[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 10

To require reauthorizations of budget authority for Government programs 
at least every ten years, to provide for review of Government programs 
           at least every ten years, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

  Mr. Mineta (for himself and Mr. Gephardt) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Government 
                          Operations and Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
To require reauthorizations of budget authority for Government programs 
at least every ten years, to provide for review of Government programs 
           at least every ten years, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be 
cited as the ``Sunset Act of 1993''.
    Sec. 2. The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to require that most Government programs be 
        reauthorized according to a schedule at least once every ten 
        years;
            (2) to limit the length of time for which Government 
        programs can be authorized to ten years;
            (3) to bar the expenditure of funds for Government programs 
        which have not been provided for by a law enacted during the 
        ten-year sunset reauthorization cycle; and
            (4) to encourage the reexamination of selected Government 
        programs each Congress.
    Sec. 3. (a) For purposes of this Act--
            (1) The term ``budget authority'' has the meaning given to 
        it by section 3(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
            (2) The term ``permanent budget authority'' means budget 
        authority provided for an indefinite period of time or an 
        unspecified number of fiscal years which does not require 
        recurring action by the Congress, but does not include budget 
        authority provided for a specified fiscal year which is 
        available for obligation or expenditure in one or more 
        succeeding fiscal years.
            (3) The term ``Comptroller General'' means the Comptroller 
        General of the United States.
            (4) The term ``agency'' means an executive agency as 
        defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, except 
        that such term includes the United States Postal Service and 
        the Postal Rate Commission but does not include the General 
        Accounting Office.
            (5) The term ``sunset reauthorization cycle'' means the 
        period of five Congresses beginning with the One Hundred Fourth 
        Congress and with each sixth Congress following the One Hundred 
        Fourth Congress.
    (b) For purposes of this Act, each program (including any program 
exempted by a provision of law from inclusion in the Budget of the 
United States) shall be assigned to the functional and subfunctional 
categories to which it is assigned in the Budget of the United States 
Government, fiscal year 1993. Each committee of the Senate or the House 
of Representatives which reports any bill or resolution which 
authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a program not 
included in the fiscal year 1993 budget shall include, in the committee 
report accompanying such bill or resolution (and, where appropriate, 
the conferees shall include in their joint statement on such bill or 
resolution), a statement as to the functional and subfunctional 
category to which such program is to be assigned.
    (c) For purposes of titles I, II, and III of this Act, the 
reauthorization date applicable to a program is the date specified for 
such program under section 101(b).

            TITLE I--REAUTHORIZATION OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

    Sec. 101. (a) Each Government program (except those listed in 
section 103) shall be reauthorized at least once during each sunset 
reauthorization cycle during the Congress in which the reauthorization 
date applicable to such program (pursuant to subsection (b)) occurs.
    (b) The first reauthorization date applicable to a Government 
program is the date specified in the following table, and each 
subsequent reauthorization date applicable to a program is the date ten 
years following the preceding reauthorization date:

                                                                        
                    Programs included within                First       
                     subfunctional category         reauthorization date
                                                                        
             254 Space, Science, Applications and    September 30, 1994.
              Technology                                                
             272 Energy Conservation.                                   
             301 Water Resources.                                       
             352 Agriculture and Research                               
              Services.                                                 
             371 Mortgage Credit and Thrift                             
              Insurance.                                                
             376 Other Advancement and Regulation                       
              of Commerce                                               
             501 Elementary, Secondary, and                             
              Vocational Education                                      
             601 General Retirement and Disability                      
              Insurance.                                                
             602 Federal Employment Retirement and                      
              Disability.                                               
             703 Hospital and Medical Care for                          
              Veterans.                                                 
             807 Other General Government.                              
             051 Department of Defense--Military     September 30, 1996.
             053 Atomic Energy Defense Activities.                      
             154 Foreign Information and Exchange                       
              Act.                                                      
             251 General Science and Basic                              
              Research.                                                 
             306 Other Natural Resources.                               
             351 Farm Income Stabilization.                             
             401 Ground Transportation.                                 
             502 Higher Education.                                      
             553 Education and Training of Health                       
              Care Work Force.                                          
             701 Income Security for Veterans.                          
             752 Federal Litigative and Judicial                        
              Activities.                                               
             802 Executive Director and                                 
              Management.                                               
             803 Central Fiscal Operations.                             
             054 Defense Related Activities          September 30, 1998.
             152 International Security                                 
              Assistance.                                               
             155 International Financial Programs.                      
             253 Space Flight.                                          
             255 Supporting Space Activities.                           
             274 Emergency Energy Preparedness.                         
             302 Conservation and Land Management.                      
             304 Pollution Control and Abatement.                       
             407 Other Transportation.                                  
             504 Training and Employment.                               
             506 Social Services.                                       
             554 Consumer and Occupational Health                       
              and Safety.                                               
             704 Veterans Housing.                                      
             751 Federal Law Enforcement                                
              Activities.                                               
             801 Legislative Function.                                  
             806 Other General Purpose Fiscal                           
              Assistance.                                               
             153 Conduct of Foreign Affairs          September 30, 2000.
             271 Energy Supply.                                         
             303 Recreational Resources.                                
             402 Air Transportation.                                    
             505 Other Labor Services.                                  
             551 Health Care Services.                                  
             604 Public Assistance and Other                            
              Income Supplements                                        
             702 Veterans Education, Training, and                      
              Rehabilitation                                            
             753 Federal Correctional Activities.                       
             805 Central Personnel Management.                          
             908 Other Interest.                                        
             151 Foreign Economic and Financial      September 30, 2002.
              Assistance                                                
             276 Energy Information, Policy and                         
              Regulation.                                               
             372 Postal Service.                                        
             403 Water Transportation.                                  
             451 Community Development.                                 
             452 Area and Regional Development.                         
             453 Disaster Relief and Insurance.                         
             503 Research and General Education                         
              Aids.                                                     
             552 Health Research.                                       
             603 Unemployment Compensation.                             
             705 Other Veterans Benefits and                            
              Services.                                                 
             754 Criminal Justice Assistance.                           
             804 General Property and Record                            
              Management.                                               
             901 Interest on the Public Debt.                           
                                                                        

    (c)(1) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House 
of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution, or amendment 
thereto, which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a 
program for a period of more than ten fiscal years, for an indefinite 
period, or (except during the Congress in which such next 
reauthorization date occurs) for any fiscal year beginning after the 
next reauthorization date applicable to such program. Notwithstanding 
the preceding sentence, it shall be in order to consider a bill or 
resolution for the purpose of considering an amendment to the bill or 
resolution which would make the authorization period conform to the 
requirement of such sentence.
    (2)(A) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House 
of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution, or amendment 
thereto, which provides new budget authority for a program for any 
fiscal year beginning after any reauthorization date applicable to such 
program under subsection (b), unless the provision of such new budget 
authority is specifically authorized by a law which constitutes a 
required authorization for such program.
    (B) For the purposes of this title, the term ``required 
authorization'' means a law authorizing the enactment of new budget 
authority for a program, which complies with the provisions of 
paragraph (1).
    (3) No new budget authority may be obligated or expended for a 
program for a fiscal year beginning after the last fiscal year in a 
sunset reauthorization cycle unless a provision of law providing for 
the expenditure of such funds has been enacted during such sunset 
reauthorization cycle.
    (4) Any provision of law providing permanent budget authority for a 
program shall cease to be effective (for the purpose of providing such 
budget authority) on the first reauthorization date applicable to such 
program.
    (5) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider any bill or resolution, or amendment 
thereto, which provides new budget authority for a program unless the 
bill or resolution, or amendment thereto (or the report which 
accompanies such bill or resolution), includes a specific reference to 
the provision of law which constitutes a required authorization for 
such program. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, it shall be in 
order to consider a bill or resolution for the purpose of considering 
an amendment which provides such reference to the appropriate provision 
of law.
    Sec. 102. (a) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the 
House of Representatives to consider any bill or resolution, or 
amendment thereto, which has been reported by a committee and which 
authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a program for a 
fiscal year beginning after the next reauthorization date applicable to 
such program, unless a reauthorization review of such program has been 
completed during the Congress in which the reauthorization date for 
such program occurs (or during a subsequent Congress when such required 
authorization is considered), and the report accompanying such bill or 
resolution includes a separate section entitled ``Reauthorization 
Review'' recommending, based on such review, whether the program or the 
laws affecting such program should be continued without change, 
continued with modifications, or terminated, and also includes, to the 
extent the committee or committees having jurisdiction deem 
appropriate, each of the following matters:
            (1) Information and analysis on the organization, 
        operation, costs, results, accomplishments, and effectiveness 
        of the program.
            (2) An identification of any other programs having similar 
        objectives, and a justification of the need for the proposed 
        program in comparison with those other programs which may be 
        potentially conflicting or duplicative.
            (3) An identification of the objectives intended for the 
        program, and the problems or needs which the program is 
        intended to address, including an analysis of the performance 
        expected to be achieved, based on the bill or resolution as 
        reported.
            (4) A comparison of the amount of new budget authority 
        which was authorized for the program in each of the previous 
        four fiscal years and the amount of new budget authority 
        provided in each such year.
    (b) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider a bill or resolution, or amendment thereto, 
which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a program 
for which there previously has been no such authorization unless the 
report accompanying such bill or resolution sets forth, to the extent 
that the committee or committees having jurisdiction deem appropriate, 
the information specified in subsections (a)(2) and (a)(3).
    (c) Each committee having legislative jurisdiction over a program 
referred to in section 103 shall conduct a review of such program of 
the type described in subsection (a) of this section at least once 
during each sunset reauthorization cycle, during the Congress in which 
the reauthorization date applicable to such program occurs, and shall 
submit to the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may 
be, a report containing its recommendations and other information of 
the type described in subsection (a). It shall not be in order in 
either the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider a bill or 
resolution reported by the committee having legislative jurisdiction 
which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for such program 
unless such report accompanies such bill or resolution, or has been 
submitted during the Congress in which the reauthorization date for 
such program occurred as provided in section 101(b), whichever first 
occurs.
    Sec.  103. Section 101(c) shall not apply to the following:
            (1) Programs included within functional category 900 
        (Interest).
            (2) Any Federal programs or activities to enforce civil 
        rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States or 
        to enforce antidiscrimination laws of the United States, 
        including but not limited to the investigation of violations of 
        civil rights, civil or criminal litigation or the 
        implementation or enforcement of judgments resulting from such 
        litigation, and administrative activities in support of the 
        foregoing.
            (3) Programs which are related to the administration of the 
        Federal judiciary and which are classified in the fiscal year 
        1993 budget under subfunctional category 752 (Federal 
        litigative and judicial activities).
            (4) Payments of refunds of internal revenue collections as 
        provided in title I of the Supplemental Treasury and Post 
        Office Departments Appropriation Act of 1949 (62 Stat. 561), 
        but not to include refunds to persons in excess of their tax 
        payments.
            (5) Programs included in the fiscal year 1993 budget in 
        subfunctional categories 701 (Income security for veterans), 
        702 (Veterans education, training, and rehabilitation), 704 
        (Veterans housing), and programs for providing health care 
        which are included in such budget in subfunctional category 703 
        (Hospital and medical care for veterans).
            (6) Social Security and Federal employee retirement 
        programs including the following:
                    (A) Programs funded through trust funds which are 
                included with subfunctional categories 551 (Health care 
                services), 601 (General retirement and disability 
                insurance), or 602 (Federal employee retirement and 
                disability).
                    (B) Retirement pay and retired pay of military 
                personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, 
                Marine Corps, and the Air Force, including the Reserve 
                components thereof, retainer pay for personnel of the 
                Inactive Fleet Reserve; and payments under section 4 of 
                Public Law 92-425 and chapter 73 of title 10, United 
                States Code (survivor's benefits), classified in the 
                fiscal year 1993 budget in subfunctional category 051 
                (Department of Defense--military).
                    (C) Retirement pay and medical benefits for retired 
                commissioned officers of the Coast Guard, the Public 
                Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National 
                Oceanic and Atmospheric Commissioned Corps and their 
                survivors and dependents, classified in the fiscal year 
                1993 budget in subfunctional category 551 (Health care 
                services) or in subfunctional category 306 (Other 
                natural resources).
                    (D) Retired pay of military personnel of the Coast 
                Guard and Coast Guard Reserve, members of the former 
                Lighthouse Service, and for annuities payable to 
                beneficiaries of retired military personnel under the 
                retired serviceman's family protection plan (10 U.S.C. 
                1431-1446) and survivor benefit plan (10 U.S.C. 1447-
                1455), classified in the fiscal year 1993 budget in 
                subfunctional category 403 (Water transportation).
                    (E) Payments to the Central Intelligence Agency 
                Retirement and Disability Fund, classified in fiscal 
                year 1993 budget in subfunctional category 054 
                (Defense-related activities).
                    (F) Payments to the Civil Service Retirement and 
                Disability Fund for financing unfunded liabilities, 
                classified in fiscal year 1993 budget in subfunctional 
                category 805 (Central personnel management).
                    (G) Payments to the Foreign Service Retirement and 
                Disability Fund, classified in fiscal year 1993 budget 
                in subfunctional category 153 (Conduct of foreign 
                affairs).
                    (H) Payments to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 
                Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
                Funds, classified in fiscal year 1993 budget in various 
                subfunctional categories.
                    (I) Administration of the retirement and disability 
                programs set forth in this section.
    Sec. 104. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that all programs 
should be considered and reauthorized in program categories which 
constitute major areas of legislative policy. Such authorizations 
should be for sufficient periods of time to enhance oversight and the 
review and evaluation of Government programs.
    (b) The reauthorization schedule contained in section 101(b) may be 
changed by concurrent resolution of the two Houses of the Congress 
(except that changes in the schedule affecting permanent appropriations 
may be made only by law).
    (c) All messages, petitions, memorials, concurrent resolutions, and 
bills proposing changes in section 101(b) and all bills proposing 
changes in section 103, shall be referred first to the committee with 
legislative jurisdiction over any program affected by the proposal and 
sequentially to the Committee on Rules in the House of Representatives 
or to the Committee on Rules and Administration in the Senate.
    (d) Except as provided in subsection (f), the Committee on Rules in 
the House of Representatives or the Committee on Rules and 
Administration in the Senate shall report with its recommendations any 
concurrent resolution or bill referred to it under subsection (c) and 
which previously has been reported favorably by a committee of 
legislative jurisdiction within thirty days (not counting any day on 
which the Senate or the House of Representatives is not in session), 
beginning with the day following the day on which such resolution or 
bill is so referred.
    (e) The recommendations of the Committee on Rules or the Committee 
on Rules and Administration pursuant to subsection (d) or (f) shall 
include a statement on each of the following matters:
            (1) The effect the proposed change would have on the sunset 
        reauthorization schedule.
            (2) The effect the proposed change would have on the 
        jurisdictional and reauthorization responsibilities and 
        workloads of the authorizing committees of Congress.
            (3) Any suggested grouping of similar programs which would 
        further the goals of this Act to make more effective 
        comparisons between programs having like objectives.
    (f) Any concurrent resolution or bill proposing a change in section 
101(b) or 103 shall be referred in the House to the Committee on Rules 
and in the Senate to the Committee on Rules and Administration. Such 
committee shall report an omnibus concurrent resolution or bill 
containing its recommendations regarding the proposed changes and 
consideration of such bill or resolution shall be highly privileged in 
the House of Representatives and privileged in the Senate. The 
provisions of subsections (c) and (d) of section 1017 of the 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974, insofar as they relate to 
consideration of rescission bills, shall apply to the consideration of 
concurrent resolutions and bills proposing changes reported pursuant to 
this subsection, amendments thereto, motions and appeals with respect 
thereto, and conference reports thereon.
    (g) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider a bill or resolution reported pursuant to 
subsection (b), (c), (d), or (f) which proposes a reauthorization date 
for a program beyond the final reauthorization date of the sunset 
reauthorization cycle then in progress. Notwithstanding the preceding 
sentence, it shall be in order to consider a bill or resolution for the 
purpose of considering an amendment which meets the requirements of 
this subsection.

                      TITLE II--PROGRAM INVENTORY

    Sec. 201. (a) The Comptroller General and the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the 
Congressional Research Service, shall prepare an inventory of Federal 
programs (hereafter in this title referred to as the ``program 
inventory'').
    (b) The purpose of the program inventory is to advise and assist 
the Congress in carrying out the requirements of titles I and III. Such 
inventory shall not in any way bind the committees of the Senate or the 
House of Representatives with respect to their responsibilities under 
such titles and shall not infringe on the legislative and oversight 
responsibilities of such committees. The Comptroller General shall 
compile and maintain the inventory, and the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office shall provide budgetary information for 
inclusion in the inventory.
    (c) Not later than January 1, 1994, the Comptroller General, after 
consultation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office and 
the Director of the Congressional Research Service, shall submit the 
program inventory to the Senate and House of Representatives.
    (d) In the report submitted under this section, the Comptroller 
General, after consultation and in cooperation with and consideration 
of the views and recommendations of the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office, shall group programs into program areas appropriate for 
the exercise of the review and reexamination requirements of this Act. 
Such groupings shall identify program areas in a manner which 
classifies each program in only one functional and only one 
subfunctional category and which is consistent with the structure of 
national needs, agency missions, and basic programs developed pursuant 
to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code.
    (e) The program inventory shall set forth for each program each of 
the following matters:
            (1) The specific provision or provisions of law authorizing 
        the program.
            (2) The committees of the Senate and the House of 
        Representatives which have legislative or oversight 
        jurisdiction over the program.
            (3) A brief statement of the purpose or purposes to be 
        achieved by the program.
            (4) The committees which have jurisdiction over legislation 
        providing new budget authority for the program, including the 
        appropriate subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations 
        of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
            (5) The agency and, if applicable, the subdivision thereof 
        responsible for administering the program.
            (6) The grants-in-aid, if any, provided by such program to 
        State and local governments.
            (7) The next reauthorization date for the program.
            (8) A unique identification number which links the program 
        and functional category structure.
            (9) The year in which the program was originally 
        established and, where applicable, the year in which the 
        program expires.
            (10) Where applicable, the year in which new budget 
        authority for the program was last authorized and the year in 
        which current authorizations of new budget authority expire.
    (f) The inventory shall contain a separate tabular listing of 
programs which are not required to be reauthorized pursuant to section 
101(c).
    (g) The report also shall set forth for each program whether the 
new budget authority provided for such programs is--
            (1) authorized for a definite period of time;
            (2) authorized in a specific dollar amount but without 
        limit of time;
            (3) authorized without limit of time or dollar amounts;
            (4) not specifically authorized; or
            (5) permanently provided,
as determined by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.
    (h) For each program or group of programs, the program inventory 
also shall include information prepared by the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office indicating each of the following matters:
            (1) The amounts of new budget authority authorized and 
        provided for the program for each of the preceding four fiscal 
        years and, where applicable, the four succeeding fiscal years.
            (2) The functional and subfunctional category in which the 
        program is presently classified and was classified under the 
        fiscal year 1991 budget.
            (3) The identification code and title of the appropriation 
        account in which budget authority is provided for the program.
    Sec. 202. The General Accounting Office, the Congressional Research 
Service, and the Congressional Budget Office shall permit the mutual 
exchange of available information in their possession which would aid 
in the compilation of the program inventory.
    Sec. 203. The Office of Management and Budget, and the Executive 
agencies and the subdivisions thereof shall, to the extent necessary 
and possible, provide the General Accounting Office with assistance 
requested by the Comptroller General in the compilation of the program 
inventory.
    Sec. 204. Each committee of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional 
Research Service shall review the program inventory as submitted under 
section 201 and not later than March 1, 1994, each shall advise the 
Comptroller General of any revisions in the composition or 
identification of programs and groups of programs which it recommends. 
After full consideration of the reports of all such committees and 
officials, the Comptroller General in consultation with the committees 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall report, not later 
than May 1, 1994, a revised program inventory to the Senate and the 
House of Representatives.
    Sec. 205. (a) The Comptroller General, after the close of each 
session of the Congress, shall revise the program inventory and report 
the revisions to the Senate and the House of Representatives.
    (b) After the close of each session of the Congress, the Director 
of the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare a report, for 
inclusion in the revised inventory, with respect to each program 
included in the program inventory and each program established by law 
during such session, which includes the amount of the new budget 
authority authorized and the amount of new budget authority provided 
for the current fiscal year and each of the five succeeding fiscal 
years. If new budget authority is not authorized or provided or is 
authorized or provided for an indefinite amount for any of such five 
succeeding fiscal years with respect to any program, the Director shall 
make projections of the amounts of such new budget authority necessary 
to be authorized or provided for any such fiscal year to maintain a 
current level of services.
    (c) Not later than one year after the first or any subsequent 
reauthorization date, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, 
in consultation with the Comptroller General and the Director of the 
Congressional Research Service, shall compile a list of the provisions 
of law related to all programs subject to such reauthorization date for 
which new budget authority was not authorized. The Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office shall include such a list in the report 
required by subsection (b). The committees with legislative 
jurisdiction over the affected programs shall study the affected 
provisions and make any recommendations they deem to be appropriate 
with regard to such provisions to the Senate and the House of 
Representatives.
    Sec. 206. The Director of the Congressional Budget Office and the 
Comptroller General shall include in their respective reports to the 
Congress pursuant to section 202(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 and section 719 of title 31, United States Code, an assessment of 
the adequacy of the functional and subfunctional categories contained 
in section 101(b) of this Act for grouping programs of like missions or 
objectives.
    Sec. 207. (a) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall 
tabulate and issue an annual report on the progress of congressional 
action on bills and resolutions reported by a committee of either House 
or passed by either House which authorize the enactment of new budget 
authority for programs.
    (b) The report shall include an up-to-date tabulation for the 
fiscal year beginning October 1 and the succeeding four fiscal years of 
the amounts of budget authority (1) authorized by law or proposed to be 
authorized in any bill or resolution reported by any committee of the 
Senate or the House of Representatives, or (2) if budget authority is 
not authorized or proposed to be authorized for any of the five fiscal 
years, the amounts necessary to maintain a current level of services 
for programs in the inventory.
    (c) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall issue 
periodic reports on the programs and the provisions of laws which are 
scheduled for reauthorization in each Congress pursuant to the 
reauthorization schedule in section 101(b). In these reports, the 
Director shall identify each provision of law which authorizes the 
enactment of new budget authority for programs scheduled for 
reauthorization and the title of the appropriation bill, or part 
thereof, which would provide new budget authority pursuant to each 
authorization.

                    TITLE III--PROGRAM REEXAMINATION

    Sec. 301. (a) Each committee of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives periodically shall provide through the procedures 
established in section 302, for the conduct of a comprehensive 
reexamination of selected programs or groups of programs over which it 
has jurisdiction.
    (b) In selecting programs and groups of programs for reexamination, 
each committee shall consider each of the following matters:
            (1) The extent to which substantial time has passed since 
        the program or group of programs has been in effect.
            (2) The extent to which a program or group of programs 
        appears to require significant change.
            (3) The resources of the committee with a view toward 
        undertaking reexaminations across a broad range of programs.
            (4) The desirability of examining related programs 
        concurrently.
    Sec. 302. (a)(1) The funding resolution first reported by each 
committee of the Senate in 1995, and thereafter for the first session 
of each Congress, shall include, and the first funding resolution 
introduced by each committee of the House of Representatives (and 
referred to the Committee on House Administration) for such year and 
thereafter for the first session of each Congress shall include, a 
section setting forth the committee's plan for reexamination of 
programs under this title. Such plan shall include each of the 
following matters:
            (A) The programs to be reexamined and the reasons for their 
        selection.
            (B) The scheduled completion date for each program 
        reexamination, which date shall not be later than the end of 
        the Congress preceding the Congress in which the 
        reauthorization date applicable to a program occurs as provided 
        in section 101(b), unless the committee explains in a statement 
        in the report accompanying its proposed funding resolution (in 
        the Senate), or in a statement supplied by the respective 
        committee and included in the report of the Committee on House 
        Administration (in the House of Representatives), the reasons 
        for a later completion date, except that reports on programs 
        scheduled for reauthorization during the 104th Congress and 
        selected for reexamination in a committee's plan adopted in 
        1994 may be submitted at any time on or before February 15, 
        1995.
            (C) The estimated cost for each reexamination.
    (2) The report accompanying the funding resolution reported by each 
committee of the Senate in 1995 and thereafter for the first session of 
each Congress, shall include, and the report accompanying the funding 
resolution reported by the Committee on House Administration with 
respect to each committee of the House of Representatives shall 
include, a statement of that committee, with respect to each 
reexamination in its plan, of each of the following matters:
            (A) A description of the components of the reexamination.
            (B) A statement of whether the reexamination is to be 
        conducted (i) by the committee, or (ii) at the request and 
        under the direction of or under contract with the committee, as 
        the case may be, by one or more instrumentalities of the 
        legislative branch, one or more instrumentalities of the 
        executive branch, or one or more nongovernmental organizations, 
        or (iii) by a combination of the foregoing.
    (3) It shall not be in order to consider a funding resolution with 
respect to a committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives in 
1995, and thereafter for the first session of a Congress, unless--
            (A) such resolution includes a section containing the 
        information described in paragraph (1) and the report 
        accompanying such resolution contains the information described 
        in paragraph (2); and
            (B) the report required by subsection (c) with respect to 
        each program reexamination scheduled for completion during the 
        preceding Congress by such committee has been submitted for 
        printing.
    (4) It shall not be in order to consider an amendment to the 
section of a funding resolution described in paragraph (1) reported by 
a committee of the Senate for a year, or reported by the Committee on 
House Administration with respect to a committee of the House of 
Representatives for a year--
            (A) if such amendment would require reexamination of a 
        program which has been reexamined by such committee under this 
        section during any of the five preceding years;
            (B) if such amendment would cause such section not to 
        contain the information described in paragraph (1) with respect 
        to each program to be reexamined by such committee; or
            (C) if notice of intention to propose such amendment has 
        not been given to such committee and, in the case of an 
        amendment in the Senate, to the Committee on Rules and 
        Administration of the Senate, or, in the case of an amendment 
        in the House of Representatives, to the Committee on House 
        Administration, not later than January 20 of the calendar year 
        in which such year begins or the first day of the session of 
        the Congress in which such year begins, whichever is later.
The notice required by subparagraph (C) shall include the substance of 
the amendment intended to be proposed, and, if such amendment would add 
one or more programs to be reexamined, shall include the information 
described in paragraphs (1) and (2) with respect to each such program. 
Subparagraph (C) shall not apply to amendments proposed by such 
committee or by the Committee on Rules and Administration or House 
Administration, as the case may be.
    (b) In order to achieve coordination of progam reexamination each 
committee shall, in preparing each reexamination plan required by 
subsection (a), consult with appropriate committees of the Senate or 
appropriate committees of the House of Representatives, as the case may 
be, and shall inform itself of related activities of and support or 
assistance that may be provided by (1) the General Accounting Office, 
the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Service, 
and the Office of Technology Assessment, and (2) appropriate 
instrumentalities in the executive and judicial branches.
    (c) Each committee shall prepare and have printed a report with 
respect to each reexamination completed under this title. Each such 
report shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk 
of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, not later than the 
date specified in the resolution and printed as a Senate or House 
document, accordingly. To the extent permitted by law or regulation, 
such number of additional copies as the committee may order shall be 
printed for the use of the committee. If two or more committees have 
legislative jurisdiction over the same program or portions of the same 
program, such committees may reexamine such program jointly and submit 
a joint report with respect to such reexamination.
    (d) The report pursuant to subsection (c) shall set forth the 
findings, recommendations, and justifications with respect to the 
program, and shall include to the extent the committee deems 
appropriate, each of the following matters:
            (1) An identification of the objectives intended for the 
        program and the problem it was intended to address.
            (2) An identification of any trends, developments, and 
        emerging conditions which are likely to affect the future 
        nature and extent of the problems or needs which the program is 
        intended to address and an assessment of the potential primary 
        and secondary effects of the proposed program.
            (3) An identification of any other program having 
        potentially conflicting or duplicative objectives.
            (4) A statement of the number and types of beneficiaries or 
        persons served by the program.
            (5) An assessment of the effectiveness of the program and 
        the degrees to which the original objectives of the program or 
        group of programs have been achieved.
            (6) An assessment of the cost effectiveness of the program, 
        including where appropriate, a cost-benefit analysis of the 
        operation of the program.
            (7) An assessment of the relative merits of alternative 
        methods which could be considered to achieve the purposes of 
        the program.
            (8) Information on the regulatory, privacy, and paperwork 
        impacts of the program.
    (e) A report submitted pursuant to this section shall be deemed to 
satisfy the reauthorization review requirements of title I.
    Sec. 303. Each department or agency of the executive branch which 
is responsible for the administration of a program selected for 
reexamination pursuant to this title shall, not later than six months 
before the completion date specified for reexamination reports pursuant 
to section 302(a)(1)(B), submit to the Office of Management and Budget 
and to the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives a report of its findings, recommendations, and 
justifications with respect to each of the matters set forth in section 
302(d), and the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to such 
committee or committees such comments as it deems appropriate.
    Sec. 304. For the purposes of this title--
            (1) The term ``funding resolution'' means, with respect to 
        each committee of the House of Representatives, the primary 
        funding resolution for such committee which is effective for 
        the duration of a Congress.
            (2) An amendment to a funding resolution includes a 
        resolution of the Senate which amends such funding resolution.

                       TITLE IV--TAX EXPENDITURES

    Sec. 401. For purposes of this title--
            (1) The term ``tax expenditure provision'' means any 
        provision of Federal law which allows a special exclusion, 
        exemption, or deduction in determining liability for any tax or 
        which provides a special credit against any tax, a preferential 
        rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability.
            (2) The term ``Committee on Ways and Means'' means the 
        Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.
            (3) The term ``Committee on Finance'' means the Committee 
        on Finance of the Senate.
            (4) The term ``Joint Tax Committee'' means the Joint 
        Committee on Taxation of the Congress.
    Sec. 402. (a) Not later than July 1, 1994, the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office after consultation with the Joint Tax 
Committee shall prepare an inventory of tax expenditures provisions 
(hereinafter in this title referred to as the ``tax inventory'') and 
submit a report thereon to the Committee on Ways and Means and the 
Committee on Finance. The report shall include for each tax expenditure 
provision--
            (1) the statute, regulation, ruling, or other circumstance 
        which is the basis for the tax expenditure provision;
            (2) an identification of the tax against which the tax 
        expenditure provision allows a special exclusion, exemption, or 
        deduction in determining liability or provides a special 
        credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax 
        liability;
            (3) a brief statement of the purpose or purposes to be 
        achieved by the tax expenditure provision;
            (4) the period of time, if any, for which the tax 
        expenditure provision has been in effect;
            (5) the estimated revenue loss from the tax expenditure 
        provision for the preceding 4 fiscal years;
            (6) an analysis of the distributional impact of the tax 
        expenditure provision; and
            (7) the functional and subfunctional category of the budget 
        in which the tax expenditure provision is classified.
    (b) The General Accounting Office, the Congressional Research 
Service, and the Office of Technology Assessment shall provide the 
Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Tax Committee with 
information requested which would aid in the compilation of the tax 
inventory.
    (c) The Department of the Treasury, the Office of Management and 
Budget, and the other agencies shall, to the extent necessary and 
possible, provide the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Tax 
Committee with any assistance requested for the preparation of the tax 
inventory.
    Sec. 403. The Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on 
Finance shall review the tax inventory submitted as provided in section 
402 and, not later than October 1, 1994, shall advise the Director of 
the Congressional Budget Office of any proposed revisions in the 
composition or identification of tax expenditure provisions in the tax 
inventory. After considering the advice of such committees, such 
Director, in consultation with the Joint Tax Committee, shall report, 
not later than December 1, 1994, a revised tax inventory to the House 
and the Senate.
    Sec. 404. (a) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office, 
after the close of each session of the Congress, shall revise the tax 
inventory after consultation with the Joint Tax Committee and issue a 
report on the revisions thereto to the Senate and House of 
Representatives. Such report shall indicate, with respect to each tax 
expenditure provision established during such session, the revenue loss 
which will result in the current fiscal year and the 5 succeeding 
fiscal years.
    (b) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall tabulate 
and issue periodic reports to the Senate and the House of 
Representatives on the progress of congressional action on bills and 
resolutions reported by the Committee on Ways and Means or the 
Committee on Finance or passed by either House which affect tax 
expenditure provisions and each new tax expenditure provision proposed 
to be enacted by any bill or resolution reported, with respect to the 
amount of revenue loss which would result in the next fiscal year and 
each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.
    Sec. 405. (a) During the second session of the One Hundred First 
Congress, the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Finance 
shall report, and the Congress shall complete action on, a bill 
prescribing a schedule of reauthorization dates for all tax expenditure 
provisions (other than those specifically exempted in the bill) which 
are in the tax inventory, or, if not in such inventory, which are in 
effect on the date of the enactment of such bill or which have been 
enacted or otherwise established as of such date and will become 
effective after such date. Under such schedule there shall be 5 first 
reauthorization dates for tax expenditure provisions beginning with 
September 30, 1996, and continuing on September 30 of each of the 
following 4 even-numbered years, and each subsequent reauthorization 
date applicable to a tax expenditure provision shall be the date 10 
years following the preceding reauthorization date.
    (b) Upon enactment of the bill described in subsection (a), and 
subject to the rules and changes provided pursuant to section 406, each 
tax expenditure provision shall cease to be effective on January 1 of 
the year following the first (or subsequent) reauthorization date 
provided in the schedule adopted pursuant to subsection (a) and the 
bills, resolutions, or amendments thereto enacted pursuant to 
subsection (d), unless it would otherwise cease to be effective at an 
earlier date, or unless it is reauthorized by a law enacted after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider a bill or resolution, or amendment thereto, 
which provides for the reauthorization of all or part of a tax 
expenditure provision which is in the schedule adopted pursuant to 
subsection (a) or which was enacted pursuant to subsection (d)--
            (1) for an indefinite period of time,
            (2) for a period exceeding 10 taxable years, or
            (3) (except during the Congress in which the next 
        reauthorization date for such provision occurs) for any taxable 
        year beginning after the next reauthorization date applicable 
        to such tax expenditure provision.
    (d) After the enactment of the bill described in subsection (a), it 
shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider any bill or resolution, or amendment 
thereto, which proposes the enactment of a tax expenditure provision 
(other than a reauthorization under subsection (c)) that does not have 
a reauthorization date (and subsequent reauthorization dates) which 
conform with the schedule provided in subsection (a).
    (e) Reauthorization dates shall be prescribed under subsections (a) 
and (d) so as to provide for a review of tax expenditure provisions 
during the same Congress as the review under this Act of programs and 
tax expenditure provisions having similar objectives, consistent with 
providing an even distribution of the work of reviewing tax expenditure 
provisions during each Congress and taking into consideration the 
economic impact of the review process and the interest of avoiding 
adverse impact on previously acquired assets.
    Sec. 406. In carrying out the requirements of section 405 the 
Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Finance, and the Congress 
may prescribe transition rules and conforming and technical changes to 
minimize unfairness, to mitigate any adverse effect which might result 
for taxpayers who have relied on a tax expenditure provision, or to 
provide for an orderly end of the effectiveness of any such provision.
    Sec. 407. It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the 
House of Representatives to consider a bill, resolution, or amendment 
thereto which proposes a reauthorization date for a tax expenditure 
provision beyond the final reauthorization date of the current sunset 
reauthorization cycle.
    Sec. 408. (a) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the 
House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, or amendment 
thereto, which provides for the reauthorization of a tax expenditure 
provision for a taxable year beginning after the next reauthorization 
date applicable to such provision, unless a reauthorization review of 
such provision has been completed during the Congress in which the 
reauthorization date for such provision occurs, and the report 
accompanying such bill or resolution includes a recommendation as to 
whether the tax expenditure provision should be continued without 
change, continued with modifications, or terminated, and includes, in 
the scope and detail the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee 
on Finance deem appropriate, the following:
            (1) information and analysis on the operation, costs, 
        results, accomplishments, and effectiveness of the tax 
        expenditure provision;
            (2) an identification of any other tax expenditure 
        provisions or any other programs having similar objectives, and 
        a justification of the need for the proposed tax expenditure in 
        comparison with those tax expenditure provisions or programs 
        which may be potentially conflicting or duplicative; and
            (3) an identification of the objectives intended for the 
        tax expenditure provision, and the problem or needs which the 
        tax expenditure provision is intended to address, including an 
        analysis of the performance expected to be achieved, based on 
        the bill or resolution as reported.
    (b) It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, or amendment thereto, 
which proposes the enactment of a new tax expenditure provision unless 
the bill, resolution, or amendment thereto is accompanied by a report 
which sets forth, in the scope and detail the Committee on Ways and 
Means and the Committee on Finance deem appropriate, the information 
specified in subsections (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section.

                         TITLE V--MISCELLANEOUS

    Sec. 501. Section 1108(e) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting before the period a comma and ``or at the request 
of a committee of either House of Congress presented after the day on 
which the President transmits the budget to the Congress under section 
1105 of this title for the fiscal year''.
    Sec. 502. Nothing in this Act shall require the public disclosure 
of matters that are specifically authorized under criteria established 
by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national 
defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant 
to such Executive order, or which are otherwise specifically protected 
by law.
    Sec. 503. The provisions of this section and sections 101(a), 
101(b), 101(c)(1), 101(c)(2), 101(c)(5), 102, 104(a), 104(c), 104(d), 
104(e), 104(f), 104(g), title III (except section 303), sections 405 
(c) and (d), 407, and 408, section 505, and section 506 of this Act are 
enacted by the Congress--
            (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, 
        respectively, or of that House to which they specifically 
        apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the 
        extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
            (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such 
        House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 
        as in the case of any other rule of such House.
    Sec. 504. (a)(1) To assist in the review or reexamination of a 
program, the head of an agency which administers such program and the 
head of any other agency, when requested, shall provide to each 
committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives which has 
legislative jurisdiction over such program such studies, information, 
analyses, reports, and assistance as the committee may request.
    (2) Not later than six months before the first reauthorization date 
specified for a program in section 101(b) the head of the agency which 
administers such program or the head of any other agency, when 
requested by a committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
shall conduct a review of those regulations currently promulgated and 
in use by that agency which the committee specifically has requested be 
reviewed and submit a report to the Senate or the House of 
Representatives as the case may be, setting forth the regulations that 
agency intends to retain, eliminate, or modify if the program is 
reauthorized and stating the basis for its decision.
    (3) On or before October 1 of the year preceding the beginning of 
the Congress in which occurs the reauthorization date for a program, 
the Comptroller General shall furnish to each committee of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives which has legislative jurisdiction 
over such program a listing of the prior audits and reviews of such 
program completed during the preceding six years.
    (4) Consistent with the discharge of the duties and functions 
imposed by law on them or their respective Offices or Service, the 
Comptroller General, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, 
the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Director 
of the Congressional Research Service shall furnish to each committee 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives such information, 
analyses, and reports as the committee may request to assist it in 
conducting reviews or evaluations of programs.
    (b)(1) On or before October 1 of the year preceding the beginning 
of the Congress in which occurs the reauthorization date for a program, 
the President, with the cooperation of the head of each appropriate 
agency, shall submit to the Congress a ``Regulatory Duplication and 
Conflicts Report'' for all such programs scheduled for reauthorization 
in the next Congress.
    (2) Each such regulatory duplication and conflicts report shall--
            (A) identify regulatory policies, including data collection 
        requirements, of such programs or the agencies which administer 
        them, which duplicate or conflict with each other or with rules 
        or regulations or regulatory policies of other programs or 
        agencies, and identify the provisions of law which authorize or 
        require such duplicative or conflicting regulatory policies or 
        the promulgation of such duplicative or conflicting rules or 
        regulations;
            (B) identify the regulatory policies, including data 
        collection requirements, of such programs which are, or which 
        tend to be, duplicative of or in conflict with rules or 
        regulations or regulatory policies of State or local 
        governments; and
            (C) contain recommendations which address the conflicts or 
        duplications identified in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
    (3) The regulatory duplication and conflicts report submitted by 
the President pursuant to this subsection shall be referred to the 
committee or committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
with legislative jurisdiction over the programs affected by the 
reports.
    Sec. 505. (a) Not later than 15 days after the beginning of the 
second regular session of the Congress in which occurs the 
reauthorization date applicable to a program under section 101(b), the 
chairmen of the committees of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives having legislative jurisdiction over such programs 
shall introduce, in their respective Houses, a bill which, if enacted 
into law, would constitute a required authorization (as defined in 
section 101(c)(1)(B)), and such a bill (hereafter in this section 
referred to as a ``sunset reauthorization bill'') shall be referred to 
the appropriate committee of the Senate or the House of 
Representatives, as the case may be. This subsection shall not apply in 
the case of a program which has been reauthorized by a required 
authorization which was signed into law by the President prior to 
fifteen days after the beginning of the second regular session of the 
Congress in which occurs the reauthorization date applicable to such 
program.
    (b) If the committee to which a sunset reauthorization bill for a 
program has not reported such bill by May 15 of the year in which the 
reauthorization date for such program occurs, and no other bill which 
would constitute a required authorization for such program has been 
enacted into law by that date, it is in order to move to discharge the 
committee from further consideration of the sunset reauthorization bill 
at any time thereafter.
    (c) The provisions of section 912(a) of title 5, United States 
Code, as it relates to the discharge of resolutions of disapproval on 
reorganization plans, shall apply to motions to discharge sunset 
reauthorization bills, and the provisions of subsections (b)(2), (c) 
(2) through (5), and (d) of section 1017 of the Impoundment Control Act 
of 1974, insofar as they relate to the consideration of rescission 
bills shall apply to the consideration of such sunset reauthorization 
bills, amendments thereto, motions and appeals with respect thereto, 
and conference reports thereon.
    Sec. 506. The Committees on Governmental Affairs and on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committees on Government 
Operations and on Rules of the House of Representatives shall review 
the operation of the procedures established by this Act, and shall 
submit a report not later than December 31, 2000, and each five years 
thereafter, setting forth their findings and recommendations. Such 
reviews and reports may be conducted jointly.
    Sec. 507. There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 
ending before October 1, 2004, such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the review requirement of titles I and III and the requirements for 
the compilation of the inventory of Federal programs as set forth in 
title II.

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