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Section 303 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 does not generally take into consideration amounts of spending or revenue, but rather the time at which these budgetary effects may occur. The point of order lies against a measure that would cause have a budgetary effect before a concurrent resolution on the budget has been adopted for a fiscal year.
Section 303 is classified to the U.S. Code at 2 U.S.C. 634.
Section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act(1) provides that it shall not be in order in the House to consider a measure that first provides new budget authority in that fiscal year or first provides an increase or decrease in revenues(2 ) or the public debt limit for that fiscal year, before the adoption of the concurrent resolution on the budget.
Section 303(a) is fundamentally a timing point of order: it is no longer applicable to a given fiscal year after the adoption of a pertinent concurrent resolution on the budget. Its purpose is to prevent the consideration of certain fiscal measures prior to congressional adoption of a comprehensive budget framework, as represented by the concurrent resolution on the budget.
The point of order is applicable to new entitlement authority.(10 ) In the Senate, the point of order also applies to measures increasing or decreasing outlays. The point of order in the Senate is also applicable to any fiscal years covered by the concurrent resolution on the budget, while in the House (as noted above), the point of order is only applicable to the first fiscal year covered by the resolution.
In the 106th through the 112th Congresses, the House adopted a separate order on opening day(12 ) to evaluate section 303(a) points of order against reported bills or joint resolutions considered under a special order of business on the basis of either the text made in order as original text for purposes of amendment or the text on which the previous question is ordered directly to passage.
1. 2 USC § 634(a).
2. See § 9.5, infra.
3. See § 11, infra.
4. See § 10, infra.
5. See §§ 9.11, 9.12, infra.
6. See § 9.13, infra.
7. See § 9.10, infra.
8. See § 9.1, infra.
9. 2 USC § 634(a).
10. Section 303 originally applied to entitlement authority via a broad definition of ‘‘spending authority’’ (including both contract authority and entitlement authority) and later by an explicit textual reference in former section 303(a)(4) following the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings reforms of 1985. The Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 removed the explicit reference to entitlement authority in section 303, but the legislative history of that Act explains that entitlement authority would thereafter be scored as ‘‘budget authority’’ and thus would continue to be covered by that section. See H. Rept. 105–217, pp. 988, 989. The explicit reference to entitlement authority as applied to the Senate remains in current section 303(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act (2 USC § 634(a)(4)).
11. See § 9.4, infra.
12. 157 Cong. Rec H9 [Daily Ed.], 112th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 5, 2011 (H. Res. 5, sec. 3(a)(2)); 155 Cong. Rec 9, 111th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 6, 2009 (H. Res. 5, sec. 3(a)(2)); 153 Cong. Rec 19, 110th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 4, 2007 (H. Res. 6, sec. 511(a)(2)); 151 Cong. Rec 44, 109th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 4, 2005 (H. Res. 5, sec. 3(a)(2)); 149 Cong. Rec 10, 108th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 7, 2003 (H. Res. 5, sec. 3(a)(2)); 147 Cong. Rec 24, 107th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 3, 2001 (H. Res. 5, sec. 3(b)(2)); 145 Cong. Rec 47, 106th Cong. 1st Sess., Jan. 6, 1999 (H. Res. 5, sec. 2(a)(3)).
1. See § 9.8, infra.
2. House Rules and Manual § 1068c (2011). This clause was first adopted at the beginning of the 110th Congress.
3. See 141 Cong. Rec 8491, 104th Cong. 1st Sess., Mar. 21, 1995.
4. See § 9.6, infra.
5. See §§ 9.2, 9.3, infra.
Deschler’s Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives, Volume 18, Chapter 41, §9, p. 245-246.

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