[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2352 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2352

      To make various reforms in the congressional budget process.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 1993

  Mr. Allard (for himself, Mr. Barrett of Nebraska, Mr. Santorum, Mr. 
   Hobson, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. 
   Zeliff, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Zimmer, and Mr. Ramstad) 
   introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the 
             Committees on Government Operations and Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
      To make various reforms in the congressional budget process.

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

SECTION 1. BASELINE BASED ON PRIOR YEAR'S OUTLAYS.

    (a) President's Budget.--Section 1105(a)(5) 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;''.
    (b) Congressional Budget.--Section 301(e) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(e)) 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 concurrent 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 those 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 concurrent resolution, 
        including information on outlays for the current fiscal year 
        and the decisions reached to set funding for the subsequent 
        fiscal years;'';
            (3) striking paragraph (8);
            (4) redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (8) and adding 
        ``and'' at the end thereof; and
            (5) redesignating paragraph (10) as paragraph (9).
    (c) CBO 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.''.

SEC. 2. SUNSETTING OF ENTITLEMENTS.

    (a) Reauthorization of Discretionary Programs and Unearned 
Entitlements.--
            (1) Fiscal year 1994.--Effective October 1, 1993, spending 
        authority for each unearned entitlement and high-cost 
        discretionary spending program is terminated unless such 
        spending authority is reauthorized after the date of enactment 
        of this Act.
            (2) Fiscal year 1995.--Effective October 1, 1994, spending 
        authority for each discretionary spending program (not 
        including high-cost discretionary spending programs) is 
        terminated unless such spending authority is reauthorized after 
        the date of enactment of this Act.
            (3) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
                    (A) the term ``unearned entitlement'' means an 
                entitlement not earned by service or paid for in total 
                or in part by assessments or contributions such as 
                Social Security, veterans' benefits, retirement 
                programs, and medicare; and
                    (B) the term ``high-cost discretionary program'' 
                means the most expensive one-third of discretionary 
                program within each budget function account.
    (b) Point of Order.--
            (1) In general.--It shall not be in order in the House of 
        Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
        resolution, amendment, or conference report that includes any 
        provision that appropriates funds unless such appropriation has 
        been previously authorized by law.
            (2) Waiver or suspension.--This section may be waived or 
        suspended in the House of Representatives or the Senate only by 
        the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members, duly chosen 
        and sworn.
    (c) Decennial Sunsetting.--
            (1) First decennial census year.--Effective on the first 
        day of the fiscal year beginning in the first decennial census 
        year after the year 2000 and each 10 years thereafter, the 
        spending authority described in subsection (a)(1) is terminated 
        unless such spending authority is reauthorized after the last 
        date the spending authority was required to be reauthorized 
        under this section.
            (2) First decennial census year.--Effective on the first 
        day of the fiscal year beginning in the year after the first 
        decennial census year after the year 2000 and each 10 years 
        thereafter, the spending authority described in subsection 
        (a)(2) is terminated unless such spending authority is 
        reauthorized after the last date the spending authority was 
        required to be reauthorized under this section.

SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF EMERGENCY SPENDING FOR PURPOSES OF DISCRETIONARY 
              CAPS.

    Section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is repealed.

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