[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2230 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2230

 To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish a point of 
order that precludes raising revenues to enforce the bipartisan budget 
 agreement if there is a revenue shortfall in any of fiscal years 1998 
                             through 2002.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 1997

  Mr. Pitts introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish a point of 
order that precludes raising revenues to enforce the bipartisan budget 
 agreement if there is a revenue shortfall in any of fiscal years 1998 
                             through 2002.

    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 Relief Guarantee Act''.

SEC. 2. BIPARTISAN BUDGET AGREEMENT ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) In General.--Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

               ``bipartisan budget agreement enforcement

    ``Sec. 314. (a) It shall not be in order in either the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, 
or any conference report thereon, to raise revenues to meet a revenue 
shortfall for any of fiscal years 1998 through 2002 in order to achieve 
a balanced Federal budget by fiscal year 2002.
    ``(b) As used in subsection (a), the term `revenue shortfall' means 
the amount, if any, by which projected Federal revenues for any of 
fiscal years 1998 through 2002 as set forth in section 101(1)(A) of the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998 (House 
Concurrent Resolution 84; 105th Congress) exceed the actual revenues 
for such year.''.
    (b) 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 adding after the item relating to section 313 the 
following new item:

``Sec. 314. Bipartisan budget agreement enforcement.''.
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