[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1131 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1131

To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require a three-fifths 
majority vote in the House of Representatives and in the Senate to pass 
                       any bill increasing taxes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

Mr. Saxton (for himself, Mr. Armey, Mr. Bachus of Alabama, Mr. Baker of 
  Louisiana, Mr. Baker of California, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Bartlett of 
Maryland, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mrs. Bentley, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Blute, 
   Mr. Boehner, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. 
Buyer, Mr. Callahan, Mr. Camp, Mr. Castle, Mr. Coble, Mr. Combest, Mr. 
 Cox, Mr. Crane, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Doolittle, 
   Mr. Dornan, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Everett, Mr. Ewing, Mr. 
 Fawell, Mr. Fields of Texas, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Franks of Connecticut, 
Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Gallo, Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Goodling, Mr. 
 Goss, Mr. Grams, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Herger, Mr. Hunter, Mr. 
 Hutchinson, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, Mr. Istook, Mr. 
Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Kasich, Mr. Kim, Mr. King, Mr. Kingston, Mr. 
Klug, Mr. Knollenberg, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Lewis of California, Mr. 
 Lightfoot, Mr. Linder, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. McCandless, 
   Mr. McCollum, Mr. McCrery, Mr. McHugh, Mr. McKeon, Mrs. Meyers of 
Kansas, Mr. Mica, Mr. Moorhead, Mr. Myers of Indiana, Mr. Packard, Mr. 
Paxon, Mr. Petri, Mr. Pombo, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. Quinn, Mr. Ramstad, 
 Mr. Ravenel, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Roth, Mr. Royce, Mr. Santorum, Mr. 
 Schaefer, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Shays, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
Smith of Oregon, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Smith of Michigan, Ms. Snowe, 
  Mr. Solomon, Mr. Spence, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Stump, Mr. Sundquist, Mr. 
 Taylor of North Carolina, Mr. Thomas of Wyoming, Mr. Torkildsen, Mr. 
Upton, Mr. Walker, Mr. Weldon, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. Zeliff, and Mr. 
   Zimmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                           Committee on Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require a three-fifths 
majority vote in the House of Representatives and in the Senate to pass 
                       any bill increasing taxes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tax Fairness and Accountability Act 
of 1993''.

SEC. 2. SUPERMAJORITY REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Requirement.--Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended by inserting at the end the following new section:

               ``supermajority requirement to raise taxes

    ``Sec. 314. Any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference 
report that increases the tax rate, the tax base, or the amount of 
income subject to tax, or decreases a deduction, exclusion, or credit 
shall be approved in the House of Representatives and in the Senate 
only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of its Members, duly chosen 
and sworn.''.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in 
section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 the 
following new item:

``Sec. 314. Supermajority requirement to raise taxes.''.

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