[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1588 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1588

   To exclude the social security trust funds, the Federal military 
 retiree trust fund, the highway trust funds, the medicare trust fund, 
 the civil service retirement trust fund, the unemployment trust fund, 
and the airports trust fund from the annual Federal budget baseline for 
               all purposes including budget enforcement.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 29, 1998

 Mr. Hollings introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, as modified 
 by the order of April 11, 1986, 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 exclude the social security trust funds, the Federal military 
 retiree trust fund, the highway trust funds, the medicare trust fund, 
 the civil service retirement trust fund, the unemployment trust fund, 
and the airports trust fund from the annual Federal budget baseline for 
               all purposes including budget enforcement.

    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 ``Deficit Integrity Act''.

SEC. 2. TRUST FUND PROTECTION.

    The receipts and disbursements of the social security trust funds, 
the Federal military retiree trust fund, the highway trust funds, the 
medicare trust fund, the civil service retirement trust fund, the 
unemployment trust fund, the airports trust fund, and any other Federal 
trust fund included in the gross Federal debt shall not be--
            (1) included in the Federal budget baseline for any fiscal 
        year; and
            (2) counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or 
        deficit or surplus for purposes of--
                    (A) offsetting any tax decrease; and
                    (B) offsetting any spending increase.
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