Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the consideration of any general appropriations bill until a concurrent resolution on the budget has been adopted or the appropriate budgetary suballocations are made available.

Bill: 115-hres-432
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-07-11
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget process

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2017-07-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider a general appropriations bill for a fiscal year unless the Committee on Appropriations has filed the subcommittee allocations required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or if a concurrent resolution on the budget has not yet been agreed to for that fiscal year, unless the committee has filed a report indicating the total amount of new discretionary budget authority it intends to include in general appropriations bills for the fiscal year and how it has allocated that total among its subcommittees.</p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 432 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 11, 2017 Ms. Blunt Rochester submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the consideration of any general appropriations bill until a concurrent resolution on the budget has been adopted or the appropriate budgetary suballocations are made available.

Clause 2 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (h) It shall not be in order in the House to consider a general appropriations bill for a fiscal year unless the Committee on Appropriations has filed the allocations required by section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or, if a concurrent resolution on the budget has not yet been agreed to for that fiscal year, unless the Committee on Appropriations has filed a report indicating the total amount of new discretionary budget authority it intends to include in general appropriations bills for the fiscal year and how it has allocated that total among its subcommittees. .