[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1594 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1594

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
  to require a reduction in the discretionary spending limits in each 
 fiscal year by an amount equal to the total of any reductions made in 
            existing programs for the previous fiscal year.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 27 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

 Mr. Shelby (for himself and Mr. Craig) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred jointly pursuant to the order of 
   August 4, 1977, to the Committees on the Budget and Governmental 
  Affairs, with instructions that if one committee reports, the other 
         committee have thirty days to report or be discharged

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
  to require a reduction in the discretionary spending limits in each 
 fiscal year by an amount equal to the total of any reductions made in 
            existing programs for the previous fiscal year.

    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 ``Deficit Reduction Assurance Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    Section 251(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following:
            ``(D) For the budget submitted for budget years 1995, 1996, 
        1997, and 1998, the discretionary spending limits shall be 
        adjusted by reducing the limits by an amount equal to the total 
        of any reductions made in existing programs, projects, and 
        activities during the previous fiscal year. The amount of 
        reduction (if any) for a program, project, or activity shall be 
        determined by subtracting the amount of new budget authority 
        and outlays for the program, project, or activity for the 
        previous fiscal year from the amount of new budget authority 
        and outlays for the program, project, or activity for the 
        fiscal year preceding the previous fiscal year.''.

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