[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2417 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2417

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
  and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit consideration of 
             nonemergency matters in emergency legislation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              August 24 (legislative day, August 18), 1994

  Mr. McCain 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 
  and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit consideration of 
             nonemergency matters in emergency legislation.

    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 ``Emergency Spending Control Act of 
1994''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY SPENDING.

    (a) Emergency Appropriations.--Section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``However, OMB shall not adjust any 
discretionary spending limit under this clause for any statute that 
designates appropriations as emergency requirements if that statute 
contains an appropriation for any other matter, event, or occurrence, 
but that statute may contain rescissions of budget authority.''.
    (b) Emergency Legislation.--Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the 
end the following: ``However, OMB shall not designate any such amounts 
of new budget authority, outlays, or receipts as emergency requirements 
in the report required under subsection (d) if that statute contains 
any other provisions that are not so designated, but that statute may 
contain provisions that reduce direct spending.''.
    (c) New Point of Order.--Title IV of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

                 ``point of order regarding emergencies

    ``Sec. 408. It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, 
or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, containing an 
emergency designation for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(D) or 252(e) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 if it 
also provides an appropriation or direct spending for any other item or 
contains any other matter, but that bill or joint resolution, 
amendment, or conference report may contain rescissions of budget 
authority or reductions of direct spending, or that amendment may 
reduce amounts for that emergency.''.
    (d) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in 
section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 407 the 
following new item:

        ``Sec. 408. Point of order regarding emergencies.''.
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