[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
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[S. 2255 Referral Instructions Senate (RIS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2255

 To amend the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 to establish a new budget 
 point of order against any amendment, bill, or conference report that 
directs increased revenues from additional taxation of Social Security 
    or Railroad Retirement benefits to a fund other than the Social 
 Security trust fund or the Social Security Equivalent Benefit Account.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 30 (legislative day, June 7), 1994

  Mr. Gorton 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 Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 to establish a new budget 
 point of order against any amendment, bill, or conference report that 
directs increased revenues from additional taxation of Social Security 
    or Railroad Retirement benefits to a fund other than the Social 
 Security trust fund or the Social Security Equivalent Benefit Account.

    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 ``Social Security Trust Fund 
Protection Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. POINT OF ORDER.

    Subtitle C of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following:

``SEC. 13307. REVENUES FROM SOCIAL SECURITY TAXATION.

    ``(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in either the House 
of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that--
            ``(1) would increase the aggregate tax liability on Social 
        Security benefits and does not deposit the revenue resulting 
        from such increase in the trust funds under title II of the 
        Social Security Act; or
            ``(2) would increase the aggregate tax liability of 
        Railroad Retirement Tier I benefits and does not deposit the 
        revenue resulting from such increase in the Social Security 
        Equivalent Benefit Account.
    ``(b) Supermajority.--This section may be waived or suspended in 
the Senate or the House of Representatives only by the affirmative vote 
of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
vote of three-fifths of the Members shall be required in the Senate or 
the House of Representatives to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the 
chair on a point of order raised under this section.''.
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