[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
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103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 186

To require reauthorizations of budget authority for Government programs 
 at least every 10 years, to provide for review of Government programs 
            at least every 10 years, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 26 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

   Mr. Reid 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 require reauthorizations of budget authority for Government programs 
 at least every 10 years, to provide for review of Government programs 
            at least every 10 years, 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 ``Spending Control and Programs 
Evaluation Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSES OF ACT.

    The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to require that most Government programs be 
        reauthorized according to a schedule at least once every 10 
        years;
            (2) to limit the length of time for which Government 
        programs can be authorized to 10 years;
            (3) to bar the expenditure of funds for Government programs 
        which have not been provided for by a law enacted during the 
        10-year sunset reauthorization cycle; and
            (4) to encourage the reexamination of selected Government 
        programs each Congress.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION.

    (a) Definitions.--For purposes of this Act--
            (1) The term ``budget authority'' has the meaning given to 
        it by section 3(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
            (2) The term ``permanent budget authority'' means budget 
        authority provided for an indefinite period of time or an 
        unspecified number of fiscal years which does not require 
        recurring action by the Congress, but does not include budget 
        authority provided for a specified fiscal year which is 
        available for obligation or expenditure in one or more 
        succeeding fiscal years.
            (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 5 Congresses beginning with the One Hundred Third 
        Congress and with each sixth Congress following the One Hundred 
        Third Congress.
    (b) Treatment of Programs.--For purposes of this Act, 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 1993. 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 1993 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) Reauthorization Date.--For purposes of titles I, II, and III of 
this Act, the reauthorization date applicable to a program is the date 
specified for such program under section 101(b).

            TITLE I--REAUTHORIZATION OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

SEC. 101. REAUTHORIZATION CYCLE.

    (a) General Rule.--Each Government program (except those listed in 
section 103) 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) First Reauthorization Date.--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 subfunctional             First       
                        category                    reauthorization date
                                                                        
      254Space, Science, Applications and            September 30, 1995.
       Technology.                                                      
      272Energy Conservation.                                           
      301Water Resources.                                               
      352Agriculture and Research Services.                             
      371Mortgage Credit and Thrift Insurance.                          
      376Other Advancement and Regulation of                            
       Commerce.                                                        
      501Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational                          
       Education.                                                       
      601General Retirement and Disability                              
       Insurance.                                                       
      602Federal Employment Retirement and                              
       Disability.                                                      
      703Hospital and Medical Care for Veterans.                        
      806Other General Government.                                      
      851General Revenue Sharing.                                       
      051Department of Defense--Military.            September 30, 1997.
      053Atomic Energy Defense Activities.                              
      154Foreign Information and Exchange Act.                          
      251General Science and Basic Research.                            
      306Other Natural Resources.                                       
      351Farm Income Stabilization.                                     
      401Ground Transportation.                                         
      502Higher Education.                                              
      553Education and Training of Health Care                          
       Work Force.                                                      
      701Income Security for Veterans.                                  
      752Federal Litigative and Judicial                                
       Activities.                                                      
      802Executive Director and Management.                             
      803Central Fiscal Operations.                                     
      054Defense Related Activities.                 September 30, 1999.
      152Military Assistance.                                           
      155International Financial Programs.                              
      253Space Flight.                                                  
      255Supporting Space Activities.                                   
      274Emergency Energy Preparedness.                                 
      302Conservation and Land Management.                              
      304Pollution Control and Abatement.                               
      407Other Transportation.                                          
      504Training and Employment.                                       
      506Social Services.                                               
      554Consumer and Occupational Health and                           
       Safety.                                                          
      704Veterans Housing.                                              
      751Federal Law Enforcement Activities.                            
      801Legislative Function.                                          
      852Other General Purpose Fiscal Assistance.                       
      153Conduct of Foreign Affairs.                 September 30, 2001.
      271Energy Supply.                                                 
      303Recreational Resources.                                        
      402Air Transportation.                                            
      505Other Labor Services.                                          
      551Health Care Services.                                          
      604Public Assistance and Other Income                             
       Supplements.                                                     
      702Veterans Education, Training, and                              
       Rehabilitation.                                                  
      753Federal Correctional Activities.                               
      805Central Personnel Management.                                  
      902Other Interest.                                                
      151Foreign Economic and Financial              September 30, 2003.
       Assistance.                                                      
      276Energy Information, Policy and                                 
       Regulation.                                                      
      372Postal Service.                                                
      403Water Transportation.                                          
      451Community Development.                                         
      452Area and Regional Development.                                 
      453Disaster Relief and Insurance.                                 
      503Research and General Education Aids.                           
      552Health Research.                                               
      603Unemployment Compensation.                                     
      705Other Veterans Benefits and Services.                          
      754Criminal Justice Assistance.                                   
      804General Property and Record Management.                        
      901Interest on the Public Debt.                                   
                                                                        

    (c) Point of Order to Preserve Sunset.--(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 10 fiscal years, for an indefinite period, or (except during the 
Congress in which such next reauthorization date occurs) for any fiscal 
year 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 
fiscal year 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 title, 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 fiscal year beginning after the last fiscal year 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. 102. REAUTHORIZATION REVIEW.

    (a) General Rule.--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 
fiscal year 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 
        four fiscal years and the amount of new budget authority 
        provided in each such year.
    (b) Review of New Authority.--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) Congressional Review by Authorizing Committees.--Each committee 
having legislative jurisdiction over a program referred to in section 
103 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 101(b), whichever first 
occurs.

SEC. 103. PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO REVIEW ONLY.

    (a) Review of Certain Programs.--The program listed in subsection 
(b) shall be subject to the reauthorization cycle and review as 
provided in section 102(c).
    (b) Programs.--The programs referred to in subsection (a) are the 
following:
            (1) Programs included within functional category 900 
        (Interest).
            (2) Any Federal programs or activities to enforce civil 
        rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States or 
        to enforce antidiscrimination laws of the United States, 
        including but not limited to the investigation of violations of 
        civil rights, civil or criminal litigation or the 
        implementation or enforcement of judgments resulting from such 
        litigation, and administrative activities in support of the 
        foregoing.
            (3) 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).
            (4) 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.
            (5) Programs included in the fiscal year 1993 budget in 
        subfunctional categories 701 (Income security for veterans), 
        702 (Veterans education, training, and rehabilitation), 704 
        (Veterans housing), and programs for providing health care 
        which are included in such budget in subfunctional category 703 
        (Hospital and medical care for veterans).
            (6) Social Security and Federal employee retirement 
        programs including the following:
                    (A) Programs funded through trust funds which are 
                included with subfunctional categories 551 (Health care 
                services), 601 (General retirement and disability 
                insurance), or 602 (Federal employee retirement and 
                disability).
                    (B) Retirement pay and retired pay of military 
                personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, 
                Marine Corps, and the Air Force, including the Reserve 
                components thereof, retainer pay for personnel of the 
                Inactive Fleet Reserve; and payments under section 4 of 
                Public Law 92-425 and chapter 73 of title 10, United 
                States Code (survivor's benefits), classified in the 
                fiscal year 1993 budget in subfunctional category 051 
                (Department of Defense--military).
                    (C) Retirement pay and medical benefits for retired 
                commissioned officers of the Coast Guard, the Public 
                Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National 
                Oceanic and Atmospheric Commissioned Corps and their 
                survivors and dependents, classified in the fiscal year 
                1988 budget in subfunctional category 551 (Health care 
                services) or in subfunctional category 306 (Other 
                natural resources).
                    (D) Retired pay of military personnel of the Coast 
                Guard and Coast Guard Reserve, members of the former 
                Lighthouse Service, and for annuities payable to 
                beneficiaries of retired military personnel under the 
                retired serviceman's family protection plan (10 U.S.C. 
                1431-1446) and survivor benefit plan (10 U.S.C. 1447-
                1455), classified in the fiscal year 1988 budget in 
                subfunctional category 403 (Water transportation).
                    (E) Payments to the Central Intelligence Agency 
                Retirement and Disability Fund, classified in fiscal 
                year 1993 budget in subfunctional category 054 
                (Defense-related activities).
                    (F) Payments to the Civil Service Retirement and 
                Disability Fund for financing unfunded liabilities, 
                classified in fiscal year 1993 budget in subfunctional 
                category 805 (Central personnel management).
                    (G) Payments to the Foreign Service Retirement and 
                Disability Fund, classified in fiscal year 1993 budget 
                in subfunctional category 153 (Conduct of foreign 
                affairs).
                    (H) Payments to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 
                Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
                Funds, classified in fiscal year 1993 budget in various 
                subfunctional categories.
                    (I) Administration of the retirement and disability 
                programs set forth in this section.

SEC. 104. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

    (a) Modification of Schedule.--The reauthorization schedule 
contained in section 101(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).
    (b) Committee Referral.--All messages, petitions, memorials, 
concurrent resolutions, and bills proposing changes in section 101(b) 
and all bills proposing changes in section 103, 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.
    (c) Committee Reports.--Except as provided in subsection (e), 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 (b) and which previously has been reported favorably by a 
committee of legislative jurisdiction within 30 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.
    (d) Committee Recommendations.--The recommendations of the 
Committee on Rules or the Committee on Rules and Administration 
pursuant to subsection (c) or (e) 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 Act to make more effective 
        comparisons between programs having like objective.
    (e) Committee Referral Amendments to This Act.--Any concurrent 
resolution or bill proposing a change in section 101(b) or 103 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.
    (f) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate or the 
House of Representatives to consider a bill or resolution reported 
pursuant to subsection (a), (b), (c), or (e) 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.

                      TITLE II--PROGRAM INVENTORY

SEC. 201. PROGRAM INVENTORY.

    (a) Preparation.--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 (hereafter in this title referred to as the ``program 
inventory'').
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the program inventory is to advise and 
assist the Congress in carrying out the requirements of titles I and 
III. 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 titles 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) Submission Date.--Not later than April 1, 1993, 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) Categories in Report.--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 Act. 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) Program Analysis.--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) Unauthorized Programs.--The inventory shall contain a separate 
tabular listing of programs which are not required to be reauthorized 
pursuant to section 101(c).
    (g) Analysis of New Budget Authority.--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) Other Data.--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 four fiscal 
        years and, where applicable, the four succeeding fiscal years.
            (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. 202. EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION.

    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. 203. AGENCY COOPERATION.

    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. 204. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW.

    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 201 and 
not later than June 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 July 1, 1993, a revised 
program inventory to the Senate and the House of Representatives.

SEC. 205. REVISIONS OF INVENTORY.

    (a) Revisions of Inventory.--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) Congressional Report.--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 fiscal year and each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years. 
If new budget authority is not authorized or provided or is authorized 
or provided for an indefinite amount for any of such 5 succeeding 
fiscal years 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 fiscal year to maintain a current 
level of services.
    (c) List of Programs not Reauthorized.--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. 206. ADEQUACY ASSESSMENT.

    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 101(b) of this Act for grouping programs of like missions or 
objectives.

SEC. 207. REPORT ON PENDING LEGISLATION.

    (a) Annual Report.--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) Contents of Report.--The report shall include an up-to-date 
tabulation for the fiscal year beginning October 1 and the succeeding 
four fiscal years 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 5 fiscal years, the amounts necessary 
        to maintain a current level of services for programs in the 
        inventory.
    (c) Programs Subject to Reauthorization.--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 101(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.

                    TITLE III--PROGRAM REEXAMINATION

SEC. 301. REEXAMINATION BY CONGRESS.

    (a) Committee Reexamination.--Each committee of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives periodically shall provide through the 
procedures established in section 302, for the conduct of a 
comprehensive reexamination of selected programs or groups of programs 
over which it has jurisdiction.
    (b) Selection Criteria.--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. 302. FUNDING RESOLUTION AND REPORT.

    (a) Funding Resolution and Report.--(1) The funding resolution 
first reported by each committee of the Senate in 1994, 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 title. 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 101(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 and 
        selected for reexamination in a committee's plan adopted in 
        1993 may be submitted at any time on or before February 15, 
        1994.
            (C) The estimated cost for each reexamination.
    (2) The report accompanying the funding resolution reported by each 
committee of the Senate in 1993 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 
1993, 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) Consultation With Other Committees.--In order to achieve 
coordination of program 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) Committee Reports.--Each committee shall prepare and have 
printed a report with respect to each reexamination completed under 
this title. 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) Contents of Committee Report.--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) Title I Satisfied.--A report submitted pursuant to this section 
shall be deemed to satisfy the reauthorization review requirements of 
title I.

SEC. 303. EXECUTIVE REVIEW.

    Each department or agency of the executive branch which is 
responsible for the administration of a program selected for 
reexamination pursuant to this title shall, not later than 6 months 
before the completion date specified for reexamination reports pursuant 
to section 302(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 
302(d), and the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to such 
committee or committees such comments as it deems appropriate.

SEC. 304. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this title--
            (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; and
            (2) an amendment to a funding resolution includes a 
        resolution of the Senate which amends such funding resolution.

                        TITLE IV--MISCELLANEOUS

SEC. 401. AGENCY APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS.

    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 fiscal year''.

SEC. 402. NONDISCLOSURE.

    Nothing in this Act 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. 403. RULEMAKING.

    The provisions of this section and sections 101(a), 101(b), 
101(c)(1), 101(c)(2), 101(c)(5), 102, 104(b), 104(c), 104(d), 104(e), 
104(f), title III (except section 303), section 405, and section 406 of 
this Act 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. 404. EXECUTIVE ASSISTANCE AND REGULATORY DUPLICATION AND CONFLICTS 
              REPORT.

    (a) Executive Assistance.--(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 6 months before the first reauthorization date 
specified for a program in section 101(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 6 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) Regulatory Duplication and Conflict Report.--(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 Conflict 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. 405. SUNSET REAUTHORIZATION BILL.

    (a) Committee Introduction.--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 101(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 101(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 15 
days after the beginning of the second regular session of the Congress 
in which occurs the reauthorization date applicable to such program.
    (b) Discharge for Failure To Consider.--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) Discharge Procedures.--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. 406. COMMITTEE JURISDICTION OVER ACT.

    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 Act, and shall 
submit a report not later than December 31, 1998, and each 5 years 
thereafter, setting forth their findings and recommendations. Such 
reviews and reports may be conducted jointly.

SEC. 407. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years ending 
before October 1, 2003, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the 
review requirement of titles I and III and the requirements for the 
compilation of the inventory of Federal programs as set forth in title 
II.

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