[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 208 Referral Instructions Senate (RIS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 208

   To require that any proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 
  United States to require a balanced budget establish procedures to 
  ensure enforcement before the amendment is submitted to the States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 11 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

 Mr. Daschle (for himself and Mr. Exon) 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 that any proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 
  United States to require a balanced budget establish procedures to 
  ensure enforcement before the amendment is submitted to the States.

    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 ``Right to Know Act''.

SEC. 2. PROPOSAL OF AMENDMENT.

    No article proposing a balanced budget amendment to the 
Constitution shall be submitted to the States for ratification in the 
104th Congress until the adoption of a concurrent resolution containing 
the matter described in section 2 of this Act.

SEC. 3. CONTENT OF REQUIRED CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.

    (a) Contents.--The concurrent resolution referred to in section 1 
shall set forth a budget plan to achieve a balanced budget (that 
complies with the article of amendment proposed by that section) not 
later than the first fiscal year required by the article of amendment 
as follows:
            (1) a budget for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal 
        year 1996 and ending with that first fiscal year (required by 
        the article of amendment) containing--
                    (A) aggregate levels of new budget authority, 
                outlays, revenues, and the deficit or surplus;
                    (B) totals of new budget authority and outlays for 
                each major functional category;
                    (C) new budget authority and outlays, on an 
                account-by-account basis, for each account with actual 
                outlays or offsetting receipts of at least $100,000,000 
                in fiscal year 1994; and
                    (D) an allocation of Federal revenues among the 
                major sources of such revenues;
            (2) a detailed list and description of changes in Federal 
        law (including laws authorizing appropriations or direct 
        spending and tax laws) required to carry out the plan and the 
        effective date of each such change; and
            (3) reconciliation directives to the appropriate committees 
        of the House of Representatives and Senate instructing them to 
        submit legislative changes to the Committee on the Budget of 
        the House or Senate, as the case may be, to implement the plan 
        set forth in the concurrent resolution.
    (b) Reconciliation.--The directives required by subsection (a)(3) 
shall be deemed to be directives within the meaning of section 310(a) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Upon receiving all legislative 
submissions from committees under subsection (a)(3), each Committee on 
the Budget shall combine all such submissions (without substantive 
revision) into an omnibus reconciliation bill and report that bill to 
its House. The procedures set forth in section 310 shall govern the 
consideration of that reconciliation bill in the House of 
Representatives and the Senate.
    (c) CBO Scoring.--The budget plan described in subsection (a) shall 
be based upon Congressional Budget Office economic and technical 
assumptions and estimates of the spending and revenue effects of the 
legislative changes described in subsection (a)(2).
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