[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 137 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 137

 To create a legislative item veto by requiring separate enrollment of 
items in appropriations bills and tax expenditure provisions in revenue 
                                 bills.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 4, 1995

   Mr. Bradley (for himself, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Coats, and Mr. Robb) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                 Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To create a legislative item veto by requiring separate enrollment of 
items in appropriations bills and tax expenditure provisions in revenue 
                                 bills.

    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 ``Tax Expenditure and Legislative 
Appropriations Line Item Veto Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. TAX EXPENDITURE AND LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS LINE ITEM VETO 
              ACT OF 1995.

    The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new title:

 ``TITLE XI--TAX EXPENDITURE AND LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS LINE ITEM 
                           VETO ACT OF 1995.

    ``legislative appropriations and tax expenditure line item veto 
                     separate enrollment authority

    ``Sec. 1101. (a) Separate Enrollment.--
            ``(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when--
                    ``(A) any general or special appropriation bill or 
                any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, 
                deficiency, or continuing appropriations; or
                    ``(B) any revenue bill containing a tax expenditure 
                provision,
        passes both Houses of the Congress in the same form, the 
        Secretary of the Senate (in the case of a bill or joint 
        resolution originating in the Senate) or the Clerk of the House 
        of Representatives (in the case of a bill or joint resolution 
        originating in the House of Representatives) shall cause the 
        enrolling clerk of such House to enroll each item of 
        appropriation or tax expenditure provision of such bill or 
        joint resolution as a separate bill or joint resolution, as the 
        case may be.
            ``(2) A bill or joint resolution that is required to be 
        enrolled pursuant to paragraph (1)--
                    ``(A) shall be enrolled without substantive 
                revision;
                    ``(B) shall conform in style and form to the 
                applicable provisions of chapter 2 of title 1, United 
                States Code (as such provisions are in effect on the 
                date of the enactment of this title); and
                    ``(C) shall bear the designation of the measure of 
                which it was an item of appropriation or tax 
                expenditure provision prior to such enrollment, 
                together with such other designation as may be 
                necessary to distinguish such bill or joint resolution 
                from other bills or joint resolutions enrolled pursuant 
                to paragraph (1) with respect to the same measure.
    ``(b) Preparation and Presentment.--A bill or joint resolution 
enrolled pursuant to subsection (a)(1) with respect to an item of 
appropriation or tax expenditure provision shall be deemed to be a bill 
under clauses 2 and 3 of section 7 of article 1 of the Constitution of 
the United States and shall be signed by the presiding officers of both 
Houses of the Congress and presented to the President for approval or 
disapproval (and otherwise treated for all purposes) in the manner 
provided for bills and joint resolutions generally.
    ``(c) Definitions.--For purposes of this title--
            ``(1) the term `item of appropriation' means any numbered 
        section and any unnumbered paragraph of--
                    ``(A) any general or special appropriation bill; 
                and
                    ``(B) any bill or joint resolution making 
                supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations; 
                and
            ``(2) the term `tax expenditure provision' means a division 
        of a bill that amends current law or is free standing and that 
        is scored by the Joint Committee on Taxation as losing revenue 
        over the 5-year period after the provision takes effect.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE PERIOD.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall apply to bills and joint 
resolutions agreed to by the Congress during the 104th Congress.
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