[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2172 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2172

 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
 and the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to 
establish categorical spending targets and sequestration against those 
  targets to balance the Federal budget by fiscal year 2000, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 1993

   Mr. McMillan (for himself, Mr. Kasich, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. 
Shays, and Mr. Smith of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which 
  was referred jointly to the Committees on Government Operations and 
                                 Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
 and the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to 
establish categorical spending targets and sequestration against those 
  targets to balance the Federal budget by fiscal year 2000, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Health Care Reform Budget 
Enforcement Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATES.

    This Act and the amendments made by it shall take effect on its 
date of enactment and shall apply to fiscal year 1994 and subsequent 
fiscal years.

TITLE I--REQUIREMENT THAT PRESIDENT SUBMIT AND BUDGET COMMITTEES REPORT 
       BUDGETS THAT ACHIEVE A BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 2000

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 subsection:
    ``(g) Any budget submitted to Congress pursuant to subsection (a) 
for fiscal year 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000 shall be a 
budget for that fiscal year and the 4 ensuing fiscal years that 
provides for a balanced budget for fiscal year 2000 and subsequent 
fiscal years and for each such year is within the categorical targets 
set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 601. Any budget 
submitted to Congress pursuant to subsection (a) for a fiscal year 
after fiscal year 2000 shall be a budget that provides for a balanced 
budget for that fiscal year and the 4 ensuing fiscal years and sets 
forth appropriate categorical targets for discretionary appropriations 
and direct spending.''.

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 joint resolution on the 
budget for fiscal year 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000 as 
reported by the Committee on the Budget of each House, shall set forth 
appropriate levels for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of the 
calendar year in which it is reported and for each of the 4 ensuing 
fiscal years for the matters described in section 301(a) and for each 
categorical target set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 601 
that provides for a balanced budget by fiscal year 2000 and for each 
fiscal year thereafter. Any joint resolution on the budget for a fiscal 
year after fiscal year 2000, as reported by the Committee on the Budget 
of each House, shall set forth appropriate levels for the fiscal year 
beginning on October 1 of the calendar year in which it is reported and 
for each of the 4 ensuing fiscal years for the matters described in 
section 301(a) and set forth appropriate categorical targets for 
discretionary appropriations and direct spending that provides for a 
balanced budget for that fiscal year and each of the ensuing 4 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 joint resolution on the budget for a 
        fiscal year, then it shall also, within the same rule or order, 
        provide for--
                    ``(i) the consideration of the text of any joint 
                resolution on the budget for that fiscal year 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 joint 
                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 joint 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 joint 
        resolution on the budget for a fiscal year comprising the text 
        of any budget submitted by the President for that fiscal year 
        as described in section 1105(g) of title 31, United States 
        Code.''.

                  TITLE II--JOINT BUDGET RESOLUTIONS.

SEC. 201. AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET ACT TO CHANGE CONCURRENT BUDGET 
              RESOLUTIONS INTO JOINT BUDGET RESOLUTIONS.

    (a) Table of Contents.--The table of contents set forth in section 
1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is 
amended by striking ``concurrent'' each place it occurs therein and by 
inserting ``joint'' and by striking ``Concurrent'' and by inserting 
``Joint'' in the item relating to section 303.
    (b) Definitions.--
            (1) Paragraph (4) of section 3 of the Congressional Budget 
        and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by striking 
        ``concurrent'' each place it occurs and inserting ``joint''.
            (2) Paragraph (8) of section 3 of the Congressional Budget 
        and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``by 
        the Congress''.
    (c) Title III of the Budget Act.--Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``concurrent'' each place it 
occurs therein and by inserting ``joint'' and by striking 
``Concurrent'' and by inserting ``Joint'' in the heading of section 
303.
    (d) Title IV of the Budget Act.--Section 401(b)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``concurrent'' 
and by inserting ``joint''.
    (e) Title IX of the Budget Act.--Section 904(d) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``concurrent'' 
and by inserting ``joint''.

SEC. 202. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE HOUSE 
              OF REPRESENTATIVES.

    (a) Rule X.--Clauses 1(e)(2), 4(a)(2), 4(b)(2), 4(g), 4(h), and 
4(i) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives are amended 
by striking ``concurrent'' each place it appears therein and by 
inserting ``joint''.
    (b) Rule XXIII.--Clause 8 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking ``concurrent'' each place it 
appears therein and by inserting ``joint''.
    (c) Rule XLIX.--Rule XLIX of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is repealed.

SEC. 203. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE DEFICIT CONTROL 
              ACT OF 1985.

    (a) Section 254.--Section 254(b)(2)(A) of the Deficit Control Act 
of 1985 is amended by striking ``concurrent'' and by inserting 
``joint''.
    (b) Section 257.--Section 257(3) of the Deficit Control Act of 1985 
is amended by striking ``concurrent'' and by inserting ``joint''.

SEC. 204. ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW POINT OF ORDER.

    Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by 
section 102) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(k)(1) It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives 
or the Senate to consider any appropriation or authorizing legislation 
for a fiscal year covered by a joint resolution on the budget before 
that joint resolution is enacted.
    ``(2) The point or order set forth in paragraph (1) may only be 
waived by an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of those 
voting, a quorum being present.''.

        TITLE III--CATEGORICAL SEQUESTRATION AND PAY-AS-YOU-GO.

SEC. 301. REVISED MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNTS AND DISCRETIONARY SPENDING 
              TARGETS.

    (a) Direct Spending Target.--Section 601(a)(1) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) Direct spending target.--The term `direct spending 
        target' means--


      

                                              ``ENTITLEMENT TARGETS                                             
                                            (in billions of dollars)                                            
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                                                           1994    1995    1996    1997    1998    1999    2000 
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  [NON-MEANS-TESTED]                                                                                            
Medicare................................................     154     164     170     176     182     187     193
Federal civilian retirement.............................      37      39      42      44      46      48      50
Military retirement.....................................      27      28      29      31      32      33      35
Other retirement/disability.............................       5       5       5       5       5       5       5
Unemployment compensation...............................      26      25      25      25      25      25      25
Veterans' benefits......................................      18      17      16      18      18      18      18
Farm price supports.....................................      10       9       8       9       9       9       9
Social services.........................................       6       5       5       5       5       5       5
Credit reform liquidating account.......................       2      -2      -8      -6      -7      -1      -1
Other...................................................      17      16      14      16      17      17      17
  [MEANS-TESTED]                                                                                                
Medicaid................................................      85      90      95     100     105     110     115
Food stamps.............................................      24      24      24      25      26      26      27
SSI.....................................................      24      24      24      28      30      30      30
Family support..........................................      18      18      19      19      20      20      20
Veterans' pensions......................................       3       3       2       2       3       3       3
Child nutrition.........................................       7       7       8       8       9       9       9
EITC....................................................      10      13      13      14      14      14      14
Stafford loans..........................................       3       3       3       3       3       3       3
Other...................................................       3       3       4       4       4       4       4
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
  Total mandatory (excluding social security)...........     479     491     498     526     546     565  581''.
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    (b) Discretionary Spending Target.--Section 601(a)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) Discretionary spending target.--The term 
        `discretionary spending target' means--
      

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                                             Domestic targets (in billions of    National security targets (in  
               ``Fiscal Year                             dollars)                     billions of dollars)      
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1994......................................                 228                               293              
1995......................................                 234                               287              
1996......................................                 234                               287              
1997......................................                 234                               287              
1998......................................                 234                               287              
1999......................................                 234                               287              
2000......................................                 234                               287''.             
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    (c) Adjustments to Discretionary Spending Targets.--Section 251(b) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Adjustments to Discretionary Spending Targets.--Whenever 
appropriate, adjustments to the discretionary spending targets (and to 
those targets as cumulatively adjusted) for one or more fiscal years 
shall be made to reflect the following:
            ``(1) Changes in concepts.--For any fiscal year, the 
        adjustments produced by any change in budget accounting 
        concepts (including scorekeeping conventions, budget 
        classifications, and definitions) shall equal the current-year 
        levels of new budget authority using up-to-date concepts minus 
        those levels using the concepts in effect before the change. 
        Such changes in concepts may only be made in consultation with 
        the Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives and Senate, CBO, and OMB. A change in budget 
        classifications includes any change from the assumption that 
        all amounts provided in appropriation Acts are classified as 
        discretionary except those included under the heading 
        `Mandatory Appropriations' in the joint explanatory statement 
        of managers accompanying the conference report on the Budget 
        Reform Act of 1993.
            ``(2) Changes in inflation.--(A) For the budget year and 
        each outyear through 2000, the adjustments produced by changes 
        in inflation shall equal the discretionary spending target for 
        each such year multiplied by the inflation adjustment factor 
        (for the fiscal year immediately preceding the current year) 
        computed under subparagraph (B).
            ``(B) The inflation adjustment factor shall be calculated 
        by subtracting 1 from the ratio of (i) the level of year-over-
        year inflation measured for the fiscal year immediately 
        preceding the current year, and (ii) the applicable estimated 
        level for that year set forth below:
                    For 1992, 1.030.
                    For 1993, 1.031.
                    For 1994, 1.027.
                    For 1995, 1.027.
                    For 1996, 1.027.
        Inflation shall be measured by the average of the estimated 
        consumer price index for all urban consumers for a fiscal year 
        divided by the average index for the prior fiscal year.
            ``(3) Expiring housing contracts.--For each budget year 
        through 2000, the adjustment shall be the amount of new budget 
        authority needed to renew expiring multiyear subsidized housing 
        contracts or provide contracts to replace units lost due to 
        prepayments, with the per-contract renewal/replacement cost 
        equal to the average current-year cost of renewal or 
        replacement contracts.
            ``(4) Emergencies.--If for any fiscal year appropriations 
        for discretionary accounts are enacted that are designated as 
        emergency requirements by statute, the adjustment shall be the 
        amount of those appropriations that the President also 
        designates, in writing, as emergency requirements within 5 days 
        of the enactment of those appropriations. If any amount 
        previously designated as an emergency requirement is rescinded, 
        the adjustment shall be the amount of that rescission.''.
    (d) Revenue Raising Recommendations to Cover Shortfall.--Section 
251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Reconciliation Process to Avoid Sequestration.--Whenever the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House or Senate believes that a 
sequestration would be necessary under this section to eliminate a 
budget-year breach in any discretionary appropriation category as a 
result of the enactment of any appropriation Act, that committee may 
forward a report to the Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee on 
Finance, as the case may be, recommending a revenue increase to cover 
the shortfall. If such a revenue increase measure of sufficient size to 
cover the shortfall is enacted into law during that session of 
Congress, then no categorical sequestration may occur under this 
section as a result of that appropriation Act.''.
    (e) Revenue Shortfall Point of Order.--Section 253 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as 
follows:

``SEC. 253. REVENUE SHORTFALL POINT OF ORDER.

    ``(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, 
or any conference report thereon or amendment thereto, reducing 
revenues for any fiscal year through fiscal year 2000 unless it also 
contains an amendment to section 601(a)(1) or 601(a)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to reduce any combination of 
entitlement targets or discretionary spending targets in order to make 
that bill, joint resolution, conference report, or amendment deficit-
neutral for each such fiscal year.
    ``(b) Waiver.--The point of order set forth in paragraph (1) may 
only be waived by an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of 
those voting, a quorum being present.''.

SEC. 302. LIMITATION ON DIRECT SPENDING.

    (a) Limitation on Direct Spending.--Section 252 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as 
follows:

``SEC. 252. LIMITATION ON DIRECT SPENDING.

    ``(a) Permanent Sequestration of Direct Spending.--
            ``(1) Application.--Obligations in sequestered direct 
        spending accounts shall be reduced in the fiscal year in which 
        a sequestration occurs and in all succeeding fiscal years. 
        Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, after the 
        first direct spending sequestration, any later sequestration 
        shall reduce direct spending by an amount in addition to, 
        rather than in lieu of, the reduction in direct spending in 
        place under the existing sequestration or sequestrations.
            ``(2) Sequestration.--Within 15 calendar days after 
        Congress adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a 
        sequestration (if any) under section 251, there shall be a 
        sequestration to eliminate a budget-year breach (if any) in any 
        direct spending category within the direct spending target.
    ``(b) Eliminating Excess Direct Spending.--The amount required to 
be sequestered in a fiscal year under subsection (a) shall be obtained 
from direct spending accounts. Each non-exempt direct spending account 
in a category within the direct spending target shall be reduced by a 
uniform percentage necessary to make the reduction in direct spending 
required in that category to stay within the direct spending target.
    ``(c) Reconciliation Process to Avoid Sequestration.--Whenever a 
committee of the House or Senate believes that a sequestration would be 
necessary under this section to eliminate a budget-year breach in any 
direct spending category as a result of the enactment of any Act under 
its jurisdiction, that committee may forward a report to the Committee 
on Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance, as the case may be, 
recommending a revenue increase to cover the shortfall. If such a 
revenue increase measure of sufficient size to cover the shortfall is 
enacted into law during that session of Congress, then no categorical 
sequestration may occur under this section as a result of that Act.''.

SEC. 303. EXEMPT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Exemptions.--Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 255. EXEMPT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.

    ``(a) Social Security Benefits.--Benefits payable under the old-
age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under 
title II of the Social Security Act shall be exempt from reduction from 
any order issued under this part.
    ``(b) Net Interest.--No reduction of payments for net interest (all 
of major functional category 900) shall be made under any order issued 
under this part.''.
    (b) Repealer.--(1) Section 256 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (relating to exceptions, limitations, and 
special rules) is repealed.
    (2) The item relating to section 255 in the table of contents set 
forth in section 250(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is repealed.

SEC. 304. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE BALANCED BUDGET 
              AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985.

    (a) Definition of Category.--Section 250(c)(4) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(4) The term `category' means for fiscal years 1994, 
        1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000--
                    ``(A) when referring to discretionary 
                appropriations, either of the following subsets: 
                national security (defense and international) or 
                domestic; and
                    ``(B) when referring to direct spending, any of the 
                19 categories set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the 
                Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
        Discretionary appropriations in the domestic category and in 
        the national security (defense and international) category and 
        accounts in the 19 direct spending categories referred to in 
        the preceding sentence shall be those so designated in the 
        joint statement of managers accompanying this Act. New accounts 
        or activities shall be categorized in consultation with the 
        Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate.''.
    (b) Definition of Budgetary Resources.--Section 250(c)(6)(B) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by 
striking ``or 1995'' and inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 
2000''.
    (c) Enforcing Discretionary Spending Targets.--Section 251 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``and section 253'' and 
        by striking ``1995'' in its side heading and inserting 
        ``2000'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``or 1995'' both 
        places it appears and inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 
        or 2000'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``or 1995'' the first 
        place it appears and inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 
        or 2000'' and by striking ``through 1995'' and inserting 
        ``through 2000''; and
            (4) in subsection (b)(2)(D), by striking ``or 1995'' and 
        inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000''.
    (d) Reports and Orders.--Section 254 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (c);
            (2)(A) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``, pay-as-you-go, 
        and deficit'' and inserting ``and direct spending'' and by 
        striking ``1995'' and inserting ``2000'';
            (B) in subsection (d), by amending paragraph (3) to read as 
        follows:
            ``(3) Direct spending sequestration reports.--The preview 
        reports shall set forth estimates, for the current year and 
        each subsequent year through 2000, of the applicable direct 
        spending targets for each category.''; and
            (C) by striking paragraph (4) of subsection (d); and
            (3)(A) in subsection (g)(2)(A), by striking ``1995'' and 
        inserting ``2000''; and
            (B) by amending paragraph (3) of subsection (g) to read as 
        follows:
            ``(3) Direct spending sequestration reports.--The final 
        reports shall set forth estimates for each of the following:
                    ``(A) For the current year and each subsequent year 
                through 2000 the applicable direct spending targets for 
                each category.
                    ``(B) For the current year and the budget year the 
                estimated new budget authority and outlays for each 
                category and the breach, if any, in each category.
                    ``(C) For each category for which a sequestration 
                is required, the sequestration percentages necessary to 
                achieve the required reduction.
                    ``(D) For the budget year, for each account to be 
                sequestered, estimates of the baseline level of 
                sequesterable budgetary resources and resulting outlays 
                and the amount of budgetary resources to be sequestered 
                and resulting outlay reductions.''.
    (e) Extension of Expiration Date.--Section 274(b) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking 
``1995'' and inserting ``2000''.
    (f) Table of Sections.--The table of sections set forth in section 
250(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
is amended--
            (1) in the item relating to section 252, by striking 
        ``Enforcing pay-as-you-go'' and inserting ``Limitation on 
        direct spending''; and
            (2) by striking the item relating to section 253.

SEC. 305. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO TITLE VI OF THE 
              CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974.

    (a) Point of Order in the Senate.--Section 601(b)(1) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``or 1995'' and 
inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000''.
    (b) Committee Allocations and Enforcement.--Section 602 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking ``1995'' each 
place it appears and inserting ``2000''.
    (c) 5-Year Budget Resolutions.--Section 606 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``or 1995'' and 
        inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``and 1995'' and 
        inserting ``1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000''.
    (d) Effective Date.--Section 607 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 is amended by striking ``1995'' and inserting ``2000''.

                     TITLE IV--THE BUDGET BASELINE

SEC. 401. THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET.

    Paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
            ``(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this 
        section--
                    ``(A) estimated expenditures and proposed 
                appropriations for each function and subfunction in the 
                current fiscal year;
                    ``(B) estimated expenditures and proposed 
                appropriations the President decides are necessary to 
                support the Government for each function and 
                subfunction in the fiscal year for which the budget is 
                submitted; and
                    ``(C) a comparison of levels of estimated 
                expenditures and proposed appropriations for each 
                function and subfunction in the current fiscal year and 
                the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted, 
                along with the proposed increase or decrease of 
                spending in percentage terms for each function and 
                subfunction;''.

SEC. 402. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET.

    Section 301(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended 
by--
            (1) inserting after the second sentence the following: 
        ``The starting point for any deliberations in the Committee on 
        the Budget of each House on the joint resolution on the budget 
        for the next fiscal year shall be the estimated level of 
        outlays for the current year in each function and subfunction. 
        Any increases or decreases in the congressional budget for the 
        next fiscal year shall be from such estimated levels.'';
            (2) striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(2) a comparison of levels for the current fiscal year 
        with proposed spending for the subsequent fiscal years along 
        with the proposed increase or decrease of spending in 
        percentage terms for each function and subfunction;
            ``(3) information, data, and comparisons indicating the 
        manner in which and the basis on which, the committee 
        determined each of the matters set forth in the joint 
        resolution, including information on outlays for the current 
        fiscal year and the decisions reached to set funding for the 
        subsequent fiscal years;'';
            (3) inserting ``and'' after the semicolon in paragraph (7);
            (4) striking paragraph (8); and
            (5) redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (8).

SEC. 403. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE REPORT TO COMMITTEES.

    The first sentence of section 202(f)(1) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: ``On or before February 15 
of each year, the Director shall submit to the Committees on the Budget 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report, for the fiscal 
year commencing on October 1 of that year, with respect to fiscal 
policy, including (A) estimated budget outlays in all functions and 
subfunctions for appropriated accounts for the current fiscal year and 
estimated budget outlays under current law for all entitlement programs 
for the next fiscal year, (B) alternative levels of total revenues, 
total new budget authority, and total outlays (including related 
surpluses and deficits), and (C) the levels of tax expenditures under 
existing law, taking into account projected economic factors and any 
changes in such levels based on proposals in the budget submitted by 
the President for such fiscal year.''.

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