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108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 90

      To extend certain budgetary enforcement to maintain fiscal 
                   accountability and responsibility.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 7, 2003

Mr. Gregg (for himself and Mr. Feingold) 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 extend certain budgetary enforcement to maintain fiscal 
                   accountability and responsibility.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO REQUIREMENT.

    (a) In General.--Section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 902) is amended--
            (1) in subsections (a) and (b)(1), by striking ``enacted 
        before October 1, 2002,'' and inserting ``enacted before 
        October 1, 2007''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting at the end thereof the 
        following:
            ``(3) Exception.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, there shall be no sequestration under this section for any 
        fiscal year in which a surplus exists (as measured in 
        conformance with section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 
        1990).''.
    (b) Enforcement.--The second sentence of section 275(b) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 
note) is amended by striking ``2006'' and inserting ``2007''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF BUDGET POINTS OF ORDER AND RULES IN THE SENATE.

    (a) Extension of Supermajority Enforcement.--Notwithstanding any 
provision of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, subsections (c)(2) 
and (d)(3) of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall 
remain in effect for purposes of Senate enforcement through October 1, 
2007.
    (b) Pay-As-You-Go Rule in the Senate.--
            (1) In general.--Section 207 of H. Con. Res. 68 (106th 
        Congress, 1st Session) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (b)(6), by inserting after 
                ``paragraph (5)(A)'' the following: ``, except that 
                direct spending or revenue effects resulting in net 
                deficit reduction enacted pursuant to reconciliation 
                instructions since the beginning of that same calendar 
                year shall not be available''; and
                    (B) in subsection (g), by striking ``April 15, 
                2003'' and inserting ``October 1, 2007''.
            (2) Application to Appropriations.--For the purposes of 
        enforcing this section, notwithstanding rule 3 of the Budget 
        Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory 
        statement of the committee of conference accompanying 
        Conference Report 105-217, during the consideration of any 
        appropriations Act, provisions of an amendment (other than an 
        amendment reported by the Committee on Appropriations including 
        routine and ongoing direct spending or receipts), a motion, or 
        a conference report thereon (only to the extent that such 
        provision was not committed to conference), that would have 
        been estimated as changing direct spending or receipts under 
        section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
        Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) 
        were they included in an Act other than an appropriations Act 
        shall be treated as direct spending or receipts legislation, as 
        appropriate, under section 207 of H. Con. Res. 68 (106th 
        Congress, 1st Session) as amended by this section.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON EXTENSION OF STATUTORY DISCRETIONARY 
              SPENDING CAPS.

    It is the sense of the Senate that Congress and the President 
should negotiate and agree on the appropriate discretionary spending 
levels and extend the statutory discretionary spending caps for 2003 
and beyond as early as possible during the 108th Congress in a manner 
consistent with fiscal disciplines and accountability.
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