDP by 2089. (3) Failing to address this problem will leave millions of American seniors without adequate health security and younger generations burdened with enormous debt to pay for spending levels that cannot be sustained. (b) Policy on medicare reform It is the policy of this resolution to preserve the program for those in or near retirement and strengthen Medicare for future beneficiaries. (c) Assumptions This resolution assumes reform of the Medicare program such that— (1) current Medicare benefits are preserved for those in or near retirement; (2) permanent reform of the sustainable growth rate is responsibly accounted for to ensure physicians continue to participate in the Medicare program and provide quality health care for beneficiaries; (3) when future generations reach eligibility, Medicare is reformed to provide a premium support payment and a selection of guaranteed health coverage options from which recipients can choose a plan that best suits their needs; (4) Medicare will maintain traditional fee-for-service as a plan option; (5) Medicare will provide additional assistance for lower income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks; and (6) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term. 809. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) For decades, the Nation's commitment to the discovery, development, and delivery of new treatments and cures has made the United States the biomedical innovation capital of the world, bringing life-saving drugs and devices to patients and well over a million high-paying jobs to local communities. (2) Thanks to the visionary and determined leadership of innovators throughout America, including industry, academic medical centers, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States has led the way in early discovery. The United States leadership role is being threatened, however, as other countries contribute more to basic research from both public and private sources. (3) The Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation predicts that China, for example, will outspend the United States in total research and development by the end of the decade. (4) Federal policies should foster innovation in health care, not stifle it. America should maintain its world leadership in medical science by encouraging competitive forces to work through the marketplace in delivering cures and therapies to patients. (5) Too often the bureaucracy and red-tape in Washington hold back medical innovation and prevent new lifesaving treatments from reaching patients. This resolution recognizes the valuable role of the NIH and the indispensable contributions to medical research coming from outside Washington. (6) America is the greatest, most innovative Nation on Earth. Her people are innovators, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and relentless builders of the future. Americans were responsible for the first telephone, the first airplane, the first computer, for putting the first man on the moon, for creating the first vaccine for polio and for legions of other scientific and medical breakthroughs that have improved and prolonged human health and life for countless people in America and around the world. (b) Policy on Medical Innovation (1) It is the policy of this resolution to support the important work of medical innovators throughout the country, including private-sector innovators, medical centers and the National Institutes of Health. (2) At the same time, the budget calls for continued strong funding for the agencies that engage in valuable research and development, while also urging Washington to get out of the way of researchers, discoverers and innovators all over the country. 810. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Excessive regulation at the Federal level has hurt job creation and dampened the economy, slowing the Nation’s recovery from the economic recession. (2) Since President Obama’s inauguration in 2009, the administration has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations in the Federal Register including 70,066 pages in 2014. (3) The National Association of Manufacturers estimates the total cost of regulations is as high as $2.03 trillion per year. Since 2009, the White House has generated more than $494 billion in regulatory activity, with an additional $87.6 billion in regulatory costs currently pending. (4) The Dodd-Frank financial services legislation ( Public Law 111–203 ) has resulted in more than $32 billion in compliance costs and saddled job creators with more than 63 million hours of compliance paperwork. (5) Implementation of the Affordable Care Act to date has added 132.9 million annual hours of compliance paperwork, imposing $24.3 billion of compliance costs on the private sector and an $8 billion cost burden on the States. (6) The highest regulatory costs come from rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); these regulations are primarily targeted at the coal industry. In June 2014, the EPA proposed a rule to cut carbon pollution from the Nation's power plants. The proposed standards are unachievable with current commercially available technology, resulting in a de-facto ban on new coal-fired power plants. (7) Coal-fired power plants provide roughly 40 percent of the United States electricity at a low cost. Unfairly targeting the coal industry with costly and unachievable regulations will increase energy prices, disproportionately disadvantaging energy-intensive industries like manufacturing and construction, and will make life more difficult for millions of low-income and middle class families already struggling to pay their bills. (8) Three hundred and thirty coal units are being retired or converted as a result of EPA regulations. Combined with the de-facto prohibition on new plants, these retirements and conversions may further increase the cost of electricity. (9) A recent study by the energy market analysis group Energy Ventures Analysis Inc. estimates the average energy bill in West Virginia will rise $750 per household by 2020, due in part to EPA regulations. West Virginia receives 95 percent of its electricity from coal. (10) The Heritage Foundation found that a phase-out of coal would cost 600,000 jobs by the end of 2023, resulting in an aggregate gross domestic product decrease of $2.23 trillion over the entire period and reducing the income of a family of four by $1,200 per year. Of these jobs, 330,000 will come from the manufacturing sector, with California, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia seeing the highest job losses. (b) Policy on federal regulatory reform It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consultation with the public burdened by excessive regulation, enact legislation that— (1) promotes economic growth and job creation by eliminating unnecessary red tape and streamlining and simplifying Federal regulations; (2) requires the implementation of a regulatory budget to be allocated amongst Government agencies, which would require congressional approval and limit the maximum costs of regulations in a given year; (3) requires congressional approval of all new major regulations (those with an impact of $100 million or more) before enactment as opposed to current law in which Congress must expressly disapprove of regulation to prevent it from becoming law, which would keep Congress engaged as to pending regulatory policy and prevent costly and unsound policies from being implemented and becoming effective; (4) requires a three year retrospective cost-benefit analysis of all new major regulations, to ensure that regulations operate as intended; (5) reinforces the requirement of regulatory impact analysis for regulations proposed by executive branch agencies but also expands the requirement to independent agencies so that by law they consider the costs and benefits of proposed regulations rather than merely being encouraged to do so as is current practice; and (6) requires a formal rulemaking process for all major regulations, which would increase transparency over the process and allow interested parties to communicate their views on proposed legislation to agency officials. 811. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity (a) Findings on Higher Education The House finds the following: (1) A well-educated workforce is critical to economic, job, and wage growth. (2) Roughly 20 million students are enrolled in American colleges and universities. (3) Over the past decade, tuition and fees have been growing at an unsustainable rate. Between the 2004–2005 Academic Year and the 2014–2015 Academic Year— (A) published tuition and fees at public 4-year colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 3.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; (B) published tuition and fees at public two-year colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 2.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; and (C) published tuition and fees at private nonprofit 4-year colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 2.2 percent per year above the rate of inflation. (4) Federal financial aid for higher education has also seen a dramatic increase. The portion of the Federal student aid portfolio composed of Direct Loans, Federal Family Education Loans, and Perkins Loans with outstanding balances grew by 119 percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2014. (5) This spending has failed to make college more affordable. (6) In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama noted: We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money . (7) American students are chasing ever-increasing tuition with ever-increasing debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student debt now stands at nearly $1.2 trillion. This makes student loans the second largest balance of consumer debt, after mortgage debt. (8) Students are carrying large debt loads and too many fail to complete college or end up defaulting on these loans due to their debt burden and a weak economy and job market. (9) Based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the Pell Grant Program will face a fiscal shortfall beginning in fiscal year 2017 and continuing in each subsequent year in the current budget window. (10) Failing to address these problems will jeopardize access and affordability to higher education for America’s young people. (b) Policy on higher education affordability It is the policy of this resolution to address the root drivers of tuition inflation, by— (1) targeting Federal financial aid to those most in need; (2) streamlining programs that provide aid to make them more effective; (3) maintaining the maximum Pell grant award level at $5,775 in each year of the budget window; and (4) removing regulatory barriers in higher education that act to restrict flexibility and innovative teaching, particularly as it relates to non-traditional models such as online coursework and competency-based learning. (c) Findings on workforce development The House finds the following: (1) 8.7 million Americans are currently unemployed. (2) Despite billions of dollars in spending, those looking for work are stymied by a broken workforce development system that fails to connect workers with assistance and employers with trained personnel. (3) The House Education and Workforce Committee successfully consolidated 15 job training programs in the recently enacted Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. (d) Policy on workforce development It is the policy of this resolution to address the failings in the current workforce development system, by— (1) further streamlining and consolidating Federal job training programs; and (2) empowering states with the flexibility to tailor funding and programs to the specific needs of their workforce, including the development of career scholarships. 812. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) For years, there has been serious concern regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) bureaucratic mismanagement and continuous failure to provide veterans timely access to health care and benefits. (2) In 2014, reports started breaking across the Nation that VA medical centers were manipulating wait-list documents to hide long delays veterans were facing to receive health care. The VA hospital scandal led to the immediate resignation of then-Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. (3) In 2015, for the first time ever, VA health care was added to the high-risk list of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), due to management and oversight failures that have directly resulted in risks to the timeliness, cost-effectiveness, and quality of health care. (4) In response to the scandal, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held several oversight hearings and ultimately enacted the Veterans’ Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (VACAA) ( Public Law 113–146 ) to address these problems. VACAA provided $15 billion in emergency resources to fund internal health care needs within the department and provided veterans enhanced access to private-sector health care under the new Veterans Choice Program. (b) Policy on the department of veterans affairs This budget supports the continued oversight efforts by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ensure the VA is not only transparent and accountable, but also successful in achieving its goals in providing timely health care and benefits to America’s veterans. The Budget Committee will continue to closely monitor the VA’s progress to ensure resources provided by Congress are sufficient and efficiently used to provide needed benefits and services to veterans. 813. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Given the thousands of Federal programs and trillions of dollars the Federal Government spends each year, assessing and accounting for Federal fiscal activities and liabilities is a complex undertaking. (2) Current methods of accounting leave much to be desired in capturing the full scope of government and in presenting information in a clear and compelling way that illuminates the best options going forward. (3) Most fiscal analysis produced by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is conducted over a relatively short time horizon: 10 or 25 years. While this time frame is useful for most purposes, it fails to consider the fiscal consequences over the longer term. (4) Additionally, current accounting methodology does not provide an analysis of how the Federal Government's fiscal situation over the long run affects Americans of various age cohorts. (5) Another consideration is how Federal programs should be accounted for. The accrual method of accounting records revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred, while the cash method records revenue and expenses when cash is actually paid or received. (6) The Federal budget accounts for most programs using cash accounting. Some programs, however, particularly loan and loan guarantee programs, are accounted for using accrual methods. (7) GAO has indicated that accrual accounting may provide a more accurate estimation of the Federal Government's liabilities than cash accounting for some programs specifically those that provide some form of insurance. (8) Where accrual accounting is used, it is almost exclusively calculated by CBO according to the methodology outlined in the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA). CBO uses fair value methodology instead of FCRA to measure the cost of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. (9) FCRA methodology, however, understates the risk and thus the true cost of Federal programs. An alternative is fair value methodology, which uses discount rates that incorporate the risk inherent to the type of liability being estimated in addition to Treasury discount rates of the proper maturity length. (10) The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that adopting a fair-value approach would provide a more comprehensive way to measure the costs of Federal credit programs and would permit more level comparisons between those costs and the costs of other forms of federal assistance than the current approach under FCRA. (b) Policy on Federal accounting methodologies It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should, in consultation with the Congressional Budget Office and the public affected by Federal budgetary choices, adopt Government-wide reforms of budget and accounting practices so the American people and their representatives can more readily understand the fiscal situation of the Government of the United States and the options best suited to improving it. Such reforms may include but should not be limited to the following: (1) Providing additional metrics to enhance our current analysis by considering our fiscal situation comprehensively, over an extended time horizon, and as it affects Americans of various age cohorts. (2) Expanding the use of accrual accounting where appropriate. (3) Accounting for certain Federal credit programs using fair value accounting as opposed to the current approach under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990. 814. Policy statement on scorekeeping for outyear budgetary effects in appropriation Acts (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 directs the Committee on the Budget to provide an allocation of budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations for the budget year covered by a concurrent resolution on the budget. (2) The allocation of budgetary resources provided by the Committee on the Budget to the Committee on Appropriations covers a period of one fiscal year only, which is effective for the budget year. (3) An appropriation Act, joint resolution, amendment thereto or conference report thereon may contain changes to programs that result in direct budgetary effects that occur beyond the budget year and beyond the period for which the allocation of budgetary resources provided by the Committee on the Budget is effective. (4) The allocation of budgetary resources provided to the Committee on Appropriations does not currently anticipate or capture direct outyear budgetary effects to programs. (5) Budget enforcement could be improved by capturing the direct outyear budgetary effects caused by appropriation Acts and using this information to determine the appropriate allocations of budgetary resources to the Committee on Appropriations when considering future concurrent resolutions on the budget. (b) Policy statement It is the policy of the House of Representatives to more effectively allocate budgetary resources and accurately enforce budget targets by agreeing to a procedure by which the Committee on the Budget should consider the direct outyear budgetary effects of changes to mandatory programs enacted in appropriations bills, joint resolutions, amendments thereto or conference reports thereon when setting the allocation of budgetary resources for the Committee on Appropriations in a concurrent resolution on the budget. The relevant committees of jurisdiction are directed to consult on a procedure during fiscal year 2016 and include recommendations for implementing such procedure in the fiscal year 2017 concurrent resolution on the budget. 815. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized spending (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs, and has so identified dozens of such examples. (2) In its report to Congress on Government Efficiency and Effectiveness, the Comptroller General has stated that addressing the identified waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs could lead to tens of billions of dollars of additional savings. . (3) In 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 the GAO issued reports showing excessive duplication and redundancy in Federal programs including— (A) two hundred nine Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education programs in 13 different Federal agencies at a cost of $3 billion annually; (B) two hundred separate Department of Justice crime prevention and victim services grant programs with an annual cost of $3.9 billion in 2010; (C) twenty different Federal entities administer 160 housing programs and other forms of Federal assistance for housing with a total cost of $170 billion in 2010; (D) seventeen separate Homeland Security preparedness grant programs that spent $37 billion between fiscal years 2011 and 2012; (E) fourteen grant and loan programs, and three tax benefits to reduce diesel emissions; (F) ninety-four different initiatives run by 11 different agencies to encourage green building in the private sector; and (G) twenty-three agencies implemented approximately 670 renewable energy initiatives in fiscal year 2010 at a cost of nearly $15 billion. (4) The Federal Government spends more than $80 billion each year for approximately 1,400 information technology investments. GAO has identified broad acquisition failures, waste, and unnecessary duplication in the Government’s information technology infrastructure. experts have estimated that eliminating these problems could save 25 percent or $20 billion. (5) GAO has identified strategic sourcing as a potential source of spending reductions. In 2011 GAO estimated that saving 10 percent of the total or all Federal procurement could generate more than $50 billion in savings annually. (6) Federal agencies reported an estimated $106 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2013. (7) Under clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, each standing committee must hold at least one hearing during each 120 day period following its establishment on waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs. (8) According to the Congressional Budget Office, by fiscal year 2015, 32 laws will expire, possibly resulting in $693 billion in unauthorized appropriations. Timely reauthorizations of these laws would ensure assessments of program justification and effectiveness. (9) The findings resulting from congressional oversight of Federal Government programs should result in programmatic changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. (b) Policy on Reducing Unnecessary, Wasteful, and Unauthorized Spending (1) Each authorizing committee annually should include in its Views and Estimates letter required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of programs within the jurisdiction of such committee whose funding should be reduced or eliminated. (2) Committees of jurisdiction should review all unauthorized programs funded through annual appropriations to determine if the programs are operating efficiently and effectively. (3) Committees should reauthorize those programs that in the committees’ judgment should continue to receive funding. (4) For those programs not reauthorized by committees, the House of Representatives should enforce the limitations on funding such unauthorized programs in the House rules. If the strictures of the rules are deemed to be too rapid in prohibiting spending on unauthorized programs, then milder measures should be adopted and enforced until a return to the full prohibition of clause 2(a)(1) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House. 816. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) According to the most recent estimate from the Office of Management and Budget, Federal agencies were expected to hold $844 billion in unobligated balances at the close of fiscal year 2015. (2) These funds represent direct and discretionary spending previously made available by Congress that remains available for expenditure. (3) In some cases, agencies are granted funding and it remains available for obligation indefinitely. (4) The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires the Office of Management and Budget to make funds available to agencies for obligation and prohibits the Administration from withholding or cancelling unobligated funds unless approved by an Act of Congress. (5) Greater congressional oversight is required to review and identify potential savings from canceling unobligated balances of funds that are no longer needed. (b) Policy on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances Congressional committees should through their oversight activities identify and achieve savings through the cancellation or rescission of unobligated balances that neither abrogate contractual obligations of the Government nor reduce or disrupt Federal commitments under programs such as Social Security, veterans’ affairs, national security, and Treasury authority to finance the national debt. (c) Deficit reduction Congress, with the assistance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspectors General, and other appropriate agencies should continue to make it a high priority to review unobligated balances and identify savings for deficit reduction. 817. Policy statement on agency fees and spending (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) A number of Federal agencies and organizations have permanent authority to collect fees and other offsetting collections and to spend these collected funds. (2) The total amount of offsetting fees and offsetting collections is estimated by the Office of Management and Budget to be $525 billion in fiscal year 2016. (3) Agency budget justifications are, in some cases, not fully transparent about the amount of program activity funded through offsetting collections or fees. This lack of transparency prevents effective and accountable government. (b) Policy on agency fees and spending It is the policy of this resolution that Congress must reassert its constitutional prerogative to control spending and conduct oversight. To do so, Congress should enact legislation requiring programs that are funded through fees, offsetting receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new budget authority annually. Such allocation may arise from— (1) legislation originating from the authorizing committee of jurisdiction for the agency or program; or (2) fee and account specific allocations included in annual appropriation Acts. 818. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) The budget for the House of Representatives is $188 million less than it was when Republicans became the majority in 2011. (2) The House of Representatives has achieved significant savings by consolidating operations and renegotiating contracts. (b) Policy on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars It is the policy of this resolution that: (1) The House of Representatives must be a model for the responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources and therefore must identify any savings that can be achieved through greater productivity and efficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of House services and resources like printing, conferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, grounds maintenance, postage, and rent. This should include a review of policies and procedures for acquisition of goods and services to eliminate any unnecessary spending. The Committee on House Administration should review the policies pertaining to the services provided to Members and committees of the House, and should identify ways to reduce any subsidies paid for the operation of the House gym, barber shop, salon, and the House dining room. (2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Members of Congress. (3) Retirement benefits for Members of Congress should not include free, taxpayer-funded health care for life. 819. Policy statement on No Budget, No Pay It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget every year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. If by April 15, a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget, the payroll administrator of that House should carry out this policy in the same manner as the provisions of Public Law 113–3 , the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, and should place in an escrow account all compensation otherwise required to be made for Members of that House of Congress. Withheld compensation should be released to Members of that House of Congress the earlier of the day on which that House of Congress agrees to a concurrent resolution on the budget, pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or the last day of that Congress. 820. Policy statement on national security funding (a) Findings The House finds the following: (1) Russian aggression, the growing threats of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Middle East, North Korean and Iranian nuclear and missile programs, and continued Chinese investments in high-end military capabilities and cyber warfare shape the parameters of an increasingly complex and challenging security environment. (2) All four current service chiefs testified that the National Military Strategy could not be executed at sequestration levels. (3) The independent and bipartisan National Defense Panel conducted risk assessments of force structure changes triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) and concluded that in addition to previous cuts to defense dating back to 2009, the sequestration of defense discretionary spending has caused significant shortfalls in U.S. military readiness and both present and future capabilities . (4) The President’s fiscal year 2016 budget irresponsibly ignores current law and requests a defense budget $38 billion above the caps for rhetorical gain. By creating an expectation of spending without a plan to avoid the BCA’s guaranteed sequester upon breaching of its caps, the White House’s proposal compounds the fiscal uncertainty that has affected the military’s ability to adequately plan for future contingencies and make investments crucial for the Nation’s defense. (5) The President’s budget proposes $1.8 trillion in tax increases, in addition to the $1.7 trillion in tax hikes the Administration has already imposed. The President’s tax increases would further burden economic growth and is not a realistic source for offsets to fund defense sequester replacement. (b) Policy on fiscal year 2016 national defense funding In fiscal year 2015, the House-passed budget resolution anticipated $566 billion for national defense in the discretionary base budget for fiscal year 2016. With no necessary statutory change yet provided by Congress, the BCA statute would require limiting national defense discretionary base funding to $523 billion in fiscal year 2016. However, in total with $90 billion, the House Budget estimate for Overseas Contingency Operations funding for the Department of Defense, the fiscal year 2016 budget provides over $613 billion total for defense spending that is higher than the President’s budget request for the fiscal year. This concurrent resolution provides $22 billion above the President’s Five Year Defense Plan and $151 billion above the 10-year totals. This would also be $387 billion above the 10-year total for current levels. (c) Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund (1) The budget resolution recognizes the need to ensure robust funding for national defense while maintaining overall fiscal discipline. The budget resolution prioritizes our national defense and the needs of the warfighter by providing needed dollars through the creation of the Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund . (2) The Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund provides the mechanism for Congress to responsibly allocate in a deficit-neutral way the resources the military needs to secure the safety and liberty of United States citizens from threats at home and abroad. The Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund will provide the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House the ability to increase allocations to support legislation that would provide for the Department of Defense warfighting capabilities, modernization, a temporary increase in end strength, training and maintenance associated with combat readiness, activities to reach full auditability of the Department of Defense’s financial statements, and implementation of military and compensation reforms. (d) Sequester Replacement for National Defense This concurrent resolution encourages an immediate reevaluation of Federal Government priorities to maintain the strength of America’s national security posture. In identifying policies to restructure and stabilize the Government’s major entitlement programs which, along with net interest, will consume all Federal revenue in less than 20 years. The budget also charts a course that can ensure the availability of needed national security resources.

Karen L. Haas Clerk.

tv_txt: One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America 1st Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen S. CON. RES. 11 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 5, 2015 Agreed to CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Govenment for fical year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.

1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 (a) Declaration Congress declares that this concurrent resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that this concurrent resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. (b) Table of Contents The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016. TITLE I—Recommended levels and amounts Subtitle A—Budgetary levels in both Houses Sec. 1101. Recommended levels and amounts. Sec. 1102. Major functional categories. Subtitle B—Levels and amounts in the Senate Sec. 1201. Social Security in the Senate. Sec. 1202. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses in the Senate. TITLE II—Reconciliation Sec. 2001. Reconciliation in the Senate. Sec. 2002. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. TITLE III—Budget enforcement Subtitle A—Budget enforcement in both Houses Sec. 3101. Point of order against increasing long-term deficits or direct spending. Sec. 3102. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism. Sec. 3103. Point of order against certain changes in mandatory programs. Sec. 3104. Point of order against provisions that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund. Sec. 3105. Fair-value credit estimates. Sec. 3106. Scoring rule for currency modernization. Sec. 3107. Long-term scoring of changes in spending limits and extension of highway programs. Sec. 3108. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits. Sec. 3109. Congressional Budget Office estimates of measures with significant outlay effects. Sec. 3110. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset. Sec. 3111. Information for Congress and the public about projected Federal outlays, revenues, and deficits. Sec. 3112. Honest accounting: cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects. Subtitle B—Budget enforcement in the Senate Sec. 3201. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate. Sec. 3202. Point of order against advance appropriations in the Senate. Sec. 3203. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates in the Senate. Sec. 3204. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation. Sec. 3205. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score in the Senate. Sec. 3206. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills in the Senate. Sec. 3207. Scoring rule for certain energy contracts in the Senate. Sec. 3208. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding in the Senate. Subtitle C—Budget enforcement in the House of Representatives Sec. 3301. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3302. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3303. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3304. Limitation on advance appropriations in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3305. Certain energy contracts in the House of Representatives. Subtitle D—Other provisions Sec. 3401. Submission of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. Sec. 3402. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. Sec. 3403. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. Sec. 3404. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. Sec. 3405. Exercise of rulemaking powers. TITLE IV—Reserve funds Subtitle A—Reserve Funds in both Houses Sec. 4101. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans. Subtitle B—Reserve Funds in the Senate Sec. 4301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States. Sec. 4302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities. Sec. 4303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable health care choices for all. Sec. 4304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Sec. 4305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms. Sec. 4306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child welfare. Sec. 4307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers. Sec. 4308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration. Sec. 4309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America. Sec. 4310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation. Sec. 4311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade. Sec. 4312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers. Sec. 4313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform. Sec. 4314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation. Sec. 4315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes. Sec. 4316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation. Sec. 4317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights. Sec. 4318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program. Sec. 4319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health. Sec. 4320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government. Sec. 4321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform. Sec. 4322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration. Sec. 4323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states. Sec. 4324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities. Sec. 4325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled. Sec. 4326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare. Sec. 4327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers. Sec. 4328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process. Sec. 4329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans. Sec. 4330. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States. Sec. 4331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sec. 4332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States. Sec. 4333. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit. Sec. 4334. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification. Sec. 4335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse. Sec. 4336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce. Sec. 4337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform. Sec. 4338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs. Sec. 4339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation. Sec. 4340. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment. Sec. 4341. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments. Sec. 4342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve health outcomes and lower the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid. Sec. 4343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to maintain and enhance access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program. Sec. 4344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay. Sec. 4345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect and strengthen Social Security. Sec. 4346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option. Sec. 4347. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal Water Pollution Control Act focused on the protection of water quality. Sec. 4348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Israel. Sec. 4349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to family and medical leave. Sec. 4350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to care. Sec. 4351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program. Sec. 4352. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to transparency in health premium billing. Sec. 4353. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to carbon emissions. Sec. 4354. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to requiring the Federal Government to allow states to opt out of Common Core without penalty. Sec. 4355. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of certain Federal land. Sec. 4356. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding of international organizations during the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation. Sec. 4357. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reimposing waived sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Iran for violations of the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Sec. 4358. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981. Sec. 4359. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers. Sec. 4360. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the Federal estate tax. Sec. 4361. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions. Sec. 4362. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately held water rights and permits. Sec. 4363. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting awarding of construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations. Sec. 4364. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent American jobs from being moved overseas by reducing the corporate income tax rate. Sec. 4365. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase wages for American workers. Sec. 4366. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to deterring the migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Sec. 4367. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring proper economic consideration in designation of critical habitat. Sec. 4368. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end too big to fail bailouts for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets). Sec. 4369. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending Washington’s illegal exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Sec. 4370. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Sec. 4371. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sec. 4372. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Sec. 4373. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide equity in the tax treatment of public safety officer death benefits. Sec. 4374. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits. Sec. 4375. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication. Sec. 4376. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming Offices of Inspectors General and preventing extended vacancies. Sec. 4377. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving retirement security. Sec. 4378. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the competitiveness of the United States. Sec. 4379. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that the conservation of northern long-eared bat populations and local economic development are compatible. Sec. 4380. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve cybersecurity. Sec. 4381. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies. Sec. 4382. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies. Sec. 4383. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers. Sec. 4384. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans. Sec. 4385. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy. Sec. 4386. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing access to marijuana edibles by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana. Sec. 4387. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas. Sec. 4388. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers. Sec. 4389. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces. Sec. 4390. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program. Sec. 4391. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet. Sec. 4392. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the reliability of the electricity grid. Sec. 4393. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to preserve and protect the open Internet. Sec. 4394. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming the Federal regulatory process. Sec. 4395. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program. Sec. 4396. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the modernization of the nuclear command, control, and communications architecture of the United States. Sec. 4397. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to BARDA and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund. Sec. 4398. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the nuclear forces and missions of the Air Force. Sec. 4399. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting economic growth and job creation for small businesses and full funding for at-sea and dockside monitoring for certain fisheries. Sec. 4400. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the definition of full-time employee. Sec. 4401. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process. Sec. 4402. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite awards under the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program. Sec. 4403. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities. Sec. 4404. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department. Sec. 4405. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions. Sec. 4406. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the Corporation for National and Community Service. Sec. 4407. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that Department of Justice attorneys comply with disclosure obligations in criminal prosecutions. Sec. 4408. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote biomedical research. Sec. 4409. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing access to necessary equipment for Medicare beneficiaries. Sec. 4410. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prioritizing the construction of infrastructure projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors. Sec. 4411. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO. Sec. 4412. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government. Sec. 4413. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving higher education data and transparency. Sec. 4414. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Native children. Sec. 4415. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to provide additional funding for international strategic communications. Sec. 4416. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for elementary and secondary education. Sec. 4417. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support research. Sec. 4418. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to support for Ukraine. Sec. 4419. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to underground and surface mining safety research. Sec. 4420. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to saving Medicare. Subtitle C—Reserve Funds in the House of Representatives Sec. 4501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President's health care law. Sec. 4502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform. Sec. 4503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the President's health care law. Sec. 4504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Sec. 4505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education. Sec. 4506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. Sec. 4507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. Sec. 4508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. Sec. 4509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation. Sec. 4510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform. Sec. 4511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for national defense. TITLE V—Estimates of direct spending in the House of Representatives Sec. 5001. Direct spending. TITLE VI—Policy Statements Subtitle A—Policy statements in both Houses Sec. 6101. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment. Sec. 6102. Policy statement on Social Security. Subtitle B—Policy statement in the House of Representatives Sec. 6201. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform. Sec. 6202. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. Sec. 6203. Policy statement on tax reform. Sec. 6204. Policy statement on trade. Sec. 6205. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform. Sec. 6206. Policy statement on Medicare. Sec. 6207. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation. Sec. 6208. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform. Sec. 6209. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity. Sec. 6210. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 6211. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies. Sec. 6212. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized spending. Sec. 6213. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. Sec. 6214. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. Sec. 6215. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Sec. 6216. Policy statement on No Budget, No Pay . Sec. 6217. Policy statement on national security funding. I Recommended levels and amounts A Budgetary levels in both Houses 1101. Recommended levels and amounts The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2025: (1) Federal revenues For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution: (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $2,676,733,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,776,156,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,870,206,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $2,982,310,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,107,111,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,247,391,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,392,968,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,554,412,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,723,973,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,906,111,000,000. (B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $0. Fiscal year 2017: $0. Fiscal year 2018: $0. Fiscal year 2019: $0. Fiscal year 2020: $0. Fiscal year 2021: $0. Fiscal year 2022: $0. Fiscal year 2023: $0. Fiscal year 2024: $0. Fiscal year 2025: $0. (2) New budget authority For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,039,215,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,956,581,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,970,682,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,107,123,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,234,011,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,313,719,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,420,057,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,484,446,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,504,239,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,634,452,000,000. (3) Budget outlays For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $3,091,442,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $2,982,215,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $2,963,926,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,086,454,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,205,304,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $3,291,249,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,434,709,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,470,642,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $3,466,541,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $3,610,342,000,000. (4) Deficits For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $414,709,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $206,059,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $93,720,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $104,144,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $98,193,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $43,858,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $41,741,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: −$83,770,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: −$257,432,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: −$295,769,000,000. (5) Public debt Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the appropriate levels of the public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $19,059,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $19,490,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $19,826,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $20,164,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $20,494,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $20,773,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $21,033,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $21,188,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $21,194,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $21,149,000,000,000. (6) Debt held by the public The appropriate levels of debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $13,842,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $14,124,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $14,307,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $14,523,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $14,757,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $14,965,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $15,204,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $15,354,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $15,374,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $15,405,000,000,000. 1102. Major functional categories Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2016 through 2025 for each major functional category are: (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $531,306,000,000. (B) Outlays, $564,325,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $544,515,000,000. (B) Outlays, $549,357,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $557,764,000,000. (B) Outlays, $548,021,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $571,039,000,000. (B) Outlays, $560,439,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $585,330,000,000. (B) Outlays, $572,493,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $599,646,000,000. (B) Outlays, $585,628,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $632,804,000,000. (B) Outlays, $615,907,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $646,039,000,000. (B) Outlays, $628,518,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $659,310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $638,235,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $673,490,000,000. (B) Outlays, $658,011,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $40,202,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,028,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $40,246,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,086,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $41,176,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,818,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $42,100,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,391,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $43,092,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,518,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $44,085,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,005,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $45,333,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,749,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $46,348,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,510,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $47,408,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,367,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $48,485,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,266,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $29,187,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,555,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $29,771,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,707,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $30,432,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,162,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $31,104,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,647,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $31,805,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,283,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $32,508,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,875,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $33,242,000,000. (B) Outlays, $32,579,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $33,978,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,306,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $34,743,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,053,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $35,517,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,815,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, −$3,201,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,412,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $1,962,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,095,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, −$746,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$2,111,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, −$856,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,936,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, −$884,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,811,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, −$948,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,657,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, −$1,030,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,651,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, −$1,098,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,643,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, −$1,144,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,614,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, −$1,153,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$1,589,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $36,374,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,499,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $37,654,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,016,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $38,325,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,595,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $38,923,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,465,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $40,388,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,563,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $41,191,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,461,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $41,650,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,770,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $42,496,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,726,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $43,935,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,453,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $45,039,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,409,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $19,098,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,572,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $22,846,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,376,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $21,964,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,853,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $20,652,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,875,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $19,681,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,132,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $19,545,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,025,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $19,509,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,979,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $20,119,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,590,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $20,253,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,699,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $20,540,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,028,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, −$997,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$10,566,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, −$8,697,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$21,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, −$8,277,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$25,173,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, −$7,401,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$26,866,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, −$5,156,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$22,499,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, −$4,806,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$19,423,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, −$4,250,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$20,716,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, −$3,613,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$21,520,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, −$2,754,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$21,962,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, −$2,278,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$22,335,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $72,055,000,000. (B) Outlays, $87,153,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $72,715,000,000. (B) Outlays, $82,838,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $73,262,000,000. (B) Outlays, $79,648,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $73,696,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,845,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $74,070,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,268,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $74,409,000,000. (B) Outlays, $77,871,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $55,154,000,000. (B) Outlays, $73,378,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $56,254,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,074,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $56,798,000,000. (B) Outlays, $62,874,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $57,190,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,710,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (450): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $15,486,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,692,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $16,344,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,144,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $16,737,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,692,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $16,973,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,450,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $16,984,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,702,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $16,903,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,682,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $9,965,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,034,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $9,947,000,000. (B) Outlays, $15,892,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $9,993,000,000. (B) Outlays, $13,220,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $10,077,000,000. (B) Outlays, $11,515,000,000. (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services (500): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $83,315,000,000. (B) Outlays, $93,293,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $89,084,000,000. (B) Outlays, $92,888,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $91,432,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,193,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $90,189,000,000. (B) Outlays, $89,369,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $92,597,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,891,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $93,900,000,000. (B) Outlays, $93,562,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $95,502,000,000. (B) Outlays, $95,022,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $96,984,000,000. (B) Outlays, $96,608,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $98,820,000,000. (B) Outlays, $98,336,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $100,785,000,000. (B) Outlays, $100,297,000,000. (11) Health (550): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $433,064,000,000. (B) Outlays, $430,917,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $397,209,000,000. (B) Outlays, $394,211,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $387,638,000,000. (B) Outlays, $397,302,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $398,203,000,000. (B) Outlays, $399,888,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $420,326,000,000. (B) Outlays, $411,116,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $426,184,000,000. (B) Outlays, $426,218,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $442,681,000,000. (B) Outlays, $442,701,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $461,378,000,000. (B) Outlays, $461,378,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $476,599,000,000. (B) Outlays, $476,631,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $493,913,000,000. (B) Outlays, $494,059,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $579,430,000,000. (B) Outlays, $579,361,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $571,876,000,000. (B) Outlays, $571,830,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $566,754,000,000. (B) Outlays, $566,656,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $628,736,000,000. (B) Outlays, $628,652,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $667,036,000,000. (B) Outlays, $666,951,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $711,198,000,000. (B) Outlays, $711,111,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $800,458,000,000. (B) Outlays, $800,363,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $812,590,000,000. (B) Outlays, $812,496,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $815,240,000,000. (B) Outlays, $815,139,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $923,187,000,000. (B) Outlays, $923,082,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $523,086,000,000. (B) Outlays, $523,645,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $496,233,000,000. (B) Outlays, $492,511,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $485,055,000,000. (B) Outlays, $476,530,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $476,663,000,000. (B) Outlays, $471,357,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $484,015,000,000. (B) Outlays, $478,199,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $489,999,000,000. (B) Outlays, $484,318,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $498,503,000,000. (B) Outlays, $497,869,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $503,364,000,000. (B) Outlays, $499,521,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $510,872,000,000. (B) Outlays, $501,192,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $517,417,000,000. (B) Outlays, $511,441,000,000. (14) Social Security Retirement and Disability (650): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $33,885,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,928,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $36,535,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,563,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,407,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,424,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $42,634,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,634,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $46,104,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,104,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $49,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $53,547,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $57,455,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,455,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $61,546,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,546,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $65,751,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,751,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $166,261,000,000. (B) Outlays, $171,862,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $164,546,000,000. (B) Outlays, $168,559,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $162,740,000,000. (B) Outlays, $162,753,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $174,599,000,000. (B) Outlays, $173,869,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $179,485,000,000. (B) Outlays, $178,581,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $183,721,000,000. (B) Outlays, $182,821,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $196,041,000,000. (B) Outlays, $195,056,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $192,637,000,000. (B) Outlays, $191,640,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $189,442,000,000. (B) Outlays, $188,356,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $203,290,000,000. (B) Outlays, $202,189,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $50,976,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,455,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $57,639,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,693,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $55,885,000,000. (B) Outlays, $54,562,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $57,582,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,699,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $59,324,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $61,247,000,000. (B) Outlays, $62,635,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $63,791,000,000. (B) Outlays, $63,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $65,688,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,589,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $67,626,000,000. (B) Outlays, $67,266,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $69,425,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,892,000,000. (17) General Government (800): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $23,151,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,981,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $23,194,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,289,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $23,426,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,371,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $24,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,685,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $24,703,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,290,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $25,202,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,878,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $25,962,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,562,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $26,698,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,272,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $27,130,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,766,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $27,881,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,435,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $367,542,000,000. (B) Outlays, $367,542,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $416,418,000,000. (B) Outlays, $416,418,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $479,446,000,000. (B) Outlays, $479,446,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $533,121,000,000. (B) Outlays, $533,121,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $579,344,000,000. (B) Outlays, $579,344,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $611,558,000,000. (B) Outlays, $611,558,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $642,888,000,000. (B) Outlays, $642,888,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $669,066,000,000. (B) Outlays, $669,066,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $687,195,000,000. (B) Outlays, $687,195,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $694,215,000,000. (B) Outlays, $694,215,000,000. (19) Allowances (920): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $25,256,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,538,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, −$21,661,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$5,856,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, −$50,890,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$40,133,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, −$60,624,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$53,987,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, −$72,620,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$65,480,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, −$104,010,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$98,128,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, −$119,157,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$111,033,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, −$131,418,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$122,924,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, −$168,306,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$160,427,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, −$204,728,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$186,150,000,000. (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, −$82,548,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$82,548,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, −$96,446,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$96,446,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, −$103,441,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$103,441,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, −$101,796,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$101,796,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, −$101,191,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$101,191,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, −$105,094,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$105,094,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, −$112,536,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$112,536,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, −$120,466,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$120,466,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, −$130,467,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$130,467,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, −$143,591,000,000. (B) Outlays, −$143,591,000,000. (21) Overseas Contingency Operations (970): Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $96,287,000,000. (B) Outlays, $48,798,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $64,598,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,684,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $62,593,000,000. (B) Outlays, $63,758,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $57,586,000,000. (B) Outlays, $60,653,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $49,578,000,000. (B) Outlays, $54,095,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $47,569,000,000. (B) Outlays, $50,191,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $19,493,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $7,554,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $2,683,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $0. (B) Outlays, $892,000,000. B Levels and amounts in the Senate 1201. Social Security in the Senate (a) Social Security Revenues For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of revenues of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $793,987,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $826,098,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $858,899,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $892,421,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $927,413,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $963,896,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,002,225,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $1,041,673,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $1,082,208,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $1,124,298,000,000. (b) Social Security Outlays For purposes of Senate enforcement under sections 302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the amounts of outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: $777,085,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $822,772,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $878,895,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $937,383,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $1,002,161,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $1,070,556,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $1,143,375,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $1,221,800,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $1,305,195,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $1,393,212,000,000. (c) Social Security Administrative Expenses In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for administrative expenses are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $5,146,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,205,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $5,296,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,296,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $5,469,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,440,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $5,645,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,614,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $5,827,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,795,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $6,012,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,980,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $6,205,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,172,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $6,399,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,365,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $6,600,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,565,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $6,805,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,769,000,000. 1202. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses in the Senate In the Senate, the amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays of the Postal Service for discretionary administrative expenses are as follows: Fiscal year 2016: (A) New budget authority, $266,000,000. (B) Outlays, $265,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $277,000,000. (B) Outlays, $277,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $288,000,000. (B) Outlays, $288,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $299,000,000. (B) Outlays, $298,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $310,000,000. (B) Outlays, $310,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $321,000,000. (B) Outlays, $320,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $334,000,000. (B) Outlays, $333,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $346,000,000. (B) Outlays, $345,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $358,000,000. (B) Outlays, $357,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $371,000,000. (B) Outlays, $370,000,000. II Reconciliation 2001. Reconciliation in the Senate (a) In general (1) Committee on finance The Committee on Finance of the Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (2) Committee on health, education, labor, and pensions The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate shall report changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (3) Submissions In the Senate, not later than July 24, 2015, the Senate Committees named in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. Upon receiving all such recommendations, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall report to the Senate a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. (b) Limit on Senate consideration of reconciliation (1) Point of order It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a bill or joint resolution reported pursuant to subsection (a), or an amendment to, conference report on, or amendment between the Houses in relation to such a bill or joint resolution, which would increase the public debt limit under section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, during the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (2) Waiver This subsection may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (3) Appeals An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on the point of order raised under this subsection. 2002. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives (a) In general (1) Committee on Education and the Workforce The Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (2) Committee on Energy and Commerce The Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (3) Committee on Ways and Means The Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by not less than $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. (4) Submission providing for deficit reduction In the House of Representatives, not later than July 24, 2015, the committees named in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) shall submit their recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives to carry out this section. (b) Reconciliation procedures (1) Estimating assumptions (A) Assumptions In the House of Representatives, for purposes of titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 631 et seq. and 651 et seq.), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall use the baseline underlying the Congressional Budget Office’s March 2015 update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 (January 2015) when making estimates of any bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto, amendment between the Houses in relation thereto, or conference report thereon. If adjustments to the baseline are made subsequent to the adoption of this concurrent resolution, then such Chairman shall determine whether to use any of these adjustments when making such estimates. (B) Intent The authority set forth in subparagraph (A) should only be exercised if the estimates used to determine the compliance of such measures with the budgetary requirements included in this concurrent resolution are inaccurate because adjustments made to the baseline are inconsistent with the assumptions underlying the budgetary levels set forth in this concurrent resolution. Such inaccurate adjustments made after the adoption of this concurrent resolution may include selected adjustments for rulemaking, judicial actions, adjudication, and interpretative rules that have major budgetary effects and are inconsistent with the assumptions underlying the budgetary levels set forth in this concurrent resolution. (C) Congressional Budget Office estimates Upon the request of the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives, the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare for any measure an estimate based on the baseline determination made by such Chairman pursuant to subparagraph (A). (2) Repeal of the president’s health care law through reconciliation In the House of Representatives, in preparing their submissions under subsection (a) to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives, the committees named in subsection (a) shall— (A) note the policies discussed in title VI that repeal the Affordable Care Act and the health care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and (B) determine the most effective methods by which the health care laws referred to in subparagraph (A) shall be repealed in their entirety. (3) Revision of budgetary levels (A) In general Upon the submission of a reconciliation recommendation to the House of Representatives or the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives or the submission of a conference report to the House of Representatives pursuant to this section, in which a committee is deemed to have complied with its directive by virtue of section 310(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 641(c) ), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives may file with the House of Representatives appropriately revised allocations, aggregates, and functional levels. (B) Revision Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant to this paragraph shall be considered to be allocations and aggregates established by this concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 ). III Budget enforcement A Budget enforcement in both Houses 3101. Point of order against increasing long-term deficits or direct spending (a) Congressional budget office analysis of proposals The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare an estimate of whether a measure would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in on-budget deficits in the Senate, and a net increase in direct spending in the House, in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 fiscal years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget— (1) in the Senate, for each bill and joint resolution reported by a committee, other than the Committee on Appropriations, and amendments thereto, amendments between the Houses in relation thereto, conference reports thereon, and motions thereon; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for each bill and joint resolution reported by a committee, other than the Committee on Appropriations, and amendments thereto and conference reports thereon. (b) Point of order It shall not be in order— (1) in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion that would cause a net increase in on-budget deficits in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods described in subsection (a); and (2) in the House of Representatives to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that would cause a net increase in direct spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods described in subsection (a). (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal in the Senate (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (b) may be waived or suspended only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal In the Senate, an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (b). (d) Limitation The provisions of this section shall not apply to— (1) in the Senate, any bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, conference reports, or motions for which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in this concurrent resolution pursuant to section 4303(1); and (2) in the House of Representatives, any bills or joint resolutions, or amendments thereto or conference reports thereon, for which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of House of Representatives has made adjustments to the allocations, levels, or limits contained in this concurrent resolution pursuant to section 4501, 4502, or 4503. (e) Determinations of budget levels For purposes of this section— (1) the levels of net increases in deficits shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate; and (2) the levels of net increases in direct spending shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. (f) Repeal in the Senate In the Senate, section 311 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. (g) Sunset in the House of Representatives In the House of Representatives, this section shall remain in effect through September 30, 2017. 3102. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (a) Separate Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism allocation In the Senate and the House of Representatives, there shall be a separate allocation of new budget authority and outlays provided to the Committee on Appropriations for the purposes of Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism, which shall be deemed an allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a) ). Section 302(a)(3) of such Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. (b) 302 allocations The separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) shall be the exclusive allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(b) ). The Committee on Appropriations of the applicable House of Congress may provide suballocations of such separate allocation under such section 302(b). (c) Application (1) In general For purposes of enforcing the separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(f) ), the first fiscal year and the total of fiscal years shall be deemed to refer to fiscal year 2016. Section 302(c) of such Act ( 2 U.S.C. 633(c) ) shall not apply to such separate allocation. (2) Additional Senate enforcement In the Senate, section 302(f)(2)(A) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(f)(2)(A) ) shall apply with respect to the separate allocation to the Committee on Appropriations referred to in subsection (a). (d) Designations New budget authority or outlays shall only be counted toward the allocation referred to in subsection (a) if they are designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(B)(A)(ii) ). (e) Adjustments For purposes of subsection (a) for fiscal year 2016, no adjustment shall be made under section 314(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if any adjustment would be made under section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(B)(A)(ii) ). (f) Adjustments To fund Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the applicable House of Congress may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels related to Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or the allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a) ) to the Committee on Appropriations set forth in the joint statement of managers accompanying this concurrent resolution to account for new information. 3103. Point of order against certain changes in mandatory programs (a) Definition In this section, the term CHIMP means a provision that— (1) would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 902 ) (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) if the provision was included in legislation other than appropriation Acts; and (2) results in a net decrease in budget authority in the budget year, but does not result in a net decrease in outlays over the period of the total of the current year, the budget year, and all fiscal years covered under the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget. (b) Points of order (1) In the Senate It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal year, or an amendment thereto, amendment between the Houses in relation thereto, conference report thereon, or motion thereon, that includes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3). (2) In the House of Representatives (A) In general A provision in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal year that proposes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3), shall not be in order in the House of Representatives. (B) Amendments and conference reports It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider an amendment to, or a conference report on, a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal year if such amendment thereto or conference report thereon proposes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3). (3) Amount The amount specified in this paragraph is— (A) for fiscal year 2016, $19,100,000,000; (B) for fiscal year 2017, $19,100,000,000; (C) for fiscal year 2018, $17,000,000,000; and (D) for fiscal year 2019, $15,000,000,000. (c) Determination For purposes of this section, budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the applicable House of Congress. (d) Supermajority waiver and appeal in the Senate In the Senate, subsection (b) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (b). (e) Repeal In the Senate, section 314 of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2009, shall no longer apply. 3104. Point of order against provisions that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund (a) Definition In this section— (1) the term CHIMP has the meaning given such term in section 3103(a); and (2) the term Crime Victims Fund means the Crime Victims Fund established under section 1402 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 ( 42 U.S.C. 10601 ). (b) Point of order in the Senate (1) In general When the Senate is considering a bill or joint resolution making full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2016, or an amendment thereto, amendment between the Houses in relation thereto, conference report thereon, or motion thereon, if a point of order is made by a Senator against a provision containing a CHIMP affecting the Crime Victims Fund that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund in relation to fiscal year 2016 to be more than $10,800,000,000, and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, that provision shall be stricken from the measure and may not be offered as an amendment from the floor. (2) Form of the point of order A point of order under paragraph (1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 644(e) ). (3) Conference reports When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to paragraph (1), and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. (4) Supermajority waiver and appeal In the Senate, this subsection may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chose and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this subsection. (5) Determination For purposes of this subsection, budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate. (c) Points of order in the House (1) In general A provision in a bill or joint resolution making full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that proposes a CHIMP affecting the Crime Victims Fund that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund in relation to fiscal year 2016 to be more than $10,800,000,000, shall not be in order in the House of Representatives. (2) Amendments and conference reports It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider an amendment to, or a conference report on, a bill or joint resolution making full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2016 if such amendment thereto or conference report thereon proposes a CHIMP affecting the Crime Victims Fund that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all CHIMPs affecting the Crime Victims Fund in relation to fiscal year 2016 to be more than $10,800,000,000. (3) Determination For purposes of this subsection, budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. (d) Review of procedures regarding CHIMPs The Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall review existing budget enforcement procedures regarding CHIMPs included in appropriations legislation. These committees of jurisdiction should consult with other relevant committees of jurisdiction and other interested parties to review such procedures, including for Crime Victims Fund spending, and include any agreed upon recommendations in subsequent concurrent resolutions on the budget. 3105. Fair-value credit estimates (a) Fair-value estimates Upon the request of the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate or the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives, any estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office under title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 661 et seq. ) of the cost of a measure shall include, when practicable, an additional estimate of the cost, measured on a fair-value basis— (1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon. (b) Estimates for housing and student loan programs Any estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office under title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 661 et seq. ) of the cost of a provision in a measure relating to a housing, residential mortgage, or student loan program shall include an additional estimate of the cost, measured on a fair-value basis— (1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon. (c) Enforcement in the House of Representatives If the Director of the Congressional Budget Office provides an estimate pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives may use such estimate to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) and other budgetary enforcement controls. 3106. Scoring rule for currency modernization In the Senate and the House of Representatives, for purposes of determining points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any provision contained in a measure relating to a transition from the $1 note to a $1 coin shall— (1) in the Senate, for each bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion— (A) record the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision in the first year in which the provision takes effect; (B) determine the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision based on a net present value estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision over a 30-year period; and (C) incorporate the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision due to behavioral changes; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for each bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon— (A) record the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision in the first year in which the provision takes effect; (B) determine the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision based on a net present value estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision over a 30-year period; and (C) incorporate the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the provision due to behavioral changes. 3107. Long-term scoring of changes in spending limits and extension of highway programs (a) Scoring of legislation increasing the discretionary spending limits Any estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office shall provide, in addition to such estimate, an estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues under the legislation over the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045— (1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion that increases the discretionary spending limits under section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(c) ); and (2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that increases the discretionary spending limits under section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(c) ). (b) Scoring of legislation relating to the Highway Trust Fund Any estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office shall provide, in addition to such estimate, an estimate of the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues under the legislation over the period of fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2045— (1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion that transfers amounts from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that transfers amounts from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund. 3108. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits When the Congressional Budget Office releases its annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office shall provide a projection of Federal revenues, outlays, and deficits for the 30-year period beginning with the budget year, expressed in terms of dollars and as a percent of gross domestic product, as part of its annual update required under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ). 3109. Congressional Budget Office estimates of measures with significant outlay effects The Congressional Budget Office shall prepare, to the extent practicable, an estimate of the outlay changes during the second and third decade of enactment for any spending legislative provision— (1) which proposes a change or changes to law that the Congressional Budget Office determines has an outlay impact in excess of 0.25 percent of the gross domestic product of the United States during the first decade or in the tenth year; or (2) with respect to which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate or the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives has requested such an estimate. 3110. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset In the Senate and the House of Representatives, for purposes of determining points of order under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any provision that increases, or extends the increase of, any guarantee fees of the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation shall not be counted in estimating the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues— (1) in the Senate, for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the Houses, conference report, or motion; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon. 3111. Information for Congress and the public about projected Federal outlays, revenues, and deficits As part of the annual update to the Budget and Economic Outlook required under section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 602(e) ), and at any other time the Congressional Budget Office releases projections of Federal deficits over any term of years, the Congressional Budget Office shall publish with its projection a 1-page statement— (1) summarizing and categorizing total outlays, receipts, surpluses, and deficits of the Federal Government on a unified basis for that same prospective time period; and (2) categorizing and subtotaling separately— (A) outlays for mandatory programs and for discretionary programs; (B) outlays, payroll tax revenue, and offsetting receipts for Social Security and for Medicare; (C) the surplus or deficit of revenues over outlays for Social Security and for Medicare; and (D) revenues. 3112. Honest accounting: cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects (a) CBO and JCT estimates During the 114th Congress, any estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) or by the Joint Committee on Taxation to the Congressional Budget Office under section 201(f) of such Act ( 2 U.S.C. 601(f) ) for major legislation considered in the House of Representatives or the Senate shall, to the greatest extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such major legislation. (b) Contents Any estimate referred to in subsection (a) shall, to the extent practicable, include— (1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsection (a)) of the major legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning after the last fiscal year of the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget that sets forth budgetary levels required under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 ); and (2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the source of data underlying that estimate. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Major legislation The term major legislation means— (A) in the Senate, a bill, joint resolution, conference report, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or treaty— (i) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects and not including timing shifts) in a fiscal year in the period of years of the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget equal to or greater than— (I) 0.25 percent of the current projected gross domestic product of the United States for that fiscal year; or (II) for a treaty, equal to or greater than $15,000,000,000 for that fiscal year; or (ii) designated as such by— (I) the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate for all direct spending and revenue legislation; or (II) the Senator who is Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation for revenue legislation; and (B) in the House of Representatives, a bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon— (i) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ) and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects and not including timing shifts) in a fiscal year in the period of years of the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget equal to or greater than 0.25 percent of the current projected gross domestic product of the United States for that fiscal year; or (ii) designated as such by— (I) the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives for all direct spending and revenue legislation; or (II) the Member who is Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation for revenue legislation. (2) Budgetary effects The term budgetary effects means changes in revenues, direct spending outlays, and deficits. (3) Timing shifts The term timing shifts means— (A) provisions that cause a delay of the date on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or (B) provisions that cause an acceleration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur from one fiscal year to the prior fiscal year. B Budget enforcement in the Senate 3201. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate (a) Extension of Congressional Budget Act of 1974 points of order (1) In general Notwithstanding any provision of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ), subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3) of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 note) shall remain in effect for purposes of Senate enforcement through September 30, 2025. (2) Repeal In the Senate, section 205 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply. (b) Other points of order (1) Pay-As-You-Go Section 201(d) of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, is repealed. (2) Short-term deficits Section 404(e) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010, is repealed. 3202. Point of order against advance appropriations in the Senate (a) In general (1) Point of order Except as provided in subsection (b), it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would provide an advance appropriation for a discretionary account. (2) Definition In this section, the term advance appropriation means any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for fiscal year 2016 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2016, or any new budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2017. (b) Exceptions Advance appropriations may be provided— (1) for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this concurrent resolution under the heading Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority in each fiscal year; (2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and (3) for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration. (c) Supermajority waiver and appeal (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a). (d) Form of point of order A point of order under subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 644(e) ). (e) Conference reports When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 3203. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates in the Senate Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 425(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 658d(a) ) shall be subject to the waiver and appeal requirements of subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3), respectively, of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 note). 3204. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation Section 202 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2008, shall no longer apply in the Senate. 3205. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score in the Senate (a) In general In the Senate, it shall not be in order to vote on passage of matter that requires an estimate under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 ), unless such estimate was made publicly available on the website of the Congressional Budget Office not later than 28 hours before the time the vote commences. (b) Supermajority waiver and appeal (1) Waiver In the Senate, subsection (a) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. (2) Appeal An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a). 3206. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills in the Senate In the Senate, section 310(d)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 641(d)(1) ) shall apply and may be waived in accordance with the procedures applicable to a point of order raised under section 310(d)(2) of such Act. 3207. Scoring rule for certain energy contracts in the Senate (a) Estimates In the Senate, for purposes of determining points of order established under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) or any concurrent resolution on the budget, any estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of a provision in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the Houses that directly or indirectly modifies the use of the authority to enter covered energy savings contracts shall— (1) record in the first year in which the provision would become effective, the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues (as estimated in accordance with paragraph (2)) of any modifications to the use of the authority to enter the covered energy savings contracts; (2) in estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of the legislation, calculate the costs and savings arising from covered energy savings contracts, including required payments under the covered energy savings contracts, anticipated savings from reductions in energy use, and other anticipated costs and reductions in spending associated with the covered energy savings contracts, on a net present value basis; and (3) classify the effects of the provision to be changes in spending subject to the availability of appropriations. (b) Rule of construction Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to modify the methodology for estimating the changes in budget authority, outlays, and revenues of a provision that— (1) does not relate to covered energy savings contracts in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, conference report, or amendment between the Houses that contains a provision described in subsection (a); or (2) provides appropriations. (c) Definition In this section, the term covered energy savings contract means— (1) an energy savings performance contract authorized under section 801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8287 ); and (2) a utility energy service contract, as described in the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Federal use of energy savings performance contracting, dated July 25, 1998 (M–98–13), and the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on the Federal use of energy saving performance contracts and utility energy service contracts, dated September 28, 2012 (M–12–21), or any successor to either memorandum. 3208. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding in the Senate If a measure becomes law that amends the adjustments to discretionary spending limits established under section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b) ) for wildfire suppression funding, which may include criteria for making such an adjustment, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may adjust the allocation called for in section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a) ) to the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate, and may adjust all other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained in this concurrent resolution, as necessary, consistent with such measure. C Budget enforcement in the House of Representatives 3301. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency in the House of Representatives (a) In general For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, upon its adoption until the end of fiscal year 2016, it shall not be in order to consider in the House of Representatives a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that reduces the actuarial balance by at least 0.01 percent of the present value of future taxable payroll of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund established under section 201(a) of the Social Security Act for the 75-year period utilized in the most recent annual report of the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act. (b) Exception Subsection (a) shall not apply to a measure that would improve the actuarial balance of the combined balance in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for the 75-year period utilized in the most recent annual report of the Board of Trustees provided pursuant to section 201(c)(2) of the Social Security Act. 3302. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund in the House of Representatives In the House of Representatives, for purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ), the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 900 et seq. ), and the rules or orders of the House of Representatives, a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that transfers funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund, amounts transferred shall be counted as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year the transfer occurs. 3303. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources in the House of Representatives (a) Adjustments of discretionary and direct spending levels In the House of Representatives, if a committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto is offered or any conference report thereon is submitted, providing for a decrease in direct spending (budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year and also provides for an authorization of appropriations for the same purpose, upon the enactment of such measure, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives may decrease the allocation to such committee and increase the allocation of discretionary spending (budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom) to the Committee on Appropriations for fiscal year 2016 by an amount equal to the new budget authority (and outlays flowing therefrom) provided for in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for the same purpose. (b) Determinations In the House of Representatives, for the purpose of enforcing this concurrent resolution, the allocations and aggregate levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for fiscal year 2016 and the period of fiscal years 2016 through fiscal year 2025 shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives and such Chairman may adjust applicable levels of this concurrent resolution. 3304. Limitation on advance appropriations in the House of Representatives (a) In general In the House of Representatives, except as provided for in subsection (b), any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation may not provide for advance appropriations. (b) Exceptions An advance appropriation may be provided for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the report to accompany this concurrent resolution or the joint explanatory statement of managers to accompany this concurrent resolution under the heading— (1) General Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations . (2) Veterans Veterans Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations . (c) Limitations The aggregate level of advance appropriations shall not exceed— (1) General $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority for all programs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(1). (2) Veterans $63,271,000,000 in new budget authority for programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2). (d) Definition The term advance appropriation means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making general appropriations or continuing appropriations, for the fiscal year following fiscal year 2016. 3305. Certain energy contracts in the House of Representatives The House of Representatives shall assess the implementation of section 3207 of this concurrent resolution through a collaborative assessment with the Senate and the Congressional Budget Office of the appropriate scorekeeping methodology for evaluating the budgetary effects of energy savings performance contracts authorized under section 801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8287 ). D Other provisions 3401. Submission of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse (a) In general In the Senate and the House of Representatives, all committees are directed to review programs within their jurisdiction to identify waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication, and increase the use of performance data to inform committee work. (b) Review Committees are also directed to review the applicable matters for congressional consideration identified in the Office of Inspector General semiannual reports and the Office of Inspector General's list of unimplemented recommendations and on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk list and the annual report to reduce program duplication. (c) Report After completing the oversight and performance reviews of programs within their jurisdiction under subsections (a) and (b), the committees are directed to include recommendations for improved governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports submitted by the committees to the Committees on the Budget of the applicable House of Congress under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 632(d) ). 3402. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses (a) In General Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(a)(1) ), section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 ( 2 U.S.C. 632 note), and section 2009a of title 39, United States Code, the report accompanying this concurrent resolution on the budget or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations of the applicable House of Congress amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Service. (b) Special Rule In the Senate and the House of Representatives, for purposes of enforcing sections 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 633(f) ), estimates of the level of total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure shall include any discretionary amounts described in subsection (a). 3403. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates (a) Application Any adjustments of allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this concurrent resolution shall— (1) apply while that measure is under consideration; (2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and (3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable. (b) Effect of Changed Allocations and Aggregates Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 621 et seq. ) as allocations and aggregates contained in this concurrent resolution. (c) Budget Committee Determinations For purposes of this concurrent resolution the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, revenues, deficits, and surpluses for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the applicable House of Congress. (d) Aggregates, allocations and application In the House of Representatives, for purposes of this concurrent resolution and budget enforcement, the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives makes adjustments or revisions in the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels of this concurrent resolution shall not be subject to the points of order set forth in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives or section 3101 of this concurrent resolution. 3404. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions Upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution providing for a change in concepts or definitions, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the applicable House of Congress may make adjustments to the levels and allocations in this concurrent resolution in accordance with section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901(b) ). 3405. Exercise of rulemaking powers Congress adopts the provisions of this title— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either the Senate or the House of Representatives to change those rules (insofar as they relate to that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any other rule of the Senate or House of Representatives. IV Reserve funds A Reserve Funds in both Houses 4101. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate and the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution— (1) in the Senate, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, conference reports, or motions relating to programs or policies designed to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would neither adversely impact job creation nor increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025; and (2) in the House of Representatives, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, or conference reports relating to programs or policies designed to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would neither adversely impact job creation nor increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. B Reserve Funds in the Senate 4301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) growing the economy; (2) lowering the after-tax costs of investment, savings, and work; (3) reducing the costs to business and individuals from the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (4) reducing the costs borne by economic activity in the United States stemming from Federal regulations, including the costs incurred by individuals in complying with Federal law when starting a business; (5) reducing the costs of frivolous lawsuits; (6) creating a more competitive financial sector to support economic growth and job creation while enhancing the credit worthiness of lending institutions; or (7) improving the ability of policy makers to estimate the economic effects of policy change through the enhanced use of economic models and data in scoring legislation; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to enhanced funding for national security or domestic discretionary programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable health care choices for all The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution, and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger that are deficit-neutral over 11 years, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) full repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 119) and the health care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ; 124 Stat. 1029); or (2) replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ; 124 Stat. 119) or the health care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–152 ; 124 Stat. 1029); by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4304. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the State Children's Health Insurance Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving access to affordable health care for low-income children, including the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) the requirement to individually purchase, or jointly provide, health insurance; (2) extending expiring health care provisions; (3) the September 11th terrorism attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the Shanksville Crash site, which may include legislation that extends medical monitoring and treatment services and compensation for first responders, survivors, and their families; (4) improvements in medical research, innovation and safety; or (5) strengthening program integrity initiatives to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal health care programs; by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child welfare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) child nutrition programs; (2) replacing ineffective policies and programs with evidence-based alternative that improve the welfare of vulnerable children; or (3) policies that protect children from sexual predators in our schools or communities; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the improvement of the delivery of benefits and services to veterans and servicemembers by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reforming the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (2) amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring tax relief provisions; (3) innovation and high quality manufacturing jobs, including the repeal of the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device manufacturers; or (4) operations and administration of the Department of the Treasury; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States, including programs that expedite the deployment of broadband to rural areas by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation shall not include transfers from other trust funds but may include transfers from the general fund of the Treasury that are offset, provided further that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal spending on civil air traffic control services, which may include air traffic management at airport towers across the United States or at facilities of the Federal Aviation Administration, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) suspending or reducing tariffs on miscellaneous imports; (2) reauthorization of trade related Federal agencies; (3) implementing international trade agreements; (4) reauthorizing or extending trade adjustment assistance programs; (5) reauthorizing preference programs; or (6) enhancing the protection of United States intellectual property rights at the border and abroad; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the administration of disability benefits and the improved employment of disabled workers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports that amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ) by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reform of the management of civilian and defense nuclear waste; (2) reform and reauthorization of programs at the Department of Energy related to research and development of alternative or renewable forms of energy, fossil fuel exploration and use, clean coal technologies (including carbon capture and sequestration), nuclear energy, or the electricity grid; (3) expansion of North American energy production; or (4) reform of the permitting and siting processes for energy infrastructure; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reform of environmental statutes to promote job growth by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving flood control, expanding opportunities for commercial navigation, and improving the environmental restoration of the nation’s waterways, assisting the States in carrying out drought prevention plans, strengthening waterborne commerce in the Nation's ports and harbors, or relating to the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to designate funds for rural water projects and Indian irrigation and water settlement projects, without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) reducing reliance on mineral imports; or (2) the authority to deduct certain amounts from mineral revenues payable to States; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ( 30 U.S.C. 1201 et seq. ) without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) increasing timber production from Federal lands and providing bridge funding to counties and other units of local government until timber production levels increase; (2) decreasing forest hazardous fuel loads; (3) improving stewardship contracting; or (4) reform of the process of budgeting for wildfire suppression operations; without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Payments In Lieu of Taxes (PILT), which may include funding the payments in lieu of taxes program at levels roughly equivalent to lost tax revenues due to the presence of Federal land without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to regulatory relief for small financial firms, improvements in the effectiveness of the financial regulatory framework, enhancements in oversight and accountability of the Federal Reserve System, and expansions in access to capital markets without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the processing of earnings reports for the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the implementation of agreements between the United States and nations with whom it maintains a Compact of Free Association without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting payments to rural hospitals and creating sustainable access for rural communities without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging State Medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to payments to pharmacists for the provision of services under Medicare without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting and improving community health centers without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reforms, improvements, and enhancements of 529 college savings plans by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4330. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the security of the overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to investment in the manufacturing sector in the United States, which may include educational or research and development initiatives, public-private partnerships, or other programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4333. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to benefits for aliens without legal status in the United States, which may include prohibiting qualification for certain tax benefits without raising new revenue, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4334. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports that achieve savings through the elimination, modification, or the reduction in frequency of congressionally mandated reports from Federal agencies, and reduce the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. The Chairman may also make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger over 6 and 11 years to ensure that the deficit reduction achieved is used for deficit reduction only. The adjustments authorized under this section shall be of the amount of deficit reduction achieved. 4335. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to addressing efforts to combat heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening our civilian workforce by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of either the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving Department of Defense financial management, which may include achieving full auditability or eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reducing inefficient overlap, improving access, and enhancing outcomes with Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) energy efficiency, which may include weatherization and energy efficiency retrofit programs for low-income individuals; (2) the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which may include seasonal assistance and crisis fuel assistance to low-income individuals; (3) Federal programs for land and water conservation, including the Land and Water Conservation Fund; or (4) the reduction of duplicative Federal green building programs; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4340. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Department of Justice, which may include ending the Operation Choke Point program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4341. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to a prohibition, except in the case of Federal assistance provided in response to a natural disaster, on any entity of the Federal Government providing funds to State and local governments to prevent receivership or to facilitate exit from receivership or to prevent default on its obligations by a State government by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve health outcomes and lower the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the health outcomes and lowering the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid, which may include creating or expanding integrated delivery models or improving care coordination, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to maintain and enhance access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to maintaining and enhancing access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting equal pay, which may include preventing discrimination on the basis of sex and preventing retaliation against employees for seeking or discussing wage information, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect and strengthen Social Security The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect current beneficiaries of the Social Security program and prevent the insolvency of the program by the amounts provided in such legislation for such purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to addressing student loan debt, which may include reducing overlapping student loan repayment programs and creating a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4347. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal Water Pollution Control Act focused on the protection of water quality The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that Federal jurisdiction under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. ) is focused on water quality, which may include limiting jurisdiction based on the movement of birds, mammals, or insects through the air or over the land, the movement of water through the ground, or the movement of rainwater or snowmelt over the land, or limiting jurisdiction over puddles, isolated ponds, roadside ditches, irrigation ditches, stormwater systems, wastewater systems, or water delivery, reuse, or reclamation systems, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Israel The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to United States policy toward Israel and the prevention of anti-Semitism in Europe, which may include preventing the United Nations and other international institutions, including human rights organizations, from taking unfair or discriminatory action against Israel, and supporting efforts to prevent anti-Semitism in Europe, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to family and medical leave The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to efforts to improve workplace benefits and reduce health care costs, which may include tax credits for employers providing paid family and medical leave, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to care The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing health care to veterans who reside more than 40 miles driving distance from the closest medical facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs that provides the care sought by the veteran by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program, which may include allowing for 1 or more additional payment periods during the same award year, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4352. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to transparency in health premium billing The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increased disclosure of any Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) tax in health insurance monthly premium statements by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4353. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to carbon emissions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to carbon emissions, which may include prohibitions on Federal taxes or fees imposed on carbon emissions from any product or entity that is a direct or indirect source of emissions, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4354. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to requiring the Federal Government to allow states to opt out of Common Core without penalty The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to prohibiting the Federal Government from mandating, incentivizing, or coercing States to adopt the Common Core State Standards or any other specific academic standards, instructional content, curricula, assessments, or programs of instruction and allowing States to opt out of the Common Core State Standards without penalty by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4355. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of certain Federal land The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to initiatives to sell or transfer to, or exchange with, a State or local government any Federal land that is not within the boundaries of a National Park, National Preserve, or National Monument by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4356. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding of international organizations during the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to funding, which may include prohibiting funding for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat or any international organizations created to support the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4357. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reimposing waived sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Iran for violations of the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive nuclear agreement The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Iran, which may include efforts to immediately reimpose waived sanctions and impose new sanctions against the Government of Iran if the President cannot make a determination and certify that Iran is complying with the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4358. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981 The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to supporting citizens of the United States held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4359. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to efforts to increase employment opportunities and prevent employment discrimination, which may include measures to prevent employment discrimination against pregnant workers, to provide pregnant workers with a right to workplace accommodations, and to ensure that employers comply with requirements regarding such workplace accommodations for pregnant workers, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4360. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the Federal estate tax The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to changes in the Federal income tax laws, which may include eliminating the Federal estate tax, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4361. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions, which may include a prohibition on withholding highway funds from States that refuse to submit State Implementation Plans required under the Clean Power Plan of the Agency, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4362. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately held water rights and permits The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting communities, businesses, recreationists, farmers, ranchers, or other groups that rely on privately held water rights and permits from Federal takings by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4363. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting awarding of construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to a prohibition on the awarding of construction contracts on behalf of the Government based upon any solicitations, bid specifications, project agreements, or other controlling documents that require or prohibit bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors to enter into or adhere to agreements with one or more labor organizations or discriminate against or give preference to such bidders, offerors, contractors, or subcontractors based on their entering or refusing to enter into such agreements by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4364. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent American jobs from being moved overseas by reducing the corporate income tax rate The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to preventing American jobs from being moved overseas, which may include a reduction in the corporate income tax rate, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4365. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase wages for American workers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reaffirming the ability of States to adopt minimum wages higher than the Federal minimum wage level commensurate with the cost of living in the State, which may include the adoption of pro-employment and wage-increasing policies by providing pro-growth tax relief and eliminating excessive government mandates, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4366. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to deterring the migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to deterring the attempted migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras into the United States, which may include the expedited removal of unlawful entrants from noncontiguous countries, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4367. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring proper economic consideration in designation of critical habitat The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to critical habitat designations, which may include requirements that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service examine the cumulative economic effects of the designation, such as on land or property uses or values, regional employment, or revenue impacts on States and units of local government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4368. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end too big to fail bailouts for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets) The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to any bank holding companies with over $500,000,000,000 in total assets to better protect taxpayers, including such measures as capital or leverage requirements, restrictions on the growth, activities, or operations of a company, or divestiture of assets or operations of any company that is unable to present a credible plan to facilitate an orderly bankruptcy or resolution, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4369. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending Washington’s illegal exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to developing methods that ensure that all Members of Congress, the President, the Vice President, and all political appointees of the Administration procure their health insurance on the individual exchange in the same way as Americans at the same income level by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4370. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increasing funding for United States embassies, which may include the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4371. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4372. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4373. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide equity in the tax treatment of public safety officer death benefits The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing tax equity for death benefits paid to the families of public safety officers who lose their lives in the line of duty by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4374. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits, which may include auditing the hidden backlog of untested sexual assault kits and ensuring that the collection and processing of DNA evidence by law enforcement agencies from crimes is carried out in an appropriate and timely manner, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4375. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4376. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming Offices of Inspectors General and preventing extended vacancies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening and reforming Federal Offices of Inspectors General, reducing vacancies in such Offices, and providing for improvements in the overall economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of Inspectors General by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4377. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving retirement security The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving retirement security by making it easier for small businesses to provide retirement plans for their employees by easing the administrative burden and by encouraging individuals to increase their savings by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4378. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the competitiveness of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving basic science research and development programs in the United States by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4379. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that the conservation of northern long-eared bat populations and local economic development are compatible The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. ), which may include requirements that State conservation plans relating to the northern long-eared bat are given maximum flexibility to be successful so as to preserve and protect local and rural economies before any Federal listing decision is made with respect to the northern long-eared bat, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4380. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve cybersecurity The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to increased sharing of cybersecurity threat information while protecting individual privacy and civil liberties interests by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4381. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation entering into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4382. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies, which may include encouraging Federal agencies to utilize office space unused by the Federal Government before purchasing or renting additional space, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4383. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4384. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4385. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing funding related to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4386. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing access to marijuana edibles by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to preventing access to edible marijuana products by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4387. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4388. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4389. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4390. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Small Business Investment Company Program of the Small Business Administration, which may include raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4391. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to online child sex trafficking, which may include the detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4392. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the reliability of the electricity grid The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to prohibiting the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or issuing any regulation that would reduce the reliability of the electricity grid by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4393. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to preserve and protect the open Internet The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to protecting the open Internet and promoting further innovation and investment in Internet services, content, infrastructure, and technologies by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4394. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming the Federal regulatory process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to— (1) creating an effective mechanism for the review of the existing Federal regulatory burden to identify rules for repeal or modification that— (A) impose paperwork burdens that could be reduced substantially without significantly diminishing regulatory effectiveness; (B) impose disproportionately high costs on small businesses; (C) could be strengthened in their effectiveness while reducing regulatory costs; (D) have been rendered obsolete by technological or market changes; (E) have achieved their goals and can be repealed without target problems recurring; (F) impose the greatest opportunity costs in terms of economic growth; (G) are ineffective; (H) overlap, duplicate, or conflict with other Federal regulations or with State or local regulations; or (I) impose costs that are not justified by benefits produced for society within the United States; (2) reforming the process by which new regulations are made by Federal agencies, including independent agencies, for the purposes of— (A) prioritizing early public outreach in the rulemaking process; (B) ensuring the use of the best available scientific, economic, and technical data; (C) preventing the misuse of guidance documents to skirt public input; (D) ensuring the use of best practices for regulatory analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, into each step of the rulemaking process; (E) facilitating the adoption by Federal agencies of the least costly regulatory alternative that would achieve the goals of the statutory authorization; (F) ensuring more careful consideration of proposed high-cost rules; (G) ensuring effective oversight of the Federal regulatory program, including independent regulatory commissions, by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; (H) improving the consideration of adverse impacts on small businesses; (I) providing greater transparency in the rulemaking process; and (J) improving compliance with section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001 ( Public Law 106–554 ; 114 Stat. 2736A–153) (commonly known as the Information Quality Act ), the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 ( 2 U.S.C. 1501 et seq. ), and chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Regulatory Flexibility Act ); (3) enhancing accountability by facilitating fair and effective judicial review of agency actions; and (4) ensuring that Congress can effectively exercise its appropriate role in the regulatory process through legislation and oversight; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4395. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4396. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the modernization of the nuclear command, control, and communications architecture of the United States The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to modernizing the triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems, the nuclear command and control system, and the nuclear weapons stockpile, and supporting related infrastructure, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4397. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to BARDA and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to strengthening our national security, which may include fully funding the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4398. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the nuclear forces and missions of the Air Force The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the nuclear force improvement program of the Air Force by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4399. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting economic growth and job creation for small businesses and full funding for at-sea and dockside monitoring for certain fisheries The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to promoting economic growth and job creation by making it easier for small businesses to plan their capital investments and reducing the uncertainty of taxation, and supporting at-sea and dockside monitoring for fisheries that have received economic disaster assistance, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4400. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the definition of full-time employee The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports related to the employer penalties under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ), which may include changes to the definition of full time employee under that Act, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4401. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4402. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite awards under the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the processing of award submissions, which may include the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program, by the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4403. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4404. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4405. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to alleviating disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4406. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the Corporation for National and Community Service The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the Corporation for National and Community Service by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4407. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that Department of Justice attorneys comply with disclosure obligations in criminal prosecutions The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to ensuring that all Department of Justice attorneys comply with all legal and ethical obligations in criminal prosecutions, which may include legislation that ensures the disclosure to the defendant in a timely manner of all information known to the Government that tends to negate the guilt of the defendant, mitigate the offense charged or the sentence imposed, or impeach the Government’s witnesses or evidence, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4408. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote biomedical research The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investments in precision medicine and biomedical research, which may include increasing funding to account for inflation, to support finding ways to prevent, treat, and cure diseases or conditions like Alzheimer’s and other life-threatening or chronic illnesses, and to provide long-term cost savings to the Federal Government, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4409. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing access to necessary equipment for Medicare beneficiaries The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to developing methods that ensure that Medicare beneficiaries have access to equipment like eye tracking accessories for speech generating devices and speech generating devices by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4410. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prioritizing the construction of infrastructure projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the prioritization of the Federal investment in the infrastructure of the United States on projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors of the National Highway System by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4411. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4412. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to the investigation and to the extent practicable the recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government to ensure that such items are not in the possession of or used by radical extremist groups operating in the country by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4413. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving higher education data and transparency The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to improving higher education data and transparency by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4414. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Native children The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Native children or the construction of Bureau of Indian Education schools, which may include replacement school construction, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4415. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to provide additional funding for international strategic communications The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to funding for international counter-propaganda communications in order to combat misinformation, undermine ideologies of violence and hatred, and ensure moderate voices are heard by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4416. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for elementary and secondary education The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to reforming and strengthening elementary and secondary education by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4417. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support research The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to Federal investments in scientific research and development, which may include supporting biomedical research to find ways to prevent, treat, and cure diseases or conditions like Alzheimer’s and other life-threatening or chronic illnesses, providing long-term cost savings to the Federal Government, and supporting national security, basic energy research, innovative solutions, and American competitiveness, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4418. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to support for Ukraine The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to providing support to the Government of Ukraine, which may include the provision of lethal defensive articles, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4419. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to underground and surface mining safety research The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to underground and surface mining safety research by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4420. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to saving Medicare The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to extending the life of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which may include the creation of a point of order against legislation that accelerates the insolvency of such Trust Fund, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. C Reserve Funds in the House of Representatives 4501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President's health care law In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that consists solely of the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the health care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 4502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that promotes real health care reform, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the President's health care law In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that repeals all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in the Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure extends the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure reforms, expands access to, and improves, as determined by such Chairman, graduate medical education programs, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that implements a trade agreement, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code In the House of Representatives, if the Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that decreases revenue, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure maintains the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure reforms, improves and updates the Federal retirement system, as determined by such Chairman, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. 4511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for national defense In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure supports the following activities: Department of Defense training and maintenance associated with combat readiness, modernization of equipment, auditability of financial statements, or military compensation and benefit reforms, by the amount provided for these purposes, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit (without counting any net revenue increases in that measure) over the period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025. V Estimates of direct spending in the House of Representatives 5001. Direct spending (a) Means-Tested direct spending (1) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (A) For means-tested direct spending, the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2016 is 6.8 percent. (B) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal year 2016 is 4.6 percent under current law. (2) Proposed reforms The following reforms are proposed under this concurrent resolution by the House of Representatives for means-tested direct spending: (A) In 1996, a Republican Congress and a Democratic President reformed welfare by limiting the duration of benefits, giving States more control over the program, and helping recipients find work. In the 5 years following passage, child-poverty rates fell, welfare caseloads fell, and workers’ wages increased. This budget assumes the enactment of proposals to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans on the road to personal and financial independence. Based on the successful welfare reforms of the 1990s, these proposals would improve work requirements and provide flexible funding for States to help those most in need find gainful employment, escape poverty, and move up the economic ladder. (B) For Medicaid, this budget is predicated on a framework proposed by the chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction of the House of Representatives and the Senate, to modernize and improve the program while increasing State flexibility and protecting the most vulnerable populations. This budget also assumes the repeal of the Medicaid expansions in the President’s health care law. (b) Nonmeans-Tested direct spending (1) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (A) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding fiscal year 2016 is 5.4 percent. (B) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with fiscal year 2016 is 5.5 percent under current law. (2) Medicare reforms For Medicare, this budget advances policies to put seniors, not the Federal Government, in control of their health care decisions. Putting seniors in charge of how their health care dollars are spent will encourage providers to compete against each other on price and quality. Improvements to Medicare are necessary to extend the life of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and protect the program for future generations. VI Policy Statements A Policy statements in both Houses 6101. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should pass, and send to the States for their approval, a joint resolution amending the Constitution of the United States to require an annual balanced Federal budget. 6102. Policy statement on Social Security It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the President and Congress should work together on a bipartisan basis to preserve Social Security for current and future generations. To achieve that goal— (1) Congress should enact legislation to prevent the near-term insolvency of the Disability Insurance program, improve the administration and coordination of benefits, and increase employment opportunities for disabled workers; and (2) the President should submit legislation to Congress addressing the long-term insolvency of both the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program and the Disability Insurance program, and such legislation should achieve a sustainable annual cash-flow balance between taxes and benefits over the foreseeable future, rather than temporarily increasing and then depleting the balance of Government securities held by each program’s trust fund. B Policy statement in the House of Representatives 6201. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform (a) Findings (1) In 1974, after more than 50 years of executive dominance over fiscal policy, Congress acted to reassert its power of the purse , and passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. (2) The measure explicitly sought to establish congressional control over the budget process, to provide for annual congressional determination of the appropriate level of taxes and spending, to set important national budget priorities, and to find ways in which Members of Congress could have access to the most accurate, objective, and highest quality information to assist them in discharging their duties. (3) Far from achieving its intended purpose, however, the process has instituted a bias toward higher spending and larger government. The behemoth of the Federal Government has largely been financed through either borrowing or taking ever greater amounts of the national income through high taxation. (4) The process does not treat programs and policies consistently and shows a bias toward higher spending and higher taxes. (5) It assumes extension of spending programs (of more than $50 million per year) scheduled to expire. (6) Yet it does not assume the extension of tax policies in the same way. consequently, extending existing tax policies that may be scheduled to expire is characterized as a new tax reduction, requiring offsets to pay for merely keeping tax policy the same even though estimating conventions would not require similar treatment of spending programs. (7) The original goals set for the congressional process are admirable in their intent, but because the essential mechanisms of the process have remained the same, and reforms enacted over the past 40 years have largely taken the form of layering greater levels of legal complexity without reforming or reassessing the very fundamental nature of the process. (b) Policy statement It is the policy of this concurrent resolution on the budget that as the primary branch of Government, Congress must: (1) Restructure the fundamental procedures of budget decision making. (2) Reassert Congress’s power of the purse , and reinforce the balance of powers between Congress and the President, as the 1974 Act intended. (3) Create greater incentives for lawmakers to do budgeting as intended by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, especially adopting a budget resolution every year. (4) Encourage more effective control over spending, especially currently uncontrolled direct spending. (5) Consider innovative fiscal tools such as: zero based budgeting, which would require a department or agency to justify its budget as if it were a new expenditure; and direct spending caps to enhance oversight of automatic pilot spending that increases each year without congressional approval. (6) Promote efficient and timely budget actions, so that lawmakers complete their budget actions by the time the new fiscal year begins. (7) Provide access to the best analysis of economic conditions available and increase awareness of how fiscal policy directly impacts overall economic growth and job creation. (8) Remove layers of complexity that have complicated the procedures designed in 1974, and made budgeting more arcane and opaque. (9) Remove existing biases that favor higher spending. (10) Include procedures by which current tax laws may be extended and treated on a basis that is not different from the extension of entitlement programs. (c) Budget Process Reform Comprehensive budget process reform should also remove the bias in the baseline against the extension of current tax laws in the following ways: (1) Permanent extension of tax laws should not be used as a means to increase taxes on other taxpayers. (2) For those expiring tax provisions that are proposed to be permanently extended, Congress should use a more realistic baseline that does not require them to be offset. (3) Tax-reform legislation should not include tax increases just to offset the extension of current tax laws. (d) Legislation The Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives intends to draft legislation during the 114th Congress that will rewrite the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to fulfill the goals of making the congressional budget process more effective in ensuring taxpayers’ dollars are spent wisely and efficiently. 6202. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) Although the United States economy technically emerged from recession more than 5 years ago, the subsequent recovery has felt more like a malaise than a rebound. Real gross domestic product GDP growth over the past 5 years has averaged slightly more than 2 percent, well below the 3.2 percent historical trend rate of growth in the United States. Although the economy has shown some welcome signs of improvement of late, the Nation remains in the midst of the weakest economic recovery of the modern era. (2) Looking ahead, CBO expects the economy to grow by an average of just 2.3 percent over the next 10 years. That level of economic growth is simply unacceptable and insufficient to expand opportunities and the incomes of millions of middle-income Americans. (3) Sluggish economic growth has also contributed to the country's fiscal woes. Subpar growth means that revenue levels are lower than they would otherwise be while government spending (e.g. welfare and income-support programs) is higher. Clearly, there is a dire need for policies that will spark higher rates of economic growth and greater, higher-quality job opportunities. (4) Although job gains have been trending up of late, other aspects of the labor market remain weak. The labor force participation rate, for instance, is hovering just under 63 percent, close to the lowest level since 1978. Long-term unemployment also remains a problem. Of the roughly 8.7 million people who are currently unemployed, 2.7 million (more than 30 percent) have been unemployed for more than 6 months. Long-term unemployment erodes an individual's job skills and detaches them from job opportunities. It also undermines the long-term productive capacity of the economy. (5) Perhaps most important, wage gains and income growth have been subpar for middle-class Americans. Average hourly earnings of private-sector workers have increased by just 1.6 percent over the past year. Prior to the recession, average hourly earnings were tracking close to 4 percent. Likewise, average income levels have remained flat in recent years. Real median household income is just under $52,000, one of the lowest levels since 1995. (6) The unsustainable fiscal trajectory has cast a shadow on the country’s economic outlook. investors and businesses make decisions on a forward-looking basis. they know that today’s large debt levels are simply tomorrow's tax hikes, interest rate increases, or inflation and they act accordingly. This debt overhang, and the uncertainty it generates, can weigh on growth, investment, and job creation. (7) Nearly all economists, including those at the CBO, conclude that reducing budget deficits (thereby bending the curve on debt levels is a net positive for economic growth over time. The logic is that deficit reduction creates long-term economic benefits because it increases the pool of national savings and boosts investment, thereby raising economic growth and job creation. (8) CBO analyzed the House Republican fiscal year 2016 budget resolution and found it would increase real output per capita (a proxy for a country’s standard of living) by about $1,000 in 2025 and roughly $5,000 by 2040 relative to the baseline path. That means more income and greater prosperity for all Americans. (9) In contrast, if the Government remains on the current fiscal path, future generations will face ever-higher debt service costs, a decline in national savings, and a crowding out of private investment. This dynamic will eventually lead to a decline in economic output and a diminution in our country's standard of living. (10) The key economic challenge is determining how to expand the economic pie, not how best to divide up and re-distribute a shrinking pie. (11) A stronger economy is vital to lowering deficit levels and eventually balancing the budget. According to CBO, if annual real GDP growth is just 0.1 percentage point higher over the budget window, deficits would be reduced by $326 billion. (12) This budget resolution therefore embraces pro-growth policies, such as fundamental tax reform, that will help foster a stronger economy, greater opportunities and more job creation. (b) Policy on Economic Growth and Job Creation In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to promote faster economic growth and job creation. By putting the budget on a sustainable path, this concurrent resolution ends the debt-fueled uncertainty holding back job creators. Reforms to the tax code will put American businesses and workers in a better position to compete and thrive in the 21st century global economy. This concurrent resolution targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. All of the reforms in this concurrent resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and expanding opportunity for all Americans. 6203. Policy statement on tax reform (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) A world-class tax system should be simple, fair, and promote (rather than impede) economic growth. The United States tax code fails on all three counts: It is notoriously complex, patently unfair, and highly inefficient. The tax code’s complexity distorts decisions to work, save, and invest, which leads to slower economic growth, lower wages, and less job creation. (2) Over the past decade alone, there have been 4,107 changes to the tax code, more than one per day. Many of the major changes over the years have involved carving out special preferences, exclusions, or deductions for various activities or groups. These loopholes add up to more than $1 trillion per year and make the code unfair, inefficient, and highly complex. (3) In addition, these tax preferences are disproportionately used by upper-income individuals. (4) The large amount of tax preferences that pervade the code end up narrowing the tax base. A narrow tax base, in turn, requires much higher tax rates to raise a given amount of revenue. (5) It is estimated that American taxpayers end up spending $160 billion and roughly 6 billion hours a year complying with the tax code waste of time and resources that could be used in more productive activities. (6) Standard economic theory shows that high marginal tax rates dampen the incentives to work, save, and invest, which reduces economic output and job creation. Lower economic output, in turn, mutes the intended revenue gain from higher marginal tax rates. (7) Roughly half of United States active business income and half of private sector employment are derived from business entities (such as partnerships, S corporations, and sole proprietorships) that are taxed on a pass-through basis, meaning the income flows through to the tax returns of the individual owners and is taxed at the individual rate structure rather than at the corporate rate. Small businesses, in particular, tend to choose this form for Federal tax purposes, and the top Federal rate on such small business income can reach nearly 45 percent. For these reasons, sound economic policy requires lowering marginal rates on these pass-through entities. (8) The United States corporate income tax rate (including Federal, State, and local taxes) sums to slightly more than 39 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Tax rates this high suppress wages and discourage investment and job creation, distort business activity, and put American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with foreign competitors. (9) By deterring potential investment, the United States corporate tax restrains economic growth and job creation. The United States tax rate differential with other countries also fosters a variety of complicated multinational corporate behaviors intended to avoid the tax, which have the effect of moving the tax base offshore, destroying American jobs, and decreasing corporate revenue. (10) The worldwide structure of United States international taxation essentially taxes earnings of United States firms twice, putting them at a significant competitive disadvantage with competitors with more competitive international tax systems. (11) Reforming the United States tax code to a more competitive international system would boost the competitiveness of United States companies operating abroad and it would also greatly reduce tax avoidance. (12) The tax code imposes costs on American workers through lower wages, on consumers in higher prices, and on investors in diminished returns. (13) Revenues have averaged about 17.4 percent of the economy throughout modern American history. Revenues rise above this level under current law to 18.3 percent of the economy by the end of the 10-year budget window. (14) Attempting to raise revenue through new tax increases to meet out-of-control spending would sink the economy and Americans’ ability to save for their retirement and their children's education. (15) This concurrent resolution also rejects the idea of instituting a carbon tax in the United States, which some have offered as a new source of revenue. Such a plan would damage the economy, cost jobs, and raise prices on American consumers. (16) Closing tax loopholes to fund spending does not constitute fundamental tax reform. (17) The goal of tax reform should be to curb or eliminate loopholes and use those savings to lower tax rates across the board not to fund more wasteful Government spending. Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. (18) Many economists believe that fundamental tax reform (i.e. a broader tax base and lower tax rates) would lead to greater labor supply and increased investment, which, over time, would have a positive impact on total national output. (19) Heretofore, the congressional scorekeepers the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). (20) Static scoring implicitly assumes that the size of the economy (and therefore key economic variables such as labor supply and investment) remains fixed throughout the considered budget horizon. This is an abstraction from reality. (21) A new House of Representatives rule was adopted at the beginning of the 114th Congress to help correct this problem. This rule requires CBO and JCT to incorporate the macroeconomic effects of major legislation into their official cost estimates. (22) This rule seeks to bridge the divide between static estimates and scoring that incorporates economic feedback effects by providing policymakers with a greater amount of information about the likely economic impact of policies under their consideration while at the same time preserving traditional scoring methods and reporting conventions. (b) Policy on tax reform In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should enact legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the United States tax code to promote economic growth, create American jobs, increase wages, and benefit American consumers, investors, and workers through fundamental tax reform that— (1) simplifies the tax code to make it fairer to American families and businesses and reduces the amount of time and resources necessary to comply with tax laws; (2) substantially lowers tax rates for individuals and consolidates the current seven individual income tax brackets into fewer brackets; (3) repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax; (4) reduces the corporate tax rate; and (5) transitions the tax code to a more competitive system of international taxation. 6204. Policy statement on trade (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) Opening foreign markets to American exports is vital to the United States economy and beneficial to American workers and consumers. The Commerce Department estimates that every $1 billion of United States exports supports more than 5,000 jobs here at home. (2) The United States can increase economic opportunities for American workers and businesses through the expansion of trade, adherence to trade agreement rules by the United States and its trading partners, and the elimination of foreign trade barriers to United States goods and services. (3) Trade Promotion Authority is a bipartisan and bicameral effort to strengthen the role of Congress in setting negotiating objectives for trade agreements, to improve consultation with Congress by the Administration, and to provide a clear framework for congressional consideration and implementation of trade agreements. (4) Global trade and commerce is not a zero-sum game. The idea that global expansion tends to hollow out United States operations is incorrect. Foreign-affiliate activity tends to complement, not substitute for, key parent activities in the United States such as employment, worker compensation, and capital investment. When United States headquartered multinationals invest and expand operations abroad it often leads to more jobs and economic growth at home. (5) Trade agreements have saved the average American family of four more than $10,000 per year, as a result of lower duties. Trade agreements also lower the cost of manufacturing inputs by removing duties. (6) American businesses and workers have shown that, on a level playing field, they can excel and surpass the international competition. (7) When negotiating trade agreements, United States laws on Intellectual Property (IP) protection should be used as a benchmark for establishing global IP frameworks. Strong IP protections have contributed significantly to the United States status as a world leader in innovation across sectors, including in the development of life-saving biologic medicines. The data protections afforded to biologics in United States law, including 12 years of data protection, allow continued development of pioneering medicines to benefit patients both in the United States and abroad. To maintain the cycle of innovation and achieve truly 21st century trade agreements, it is vital that our negotiators insist on the highest standards for IP protections. (8) The status quo of the current tax code also undermines the competitiveness of United States businesses and costs the United States economy investment and jobs. (9) The United States currently has an antiquated system of international taxation whereby United States multinationals operating abroad pay both the foreign-country tax and United States corporate taxes. They are essentially taxed twice. This puts them at an obvious competitive disadvantage. A modern and competitive international tax system would facilitate global commerce for United States multinational companies and would encourage foreign business investment and job creation in the United States. (10) The ability to defer United States taxes on their foreign operations, which some erroneously refer to as a tax loophole, cushions this disadvantage to a certain extent. Eliminating or restricting this provision (and others like it) would harm United States competitiveness. (11) This budget resolution advocates fundamental tax reform that would lower the United States corporate rate, now the highest in the industrialized world, and switch to a more competitive system of international taxation. This would make the United States a much more attractive place to invest and station business activity and would chip away at the incentives for United States companies to keep their profits overseas (because the United States corporate rate is so high). (b) Policy on trade In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to pursue international trade, global commerce, and a modern and competitive United States international tax system to promote job creation in the United States. The United States should continue to seek increased economic opportunities for American workers and businesses through the expansion of trade opportunities, adherence to trade agreements and rules by the United States and its trading partners, and the elimination of foreign trade barriers to United States goods and services by opening new markets and by enforcing United States rights. To that end, Congress should pass Trade Promotion Authority to strengthen the role of Congress in setting negotiating objectives for trade agreements, to improve consultation with Congress by the Administration, and to provide a clear framework for congressional consideration and implementation of trade agreements. 6205. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) The President’s health care law put Washington’s priorities first, and not patients’. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has failed to reduce health care premiums as promised; instead, the law mandated benefits and coverage levels, denying patients the opportunity to choose the type of coverage that best suits their health needs and driving up health coverage costs. A typical family’s health care premiums were supposed to decline by $2,500 a year; instead, according to the 2014 Employer Health Benefits Survey, health care premiums have increased by 7 percent for individuals and families since 2012. (2) The President pledged, If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Instead, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now estimates 9 million Americans with employment-based health coverage will lose those plans due to the President’s health care law, further limiting patient choice. (3) Then-Speaker of the House, Pelosi, said that the President’s health care law would create 4 million jobs over the life of the law and almost 400,000 jobs immediately. Instead, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the reduction in hours worked due to Obamacare represents a decline of about 2.0 to 2.5 million full-time equivalent workers, compared with what would have occurred in the absence of the law. The full impact on labor represents a reduction in employment by 1.5 percent to 2.0 percent, while additional studies show less modest results. A recent study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University estimates that Obamacare will reduce employment by up to 3 percent, or about 4 million full-time equivalent workers. (4) The President has charged the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel of unelected bureaucrats, with cutting Medicare by an additional $20.9 billion over the next ten years, according to the President's most recent budget. (5) Since ACA was signed into law, the administration has repeatedly failed to implement it as written. The President has unilaterally acted to make a total of 28 changes, delays, and exemptions. The President has signed into law another 17 changes made by Congress. The Supreme Court struck down the forced expansion of Medicaid; ruled the individual mandate could only be characterized as a tax to remain constitutional; and rejected the requirement that closely held companies provide health insurance to their employees if doing so violates these companies’ religious beliefs. Even now, almost five years after enactment, the Supreme Court continues to evaluate the legality of how the President's administration has implemented the law. All of these changes prove the folly underlying the entire program—health care in the United States cannot be run from a centralized bureaucracy. (6) The President's health care law is unaffordable, intrusive, overreaching, destructive, and unworkable. Its complex structure of subsidies, mandates, and penalties perversely impact individuals, married couples, and families. The law should be fully repealed, allowing for real, patient-centered health care reform: the development of real health care reforms that puts patients first, that make affordable, quality health care available to all Americans, and that build on the innovation and creativity of all the participants in the health care sector. (b) Policy on promoting real health care reform In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the President's health care law should be fully repealed and real health care reform promoted in accordance with the following principles: (1) In general Health care reform should enhance affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices and responsiveness in health care coverage for all Americans, putting patients, families, and doctors in charge, not Washington, DC. These reforms should encourage increased competition and transparency. Under the President's health care law, government controls Americans’ health care choices. Under true, patient-centered reform, Americans would. (2) Affordability Real reform should be centered on ensuring that all Americans, no matter their age, income, or health status, have the ability to afford health care coverage. The health care delivery structure should be improved, and individuals should not be priced out of the health insurance market due to pre-existing conditions, but nationalized health care is not only unnecessary to accomplish this, it undermines the goal. Individuals should be allowed to join together voluntarily to pool risk through mechanisms such as Individual Membership Associations and Small Employer Membership Associations. (3) Accessability Instead of Washington outlining for Americans the ways they cannot use their health insurance, reforms should make health coverage more portable. Individuals should be able to own their insurance and have it follow them in and out of jobs throughout their career. Small business owners should be permitted to band together across State lines through their membership in bona fide trade or professional associations to purchase health coverage for their families and employees at a low cost. This will increase small businesses’ bargaining power, volume discounts, and administrative efficiencies while giving them freedom from State-mandated benefit packages. Also, insurers licensed to sell policies in one State should be permitted to offer them to residents in any other State, and consumers should be permitted to shop for health insurance across State lines, as they are with other insurance products online, by mail, by phone, or in consultation with an insurance agent. (4) Quality Incentives for providers to deliver high-quality, responsive, and coordinated care will promote patient outcomes and drive down health care costs. Likewise, reforms that work to restore the patient-physician relationship by reducing administrative burdens and allowing physicians to do what they do best—care for patients. (5) Choices Individuals and families should be free to secure the health care coverage that best meets their needs, rather than instituting one-size-fits-all directives from Federal bureaucracies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Independent Payment Advisory Board. (6) Innovation Instead of stifling innovation in health care technologies, treatments, medications, and therapies with Federal mandates, taxes, and price controls, a reformed health care system should encourage research, development and innovation. (7) Responsiveness Reform should return authority to States wherever possible to make the system more responsive to patients and their needs. Instead of tying States’ hands with Federal requirements for their Medicaid programs, the Federal Government should return control of this program to the States. Not only does the current Medicaid program drive up Federal debt and threaten to bankrupt State budgets, but States are better positioned to provide quality, affordable care to those who are eligible for the program and to track down and weed out waste, fraud and abuse. Beneficiary choices in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid should be improved. States should make available the purchase of private insurance as an option to their Medicaid and SCHIP populations (though they should not require enrollment). (8) Reforms Reforms should be made to prevent lawsuit abuse and curb the practice of defensive medicine, which are significant drivers increasing health care costs. The burden of proof in medical malpractice cases should be based on compliance with best practice guidelines, and States should be free to implement those policies to best suit their needs. 6206. Policy statement on Medicare (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) More than 50 million Americans depend on Medicare for their health security. (2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Medicare’s long-term financial challenges be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial condition of Medicare becomes more precarious and the threat to those in or near retirement becomes more pronounced. According to the Medicare Trustees Report— (A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted in 2030 and unable to pay scheduled benefits; (B) Medicare enrollment is expected to increase by over 50 percent in the next two decades, as 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age each day; (C) enrollees remain in Medicare three times longer than at the outset of the program; (D) current workers’ payroll contributions pay for current beneficiaries; (E) in 2013, the ratio was 3.2 workers per beneficiary, but this falls to 2.3 in 2030 and continues to decrease over time; (F) most Medicare beneficiaries receive about three dollars in Medicare benefits for every one dollar paid into the program; and (G) Medicare spending is growing faster than the economy and Medicare outlays are currently rising at a rate of 6.5 percent per year over the next 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office’s 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook, spending on Medicare is projected to reach 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2043 and 9.3 percent of GDP by 2089. (3) Failing to address this problem will leave millions of American seniors without adequate health security and younger generations burdened with enormous debt to pay for spending levels that cannot be sustained. (b) Policy on medicare reform In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to preserve the program for those in or near retirement and strengthen Medicare for future beneficiaries. (c) Assumptions This concurrent resolution assumes reform of the Medicare program such that— (1) current Medicare benefits are preserved for those in or near retirement; (2) permanent reform of the sustainable growth rate is responsibly accounted for to ensure physicians continue to participate in the Medicare program and provide quality health care for beneficiaries; (3) when future generations reach eligibility, Medicare is reformed to provide a premium support payment and a selection of guaranteed health coverage options from which recipients can choose a plan that best suits their needs; (4) Medicare will maintain traditional fee-for-service as a plan option; (5) Medicare will provide additional assistance for lower income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks; and (6) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term. 6207. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) For decades, the Nation's commitment to the discovery, development, and delivery of new treatments and cures has made the United States the biomedical innovation capital of the world, bringing life-saving drugs and devices to patients and well over a million high-paying jobs to local communities. (2) Thanks to the visionary and determined leadership of innovators throughout America, including industry, academic medical centers, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States has led the way in early discovery. The United States leadership role is being threatened, however, as other countries contribute more to basic research from both public and private sources. (3) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development predicts that China, for example, will outspend the United States in total research and development by the end of the decade. (4) Federal policies should foster innovation in health care, not stifle it. America should maintain its world leadership in medical science by encouraging competitive forces to work through the marketplace in delivering cures and therapies to patients. (5) Too often the bureaucracy and red-tape in Washington hold back medical innovation and prevent new lifesaving treatments from reaching patients. This concurrent resolution recognizes the valuable role of the NIH and the indispensable contributions to medical research coming from outside Washington. (6) America is the greatest, most innovative Nation on Earth. Her people are innovators, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and relentless builders of the future. Americans were responsible for the first telephone, the first airplane, the first computer, for putting the first man on the moon, for creating the first vaccine for polio and for legions of other scientific and medical breakthroughs that have improved and prolonged human health and life for countless people in America and around the world. (b) Policy on Medical Innovation (1) In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to support the important work of medical innovators throughout the country, including private-sector innovators, medical centers and the National Institutes of Health. (2) At the same time, the budget calls for continued strong funding for the agencies that engage in valuable research and development, while also urging Washington to get out of the way of researchers, discoverers and innovators all over the country. 6208. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) Excessive regulation at the Federal level has hurt job creation and dampened the economy, slowing the Nation’s recovery from the economic recession. (2) Since President Obama’s inauguration in 2009, the administration has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations in the Federal Register including 70,066 pages in 2014. (3) The National Association of Manufacturers estimates the total cost of regulations is as high as $2.03 trillion per year. Since 2009, the White House has generated more than $494 billion in regulatory activity, with an additional $87.6 billion in regulatory costs currently pending. (4) The Dodd-Frank financial services legislation ( Public Law 111–203 ) has resulted in more than $32 billion in compliance costs and saddled job creators with more than 63 million hours of compliance paperwork. (5) Implementation of the Affordable Care Act to date has added 132.9 million annual hours of compliance paperwork, imposing $24.3 billion of compliance costs on the private sector and an $8 billion cost burden on the States. (6) The highest regulatory costs come from rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); these regulations are primarily targeted at the coal industry. In June 2014, the EPA proposed a rule to cut carbon pollution from the Nation's power plants. The proposed standards are unachievable with current commercially available technology, resulting in a de-facto ban on new coal-fired power plants. (7) Coal-fired power plants provide roughly 40 percent of the United States electricity at a low cost. Unfairly targeting the coal industry with costly and unachievable regulations will increase energy prices, disproportionately disadvantaging energy-intensive industries like manufacturing and construction, and will make life more difficult for millions of low-income and middle class families already struggling to pay their bills. (8) Three hundred and thirty coal units are being retired or converted as a result of EPA regulations. Combined with the de-facto prohibition on new plants, these retirements and conversions may further increase the cost of electricity. (9) A recent study by the energy market analysis group Energy Ventures Analysis Inc. estimates the average energy bill in West Virginia will rise $750 per household by 2020, due in part to EPA regulations. West Virginia receives 95 percent of its electricity from coal. (10) The Heritage Foundation found that a phase-out of coal would cost 600,000 jobs by the end of 2023, resulting in an aggregate gross domestic product decrease of $2.23 trillion over the entire period and reducing the income of a family of four by $1,200 per year. Of these jobs, 330,000 will come from the manufacturing sector, with California, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia seeing the highest job losses. (b) Policy on federal regulatory reform In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should, in consultation with the public burdened by excessive regulation, enact legislation that— (1) promotes economic growth and job creation by eliminating unnecessary red tape and streamlining and simplifying Federal regulations; (2) requires the implementation of a regulatory budget to be allocated amongst Government agencies, which would require congressional approval and limit the maximum costs of regulations in a given year; (3) requires congressional approval of all new major regulations (those with an impact of $100 million or more) before enactment as opposed to current law in which Congress must expressly disapprove of regulation to prevent it from becoming law, which would keep Congress engaged as to pending regulatory policy and prevent costly and unsound policies from being implemented and becoming effective; (4) requires a three year retrospective cost-benefit analysis of all new major regulations, to ensure that regulations operate as intended; (5) reinforces the requirement of regulatory impact analysis for regulations proposed by executive branch agencies but also expands the requirement to independent agencies so that by law they consider the costs and benefits of proposed regulations rather than merely being encouraged to do so as is current practice; and (6) requires a formal rulemaking process for all major regulations, which would increase transparency over the process and allow interested parties to communicate their views on proposed legislation to agency officials. 6209. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity (a) Findings on Higher Education The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) A well-educated workforce is critical to economic, job, and wage growth. (2) Roughly 20 million students are enrolled in American colleges and universities. (3) Over the past decade, tuition and fees have been growing at an unsustainable rate. Between the 2004–2005 Academic Year and the 2014–2015 Academic Year— (A) published tuition and fees at public 4-year colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 3.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; (B) published tuition and fees at public two-year colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 2.5 percent per year above the rate of inflation; and (C) published tuition and fees at private nonprofit 4-year colleges and universities increased at an average rate of 2.2 percent per year above the rate of inflation. (4) Federal financial aid for higher education has also seen a dramatic increase. The portion of the Federal student aid portfolio composed of Direct Loans, Federal Family Education Loans, and Perkins Loans with outstanding balances grew by 119 percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2014. (5) This spending has failed to make college more affordable. (6) In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama noted: We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money . (7) American students are chasing ever-increasing tuition with ever-increasing debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student debt now stands at nearly $1.2 trillion. This makes student loans the second largest balance of consumer debt, after mortgage debt. (8) Students are carrying large debt loads and too many fail to complete college or end up defaulting on these loans due to their debt burden and a weak economy and job market. (9) Based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the Pell Grant Program will face a fiscal shortfall beginning in fiscal year 2017 and continuing in each subsequent year in the current budget window. (10) Failing to address these problems will jeopardize access and affordability to higher education for America’s young people. (b) Policy on higher education affordability In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to address the root drivers of tuition inflation, by— (1) targeting Federal financial aid to those most in need; (2) streamlining programs that provide aid to make them more effective; (3) maintaining the maximum Pell grant award level at $5,775 in each year of the budget window; and (4) removing regulatory barriers in higher education that act to restrict flexibility and innovative teaching, particularly as it relates to non-traditional models such as online coursework and competency-based learning. (c) Findings on workforce development The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) 8.7 million Americans are currently unemployed. (2) Despite billions of dollars in spending, those looking for work are stymied by a broken workforce development system that fails to connect workers with assistance and employers with trained personnel. (3) The House Education and Workforce Committee successfully consolidated 15 job training programs in the recently enacted Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. (d) Policy on workforce development In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution to address the failings in the current workforce development system, by— (1) further streamlining and consolidating Federal job training programs; and (2) empowering states with the flexibility to tailor funding and programs to the specific needs of their workforce, including the development of career scholarships. 6210. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) For years, there has been serious concern regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) bureaucratic mismanagement and continuous failure to provide veterans timely access to health care and benefits. (2) In 2014, reports started breaking across the Nation that VA medical centers were manipulating wait-list documents to hide long delays veterans were facing to receive health care. The VA hospital scandal led to the immediate resignation of then-Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. (3) In 2015, for the first time ever, VA health care was added to the high-risk list of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), due to management and oversight failures that have directly resulted in risks to the timeliness, cost-effectiveness, and quality of health care. (4) In response to the scandal, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held several oversight hearings and ultimately enacted the Veterans’ Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (VACAA) ( Public Law 113–146 ) to address these problems. VACAA provided $15 billion in emergency resources to fund internal health care needs within the department and provided veterans enhanced access to private-sector health care under the new Veterans Choice Program. (b) Policy on the department of veterans affairs This budget supports the continued oversight efforts by the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives to ensure the VA is not only transparent and accountable, but also successful in achieving its goals in providing timely health care and benefits to America’s veterans. The Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives will continue to closely monitor the VA’s progress to ensure resources provided by Congress are sufficient and efficiently used to provide needed benefits and services to veterans. 6211. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) Given the thousands of Federal programs and trillions of dollars the Federal Government spends each year, assessing and accounting for Federal fiscal activities and liabilities is a complex undertaking. (2) Current methods of accounting leave much to be desired in capturing the full scope of government and in presenting information in a clear and compelling way that illuminates the best options going forward. (3) Most fiscal analysis produced by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is conducted over a relatively short time horizon: 10 or 25 years. While this time frame is useful for most purposes, it fails to consider the fiscal consequences over the longer term. (4) Additionally, current accounting methodology does not provide an analysis of how the Federal Government's fiscal situation over the long run affects Americans of various age cohorts. (5) Another consideration is how Federal programs should be accounted for. The accrual method of accounting records revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred, while the cash method records revenue and expenses when cash is actually paid or received. (6) The Federal budget accounts for most programs using cash accounting. Some programs, however, particularly loan and loan guarantee programs, are accounted for using accrual methods. (7) GAO has indicated that accrual accounting may provide a more accurate estimation of the Federal Government's liabilities than cash accounting for some programs specifically those that provide some form of insurance. (8) Where accrual accounting is used, it is almost exclusively calculated by CBO according to the methodology outlined in the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (FCRA). CBO uses fair value methodology instead of FCRA to measure the cost of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. (9) FCRA methodology, however, understates the risk and thus the true cost of Federal programs. An alternative is fair value methodology, which uses discount rates that incorporate the risk inherent to the type of liability being estimated in addition to Treasury discount rates of the proper maturity length. (10) The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that adopting a fair-value approach would provide a more comprehensive way to measure the costs of Federal credit programs and would permit more level comparisons between those costs and the costs of other forms of federal assistance than the current approach under FCRA. (b) Policy on Federal accounting methodologies In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should, in consultation with the Congressional Budget Office and the public affected by Federal budgetary choices, adopt Government-wide reforms of budget and accounting practices so the American people and their representatives can more readily understand the fiscal situation of the Government of the United States and the options best suited to improving it. Such reforms may include but should not be limited to the following: (1) Providing additional metrics to enhance our current analysis by considering our fiscal situation comprehensively, over an extended time horizon, and as it affects Americans of various age cohorts. (2) Expanding the use of accrual accounting where appropriate. (3) Accounting for certain Federal credit programs using fair value accounting as opposed to the current approach under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990. 6212. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized spending (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs, and has so identified dozens of such examples. (2) In its report to Congress on Government Efficiency and Effectiveness, the Comptroller General has stated that addressing the identified waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs could lead to tens of billions of dollars of additional savings. . (3) In 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 the GAO issued reports showing excessive duplication and redundancy in Federal programs including— (A) two hundred nine Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education programs in 13 different Federal agencies at a cost of $3 billion annually; (B) two hundred separate Department of Justice crime prevention and victim services grant programs with an annual cost of $3.9 billion in 2010; (C) twenty different Federal entities administer 160 housing programs and other forms of Federal assistance for housing with a total cost of $170 billion in 2010; (D) seventeen separate Homeland Security preparedness grant programs that spent $37 billion between fiscal years 2011 and 2012; (E) fourteen grant and loan programs, and three tax benefits to reduce diesel emissions; (F) ninety-four different initiatives run by 11 different agencies to encourage green building in the private sector; and (G) twenty-three agencies implemented approximately 670 renewable energy initiatives in fiscal year 2010 at a cost of nearly $15 billion. (4) The Federal Government spends more than $80 billion each year for approximately 1,400 information technology investments. GAO has identified broad acquisition failures, waste, and unnecessary duplication in the Government’s information technology infrastructure. experts have estimated that eliminating these problems could save 25 percent or $20 billion. (5) GAO has identified strategic sourcing as a potential source of spending reductions. In 2011 GAO estimated that saving 10 percent of the total or all Federal procurement could generate more than $50 billion in savings annually. (6) Federal agencies reported an estimated $106 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2013. (7) Under clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, each standing committee must hold at least one hearing during each 120 day period following its establishment on waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs. (8) According to the Congressional Budget Office, by fiscal year 2015, 32 laws will expire, possibly resulting in $693 billion in unauthorized appropriations. Timely reauthorizations of these laws would ensure assessments of program justification and effectiveness. (9) The findings resulting from congressional oversight of Federal Government programs should result in programmatic changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. (b) Policy on Reducing Unnecessary, Wasteful, and Unauthorized Spending (1) Each authorizing committee of the House of Representatives annually should include in its Views and Estimates letter required under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives of programs within the jurisdiction of such committee whose funding should be reduced or eliminated. (2) Committees of jurisdiction should review all unauthorized programs funded through annual appropriations to determine if the programs are operating efficiently and effectively. (3) Committees should reauthorize those programs that in the committees’ judgment should continue to receive funding. (4) For those programs not reauthorized by committees, the House of Representatives should enforce the limitations on funding such unauthorized programs in the House rules. If the strictures of the rules are deemed to be too rapid in prohibiting spending on unauthorized programs, then milder measures should be adopted and enforced until a return to the full prohibition of clause 2(a)(1) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House. 6213. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) According to the most recent estimate from the Office of Management and Budget, Federal agencies were expected to hold $844 billion in unobligated balances at the close of fiscal year 2015. (2) These funds represent direct and discretionary spending previously made available by Congress that remains available for expenditure. (3) In some cases, agencies are granted funding and it remains available for obligation indefinitely. (4) The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires the Office of Management and Budget to make funds available to agencies for obligation and prohibits the Administration from withholding or cancelling unobligated funds unless approved by an Act of Congress. (5) Greater congressional oversight is required to review and identify potential savings from canceling unobligated balances of funds that are no longer needed. (b) Policy on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances In the House of Representatives, committees should through their oversight activities identify and achieve savings through the cancellation or rescission of unobligated balances that neither abrogate contractual obligations of the Government nor reduce or disrupt Federal commitments under programs such as Social Security, veterans’ affairs, national security, and Treasury authority to finance the national debt. (c) Deficit reduction The House of Representatives, with the assistance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspectors General, and other appropriate agencies should continue to make it a high priority to review unobligated balances and identify savings for deficit reduction. 6214. Policy statement on agency fees and spending (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) A number of Federal agencies and organizations have permanent authority to collect fees and other offsetting collections and to spend these collected funds. (2) The total amount of offsetting fees and offsetting collections is estimated by the Office of Management and Budget to be $525 billion in fiscal year 2016. (3) Agency budget justifications are, in some cases, not fully transparent about the amount of program activity funded through offsetting collections or fees. This lack of transparency prevents effective and accountable government. (b) Policy on agency fees and spending In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress must reassert its constitutional prerogative to control spending and conduct oversight. To do so, Congress should enact legislation requiring programs that are funded through fees, offsetting receipts, or offsetting collections to be allocated new budget authority annually. Such allocation may arise from— (1) legislation originating from the authorizing committee of jurisdiction for the agency or program; or (2) fee and account specific allocations included in annual appropriation Acts. 6215. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) The budget for the House of Representatives is $188 million less than it was when Republicans became the majority in 2011. (2) The House of Representatives has achieved significant savings by consolidating operations and renegotiating contracts. (b) Policy on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that: (1) The House of Representatives must be a model for the responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources and therefore must identify any savings that can be achieved through greater productivity and efficiency gains in the operation and maintenance of House services and resources like printing, conferences, utilities, telecommunications, furniture, grounds maintenance, postage, and rent. This should include a review of policies and procedures for acquisition of goods and services to eliminate any unnecessary spending. The Committee on House Administration should review the policies pertaining to the services provided to Members and committees of the House of Representatives, and should identify ways to reduce any subsidies paid for the operation of the House gym, barber shop, salon, and the House dining room. (2) No taxpayer funds may be used to purchase first class airfare or to lease corporate jets for Members of Congress. (3) Retirement benefits for Members of Congress should not include free, taxpayer-funded health care for life. 6216. Policy statement on No Budget, No Pay In the House of Representatives, it is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress should agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget every year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. If by April 15, the House of Representatives has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget, the payroll administrator of the House of Representatives should carry out this policy in the same manner as the provisions of Public Law 113–3 , the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, and should place in an escrow account all compensation otherwise required to be made for Members of the House of Representatives. Withheld compensation should be released to Members of the House of Representatives the earlier of the day on which the House of Representatives agrees to a concurrent resolution on the budget, pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or the last day of that Congress. 6217. Policy statement on national security funding (a) Findings The House of Representatives finds the following: (1) Russian aggression, the growing threats of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the Middle East, North Korean and Iranian nuclear and missile programs, and continued Chinese investments in high-end military capabilities and cyber warfare shape the parameters of an increasingly complex and challenging security environment. (2) All four current service chiefs testified that the National Military Strategy could not be executed at sequestration levels. (3) The independent and bipartisan National Defense Panel conducted risk assessments of force structure changes triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) and concluded that in addition to previous cuts to defense dating back to 2009, the sequestration of defense discretionary spending has caused significant shortfalls in U.S. military readiness and both present and future capabilities . (4) The President’s fiscal year 2016 budget irresponsibly ignores current law and requests a defense budget $38 billion above the caps for rhetorical gain. By creating an expectation of spending without a plan to avoid the BCA’s guaranteed sequester upon breaching of its caps, the White House’s proposal compounds the fiscal uncertainty that has affected the military’s ability to adequately plan for future contingencies and make investments crucial for the Nation’s defense. (5) The President’s budget proposes $1.8 trillion in tax increases, in addition to the $1.7 trillion in tax hikes the Administration has already imposed. The President’s tax increases would further burden economic growth and is not a realistic source for offsets to fund defense sequester replacement. (b) Policy on fiscal year 2016 national defense funding In fiscal year 2015, the House-passed budget resolution anticipated $566 billion for national defense in the discretionary base budget for fiscal year 2016. With no necessary statutory change yet provided by Congress, the BCA statute would require limiting national defense discretionary base funding to $523 billion in fiscal year 2016. However, in total with $90 billion, the House of Representatives Budget estimate for Overseas Contingency Operations funding for the Department of Defense, the fiscal year 2016 budget provides over $613 billion total for defense spending that is higher than the President’s budget request for the fiscal year. (c) Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund (1) The budget resolution recognizes the need to ensure robust funding for national defense while maintaining overall fiscal discipline. The budget resolution prioritizes our national defense and the needs of the warfighter by providing needed dollars through the creation of the Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund . (2) The Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund provides the mechanism for Congress to responsibly allocate in a deficit-neutral way the resources the military needs to secure the safety and liberty of United States citizens from threats at home and abroad. The Defense Readiness and Modernization Fund will provide the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives the ability to increase allocations to support legislation that would provide for the Department of Defense warfighting capabilities, modernization, training and maintenance associated with combat readiness, activities to reach full auditability of the Department of Defense’s financial statements, and implementation of military and compensation reforms. (d) Sequester Replacement for National Defense This concurrent resolution encourages an immediate reevaluation of Federal Government priorities to maintain the strength of America’s national security posture. In identifying policies to restructure and stabilize the Government’s major entitlement programs which, along with net interest, will consume all Federal revenue in less than 20 years, the budget also charts a course that can ensure the availability of needed national security resources.

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