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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Expedited Consideration of Proposed
Rescissions Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED RESCISSIONS.

(a) In General.--Part B of title X of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by
redesignating sections 1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018,
respectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following new
section:

''expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions

''Sec. 1013. (a) Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority.--In
addition to the method of rescinding budget authority specified in
section 1012, the President may propose, at the time and in the manner
provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget authority
provided in an appropriations Act. Funds made available for obligation
under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission again under
this section or section 1012.
''(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
''(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of enactment of
an appropriation Act, the President may transmit to Congress a
special message proposing to rescind amounts of budget
authority provided in that Act and include with that special
message a draft bill or joint resolution that, if enacted,
would only rescind that budget authority.
''(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that includes
accounts within the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee
of the Committee on Appropriations, the President in proposing
to rescind budget authority under this section shall send a
separate special message and accompanying draft bill or joint
resolution for accounts within the jurisdiction of each such
subcommittee.
''(3) Each special message shall specify, with respect to
the budget authority proposed to be rescinded, the matters
referred to in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a).
''(c) Limitation on Amounts Subject to Rescission.--
''(1) The amount of budget authority which the President
may propose to rescind in a special message under this section
for a particular program, project, or activity for a fiscal
year may not exceed 25 percent of the amount appropriated for
that program, project, or activity in that Act.
''(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1) shall only
apply to a program, project, or activity that is authorized by
law.
''(d) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
''(1)(A) Before the close of the second day of continuous
session of the applicable House after the date of receipt of a
special message transmitted to Congress under subsection (b),
the majority leader or minority leader of the House of Congress
in which the appropriation Act involved originated shall
introduce (by request) the draft bill or joint resolution
accompanying that special message. If the bill or joint
resolution is not introduced as provided in the preceding
sentence, then, on the third day of continuous session of that
House after the date of receipt of that special message, any
Member of that House may introduce the bill or joint
resolution.
''(B) The bill or joint resolution shall be referred to the
Committee on Appropriations of that House. The committee shall
report the bill or joint resolution without substantive
revision and with or without recommendation. The bill or joint
resolution shall be reported not later than the seventh day of
continuous session of that House after the date of receipt of
that special message. If the Committee on Appropriations fails
to report the bill or joint resolution within that period, that
committee shall be automatically discharged from consideration
of the bill or joint resolution, and the bill or joint
resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
''(C) A vote on final passage of the bill or joint
resolution shall be taken in that House on or before the close
of the 10th calendar day of continuous session of that House
after the date of the introduction of the bill or joint
resolution in that House. If the bill or joint resolution is
agreed to, the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the
case of a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the House of
Representatives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of
a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) shall cause
the bill or joint resolution to be engrossed, certified, and
transmitted to the other House of Congress on the same calendar
day on which the bill or joint resolution is agreed to.
''(2)(A) A bill or joint resolution transmitted to the
House of Representatives or the Senate pursuant to paragraph
(1)(C) shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations of
that House. The committee shall report the bill or joint
resolution without substantive revision and with or without
recommendation. The bill or joint resolution shall be reported
not later than the seventh day of continuous session of that
House after it receives the bill or joint resolution. A
committee failing to report the bill or joint resolution within
such period shall be automatically discharged from
consideration of the bill or joint resolution, and the bill or
joint resolution shall be placed upon the appropriate calendar.
''(B) A vote on final passage of a bill or joint resolution
transmitted to that House shall be taken on or before the close
of the 10th calendar day of continuous session of that House
after the date on which the bill or joint resolution is
transmitted. If the bill or joint resolution is agreed to in
that House, the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the
case of a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the House of
Representatives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of
a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) shall cause
the engrossed bill or joint resolution to be returned to the
House in which the bill or joint resolution originated.
''(3)(A) A motion in the House of Representatives to
proceed to the consideration of a bill or joint resolution
under this section shall be highly privileged and not
debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order,
nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
''(B) Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill or
joint resolution under this section shall not exceed 4 hours,
which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those
opposing the bill or joint resolution. A motion further to
limit debate shall not be debatable. It shall not be in order
to move to recommit a bill or joint resolution under this
section or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill or
joint resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
''(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to the
application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the
procedure relating to a bill or joint resolution under this
section shall be decided without debate.
''(D) Except to the extent specifically provided in the
preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a
bill or joint resolution under this section shall be governed
by the Rules of the House of Representatives.
''(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the
consideration of a bill or joint resolution under this section
shall be privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the
motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or
disagreed to.
''(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill or joint resolution
under this section, and all debatable motions and appeals in
connection therewith, shall not exceed 10 hours. The time shall
be equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority
leader and the minority leader or their designees.
''(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or
appeal in connection with a bill or joint resolution under this
section shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally
divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager
of the bill or joint resolution, except that in the event the
manager of the bill or joint resolution is in favor of any such
motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, shall be
controlled by the minority leader or his designee. Such
leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their control
on the passage of a bill or joint resolution, allot additional
time to any Senator during the consideration of any debatable
motion or appeal.
''(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a
bill or joint resolution under this section is not debatable. A
motion to recommit a bill or joint resolution under this
section is not in order.
''(e) Amendments Prohibited.--No amendment to a bill or joint
resolution considered under this section shall be in order in either
the House of Representatives or the Senate. No motion to suspend the
application of this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor
shall it be in order in either House to suspend the application of this
subsection by unanimous consent.
''(f) Requirement to Make Available for Obligation.--Any amount of
budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message
transmitted to Congress under subsection (b) shall be made available
for obligation on the day after the date on which either House defeats
the bill or joint resolution transmitted with that special message.
''(g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
''(1) the term 'appropriation Act' means any general or
special appropriation Act, and any Act or joint resolution
making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations;
and
''(2) continuity of a session of either House of Congress
shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of that
House sine die, and the days on which that House is not in
session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date
certain shall be excluded in the computation of any period.''.
(b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of such Act (2
U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
(1) by striking ''and 1017'' in subsection (a) and
inserting ''1013, and 1018''; and
(2) by striking ''section 1017'' in subsection (d) and
inserting ''sections 1013 and 1018''; and
(c) Conforming Amendments.--
(1) Section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended--
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ''1013'' and
inserting ''1014''; and
(B) in paragraph (5)--
(i) by striking ''1016'' and inserting
''1017''; and
(ii) by striking ''1017(b)(1)'' and
inserting ''1018(b)(1)''.
(2) Section 1015 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) (as
redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended--
(A) by striking ''1012 or 1013'' each place it
appears and inserting ''1012, 1013, or 1014'';
(B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ''1012'' and
inserting ''1012 or 1013'';
(C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ''1013'' and
inserting ''1014''; and
(D) in subsection (e)(2)--
(i) by striking ''and'' at the end of
subparagraph (A);
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as
subparagraph (C);
(iii) by striking ''1013'' in subparagraph
(C) (as so redesignated) and inserting
''1014''; and
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph (A)
the following new subparagraph:
''(B) he has transmitted a special message under
section 1013 with respect to a proposed rescission;
and''.
(3) Section 1016 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686) (as
redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended by striking ''1012 or
1013'' each place it appears and inserting ''1012, 1013, or
1014''.
(d) Clerical Amendments.--The table of sections for subpart B of
title X of such Act is amended--
(1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 1013
through 1017 as items relating to sections 1014 through 1018;
and
(2) by inserting after the item relating to section 1012
the following new item:

''Sec. 1013. Expedited consideration of certain proposed
rescissions.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICATION.

Section 1013 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974 (as added by section 2) shall apply to amounts of budget
authority provided by appropriation Acts (as defined in subsection (g)
of such section) that are enacted during the One Hundred Third
Congress.

SEC. 4. TERMINATION.

The authority provided by section 1013 of the Congressional Budget
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (as added by section 2) shall
terminate effective on the date in 1994 on which Congress adjourns sine
die.
A:
Expedited Consideration of Proposed Rescissions Act of 1993 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to allow the President an additional method of rescinding budget authority by the transmittal to the Congress, for expedited consideration, of one or more special messages proposing to rescind all or part of any item of budget authority provided in an appropriation bill. Limits the amount subject to rescission to 25 percent of the amount appropriated.
Sets forth House and Senate procedures for the expedited consideration of such a proposal.