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<title>Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hconres25v35" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2013-10-18">
<action-date>2013-10-16</action-date>
<action-desc>Passed Senate amended</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023.</p> <p><b>Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts</b> - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2013-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new budget authority, (3) budget outlays, (4) deficits, (5) public debt, and (6) debt held by the public.</p> <p>(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for the Social Security Administration (SSA), including the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, U.S. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses, and specified major functional categories for FY2013-FY2023.</p> <p><b>Title II: Reconciliation </b>- (Sec. 201) Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the Senate Committee on Finance.</p> <p><b>Title III: Reserve Funds</b> - (Sec. 301) Authorizes certain deficit-neutral reserve funds:</p> <ul> <li>to replace sequestration, promote employment and job growth, assist working families and children, invest in clean energy and preserve the environment, improve federal benefit processing, promote manufacturing in the United States, improve health outcomes and lower costs for children in Medicaid, and to improve federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs; and </li> <li>for early childhood education, tax relief, investment in America's infrastructure, America's servicemembers and veterans, higher education, health care, investments in our nation's counties and schools, a farm bill, investments in water infrastructure and resources, pension reform, housing finance reform, national security, overseas contingency operations, terrorism risk insurance, postal reform, government reform and efficiency, legislation to improve voter registration and the voting experience in federal elections, improving federal forest management, financial transparency, and for the minimum wage.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 306) Authorizes a certain reserve fund for tax reform.</p> <p>(Sec. 321) Establishes certain deficit-reduction reserve funds: (1) for government reform and efficiency; (2) to promote corporate tax fairness; (3) for elimination or modification of congressionally mandated reports from federal agencies; (4) for no budget, no Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pay; (5) for postal reform; and (6) for eminent domain abuse prevention.</p> <p>(Sec. 332) Authorizes certain deficit-neutral reserve funds:</p> <ul> <li>for repeal of the medical device tax, equal pay for equal work, women's access to health care, promotion of investment and job growth in U.S. manufacturing, oil and gas production, and refining sectors, for families of America's servicemembers and veterans, disabled veterans and their survivors, hardrock mining reform, state and local law enforcement, full funding of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and the Bioshield Special Reserve Fund, export promotion, the prohibition on funding of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), investments in air traffic control services, and for achieving full auditability of the financial statements of the Department of Defense (DOD) by 2017; and to</li> <li>prohibit Medicare vouchers, require state-wide budget neutrality in the calculation of the Medicare hospital wage index floor,</li> <li>allow states to enforce state and local use tax laws,</li> <li>define full-time employee,</li> <li>advance legislation relating to labeling genetically engineered fish,</li> <li>establish a biennial budget and appropriations process,</li> <li>repeal or reduce the estate tax,</li> <li>end &quot;Too Big to Fail&quot; subsidies or funding advantage for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets),</li> <li>authorize children eligible for health care under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to retain such eligibility until age 26,</li> <li>establish a national network for manufacturing innovation,</li> <li>ensure that any carbon emissions standards must be cost effective based on the best available science and benefit low-income and middle class families,</li> <li>address the eligibility criteria for certain unlawful immigrant individuals with respect to certain health insurance plans,</li> <li>ensure no financial institution is above the law regardless of size, and</li> <li>help homeowners and small business mitigate against flood loss.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 355) Authorizes certain deficit-neutral reserve funds to:</p> <ul> <li>repeal the Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),</li> <li>broaden the impact of the sequester (including allowing Members of Congress to donate a portion of their salaries to charity or to the Department of the Treasury during sequestration),</li> <li>ensure the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) collaborates with western states to prevent the listing of the Sage-Grouse,</li> <li>increase the capacity of agencies to ensure effective contract management and contract oversight,</li> <li>address prescription drug abuse in the United States,</li> <li>support rural schools and districts,</li> <li>strengthen enforcement of free trade agreement provisions relating to textile and apparel articles,</li> <li>assist low-income seniors,</li> <li>ensure that domestic energy sources can meet emissions rules,</li> <li>increase funding for the inland waterways system,</li> <li>continue sanctions with respect to Iran,</li> <li>prevent restrictions to public access to fishing downstream of dams owned by the Corps of Engineers,</li> <li>address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks,</li> <li>authorize per diem payments for services to dependents of homeless veterans under VA administered laws,</li> <li>support programs related to DOD nuclear missions and the National Nuclear Security Administration,</li> <li>phase-in any changes to individual or corporate tax systems,</li> <li>increase aid for tribal education programs,</li> <li>expedite U.S. exports,</li> <li>support the reauthorization of the payments-in-lieu-of-taxes program at levels roughly equivalent to property tax revenues lost due to the presence of federal land,</li> <li>ensure that the United States will not negotiate or support treaties that violate Second Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution,</li> <li>increase funding for federal investments in biomedical research, and</li> <li>uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations (U.N.) Arms Trade Treaty.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 369) Authorizes a certain reserve fund to end offshore tax abuses by large corporations.</p> <p><b>Title IV: Budget Process - Subtitle A: Budget Enforcement</b> - (Sec. 401) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would cause the discretionary spending limits in this resolution to be exceeded, except by a supermajority waiver.</p> <p> Specifies such discretionary spending limits in the Senate for FY2013-FY2014.</p> <p>Provides for adjustments to budgetary aggregates and allocations for:</p> <ul> <li>designated emergency requirements,</li> <li>continuing disability reviews,</li> <li> health care fraud and abuse control,</li> <li>disaster relief, and</li> <li> adjustments for overseas contingency operations.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 402) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any legislation that would require advanced appropriations, except by a supermajority waiver, other than for:</p> <ul> <li> up to $28.852 billion in new budget authority in FY2015-FY2016 for programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this budget resolution; </li> <li> the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and</li> <li> the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts of the Veterans Health Administration.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 403) Authorizes adjustments in committee allocations and all other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits contained in this budget resolution for sequestration or sequestration replacement purposes.</p> <p>(Sec. 404) Makes it out of order to consider in the Senate any appropriations legislation, amendment, motion, or conference report that includes any provision that constitutes changes in certain mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund, except by a supermajority waiver.</p> <p>(Sec. 405) Subjects to the supermajority (3/5) waiver requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 a point of order against consideration of certain legislation by Congress:</p> <ul> <li> reported by a committee unless the committee has published an OMB statement on the direct costs of federal mandates beforehand, and</li> <li>that would increase the direct costs of federal intergovernmental mandates by an amount causing specified thresholds to be exceeded.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 406) Prohibits budget resolutions or any other legislation that increases guarantee fees of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) from being scored for the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues (in order to offset any deficit increase) contained in such legislation.</p> <p><b>Subtitle B: Other Provisions</b> - (Sec. 411) Requires Senate committees to:</p> <ul> <li> review programs and tax expenditures in their jurisdictions to identify waste, fraud, and abuse or duplication, and to increase the use of performance data to inform committee work;</li> <li> review the matters for congressional consideration identified on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) High Risk list report and the annual report to reduce program duplication; and</li> <li> make recommendations to the Senate Budget Committee to improve governmental performance in their annual views and estimates reports.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 412) Requires the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any budget resolution in the Senate to include in its committee allocations to the Committees on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the SSA and of the Postal Service.</p> <p>(Sec. 416) Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), with the assistance of the Joint Committee on Taxation, to prepare, as a supplement to the cost estimate for legislation affecting revenues, an estimate of the revenue changes in connection with certain legislative provisions that incorporates the macroeconomic effects of the policy being analyzed.</p> <p>Applies this requirement to any legislative provision:</p> <ul> <li> which proposes a change to law that the CBO determines, pursuant to a conventional fiscal estimate, has a revenue impact exceeding $5 billion in any fiscal year; or</li> <li>for which the chair or ranking member of either congressional budget committee has requested such estimate. </li> </ul> <p><b>Title V: Other Matters</b> - (Sec. 501) Requires CBO, when it releases its annual Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook, to:</p> <ul> <li> report changes in direct spending and revenue associated with PPACA and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, including the net impact on deficit, both with on-budget and off-budget effects; and</li> <li> analyze the budgetary effects of 30%, 50%, and 100% of Americans losing employer-sponsored health insurance and accessing coverage through federal or state exchanges.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 503) Requires, when CBO submits its report to Congress on the President's annual budget for a fiscal year, the report to contain:</p> <ul> <li> an estimate of the pro rata cost to taxpayers who will file individual income tax returns for taxable years ending during such fiscal year of any deficit that would result from the budget, and</li> <li> an analysis of the budgetary effects of such cost. </ul> <p>(Sec. 504) Expresses the sense of the Senate on making available for lease, sale, or transfer any underutilized property and facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as their potential use.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hconres25v81" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-04-04">
<action-date>2013-03-21</action-date>
<action-desc>Passed House without amendment</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023.</p> <p> <b>Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts </b>- (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2014-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new budget authority, (3) budget outlays, (4) deficits (on-budget), (5) debt subject to limit, and (6) debt held by the public.</p> <p> (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY2014-FY2023.</p> <p> <b>Title II: Reconciliation </b>- (Sec. 201) Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the House Committees on: (1) Agriculture, (2) Education and the Workforce, (3) Energy and Commerce, (4) Financial Services, (5) the Judiciary, (6) Natural Resources, (7) Oversight and Government Reform, and (8) Ways and Means.</p> <p> Requires the House Committee on the Budget to report a reconciliation bill that achieves deficit reduction.</p> <p> <b>Title III: Recommended Levels for Fiscal Years 2030, 2040, and 2050 </b>- (Sec. 301) Lists recommended revenue, spending, and deficit levels and amounts for FY2030, FY2040, and FY2050 as a percent of the federal gross domestic product (GDP) with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) budget outlays, and (3) deficits.</p> <p> <b>Title IV: Reserve Funds </b>- (Sec. 401) Authorizes a certain reserve fund to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (2010 health care laws).</p> <p> (Sec. 402) Authorizes certain deficit-neutral reserve funds:</p> <ul> <li>to reform the 2010 health care laws,</li> <li>to repeal all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in them,</li> <li>for the sustainable growth rate of the Medicare program,</li> <li>to reform the tax code,</li> <li>to implement a trade agreement,</li> <li>for revenue measures that would not increase the deficit for FY2014-FY2023, and</li> <li>for rural counties and schools.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 409) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this budget resolution to accommodate the enactment of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement if it includes permanent spending reductions and reforms to direct spending programs.</p> <p><b>Title V: Estimates of Direct Spending </b>- (Sec. 501) Establishes means-tested direct spending: (1) at 6.7% for the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding FY2014, and (2) at 6.2% under current law for the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with FY2014.</p> <p> Proposes the following reforms for means-tested directed spending:</p> <ul> <li>converting the federal share of Medicaid spending into a flexible state allotment tailored to meet each state&rsquo;s needs, indexed for inflation and population growth; </li> <li>converting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into such a state allotment; and </li> <li>increasing the Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and beneficiary growth. </li> </ul> <p>Establishes at 5.9% for non-means-tested direct spending for such average rate of growth and at 5.3% under current law for such estimated average rate growth.</p> <p> Proposes reforms for non-means-tested direct spending: (1) with respect to Medicare, by advancing specified policies to put seniors, not the federal government, in control of their health care decisions; and (2) by calling for federal employees, including Members of Congress and congressional staff, to make greater contributions toward their own retirement.</p> <p><b>Title VI: Budget Enforcement </b>- (Sec. 601) Prohibits House legislation that would require advance appropriations, except certain FY2015 programs, projects, activities, or accounts.</p> <p>(Sec. 603) Declares that, if a committee other than the Committee on Appropriations reports legislation that decreases direct spending (budget authority and outlays) for any fiscal year and also authorizes appropriations for the same purpose, upon the enactment of that measure, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may decrease the allocation to such committee and increase the allocation of discretionary spending to the Committee on Appropriations for FY2014 by the amount of the new budget authority and outlays provided for in legislation making appropriations for the same purpose.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels for veterans programs, Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT), or committee allocation to the Committee on Appropriations specified in the report of this budget resolution to conform with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (as adjusted by the Budget Control Act of 2011).</p> <p>(Sec. 604) Makes it out of order in the House to consider legislation reported out of committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) if it has the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of $5 billion for any of the four consecutive 10-fiscal-year periods beginning with FY2024.</p> <p>(Sec. 605) Requires the report or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on this budget resolution to include in its allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and of the Postal Service.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to adjust allocations and aggregates for legislation reported by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that reforms the federal retirement system, but does not cause a net increase in the deficit for FY2014-FY2023.</p> <p>(Sec. 607) Requires any estimate prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for a measure under the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) to also provide, as a supplement, and to the extent practicable, upon the request of the chair or ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the &quot;fair value&quot; of assets and liabilities affected by such measure.</p> <p>Requires, whenever the Director prepares an estimate of the costs which would be incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolution and determines that such legislation has a cost related to a housing or residential mortgage program under the FCRA, the Director to also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the &quot;fair value&quot; of assets and liabilities affected by the provisions of the measure that result in such cost.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to use such estimate to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budgetary enforcement controls. <p>(Sec. 608) Counts legislation that transfers funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year in which the transfer occurs.</p> <p>(Sec. 609) Provides a separate allocation in the House to the Committee on Appropriations for OCO/GWOT for FY2014.</p> <p><b>Title VII: Policy Statements </b>- (Sec. 701) Declares the policy of this budget resolution on:</p> <ul> <li>economic growth and job creation,</li> <li>tax reform,</li> <li>Medicare reform,</li> <li>Social Security,</li> <li>higher education affordability,</li> <li>deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances,</li> <li>responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars,</li> <li>deficit reduction through the reduction of unnecessary and wasteful spending, and</li> <li>unauthorized spending.</li> </ul> <p><b>Title VIII: Sense of the House Provisions </b>- (Sec. 801) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives on the importance of child support enforcement.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hconres25v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-04-04">
<action-date>2013-03-15</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023.</p> <p> Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2014-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new budget authority, (3) budget outlays, (4) deficits (on-budget), (5) debt subject to limit, and (6) debt held by the public.</p> <p> Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY2014-FY2023.</p> <p> Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the House Committees on: (1) Agriculture, (2) Education and the Workforce, (3) Energy and Commerce, (4) Financial Services, (5) the Judiciary, (6) Natural Resources, (7) Oversight and Government Reform, and (8) Ways and Means.</p> <p> Requires the House Committee on the Budget to report a reconciliation bill that achieves deficit reduction.</p> <p> Lists recommended revenue, spending, and deficit levels and amounts for FY2030, FY2040, and FY2050 as a percent of the federal gross domestic product (GDP) with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) budget outlays, and (3) deficits.</p> <p> Authorizes a certain reserve fund to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (2010 health care laws).</p> <p> Authorizes certain deficit-neutral reserve funds:</p> <ul> <li>to reform the 2010 health care laws,</li> <li>to repeal all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in them,</li> <li>for the sustainable growth rate of the Medicare program,</li> <li>to reform the tax code,</li> <li>to implement a trade agreement,</li> <li>for revenue measures that would not increase the deficit for FY2014-FY2023, and</li> <li>for rural counties and schools.</li> </ul> <p>Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this budget resolution to accommodate the enactment of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement if it includes permanent spending reductions and reforms to direct spending programs.</p> <p>Establishes means-tested direct spending: (1) at 6.7% for the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding FY2014, and (2) at 6.2% under current law for the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with FY2014.</p> <p> Proposes the following reforms for means-tested directed spending:</p> <ul> <li>converting the federal share of Medicaid spending into a flexible state allotment tailored to meet each state&rsquo;s needs, indexed for inflation and population growth; </li> <li>converting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into such a state allotment; and </li> <li>increasing the Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and beneficiary growth. </li> </ul> <p>Establishes at 5.9% for non-means-tested direct spending for such average rate of growth and at 5.3% under current law for such estimated average rate growth.</p> <p> Proposes reforms for non-means-tested direct spending: (1) with respect to Medicare, by advancing specified policies to put seniors, not the federal government, in control of their health care decisions; and (2) by calling for federal employees, including Members of Congress and congressional staff, to make greater contributions toward their own retirement.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels for veterans programs, Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT), or committee allocation to the Committee on Appropriations specified in the report of this resolution to conform with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (as adjusted by the Budget Control Act of 2011).</p> <p>Makes it out of order in the House to consider legislation reported out of committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) if it has the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of $5 billion for any of the four consecutive 10-fiscal-year periods beginning with FY2024.</p> <p>Requires the report or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on this budget resolution to include in its allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and of the Postal Service.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to adjust allocations and aggregates for legislation reported by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that reforms the federal retirement system, but does not cause a net increase in the deficit for FY2014-FY2023.</p> <p>Counts legislation that transfers funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year in which the transfer occurs.</p> <p>Provides a separate allocation in the House to the Committee on Appropriations for OCO/GWAT for FY2014.</p> <p>Declares the policy of this resolution on:</p> <ul> <li>economic growth and job creation,</li> <li>tax reform,</li> <li>Medicare reform,</li> <li>Social Security,</li> <li>higher education affordability,</li> <li>deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances,</li> <li>responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars,</li> <li>deficit reduction through the reduction of unnecessary and wasteful spending, and</li> <li>unauthorized spending.</li> </ul> <p>Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives on the importance of child support enforcement.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hconres25v79" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-04-04">
<action-date>2013-03-15</action-date>
<action-desc>Reported to House without amendment</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)</b></p> <p>Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2014, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023.</p> <p> <b>Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts</b> - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2014-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new budget authority, (3) budget outlays, (4) deficits (on-budget), (5) debt subject to limit, and (6) debt held by the public.</p> <p> (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY2014-FY2023.</p> <p> <b>Title II: Reconciliation</b> - (Sec. 201) Sets forth reconciliation instructions for the House Committees on: (1) Agriculture, (2) Education and the Workforce, (3) Energy and Commerce, (4) Financial Services, (5) the Judiciary, (6) Natural Resources, (7) Oversight and Government Reform, and (8) Ways and Means.</p> <p> Requires the House Committee on the Budget to report a reconciliation bill that achieves deficit reduction.</p> <p> <b>Title III: Recommended Levels for Fiscal Years 2030, 2040, and 2050 </b>- (Sec. 301) Lists recommended revenue, spending, and deficit levels and amounts for FY2030, FY2040, and FY2050 as a percent of the federal gross domestic product (GDP) with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) budget outlays, and (3) deficits.</p> <p> <b>Title IV: Reserve Funds </b>- (Sec. 401) Authorizes a certain reserve fund to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (2010 health care laws).</p> <p> (Sec. 402) Authorizes certain deficit-neutral reserve funds:</p> <ul> <li>to reform the 2010 health care laws,</li> <li>to repeal all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in them,</li> <li>for the sustainable growth rate of the Medicare program,</li> <li>to reform the tax code,</li> <li>to implement a trade agreement,</li> <li>for revenue measures that would not increase the deficit for FY2014-FY2023, and</li> <li>for rural counties and schools.</li> </ul> <p>(Sec. 409) Authorizes the chair of the House Budget Committee to revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this budget resolution to accommodate the enactment of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement if it includes permanent spending reductions and reforms to direct spending programs.</p> <p><b>Title V: Estimates of Direct Spending</b> - (Sec. 501) Establishes means-tested direct spending: (1) at 6.7% for the average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period preceding FY2014, and (2) at 6.2% under current law for the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period beginning with FY2014.</p> <p> Proposes the following reforms for means-tested directed spending:</p> <ul> <li>converting the federal share of Medicaid spending into a flexible state allotment tailored to meet each state&rsquo;s needs, indexed for inflation and population growth; </li> <li>converting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into such a state allotment; and </li> <li>increasing the Department of Agriculture Thrifty Food Plan index and beneficiary growth. </li> </ul> <p>Establishes at 5.9% for non-means-tested direct spending for such average rate of growth and at 5.3% under current law for such estimated average rate growth.</p> <p> Proposes reforms for non-means-tested direct spending: (1) with respect to Medicare, by advancing specified policies to put seniors, not the federal government, in control of their health care decisions; and (2) by calling for federal employees, including Members of Congress and congressional staff, to make greater contributions toward their own retirement.</p> <p><b>Title VI: Budget Enforcement </b>- (Sec. 601) Prohibits House legislation that would require advance appropriations, except certain FY2015 programs, projects, activities, or accounts.</p> <p>(Sec. 603) Declares that, if a committee other than the Committee on Appropriations reports legislation that decreases direct spending (budget authority and outlays) for any fiscal year and also authorizes appropriations for the same purpose, upon the enactment of that measure, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may decrease the allocation to such committee and increase the allocation of discretionary spending to the Committee on Appropriations for FY2014 by the amount of the new budget authority and outlays provided for in legislation making appropriations for the same purpose.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels for veterans programs, Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT), or committee allocation to the Committee on Appropriations specified in the report of this budget resolution to conform with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (as adjusted by the Budget Control Act of 2011).</p> <p>(Sec. 604) Makes it out of order in the House to consider legislation reported out of committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations) if it has the net effect of increasing direct spending in excess of $5 billion for any of the four consecutive 10-fiscal-year periods beginning with FY2024.</p> <p>(Sec. 605) Requires the report or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on this budget resolution to include in its allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and of the Postal Service.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to adjust allocations and aggregates for legislation reported by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that reforms the federal retirement system, but does not cause a net increase in the deficit for FY2014-FY2023.</p> <p>(Sec. 607) Requires any estimate prepared by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for a measure under the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) to also provide, as a supplement, and to the extent practicable, upon the request of the chair or ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the &quot;fair value&quot; of assets and liabilities affected by such measure.</p> <p>Requires, whenever the Director prepares an estimate of the costs which would be incurred in carrying out any bill or joint resolution and determines that such legislation has a cost related to a housing or residential mortgage program under the FCRA, the Director to also provide an estimate of the current actual or estimated market values representing the &quot;fair value&quot; of assets and liabilities affected by the provisions of the measure that result in such cost.</p> <p>Authorizes the chair to use such estimate to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budgetary enforcement controls. <p>(Sec. 608) Counts legislation that transfers funds from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year in which the transfer occurs.</p> <p>(Sec. 609) Provides a separate allocation in the House to the Committee on Appropriations for OCO/GWOT for FY2014.</p> <p><b>Title VII: Policy Statements </b>- (Sec. 701) Declares the policy of this budget resolution on:</p> <ul> <li>economic growth and job creation,</li> <li>tax reform,</li> <li>Medicare reform,</li> <li>Social Security,</li> <li>higher education affordability,</li> <li>deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances,</li> <li>responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars,</li> <li>deficit reduction through the reduction of unnecessary and wasteful spending, and</li> <li>unauthorized spending.</li> </ul> <p><b>Title VIII: Sense of the House Provisions </b>- (Sec. 801) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives on the importance of child support enforcement.</p>]]></summary-text>
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