[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 163

   To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that the 
    allocations of budget authority and budget outlays made by the 
    Committee on Appropriations of each House be agreed to by joint 
resolution and to permit amendments that reduce appropriations to also 
 reduce the relevant allocation and the discretionary spending limits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 5, 1995

  Mr. Bradley 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 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that the 
    allocations of budget authority and budget outlays made by the 
    Committee on Appropriations of each House be agreed to by joint 
resolution and to permit amendments that reduce appropriations to also 
 reduce the relevant allocation and the discretionary spending limits.

    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 Reduction and Budget 
Control Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. JOINT RESOLUTION ALLOCATING APPROPRIATED SPENDING.

    (a) Committee on Appropriations Resolution.--Section 302(b) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Committee Suballocations.--
            ``(1) Committees on appropriations.--(A) As soon as 
        practical after a concurrent resolution on the budget is agreed 
        to, the Committee on Appropriations of each House shall, after 
        consulting with Committee on Appropriations of the other House, 
        report to its House an original joint resolution on 
        appropriations allocations (referred to in the paragraph as the 
        `joint resolution') that contains the following:
                    ``(i) A subdivision among its subcommittees of the 
                allocation of budget outlays and new budget authority 
                allocated to it in the joint explanatory statement 
                accompanying the conference report on such concurrent 
                resolution.
                    ``(ii) A subdivision of the amount with respect to 
                each such subcommittee between controllable amounts and 
                all other amounts.
        The joint resolution shall be placed on the calendar pending 
        disposition of such joint resolution in accordance with this 
        subsection.
            ``(B)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), the provisions 
        of section 305 for the consideration in the Senate of 
        concurrent resolutions on the budget and conference reports 
        thereon shall also apply to the consideration in the Senate of 
        joint resolutions reported under this paragraph and conference 
        reports thereon.
            ``(ii)(I) Debate in the Senate on any joint resolution 
        reported under this paragraph, and all amendments thereto and 
        debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be 
        limited to not more than 20 hours.
            ``(II) The Committee on Appropriations shall manage the 
        joint resolution.
            ``(C) The allocations of the Committees on Appropriations 
        shall not take effect until the joint resolution is enacted 
        into law.
            ``(2) Other committees.--As soon as practicable after a 
        concurrent resolution on the budget is agreed to every 
        committee of the House and Senate (other than the Committees on 
        Appropriations) to which an allocation was made in such joint 
        explanatory statement shall, after consulting with the 
        committee or committees of the other House to which all or part 
        of its allocation was made--
                    ``(A) subdivide such allocation among its 
                subcommittees or among programs over which it has 
                jurisdiction; and
                    ``(B) further subdivide the amount with respect to 
                each subcommittee or program between controllable 
                amounts and all other amounts.
        Each such committee shall promptly report to its House the 
        subdivisions made by it pursuant to this paragraph.''.
    (b) Point of Order.--Section 302(c) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 is amended by striking ``such committee makes the allocation or 
subdivisions required by'' and inserting ``such committee makes the 
allocation or subdivisions in accordance with''.
    (c) Alteration of Allocations.--Section 302(e) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) Alteration of Allocations.--
            ``(1) Any alteration of allocations made under paragraph 
        (1) of subsection (b) proposed by the Committee on 
        Appropriations of either House shall be subject to approval as 
        required by such paragraph.
            ``(2) At any time after a committee reports the allocations 
        required to be made under subsection (b)(2), such committee may 
        report to its House an alteration of such allocations. Any 
        alteration of such allocations must be consistent with any 
        actions already taken by its House on legislation within the 
        committee's jurisdiction.''.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATIONS BILL.

    Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by--
            (1) redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) Amendments to Appropriations Act Reducing Allocations.--
            ``(1) Floor amendments.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of this Act, an amendment to an appropriations bill 
        shall be in order if--
                    ``(A) such amendment reduces an amount of budget 
                authority provided in the bill and reduces the relevant 
                subcommittee allocation made pursuant to subsection 
                (b)(1) and the discretionary spending limits under 
                section 601(a)(2) for the fiscal year covered by the 
                bill; or
                    ``(B) such amendment reduces an amount of budget 
                authority provided in the bill and reduces the relevant 
                subcommittee allocation made pursuant to subsection 
                (b)(1) and the discretionary spending limits under 
                section 601(a)(2) for the fiscal year covered by the 
                bill and the 4 succeeding fiscal years.
            ``(2) Conference reports.--(A) It shall not be in order to 
        consider a conference report on an appropriations bill that 
        contains a provision reducing subcommittee allocations and 
        discretionary spending included in both the bill as passed by 
        the Senate and the House of Representatives if such provision 
        provides reductions in such allocations and spending that are 
        less than those provided in the bill as passed by the Senate or 
        the House of Representatives.
            ``(B) It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House 
        of Representatives to consider a conference report on an 
        appropriations bill that does not include a reduction in 
        subcommittee allocations and discretionary spending in 
        compliance with subparagraph (A) contained in the bill as 
        passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.''.

SEC. 4. SECTION 602(b) ALLOCATIONS.

    Section 602(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) Suballocations by appropriations committees.--The 
        Committee on Appropriations of each House shall make 
        allocations under subsection (a)(1)(A) or (a)(2) in accordance 
        with section 302(b)(1).''.
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