[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1138 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1138

               To restructure the Federal budget process.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

Mr. Orton (for himself, Mr. Bacchus of Florida, Mr. Condit, Mr. Inglis 
    of South Carolina, Mr. McCollum, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. 
  Poshard, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. Stenholm, and Mr. Zeliff) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on 
   Government Operations, Rules, and Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
               To restructure the Federal budget process.

    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 ``Comprehensive Budget Process Reform 
Act of 1993''.

 TITLE I--BALANCED BUDGET WITH ENFORCEMENT; MANDATORY CONSIDERATION OF 
                           PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

SEC. 101. SUBMISSION OF BALANCED BUDGET BY THE PRESIDENT.

    Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(g) Any budget submitted to Congress pursuant to subsection (a) 
for the 1996-1997 biennium shall be a budget for that biennium and the 
ensuing biennium that provides for a balanced budget for the 1998 
fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years. Any budget submitted to 
Congress pursuant to subsection (a) for a fiscal year after the 1996-
1997 biennium shall be a budget that provides for a balanced budget for 
that fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years.''.

SEC. 102. REPORTING OF BALANCED BUDGETS.

    Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by 
inserting at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Reporting of Balanced Budgets.--Any concurrent resolution on 
the budget for the 1996-1997 biennium as reported by the Committee on 
the Budget of each House, shall set forth appropriate levels for the 
biennium beginning on October 1 of the calendar year in which it is 
reported and for the ensuing biennium for the matters described in 
section 301(a) that provides for a balanced budget by the 1998 fiscal 
year and the ensuing fiscal years. Any concurrent resolution on the 
budget for the 1998-1999 biennium or any ensuing biennium, as reported 
by the Committee on the Budget of each House, shall set forth 
appropriate levels for the biennium beginning on October 1 of the 
calendar year in which it is reported and for each of the ensuing 
biennium for the matters described in section 301(a) that provides for 
a balanced budget for fiscal year 1998 and the ensuing fiscal years.
    ``(k) Consideration of Balanced Budgets.--It shall not be in order 
in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any 
concurrent resolution on the budget for the 1996-1997 biennium that 
does not provide for a balanced budget by fiscal year 1998 and the 
ensuing fiscal years. It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on 
the budget for the 1998-1999 biennium or any ensuing biennium that does 
not provide for a balanced budget for fiscal year 1998 and the ensuing 
fiscal years.''.

SEC. 103. PROCEDURE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    Section 305(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended 
by inserting at the end the following:
            ``(8)(A) If the Committee on Rules of the House of 
        Representatives reports any rule or order providing for the 
        consideration of any concurrent resolution on the budget for a 
        biennium, then it shall also, within the same rule or order, 
        provide for--
                    ``(i) the consideration of the text of any 
                concurrent resolution on the budget for that biennium 
                reported by the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
                Representatives pursuant to section 301(j); and
                    ``(ii) the consideration of the text of each 
                concurrent resolution on the budget as introduced by 
                the majority leader pursuant to subparagraph (B);
        and such rule or order shall assure that a separate vote occurs 
        on each such budget.
            ``(B) The majority leader of the House of Representatives 
        shall introduce a concurrent resolution on the budget 
        reflecting, without substantive revision, the budget submitted 
        by the President pursuant to section 1105(g) of title 31, 
        United States Code, as soon as practicable after its 
        submission.''.

SEC. 104. PROCEDURE IN THE SENATE.

    Section 305(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended 
by inserting at the end the following:
            ``(7) Notwithstanding any other rule, it shall always be in 
        order in the Senate to consider an amendment to a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget for a biennium comprising the text of 
        any budget submitted by the President for that biennium as 
        described in section 1105(g) of title 31, United States 
        Code.''.

SEC. 105. OMB DEFICIT FORECAST.

    (a) OMB Report of Estimated Deficit.--Not later than September 1 of 
each calendar year, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall submit to Congress a report setting forth a current estimate of 
the surplus or deficit in the budget for the Federal Government for the 
fiscal year ending on September 30 of that calendar year.
    (b) OMB Report of Actual Deficit.--Not later than October 15 of 
each calendar year, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall submit to Congress a report setting forth the actual surplus or 
deficit in the budget for the Federal Government for the fiscal year 
ending on September 30 of that calendar year.
    (c) Calculations of Deficits.-- Any calculation made by OMB for a 
fiscal year to carry out this section shall not include any spending 
decreases or revenue increases made pursuant to section 106 with 
respect to any prior fiscal year.

SEC. 106. REPAYMENT OF PRIOR BIENNIUM'S DEFICIT.

    (a) Reconciliation Legislation.--If the report sent to Congress 
under section 105(b) for a fiscal year indicates that there was a 
deficit in that fiscal year, then, before the end of that session of 
Congress, Congress shall either--
            (1) eliminate that deficit through the enactment of 
        reconciliation legislation; or
            (2) waive the requirement to eliminate that deficit through 
        the enactment of legislation (which shall be approved on final 
        passage by each House of Congress by a recorded vote) the sole 
        purpose of which is to waive that requirement for that 
        biennium.
    (b) Look-Back Enforcement.--If Congress adjourns to end a session 
without complying with subsection (a) for a fiscal year, then there 
shall be a sequestration to offset the amount of the deficit for that 
fiscal year. The amount required to be sequestered shall be obtained by 
reducing all accounts of the Government by a uniform percentage, except 
that no reduction of--
            (1) payments for net interest (all of major functional 
        category 900); or
            (2) benefits payable under the old-age, survivors, and 
        disability insurance program established under title II of the 
        Social Security Act;
shall be made. This sequestration shall be implemented by the issuance 
of an order by the President. This order shall be effective on 
issuance.

SEC. 107. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This title and the amendments made by it shall become effective for 
the concurrent resolution on the budget for the 1996-1997 biennium and 
shall be fully reflected in the budget for the 1996-1997 biennium 
required to be submitted by the President in 1995 as required by 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.

                       TITLE II--BIENNIAL BUDGET

SEC. 201. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds and declares that the present 
annual Federal budgeting process--
            (1) allows insufficient time for the fulfillment by the 
        Congress of its legislative and oversight responsibilities;
            (2) allows insufficient time for the review and 
        consideration by the Congress of authorizing legislation, 
        budget resolutions, and appropriation bills and resolutions and 
        other spending measures;
            (3) allows insufficient time for the evaluation of costly 
        and complicated Federal programs, and thereby contributes to 
        the unrestrained growth of the Federal budget; and
            (4) allows insufficient time for agencies and State and 
        local governments to plan for the implementation of programs.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this title--
            (1) to establish a process through which the Federal budget 
        will be adopted for a two-year period;
            (2) to improve congressional control over the Federal 
        budget process;
            (3) to streamline the requirements of the budget process in 
        order to promote better accountability to the public;
            (4) to improve the legislative and budgetary processes by 
        providing additional time for congressional oversight and other 
        vital legislative activities;
            (5) to provide stability and coherence for recipients of 
        Federal funds; and
            (6) to implement other improvements in the Federal budget 
        process.

SEC. 202. REVISION OF TIMETABLE.

    Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631) 
is amended to read as follows:

                              ``timetable

    ``Sec. 300. The timetable with respect to the Congressional budget 
process for any Congress (beginning with the One Hundred Third 
Congress) is as follows:

      

                                                 ``First Session                                                
             ``On or before:                    Action to be completed:                                         
             First Monday in February.........  President submits budget recommendations.                       
             February 15......................  Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
             February 25......................  Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.     
             March 31.........................  Senate Budget Committee reports concurrent resolution on the    
                                                 biennial budget.                                               
             April 15.........................  Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the       
                                                 biennial budget.                                               
             May 15...........................  Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.    
             June 10..........................  House Appropriations Committee reports last biennial            
                                                 appropriation bill.                                            
             September 1......................  OMB submits report setting forth estimate of surplus/deficit for
                                                 current fiscal year.                                           
             September 30.....................  Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation.        
             September 30.....................  Congress completes action on biennial appropriation bills.      
             October 1........................  Biennium begins.                                                
             October 15.......................  OMB submits report setting forth actual surplus/deficit for     
                                                 fiscal year ending September 30.                               
                                                                                                                


  

                                                ``Second Session                                                
                                                                                                                
             ``On or before:                    Action to be completed:                                         
             May 15...........................  Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
             September 1......................  OMB submits report setting forth estimate of surplus/deficit for
                                                 current fiscal year.                                           
             October 15.......................  OMB submits report setting forth actual surplus/deficit for     
                                                 fiscal year ending September 30.                               
             The last day of the session......  Congress completes action on bills and resolutions authorizing  
                                                 new budget authority for the succeeding biennium.''.           
                                                                                                                

SEC. 203. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT 
              CONTROL ACT OF 1974.

    (a) Amendment of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.--Whenever in 
this section an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an 
amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the 
references shall be to a section or other provision of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    (b) Declaration of Purpose.--Section 2(2) (2 U.S.C. 621(2)) is 
amended by striking ``each year'' and inserting ``biennially''.
    (c) Definitions.--
            (1) Section 3(4) (2 U.S.C. 622(4)) is amended by striking 
        ``fiscal year'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``biennium''.
            (2) Section 3 (2 U.S.C. 622) is further amended by adding 
        at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
            ``(11) The term `biennium' means the period of 2 
        consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-
        numbered year.''.
    (d) Duties of CBO.--
            (1) Section 202(f)(1) (2 U.S.C. 602(f)(1)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``February 15 of each year'' and 
                inserting ``February 15 of each odd-numbered calendar 
                year'';
                    (B) by striking ``the fiscal year commencing'' and 
                inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium 
                commencing'';
                    (C) by striking ``such fiscal year'' the first 
                place it appears and inserting ``such biennium''; and
                    (D) by striking ``such fiscal year'' the second 
                place it appears and ``each fiscal year in such 
                biennium''.
            (2) Section 202(f) (2 U.S.C. 602(f)) is further amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (2) by striking ``The Director 
                shall from time to time'' and inserting ``On May 15 of 
                each even numbered year and at such other times as he 
                or she deems appropriate, the Director shall''.
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking ``January 15'' and 
                        inserting ``February 15'',
                            (ii) by striking ``each year'' and 
                        inserting ``each even-numbered calendar year'',
                            (iii) by striking ``the fiscal year ending 
                        September 30 of that calendar year'' in clause 
                        (A) and inserting ``either fiscal year in the 
                        biennium beginning October 1 of the preceding 
                        calendar year'',
                            (iv) by striking ``the fiscal year ending 
                        September 30 of that calendar year'' in clause 
                        (B) and inserting ``either fiscal year of such 
                        biennium'', and
                            (v) by striking ``fiscal year beginning 
                        October 1 of that calendar year'' and inserting 
                        ``succeeding biennium''.
    (e) Biennial Concurrent Resolution on the Budget.--
            (1) Section 301(a) (2 U.S.C. 632(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``April 15 of each year'' and 
                inserting ``April 15 of each odd-numbered year'';
                    (B) by striking ``the fiscal year beginning on 
                October 1 of such year'' the first place it appears and 
                inserting ``the biennium beginning on October 1 of such 
                year'';
                    (C) by striking ``the fiscal year beginning on 
                October 1 of such year'' the second place it appears 
                and inserting ``each fiscal year in such period''; and
                    (D) by striking ``each of the two ensuing fiscal 
                years'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the 
                succeeding biennium''.
            (2) Section 301(b) (2 U.S.C. 632(b)) is amended--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by 
                inserting ``for a biennium'' after ``concurrent 
                resolution on the budget''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3) by striking ``for such fiscal 
                year'' and inserting ``for either fiscal year in such 
                biennium''.
            (3) Section 301(d) (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by striking 
        ``Within 6 weeks after the President submits a budget under 
        section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code'' and inserting 
        ``On or before February 25 of each odd-numbered year''.
            (4) Section 301(e) (2 U.S.C. 632(e)) is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence by striking ``fiscal 
                year'' and inserting ``biennium'';
                    (B) by inserting between the second and third 
                sentences the following new sentence: ``On or before 
                March 31 of each odd-numbered year the Committee on the 
                Budget of each House shall report to its House the 
                concurrent resolution on the budget referred to in 
                subsection (a) for the biennium beginning on October 1 
                of that year.''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (6)--
                            (i) by striking ``five'' and inserting 
                        ``four'',
                            (ii) by striking ``such fiscal year'' and 
                        inserting ``the first fiscal year of such 
                        biennium,'', and
                            (iii) by striking ``such period'' and 
                        inserting ``such four-fiscal-year period''.
            (5) Section 301(f) (2 U.S.C. 632(f)) is amended by striking 
        ``fiscal year'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``biennium''.
            (6) The section heading of section 301 is amended by 
        striking ``annual'' and inserting ``biennial''.
            (7) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) is 
        amended by striking ``Annual'' in the item relating to section 
        301 and inserting ``Biennial''.
    (f) Committee Allocations.--
            (1) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 302(a) (2 U.S.C. 
        633(a)) are amended--
                    (A) by inserting ``for a biennium'' after 
                ``budget'' the first place it appears in each such 
                paragraph; and
                    (B) by inserting ``for each fiscal year in such 
                biennium'' after ``estimated allocation'' each place it 
                appears.
            (2) Section 302(c) (2 U.S.C. 633(c)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``for a fiscal year'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``for either fiscal year in a 
                biennium''; and
                    (B) by striking ``for such fiscal year'' each place 
                it appears and inserting ``for such biennium''.
            (3) Section 302(f)(1) (2 U.S.C. 633(f)(1)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``for a fiscal year'' and inserting 
                ``for a biennium'', and
                    (B) by striking ``such fiscal year'' each place it 
                appears in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) and 
                inserting ``a fiscal year in such biennium''.
            (4) Section 302(f)(2) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``for a fiscal year'' and inserting 
                ``for a biennium'',
                    (B) by striking ``for such fiscal year'' and 
                inserting ``for a biennium'', and
                    (C) by striking ``4 succeeding'' and inserting ``3 
                succeeding''.
    (g) Section 303 Point of Order.--
            (1) Section 303(a) (2 U.S.C. 634(a)) is amended by striking 
        ``fiscal year'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``biennium''.
            (2) Section 303(b) (2 U.S.C. 634(b)) is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1) 
                and paragraph (2) by striking ``the fiscal year'' each 
                place it appears and inserting ``biennium''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1) by striking ``any calendar 
                year'' and inserting ``any odd-numbered calendar 
                year''.
    (h) Permissible Revisions of Concurrent Resolutions on the 
Budget.--Section 304 (2 U.S.C. 635) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``fiscal year'' the first two places it 
        appears and inserting ``biennium'';
            (2) by striking ``for such fiscal year''; and
            (3) by inserting before the period ``for such biennium''.
    (i) Procedures For Consideration of Budget Resolutions.--Section 
305(b)(3) (2 U.S.C. 636(b)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the concurrent'' and inserting ``a 
        concurrent''; and
            (2) by striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium''.
    (j) Reports and Summaries of Congressional Budget Actions.--
            (1)(A) Section 308(a)(1) (2 U.S.C. 639(a)(1)) is amended--
                    (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by 
                striking ``fiscal year (or fiscal years)'' and 
                inserting ``biennium'',
                    (ii) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``fiscal year 
                (or fiscal years)'' and inserting ``biennium'', and
                    (iii) in subparagraph (C) by striking ``such fiscal 
                year (or fiscal years)'' and inserting ``such 
                biennium''.
            (B) Section 308(a)(2) is amended by striking ``fiscal year 
        (or fiscal years)'' and inserting ``biennium''.
            (2) Section 308(b)(1) (2 U.S.C. 639(b)(1)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``each fiscal year covered by a 
                concurrent resolution on the budget'' the first place 
                it appears and inserting ``a biennium'';
                    (B) by inserting ``for such biennium'' after 
                ``concurrent resolution on the budget''; and
                    (C) by striking ``the fiscal year preceding the 
                first fiscal year covered by the appropriate concurrent 
                resolution'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the 
                biennium preceding such biennium''.
            (3) Section 308(c) (2 U.S.C. 639(c)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``Five'' in the subsection heading 
                and inserting ``Four'';
                    (B) by striking ``fiscal year'' each place it 
                appears in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and 
                inserting ``biennium''; and
                    (C) by striking ``5 fiscal years'' and inserting 
                ``4 fiscal years''.
    (k) Completion of Action on Regular Appropriation Bills.--Section 
309 (2 U.S.C. 640) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``of any odd-numbered calendar year'' 
        after ``July'';
            (2) by striking ``annual'' and inserting ``regular''; and
            (3) by striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium''.
    (l) Reconciliation Process.--
            (1) Section 310(a) (2 U.S.C. 641(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``any fiscal year'' in the matter 
                preceding paragraph (1) and inserting ``any biennium'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1) by striking ``such fiscal 
                year'' each place it appears and inserting ``each 
                fiscal year in such biennium''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2) by inserting ``for each fiscal 
                year in such biennium'' after ``revenues''.
            (2) Section 310(e) (2 U.S.C. 641(e)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``20 hours'' in paragraph (2) and 
                inserting ``100 hours''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(3) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House 
        of Representatives to consider any reconciliation bill or 
        resolution or any amendment thereto or any conference report 
        thereon which changes any provision of law other than 
        provisions of law which--
                    ``(A) provide new budget authority or spending 
                authority described in section 401(c)(2);
                    ``(B) relate to revenues; or
                    ``(C) specify the amount of the statutory limit on 
                the public debt.''.
            (3) Section 310(f) (2 U.S.C. 641(f)) is amended--
                    (A) by inserting ``of any odd-numbered calendar 
                year'' after ``July'',
                    (B) by striking ``fiscal year beginning on October 
                1 of the calendar year to which the adjournment 
                resolution pertains'' and inserting ``biennium 
                beginning on October 1 of such calendar year'', and
                    (C) by striking ``for such fiscal year'' and 
                inserting ``for such biennium''.
    (m) Section 311 Point of Order.--
            (1) Section 311(a)(1) (2 U.S.C. 642(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``for a fiscal year'' and inserting 
                ``for a biennium'';
                    (B) by striking ``such fiscal year'' the first, 
                second, and third places it appears and inserting ``a 
                fiscal year in such biennium'';
                    (C) by inserting ``for such fiscal year'' after 
                ``outlays'';
                    (D) by striking ``concurrent resolution on the 
                budget for such fiscal year'' and inserting 
                ``concurrent resolution on the budget for the biennium 
                in which such fiscal year occurs'';
                    (E) by inserting ``for such fiscal year'' after 
                ``revenues'' the first place it appears; and
                    (F) by inserting ``for such fiscal year'' after 
                ``set forth'' the second place it appears.
            (2) Section 311(b) (2 U.S.C. 642(b)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``such fiscal year'' the first 
                place it appears and inserting ``a biennium''; and
                    (B) by striking ``such fiscal year'' the second 
                place it appears and inserting ``either fiscal year in 
                such biennium''.
    (n)  Bills Providing New Spending Authority.--Section 401(b)(2) (2 
U.S.C. 651(b)(2)) is amended by striking ``for such fiscal year'' the 
second place it appears and inserting ``for the biennium in which such 
fiscal year occurs''.
    (o) Analysis by CBO.--Section 403(a) (2 U.S.C. 653(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the fiscal year'' in paragraph (1) and 
        inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium'';
            (2) by striking ``each of the 4 fiscal years following such 
        year'' in paragraph (1) and inserting ``each fiscal year in the 
        succeeding biennium'';
            (3) by striking ``the fiscal year'' in paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''; and
            (4) by striking ``each of the four fiscal years following 
        such fiscal year'' in paragraph (2) and inserting ``each fiscal 
        year in the succeeding biennium''.

SEC. 204. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 31, UNITED STATES CODE.

    (a) Definition.--Section 1101 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) `biennium' has the meaning given to such term in 
        paragraph (11) of section 3 of the Congressional Budget and 
        Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11))''.
    (b) Budget Contents and Submission to the Congress.--
            (1) So much of section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
        Code, as precedes paragraph (1) thereof is amended to read as 
        follows:
    ``(a) On or before the first Monday in February of each odd-
numbered year, beginning with the One-Hundred-and-Fourth Congress, the 
President shall transmit to the Congress, the budget for the biennium 
beginning on October 1 of such calendar year. The budget transmitted 
under this subsection shall include a budget message and summary and 
supporting information. The President shall include in each budget the 
following:''.
            (2) Section 1105(a)(5) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``the fiscal year for which the budget is 
        submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year'' and 
        inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium for which the 
        budget is submitted and in the succeeding biennium''.
            (3) Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``the fiscal year for which the budget is 
        submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year'' and 
        inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium for which the 
        budget is submitted and in the succeeding biennium''.
            (4) Section 1105(a)(9)(C) of title 31, United States Code, 
        is amended by striking ``the fiscal year'' and inserting ``each 
        fiscal year in the biennium''.
            (5) Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``the fiscal year'' in subparagraph 
                (A) and inserting ``each fiscal year in the biennium''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``4 fiscal years after that year'' 
                in subparagraph (B) and inserting ``2 fiscal years 
                immediately following the second fiscal year in such 
                biennium''.
            (6) Section 1105(a)(13) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``the fiscal year'' and inserting ``each 
        fiscal year in the biennium''.
            (7) Section 1105(a)(14) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``that year'' and inserting ``each fiscal 
        year in the biennium for which the budget is submitted''.
            (8) Section 1105(a)(16) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``the fiscal year'' and inserting ``each 
        fiscal year in the biennium''.
            (9) Section 1105(a)(17) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``the fiscal year following the 
                fiscal year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in the 
                biennium following the biennium'';
                    (B) by striking ``that following fiscal year'' and 
                inserting ``each such fiscal year''; and
                    (C) by striking ``fiscal year before the fiscal 
                year'' and inserting ``biennium before the biennium''.
            (10) Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States Code, 
        is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``the prior fiscal year'' and 
                inserting ``each of the 2 most recently completed 
                fiscal years'';
                    (B) by striking ``for that year'' and inserting 
                ``with respect to that fiscal year''; and
                    (C) by striking ``in that year'' and inserting ``in 
                that fiscal year''.
            (11) Section 1105(a)(19) of title 31, United States Code, 
        is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``the prior fiscal year'' and 
                inserting ``each of the 2 most recently completed 
                fiscal years'';
                    (B) by striking ``for that year'' and inserting 
                ``with respect to that fiscal year''; and
                    (C) by striking ``in that year'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``in that fiscal year''.
    (c) Estimated Expenditures of Legislative and Judicial Branches.--
Section 1105(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking 
``each year'' and inserting ``each even-numbered year''.
    (d) Recommendations to Meet Estimated Deficiencies.--Section 
1105(c) of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``fiscal year for'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``biennium for'';
            (2) by inserting ``or current biennium, as the case may 
        be,'' after ``current fiscal year''; and
            (3) by striking ``that year'' and inserting ``that 
        period''.
    (e) Statement With Respect to Certain Changes.--Section 1105(d) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking ``fiscal year'' 
and inserting ``biennium''.
    (f) Capital Investment Analysis.--Section 1105(e) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ``ensuing fiscal year'' and 
inserting ``biennium to which such budget relates''.
    (g) Supplemental Budget Estimates and Changes.--
            (1) Section 1106(a) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by 
                striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1) by striking ``that fiscal 
                year'' and inserting ``each fiscal year in such 
                biennium'';
                    (C) in paragraph (2) by striking ``4 fiscal years 
                following the fiscal year'' and inserting ``2 fiscal 
                years following the biennium'';
                    (D) by striking ``future fiscal years'' in 
                paragraph (3) and inserting ``the 2 fiscal years 
                following the biennium for which the budget is 
                submitted''; and
                    (E) by striking ``fiscal year'' in paragraph (3) 
                and inserting ``biennium''.
            (2) Section 1106(b) of title 31, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``the fiscal year'' and inserting ``each 
        fiscal year in the biennium''.
    (h) Year-Ahead Requests for Authorizing Legislation.--Section 1110 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium 
        (beginning on or after October 1, 1993)'', and
            (2) by striking ``year before the year in which the fiscal 
        year begins'' and inserting ``second calendar year preceding 
        the calendar year in which the biennium begins''.
    (i) Budget Information on Consulting Services.--Section 1114 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``For each biennium beginning with the biennium beginning on 
        October 1, 1995, the''; and
            (2) by striking ``each year'' each place it appears.

SEC. 205. TITLE AND STYLE OF APPROPRIATIONS ACTS.

    Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 105. Title and style of appropriations Acts
    ``(a) The style and title of all Acts making appropriations for the 
support of the Government shall be as follows: `An Act making 
appropriations (here insert the object) for the biennium ending 
September 30 (here insert the odd-numbered calendar year).'.
    ``(b) All Acts making regular appropriations for the support of the 
Government shall be enacted for a biennium and shall specify the amount 
of appropriations provided for each fiscal year in such period.
    ``(c) For purposes of this section, the term `biennium' has the 
same meaning as in section 3(11) of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11)).''.

SEC. 206. ASSISTANCE BY FEDERAL AGENCIES TO STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE 
              SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    (a) Information Regarding Agency Appropriations Requests.--To 
assist each standing committee of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives in carrying out its responsibilities, the head of each 
Federal agency which administers the laws or parts of laws under the 
jurisdiction of such committee shall provide to such committee such 
studies, information, analyses, reports, and assistance as may be 
requested by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee.
    (b) Information Regarding Agency Program Administration.--
            (1) Furnishing information.--To assist each standing 
        committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives in 
        carrying out its responsibilities, the head of any agency shall 
        furnish without charge to such committee computer tapes or 
        disks, together with explanatory documentation, containing 
        information received, compiled, or maintained by the agency as 
        part of the operation or administration of a program, or 
        specifically compiled pursuant to a request in support of a 
        review of a program, as may be requested by the chairman and 
        ranking minority member of such committee.
            (2) Minimizing requests.--The Committee on House 
        Administration of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate shall 
        prescribe rules and regulations for their respective Houses 
        which will minimize duplication of requests under paragraph (1) 
        of this subsection.
    (c) Summaries by Comptroller General.--Within 30 days after the 
receipt of a request from a chairman and ranking minority member of a 
standing committee having jurisdiction over a program being reviewed 
and studied by such committee under this section, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall furnish to such committee summaries 
of any audits or reviews of such program which the Comptroller General 
has completed during the preceding 6 years.
    (d) Congressional Assistance.--Consistent with their duties and 
functions under law, the Comptroller General of the United States, 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 standing committee of the Senate 
or the House of Representatives such information, studies, analyses, 
and reports as the chairman and ranking minority member may request to 
assist the committee in conducting reviews and studies of programs 
under this section.
    (e) Secret and Classified Information Protected.--This section does 
not 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. This section does not require 
any committee of the Senate to disclose publicly information the 
disclosure of which is governed by Senate Resolution 400, Ninety-fourth 
Congress, or any other rule of the Senate.

SEC. 207. AMENDMENTS TO RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    The Rules of the House of Representatives are amended as follows:
            (1) Clause 4(a)(1)(A) of rule X is amended by inserting 
        ``odd-numbered'' after ``each''.
            (2) Clause 4(a)(2) of rule X is amended by striking ``such 
        fiscal year'' and inserting ``the biennium in which such fiscal 
        year begins''.
            (3) Clause 4(b)(2) of rule X is amended by striking ``first 
        concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year'' and 
        inserting ``concurrent resolution on the budget required under 
        section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for each 
        biennium''.
            (4) Clause 4(f) of rule X is amended by striking 
        ``annually'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``biennially''.
            (5) Clause 4(g) of rule X is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``March 15 of each year'' and 
                inserting ``March 15 of each odd-numbered year'';
                    (B) by striking ``fiscal year'' the first place it 
                appears and inserting ``biennium''; and
                    (C) by striking ``that fiscal year'' and inserting 
                ``each fiscal year in such ensuing biennium''.
            (6) Clause 4(h) of rule X is amended by striking ``fiscal 
        year'' and inserting ``biennium''.
            (7) Subdivision (C) of clause 2(l)(1) of rule XI is 
        repealed.
            (8) Clause 4(a) of rule XI is amended by striking ``fiscal 
        year if reported after September 15 preceding the beginning of 
        such fiscal year'' and inserting ``biennium if reported after 
        August 1 of the year in which such biennium begins''.
            (9) Clause 2 of rule XLIX is amended by striking ``fiscal 
        year'' and inserting ``biennium''.

SEC. 208. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this title 
and the amendments made by it shall become effective January 1, 1995, 
and shall apply to bienniums beginning after September 30, 1995.
    (b) Fiscal Year 1995.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the 
provisions of--
            (1) the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and
            (2) title 31, United States Code,
(as such provisions were in effect on the day before the effective date 
of this Act) shall apply to the fiscal year beginning on October 1, 
1994.
    (c) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
``biennium'' shall have the meaning given to such term in section 3(11) 
of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 622(11)), as added by section 202(b)(2) of this Act.

            TITLE III--UNIFIED OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET

SEC. 301. STATEMENT OF FINDING AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Statement of Finding.--The Congress finds that the existing 
budget obscures the distinctions between capital activities and 
operating activities, and between Federal funds and trust funds so as 
to hinder identifying the resources needed to meet the Government's 
needs.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this title that the unified 
budget present a capital budget and an operating budget, and 
distinguish between Federal funds and trust funds, in order to provide 
better and more relevant information on the revenues, expenses, and 
financing requirements of Government programs and activities.

SEC. 302. CAPITAL AND OPERATING BUDGETS.

    Title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
1105 the following new section:
``Sec. 1105a. Capital and operating budgets
    ``(a)(1) The budget of the United States submitted by the President 
under section 1105 of this title shall be a unified budget composed of 
an operating budget and a capital budget.
    ``(2) Operating and capital budgets shall be presented separately 
for total funds, Federal funds, and trust funds.
    ``(b)(1) Actual, estimated, and proposed amounts shall be presented 
for total funds, Federal funds, and trust funds and, at a minimum, 
shall contain--
            ``(A) for the operating budget the following: (i) operating 
        revenues, (ii) operating expenses, (iii) operating surplus/
        deficit before interfund transfers, (iv) interfund transfers, 
        and (v) operating surplus/deficit;
            ``(B) for the capital budget the following: (i) capital 
        revenues, (ii) capital investments, (iii) net capital 
        investments, (iv) interfund transfers, and (v) capital 
        financing requirements;
            ``(C) items not affecting funds; and
            ``(D) unified budget financing requirements.
    ``(2) The capital budget shall represent only the major activities, 
projects, and programs which support the acquisition, construction, 
alteration, and rehabilitation of capital assets. All other activities, 
projects, and programs shall be represented in the operating budget.
    ``(c) In addition to the unified budget submitted by the President 
as required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the President 
shall present information in the form required by subsection (b)(1) for 
accounts, agencies, and functions, to the extent applicable.
    ``(d) In this section--
            ``(1) `unified budget' means a budget in which revenues and 
        expenses for Federal funds and trust funds are consolidated to 
        display totals for the Federal Government as a whole;
            ``(2) `trust funds' means--
                    ``(A) the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
                Trust Fund,
                    ``(B) the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund,
                    ``(C) the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 
                Fund,
                    ``(D) the Military Retirement Fund,
                    ``(E) the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
                Trust Fund,
                    ``(F) the Unemployment Trust Fund,
                    ``(G) the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, 
                and
                    ``(H) such other funds or accounts of the 
                Government that the Director of the Office of 
                Management and Budget, in consultation with the 
                Comptroller General, determines should be classified as 
                trust funds in order to fulfill the purpose of this 
                section;
            ``(3) `Federal funds' includes all accounts of the 
        Government that are not trust funds;
            ``(4) `total funds' means Federal funds and trust funds and 
        represents the unified budget;
            ``(5) `capital assets' means physical assets and financial 
        assets, but does not include consumable inventories;
            ``(6) `physical assets' means tangible assets whose 
        ownership is or will be in the public domain; which typically 
        produce services or benefits, including for national defense 
        and security, for more than 3 years; and which have an initial 
        cost equal to or more than $1,000,000. Such assets include, but 
        are not limited to--
                    ``(A) roadways and bridges;
                    ``(B) airports and airway facilities;
                    ``(C) mass transportation systems;
                    ``(D) waste water treatment and related facilities;
                    ``(E) water resource projects;
                    ``(F) medical facilities;
                    ``(G) resource recovery facilities;
                    ``(H) public structures;
                    ``(I) space and communication facilities;
                    ``(J) defense facilities;
                    ``(K) major weapons platforms; and
            ``(7) `financial assets' means interests of the Federal 
        Government in, and claims of the Federal Government against, 
        foreign governments, States and their political subdivisions, 
        corporations, associations, and individuals and their resources 
        which are represented by a legal instrument (such as bonds, 
        debentures, notes, and other securities), less any credit 
        subsidy costs attributable to such financial assets;
            ``(8) `credit subsidy costs' means the losses incurred by 
        the Federal Government as a result of its direct and guaranteed 
        loans, including such costs as interest and default;
            ``(9) `consumable inventories' means tangible assets of the 
        Federal Government, including stockpiles, supplies, and 
        inventories, which typically are consumed within 3 years or 
        which have an initial price less than $1,000,000;
            ``(10) `operating revenues' means all receipts of the 
        Federal Government, other than those identified in paragraph 
        (16), including profits and interest earned on financial 
        assets;
            ``(11) `operating expenses' means all expenses of the 
        Federal Government, other than those identified in paragraph 
        (17), including interest payments on debts, asset consumption 
        charge, and credit subsidy costs;
            ``(12) `the operating surplus/deficit before interfund 
        transfers' means the difference between operating revenues and 
        operating expenses before interfund transfers;
            ``(13) `interfund transfers' means the flow of revenues 
        between Federal funds and trust funds accounts that are 
        expenses from the account making the payments and revenues to 
        the account receiving the payments;
            ``(14) `operating surplus/deficit' means the operating 
        surplus/deficit before interfund transfers plus or minus 
        interfund transfers;
            ``(15) `asset consumption charge' means the systematic 
        allocation over the useful life of the asset of the original 
        cost of a physical asset financed by the appropriation accounts 
        for which the capital budget required by this section applies;
            ``(16) `capital revenues' means receipts of the Federal 
        Government derived from the repayment of principal invested in 
        financial assets, and taxes, collections, and receipts 
        dedicated by statute, for the acquisition, construction, and 
        rehabilitation of capital assets which relate to the 
        activities, functions, and programs represented by the capital 
        budget;
            ``(17) `capital investments' means expenditures of the 
        Federal Government, including those under grants, contracts, 
        and leases, which are for the acquisition, construction, and 
        rehabilitation of capital assets;
            ``(18) `net capital investments' means the amount by which 
        capital investments exceed the asset consumption charge;
            ``(19) `capital financing requirements' means net capital 
        investments plus or minus interfund transfers;
            ``(20) `items not affecting funds' means noncash outlays of 
        the Federal Government; and
            ``(21) `unified budget financing requirements' means the 
        total of the operating surplus/deficit and the net capital 
        financing requirements less items not affecting funds.''.

SEC. 303. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Paragraph (1) of section 3 of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(1)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sentence: ``With respect to capital 
investments (as such term is defined in section 1105a(d)(17) of title 
31, United States Code), expenditures shall include only the asset 
consumption charge (as such term is defined in section 1105a(d)(15) of 
title 31, United States Code) in the current biennium for all such 
capital investments incurred in the current and previous bienniums.''.
    (b) Section 1112 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1) by inserting ``criteria, 
        principles, and standards for determining the contents of the 
        operating and capital budgets required under section 1105a of 
        this title, and'' after ``including''; and
            (2) by adding the following subsection at the end:
    ``(g) The Comptroller General shall review and report to the 
Congress on the implementation of section 1105a of this title as the 
Comptroller General deems necessary. A review by the Comptroller 
General may include, but need not be limited to, determining whether 
(1) the actual, estimated, and proposed appropriations, receipts, and 
investments presented in the capital budget represent activities, 
functions, and programs which support the acquisition, construction, 
alteration, and rehabilitation of capital assets, and (2) the 
classifications made by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget under section 1105a(d)(2)(H) of this title further the purposes 
of section 1105a.''.

SEC. 304. PUBLIC WORKS FINANCING INFORMATION.

    Title VII of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 
(42 U.S.C. 3211-3226) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

``SEC. 717. PUBLIC WORKS FINANCING INFORMATION.

    ``(a) Transportation Reports.--Not later than 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of the Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 
1993, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Transportation shall 
report to the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation and 
the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, at the account, 
function, and agency levels, the actual, estimated, and proposed 
appropriations, receipts, and expenditures for capital activities and 
operating activities associated with the following:
            ``(1) roadways and bridges;
            ``(2) airports and airway facilities; and
            ``(3) mass transportation systems.
    ``(b) Water Pollution Reports.--Not later than 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of the Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 
1993, and annually thereafter, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall report to the House Committee on Public Works 
and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public 
Works, at the account and function levels, the actual, estimated, and 
proposed appropriations, receipts, and expenditures for capital 
activities and operating activities associated with waste water 
treatment and related facilities.
    ``(c) Water Resources Reports.--Not later than 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of the Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 
1993, and annually thereafter, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Civil Works shall report to the House Committee on Public Works and 
Transportation and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public 
Works, at the account and function levels, the actual, estimated, and 
proposed appropriations, receipts, and expenditures for capital 
activities and operating activities associated with water resource 
projects.
    ``(d) Public Buildings Reports.--Not later than 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of the Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act of 
1993, and annually thereafter, the Administrator of the General 
Services Administration shall report to the House Committee on Public 
Works and Transportation and the Senate Committee on Environment and 
Public Works, at the account and function levels, the actual, 
estimated, and proposed appropriations, receipts, and expenditures for 
capital activities and operating activities associated with public 
buildings.''.

SEC. 305. LEASING VERSUS PURCHASING ANALYSES.

    (a) OMB Regulations.--Chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, 
(as amended by sections 602 and 701 of this Act) is amended by adding 
after section 1117 the following new section:
``Sec. 1118. Lease/Purchase Analyses
    ``The Office of Management and Budget shall promulgate regulations 
requiring--
            ``(1) that each department and agency establish standards 
        to compare the advantages and disadvantages of leasing versus 
        purchasing any proposed real estate or equipment with a cost in 
        excess of $10,000,000; and
            ``(2) that each such analysis compares the net present 
        value of the 2 alternatives and be completed before any 
        commitment to purchase or lease any such real estate or 
        equipment may be entered into by that department or agency.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 1117 the following new item:

``1118. Lease/purchase analyses.''.

                       TITLE IV--SUNSET AUTHORITY

    Sec. 401. The purposes of this title 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. 402. (a) For purposes of this title--
            (1) The term ``budget authority'' has the meaning given to 
        it by section 3(2) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
        Control Act of 1974.
            (2) The term ``permanent budget authority'' means budget 
        authority provided for an indefinite period of time or an 
        unspecified number of bienniums which does not require 
        recurring action by the Congress, but does not include budget 
        authority provided for a specified biennium which is available 
        for obligation or expenditure in one or more succeeding 
        bienniums.
            (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 title, 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 1991. 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 1991 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 subtitles A, B, and C of this title, the 
reauthorization date applicable to a program is the date specified for 
such program under section 411(b).

           Subtitle A--Reauthorization of Government Programs

    Sec. 411. (a) Each Government program (except those listed in 
section 413) 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, 1996.
              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, 1998.
             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.                          
             802 Executive Director and                                 
              Management.                                               
             803 Central Fiscal Operations.                             
             054 Defense Related Activities.         September 30, 2000.
             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, 2002.
             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.                          
             151 Foreign Economic and Financial      September 30, 2004.
              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.                                               
                                                                        

    (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 5 bienniums, for an indefinite 
period, or (except during the Congress in which such next 
reauthorization date occurs) for any biennium 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 
biennium 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 subtitle, 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 biennium beginning after the last biennium 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. 412. (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 
biennium 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 2 
        bienniums 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 413 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 411(b), whichever first 
occurs.
    Sec.  413. Section 411(c) shall not apply to the following:
            (1) Programs included within functional category 900 
        (Interest).
            (2) 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).
            (3) 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.
    Sec. 414. (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 411(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 411(b) and all bills proposing 
changes in section 413, 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 title to make more effective 
        comparisons between programs having like objective.
    (f) Any concurrent resolution or bill proposing a change in section 
411(b) or 413 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.

                     Subtitle II--Program Inventory

    Sec. 421. (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 (hereinafter in this subtitle 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 subtitles A and C. 
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 subtitles 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, 1995, 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 
subtitle. 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 
411(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 2 bienniums 
        and, where applicable, the 2 succeeding bienniums.
            (2) The functional and subfunctional category in which the 
        program is presently classified and was classified under the 
        fiscal year 1993 budget.
            (3) The identification code and title of the appropriation 
        account in which budget authority is provided for the program.
    Sec. 422. 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. 423. 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. 424. 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 421 and not later than September 1, 1993, 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, 1995, a revised program inventory to the Senate and the 
House of Representatives.
    Sec. 425. (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 biennium and each of the 2 succeeding bienniums. If new 
budget authority is not authorized or provided or is authorized or 
provided for an indefinite amount for any of such 2 succeeding 
bienniums 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 biennium 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. 426. 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 411(b) of this title for grouping programs of like missions 
or objectives.
    Sec. 427. (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 
biennium beginning October 1 and the succeeding 2 bienniums 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 2 bienniums, 
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 411(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.

                   Subtitle C--Program Reexamination

    Sec. 431. (a) Each committee of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives periodically shall provide through the procedures 
established in section 432, 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. 432. (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 subtitle. 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 411(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 103d Congress 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 subtitle. 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 subtitle A.
    Sec. 433. Each department or agency of the executive branch which 
is responsible for the administration of a program selected for 
reexamination pursuant to this subtitle shall, not later than six 
months before the completion date specified for reexamination reports 
pursuant to section 432(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 432(d), and the Office of Management and Budget 
shall submit to such committee or committees such comments as it deems 
appropriate.
    Sec. 434. For the purposes of this subtitle--
            (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.

                      Subtitle D--Tax Expenditures

    Sec. 441. For purposes of this subtitle--
            (1) The term ``tax expenditure provision'' means any 
        provision of Federal law--
                    (A) 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; and
                    (B) would cause a revenue loss of at least 
                $2,000,000,000 in a biennium.
            (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. 442. (a) Not later than July 1, 1995, 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 subtitle 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 2 bienniums;
            (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. 443. The Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on 
Finance shall review the tax inventory submitted as provided in section 
442 and, not later than October 1, 1995, 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, 1995, a revised tax inventory to the House 
and the Senate.
    Sec. 444. (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 biennium and the 2 succeeding 
bienniums.
    (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 biennium and each 
of the 2 succeeding bienniums.
    Sec. 445. (a) During the first session of the One Hundred Fourth 
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 title.
    (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 title 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. 446. In carrying out the requirements of section 445 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. 447. 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. 448. (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.

                       Subtitle E--Miscellaneous

    Sec. 451. 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 biennium''.
    Sec. 452. Nothing in this title 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. 453. The provisions of this section and sections 411(a), 
411(b), 411(c)(1), 411(c)(2), 411(c)(5), 412, 414(a), 414(c), 414(d), 
414(e), 414(f), 414(g), subtitle C (except section 433), sections 445 
(c) and (d), 447, and 448, section 455, and section 456 of this title 
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. 454. (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 411(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. 455. (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 411(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 411(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. 456. 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 title, and shall 
submit a report not later than December 31, 1998, and each five years 
thereafter, setting forth their findings and recommendations. Such 
reviews and reports may be conducted jointly.
    Sec. 457. There are authorized to be appropriated for bienniums 
ending before October 1, 2002, such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the review requirement of subtitles A and C and the requirements 
for the compilation of the inventory of Federal programs as set forth 
in subtitle D.

                TITLE V--EXPEDITED RESCISSION AUTHORITY

SEC. 501. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED RESCISSIONS.

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

       ``expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions

    ``Sec. 1013. (a) Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority.--In 
addition to the method of rescinding budget authority specified in 
section 1012, the President may propose, at the time and in the manner 
provided in subsection (b), the rescission of all or part of any budget 
authority provided in an appropriations Act.
    ``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
            ``(1) Not later than 10 days after the date on which the 
        President approves an appropriation Act, the President may--
                    ``(A) transmit to the Congress one or more special 
                messages proposing to rescind specific line item 
                amounts of budget authority provided in that Act; and
                    ``(B) transmit with each separate special message a 
                draft bill or joint resolution that, if enacted, would 
                rescind that specific budget authority.
            ``(2) Each special message referred to in paragraph (1) 
        shall be limited to a single item of rescission of budget 
        authority. If the bill or resolution enacted contains more than 
        a single item of rescission, the President shall transmit as 
        many separate messages as there are items of rescission.
            ``(3) Each special message shall specify, with respect to 
        the budget authority proposed to be rescinded, the matters 
        referred to in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a).
    ``(c) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
            ``(1)(A) On the date on which a special message is 
        transmitted to the Congress under subsection (b), or as soon 
        thereafter as possible, the majority leader or minority leader 
        of the House of the Congress in which the appropriation Act 
        involved first originated shall introduce (by request) the 
        draft bill or joint resolution accompanying that special 
        message. If the bill or joint resolution is not introduced as 
        provided in the preceding sentence, then any Member of that 
        House may introduce the bill or joint resolution.
            ``(B) The bill or joint resolution shall be referred to the 
        Committee on Appropriations of that House. The committee shall 
        report the bill or joint resolution without substantive 
        revision and with or without recommendation. The bill or joint 
        resolution shall be reported not later than the end of the 
        period (not to exceed 7 days) established for consideration of 
        the bill or joint resolution by the Speaker of the House of 
        Representatives or the majority leader of the Senate, as the 
        case may be. A committee failing to report the bill or joint 
        resolution within such period shall be automatically discharged 
        from consideration of the bill or joint resolution, and the 
        bill or joint resolution shall be placed on the appropriate 
        calendar.
            ``(C) A vote on final passage of the bill or joint 
        resolution shall be taken in that House on or before the close 
        of the 10th calendar day of continuous session of the Congress 
        after the date of the introduction of the bill or joint 
        resolution in that House. If the bill or joint resolution is 
        agreed to, the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the 
        case of a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the House of 
        Representatives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of 
        a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) shall cause 
        the bill or joint resolution to be engrossed, certified, and 
        transmitted to the other House of the Congress on the same 
        calendar day on which the bill or joint resolution is agreed 
        to.
            ``(2)(A) A bill or joint resolution transmitted to the 
        House of Representatives or the Senate pursuant to paragraph 
        (1)(C) shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations of 
        that House. The committee shall report the bill or joint 
        resolution without substantive revision and with or without 
        recommendation. The bill or joint resolution shall be reported 
        not later than the end of the period (not to exceed 7 days) 
        established for consideration of the bill or joint resolution 
        by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the majority 
        leader of the Senate, as the case may be. A committee failing 
        to report the bill or joint resolution within such period shall 
        be automatically discharged from consideration of the bill or 
        joint resolution, and the bill or joint resolution shall be 
        placed upon the appropriate calendar.
            ``(B) A vote on final passage of a bill or joint resolution 
        transmitted to that House shall be taken on or before the close 
        of the 10th calendar day of continuous session of the Congress 
        after the date on which the bill or joint resolution is 
        transmitted. If the bill or joint resolution is agreed to in 
        that House, the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the 
        case of a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the House of 
        Representatives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of 
        a bill or joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) shall cause 
        the engrossed bill or joint resolution to be returned to the 
        House in which the bill or joint resolution originated, 
        together with a statement of the action taken by the House 
        acting under this paragraph.
            ``(3)(A) A motion in the House of Representatives to 
        proceed to the consideration of a bill or joint resolution 
        under this section shall be highly privileged and not 
        debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, 
        nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by 
        which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill or 
        joint resolution under this section shall be limited to not 
        more than 1 hour, which shall be divided equally between those 
        favoring and those opposing the bill or joint resolution. A 
        motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable and shall 
        require an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members 
        voting, a quorum being present. It shall not be in order to 
        move to recommit a bill or joint resolution under this section 
        or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill or joint 
        resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(C) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating 
        to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
        to the procedure relating to a bill or joint resolution under 
        this section shall be decided without debate.
            ``(D) Except to the extent specifically provided in the 
        preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a 
        bill or joint resolution under this section shall be governed 
        by the Rules of the House of Representatives applicable to 
        other bills and joint resolutions in similar circumstances.
            ``(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the 
        consideration of a bill or joint resolution under this section 
        shall be privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the 
        motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move 
        to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
        disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill or joint resolution 
        under this section, and all debatable motions and appeals in 
        connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 1 hour. 
        The time shall be equally divided between, and controlled by, 
        the majority leader and the minority leader or their designees.
            ``(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or 
        appeal in connection with a bill or joint resolution under this 
        section shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally 
        divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager 
        of the bill or joint resolution, except that in the event the 
        manager of the bill or joint resolution is in favor of any such 
        motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, shall be 
        controlled by the minority leader or his designee. Such 
        leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their control 
        on the passage of a bill or joint resolution, allot additional 
        time to any Senator during the consideration of any debatable 
        motion or appeal.
            ``(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a 
        bill or joint resolution under this section is not debatable. A 
        motion to recommit a bill or joint resolution under this 
        section is not in order.
    ``(d) Amendments Prohibited.--No amendment to a bill or joint 
resolution considered under this section shall be in order in either 
the House of Representatives or the Senate. No motion to suspend the 
application of this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor 
shall it be in order in either House for the Presiding Officer to 
entertain a request to suspend the application of this subsection by 
unanimous consent.
    ``(e) Requirement To Make Available for Obligation.--Any amount of 
budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message 
transmitted to the Congress under subsection (b) shall be made 
available for obligation after the date on which the Congress fails to 
pass the bill or joint resolution transmitted with that special 
message.
    ``(f) Appropriation Act Defined.--For purposes of this section, the 
term `appropriation Act' means any general or special appropriation 
Act, and any Act or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, 
or continuing appropriations.''.
    (b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of such Act (2 
U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking out ``and 1017'' in subsection (a) and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``1013, and 1018''; and
            (2) by striking out ``section 1017'' in subsection (d) and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``sections 1013 and 1018''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Paragraph (5) of section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 
        682(5)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking out ``1012, and'' and inserting in 
                lieu thereof ``1012, the time periods referred to in 
                subsections (c) and (d) of section 1013, and'';
                    (B) by striking out ``1012 during'' and inserting 
                in lieu thereof ``1012 or 1013 during'';
                    (C) by striking out ``of 45'' and inserting in lieu 
                thereof ``of the applicable number of''; and
                    (D) by striking out ``45-day period referred to in 
                paragraph (3) of this section and in section 1012'' and 
                inserting in lieu thereof ``period or periods of time 
                applicable under such section''.
            (2) Such section is further amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking out ``1013'' and 
                inserting in lieu thereof ``1014''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (5)--
                            (i) by striking out ``1016'' and inserting 
                        in lieu thereof ``1017''; and
                            (ii) by striking out ``1017(b)(1)'' and 
                        inserting in lieu thereof ``1018(b)(1)''.
            (3) Section 1015 of such Act (as redesignated by section 
        3(a)) (2 U.S.C. 685) is amended--
                    (A) by striking out ``1012 or 1013'' each place it 
                appears and inserting in lieu thereof ``1012, 1013, or 
                1014'';
                    (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking out ``1012'' 
                and inserting in lieu thereof ``1012 or 1013'';
                    (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking out ``1013'' 
                and inserting in lieu thereof ``1014''; and
                    (D) in subsection (e)(2)--
                            (i) by striking out ``and'' at the end of 
                        subparagraph (A);
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
                        subparagraph (C);
                            (iii) by striking out ``1013'' in 
                        subparagraph (C) (as so redesignated) and 
                        inserting in lieu thereof ``1014''; and
                            (iv) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
                        the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) he has transmitted a special message under 
                section 1013 with respect to a proposed rescission; 
                and''.
            (4) Section 1016 of such Act (as redesignated by section 
        3(a)) (2 U.S.C. 686) is amended by striking out ``1012 or 
        1013'' each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof 
        ``1012, 1013, or 1014''.
    (d) Clerical Amendments.--The table of sections for subpart B of 
title X of such Act is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 1013 
        through 1017 as items relating to sections 1014 through 1018; 
        and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 1012 
        the following new item:

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

SEC. 502. APPLICATION.

    Section 1013 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 (as added by section 501 of this Act) shall apply to 
amounts of budget authority provided by appropriation Acts (as defined 
in subsection (f)(2) of such section) that are enacted after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.

                 TITLE VI--PERFORMANCE-BASED BUDGETING

SEC. 601. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) despite major efforts by the Congress and the Executive 
        Branch to improve the financial management of the Federal 
        Government, unacceptable waste and mismanagement persists in 
        Federal programs;
            (2) waste and mismanagement place an intolerable burden on 
        the limited resources of important Federal programs, reducing 
        the ability of such programs to adequately address vital needs;
            (3) much of the public's opposition to increased taxes is 
        based on a belief that taxpayers are not getting full value for 
        their tax dollar;
            (4) because financial management systems focus on how money 
        is spent, but not on how well it is spent and the value 
        received for it, the Federal Government is handicapped in its 
        ability to identify wasteful or ineffective programs; and
            (5) the Congress is further handicapped in its ability to 
        conduct adequate and thorough oversight of Federal programs, 
        because few programs have measurable goals against which to 
        track and compare performance.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this title are--
            (1) to strengthen Government accountability by showing the 
        American taxpayers what results to expect for their tax dollars 
        when a program is funded, and what results the taxpayers 
        actually receive;
            (2) to improve congressional oversight and the uncovering 
        of waste and mismanagement, by requiring that measurable 
        performance standards and goals be established for all Federal 
        programs and that each Federal department and agency issue an 
        annual program performance report showing program 
        accomplishment;
            (3) to free additional resources for vital Federal 
        programs, by reducing waste, reforming or eliminating 
        ineffective programs, and allowing the targeting of funds to 
        those programs achieving the best results;
            (4) to change the Federal budget from a political document 
        into a policy-making and management tool, by requiring that the 
        budget incorporate a performance standards and goals plan for 
        Federal spending.

SEC. 602. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND GOALS PLANS.

    (a)  Budget Contents and Submission to Congress.--Section 1105(a) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new paragraph:
            ``(29) a Federal performance standards and goals plan for 
        the overall budget as provided for under section 1115.''.
    (b) Performance Standards and Goals Plans.--Chapter 11 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding after section 1114 the 
following new sections:
``Sec. 1115. Performance standards and goals plans
    ``(a) In carrying out the provisions of section 1105(a)(29), the 
Office of Management and Budget shall promulgate regulations requiring 
each department and agency to establish a performance standards and 
goals plan for each major expenditure category of the budget of such 
department or agency. Such plan shall--
            ``(1) establish performance indicators to be used to define 
        and measure the outputs, products, services, and results of 
        each expenditure allocated;
            ``(2) establish performance standards and goals to define 
        and measure the specific service or product to be achieved or 
        produced for the expenditure allocated;
            ``(3) express such standards and goals in an objective, 
        quantifiable, and measurable form unless permitted in an 
        alternative form under subsection (b);
            ``(4) establish major expenditure categories of related 
        functions of such agency or department for the analysis of 
        performance standards and goals;
            ``(5) include actual program results compared with original 
        performance standards and goals, integrated with program cost 
        information, to show trends in costs per unit-of-result, unit-
        of-service, or other unit-of-output;
            ``(6) review the success of achieving the performance 
        standards and goals of the preceding biennium; and
            ``(7) evaluate the performance standards and goals for the 
        biennium relative to the results achieved for the performance 
        standards and goals in the preceding biennium.
    ``(b) If the Office of Management and Budget determines that it is 
not feasible to express the performance standards and goals of a 
particular program in an expenditure category in an objective and 
quantifiable form, the Office of Management and Budget may authorize an 
alternative form. Such alternative form shall include separate 
descriptive statements of both--
            ``(1) a minimally effective program, and
            ``(2) a successful program,
with sufficient precision and in such terms that would allow for an 
accurate, independent determination of whether the program's 
performance meets the criteria of either description.
    ``(c) The Office of Management and Budget shall review and adjust 
the department and agency plans established under subsection (a) and 
establish an overall performance standards and goals plan for the 
Federal Government.
``Sec.  1116. Program performance reports
    ``(a) By December 31 of each odd-numbered year, the head of each 
department and agency shall prepare and submit to the President and the 
Congress, a report on the program performance for the previous 
biennium.
    ``(b) Each program performance report shall enumerate all 
performance indicators established in the departmental or agency 
performance standards and goals plan, along with the performance goals 
and the actual results achieved for the previous biennium and the goals 
for the current biennium. Program costs and, where applicable, trends 
in costs per unit-of-result, unit-of-service, or other unit-of-output 
shall be shown. Where the performance standards and goals are specified 
by descriptive statements of a minimally effective program and a 
successful program, the results of such program shall be described in 
relationship to those categories, including whether the results failed 
to meet the criteria of either category.
    ``(c) Where a performance standard or goal has not been met, 
including when a program's results are not determined to have met the 
criteria of a successful program, the report shall explain--
            ``(1) why the goal was not met, including an indication of 
        any managerial deficiencies or of any legal obstacles;
            ``(2) plans and schedule for achieving the established 
        performance goal;
            ``(3) recommended legislative or regulatory changes 
        necessary to achieve the goal; and
            ``(4) if the performance standard or goal is impractical or 
        infeasible, why that is the case and what action is 
        recommended, including whether the goal should be changed or 
        the program altered or eliminated.
    ``(d) By December 31 of each odd-numbered year, the Office of 
Management and Budget shall prepare and submit to the President and the 
Congress, a report on all tax expenditures that reduced revenues by at 
least $2 billion in the previous biennium.''.
    (c) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item relating to section 1114 the following new items:

``1115. Performance standards and goals plans.
``1116. Program performance reports.''.

SEC. 603. CONGRESSIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND 
              GOALS.

    (a) In General.--It shall not be in order for either the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or resolution (or 
amendment thereto) which provides for the authorization of 
appropriations or for the appropriation of funds, unless such bill or 
resolution (or amendment thereto) specifies performance standards and 
goals for such authorization or appropriation.
    (b) Performance Standards and Goals.--(1) The program performance 
standards and goals required under subsection (a) shall--
            (A) specify either--
                    (i) objective, quantifiable, and measurable 
                standards and goals expected to be achieved, or
                    (ii) separate descriptive statements of a minimally 
                effective program and of a successful program, with 
                sufficient precision and in such terms that would allow 
                for an accurate, independent determination of whether 
                the program's performance meets the criteria of either 
                description;
            (B) include indicators of cost per unit-of-result, unit-of-
        service, or other unit-of-output, of the type specified in the 
        legislation authorizing the appropriation or relevant program; 
        and
            (C) be established after review of the plan established 
        under section 1115 of title 31, United States Code.
    (2) An appropriation Act may specify a lesser amount of a 
performance standard or goal to be achieved than is provided by the 
authorizing legislation, but may not change the specific type of 
standard or goal.
    (c) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate 
only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly 
chosen and sworn, and in the House of Representatives only by 
resolution reported by the Committee on Rules and adopted by the House.

                 TITLE VII--INCREMENTAL-BASED BUDGETING

SEC. 701. INCREMENTAL-BASED BUDGETING

    (a) Incremental-Based Budgeting Regulations.--Section 1109 of 
chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 1109. Incremental-based budgeting
    ``(a) The Office of Management and Budget shall promulgate 
regulations requiring each department and agency to require that--
            ``(1) officers and employees who submit budgets to the head 
        of that department or agency--
                    ``(A) be required to submit at least 2 budgets: one 
                that sets forth spending at least 5 percent lower than 
                the prior biennium's budget and the other that sets 
                forth spending at least 15 percent lower than the prior 
                biennium's budget; and
                    ``(B) in such budgets detail specific gains and 
                losses of project performance at each such incremental 
                budget level as compared to other proposed budget 
                levels; and
            ``(2) the head of each department or agency submit to the 
        Office of Management and Budget at least one budget for that 
        department or agency that sets forth spending at least 10 
        percent lower than the prior biennium's budget.
    ``(b) Whenever the Office of Management and Budget reports an 
estimated budget deficit under section 105(a) of the Comprehensive 
Budget Process Reform Act of 1993, not later than October 15 of that 
calendar year, the President shall submit to Congress a report that 
would either--
            ``(1) recommend specific changes in outlays or revenues 
        sufficient to eliminate that deficit, or
            (2) recommend waiver of the requirement to eliminate that 
        deficit.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The item relating to 
section 1109 in the table of sections for chapter 11 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

``1109. Incremental-based budgeting.''.

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