1.Short title: table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Stop Over Spending Act of 2007
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title: table of contents.
Sec. 2. Purposes.
Sec. 3. Severability.
TITLE I—Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Enhanced rescission authority.
TITLE II—DEFICIT REDUCTION
Subtitle A—Definitions, Administration, and Sequestration
Sec. 201. Definitions.
Sec. 202. Administration, reconciliation, and effect of sequestration.
Sec. 203. GAO compliance report.
Subtitle B—Discretionary Spending Limits
Sec. 211. Discretionary Sequestration Reports.
Sec. 212. Limits.
Subtitle C—Maximum Deficit Amount Limitation
Sec. 221. Maximum deficit amount.
Sec. 222. Reporting of excess deficits.
Sec. 223. Congressional response to OMB and CBO Reconciliation Report.
Sec. 224. Revised estimates and final maximum deficit amount sequestration reports.
Sec. 225. Maximum deficit amount-presidential order.
Sec. 226. Congressional response to low growth.
Sec. 227. Exemptions from sequestration.
Sec. 228. Submission of President’s budget; maximum deficit amount may not be exceeded.
TITLE III—BIENNIAL BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 301. Revision of timetable.
Sec. 302. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
Sec. 303. Amendments to title 31, United States Code.
Sec. 304. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriations Acts.
Sec. 305. Multiyear authorizations.
Sec. 306. Government plans on a biennial basis.
Sec. 307. Biennial appropriation bills.
Sec. 308. Report on changes in law.
Sec. 309. Effective date.
TITLE IV—COMMISSIONS
Subtitle A—National Commission on Entitlement Solvency
Sec. 401. Definitions.
Sec. 402. Establishment of Commission.
Sec. 403. Expedited consideration of Commission recommendations.
Subtitle B—Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies
Sec. 411. Definitions.
Sec. 412. Establishment of Commission.
Sec. 413. Duties of the Commission.
Sec. 414. Powers of the Commission.
Sec. 415. Commission personnel matters.
Sec. 416. Expedited Consideration of reform proposals.
Sec. 417. Termination of the Commission.
Sec. 418. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE V—BUDGET PROCESS REFORMS
Sec. 501. Definitions.
Sec. 502. Annual Concurrent Resolution on the Budget.
Sec. 503. Committee allocations.
Sec. 504. Budget resolution adoption.
Sec. 505. Procedure in the Senate for budget resolutions.
Sec. 506. Budget projections.
Sec. 507. Reconciliation.
Sec. 508. Budgeting levels.
Sec. 509. Determinations and points of order.
Sec. 510. Extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation.
Sec. 511. Adjustments.
Sec. 512. Direct spending limitation.
Sec. 513. Point of order against legislation that raises income tax rates.
Sec. 514. Circuit breaker to protect Social Security.
Sec. 515. Limitation on long-term spending proposals.
Sec. 516. Avoiding paygo point of order.
Sec. 517. Pay-as-you-go point of order in the Senate.
Sec. 518. Appropriations requests of the President.
Sec. 519. Budget baseline.
2.The purposes of this Act are to—
(1)enable the President and Congress to rescind wasteful spending in an expedited manner;
(2)effectively balance the budget by 2012;
(3)reinstate statutory discretionary caps;
(4)reduce the practice of using spending designated as an emergency
as a mechanism to circumvent spending caps;
(5)establish targets for the deficit as its share of the United States economy, specifically as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product;
(6)require automatic spending reduction reconciliation directives to achieve annual deficit targets;
(7)put in place automatic sequester procedures to reduce discretionary and mandatory spending when either statutory caps have been exceeded or deficit targets have not been met;
(8)require Congress to act upon legislation to ensure the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare Programs;
(9)require Congress to act upon legislation to identify and eliminate waste and duplication in Federal programs;
(10)establish biennial budgeting;
(11)strengthen and improve the Congressional budget resolution and reconciliation process; and
(12)provide short-term and long-term solutions to ensure the financial security of our Nation so that our children and grandchildren will not be saddled with insurmountable debt.
3.If any provision of this Act, an amendment made by this Act, or the application of such provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, the amendments made by this Act, and the application of the provisions of such to any person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.
<enum>I</enum><header>Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007</header>
<section id="ID493046E584DF4FE5926E705A5DF9D184"><enum>101.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote>Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007</quote>.</text> </section>
<section id="ID195F388926574BB68A2D6262B3F2F38D"><enum>102.</enum><header>Enhanced rescission authority</header>
<subsection id="idF417377A6F93493F929115E0F9FFB4F9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by striking part C and inserting the following:</text>
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<part id="ID815A10D7A26E43528364C4A7BCFC21FD"><enum>C</enum><header>Enhanced rescission authority</header>
<section id="ID561E54BFA9D24AD2A2081E4309A0B5BB"><enum>1021.</enum><header>Expedited Consideration of certain proposed rescissions</header>
<subsection id="id66071A262D4149D3B59B8A0B81C420FD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Proposed Rescissions</header><text>The President may send a special message, at the time and in the manner provided in subsection (b), that proposes to rescind dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of direct spending, and targeted tax benefits.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDB8E3BC62A95C450084D403133BDA7504"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Transmittal of Special Message</header>
<paragraph id="ID906EF5A426974947A44AC1837A7C6E64"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Special message</header>
<subparagraph id="ID37EF780279954B59B055D8970BED001E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header>
<clause id="ID770B59F2BDDD4F6284F9B2BE298943E6"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Four messages</header><text>The President may transmit to Congress not to exceed 4 special messages per calendar year, proposing to rescind dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of direct spending, and targeted tax benefits.</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDCC949B5F66E54A8CAE0CA950BA10BA5F"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Timing</header><text>Subject to clause (iii), special messages may be transmitted under clause (i)—</text>
<subclause id="IDD2AC805356F94154B0CA0C5ED28FE1FE"><enum>(I)</enum><text>with the President’s budget submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, for any proposed rescission enacted after the date the President submitted the preceding budget; and</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="ID9BA063825C3B44BDB8A55B5A5817ECA1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>3 other times as determined by the President, except that the message shall be submitted within the 30 calendar day period (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) commencing on the day after the date of enactment of any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, item of direct spending, or targeted tax benefit the President proposes to rescind pursuant to this section.</text> </subclause></clause>
<clause id="ID21E8ABE250C24734967D288F325D8987"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Limitations</header>
<subclause id="IDAD036A1D219141BAAE3F1455D67D9AB5"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Resubmittal rejected</header><text>If Congress rejects a bill introduced under this part or if an item is stricken under subsection (d)(2) from a bill that is enacted into law, the President may not resubmit that item or any of the dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of direct spending, or targeted tax benefits in that bill under this part, or part B with respect to dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="IDC324AC4407D84FB0B10727A247AD97FB"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Resubmittal after sine die</header><text>If Congress does not complete action on a bill introduced under this part because Congress adjourns sine die, the President may resubmit some or all of the dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of direct spending, and targeted tax benefits in that bill in not more than 1 subsequent special message under this part, or part B with respect to dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID81BF7EDEAF684B0BAD10DEAAD4393861"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents of special message</header><text>Each special message shall specify, with respect to the dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, item of direct spending, or targeted tax benefit proposed to be rescinded—</text>
<clause id="IDF076C6E8C37C4FC5AE40A5746AA7D3FB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the dollar amount of discretionary budget authority available and proposed for rescission from accounts, departments, or establishments of the Government and the dollar amount of the reduction in outlays that would result from the enactment of such rescission of discretionary budget authority for the time periods set forth in clause (iii);</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID1C343B658B114BA58BF6B70748D5760A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the specific items of direct spending and targeted tax benefits proposed for rescission and the dollar amounts of the reductions in budget authority and outlays or increases in receipts that would result from enactment of such rescission for the time periods set forth in clause (iii);</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDE13F3BDEB06D4AD788108D83E1A87124"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the budgetary effects of proposals for rescission, estimated as of the date the President submits the special message, relative to the most recent levels calculated consistent with the methodology described in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and included with a budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for the time periods of—</text>
<subclause id="ID1937D87DBE774A6F99C18610647BAE1A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the fiscal year in which the proposal is submitted; and</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="ID3366B95BEDEB4C16B20B6A62812DF91E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>each of the 10 following fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the proposal is submitted;</text> </subclause></clause>
<clause id="IDCBB227DBCBCB4EDA870727E291EB199E"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>any account, department, or establishment of the Government to which such dollar amount of discretionary budget authority or item of direct spending is available for obligation, and the specific project or governmental functions involved;</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID119BAACD372F40408BA017305C109090"><enum>(v)</enum><text>the reasons why such dollar amount of discretionary budget authority or item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit should be rescinded;</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID670F0A266C39429781B0AF9B1D10CBDD"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>the estimated fiscal and economic impacts, of the proposed rescission;</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDC15FFC61DEA84FB1B6E87EE1921F70E2"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>to the maximum extent practicable, all facts, circumstances, and considerations relating to or bearing upon the proposed rescission and the decision to effect the proposed rescission, and the estimated effect of the proposed rescission upon the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget authority or items of direct spending or targeted tax benefits are provided; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID2E1FF4CE67CF43A4AA2F8DBE1B8AFC62"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>a draft bill that, if enacted, would rescind the budget authority, items of direct spending and targeted tax benefits proposed to be rescinded in that special message.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9B8CE02FDFC34810A487E7217AEC26F0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Analysis by congressional budget office and joint committee on taxation</header>
<subparagraph id="IDA97DFAD4566046309C0C1080AE177A01"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Upon the receipt of a special message under this part proposing to rescind dollar amounts of discretionary budget authority, items of direct spending, and targeted tax benefits—</text>
<clause id="ID1B2D47B674AE404EBDB0EDB186CC84CB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare an estimate of the savings in budget authority or outlays resulting from such proposed rescission and shall include in its estimate, an analysis prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation related to targeted tax benefits; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID68BB63E18C8E4E16B9B51CA67C21B5C3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Director of the Joint Committee on Taxation shall prepare an estimate and forward such estimate to the Congressional Budget Office, of the savings from repeal of targeted tax benefits.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID5CBCE4AC8C0B4A34AE720BA5DDACE4AE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Methodology</header><text>The estimates required by subparagraph (A) shall be made relative to the most recent levels calculated consistent with the methodology used to calculate a baseline under section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985 and included with a budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and transmitted to the chairmen of the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and Senate.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID85DB83B66B7C49A386FF1EAF794D5AB2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Enactment of rescission bill</header>
<subparagraph id="ID0A4E41B9841D49E886D574CA1FC80997"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Deficit reduction</header><text>Amounts of budget authority or items of direct spending or targeted tax benefit that are rescinded pursuant to enactment of a bill as provided under this part shall be dedicated only to deficit reduction and shall not be used as an offset for other spending increases or revenue reductions.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDB03EB5D9722A46FA98ADF776BD9B75C6"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Adjustment of budget targets</header><text>Not later than 5 days after the date of enactment of a rescission bill as provided under this part, the chairs of the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall revise spending and revenue levels under section 311(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and adjust the committee allocations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or any other adjustments as may be appropriate to reflect the rescission. The adjustments shall reflect the budgetary effects of such rescissions as estimated by the President pursuant to paragraph (1)(B)(iii). The appropriate committees shall report revised allocations pursuant to section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the revised allocations and aggregates shall be considered to have been made under a concurrent resolution on the budget agreed to under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and shall be enforced under the procedures of that Act.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID208BF150A3E64075B88205B86A59D395"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Adjustments to caps</header><text>After enactment of a rescission bill as provided under this part, the President shall revise applicable limits under the Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007, as appropriate.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDF6EBA4221DDC4F1BB63C7EC90BB9F160"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Procedures for Expedited Consideration</header>
<paragraph id="ID45426F10048A41E7A29E9EE1B6E74159"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header>
<subparagraph id="IDB82F5318205D41D7B21DFF82CFD093F6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Introduction</header><text>Before the close of the second day of session of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, after the date of receipt of a special message transmitted to Congress under subsection (b), the majority leader of each House, for himself, or minority leader of each House, for himself, or a Member of that House designated by that majority leader or minority leader shall introduce (by request) the President’s draft bill to rescind the amounts of budget authority or items of direct spending or targeted tax benefits, as specified in the special message and the President’s draft bill. If the bill is not introduced as provided in the preceding sentence in either House, then, on the third day of session of that House after the date of receipt of that special message, any Member of that House may introduce the bill.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID146149D515CD46859C2D9BD2CDA58E0B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Referral and reporting</header>
<clause id="ID9F697DE3AFC54A5BAB37FFC192A49D6F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>One committee</header><text>The bill shall be referred by the presiding officer to the appropriate committee. The committee shall report the bill without any revision and with a favorable, an unfavorable, or without recommendation, not later than the fifth day of session of that House after the date of introduction of the bill in that House. If the committee fails to report the bill within that period, the committee shall be automatically discharged from consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDCFF7FE04E76A4AAA8CC149FFF843537D"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Multiple committees</header>
<subclause id="IDE163F8A369154527AE53626B0E64EE0B"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Referrals</header><text>If a bill contains provisions in the jurisdiction of more than 1 committee, the bill shall be jointly referred to the committees of jurisdiction and the Committee on the Budget.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="ID6F2F196454244DF99620430775E7A16C"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Views of committee</header><text>Any committee, other than the Committee on the Budget, to which a bill is referred under this clause may submit a favorable, an unfavorable recommendation, without recommendation with respect to the bill to the Committee on the Budget prior to the reporting or discharge of the bill.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="ID4422508E0E66411FAFF343B5CFACE9A9"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>The Committee on the Budget shall report the bill not later than the fifth day of session of that House after the date of introduction of the bill in that House, without any revision and with a favorable or unfavorable recommendation, or with no recommendation, together with the recommendations of any committee to which the bill has been referred.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="ID565A061213A94E68964B5206BD2F4762"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>Discharge</header><text>If the Committee on the Budget fails to report the bill within that period, the committee shall be automatically discharged from consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID9996C09A742B4C4E8C9F02CBFE0B3FD5"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Final passage</header><text>A vote on final passage of the bill shall be taken in the Senate and the House of Representatives on or before the close of the 10th day of session of that House after the date of the introduction of the bill in that House. If the bill is passed, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall cause the bill to be transmitted to the Senate before the close of the next day of session of the House.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID340A1E923B4D4F51B2D2F08595E5B976"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consideration in the house of representatives</header>
<subparagraph id="ID33217B2CE83D4EC884AF8C45F932210D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Motion to proceed to consideration</header><text>A motion in the House of Representatives to proceed to the consideration of a bill under this subsection shall be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDDA0C8DD098144425ACD019087C8751FA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limits on debate</header><text>Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill under this subsection shall not exceed 4 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the bill. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. It shall not be in order to move to recommit a bill under this subsection or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill is agreed to or disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID6CDA95C911254DAC8998A26601A6107D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>Appeals from decisions of the chair relating to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the procedure relating to a bill under this part shall be decided without debate.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID38AFA23271174F93BDF3611F89A4C4AE"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Application of house rules</header><text>Except to the extent specifically provided in this part, consideration of a bill under this part shall be governed by the Rules of the House of Representatives. It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider any bill introduced pursuant to the provisions of this part under a suspension of the rules or under a special rule.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID600B5B333F8B4787A55FE362B8990FC7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Consideration in the senate</header>
<subparagraph id="ID7160C3A98525470592D1A50EC6655A22"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Motion to proceed to consideration</header><text>A motion to proceed to the consideration of a bill under this subsection in the Senate shall not be debatable. A motion to proceed to consideration of the bill may be made even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to. It shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion to proceed is agreed to or disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDDA61F81FC32C40FD98307B5D5051DFB1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limits on debate</header><text>Debate in the Senate on a bill under this subsection, and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall not exceed a total of 10 hours, equally divided and controlled in the usual form.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID8447FCC06E024AD8AF2AB20E8D719799"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Debatable motions and appeals</header><text>Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in connection with a bill under this subsection shall be limited to not more than 1 hour from the time allotted for debate, to be equally divided and controlled in the usual form.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBF6B187C5479423DBFDFF1613BC29403"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Motion to limit debate</header><text>A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a bill under this subsection is not debatable.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID215C7E9AAA2646A6A7D93DF6C6F6E6B1"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Motion to recommit</header><text>A motion to recommit a bill under this subsection is not in order.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0B583314D2A3441F9E8BC1B77AE22BED"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Consideration of the house bill</header>
<clause id="IDC113885B8F994584989A695AE8808C5F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the Senate has received the House companion bill to the bill introduced in the Senate prior to the vote required under paragraph (1)(C), then the Senate shall consider, and the vote under paragraph (1)(C) shall occur on, the House companion bill.</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID5D61E70292724EAE89E132C47E72EDB5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Procedure after vote on senate bill</header><text>If the Senate votes, pursuant to paragraph (1)(C), on the bill introduced in the Senate, the Senate bill shall be held pending receipt of the House message on the bill. Upon receipt of the House companion bill, the House bill shall be deemed to be considered, read for the third time, and the vote on passage of the Senate bill shall be considered to be the vote on the bill received from the House.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="id586CDB603ED24E7B9F2C34C3DFA2536F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Conference</header>
<subparagraph id="idA5684CD0E0D44FBBAF528377BD3E9F1B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Proceeding to conference</header><text>If, after a bill is agreed to in the Senate or House of Representatives, the bill has been amended, the bill shall be deemed to be at a stage of disagreement and motions to proceed to conference are deemed to be agreed to. There shall be no motions to instruct. The Senate and the House of Representatives shall appoint conferees not later than 1 day of session after the vote of the second House under paragraph (1)(C). Debate on any debatable motion in relation to the conference report shall be limited to 1 hour to be equally divided between and controlled by the mover and manager of a bill, or their designees.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idF1E09F6088284CB79405A1A4B3C7E01C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Period of consideration</header><text>A conference report on a bill considered under this section shall be reported out not later than 3 days of session after the vote of the second House under paragraph (1)(C). If the 2 Houses are unable to agree in conference, the committee on conference shall report out the text of the President's original bill.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idFBB9B19D2DA24B13BD40A28C24709068"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Scope of conference</header><text>The matter committed to conference for purposes of scope of conference shall be limited to the matter stricken from the text of the bills passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id3EE2844D2D564C4698AC05F2BD9AAA0B"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Procedure</header><text>Debate on a conference report on any bill considered under this section shall be limited to 2 hours equally divided between the manager of the conference report and the minority leader, or his designee.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID27ff55eb58c044ff8d6ba4959af86608"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Final passage</header><text>A vote on final passage of the conference report shall be taken in the Senate and the House of Representatives on or before the close of the second day of session of that House after the date the conference report is submitted in that House. If the conference report is passed, the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall cause the conference report to be transmitted to the other House before the close of the next day of session of that House.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idDFD052078C88412C919D567F07819F23"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Action of second house</header>
<clause id="idAE7A98E41C294D24AEC9980CD28F5BC7"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the Senate has received from the House, the conference report in relation to the special message from the President, prior to the vote required under subparagraph (E), then the Senate shall consider, and the vote under subparagraph (E) shall occur on the House conference report.</text> </clause>
<clause id="idA329B13588CA4DA2932E077ACFDA91F8"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Procedure after vote on senate conference report</header><text>If the Senate votes, pursuant to subparagraph (E), on the conference report in relation to the special message from the President, then immediately following that vote, or upon receipt of the House conference report, the House conference report shall be deemed to be considered, read the third time, and the vote on passage of the Senate conference report shall be considered to be the vote on the conference report received from the House.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID277de9ea12df475bab2af55140760159"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Amendments and divisions prohibited</header>
<paragraph id="id267299BE6BDF40339D516C1AC6B538A7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), no amendment to a bill considered under this section shall be in order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id2CA43A522C4448638AFDE6B94E9A2311"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Motion to strike</header>
<subparagraph id="id08B3ECB6DBF846199C52A99A351892A4"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Senate</header><text>During consideration of a bill in the Senate, any Member of the Senate may move to strike any proposed rescission of a dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, an item of direct spending, or a targeted tax benefit if supported by 11 other Members.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id794E5B42FFC7471AA5078C656C33B12D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>House</header><text>During consideration of a bill in the House of Representatives, any Member of the House of Representatives may move to strike any proposed rescission of a dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, an item of direct spending, or a targeted tax benefit if supported by 49 other Members.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="id6B3E6340DD4A4F808FFE9650FF653066"><enum>(3)</enum><header>No division</header><text>It shall not be in order to demand a division of any motions to strike in the Senate, or the division of the question in the House of Representatives (or in a Committee of the Whole).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="idA79067419AF9420CB45310170EDC9CE8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>No suspension</header><text>No motion to suspend the application of this subsection shall be in order in the Senate or in the House of Representatives, nor shall it be in order in the House of Representatives to suspend the application of this subsection by unanimous consent.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDF2140180F6914DDABC5D31B7A0AAB312"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Temporary Presidential Authority To Withhold</header>
<paragraph id="IDF85E975AE5DA4F2790B7DBD81EAAE8A4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Availability</header><text>The President may not withhold any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority until the President transmits and Congress receives a special message pursuant to subsection (b). Upon receipt by Congress of a special message pursuant to subsection (b), the President may direct that any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority proposed to be rescinded in that special message shall be withheld from obligation for a period not to exceed 45 calendar days from the date of receipt by Congress.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID447D77B0581749D8BCA467CD9B7B90E0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Early availability</header><text>The President may make any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority withheld from obligation pursuant to paragraph (1) available at an earlier time if the President determines that continued withholding would not further the purposes of this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID3B592EB1F506435A88D02B49612D9A44"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Temporary Presidential Authority To Suspend</header>
<paragraph id="ID62C42B7AC3E44249BC0B030A4F75AA4C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Suspend</header>
<subparagraph id="ID450584A5EF90431DB53701AE7E299BF5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President may not suspend the execution of any item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit until the President transmits and Congress receives a special message pursuant to subsection (b). Upon receipt by Congress of a special message, the President may suspend the execution of any item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit proposed to be rescinded in that message for a period not to exceed 45 calendar days from the date of receipt by Congress.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDC0165FC147C3421380C77E4BE558B429"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limitation on 45-day period</header><text>The 45-day period described in subparagraph (A) shall be reduced by the number of days contained in the period beginning on the effective date of the item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit; and ending on the date that is the later of—</text>
<clause id="ID6FBC6273F03D4D63AFF99EFA0A930D9D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the effective date of the item of direct spending or targeted benefit; or</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDC1F5018507D04DF2A17E0E4ED5E35385"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date that Congress receives the special message.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID6E231606E47049AA895E2ED8A48C2BF3"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Clarification</header><text>Notwithstanding subparagraph (B), in the case of an item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit with an effective date within 45 days after the date of enactment, the beginning date of the period calculated under subparagraph (B) shall be the date that is 45 days after the date of enactment and the ending date shall be the date that is the later of—</text>
<clause id="IDA70F9AC7D7254F79A7450A3D90664B41"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date that is 45 days after enactment; or</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID3128F6D48B5B4168B23652F4A822ABF0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date that Congress receives the special message.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1DA67C03EEE8464C98E115330CAC548A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Early availability</header><text>The President may terminate the suspension of any item of direct spending or targeted tax benefit suspended pursuant to paragraph (1) at an earlier time if the President determines that continuation of the suspension would not further the purposes of this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDC0FB09A602AB44BD99B4A6EAF5396CD5"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this part:</text>
<paragraph id="IDCBCF5D3D580142959ED13F9074E63D28"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriation law</header><text>The term <term>appropriation law</term> means any general or special appropriation Act, and any Act or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD22FC75B406A41A8A65A958445EB73E3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Calendar day</header><text>The term <term>calendar day</term> means a standard 24-hour period beginning at midnight.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDDA9321F444A4750802C755FF4610832"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Days of session</header><text>The term <term>days of session</term> means only those days on which both Houses of Congress are in session.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID94016A4D1B1B415D92E0C80217AB8012"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Dollar amount of discretionary budget authority</header><text>The term <term>dollar amount of discretionary budget authority</term> means the dollar amount of budget authority and obligation limitations—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID008D2C270BBB4068A4BB821281DFE215"><enum>(A)</enum><text>specified in an appropriation law, or the dollar amount of budget authority required to be allocated by a specific proviso in an appropriation law for which a specific dollar figure was not included;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID504FF5E854054C4789ECAC21E9DFC566"><enum>(B)</enum><text>represented separately in any table, chart, or explanatory text included in the statement of managers or the governing committee report accompanying such law;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0221121299AB451E8A576E3E89ACA3CF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>required to be allocated for a specific program, project, or activity in a law (other than an appropriation law) that mandates obligations from or within accounts, programs, projects, or activities for which budget authority or an obligation limitation is provided in an appropriation law;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7500A16FC8C34E60A026A32963736053"><enum>(D)</enum><text>represented by the product of the estimated procurement cost and the total quantity of items specified in an appropriation law or included in the statement of managers or the governing committee report accompanying such law; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDD5F7E71828F741EB893761964417E9B0"><enum>(E)</enum><text>represented by the product of the estimated procurement cost and the total quantity of items required to be provided in a law (other than an appropriation law) that mandates obligations from accounts, programs, projects, or activities for which dollar amount of discretionary budget authority or an obligation limitation is provided in an appropriation law.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID86AA48BCFA584779AF7C117A914A1FEE"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Rescind or rescission</header><text>The term <term>rescind</term> or <term>rescission</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID743AABA2E81E443AAFB9BA30F6B54796"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of a dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, to reduce or repeal a provision of law to prevent that budget authority or obligation limitation from having legal force or effect; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0FAE7E36AAF64D31A62F2F4C1F92C4DD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of direct spending or targeted tax benefit, to repeal a provision of law in order to prevent the specific legal obligation of the United States from having legal force or effect.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDFDE510F8DF5148879B1D81EA796E0D90"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Direct spending</header><text>The term <term>direct spending</term> means budget authority provided by law (other than an appropriation law), mandatory spending provided in appropriation Acts, and entitlement authority.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC228B3FDA2524ABC851C7117161B52F5"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Item of direct spending</header><text>The term <term>item of direct spending</term> means any specific provision of law enacted after the effective date of the Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007 that is estimated to result in an increase in budget authority or outlays for direct spending relative to the most recent levels calculated consistent with the methodology described in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and included with a budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, and, with respect to estimates made after that budget submission that are not included with it, estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions underlying the most recently submitted President’s budget.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF5F4DFCF53854C458D0E4252FF5D0053"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Suspend the execution</header><text>The term <term>suspend the execution</term> means, with respect to an item of direct spending or a targeted tax benefit, to stop the carrying into effect of the specific provision of law that provides such benefit.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id49535860AFF248AFABE7683CE88B62C3"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Targeted tax benefit</header><text>The term <term>targeted tax benefit</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="idE09EE8AB2FE341F9948A1A93B5CC41C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any revenue provision that has the practical effect of providing more favorable tax treatment to a particular taxpayer or limited group of taxpayers when compared with other similarly situated taxpayers; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id8F760205EC65437A9D192B9926D6A1F3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any Federal tax provision which provides 1 beneficiary temporary or permanent transition relief from a change to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></part><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDFA3E054F0E2345DBB6B6816FF63E8853"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exercise of Rulemaking Powers</header><text>Section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDF78A3562239340FBB05EC6D8EF029C46"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>and 1017</quote> and inserting <quote>1017, and 1021</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDECF12342B23C4927ABE4194DD2652F3F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by striking <quote>section 1017</quote> and inserting <quote>sections 1017 and 1021</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID54DD7C950D364E41BAF1D9CABDD1D941"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical Amendments</header>
<paragraph id="IDFAC40306A7E744EFAD46D7E389FEA66A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Short title</header><text>Section 1(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4ED7C15951424B1D8DDFA6C074066F31"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>Parts A and B</quote> before <quote>title X</quote> and inserting <quote>Parts A, B, and C</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0FCFDD30C1A846A89349EE534321FC5A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking the last sentence and inserting at the end the following new sentence: <quote>Part C of title X also may be cited as the <quote>Second Look at Wasteful Spending Act of 2007</quote>.</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA7C6B7C27FA449FABADBBA7623A64F16"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Table of contents</header><text>The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by deleting the contents for part C of title X and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="ID391807E513784F0D975552DD31BF4658" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="part">Part C—Enhanced rescission authority</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 1021. Expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDE36D2803F8A94DF2B7F8D095E80B4883"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Severability</header><text>If any provision of this title or the amendments made by it is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and the amendments made by it shall not be affected by the holding.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDE5260637EA864C8B95D840A09D1A3F67"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective Date and Expiration</header>
<paragraph id="ID979D1FEA885449E2ACB3C42212B9582D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this title shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID255815A15DA94D148AA5ED7E43E1F0C7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>take effect on the date of enactment of this title; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDC0EDEB3FA6C9484789C3E41FE57D529F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>apply to any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, item of direct spending, or targeted tax benefit provided in an Act enacted on or after the date of enactment of this title.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67413B4FB10A47D9BEEF00E22D7DAAC0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expiration</header><text>The amendments made by this title shall expire on December 31, 2010.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<enum>II</enum><header>Deficit reduction</header>
<subtitle id="ID04B3E15A31E24758B89A4AC8C6456739"><enum>A</enum><header>Definitions, Administration, and Sequestration</header>
<section id="ID15EEC9801C9247F9A7BA77C4E3D16578"><enum>201.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph id="ID9DB3B6662D7E4DE78BC757F30EAAC9F6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Account</header><text>The term <term>account</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDA90952E47CF044588874F80384FB9155"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for discretionary budget authority, an item for which appropriations are made in any appropriation Act; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDCF27FF94865645D099822F0FC964ACC7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for items not provided for in appropriation Acts, direct spending and outlays therefrom identified in the program and finance schedules contained in the appendix to the Budget of the United States for the current year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4CE731600B6A4765B28894251B774F63"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Breach</header><text>The term <term>breach</term> means, for any fiscal year, the amount by which discretionary budget authority enacted for that year exceeds the spending limit for budget authority for that year.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA3C9B9AB016546328DA75A1122904932"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Budget authority; new budget authority; and outlays</header><text>The terms <term>budget authority</term>, <term>new budget authority</term>, and <term>outlays</term> have the meanings given to such terms in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID8C9930D8B50C4240B1457B3FBD5A7092"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Budget year</header><text>The term <term>budget year</term> means, with respect to a session of Congress, the fiscal year of the Government that starts on October 1 of the calendar year in which that session begins.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3957BB4FCAC34F7BB85EA794B556B73D"><enum>(5)</enum><header>CBO</header><text>The term <term>CBO</term> means the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1FEC903B7BD244E5A7045ACF69391021"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Current</header><text>The term <term>current</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID73A5418886E04B91829803D7AACE3957"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to the Office of Management and Budget estimates included with a budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, the estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions underlying that budget;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDC3932F0F8C4C4CD7B2D9E76E9DB76A9E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to estimates made after that budget submission that are not included with it, the estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions underlying the most recently submitted President’s budget; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID74062F99430849959AE0301CA4B1F7DC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to the Congressional Budget Office, estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions as required by section 202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0E908DE2661340E7877EE7299D48CC7F"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Current year</header><text>The term <term>current year</term> means, with respect to a budget year, the fiscal year that immediately precedes that budget year.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2A89872388854ACFB3AE04C0FB90824D"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Deficit</header><text>The term <term>deficit</term> means, with respect to any fiscal year, the amount by which total budget outlays for such fiscal year exceed total governmental receipts for such fiscal year. In calculating the deficit for purposes of comparison with the maximum deficit amount under section 221 and in calculating the excess deficit for purposes of subtitle C (notwithstanding section 710(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (42 U.S.C. 911)) for any fiscal year, the receipts of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for such fiscal year and the taxes payable under sections 1401(a), 3101(a), and 3111(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 1401, 3101, 3111) during such fiscal year shall be included in total revenues for such fiscal year, and the disbursements of each such Trust Fund for such fiscal year shall be included in total budget outlays for such fiscal year. Notwithstanding any other provision of law except to the extent provided by section 710(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (42 U.S.C. 911) the receipts, revenues, disbursements, budget authority, and outlays of each off-budget Federal entity for a fiscal year shall be included in total budget authority, total budget outlays, and total revenues and the amounts of budget authority and outlays set forth for each major functional category, for such fiscal year.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDcbe5cf3427eb40048a0ac17b2547a5b0"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Direct spending and mandatory spending</header><text>The terms <term>direct spending</term> and <term>mandatory spending</term> shall have the meaning given such terms in section 3(3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4d90a36770d7421eaf55fb53525fa7a3"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Discretionary appropriations and discretionary budget authority</header><text>The terms <term>discretionary appropriations</term> and <term>discretionary budget authority</term> shall have the meaning given such terms in section 3(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID5A3290FE25EF41CCBA2701BF02EAECFF"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Discretionary spending limit</header><text>The term <term>discretionary spending limit</term> shall mean the amounts specified in section 212.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID16037D8D3F3B4C11B7D81C845273AE8B"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Excess deficit amount</header><text>The term <term>excess deficit amount</term>, with respect to any fiscal year, means the amount of the deficit reduced by the estimated reductions of outlays resulting from any sequestration in subtitle C, that exceeds the maximum deficit amount.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDBD228A59703E4808A610554885BB9827"><enum>(13)</enum><header>OMB</header><text>The term <term>OMB</term> means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9343BCD761C74FC8BF12A0C6D5CF72F2"><enum>(14)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><text>The term <term>sequestration</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1A1960EC722A4FAAB050BD6A0E27878A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to discretionary budget authority, means the cancellation or reduction of budget authority (except budget authority to fund mandatory programs) provided in appropriation Acts; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDB7F73B9D46234ADF9C8395DA85D34904"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to the excess deficit amount, means the amount canceled or reduced from direct spending and outlays flowing therefrom.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="ID0C844024AA1D4E90889D6B24CC2E11D7"><enum>202.</enum><header>Administration, reconciliation, and effect of sequestration</header>
<subsection id="ID090613214292494A9386EF0AA16EFB4D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Timetable</header><text>The timetable with respect to this title is as follows:</text>
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<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">5 days before the President's budget submission</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">CBO Discretionary Sequestration and Maximum Deficit Amount Preview Report</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">The President's budget submission</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">OMB Discretionary Sequestration and Maximum Deficit Amount Preview Report</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">August 15</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">CBO Discretionary Sequestration and Maximum Deficit Amount Reconciliation Report</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">August 20</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">OMB Discretionary Sequestration and Maximum Deficit Amount Reconciliation Report</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">September 15</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">Budget Committee Reconciliation Directives</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">20 days after Budget Committee Action</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">Committees Respond to Reconciliation Directives</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">10 days after end of session</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">CBO Final Discretionary Sequestration and Maximum Deficit Amount Sequestration Report</entry></row>
<row><entry rowsep="0" align="left" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column1">15 days after end of session</entry><entry rowsep="0" align="left" leader-modify="clr-ldr" colname="column2">OMB Final Discretionary Sequestration and Maximum Deficit Amount Sequestration Report/Presidential Sequestration Order</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID3BAB58D1C64D4B49BBE8E70DAF2C2A6B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Presidential Order</header>
<paragraph id="IDE5A6B67E22D243B88F5E20690A1A732E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>On the date specified in subsection (a), if in its Final Sequestration Report, OMB estimates that any sequestration is required, the President shall issue an order fully implementing without change all sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set forth in that report. This order shall be effective on issuance.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4F20D042D32F4176A4DE194EF84F36D5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Special rule</header><text>If the date specified for the submission of a Presidential order under subsection (a) falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such order shall be issued on the following day.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID8DBA05A59939410ABE54F010BCBD8819"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effects of Sequestration</header><text>The effects of sequestration shall be as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="ID9D98DD3B15CE41718440ACE09FE5C49E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Budgetary resources sequestered from any account shall be permanently cancelled, except as provided in paragraph (5).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4D9B65E858034E7BB72AE436B85E2669"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Except as otherwise provided, the same percentage sequestration shall apply to all programs, projects, and activities within a budget account (with programs, projects, and activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying report for the relevant fiscal year covering that account).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDAA33C21531174F0EB6C394308DCD45E0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Administrative regulations or similar actions implementing a sequestration shall be made within 120 days of the sequestration order. To the extent that formula allocations differ at different levels of budgetary resources within an account, program, project, or activity, the sequestration shall be interpreted as producing a lower total appropriation, with the remaining amount of the appropriation being obligated in a manner consistent with program allocation formulas in substantive law.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID58C8FA60C1AE4529AE1BAB3D197730F1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, obligations or budgetary resources in sequestered accounts shall be reduced only in the fiscal year in which a sequester occurs.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDE4AFD2566E85463EAC6606919D4881F2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Budgetary resources sequestered in special fund accounts and offsetting collections sequestered in appropriation accounts shall not be available for obligation during the fiscal year in which the sequestration occurs, but shall be available in subsequent years to the extent otherwise provided in law.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID63791CE7BEFB47B9BB6773B55003C75B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Submission and Availability of Reports</header><text>Each report required by this section shall be submitted, in the case of CBO, to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and OMB and, in the case of OMB, to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President on the day it is issued. On the following day a notice of the report shall be printed in the Federal Register.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="IDF69378B545DD4D46A708B5C526AD8F48"><enum>203.</enum><header>GAO compliance report</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Upon request of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives or the Senate, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Congress and the President a report on—</text>
<paragraph id="IDD17A81376D5840869C1A76525ED9DA55"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the extent to which each order issued by the President under this title complies with all of the requirements contained in this title, either certifying that the order fully and accurately complies with such requirements or indicating the respects in which it does not; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9A4CD56F40724332BECDE47456236630"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the extent to which each report issued by OMB or CBO under this section complies with all of the requirements contained in this title, either certifying that the report fully and accurately complies with such requirements or indicating the respects in which it does not.</text> </paragraph></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="ID2F134953ECDE4C44852BF78925F4FBC6"><enum>B</enum><header>Discretionary Spending Limits</header>
<section id="ID7280F5FD8BAE4A63BA5479A716521E78"><enum>211.</enum><header>Discretionary Sequestration Reports</header>
<subsection id="ID236C53DF8318416CA221AD734D4B13EC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Discretionary Sequestration Preview Reports</header>
<paragraph id="ID8E786BF40DBF413691AF934104EDAA81"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reporting requirement</header>
<subparagraph id="ID8633F83137994CA296A853E34EA7AC47"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>On the dates specified in section 202(a), OMB shall report to the President and Congress and CBO shall report to Congress a Discretionary Sequestration Preview Report regarding discretionary sequestration based on laws enacted through those dates.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBC48222E0D144CAE9EB7CBF2A16F904A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>President’s budget</header><text>When the President submits the budget under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, OMB shall calculate and the budget shall include adjustments to discretionary spending limits (and those limits as cumulatively adjusted) for the budget year and each outyear to reflect adjustments under section 212(b).</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID2E8A60F389D94781ADF2FB5A88189E15"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>Any determination or change under subparagraph (B) may only be made after consultation with the Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and that consultation shall include written communication to such committees that affords such committees the opportunity to comment before official action is taken with respect to such changes.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF7CF997F1D174843B706183AE9BB4EA7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Discretionary</header><text>The Discretionary Sequestration Preview Report shall set forth estimates for the current year and each subsequent year through 2010 of the applicable discretionary spending limits and an explanation of any adjustments in such limits under section 212, and a projection of budget authority exceeding discretionary limits subject to sequester.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDFE2BCF8EB11E4E76B4AD9AE6BCE95250"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Explanation of differences</header><text>The OMB reports shall explain the differences between OMB and CBO estimates for each item set forth in this subsection.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDCC29F64501914108807E74E9B64A397B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Discretionary Sequestration Reports</header><text>On the dates specified in section 202(a), OMB and CBO shall issue Discretionary Sequestration Reports, reflecting laws enacted through those dates, containing all of the information required in the Discretionary Sequestration Preview Reports.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID85EAA226674E4044AE4218FACC89EDE8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Final Discretionary Sequestration Reports</header>
<paragraph id="ID6B1134BD95B846ED8786ABF79E882C3B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reporting requirements</header><text>On the dates specified in section 202(a), OMB and CBO shall each issue a Final Discretionary Sequestration Report, updated to reflect laws enacted through those dates.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF186CBD0E10147CBA5CD2E5C3F301623"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Discretionary spending</header><text>The Final Discretionary Sequestration Reports shall set forth estimates for each of the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="ID625B4CDA30D14B4B8D5216A5D5146DD0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For the current year and each subsequent year through 2010; the applicable discretionary spending limits.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID3225A7AE0B0947F896C9CB4C6E8FF20A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For the current year, if applicable, and the budget year; the new budget authority and the breach, if any.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDF36D3291F06E43A68A2834D482163333"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The sequestration percentages necessary to eliminate the breach.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDEBF5D005DE394EF9B1AF2DE7983329A6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For the budget year, for each account to be sequestered, the level of enacted, sequesterable budget authority and resulting estimated outlays flowing therefrom.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDe0afbf507d5d44bb8a1d99c2112ee2e2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Explanation of differences</header><text>The OMB report shall explain—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID2e19a8463e834d0eb855e77ce90001f0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any differences between OMB and CBO estimates for the amount of any breach and for any required discretionary sequestration percentages; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDff4209d4692a4938a4b5a3b80f9f35e5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>differences in the amount of sequesterable resources for any budget account to be reduced if such difference is greater than $5,000,000.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDA7F9855292C645DABA84DDDCE82935E4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Economic and Technical Assumptions</header><text>In all reports required by this section, OMB shall use the same economic and technical assumptions as used in the most recent budget submitted by the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDA908BE9D42AE487188BC3C4D001E258D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Adjustments</header><text>When OMB submits a report under this section for a fiscal year, OMB shall calculate, and the subsequent reports and budgets submitted by the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code shall include, adjustments to discretionary spending limits under section 212(b) (and those limits as adjusted) for the fiscal year and each succeeding year.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="IDB7DD4C4BEF644827ADFCDFE7C5F0121A"><enum>212.</enum><header>Limits</header>
<subsection id="IDAC296CA5D77A4B72BA8C3314934923FF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Discretionary Spending Limits</header><text>As used in this subtitle, the term <term>discretionary spending limit</term> means—</text>
<paragraph id="ID7CE22C32807E4660B3F1ECF6637D75CD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2008, $926,584,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4188B63C820043D2A11DE7520C81D6A6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2009, $955,934,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1D8C4FEDD21441978B6FA378AEB3860E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2010, $971,430,000,000 in new budget authority; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3FE6F93722974AEBAB05B4F5366F8E38"><enum>(4)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal years following 2010, the President shall recommend and the Congress shall consider legislation setting limits for those fiscal years.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDAB990CEB318945DD94A14AFAFAAF0B7E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Adjustments</header>
<paragraph id="ID8C710D2633044FE2A03D315BD6B7B72D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Global war on terrorism funding</header><text>If an appropriation bill or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2008, 2009, or 2010, that provides funding for the military for conducting the war on terrorism overseas, the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the amount of budget authority in that measure for that purpose but not to exceed—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID6C26D4D668F746ADBCFC52B2ECE90CCB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2008, $145,162,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID377C7C3417874E0DA0F1916582084A31"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2009, $100,000,000,000 in new budget authority; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDED0AFD34EA6F470681437959B7E70731"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2010, $50,000,000,000 in new budget authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0e6d63c97e784fb9927006ed601bcc2d"><enum>(2)</enum><header>United States forces in the global war on terrorism</header><text>If an appropriation bill or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2008 that provides funding for activities that—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDcc8a0d0689744a19b1ec1bf521b4cfcf"><enum>(A)</enum><text>address training, equipment, force protection, logistics, or other matters necessary for the protection of United States forces; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDfd5369c2acb7479baae44a97a7ae43cb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>address deficiencies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other facilities within the military medical system providing treatment to service members injured while performing their duties in the Global War on Terrorism;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDc70053b33c4f458483491c670b22f8e5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the amount of budget authority in that measure for that purpose but not to exceed $5,000,000,000 in new budget authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDAD034F2187CC44658B93D00CF59901C3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Emergency spending</header><text>If, for fiscal year 2008, 2009, or 2010 appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted that the President designates as emergency requirements, and that the Congress so designates in statute, the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts designated as emergency requirements, but not to exceed $5,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, $5,000,000,000 for 2009, and $5,000,000,000 for 2010. Appropriations designated as emergencies in excess of these limitations shall be treated as new budget authority for the purpose of calculating a breach of the discretionary spending limits.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID59D27E97798B40AA91E255142FEC0094"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Federal tax gap initiative</header><text>If an appropriation bill or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2008, 2009, or 2010, that includes $6,788,000,000 plus an additional amount for the enhanced tax enforcement initiative of the Internal Revenue Service, the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the amount of budget authority in that measure for that initiative but not to exceed—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD59156A8AD7842DC8D399C07D6FD520C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2008, $440,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID4492A1326B974AC7B16543CBC328F37E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2009, $619,000,000 in new budget authority; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID3136FB2F9D96499E84EC5D71755B0E62"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2010, $826,000,000 in new budget authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDf1dd0316ddf946d482ee8f8e221806b5"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Continuing disability reviews and ssi redeterminations</header><text>If an appropriation bill or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2008, 2009, or 2010, that includes $264,000,000 plus an additional amount for continuing disability reviews and supplemental security income redeterminations for the Social Security Administration, the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the amount of budget authority in that measure for that initiative but not to exceed—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDc49f83f4908743baaf65e8083d26151d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2008, $213,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDe15f862b81dc4323a158804d695eb041"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2009, $453,000,000 in new budget authority; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID272a054d5b4b4bdda2197abb42e7d71c"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2010, $485,000,000 in new budget authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID938d0e7252104892a89fb2af84fdaf74"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Health care fraud and abuse</header><text>If an appropriation bill or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2008 that includes $1,156,000,000, or for fiscal year 2009 that includes $1,178,000,000, or for fiscal year 2010 that includes $1,200,000,000, plus an additional amount for Health Care, Fraud, and Abuse Control Program at the Department of Health and Human Services, the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the amount of budget authority in that measure for that initiative but not to exceed—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDf6430261f81945e3938d6f5fe0c0de71"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2008, $183,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID93fd350ea5a24a71ad60d4e03d643c24"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2009, $198,000,000 in new budget authority; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDa5ef2f7a02db4f519755998f72a96dc1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2010, $211,000,000 in new budget authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID7f57935a523a4e619fd21ae0dd46da14"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Unemployment insurance improper payment reviews</header><text>If an appropriation bill or joint resolution is enacted for fiscal year 2008, 2009, or 2010 that includes $10,000,000, plus an additional amount for unemployment improper payment reviews for the Department of Labor, the adjustment for purposes of section 211(c) shall be the amount of budget authority in that measure for that initiative but not to exceed—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDf9f07489756349fead1a63254e3cd9fb"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2008, $40,000,000 in new budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDbcf4cec1fa4d4de291e16abd6de706c0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2009, $40,000,000 in new budget authority; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDc6af86d3ef3d431c82a458e70de85c16"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to fiscal year 2010, $40,000,000 in new budget authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDDF0D8BF101384AE6ACBDE8D7E62B0DB7"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Enforcement</header>
<paragraph id="IDE35A59F0F73D41FE9DBB053845E00CA5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><text>On the date specified in section 202(a), there shall be a sequestration to eliminate a budget-year breach.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3C0451301B0D4C5DA431014B431B1C52"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eliminating a breach</header><text>Each account shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multiplying the enacted level of budget authority for that year in that account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary to eliminate a breach of the discretionary spending limit.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID378123e29b794166a9bf374ac9355083"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Optional exemption of military personnel</header>
<subparagraph id="ID10540641bdaf400db91d4637b3757874"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President may, with respect to any military personnel account, exempt that account from sequestration or provide for a lower uniform percentage reduction than would otherwise apply.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID808523c550ae40b2ba064ab6c90695cc"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The President may not use the authority provided in subparagraph (a) unless the President notifies Congress of the manner in which such authority will be exercised on or before the date in section 202(a).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDB8A06BDF2424D7F94CF3F6DB50A969A"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Part-year appropriations</header><text>If, on the date the report is issued under paragraph (1), there is in effect an Act making continuing appropriations for part of a fiscal year for any budget account, then the dollar sequestration calculated for that account under paragraph (2) shall be subtracted from—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1C14FC7905494793A328699EDC62E0D7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the annualized amount otherwise available by law in that account under that or a subsequent part-year appropriation; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID58B7D9B905DD4499AF1108044DBCD8D0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>when a full-year appropriation for that account is enacted, from the amount otherwise provided by the full-year appropriation.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDE125BD30BEFC4FF1B153E92097BE758A"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Look-back</header><text>If, after June 30, an appropriation for the fiscal year in progress is enacted that causes a breach for that year (after taking into account any previous sequestration), the discretionary spending limit for the next fiscal year shall be reduced by the amount of that breach.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDCEE4A93BAE324795B4406EEAC8D72D83"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Within-session sequestration reports and order</header><text>If an appropriation for a fiscal year in progress is enacted (after Congress adjourns to end the session for that budget year and before July 1 of that fiscal year) that causes a breach, 10 days later CBO shall issue a report containing the information required in section 211(c). Fifteen days after enactment, OMB shall issue a report containing the information required in section 211(c). On the same day as the OMB report, the President shall issue an order fully implementing without change all sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set forth in that report. This order shall be effective on issuance.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID5838A8434D764424A4AFDC6911660403"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Estimates</header>
<paragraph id="ID6C738C1181BE4983980253B98020E5A4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>CBO estimates</header><text>As soon as practicable after Congress completes action on any legislation providing discretionary appropriations, CBO shall provide an estimate to OMB of that legislation.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD14BAFCD7CEB4AC39F8747F79D66B32D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>OMB estimates</header><text>Not later than 7 calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) after the date of enactment of any discretionary appropriations, OMB shall transmit a report to the Senate and to the House of Representatives containing—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID354C54C511014334977F78691BD775FE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the CBO estimate of that legislation;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID5E0B2E692AC94381B2080A7E22E2014D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an OMB estimate of that legislation using current economic and technical assumptions; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID272C19AA81D345F08D8D2E87C8597A80"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an explanation of any difference between the 2 estimates.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID61080757F03F4B3CBB0332AF4F9ED67A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Differences</header><text>If during the preparation of the report under paragraph (2), OMB determines that there is a difference between the OMB and CBO estimates, OMB shall consult with the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding that difference and that consultation, to the extent practicable, shall include written communication to such committees that affords such committees the opportunity to comment before the issuance of that report.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID46478DEFF3424CA1A941B07943948C65"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Assumptions and guidelines</header><text>OMB and CBO shall prepare estimates under this paragraph in conformance with scorekeeping guidelines determined after consultation among the House and Senate Committees on the Budget, CBO, and OMB.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="ID4ADA9D9CCA384E95937C0FAE30C4E78A"><enum>C</enum><header>Maximum Deficit Amount Limitation</header>
<section id="ID1E502F0C454E4454B7F98FA51FE17C64"><enum>221.</enum><header>Maximum deficit amount</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle, the term <quote>maximum deficit amount</quote>—</text>
<paragraph id="ID8ADE105B4DE24ADBA83185DA61BB308B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>with respect to 2008, equals 1.75 percent of the Gross Domestic Product for 2008, as estimated by OMB for 2008;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID39DE2B5CB68B428AB41F5AC954673C81"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with respect to 2009, equals 1.25 percent of the Gross Domestic Product for 2009, as estimated by OMB for 2009;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID7107EA78542C4FF9BE3D8A3DA82001F8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>with respect to 2010, equals 0.75 percent of the Gross Domestic Product for 2010, as estimated by OMB for 2010;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDde4391ba2b8d412f8b1bd7419e2af253"><enum>(4)</enum><text>with respect to 2011, equals 0.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product as estimated by OMB for 2011; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID85548e933cc9490f81f703eab6b154c7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>with respect to 2012 and thereafter, 0.00 percent as estimated by OMB for 2012, and thereafter.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID480AB5EA989F48269D83234ECE8B69E4"><enum>222.</enum><header>Reporting of excess deficits</header>
<subsection id="IDE0836B00470C4647BC0FE6B999648D91"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Maximum Deficit Amount Preview Report by OMB and CBO</header>
<paragraph id="ID05D9F9DD662445E1B08BD892A4F73461"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Estimates and determinations</header><text>On the dates specified in section 202(a), OMB and CBO shall with respect to each fiscal year estimate—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDAD6E4CBB3DF74A5BA32C51B5A17EDBC5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the deficit;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID89447B80C2984AE9BB8EB07342599EC0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the maximum deficit amount; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID625C93CF84BD4BA49742CB5E4DAAB02E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any excess deficit amount for the budget year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID8B190E9DE2494D33932E39E493C19C32"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text>OMB shall report to the President and Congress and CBO shall report to Congress estimating the budget base levels of total revenues and total budget outlays for the budget year, identifying the deficit, the maximum deficit amount, and the amount of any deficit excess for such fiscal year, the base from which direct spending reductions are taken and the amounts based upon uniform percentages, by which such direct spending accounts must be reduced for the budget year, in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this part, in order to eliminate such excess based on laws enacted through those dates.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDE6A153D303894D709A32131AF03A13DF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Determination of reductions</header><text>The amounts based upon uniform percentages, by which accounts must be reduced for the budget year shall be determined by, subject to the exemptions set forth in section 227, the reductions necessary to eliminate the excess deficit amount for the fiscal year.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDE692B99E4C3F4430BD1CCF8F14BC0784"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Basis for directors’ estimates, determinations, and specifications</header>
<subparagraph id="ID5B715EEB906D4B5DA2904B97BBD87DC1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Budget base</header><text>In computing the amounts and percentages by which accounts must be reduced during a fiscal year as set forth in the report required under paragraph (2) for such fiscal year, OMB and CBO shall use current economic and technical assumptions consistent with the methodology set forth in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Enforcement Deficit Control Act of 1985.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID3BC291DB183A4B94843C033EEE85A176"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Explanation of differences</header><text>The OMB shall explain the differences between OMB and CBO estimates for each item in the report.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDE80DFD9F2B3A438AB99C135DE5083EFF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Revised Estimates and Maximum Deficit Amount Reconciliation Reports</header>
<paragraph id="IDF70AF4F8B88045E382D673C312D5D6E5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reconciliation report by omb and cbo</header><text>On the dates specified in section 202(a), the Director of OMB shall submit to the President and Congress, and the Director of CBO shall submit to Congress, a revised report—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDFC35E2E04EB24EC8B2E6E03481454684"><enum>(A)</enum><text>indicating whether and to what extent, as a result of laws enacted and regulations promulgated after the submission of their maximum deficit amount preview report under subsection (a), the excess deficit identified in the report submitted under such subsection has been eliminated, reduced, or increased; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID8684B9E45AEA40B086477D4256C2F0E7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>adjusting the determinations for the effects of any discretionary sequestration that may be required under subtitle B.</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">The reconciliation report submitted under this paragraph shall contain estimates, determinations, and specifications for all of the items contained in the preview report and the OMB report shall be based on the same economic and technical assumptions and employ the same methodologies as applied in the supplemental budget estimates submitted under section 1106 of title 31, United States Code, and the CBO report shall be based on the most recent report required by section 202(e)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Estimates shall be consistent with methodology in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Enforcement Act Deficit Control Act of 1985. The reports shall provide for the determination of reductions in the manner specified in subsection (a)(3).</continuation-text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB36D688B342F42F8828E47D5B2F6DB6A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Explanation of differences</header><text>The OMB shall explain the differences between OMB and CBO estimates for each item in the reconciliation report.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDD86A47ABB0A546C4A5CE4D5B8CD2CFBA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Dates for Submission of Reports and Issuance of Orders</header><text>If the date specified for the submission of a report by the Director of OMB or the issuance of a Presidential order under this section falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such report shall be submitted or such order issued on the following day.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID8A06592166EB4CE8BC73E4AC56F0EC7E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Printing of Reports</header><text>Each report submitted under this section shall be printed in the Federal Register on the date it is issued; and the reports of the Director of OMB submitted to the Congress under subsection (b) shall be printed as documents of the House of Representatives and the Senate.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDBA790EBC816340BA9F8BE38E5199ADCF"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Estimates</header>
<paragraph id="ID160B86C87A1943C7B15A73EA6229DB79"><enum>(1)</enum><header>CBO estimates</header><text>As soon as practicable after Congress completes action on any legislation under this section, CBO shall provide an estimate to OMB of that legislation.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB30816A4F2A541BA814E298F4681001F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>OMB estimates</header><text>Not later than 7 calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) after the date of enactment of any direct spending, OMB shall transmit a report to the House of Representatives and to the Senate containing—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID84F9D487E4794E2BBC805760C4C2E34D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the CBO estimate of that legislation;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDF9EC464EF9894C63B871ED697564303B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an OMB estimate of that legislation using current economic and technical assumptions; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID3615240CC7E44FAE98FB9A8FC51677CD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an explanation of any difference between the 2 estimates.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID00CAFA6E87F2498CBA281C40D4689616"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Differences</header><text>If during the preparation of the report under paragraph (2), OMB determines that there is a difference between the OMB and CBO estimates, OMB shall consult with the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives regarding that difference and that consultation, to the extent practicable, shall include written communication to such committees that affords such committees the opportunity to comment before the issuance of that report.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID8F626ADB1F3F484F8A652672AD611739"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Assumptions and guidelines</header><text>OMB and CBO shall prepare estimates under this paragraph in conformance with scorekeeping guidelines determined after consultation among the Senate and House Committees on the Budget, CBO, and OMB.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="IDDF6AB0E3C21D41E9834E8890E6866AF3"><enum>223.</enum><header>Congressional response to OMB and CBO Reconciliation Report</header>
<subsection id="ID3D3FEE4DB0CE4163861340401336ABAA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Reporting of Resolutions, and Reconciliation Bills and Resolutions, in the Senate</header>
<paragraph id="IDDE17149B91D542609B2658F74C24856D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Committee alternatives to presidential order</header><text>For the purpose of assisting the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and House in preparing Reconciliation Directive Reports under paragraph (3) and not later than 20 days after the submission of the OMB Reconciliation Report, each standing committee of the Senate and House may submit to the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and House information of the type described in section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to alternatives to the order envisioned by such report insofar as such order affects laws within the jurisdiction of the committee.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB92A436CBB1A4D938344276B3CB5A64D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application of the congressional budget act of 1974</header><text>Sections 305 and 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall apply to any bill considered under this section, except as otherwise provided in this section.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2128C7739A3C473C8638B3C465D93F87"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reconciliation directives</header><text>On the date specified in section 202(a), the Chairmen and Ranking Minority Members of the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and House shall submit a Reconciliation Directive Report to the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House for appropriate referral to the committees of its House, the OMB Reconciliation Report containing the maximum deficit amount and the excess deficit and reconciliation directives. Such directives shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD5ADEAA756104FDE9C97F263ED1EBE51"><enum>(A)</enum><text>specify the total amount by which—</text>
<clause id="ID1B1EF5CCC3F44EB9AEBA604B74EA65BC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>direct spending budget authority and outlays for such fiscal year; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDF2EA9050A124493684D29A022D595A47"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>governmental receipts, other than income taxes, estate and gift taxes, excise taxes, payroll taxes, or tariffs, for such fiscal year;</text> </clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">are to be changed; and</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID429FB98427914B1D9B73F8BE77F671DB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>include directives to committees to recommend changes in laws within their jurisdiction—</text>
<clause id="ID660C31BBD6E94B25AD7089E2CA6DD4A0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to accomplish the total amount of deficit reduction necessary to eliminate the excess deficit so that the deficit does not exceed the maximum deficit amount set forth in the OMB Reconciliation Report; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID6BDC7F6D0ECE4059BE93E1BE52E14D57"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>with amounts required for each committee proportionally based on the outlays allocated to that committee for programs under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the most recent adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID734D715BE2FC4876B50D3AACB61CE48E"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Response of committees</header><text>Committees directed pursuant to paragraph (3), shall submit their recommendations to comply with the directives to the Budget Committee no later than 20 days after the directives referred to in paragraph (3) are issued.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID46FBCFA55768400E94ED3351E2972656"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Budget committee action</header><text>Upon receipt of the recommendations received in response to directives referred to in paragraph (3), the Budget Committees shall report to the Senate and House, a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDC3A41692CFDB410CA9263E52084E2D97"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Legislative Procedure</header><text>If a Reconciliation Directive Report containing reconciliation directives to committees to determine and recommend changes in laws, bills, or resolutions is issued in accordance with subsection (a)(3)—</text>
<paragraph id="ID3FAA709814B74C908BF5F0FC23911008"><enum>(1)</enum><text>each such committee so directed shall make such recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of its House, which upon receiving all such recommendations, shall report to its House reconciliation legislation carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID7E6DDF6F0E824B529B8CC26960F50F7B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the event that any committee fails to comply with its directive, then the Committees on the Budget may report amendments recommending changes within the jurisdiction of the noncompliant committee to achieve the changes contained in the directive.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDAD10D2450ECB46759F475EE787F89FE9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Adjustment of Budget Targets</header><text>Upon enactment of a reconciliation bill conference report, the chairmen of the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall revise spending and revenue levels under section 311(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and adjust the committee allocations under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or any other adjustments as may be appropriate to reflect any changes made in the reconciliation bill. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the revised allocations and aggregates shall be considered to have been made under a concurrent resolution on the budget agreed to under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and shall be enforced under the procedures of that Act.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID6A07CA22CFB640C3BEC81C281651B063"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Compliance With Reconciliation Directives</header><text>Secondary or indirect effects of the legislative recommendations submitted by any committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives that is directed, shall be attributed to the committee proposing the change in law, but shall not be considered for the purpose of determining compliance with such directives.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID75CD9776C4734CDDAA8CD64363034D21"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Limitation on Amendments to Reconciliation Bills</header>
<paragraph id="IDFFA4FC69605B4698A24828A22A82AD13"><enum>(1)</enum><header>House of representatives</header><text>It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill if such amendment would have the effect of increasing any specific budget outlays above the level of such outlays provided in the bill (for the fiscal years covered by the reconciliation directives), or would have the effect of reducing any specific governmental receipts below the level of such governmental receipts provided in the bill (for such fiscal year), unless such amendment makes at least an equivalent reduction in other specific budget outlays, an equivalent increase in other specific governmental receipts, or an equivalent combination thereof (for such fiscal year).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID761E513F4E0A4CCDA9A6653B358D10F3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Senate</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill if such amendment would have the effect of increasing any specific budget outlay level above the level of such outlay reductions provided (for the fiscal year covered) in the reconciliation directives or would have the effect of reducing governmental receipts increases below the level of such increases in such governmental receipts provided (for such fiscal year) in the reconciliation directives, unless such amendment makes a reduction in other specific budget outlays, an increase in other specific governmental receipts, or a combination thereof (for such fiscal year) at least equivalent to any increase in outlays or decrease in governmental receipts provided by such amendment, except that a motion to strike a provision shall always be in order.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3DDCC8557A4E49B786219E7B18AFFFD9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Budget authority, outlays, and receipts</header><text>For purposes of this section, the levels of budget authority, outlays, and governmental receipts for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDD7A2BE6C1C44EA7826B94873B9D49FA"><enum>(4)</enum><header>House rules</header><text>The Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives may make in order amendments to achieve changes specified by reconciliation directives if a committee or committees of the House fail to submit recommended changes to its Committee on the Budget pursuant to its instruction.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDA9E4FF72B9404002B16E9534D8E22476"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Procedure in the Senate</header><text>Consideration in the Senate on any reconciliation bill reported under this subsection, and all amendments thereto and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDB93524011EB34C00BEDCC54E022338CA"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Limitation on Changes to the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name></header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any reconciliation bill, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that contains recommendations with respect to the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID46F91F2431A447F1A845B0FF66D81B28"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Extraneous Matter in Reconciliation Legislation</header>
<paragraph id="IDAA72211E32454D688136027C5FFCCE14"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>When the Senate is considering a reconciliation bill pursuant to this section (whether that bill originated in the Senate or the House), upon a point of order being made by any Senator against material extraneous to the instructions to a committee which is contained in any title or provision of the bill or offered as an amendment to the bill, and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, any part of said title or provision that contains material extraneous to the directives to said Committee as defined in paragraph (2), shall be deemed stricken from the bill and may not be offered as an amendment from the floor.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDE22CAD1BB6D64BF78BF058AB9038D8C2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Extraneous provisions</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4A710B3DEA5448DAA7E115228A63B93F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a provision of a reconciliation bill considered pursuant to this subsection shall be considered extraneous if such provision does not produce a decrease in outlays or an increase in governmental receipts, including changes in outlays and governmental receipts brought about by changes in the terms and conditions under which outlays are made or governmental receipts are required to be collected;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDD59A033ACEE34899BC92BD457C832BF4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a provision that is not in the jurisdiction of the Committee with jurisdiction over said title or provision shall be considered extraneous (except that amendments reported by the Committee on the Budget to achieve compliance with reconciliation directives shall be in order notwithstanding any other rule of the Senate and not be deemed extraneous);</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID944BE720390E4E80AA7F528678F9DD37"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a provision shall be considered to be extraneous if it increases, or would increase, net outlays, or if it decreases, or would decrease, governmental receipts during a fiscal year after the fiscal years covered by such reconciliation bill, and such increases or decreases are greater than outlay reductions or governmental receipts increases resulting from other provisions in such title in such year; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDCDDFA906581845BAB07A3A3F7ACEBA8B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a provision shall be considered extraneous if it violates section 310(g) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID7DBC9D2C37554B48A8903FB3E84BBD16"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Senate-originated provisions</header><text>A Senate-originated provision shall not be considered extraneous under paragraph (2) if the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on the Budget and the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee which reported the provision certify that—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDA24BA71CFF4A4817A76D7E93AB7DB67F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the provision mitigates direct effects clearly attributable to a provision changing outlays or revenue and both provisions together produce a net reduction in the deficit;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID30B5D91210DA498AAC3B0928EAC45566"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the provision will result in a substantial reduction in outlays or a substantial increase in governmental receipts during fiscal years after the fiscal years covered by the reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID8E32CCBDB1CB4BD7A0194FF2361B08FD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a reduction of outlays or an increase in governmental receipts is likely to occur as a result of the provision, in the event of new regulations authorized by the provision or likely to be proposed, court rulings on pending litigation, or relationships between economic indices and stipulated statutory triggers pertaining to the provision, other than the regulations, court rulings, or relationships currently projected by the Congressional Budget Office for scorekeeping purposes; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDD283BB6410D146B4A5283345FE4BE822"><enum>(D)</enum><text>such provision will be likely to produce a significant reduction in outlays or increase in governmental receipts but, due to insufficient data, such reduction or increase cannot be reliably estimated.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID5277BCA81EF8484B9F344D4163E399EB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Committee reported provisions</header><text>a provision reported by a committee shall not be considered extraneous under paragraph (2) if—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDAA69EE121E2E47F4BCB19C1ED2DAD1E8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the provision is an integral part of a provision or title, which if introduced as a bill, would be referred to such committee, and the provision sets forth the procedure to carry out or implement the substantive provisions that were reported and which fall within the jurisdiction of such committee; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBE3562FA64A04A3187C55CBA461D6DB2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the provision states an exception to, or a special application of, the general provision or title of which it is a part and such general provision or title if introduced as a bill, would be referred to such committee.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID73DAE08469AA4788953B0F122D06EDC5"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header><text>Technical and conforming provisions shall not be considered extraneous under this subsection.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD5D5E72D7A304C858CCF581236AAF912"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Extraneous materials</header><text>Upon the reporting of a reconciliation bill pursuant to this subsection in the Senate, and again upon the submission of a conference report on such a reconciliation bill, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall submit for the record a list of material considered to be extraneous under paragraph (2) (A), (C), and (D), to the instructions of a committee as provided in this section. The inclusion or exclusion of a provision shall not constitute a determination of extraneousness by the Presiding Officer of the Senate.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0EA09C349E7240AC8F15403E10FF8CD4"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Conference reports</header><text>When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a reconciliation bill pursuant to this section, upon a point of order being made by any Senator against extraneous material meeting the definition of this subsection, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed, without intervening action or motion, to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable for two hours. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID67043FEE6F244BF9B5BEDD908556B04B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Determinations and Points of Order</header><text>Notwithstanding any other law or rule of the Senate, it shall be in order for a Senator to raise a single point of order that several provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report violate this section. The Presiding Officer may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the provisions against which the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Senator raised the point of order, then only those provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions against which the point of order was raised. Such a motion to waive is amendable in accordance with the rules and precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer ruled.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="ID4BF639F1DB5D45DBB8DDBDB093BBFC61"><enum>224.</enum><header>Revised estimates and final maximum deficit amount sequestration reports</header>
<subsection id="ID0C8B32A73E6344FA96BFC786232A9532"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Revised Estimates, Determinations, and Final Maximum Deficit Amount Sequestration Reports</header><text>On the dates specified in section 202(a), OMB shall submit to the President and Congress, and CBO shall submit to Congress, a revised report—</text>
<paragraph id="ID406F349440CD4E5897123416E3BB9B27"><enum>(1)</enum><text>indicating whether and to what extent, as a result of laws enacted and regulations promulgated after the submission of their preview report under section 222(a), the excess deficit identified in the report submitted under such subsection has been eliminated, reduced, or increased; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA7636769B2A94C8EB91EE459F7D3A745"><enum>(2)</enum><text>adjusting the determinations made under section 222(a) to the extent necessary.</text> </paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">The final report submitted under this subsection shall contain estimates, determinations, and specifications for all of the items contained in the maximum deficit amount reconciliation report and shall be based on the same economic and technical assumptions and employ the same methodologies shall be based on the supplemental budget estimates under section 1106 of title 31, United States Code, and the CBO report shall be based on the most recent report required by section 202(e)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Estimates shall be consistent with the methodology under section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Enforcement Act Deficit Control Act of 1985. The reports shall provide for the determination of reductions in the manner specified in section 222(a)(3).</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="IDFF2234D156D2499085F69DDFD4DCBB21"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Dates for Submission of Reports and Issuance of Orders</header><text>If the date specified for the submission of a report by the Director of OMB under this section falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such report shall be submitted or such order issued on the following day.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID453D675D560549F7B0BC257C0DFC4FE9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Printing of Reports</header><text>Each report submitted under this section shall be printed in the Federal Register on the date it is issued; and the reports of the Director of OMB submitted to the Congress under subsection (a)(1) shall be printed as documents of the Senate and the House of Representatives.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="ID7D9CA5E1EB4B483CA5AAC709C9FC5A9D"><enum>225.</enum><header>Maximum deficit amount—presidential order</header>
<subsection id="ID37DBEDB9A9D2470194AC7FA1C8FB45AD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>On the date specified in section 202(a) and following the submission of a report by the Director of OMB to the President and Congress under section 224 that identifies an amount by which the deficit for a fiscal year will exceed the maximum deficit amount for such fiscal year the President, in strict accordance with the requirements set forth in section 227, shall eliminate the full amount of the deficit excess by issuing an order that eliminates the direct spending authority and outlays resulting therefrom in accordance with such report from each budget account activity as identified in the program and financing schedules contained in the appendix to the Budget of the United States Government for that fiscal year, applying the same reduction percentage as the percentage by which the account is reduced in such report.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID8DCB7735A6B641CD9A279D9520DA2965"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Order To Be Based on OMB Report</header><text>The order must provide for reductions in the manner specified in section 224, and must be consistent with such report in all respects. The President may not modify or recalculate any of the estimates, determinations, specifications, bases, amounts or percentages set forth in the report submitted under section 224 in determining the reductions to be specified in the order with respect to budget activities, within an account.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID9DCA4D3541F74CC48198BD7C72E07CA9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effect of Sequestration Under Presidential Order</header><text>Amounts sequestered under an order issued by the President under subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall be permanently cancelled in accordance with such final order.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID3DE34DB6C22E45748A6720F5145AFAA3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Accompanying Message</header><text>At the time the actions described in the preceding provisions of this subsection with respect to any fiscal year are taken, the President shall transmit to both Houses of the Congress a message containing all the information required by this section and further specifying in strict accordance with subsection (b)—</text>
<paragraph id="IDAB80D766218C4AFABB29E5A1D1E6755C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>within each account, and the amounts which are to be sequestered or reduced for each such program, project, and activity or budget account activity; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID714E7656A22E422C8182AA9A9EB6EFEA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such other supporting details as the President may determine to be appropriate.</text> </paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">Upon receipt in the Senate and the House of Representatives, the message shall be referred to all committees with jurisdiction over programs, projects, and activities affected by the order.</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="ID0D5303390D854B00849D1F6BABB0966C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective Date of Order</header><text>The order issued by the President under subsection (a) with respect to any fiscal year shall be effective as of the date of its issuance.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="ID3EE0F8ADB36E4D92800FB0F068CEB834"><enum>226.</enum><header>Congressional response to low growth</header>
<subsection id="ID3D76B220101844B0886D8E7B028BAE0C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Special Procedures in the Event of Low Economic Growth</header>
<paragraph id="IDBE0193AF09D048D793CD65A5A112F98B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall notify the Congress at any time if—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID97E27B9EF4F1420999D8AA7BC4C191A1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>during the period consisting of the quarter during which such notification is given, the quarter preceding such notification, and the four quarters following such notification, such Office or the Office of Management and Budget has determined that real economic growth is projected or estimated to be less than zero with respect to each of any two consecutive quarters within such period, or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0C1E8C42B89E4018BF90E488E23B7C4F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Department of Commerce preliminary reports of actual real economic growth (or any subsequent revision thereof) indicate that the rate of real economic growth for each of the most recent reported quarter and the immediately preceding quarter is less than one percent.</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">Upon such notification the majority leader of each House shall introduce a joint resolution (in the form set forth in paragraph (2)) declaring that the conditions specified in this paragraph are met and suspending the relevant provisions of this title for the remainder of the current fiscal year or for the following fiscal year or both.</continuation-text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF03C409A38D548648F41D601E2283585"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Form of joint resolution</header>
<subparagraph id="IDFE4E33318B4D485EAFB1A34C89363342"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Matter</header><text>The matter after the resolving clause in any joint resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be as follows: “That the Congress declares that the conditions specified in section 226(a)(1) of the Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 are met and the provisions of that Act, including sequestration of discretionary spending under subtitle B and sequestration of direct spending under subtitle C of that Act are suspended for the remainder of the current year, and for the fiscal year following the current year. This joint resolution shall not have the effect of suspending any final order which was issued for the current fiscal year under the SOS Act if such order was issued before the date of the enactment of this joint resolution.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID4C61529E0CD64D2E96A5045655782B96"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Title</header><text>The title of the joint resolution shall be <quote>Joint resolution suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to SOS Act.</quote> and the joint resolution shall not contain any preamble.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDDFFA1706EC78487AAAB49454296D4D8D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Committee Action</header><text>Each joint resolution introduced pursuant to subsection (a) shall be referred to the Committee on the Budget of the appropriate House; and such Committee shall report the joint resolution to its House without amendment on or before the fifth day on which such House is in session after the date on which the joint resolution is introduced. If the Committee fails to report the joint resolution within the 5-day period referred to in the preceding sentence, it shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution, and the joint resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID7B81A80403FD4EDC866C064BBAC9A5E9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Consideration of Joint Resolution</header>
<paragraph id="ID0FFCDDAE628F46D78867144D4D742659"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A vote on final passage of a joint resolution reported to a House of the Congress or discharged pursuant to subsection (b) shall be taken on or before the close of the fifth calendar day of session of such House after the date on which the joint resolution is reported to such House or after the Committee has been discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution. If prior to the passage by 1 House of a joint resolution of that House, that House received the same joint resolution from the other House, then—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID033B05C6AC0A46928B3135E972B17514"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no such joint resolution had been received from the other House; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDDA896317EF0E41F786579333E12355DC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the vote on final passage shall be on the joint resolution of the other House.</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">When the joint resolution is agreed to, the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of a House joint resolution agreed to in the House of Representatives) or the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the case of a Senate joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) shall cause the joint resolution to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the other House of Congress as soon as practicable.</continuation-text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID07ACD9C3F82748838E609F944F7D0996"><enum>(2)</enum><header>House</header>
<subparagraph id="IDD00AEBC049F94699B502B3AC2A6CD02B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Proceeding</header><text>A motion in the House of Representatives to proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution under this subsection shall be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDEAB53203FD4E4AF29B29F80DE0F10394"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Debate</header><text>Debate in the House of Representatives on a joint resolution under this subsection shall be limited to not more than 5 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the joint resolution. A motion to postpone, made in the House of Representatives with respect to the consideration of a joint resolution under this subsection, and a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall not be in order. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. It shall not be in order to move to table or to recommit a joint resolution under this subsection or to move to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID96459BDAB8904E879700808BE4536FB8"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the procedure relating to a joint resolution under this subsection shall be decided without debate.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID1D1DA31431514855BB4ADFBCC55DC5DB"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Form of resolution</header><text>Except to the extent specifically provided in this subsection or in paragraph (4), consideration of a joint resolution under this paragraph shall be governed by the Rules of the House of Representatives.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4339E3D1FAF141618EA4FF051CE50993"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Senate</header>
<subparagraph id="ID887886C895DE431EAE1D8EB01ADB4FB0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Proceeding</header><text>A motion in the Senate to proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution under this subsection shall be privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID80AECA4B5028488FB333569D6BCFBCBA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Debate</header><text>Debate in the Senate on a joint resolution under this subsection, and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than five hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or their designees.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDF14B453B664B4142926125026CC02093"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Motions and appeals</header><text>Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in connection with a joint resolution under this subsection shall be limited to not more than one hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the joint resolution, except that in the event the manager of the joint resolution is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID2688A55359A14D94A3EB11C1E0752DED"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Limit debate or recommit</header><text>A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a joint resolution under this subsection is not debatable. A motion to table or to recommit a joint resolution under this subsection is not in order.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID127486C054D142FFA3668E4937F46438"><enum>(4)</enum><header>No amendments</header><text>No amendment to a joint resolution considered under this subsection shall be in order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID5DA45DCF7E004873ADDEEA7E9C070EAD"><enum>227.</enum><header>Exemptions from sequestration</header>
<subsection id="IDBE89622D20E346D59E5301E9A32962A6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Except as provided in subsection (b), all direct spending and outlays flowing therefrom shall be subject to the sequestration procedures under this subtitle.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID65B7EBD943984BA9BA4404280898316E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exemptions</header>
<paragraph id="ID964173B7FE2F49CF8EF55FCB2BDCC620"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Social security benefits and tier i railroad retirement benefits</header><text>Benefits payable under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name>, or in benefits payable under section 3(a), 3(f)(3), 4(a), or 4(f) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, shall be exempt from any reduction under any order issued under this part.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID657C7C4582824FFFA147196FB91A1F5B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>In budget</header>
<subparagraph id="IDD14C5535D79F48A9B2F22B13CEE096F6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>President’s budget</header><text>The President shall include in the budget submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, specific accounts or activities where amounts are not available for sequestration in order to prevent Federal default (including outlays for interest on the public debt, outlays for claims against the United States, outlays for miscellaneous permanent appropriations and outlays for existing contracts.)</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID8BB3BFB2F1A84D748747CA43B01B75DA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Justification</header><text>The President shall include a justification for each exemption submitted pursuant to subparagraph (A).</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID6A79ACF49ABC4BDB84C63838A91B71D4"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The exemptions provided in paragraph (1) and the exemptions submitted by the President under this paragraph shall stand as the only exemptions to sequestration procedures under this subtitle, unless otherwise provided by law.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID026CE14B01534A7D80A0F9ED35DB79F7"><enum>228.</enum><header>Submission of President’s budget; maximum deficit amount may not be exceeded</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:</text>
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<subsection id="IDC6E0784DCBE64588944C2648D5C305DD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall be prepared consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, in such a manner as to ensure that the discretionary spending limits under section 212 of the Stop Over Spending Act of 2006 and the deficit for such fiscal year shall not exceed the maximum deficit amount for such fiscal year.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section></subtitle>
<enum>III</enum><header>Biennial budget and appropriations</header>
<section id="IDDE39763A913547F081892EE4C8424658"><enum>301.</enum><header>Revision of timetable</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="IDD6588DDA873D45D3AED249E637DA3E9D"><enum>300.</enum><header>Timetable</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id636D6459959340E2B3CDC4F2D79B2C1C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided by subsection (b), the timetable with respect to the congressional budget process for any Congress (beginning with the 110th Congress) is as follows:</text>
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<row><entry colname="column1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">On or before:</entry><entry colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">Action to be completed:</entry> </row>
<row><entry colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">First Monday in February</entry><entry colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">President submits budget recommendations.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">February 15</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Not later than 6 weeks after budget submission</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">April 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Budget Committees report concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">May 15</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">May 15</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">June 10</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">House Appropriations Committee reports last biennial appropriation bill.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">June 30</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">House completes action on biennial appropriation bills.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">August 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">October 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Biennium begins.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table>
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<row><entry colname="column1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">On or before:</entry><entry colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">Action to be completed:</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">February 15</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">President submits budget review.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">Not later than 6 weeks after President submits budget review</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">The last day of the session</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congress completes action on bills and resolutions authorizing new budget authority for the succeeding biennium.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID11933978A07B4FB7B17E360A3596CEFA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Special Rule</header><text>In the case of any first session of Congress that begins in any year immediately following a leap year and during which the term of a President (except a President who succeeds himself or herself) begins, the following dates shall supersede those set forth in subsection (a):</text>
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<row><entry colname="column1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">On or before:</entry><entry colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">Action to be completed:</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">First Monday in April</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">President submits budget recommendations.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">April 20</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">May 15</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Budget Committees report concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">June 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">July 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">July 20</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">House completes action on biennial appropriation bills.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">August 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation.</entry> </row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">October 1</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">Biennium begins.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup></table> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="IDF75DE2696B4C485CA38379D917989A7E"><enum>302.</enum><header>Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974</header>
<subsection id="ID785350013DAD4810B1658624E59A2531"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Declaration of Purpose</header><text>Section 2(2) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621(2)) is amended by striking <quote>each year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennially</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID69414103DDFC4A8CBFE365F0219AE4D0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header>
<paragraph id="IDE744885B1C654BC4B3493C6280EEEB54"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Budget resolution</header><text>Section 3(4) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 622(4)) is amended by striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDEE8FFA63E43F43C782CD4E9A6D9CDEBD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Biennium</header><text>Section 3 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 622) is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID33D08BF959FB4F6F81C1787F34484B8D"><enum>(11)</enum><text>The term <term>biennium</term> means the period of 2 consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDDF603634E1C1460A9931FCBAFCED36D6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Biennial Concurrent Resolution on the Budget</header>
<paragraph id="ID3BA6536918DD4126A15137DDA46802EE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Section heading</header><text>The section heading of section 301 of such Act is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text>annual</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text>biennial</header-in-text></quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9C796453BF9441DDA5FBEFC28B746843"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Contents of resolution</header><text>Section 301(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(a)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4A8CCD4641E546AE84676829C4C31ED5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by—</text>
<clause id="ID68D73C3D65754D838B4E988B50E7A35D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>striking <quote>April 15 of each year</quote> and inserting <quote>May 15 of each odd-numbered year</quote>;</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID0CED94D9C3BD43818CF23B0556099A62"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of such year</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>the biennium beginning on October 1 of such year</quote>; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID8C17C614F5B34D2287711342CDB681BD"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>striking <quote>the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of such year</quote> the second place it appears and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in such period</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDD73A098E57B14EA0B1B6CFD4139FE197"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by striking <quote>for the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID344F736C5D1240C895B21F84A13C0853"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (7), by striking <quote>for the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF6306F877B2548E7A705F6C73DF3ECF5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Additional matters</header><text>Section 301(b)(3) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(b)) is amended by striking <quote>for such fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for either fiscal year in such biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID71DA0C2F53EC48349909ADE5607EA874"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Views of other committees</header><text>Section 301(d) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by inserting <quote>(or, if applicable, as provided by section 300(b))</quote> after <quote>United States Code</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDBA36DC5B710405291D33730C966963E"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Hearings</header><text>Section 301(e)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(e)) is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID7A9170FB73EC451EAC3B527CAB15FDCE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDCDAD4004BB4E4B0F9CB186AF1AC3DDC7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>inserting after the second sentence the following: <quote>On or before April 1 of each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by section 300(b)), the Committee on the Budget of each House shall report to its House the concurrent resolution on the budget referred to in subsection (a) for the biennium beginning on October 1 of that year.</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDAEF21BC886794EBAB5C3C5748284D397"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Goals for reducing unemployment</header><text>Section 301(f) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(f)) is amended by striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDBD928D678A784C0EB6C22CEEB5E5D8D9"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Economic assumptions</header><text>Section 301(g)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 632(g)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>for a fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for a biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID00E5CCD77C604D9FAB251A249712831D"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Table of contents</header><text>The item relating to section 301 in the table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by striking <quote>Annual</quote> and inserting <quote>Biennial</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDB2F29639B39644569F0A2B8CC1BE355E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Committee Allocations</header><text>Section 302 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 633) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID072A243DE97B48B296480190FA9B2AAA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)</text>
<subparagraph id="ID342D36CE2E5D43CF8A69940EEED188E0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by—</text>
<clause id="IDEC332D3D5A334D03B57CE2B4F5C051C6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>striking <quote>for the first fiscal year of the resolution,</quote> and inserting <quote>for each fiscal year in the biennium,</quote>;</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDADDD77E7FC3745C4B19CB227D45D052E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>for that period of fiscal years</quote> and inserting <quote>for all fiscal years covered by the resolution</quote>; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDCB19F2A79C4C44D490FE2B9E343BC25B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>striking <quote>for the fiscal year of that resolution</quote> and inserting <quote>for each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID14492C37DA4C4057BB4EE6E4E5A6025B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>April 15</quote> and inserting <quote>May 15 or June 1 (under section 300(b))</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB37954BFB94D4B6A83D198AA49122F14"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>budget year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9D1D92954C8C4EA6A5C7265198C9A646"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c) by striking <quote>for a fiscal year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>for each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA53A6D151FCB4B85AEB694452DC3230C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (f)(1), by striking <quote>for a fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for a biennium</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6A406593EE9A4ACFB26C2FED32F2F3FD"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (f)(1), by striking <quote>the first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year of the biennium</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA2838F800937456C98318179D51E94F9"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (f)(2)(A), by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD5AEE9B860824257A3F5643D945EDC69"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>the first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year of the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID869C363A388C4E298504528560CDB015"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>the total of fiscal years</quote> and inserting <quote>the total of all fiscal years covered by the resolution</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD649CB384C11429FB26DFA08EE83F372"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (g)(1)(A), by striking <quote>April</quote> and inserting <quote>May</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDF7F1B5C06FFD43B68C6749621A95CDCE"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Section <enum-in-header>303</enum-in-header> Point of Order</header>
<paragraph id="ID070C862D43AB42E4B716E729AC437618"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 303(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 634(a)) is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDC0A9831301B14CDA8EDAE4248395C22A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>the first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year of the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID2F81CEF5D7384BC89708CE2BC8DBB9BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>that fiscal year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>that biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1412D20BBC5041BD9702F5D8B1386C87"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exceptions in the house</header><text>Section 303(b)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 634(b)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDE43716558BE6400F8E39203EE1A1B32A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the budget year</quote> and inserting <quote>the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDC814A25A7A2448A9A4F392A36FC4EF46"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>the biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3AEB1D066CA0451E95CD2AAB39110334"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application to the senate</header><text>Section 303(c)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 634(c)) is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID240907921C004D42899C5EF46E5450BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID880C181C0C124F8FB1D7624AA0B06202"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>that year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year of that biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID3C3BB3E5475145419F391F93355EF1E0"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Permissible Revisions of Concurrent Resolutions on the Budget</header><text>Section 304 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 635) is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="IDA3A1BBE187A34CD8B485998CFF698785"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> the first two places it appears and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDEA34980A7304744A01BA84079235321"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>for such fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for such biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID7A27DD2C53D24A98BB2EEBAFCCDC76D1"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Procedures for Consideration of Budget Resolutions</header><text>Section 305 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 636(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID2A2C8C0F136448EBA177195E9A8F1FB4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(3), by striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9EC5E5F88DDF47E29056CADC6272FD58"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(3), by striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID908D96F078FF4A3584DA9907A5ADE2A9"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Completion of House Action on Appropriation Bills</header><text>Section 307 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 638) is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="ID4F87FD46882C4B1FA873DB735DD1E56F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking <quote>each year</quote> and inserting <quote>each odd-numbered year</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0C015D8D16A24D44AFC64292C649FFF0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>annual</quote> and inserting <quote>biennial</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0F9F3F2BFFCE46A9805CDA1B0ABA8171"><enum>(3)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID91BE3502DF4949BE90E174C57AC3A2E2"><enum>(4)</enum><text>striking <quote>that year</quote> and inserting <quote>each odd-numbered year</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDBF407AF1CF834047BD28449586570CE0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Completion of Action on Regular Appropriation Bills</header><text>Section 309 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 640) is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="ID66A43D6789F243D8BEC8F82C717A5B7A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>inserting <quote>of any odd-numbered calendar year</quote> after <quote>July</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID559F7642D9DA47ECA2D1783457E87A6A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>annual</quote> and inserting <quote>biennial</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6DA3C57908D2466FB5618D76405AAF04"><enum>(3)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID492695D50DBE40CF9BF82CD59FB16191"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Reconciliation Process</header><text>Section 310(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 641(a)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID64D088A2374149C5BAFCB4C76DE408BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>any fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>any biennium</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDE0005A978DFB4F3F9FFB3D2A77D22BEE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) by striking <quote>such fiscal year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>any fiscal year covered by such resolution</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDAA8D9E676F864F99A2B13061AD3E4546"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Section <enum-in-header>311</enum-in-header> Point of Order</header>
<paragraph id="IDFE39CA9925BC49AD84FF3ACC0366B737"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In the house</header><text>Section 311(a)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 642(a)) is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDECCFB1B2F40A4CFBB75B43271780DFA4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>for a fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for a biennium</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBC396DA1ABA0449094CE36261BB9B0D4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>the first fiscal year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>either fiscal year of the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID60894E9EEFE343C1964E5DFB7BE44470"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>that first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4F534E27F1AD4FAAA05D3D138C32A652"><enum>(2)</enum><header>In the senate</header><text>Section 311(a)(2) of such Act is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID42A8923934ED4D9CAD1BF1692C206F29"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>for the first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for either fiscal year of the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDE2A31D549D27443988C073E0BF891172"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B) by—</text>
<clause id="ID019CFB8D29904B0DADB052BC862FA0A4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>striking <quote>that first fiscal year</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDAB1CB559357548B88C14C913FC2A6C27"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>that first fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years</quote> and inserting <quote>all fiscal years</quote>.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID74BEA19A0E994A3AA5FCCA3B14EBD7F8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Social security levels</header><text>Section 311(a)(3) of such Act is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDE0F51707C0BA4BF5BE593D62F2D2982D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>for the first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7F3D38FEDD864B4FA7DEB585D973BF61"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>that fiscal year and the ensuing fiscal years</quote> and inserting <quote>all fiscal years</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID22556B643F6C4849A06F423EF5C36BE1"><enum>(l)</enum><header>Maximum Deficit Amount Point of Order</header><text>Section 312(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 643) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID338D19B8F309404898D695086A0373ED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>for a fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>for a biennium</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC16718A6008541FB8FA700AB71C3179D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>the first fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>either fiscal year in the biennium</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB44516DBD3F0432BA53CECCDBDF1859F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>that fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>either fiscal year in the biennium</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID8734AD5F47E04467B2183DEF9AB1A5F6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in the matter following paragraph (2), by striking <quote>that fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>the applicable fiscal year</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID0282756BFA2F44C29FBBF4FDBCA2E60F"><enum>303.</enum><header>Amendments to title <enum-in-header>31</enum-in-header>, United States Code</header>
<subsection id="IDDE42D46100C941A9A21EF27F6EAFAA42"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>Section 1101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID0960DA43371B4786B6F4D84E87B784A7"><enum>(3)</enum><text><quote>biennium</quote> has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (11) of section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11)).</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID83AD155F98854FB6B3D5F5AD06568A78"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Budget Contents and Submission to the Congress</header>
<paragraph id="IDA5D73628D1214959978B2E63D694017E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Schedule</header><text>The matter preceding paragraph (1) in section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="ID563EB742AEF4444A984EFB9A7F3D6CCB"><enum>(a)</enum><text>On or before the first Monday in February of each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by section 300(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974), beginning with the One Hundred Tenth Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress, the budget for the biennium beginning on October 1 of such calendar year. The budget of the United States Government transmitted under this subsection shall include a budget message and summary and supporting information. The President shall include in each budget the following:</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDBDFB7E1566CC4A168416DEDC9BCE47BB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expenditures</header><text>Section 1105(a)(5) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 fiscal years</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD0CF93FD763C4353A642696DC3516468"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Receipts</header><text>Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 years</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID76FE5D7EED094620A852C1D689DA9C2C"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Balance statements</header><text>Section 1105(a)(9)(C) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3E2E5017788B4940A572A8CEAD2E1457"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Functions and activities</header><text>Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United States Code, is amended in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC046E1BF3AB1451E83C1038B5DC75759"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Allowances</header><text>Section 1105(a)(13) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID5CE3153EC6024A8390192B5BCFB30313"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Allowances for uncontrolled expenditures</header><text>Section 1105(a)(14) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>that year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is submitted</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3A870806AA374D37B4D15F610C88CA94"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Tax expenditures</header><text>Section 1105(a)(16) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6D7F1D8BE1AD4B40BEE2DA56E10023E4"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Future years</header><text>Section 1105(a)(17) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID349C1D1DA6F7482C8C6CE2EEDDD03FD1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>the fiscal year following the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium following the biennium</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID52906A8038B6460EB4D7D5741249BEB3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>that following fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each such fiscal year</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID593C580D78C24CBB8DF2DA20FF9E7F16"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year before the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium before the biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC830344C906F400F857A5FF212ED6B51"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Prior year outlays</header><text>Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDAFC19FED0CAE40A1A47A76B9CC0DA717"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>the prior fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each of the 2 most recently completed fiscal years,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID1BBC82CABF6548E2A5C3AA644AB2FC3E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>for that year</quote> and inserting <quote>with respect to those fiscal years</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID50800958F5534D39A8046326D3EBBDFC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>in that year</quote> and inserting <quote>in those fiscal years</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDFE063BE0E0334973B07F5412CEAC7220"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Prior year receipts</header><text>Section 1105(a)(19) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDB2022F8EE27047F1984D30820519A5ED"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>the prior fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each of the 2 most recently completed fiscal years</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID5FAB2B2210DA4FD8BC849A5E7BD2454F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>for that year</quote> and inserting <quote>with respect to those fiscal years</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID712C02CF39C648428D3EC0E32347DD24"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>in that year</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>in those fiscal years</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID1F132DE7BF474AFAB7D231B004AC18B4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Estimated Expenditures of Legislative and Judicial Branches</header><text>Section 1105(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>each year</quote> and inserting <quote>each even-numbered year</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID489EC23397DC444F91C6E11DFB84D802"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Recommendations To Meet Estimated Deficiencies</header><text>Section 1105(c) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="IDC06598FB8690492393D115E352828D38"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking <quote>the fiscal year for</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium for</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC2F71A09B7454EF99AAD59498FA0E541"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>the fiscal year for</quote> the second place it appears and inserting <quote>each fiscal year of the biennium, as the case may be, for</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA1650548FA5B4C25A348E9CC3451B018"><enum>(3)</enum><text>striking <quote>for that year</quote> and inserting <quote>for each fiscal year of the biennium</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDF8813F1BCE3A4B2A8BE0AD089033AE61"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Capital Investment Analysis</header><text>Section 1105(e)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>ensuing fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium to which such budget relates</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID2B54A2168FB1451482A1526A0AD12B05"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Supplemental Budget Estimates and Changes</header>
<paragraph id="ID0F917A09080B4248A623D14833CC03A7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 1106(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID903D2831AEB940128B93903923F8DE21"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by—</text>
<clause id="ID7471AFD6BAED4E34BA9BC7CAD6529939"><enum>(i)</enum><text>inserting after <quote>Before July 16 of each year</quote> the following: <quote>and February 15 of each even-numbered year</quote>; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID29E5F8A6D5694339BD89AE0981BE9651"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID21EF1EC863F445408AEE9E0CBABD6532"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>that fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in such biennium</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID8F9647181C2244C1A17E6CCF3F8F5A03"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID5355B86C2DFD4E3FBFB63671D255BBF1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>biennium</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC5AC1EAD34334C12A28ABDCC8971595E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Changes</header><text>Section 1106(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDDDFA78A4830B48FEB20B0D54ADE9902F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>the fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year in the biennium</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDC4A451B530BA4FA4AB1455F5DBB3EBD7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>inserting after <quote>Before July 16 of each year</quote> the following: <quote>and February 15 of each even-numbered year</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID3678F0C2087B4C2ABA2A29B86BB167EA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking <quote>submitted before July 16</quote> and inserting <quote>required by this subsection</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID5C36FAFB107A437DBC95074CAC18094A"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Current Programs and Activities Estimates</header>
<paragraph id="ID3F832BC654FC465D900D11412A2764B9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 1109(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID804C7B58CD3D4FF7B19F40837ED4C791"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>On or before the first Monday after January 3 of each year (on or before February 5 in 1986)</quote> and inserting <quote>At the same time the budget required by section 1105 is submitted for a biennium</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDA485F5FA2F1140DBADC73FB8A5B92B93"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>the following fiscal year</quote> and inserting <quote>each fiscal year of such period</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1F26874BC6154B39BBD215076EF62246"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Joint economic committee</header><text>Section 1109(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>March 1 of each year</quote> and inserting <quote>within 6 weeks of the President’s budget submission for each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by section 300(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID3E56D553BE094FA0A1496D85313C0C29"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Year-Ahead Requests for Authorizing Legislation</header><text>Section 1110 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="ID00E90EBF20ED4400B009C3464EF9C5B5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking <quote>May 16</quote> and inserting <quote>March 31</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID19648ADDDB5C4DE58D6EF147994FEA65"><enum>(2)</enum><text>striking <quote>year before the year in which the fiscal year begins</quote> and inserting <quote>calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the biennium begins</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID344A26BBE76C49618E526F09AFEB1E13"><enum>304.</enum><header>Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriations Acts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="ID7F44B59592B94301AA3D1ED18A24DD15"><enum>105.</enum><header>Title and style of appropriations Acts</header>
<subsection id="ID6B54DC04755F4BBFB8E0F14A4CD74B6F"><enum>(a)</enum><text>The style and title of all Acts making appropriations for the support of the Government shall be as follows: <quote>An Act making appropriations (here insert the object) for each fiscal year in the biennium of fiscal years (here insert the fiscal years of the biennium).</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID95F5AEF2DFAE447789CBC16AC558783C"><enum>(b)</enum><text>All Acts making regular appropriations for the support of the Government shall be enacted for a biennium and shall specify the amount of appropriations provided for each fiscal year in such period.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID3123CDE15D5D4E81BC2E8D651C854834"><enum>(c)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>biennium</term> has the same meaning as in section 3(11) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(11)).</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="ID0AEFA7BD87664C5291DFBA9D6B727747"><enum>305.</enum><header>Multiyear authorizations</header>
<subsection id="ID675FEF3ABDD6435798CB6C5B91DC0B73"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
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<section id="IDD4098B9D08104CED8A18C0F1680DD978"><enum>316.</enum><header>Authorizations of appropriations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id6426D7DA24CD4235A7BD6ACAAEA213CC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Point of order</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider—</text>
<paragraph id="IDBC32F47635FE4AC2970183EECE5C43D3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that authorizes appropriations for a period of less than 2 fiscal years, unless the program, project, or activity for which the appropriations are authorized will require no further appropriations and will be completed or terminated after the appropriations have been expended; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6FC5F5C03BB14C0A8AD8A2845AD6988D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in any odd-numbered year, any authorization or revenue bill or joint resolution until Congress completes action on the biennial budget resolution, all regular biennial appropriations bills, and all reconciliation bills.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID75539C8208FB4009A65AD5AC2EB00DB8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>In the Senate, subsection (a) shall not apply to—</text>
<paragraph id="ID908AEE686765493CB349D00732104013"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any measure that is privileged for consideration pursuant to a rule or statute;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6F463A77E62444F8AB4A22A188D4C297"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any matter considered in Executive Session; or</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID80ACD0E79C0D4445AF151EEA9F017B61"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an appropriations measure or reconciliation bill.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID275C28845BC7418EAB4DC2B40D65C77B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendment to Table of Contents</header><text>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 315 the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 316. Authorizations of appropriations.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section>
<section id="IDB8AAA84AA237447BA3D9378EE0C1F5D1"><enum>306.</enum><header>Government plans on a biennial basis</header>
<subsection id="ID0A13388FC2A348ABA42A59231FED03A6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Strategic Plans</header><text>Section 306 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID00509C61B6B940ED97B336BC92BA8194"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>September 30, 1997</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2007</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID317119CE9F424EF5A79BF8C617E6E670"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b) by—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD18847BA975E41B08F63E59B11E7647A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>five years forward</quote> and inserting <quote>6 years forward</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID465CAF97F0F141F3A780E2FB301C5212"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>at least every three years</quote> and inserting <quote>at least every 4 years</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID433F2F2EB0254E8B8DBDBA3DA9798C18"><enum>(C)</enum><text>striking beginning with <quote>, except that</quote> through <quote>four years</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD767FD390D504428A96E8EBA74F04E0D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by inserting a comma after <quote>section</quote> the second place it appears and adding <quote>including a strategic plan submitted by September 30, 2008 meeting the requirements of subsection (a)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDE0CA34A5D82B4593A4E425863D3AA92E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Budget Contents and Submission to Congress</header><text>Paragraph (28) of section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>beginning with fiscal year 1999, a</quote> and inserting <quote>beginning with fiscal year 2008, a biennial</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID50AF6F3131A3480A9B51DEF081E68AF5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Performance Plans</header><text>Section 1115 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID6ECE041EB6D9494BAE66E33FBD053D57"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID7BFC511A004F489E978F95867CD8284F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter before paragraph (1) by striking <quote>an annual</quote> and inserting <quote>a biennial</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDED1F876517164FC0BD1E673567A0F094"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) by inserting after <quote>program activity</quote> the following: <quote>for both years 1 and 2 of the biennial plan</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID11895990533B46B29341EDE379C77660"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (5) by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon ;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID9655FDD774D1475EAED61A4E6B18C867"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (6) by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and inserting <quote>and</quote> after the inserted semicolon; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID047F62E5A32A476BB7E837B5A4D8D245"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by adding after paragraph (6) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="IDAD16E8EE198243F2B8683A4F5D66E6A8"><enum>(7)</enum><text>cover a 2-year period beginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial budget cycle.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2BDF711CB0AC423F8D282B88C9E69F52"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d) by striking <quote>annual</quote> and inserting <quote>biennial</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDB651B74895647E1B7BB3E002038D643"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (6) of subsection (g) by striking <quote>annual</quote> and inserting <quote>biennial</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID0B7F86D5B22A4B9F97DC4A0D547DDC27"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Managerial Accountability and Flexibility</header><text>Section 9703 of title 31, United States Code, relating to managerial accountability, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID696DB8BD20084B54A65CC7A90C89D376"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDA8F5B2F6AE694369A2ED46BE68540BCD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence by striking <quote>annual</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDB8ADA3A4047B411F8D16BC23E25A9255"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 1105(a)(29)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 1105(a)(28)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID7AF09FE6E72E4097838502D15C228749"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDDD82612D00D240E2A155355CFE46D569"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence by striking <quote>one or</quote> before <quote>years</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDE8F130FB989545C6956715D776F74EA7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the second sentence by striking <quote>a subsequent year</quote> and inserting <quote>a subsequent 2-year period</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDDEA7A4BB37C54047B6F3DA8B0F00EFE6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the third sentence by striking <quote>three</quote> and inserting <quote>4</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID5EAEA1728FFE4A1D910AE44ABCD50CE7"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Pilot Projects for Performance Budgeting</header><text>Section 1119 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDF7C3C92A95554B03B0F7E6A4A43EDC55"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1) of subsection (d), by striking <quote>annual</quote> and inserting <quote>biennial</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB9592BC3239A4A5895592EBA43B541BD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by striking <quote>annual</quote> and inserting <quote>biennial</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDA0AF82D7D2194A928F0E0E50A5592B5B"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Strategic Plans</header><text>Section 2802 of title 39, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID49012306E0004300A0DBE685D2BDE4EF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>September 30, 1997</quote> and inserting <quote>September 30, 2008</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB38C0FEEAFD14F8DB7B3B2A733A760CE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>five years forward</quote> and inserting <quote>6 years forward</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2CD8275FF0764550A281EF1A08D726E0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>at least every three years</quote> and inserting <quote>at least every 4 years</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6DF2D358F35E4A63B51D5E57F6AA0A2D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by inserting a comma after <quote>section</quote> the second place it appears and inserting <quote>including a strategic plan submitted by September 30, 2008 meeting the requirements of subsection (a)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID304A64E96BD747539E4693AF8D28125E"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Performance Plans</header><text>Section 2803(a) of title 39, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDB2B76BB840264FA4903F99D75C4D867C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter before paragraph (1), by striking <quote>an annual</quote> and inserting <quote>a biennial</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1263744D024847629D72086729EC3A64"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by inserting after <quote>program activity</quote> the following: <quote>for both years 1 and 2 of the biennial plan</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDAE7D2049B2794056955F999280958998"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID896D45C192D1445BBDF3D7FCA200A14B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF6F0359D4B5E413292EB41110D1EC621"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by adding after paragraph (6) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID1E7AACD28A384C629A6EF29E582510A9"><enum>(7)</enum><text>cover a 2-year period beginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial budget cycle.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDDAC4DBE4DBC44204BBB48F8629C5249B"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Committee Views of Plans and Reports</header><text>Section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act (2 U.S.C. 632(d)) is amended by adding at the end <quote>Each committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall review the strategic plans, performance plans, and performance reports, required under section 306 of title 5, United States Code, and sections 1115 and 1116 of title 31, United States Code, of all agencies under the jurisdiction of the committee. Each committee may provide its views on such plans or reports to the Committee on the Budget of the applicable House.</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID3EAFACEC93C84F4DAD10AAE697640A79"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Effective Date</header>
<paragraph id="IDBDDCFB66996145E79C72A2E84333B48B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID79D4ECD18AB347D2A70079FD6BB4F86D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Agency actions</header><text>Effective on and after the date of enactment of this Act, each agency shall take such actions as necessary to prepare and submit any plan or report in accordance with the amendments made by this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID1AEE5A3761644195B522C49E3015B350"><enum>307.</enum><header>Biennial appropriation bills</header>
<subsection id="ID6B2CF13F74074B5DA0E0A5A11B01DA47"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="ID20F0EE1CACAA4BBCB72BAD543553FF81"><enum>317.</enum><header>Consideration of biennial appropriations bills</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives in any odd-numbered year to consider any regular bill providing new budget authority or a limitation on obligations under the jurisdiction of any of the subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations for only the first fiscal year of a biennium, unless the program, project, or activity for which the new budget authority or obligation limitation is provided will require no additional authority beyond 1 year and will be completed or terminated after the amount provided has been expended.</text> </section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDC4CA4760F8854E14B72E36373D459DF4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendment to Table of Contents</header><text>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 316 the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 317. Consideration of biennial appropriations bills.</toc-entry> </toc> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section>
<section id="IDA6D89F5EFB9E4150A0D3AEC2A4097A9A"><enum>308.</enum><header>Report on changes in law</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of OMB shall report to the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives any changes in law to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the provisions of this Act required to conform with a biennial budget process.</text> </section>
<section id="IDC73634FC8F6740C081187A5AED209937"><enum>309.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Except as provided in sections 306 and 308, this title and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on January 1, 2008, and shall apply to budget resolutions and appropriations for the biennium beginning with fiscal year 2009.</text> </section>
<enum>IV</enum><header>Commissions</header>
<subtitle id="id65526D43B0F0438CB681673A8C2DE3A9"><enum>A</enum><header>National Commission on Entitlement Solvency</header>
<section id="id44401632-19c4-49ba-ab88-8eb964ad7921"><enum>401.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph id="id8401b117-4a71-4e35-9bdc-9d63f1a18080"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administrator</header><text>The term <term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="idfa5ed1fb-5a6e-4634-8860-1c3e2e0a1e85"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Calendar day</header><text>The term <term>calendar day</term> means a calendar day other than one in which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date certain.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="idebbc70a2-c473-463c-9cfe-dd9b2e0829f2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the National Commission on Entitlement Solvency established under section 402(a).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="idf76a2706-e5b5-4293-bf66-7001044f5e75"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Commission bill</header><text>The term <term>Commission bill</term> means a bill consisting of the proposed legislative language provisions of the Commission introduced under section 403(a).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id11199014-55f8-4678-a4ca-7bf24085b196"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Commissioner</header><text>The term <term>Commissioner</term> means the Commissioner of Social Security.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id2812c927-804e-4983-b6e9-f94164068d97"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Long-term</header><text>The term <term>long-term</term> means a period of not less than 75 years beginning on the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id4c3ce690-70f0-4611-9faa-cc5d1fc1d1c3"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Medicaid</header><text>The term <term>Medicaid</term> means the program established under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idabeb46c8-fc4a-43fa-a165-768062d52326"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Medicare</header><text>The term <term>Medicare</term> means the program established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ide211df34-6421-43a5-b98d-c4ada9ca66d1"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Social Security</header><text>The term <term>Social Security</term> means the program of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits established under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.).</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ide7f48af0-ea69-4cbd-b564-45173c4218be"><enum>402.</enum><header>Establishment of Commission</header>
<subsection id="ida2c25eea-f433-4351-af33-5a9e1eb41693"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established a commission to be known as the <quote>National Commission on Entitlement Solvency</quote>.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="id7c335ce0-66a4-49ae-848d-d1b0968c727e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The Commission shall conduct a comprehensive review of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs for the following purposes:</text>
<paragraph id="id6847bf91-005f-441a-99c8-6eb6ab1d155b"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Review</header><text>Reviewing analyses of the current and long-term actuarial financial condition of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id6f3afe17-6caf-4026-ae6f-976d7b61026a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Identifying problems</header><text>Identifying problems that may threaten the long-term solvency of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="idf63cc771-6150-49d0-aeeb-882444f00b28"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Analyzing potential solutions</header><text>Analyzing potential solutions to problems that threaten the long-term solvency of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id2b9554ec-a94e-45e6-8713-cc5ec2fa0d7f"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Providing recommendations</header><text>Providing recommendations that will ensure the long-term solvency of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs and the provision of appropriate benefits.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="id71b62b2f-b08e-426d-afe1-71973aaa336e"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Duties</header>
<paragraph id="idcb1e80a5-445f-4a91-b16f-b13db0955ccd"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commission shall conduct a comprehensive review of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs consistent with the purposes described in subsection (b) and shall submit the report required under paragraph (2).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="idcc9e3d66-e263-4b36-af0a-87be8fa20cd5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report and recommendations</header>
<subparagraph id="idf5ac94c4-56ff-467b-b616-c1a76c7be653"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Commission holds its first meeting, the Commission shall submit a report on the long-term solvency of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs that contains a detailed statement of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Commission to the President, Congress, the Commissioner, and the Administrator.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id2df76a35-4ce6-4357-8a76-3e6572e2d7be"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Approval of report</header><text>The report of the Commission submitted under subparagraph (A) shall require the approval of not less than 12 members of the Commission.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id5e8cbe52-7403-4d51-a68c-aa6c94733039"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Legislative language</header><text>If a recommendation submitted under subparagraph (A) involves legislative action, the report shall include proposed legislative language to carry out such action.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="id3e4cede5-7430-4f0d-9ef0-eae3ee94d381"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appointment of members</header>
<paragraph id="idd972e5db-cc82-4023-bc71-a928df9bb8d0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header>
<subparagraph id="id32F0402431794817B2B421BECF77CBB4"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Membership</header><text>The membership of the commission shall not exceed 16 members appointed pursuant to subparagraph (B) as voting members and 3 nonvoting members described in subparagraph (C).</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idDD21E3309D914ABB990C49E022D08FDF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Voting members</header>
<clause id="id67F933A9BB0B4D8089CEB2FB751FF093"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Voting members of the commission shall be appointed as follows:</text>
<subclause id="idd2a00c4a-81d3-4292-9997-20e99a0d4a49"><enum>(I)</enum><text>The President shall appoint 2 members, 1 of whom shall be the Secretary of the Treasury.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="id15d8141c-65d8-4c39-8e93-d6e1214ac69a"><enum>(II)</enum><text>The majority leader of the Senate shall appoint 4 members.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="id080de00f-c451-42f0-8eed-05dd54d9a6c0"><enum>(III)</enum><text>The minority leader of the Senate shall appoint 3 members.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="id4343a8f8-c3f9-4fba-ab68-7aee3343d935"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint 4 members.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="id4e855bd7-e93b-4574-981c-7798e1de0c63"><enum>(V)</enum><text>The minority leader of the House of Representatives shall appoint 3 members.</text> </subclause></clause>
<clause id="idB00A419941F5446EA198A300D627FA5E"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Congressional appointees</header><text>The members of the Commission appointed under subclauses (II), (III), (IV), and (V) of clause (i) shall be Members of Congress.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idA9BA6ED2BF914612BA2757AA7CD7CEA8"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Non-voting member</header><text>The following shall be nonvoting members of the Commission and shall advise and assist at the request of the Commission:</text>
<clause id="idAD61840938164213ACCB62432A71ACDE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration.</text> </clause>
<clause id="id82F3760A1CCA4273B90A4A9F2878A6F2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.</text> </clause>
<clause id="idFAE20B67059C4B389B937CA6EE424493"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The Director of the Congressional Budget Office.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7f018f44-57dc-4fb1-b825-9fdf340a2088"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Chairperson</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury shall be the chairperson of the Commission.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3cda0a15-ec5d-48a4-bc8a-d453ebe77717"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Date</header><text>Members of the Commission shall be appointed by not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4a0408c-cfbe-48e0-aa29-08b3a97595a8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Period of appointment</header><text>Members shall be appointed for the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b65f886-8060-4275-97bc-6309d16e3dca"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Termination</header><text>The Commission shall terminate on the date that is 90 days after the Commission submits the report required under subsection (c)(2).</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id020d6de1-8ab1-416f-af96-f672895dd1f7"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Administration</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1925d8f8-9484-4052-a570-f60c1c54f59a"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Quorum</header><text>Eight members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for purposes of voting, but a quorum is not required for members to meet and hold hearings.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcffb04d2-93d3-4fc8-98e9-a4a556911fe3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Meetings</header><text>The Commission shall meet at the call of the chairperson or a majority of its members.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64a305e0-aa9a-489b-92b5-1a6233910f51"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Hearings</header><text>Subject to paragraph (7), the Commission may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act—</text>
<subparagraph id="iddb6d9ae4-eded-4fe1-9070-ffcae627ab6c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, take such testimony, receive such evidence, and administer such oaths the Commission considers advisable;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id08cb2341-efe7-48c3-92d8-ba934f96a7ec"><enum>(B)</enum><text>require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses the Commission considers advisable; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idc3b7f9cc-ba13-4834-8a57-5dc4ec162e53"><enum>(C)</enum><text>require, by subpoena or otherwise, the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, documents, tapes, and other evidentiary materials relating to any matter under investigation by the Commission.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="id59dea0ba-0c7c-4c94-bad5-f673ad665608"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Subpoenas</header>
<subparagraph id="idea0e9478-5e4d-4d47-8847-d77487a3f401"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Issuance</header>
<clause id="id7bd2826a-a344-4431-b566-3f72587c4f69"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A subpoena may be issued under this subsection only—</text>
<subclause id="id4083283e-2e48-49f9-9129-141b3d07a5b3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by the chairperson; or</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="idb1203ee5-d185-4695-b0da-fe393a2ba5d1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by the affirmative vote of 8 members of the Commission.</text> </subclause></clause>
<clause id="id1fc91ac4-6afc-4b7e-8469-951198d23916"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Signature</header><text>Subpoenas issued under this subsection may be issued under the signature of the chairperson of the Commission and may be served by any person designated by the chairperson or by a member designated by a majority of the Commission.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id32535aef-e81f-46e6-8c0f-0c4369407830"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text>In the case of contumacy or failure to obey a subpoena issued under this subsection, the United States district court for the judicial district in which the subpoenaed person resides, is served, or may be found, may issue an order requiring such person to appear at any designated place to testify or to produce documentary or other evidence. Any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt of that court.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00b4830b-e320-4d08-8f2e-99652cb9ee8f"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Compensation</header><text>Members of the Commission shall serve without any additional compensation for their work on the Commission. However, members may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes or regular places of business in performance of services for the Commission.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID26563510fc7d4d7b8cb4f0b9231513b2"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Staff</header>
<subparagraph id="IDda92d96769a245f2b9de2af7f72bb136"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>With the approval of a majority of the Commission, the chairperson of the Commission may appoint an executive director and such other additional personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to perform its duties.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID778e9620ac2447fbaa8c5b6f94e96477"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Actuarial experts and consultants</header><text>With the approval of a majority of the Commission, the Executive Director may procure temporary and intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID1c4ea3d630434771b632f1dd3d5c7aca"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Compensation</header><text>Upon the approval of the chairperson, the executive director may fix the compensation of the executive director and other personnel without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, relating to classification of positions and General Schedule pay rates, except that the rate of pay for the executive director and other personnel may not exceed the maximum rate payable for a position at GS–15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of such title.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDd4245f4d2f8343d89eb44e0fa916c31b"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Personnel as Federal employees</header>
<clause id="IDd6f710594d594a5f99e7066ebd4340c5"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The executive director and any personnel of the Commission who are employees shall be employees under section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, for purposes of chapters 63, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 89A, 89B, and 90 of that title.</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDb998fe4a077d4a79b6e8d9bad192ae40"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Members of commission</header><text>Clause (i) shall not be construed to apply to members of the Commission.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBA45B35A8F6243A3BAAFC11EA2D00798"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Federal agencies</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc65e7268-94cd-4965-9ad8-aa4b278c27ec"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Detail of government employees</header><text>Upon the request of the Commission, the head of any Federal agency may detail, without reimbursement by the Commission, any of the personnel of such agency to the Commission to assist in carrying out the duties of the Commission. Any such detail shall not interrupt or otherwise affect the civil service status or privileges of the Federal employee.</text> </clause>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51804ca6-f78a-48e5-90b6-11a1ec5a3c03"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header><text>Upon the request of the Commission, the head of a Federal agency shall provide such technical assistance to the Commission as the Commission determines to be necessary to carry out its duties.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID5d38d83b8ce446a09bbb072438daea5a"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Information</header>
<subparagraph id="idBE766B8F787844FE8E634EF75DABAAFD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Resources</header><text>The Commission shall have reasonable access to materials, resources, statistical data, and other information the Commission determines to be necessary to carry out its duties from the Library of Congress, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration, the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Congressional Budget Office, and other agencies and representatives of the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government. The chairperson shall make requests for such access in writing when necessary.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID2cbe9e0b06a44025b2b5817f68a80646"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Receipt, handling, storage, and dissemination of information</header><text>Information shall only be received, handled, stored, and disseminated by members of the Commission and its staff consistent with all applicable statutes, regulations, and Executive orders.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID239521846fa74e1289493d2e4231d6da"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation of access to tax information</header><text>Information requested, subpoenaed, or otherwise accessed under this subtitle shall not include tax data from the United States Internal Revenue Service, the release of which would otherwise be in violation of law.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1d8925e16fc44224b1eb05b4848ef854"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Postal services</header><text>The Commission may use the United States mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other departments and agencies of the Federal Government.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf9747a87-bae9-40fa-adff-5d3513d36760"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>The Commission shall receive, from amounts appropriated to the Commissioner and the Administrator, respectively, for fiscal year 2008 for administrative expenses, such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.</text> </subsection></section>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id100cb793-715b-4ccd-b865-606c36bdd92e"><enum>403.</enum><header>Expedited consideration of Commission recommendations</header>
<subsection id="id03752a76-d4f8-4cc1-a2aa-58e855ab331d"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Introduction and committee consideration</header>
<paragraph id="idbc1a7007-af14-4aba-b710-b8a85b01c5d5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Introduction</header><text>The aggregate legislative language provisions submitted pursuant to section 402(c)(2)(C) shall be combined into a Commission bill to be introduced in the Senate by the majority leader, or the majority leader’s designee, and in the House of Representatives, by the Speaker, or the Speaker’s designee. Upon such introduction, the Commission bill shall be referred to the appropriate committees of Congress under paragraph (2). If the Commission bill is not introduced in accordance with the preceding sentence, then any member of Congress may introduce the Commission bill in their respective House of Congress beginning on the date that is the 5th calendar day that such House is in session following the date of the submission of such aggregate legislative language provisions.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id820678aa-c928-4e59-b37d-935b5ae8aada"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Committee consideration</header>
<subparagraph id="id06607382-20f4-4c34-bfe1-49287aad9128"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Referral</header><text>A Commission bill introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Finance of the Senate. A Commission bill introduced in the House of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDc00081a112394dfaa12687c20a1a162c"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Not later than 30 calendar days after the introduction of the Commission bill, each Committee of Congress to which the Commission bill was referred shall report such bill or such bill as amended by the committee. All committee amendments must comply with the requirements of section 402(b)(4).</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID686f9fdebc454431a1fe9839a7056a3c"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Discharge of committee</header><text>If a committee to which is referred a Commission bill has not reported a Commission bill or such bill as amended, at the end of 30 calendar days after its introduction or at the end of the first day after there has been reported to the House involved a Commission bill or such bill as amended, whichever is earlier, such committee shall be deemed to be discharged from further consideration of such Commission bill, and such Commission bill shall be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House involved.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID620e2ae7411046ad9512fe251ab9ce3f"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expedited procedure</header>
<paragraph id="IDd35a2f234c4a425d921fb399a3f3fa43"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Consideration</header>
<subparagraph id="ID2c7ca40b582e485395361afb767dcfcc"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 5 days of session after the date on which a committee reports a Commission bill, or such bill as amended, or has been discharged from consideration of a Commission bill, the majority leader of the Senate, or the majority leader’s designee, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or the Speaker’s designee, shall move to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill or such bill as amended. It shall also be in order for any member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, respectively, to move to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill at any time after the conclusion of such 5-day period.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDbfe7bd79fa30410e812b9797da6e62ce"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Motion to proceed</header><text>A motion to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill is highly privileged in the House of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment or to a motion to postpone consideration of the Commission bill. A motion to proceed to the consideration of other business shall not be in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion to proceed is agreed to or not agreed to shall not be in order. If the motion to proceed is agreed to, the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall immediately proceed to consideration of the Commission bill without intervening motion, order, or other business, and the Commission bill shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, until disposed of.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID9fcfca1203c34371b3c397b7fb8dea75"><enum>(C)</enum><header>In the Senate</header>
<clause id="idA263ACDDFAF742E89483D8159C484F38"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Consideration</header><text>In the Senate, consideration of the Commission bill and all amendments thereto and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith shall be limited to not more than 50 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing amendments to the Commission bill or the Commission bill. A motion further to limit debate on the Commission bill is in order and is not debatable. All time used for consideration of the Commission bill, including time used for quorum calls (except quorum calls immediately preceding a vote) and voting, shall be counted against the 50 hours of consideration.</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDc08f240ffff84a8086cdf4e1fc22613b"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Amendments</header><text>No amendment that is not germane to the provisions of committee amendments to the Commission bill or the Commission bill shall be in order in the Senate. All amendments must comply with the requirements of section 402(b)(4). In the Senate, an amendment, any amendment to an amendment, or any debatable motion or appeal is debatable for not to exceed 1 hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the amendment, motion, or appeal.</text> </clause>
<clause id="id0B505E6DD3CB4CDEAFFDB02788D609C2"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Motion to recommit</header>
<subclause id="idE1574E7AD5B845149DFB09D7DF3249B9"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Vote</header><text>Upon expiration of the time for consideration of the Commission bill, the measure shall be recommitted to the Committee on Finance of the Senate for further consideration unless by a <fraction>3/5</fraction> vote of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, the Senate agrees to proceed to final passage.</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="idBEE650C1CBCF487BBDB81E5F2F6415A7"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Recommital</header><text>If the bill is recommitted under subclause (I), any new amendments to the Commission bill shall be considered under the provisions of section 402(b)(4).</text> </subclause></clause>
<clause id="ID5d00dd1c24254baeadc4a0b9f34998bd"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Vote on final passage</header><text>In the Senate, immediately following the conclusion of consideration of the Commission bill, the disposition of any pending amendments under clause (ii), a motion to recommit under clause (iii), and a request to establish the presence of a quorum, the vote on final passage of the Commission bill shall occur.</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID723fa6c18829473ead553780aeeddf7e"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Other motions not in order</header><text>A motion to postpone or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business is not in order in the Senate. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the Commission bill is agreed to or not agreed to is not in order in the Senate.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="idecc15fec-f84a-4b5b-891e-07ab9b0b8f87"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conference</header>
<subparagraph id="id42D95244D0874B46A01E41AE94E5556E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Proceeding to conference</header><text>If, after a Commission bill is agreed to in the Senate or House of Representatives, the Commission bill has been amended, the Commission bill shall be deemed to be at a stage of disagreement and motions to proceed to conference are deemed to be agreed to. There shall be no motions to instruct. The Senate and the House of Representatives shall appoint conferees after the vote of the second House that results in such disagreement without any intervening action or debate. In the event that conferees are not appointed in accordance with the preceding sentence, the following shall be deemed to be the duly appointed conferees:</text>
<clause id="idB1779F73C95E42A6BAD31DA623005B43"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The majority leader of the Senate or the majority leader’s designee.</text> </clause>
<clause id="id36B03CB90BA34C8BBCC54E2BF69BC40E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The Speaker of the House of Representatives or the Speaker’s designee</text> </clause>
<clause id="idF3513CD72121497F93105E1AD75B27E1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Budget.</text> </clause>
<clause id="id3E16647C46B54C29A342EB3DF68198B8"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance.</text> </clause>
<clause id="idDBD692E2554D4430A7BFD8E5AC877455"><enum>(v)</enum><text>The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives.</text> </clause>
<clause id="idB841E82CE4484ABBB483C3B96416F542"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.</text> </clause>
<clause id="id354E5EE260FC429EA82367B7EB2E28C1"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id8e701d9a-ac8f-4c5f-ab99-addf6dd4ce79"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Motion to proceed in the senate</header><text>The motion to proceed to consideration in the Senate of the conference report on the Commission bill may be made even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id64A9E0B6A2C94FF2866614C23BC2618C"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Procedure</header><text>Debate on the conference report on the Commission bill considered under this section shall be limited to 20 hours equally divided between the manager of the conference report and the minority leader, or his designee.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id54E69EF7BF0E47B8B62EAEBF47B5C3DE"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Final passage</header><text>A vote on final passage of the conference report on the Commission bill shall be taken in the Senate and the House of Representatives on or before the close of the 10th day of session of that House after the date the conference report is submitted in that House. If the conference report is passed, the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall cause the conference report to be transmitted to the other House before the close of the next day of session of that House.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idD0CCCD3485AF46DC84927141B254EE10"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Action of senate</header>
<clause id="idC0BF10F386C44EFABE4072192B4B0264"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the Senate has received from the House the conference report on the Commission bill prior to the vote required under subparagraph (E), then the Senate shall consider, and the vote under subparagraph (E) shall occur on, the House conference report or the version of the Commission bill passed by the House.</text> </clause>
<clause id="id58CA6C7B763A423681E58CE8BFC9962D"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Motion to recommit</header>
<subclause id="id859C5D6AC11D476AAEFA0CDE3F8F4282"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Vote</header><text>Upon expiration of the time for consideration, the conference report on the Commission bill shall be recommitted to the Committee of Conference for further consideration unless by a <fraction>3/5</fraction> vote of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, the Senate agrees to proceed to final passage.</text> </subclause>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13594E2FB5C84A4FBCF7A46F81694732"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Recommital</header><text>If the conference report is recommitted under subclause (I), the conference report accompanying the bill shall be recommitted to the Conference Committee or it shall be in order to immediately proceed without intervening action to consideration of the motions for a new conference.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="id73ff03e6-8ec9-44d7-87a8-1d45e9cea23d"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Conference report defeated</header><text>Should the conference report be defeated, the provisions of this subsection shall apply to any request for a new conference and the appointment of conferees.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7A0F25A3B9804FBDBAE14BE38A3EE4F6"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">No suspension</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No motion to suspend the application of this subsection shall be in order in the Senate or in the House of Representatives, nor shall it be in order in the House of Representatives to suspend the application of this subsection by unanimous consent.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="id913b3a39-9d29-4798-9a44-0b6fed5b09ed"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Rules of the senate and the house of representatives</header><text>This section is enacted by Congress—</text>
<paragraph id="id0acbed75-c7a4-470e-bbba-a7dbae9dd53b"><enum>(1)</enum><text>as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and is deemed to be part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a Commission bill, and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f3e0ca0-9d37-4eea-ac9b-1095b1307d31"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="IDF78F368C3BEC4881B98AEA48541F9211"><enum>B</enum><header>Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies</header>
<section id="ID8508C85A6B1A4ABBAFAFB734778C82D1"><enum>411.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph id="IDE3E81290327A482DB39CD21941297C10"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Agency</header><text>The term <term>agency</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID340C1D189898449083724F40349FBFF8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an Executive agency, as defined under section 105 of title 5, United States Code; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID1FEF3059415846938CF9A5BC10B789E8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Executive Office of the President.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID915262DB2B7046CC80F47F8F24190E1E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Calendar day</header><text>The term <term>calendar day</term> means a calendar day other than 1 on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date certain.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA3F0DF48A2D6448EA3776A32B52A413A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Commission bill</header><text>The term <term>Commission bill</term> means only a bill which is introduced as provided under section 416, and contains the proposed legislation included in the report submitted to Congress under section 413(b)(3), without modification.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDC6DC0056F8345A4B848D78D8C137E2F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Program</header><text>The term <term>program</term> means any activity or function of an agency.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID890F4E4A526B4FB58CA8F890F8BE4A73"><enum>412.</enum><header>Establishment of Commission</header>
<subsection id="IDABF0B7EB513A4C46892000B752AAFA46"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established the Commission on Congressional Budgetary Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies (referred to in this subtitle as the <quote>Commission</quote>).</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDFD5E69A993D242878D255D025E4B365D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Membership</header>
<paragraph id="ID08728D93DA874DEE87F64198EDDE9C53"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commission shall consist of 15 members, of which, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID0A69C872A50C407C803887A2FE306C0F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>3 shall be appointed by the President;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDC96B6D4BE3B547BBB3B2AA3E3AA532D5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>3 shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDB785080DE75940BBBC115889F7F3CB94"><enum>(C)</enum><text>3 shall be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID49835D2F4418479380DC07AAEED2F0D6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>3 shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBAFCCB8085714F77A9E30D37EB0C02A2"><enum>(E)</enum><text>3 shall be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0DDA37BAE6BB450C9B148D689955EBE0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Cochairpersons</header><text>The President shall designate 2 Cochairpersons from among the members of the Commission. The Cochairpersons may not be affiliated with the same political party.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDDBBC0CF9CCF14D04A487CC2EE5D51F57"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Date</header><text>Members of the Commission shall be appointed by not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDB5A2FDFE152749189E18A587363176EC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Period of Appointment; Vacancies</header><text>Members shall be appointed for the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers, but shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDBBDC1E1F95824775B2FDCDA83A5D97EB"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Meetings</header>
<paragraph id="ID3E1B39FC451E4ECAB7AB655FECDD3859"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Initial meeting</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date on which all members of the Commission have been appointed, the Commission shall hold its first meeting.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0D790D893E9445DAA150703B75FD74E1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Subsequent meetings</header><text>The Commission shall meet at the call of the Cochairpersons or a majority of its members.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDCF091E8FC8FB4EC0B3F802D038688E6A"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Quorum</header><text>Eight members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for purposes of voting, but a quorum is not required for members to meet and hold hearings.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="ID435AF3DC093047899152CD72A5A74E03"><enum>413.</enum><header>Duties of the Commission</header>
<subsection id="ID7DB5B6E3480947529B9BA949BBD0661E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Systematic Assessment of Programs by the President</header>
<paragraph id="ID0C2B791C313B489BA665881FD8AA52A5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act and each of the next 3 years thereafter, the President shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDDEA5469E50914198B80B3A8974FB3971"><enum>(A)</enum><text>establish a systematic method for assessing the effectiveness and accountability of agency programs in accordance with paragraph (2) and divide the programs into 4 approximately equal budgetary parts based on the size of the budget and number of personnel of the agency program; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID9C1431E49CF147B6B812AB384D78ABA6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>submit, to the Commission each year, an assessment of the programs within each part (1 each year) that use the method established under subparagraph (A).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID10F10949B3394105B159EE92DB372078"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Method objectives</header><text>The method established under paragraph (1) shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD4693EED28AD46549F2E50F7EC26AF8C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>recognize different types of Federal programs;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDF5D971ADC77447D59E56526A4B585C29"><enum>(B)</enum><text>assess programs based on the achievement of performance goals (as defined under section 1115(g)(4) of title 31, United States Code);</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID4EF31BC4E529403EA2D629020F0FB917"><enum>(C)</enum><text>assess programs based in part on the adequacy of the program’s performance measures, financial management, and other factors determined by the President;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDF831E44D39204FD5A6B5DDBE2AE7A7F1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>assess programs based in part on whether the program has fulfilled the legislative intent surrounding the creation of the program, taking into account any change in legislative intent during the program’s existence; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID895DCB14CC84474984ED0E51BA4AB741"><enum>(E)</enum><text>assess programs based in part on collaborative analysis, with the program or agency, of program policy and goals which may not fit into easily measurable performance goals.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID71FA9AD1A69D48E089CED0BC9D5FD87F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Common performance measures</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall identify common performance measures for programs covered in paragraph (1) that have similar functions and, to the extent feasible, provide the Commission with data on such performance measures.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID01606DB87FAA4299BDF2A4AEE71F3B9D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Evaluation and Plan by Commission</header>
<paragraph id="IDFD8D0F5EB27C482EA01D3632C58A49CB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Development</header><text>The method established under subsection (a) shall be subject to review and change by the Commission. If the Commission makes any changes in the method, the Commission shall notify Congress not later than 1 year after reviewing the first assessment from the President under this section.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID201DC2BF49124A8CB49A22975D7E53EB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consideration of assessments</header><text>The Commission shall consider assessments submitted under subsection (a) when evaluating programs under this subsection.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6AFB70A09F434EF39F6E3C45EF92A116"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Assessment and legislation</header>
<subparagraph id="IDA85E70FBB9314D6D91500FF09071CC1A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commission shall—</text>
<clause id="IDF8284B3BD64D4679B57FB7916B2E0CA8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>evaluate all agencies and programs within those agencies in each unit identified in the systemic assessment under subsection (a) (1 each year over the next 4 years), using the criteria under subsection (a) subject to modification under paragraph (1); and</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDF1F8C6EE39FE46BF863D92D97E46636F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>submit to Congress each of the next 4 years beginning January 1, 2008, with respect to each evaluation under clause (i)—</text>
<subclause id="IDE31F0992654E421EBFD3BD9521FB2161"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a plan with recommendations of the agencies and programs that should be realigned or eliminated within each part; and</text> </subclause>
<subclause id="IDBE2EEF6A138C41648EABA80D41D66B03"><enum>(II)</enum><text>proposed legislation to implement the plan described under subclause (I).</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBCBF160CD97946709A330D353EEF1B50"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Relocation of federal employees</header><text>The proposed legislation under subparagraph (A) shall provide that if the position of an employee of an agency is eliminated as a result of the implementation of the plan under subparagraph (A)(i), the affected agency shall make reasonable efforts to relocate such employee to another position within the agency or within another Federal agency.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1FDCF622CB304930882C574E554276FC"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Criteria</header>
<subparagraph id="ID0C32066857064FB89DF687322E5A78C9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Duplicative</header><text>If 2 or more agencies or programs are performing the same essential function and the function can be consolidated or streamlined into a single agency or program, the Commission shall recommend that the agencies or programs be realigned.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDDE6B9DA4FE964A7FB5275BCDDA3463F0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Wasteful or inefficient</header><text>The Commission may recommend the realignment or elimination of any agency or program that has wasted Federal funds by—</text>
<clause id="ID0AF8AE537E6C40E59F430F44D787F4EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>egregious spending;</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID9316220AC4884EE0A4FDA6B06D90ADF6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>mismanagement of resources and personnel; or</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID44263C7076294A5F80C803AEB15BF97C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>use of such funds for personal benefit or the benefit of a special interest group.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID81331B48122A485D86075A97B621CDD7"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Outdated, irrelevant, or failed</header><text>The Commission shall recommend the elimination of any agency or program that—</text>
<clause id="ID19EEF294D65D44E3989FE36CA26267DC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>has completed its intended purpose;</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID7650DA9A68424E5CAAB540B7DD79ED87"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>has become irrelevant; or</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDDEE80CB039714C7EB3694D93A18449CA"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>has failed to meet its objectives.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="IDE81C38B359634F4BBEB9B0F05755C263"><enum>414.</enum><header>Powers of the Commission</header>
<subsection id="IDB3689DF121DB4F62A6DFB7472624352D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Hearings</header><text>Subject to subsection (d), the Cochairpersons of the Commission may, for the purpose of carrying out this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="ID2648DFA821F443A2A430C8E41BF0A368"><enum>(1)</enum><text>hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, take such testimony, receive such evidence, and administer such oaths as the chairperson of the Commission considers advisable;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID56ABF2DE3B704C1A97C5466A17128572"><enum>(2)</enum><text>require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses as the chairperson of the Commission considers advisable; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID872067A1FAE44BA4871C0FB597C80EA6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>require, by subpoena or otherwise, the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, documents, tapes, and other evidentiary materials relating to any matter under investigation by the Commission.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID185DB38CDADA46A3B075B21282F40CB7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subpoenas</header>
<paragraph id="ID07CC012D045148DF995FF8FE59B07D29"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Issuance</header>
<subparagraph id="IDBB121BB2FBEA47F39199316E9BB90C12"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A subpoena may be issued under this subsection only by—</text>
<clause id="IDBEE59E95C1EA432FB1B27419D772871E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the agreement of the Cochairpersons; or</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID082049E9C2424D71825AC95DA49FB287"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the affirmative vote of 8 members of the Commission.</text> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID408F99B14D0F4A3292EFA93C0D64181A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Signature</header><text>Subpoenas issued under this subsection (a) may be issued under the signature of both Cochairpersons of the Commission and may be served by any person designated by the Cochairpersons or by a member designated by a majority of the Commission.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID62BF43192EC1486E8E6D5AF41D933A9E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text>In the case of contumacy or failure to obey a subpoena issued under subsection (a), the United States district court for the judicial district in which the subpoenaed person resides, is served, or may be found, may issue an order requiring such person to appear at any designated place to testify or to produce documentary or other evidence. Any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt of that court.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID9B67F794629C4FD58438D1DCF55FCF27"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Technical Assistance</header><text>Upon the request of the Commission, the head of a Federal agency shall provide such technical assistance to the Commission as the Commission determines to be necessary to carry out its duties.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID42F069E7962245C7B7315E600C7DB049"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Information</header>
<paragraph id="IDBA481B1479D54B73BDE8618B0593753C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commission shall have reasonable access to budgetary, performance or programmatic materials, resources, statistical data, and other information the Commission determines to be necessary to carry out its duties from the Congressional Budget Office, and other agencies and representatives of the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government. The Cochairpersons shall make requests for such access in writing when necessary.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6A3AD09F231547C7802EB4563DDF248A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Receipt, handling, storage, and dissemination of information</header><text>Information shall only be received, handled, stored, and disseminated by members of the Commission and its staff consistent with all applicable statutes, regulations, and Executive orders.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID49116666A06E40FFBEFE779079F08EBD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation of access to personal tax information</header><text>Information requested, subpoenaed, or otherwise accessed under this subtitle shall not include tax data from the United States Internal Revenue Service, the release of which would otherwise be in violation of law.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDC39EE98760A44C238625774FC52F9D8C"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Receipt, Handling, Storage, and Dissemination of Information</header><text>Information shall only be received, handled, stored, and disseminated by members of the Commission and its staff consistent with all applicable statutes, regulations, and Executive orders.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDEEF67D646A6E4EA5A8BA9B34963EF51D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Postal Services</header><text>The Commission may use the United States mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other departments and agencies of the Federal Government.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="ID5800ABCB76694422B1541CF49D986B6C"><enum>415.</enum><header>Commission personnel matters</header>
<subsection id="ID16C7C918359F4D758162CFE151C9102D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compensation of Members</header>
<paragraph id="IDE17F116E2D7C4DDF94C2E93761F3BE6E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Non-federal members</header><text>Except as provided under subsection (b), each member of the Commission who is not an officer or employee of the Federal Government shall not be compensated.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDA993F918D9D848CF8332F9AD97F64D77"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Federal officers or employees</header><text>All members of the Commission who are officers or employees of the United States shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as officers or employees of the United States.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID88E6789A70704AB79697B7B647189CA7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Travel Expenses</header><text>The members of the Commission shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized for employees of agencies under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, while away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services for the Commission.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID61CBDF77E27F4A8EBFB9872E8D14023A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Staff</header>
<paragraph id="ID6D982F838F404865ABC96701A4F32AA4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>With the approval of the majority of the Commission, the Cochairpersons of the Commission may, appoint an executive director and such other additional personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to perform its duties.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDEC23CBE7F2034ECD97E089A1DDC26810"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Compensation</header><text>Upon the approval of the Cochairpersons, the executive director may fix the compensation of the executive director and other personnel without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, relating to classification of positions and General Schedule pay rates, except that the rate of pay for the executive director and other personnel may not exceed the maximum rate payable for a position at GS–15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of such title.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2F6E780B0B724C42A1B25C7B97B5D3AE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Personnel as federal employees</header>
<subparagraph id="ID44C1458A314D412FA1DB239B73BC5BB4"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The executive director and any personnel of the Commission who are employees shall be employees under section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, for purposes of chapters 63, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 89A, 89B, and 90 of that title.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7B7988FFC7F343EDAB92005C153E401A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Members of commission</header><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not be construed to apply to members of the Commission.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID3F31282C11384F389149F2D65508F6DC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Detail of Government Employees</header><text>Any Federal Government employee may be detailed to the Commission without reimbursement from the Commission, and such detail shall be without interruption or loss of civil service status or privilege.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID96405802DDA44E70955D0D1326A0A4A3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Procurement of Temporary and Intermittent Services</header><text>With the approval of the majority of the Commission, the chairperson of the Commission may procure temporary and intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, at rates for individuals which do not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay prescribed for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of such title.</text> </subsection></section>
<section id="ID5E443883B7724F1EB22FDCFD9E6C2E0B"><enum>416.</enum><header>Expedited Consideration of reform proposals</header>
<subsection id="IDDF69135F5B1F4A4AB10E20F442101D36"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Introduction and Committee Consideration</header>
<paragraph id="ID6BEC24F9351E4AA48DA9AB088A840DC4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Introduction</header><text>The Commission bill language provisions submitted pursuant to section 413(b)(3) shall be introduced in the Senate by the majority leader, or the majority leader’s designee, and in the House of Representatives, by the Speaker, or the Speaker’s designee. Upon such introduction, the Commission bill shall be referred to the appropriate committees of Congress under paragraph (2). If the Commission bill is not introduced in accordance with the preceding sentence, then any member of Congress may introduce the Commission bill in their respective House of Congress beginning on the date that is the 5th calendar day that such House is in session following the date of the submission of such aggregate legislative language provisions.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID678B6F37CC1B440DB4408F80A4E4F441"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Committee consideration</header>
<subparagraph id="IDFD19B587F2FC42218D15A1308C1C06E6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Referral</header><text>A Commission bill introduced under paragraph (1) shall be referred to any appropriate committee of jurisdiction in the Senate, any appropriate committee of jurisdiction in the House of Representatives, the Committee on the Budget of the Senate and the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. A committee to which a Commission bill is referred under this paragraph may review and comment on such bill, may report such bill to the respective House, and may not amend such bill.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7BD278A87A0A461D90CDA73F8B36F4A2"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>Not later than 30 calendar days after the introduction of the Commission bill, each Committee of Congress to which the Commission bill was referred shall report the bill.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID8931A19EB86643F885171C20B80FDD01"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Discharge of committee</header><text>If a committee to which is referred a Commission bill has not reported such Commission bill at the end of 30 calendar days after its introduction or at the end of the first day after there has been reported to the House involved a Commission bill, whichever is earlier, such committee shall be deemed to be discharged from further consideration of such Commission bill, and such Commission bill shall be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House involved.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDC2914DC35F13409DBE79A5253F5F8317"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expedited Procedure</header>
<paragraph id="IDD32557A1BEF54C9F957C9D3DD4DD0389"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Consideration</header>
<subparagraph id="ID4511CC032FC84C0B9627A12378A9F1AE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 5 calendar days after the date on which a committee has reported a Commission bill or been discharged from consideration of a Commission bill, the majority leader of the Senate, or the majority leader’s designee, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or the Speaker’s designee, shall move to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill. It shall also be in order for any member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, respectively, to move to proceed to the consideration of the Commission bill at any time after the conclusion of such 5-day period.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDFB4DFBC6F43A48EE8CD04A25012BA4B1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Motion to proceed</header><text>A motion to proceed to the consideration of a Commission bill is highly privileged in the House of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment or to a motion to postpone consideration of the Commission bill. A motion to proceed to the consideration of other business shall not be in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion to proceed is agreed to or not agreed to shall not be in order. If the motion to proceed is agreed to, the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall immediately proceed to consideration of the Commission bill without intervening motion, order, or other business, and the Commission bill shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, until disposed of.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID9761021513A6486BBA91D091413442AC"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limited debate</header><text>Debate on the Commission bill and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the Commission bill. A motion further to limit debate on the Commission bill is in order and is not debatable. All time used for consideration of the Commission bill, including time used for quorum calls (except quorum calls immediately preceding a vote) and voting, shall come from the 10 hours of debate.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID3DC9F0D266014460801A5997B2020AE7"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Amendments</header><text>No amendment to the Commission bill shall be in order in the Senate and the House of Representatives.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID179BE34BD4C2489EB48451A0B27838A9"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Vote on final passage</header><text>Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on the Commission bill, the vote on final passage of the Commission bill shall occur.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID21748830F630412DA609708713EA852C"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Other motions not in order</header><text>A motion to postpone consideration of the Commission bill, a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the Commission bill is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the Commission bill is agreed to or not agreed to is not in order.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDB8DFE4EAE4454650ACDE230293C5A849"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consideration by other house</header><text>If, before the passage by one House of the Commission bill that was introduced in such House, such House receives from the other House a Commission bill as passed by such other House—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDE1DE5604E2C942099655F3A1B2B15B4C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Commission bill of the other House shall not be referred to a committee and may only be considered for final passage in the House that receives it under subparagraph (C);</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID52029F03EE6147058AF093A344648614"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the procedure in the House in receipt of the Commission bill of the other House, with respect to the Commission bill that was introduced in the House in receipt of the Commission bill of the other House, shall be the same as if no Commission bill had been received from the other House; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID380F0A7836FE41AE81DAD54CA9DBBA31"><enum>(C)</enum><text>notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the vote on final passage shall be on the Commission bill of the other House.</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">Upon disposition of a Commission bill that is received by one House from the other House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the Commission bill that was introduced in the receiving House.</continuation-text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID7A2FD66420C94AEE803AAB14A55A3AEF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives</header><text>This section is enacted by Congress—</text>
<paragraph id="ID44047B9EFA7340FAB3392499B01547F3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and is deemed to be part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a Commission bill, and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDFDD2769D742F4B56B679B610DFEFA920"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID48232735EAB4473C923FCC61F1B96C20"><enum>417.</enum><header>Termination of the Commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Commission shall terminate 90 days after the date on which the Commission submits the final evaluation and plan report under section 413.</text> </section>
<section id="IDB2E7D272E4434F9DAF6ECAF22774D873"><enum>418.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for carrying out this Act for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.</text> </section></subtitle>
<enum>V</enum><header>Budget process reforms</header>
<section id="ID73BE1299CBFE442DBA2FBB8B7B107980"><enum>501.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622) is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="ID7E73E65FAEE748AAA5AD8A10EE902FBD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>redesignating paragraphs (3) through (10) as paragraphs (7) through (14), respectively;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDCD40B1641AD14FECB82059363DEA0081"><enum>(2)</enum><text>adding after paragraph (2) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID31a7d912f6da477b9e4a1bc7ce868c78"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Direct spending and mandatory spending</header><text>The terms <term>direct spending</term> and <term>mandatory spending</term> mean—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDe81bb9342b5344f9bd77a52b52e15ce3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>budget authority provided by law other than appropriation Acts;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDc6965f4ff6944ec894ce233885f2fe9e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>budget authority provided in appropriation Acts to satisfy entitlement obligations created by pre-existing authorization laws, also known as appropriated entitlements; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID1742d0a335534803a1475328abb892a4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>entitlement authority.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID18ef0b4511f94566be5482161fc7ba10"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Discretionary appropriations and discretionary budget authority</header><text>The terms <term>discretionary appropriations</term> and <term>discretionary budget authority</term> mean budgetary resources provided in appropriation Acts, except those budgetary resources provided in appropriation Acts to fund mandatory program requirements as authorized under current law at the time of consideration of the appropriation measure.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0E4C5F71E5F948E4A780650CD00A66C0"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Governmental receipts</header><text>The term <term>governmental receipts</term> means revenue or collections from the public based on the government’s exercise of its sovereign powers, including but not limited to individual and corporate income taxes, social insurance taxes, customs, fines, compulsory license fees, deposits of earnings by the Federal Reserve System, duties, tariffs, other fees, miscellaneous receipts, gifts, and contributions.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD557DB0EF5F44D75A6C89D8CDC6FE700"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Secondary or indirect effects</header><text>The term <term>secondary or indirect effects</term> means changes in direct spending or government receipts other than the direct, observable effects of changes in legislation on related accounts, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD5AD277BBC204DC29E2571F4CCC8A0C1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the impact of changes in spending legislation on Federal tax receipts or the impact of changes in Federal tax laws on total Federal spending; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID5631B3C72DBB44D58ACB41B1B6D350EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the impacts on spending or government receipts if there is no statutory connection or established interaction between a legislative proposal and its impact on the operation of current law.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0D484A1B4EA54729B39E46E474C9C49F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="IDAC58FFB5CCE740ED80EC909BCEC267B5" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID94751D39F3E14B22BC03E91A24642E29"><enum>(15)</enum><header>Budget year</header><text>The term <term>budget year</term> means, with respect to a session of Congress, the fiscal year of the Government that starts on October 1 of the calendar year in which that session begins.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDBC1BB6D4BAC4C3CA0846551EF0E1B39"><enum>(16)</enum><header>Current year</header><text>The term <term>current year</term> means, with respect to a budget year, the fiscal year that immediately precedes that budget year.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section>
<section id="IDB01B41222FBA42D983E07D43238B4DBA"><enum>502.</enum><header>Annual Concurrent Resolution on the Budget</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID957DE10B58AC4E25AFC6CD9433F5EBC4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID71DF67E2BCBA4A23A26B9A404864DDEB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>Federal revenues</quote> both places it appears and inserting <quote>governmental receipts</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDA5FC544709C740648C263652B35CC84C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>major functional category</quote> and inserting <quote>standing, select, or special committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as appropriate,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID5B982A418A324090AA9CB97FC36BA201"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraphs (6) and (7), by striking <quote>For</quote> and inserting <quote>for</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID27C9C42149A94D6C836E919C27C95723"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in the matter following paragraph (7), by striking <quote>old age</quote> and inserting <quote>old-age</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDCCC5F19A26BF4417A593C5FB8A190FAF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDEF2B08BC23D8416899D4F9DBF80328A1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>entitlement authority</quote> and inserting <quote>direct spending</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDBCC3B7DB2BFD41A7907F897555ED090A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (7), by inserting <quote>is described in detail to allow the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget to determine whether it qualifies for such revision and the legislation</quote> after <quote>that legislation</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID5CD37DC2B326462B81585B2D8B00CE68"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4B98C901CA2540F39BDCA5DC4C71B57A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the caption, by striking <quote>and estimates of</quote> and inserting <quote>, estimates, and recommendations for deficit reduction from all</quote>;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0376C3F4AF5240B0823442E5B871A466"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by striking <quote>its views</quote> and inserting <quote>its specific recommendations for changes in law within the jurisdiction of the committee making the submission that result in deficit reduction and its views</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID561D45460C8745AABEB71E5C55346BB0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the third sentence, by striking <quote>or functions</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID82461547B04B4883A4B6A70119EB449D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID92F2310031554AFF830D051352DE675A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) by—</text>
<clause id="ID0CC98D9DA6714179903C24160440EE5F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (D) as subparagraphs (C) through (E), respectively;</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID1B996F7D5A414F9EAD338C1525CD3615"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) as subparagraphs (G) and (H), respectively;</text> </clause>
<clause id="IDA802940B8A1F4BC9A564104C4FF7652D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="ID00EAEC0C7EB44A6094A31823525BA789" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="IDC3710544DB294EDA9E96C0BBA608A870"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives, an estimate of total new budget authority and total outlays with the estimates divided between discretionary and mandatory amounts</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause>
<clause id="ID96AAA678845E47C1A8F713AC7A198941"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by adding after subparagraph (E), as redesignated, the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="ID0F8468D68C7F41E3AA0137F20346964C" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="ID133A14221C1E4777A686E43C963D2467"><enum>(F)</enum><text>with respect to each standing, select, or special committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives, an estimate of governmental receipts within the jurisdiction of that committee;</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDE022C9F509494515A0789A4AB2ED169E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(B), by—</text>
<clause id="ID267A18D7EC5F4FD9A4D6DB0B6545EB8E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>striking <quote>Federal revenues</quote> and inserting <quote>governmental receipts</quote>; and</text> </clause>
<clause id="ID35575689CC0D4CEF988A3B691D43C9EB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>striking <quote>such revenues</quote> and insert <quote>such governmental receipts</quote>.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="ID9A65E3F557A54C9F9A27A35AB40B6C48"><enum>503.</enum><header>Committee allocations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID6E0867460CCC4B2882F70658C2F5D8D5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="ID8ECF9FA235BA4EAB86D872E424D0F630" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID6A27107400184C4AB3B28D7000E034F7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Further division of amounts in the house</header><text>The amounts allocated to each committee of the House of Representatives for each fiscal year, other than the Committee on Appropriations, shall be further divided between amounts provided or required by law on the date of filing of that conference report and amounts not so provided or required. The amounts allocated to the Committee on Appropriations shall be further divided between discretionary and mandatory amounts or programs, as appropriate.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID30BD5CDCAEF942D8BE74EF805ABF29B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (g)(2), by striking <quote>committee</quote> and inserting <quote>Committee</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID76E9F4AEFDF148CE9A22D4FC72CB49F5"><enum>504.</enum><header>Budget resolution adoption</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 634(a)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="ID3D3E51B953604CAC9AA0E5E6F88F244C" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID0582771248674EA58AB996E44D4FEF73"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header>
<paragraph id="idDDA5A3AB59044E8784BDACD1162DC6C3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Point of order</header><text>Beginning on the first day of a new session of Congress, and until the concurrent resolution for the fiscal year beginning in October of the year the new session of Congress begins has been agreed to, it shall not be in order to consider with respect to the budget year covered by that resolution, any bill or joint resolution, amendment or motion thereto, or conference report thereon that—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1ECDA656D0AD4BF284A161BF19CC2B07"><enum>(A)</enum><text>provides an increase in budget authority or outlays for the current year or the budget year; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID927DA5843A464DFFA3CC2D535826B09F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provides an increase or decrease in governmental receipts during the current year or the budget year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDfbb67b031fb24bc09979ee69346cf8e3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Waiver and appeal</header>
<subparagraph id="id4868659932144A39AA945D17E7A757F1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (1) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID0042f743a04943a39e90fd81f253d3ea"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of paragraph (1) shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the bill or joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="IDBC4F3872F83045EE9DE482B400306395" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>505.</enum><header>Procedure in the Senate for budget resolutions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In the Senate, section 305(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="id7DA44F74F7EB4DB8A92945E9ED1B7C37"><enum>(1)</enum><text>redesignating paragraphs (3) through (6) as paragraphs (4) through (7), respectively; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="id6E3D9EEF806F470FAF3866887B68F709"><enum>(2)</enum><text>adding after paragraph (2) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFADB741010C747448C062827EEEE1E1C" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id17B250862F904F369186B03A2F0DC9DA"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Priority recognition</header><text>Upon the completion of the opening statements on the concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year by the chairman and ranking minority member (or designees) the Presiding Officer shall recognize the minority leader (or designees) who may offer an amendment.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID5A09E30745224252ABA7444AC769E35F"><enum>506.</enum><header>Budget projections</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 308(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 639(c)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID52888722F17B43B19EB45B78738971E1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>revenues</quote> and inserting <quote>governmental receipts</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2F28356B0EB647F28DE14E2FB7BAE18A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>entitlement</quote> and inserting <quote>direct spending</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="IDE927D9D890CA4E699698355FC583B463"><enum>507.</enum><header>Reconciliation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 641) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID0E8867763E014139B7B6F6C11E6FB4DE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="IDF76E1DE55FF34D0BB774E87DA1419C02" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDC36789EC19024E919A18571FAF949A56"><enum>(1)</enum><text>specify the total amount by which—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDD14B3B2D33724074BB453614AB9DDB4B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>new budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDDF7088A3DF63499BA1DAFA2D54651429"><enum>(B)</enum><text>budget authority;</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID9B54A0794B9D4F758DAF2436CA839595"><enum>(C)</enum><text>new direct spending authority; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7082BB7D7CF345D49E2EEF750D51ADF7"><enum>(D)</enum><text>governmental receipts other than income taxes, estate and gift taxes, excise taxes or payroll taxes, duties, or tariffs;</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">contained in laws, bills, and resolutions within the jurisdiction of a committee is to be changed for any of the fiscal years covered by the resolution and direct that committee to determine and recommend changes to accomplish a change of such total amount;</continuation-text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDAA327F1835254F5BA31CFA058E6A5209"><enum>(2)</enum><text>specify the total amount by which governmental receipts including income taxes, estate and gift taxes, excise taxes or social insurance taxes, miscellaneous receipts, duties, or tariffs are to be changed and direct that the committees having jurisdiction to determine and recommend changes in the governmental receipt laws, bills, and resolutions to accomplish a change of such total amount;</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID4A75005952414AFD81039FE6BDF188CC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="ID6B61CA3349EF49A3BC9288C35391B4AF" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID68BDE05C99DE4073A3E8F4C776365FBF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Legislative Procedure</header>
<paragraph id="IDE4036F784A0F427B88AC8F298AF645BA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>If a conference report on a concurrent resolution containing reconciliation instructions to 1 or more committees to determine and recommend changes in laws, bills, or resolutions is agreed to in accordance with subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDC0FB507287EA487C966F587D0DAC443D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>each such committee so instructed shall promptly make such determination and recommendations and submit such recommendations to the Committee on the Budget of its House, which upon receiving all such recommendations, shall report to its House reconciliation legislation carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDAD3614F8AFEE4C9290487E9F54F2027E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the event that any committee fails to comply with its instruction, then the Committees on the Budget may report amendments recommending changes within the jurisdiction of the noncompliant committee to achieve the changes contained in the instruction.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID6FCE0BCECDFF4BE99A7DDC425FA8F721"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For purposes of this subsection, a reconciliation resolution is a concurrent resolution directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as the case may be, to make specified changes in bills and resolutions which have not been enrolled.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF8480D43CC8A477D8028C062E23247FF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="IDBA65C1896DE14593A121A5C39B409EE8" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDB696CC78A8454D6FB57AC32C1D671D68" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Secondary or indirect effects of the legislative recommendations submitted by any committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives that is instructed pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget, shall be attributed to the committee proposing the change in law, but shall not be considered for the purpose of determining compliance with such instructions.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID144A4210B2DB480DAB8EE973BFE65DDC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (1) through (4) of subsection (d) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="IDA0793056624A4D269CF7B08237BA0F28" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDC809FCF68D1B469BAC8C515AF675A2A4" indent="up1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives to consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution if such amendment would have the effect of increasing any specific budget outlays above the level of such outlays provided in the bill or resolution (for the fiscal years covered by the reconciliation instructions set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget), or would have the effect of reducing any specific governmental receipts below the level of such governmental receipts provided in the bill or resolution (for such fiscal years), unless such amendment makes at least an equivalent reduction in other specific budget outlays, an equivalent increase in other specific governmental receipts, or an equivalent combination thereof (for such fiscal years), except that a motion to strike a provision providing new budget authority or new entitlement authority may be in order.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2BE43CBD772642C6B2CB31A9D26CFFD4" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any amendment to a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution if such amendment would have the effect of decreasing any specific budget outlay reductions below the level of such outlay reductions provided (for the fiscal years covered) in the reconciliation instructions which relate to such bill or resolution set forth in a resolution providing for reconciliation, or would have the effect of reducing governmental receipts increases below the level of such increases in such governmental receipts provided (for such fiscal years) in such instructions relating to such bill or resolution, unless such amendment makes a reduction in other specific budget outlays, an increase in other specific governmental receipts, or a combination thereof (for such fiscal years) at least equivalent to any increase in outlays or decrease in governmental receipts provided by such amendment, except that a motion to strike a provision shall always be in order.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID03194EDB95CA47949DDB508EBE8E039B" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply if a declaration of war by the Congress is in effect.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDD7A10E3463284D1A9F554CCB01B14063" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, the levels of budget authority, outlays, and governmental receipts for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID00325283DB2D4175B08E5FC96D5C15FF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID51F97E674AE94AF190B20E0535D2B9C2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>, motions in relation to a request for conference,</quote> after <quote>under subsection (b)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7AED3AEE151642B09D2DAE15D3FDF10D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>Debate</quote> and inserting <quote>Consideration</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="ID6CBC1B0F14BA4DB0935A854A1392B28C"><enum>508.</enum><header>Budgeting levels</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 311(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.642(a)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID583D5623D3AE4888852B8C237B53F2B0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter after subparagraph (C) in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>total revenues</quote> and inserting <quote>total governmental receipts</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDC9955DD5ADFD4DE197BC9C7058A9F3A6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(B), by striking <quote>revenues</quote> and inserting <quote>governmental receipts</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID939A7868726C4D598563D0109ABC87FC"><enum>509.</enum><header>Determinations and points of order</header>
<subsection id="IDEDADDEE5A51B42ADAAA41D17A69A1C70"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 643) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID9A50F358540743A0B0BBBA2B86EFF764"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>revenues</quote> and inserting <quote>governmental receipts</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3A1905E380794FC4B153826AFA41847D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsections (b) and (c);</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID77E489D50C0941EA933EE3F7EA400D63"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (d) through (f) as subsections (b) through (d), respectively; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDF929A7FC1B8C40ACA0C626995A405C5F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="IDB1A53E274CED409F8D0C8FD861106418" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID1B501CC91BAB435FAB4644EE949A1C13"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Congressional Budget Office Score for Conference Reports</header><text>It shall not be in order to consider a report of a committee of conference unless an official written cost estimate or table by the Congressional Budget Office is available at the time of consideration.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID8AA0F9823165493ABB80B411A27D46AF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Supermajority Points of Order</header><text>Subsections (c)(1) and (d)(2) of section 904 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) are amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="ID48EF3741E1094A5EA517313E7A5CCF07"><enum>(1)</enum><text>inserting <quote>312(e),</quote> after <quote>310(d)(2),</quote>; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID3D3B2E6520B14DDDAB8E47BA56895DB8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>inserting <quote>and section 223 of the Stop Over Spending Act of 2007</quote> after <quote>of this Act</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="ID304DA4534BE94713A7C87A40A7E68497"><enum>510.</enum><header>Extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 644) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDD4657EA95D2546FAAC7831F5C99F512B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a) by striking <quote>or section 258C</quote> through <quote>1985</quote>;</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID0695940CE47D444088B404F11471289B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID19D46498CC1B49DDA60AE0E62AECE42C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID513F844D6182422FAB4ABE9F1357B8FA" indent="up1"><enum>(1)</enum>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="IDF9FA1AE7821D43C3837083055042B045"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), a provision of a reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution considered pursuant to section 310 shall be considered extraneous if such provision does not produce a change in outlays or governmental receipts, including changes in outlays and governmental receipts brought about by changes in the terms and conditions under which outlays are made or governmental receipts are required to be collected (but a provision in which outlay decreases or governmental receipts increases exactly offset outlay increases or governmental receipts decreases shall not be considered extraneous by virtue of this subparagraph); (B) except with respect to consideration of conference reports, any provision producing an increase in outlays or decrease in governmental receipts shall be considered extraneous if the net effect of provisions reported by the committee reporting the title containing the provision is that the committee fails to achieve its reconciliation instructions, or if the increase in outlays or decreases in governmental receipts exceeds 20 percent of the total change required in a committee’s instruction; (C) a provision that is not in the jurisdiction of the Committee with jurisdiction over said title or provision shall be considered extraneous (except that amendments reported by the Committee on the Budget to achieve compliance with reconciliation instructions shall not be extraneous); (D) a provision shall be considered to be extraneous if it increases, or would increase, net outlays, or if it decreases, or would decrease governmental receipts during a fiscal year after the fiscal years covered by such reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution, and such increases or decreases are greater than outlay reductions or governmental receipts increases resulting from other provisions in such title in such year; and (E) a provision shall be considered extraneous if it violates section 310(g).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDF4C4734132E94DBA8D105A507766F490"><enum>(B)</enum><text>adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="ID38C4EE80396B4D2CAD6B958805C8920F" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Technical and conforming provisions shall not be considered extraneous under this section.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2F07F10D170448CCA2D4877C46D24F5E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(1), by striking <quote>(b)(1)(E), or (b)(1)(F)</quote> and inserting <quote>(b)(1)(E)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID784a9fc4ed544c5a8a2b54a33e35958a"><enum>511.</enum><header>Adjustments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by—</text>
<paragraph id="IDa17e7473cda84d6b9ff4455e9f593c79"><enum>(1)</enum><text>striking section 314; and</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID195a3384e9f6467d9cc51c6c5aba155c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>redesignating section 315 as 314.</text> </paragraph></section>
<section id="ID14C7F6E153A8492C938C591F727409F8"><enum>512.</enum><header>Direct spending limitation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="ID804005B2EA6F4CBB9708BE7A21F43DE3"><enum>318.</enum><header>Direct spending limitation</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id36C7564654094A459411912E96CD02B9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The chairman or ranking member of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may submit to the Senate a notification of a Medicare funding warning if the chairman or ranking member projects that within 7 years General Fund of the Treasury contributions to Medicare funding, expressed as a percentage of total Medicare outlays, will exceed 45 percent.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID6101CBA920744757ACA3CE572D8D5EB4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Point of Order</header><text>It shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment or conference report that would cause any increase in direct spending, net of proposals to change direct spending, receipts, or revenues contained in the measure, if a Medicare funding warning has been submitted to the Senate pursuant to subsection (a) for 2 consecutive calendar years.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDB0D514F929F149229CE40D854021A718"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>This section may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID037E0753535645CC9CF7B5F2180F7C02"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDCCB6A72E9C5E474AB98E2AD82FB27B99"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Cancellations</header><text>If legislation is enacted to reduce the general fund contribution below 45 percent, as determined by the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, any notification of a Medicare funding warning is withdrawn.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="id0E85531736E3400E9285D531F08F81AD"><enum>513.</enum><header>Point of order against legislation that raises income tax rates</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="ID3443B754B7424E45AA5896BBEB58CAA1"><enum>319.</enum><header>Point of order against legislation that raises income tax rates</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA400A5F9369F431CB0C3FE44083C0DEF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, amendment between Houses, motion, or conference report that includes a Federal income tax rate increase. In this subsection, the term <term>Federal income tax rate increase</term> means any amendment to subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of section 1, or to section 11(b) or 55(b), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes a new percentage as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of tax imposed by any such section.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDE696CBD8076D47A0A693EB58787BD3C9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Supermajority Waiver and Appeal</header>
<paragraph id="ID7DCDA97AEFA34A129304C06908E8E84C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID1C751F5EB3494417AE876512C452673E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Appeal</header><text>An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="idA29C378BC55B4298934241470FF3615B"><enum>514.</enum><header>Circuit breaker to protect Social Security</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="IDFD8C4EA1CE3C41258FA78CE67B07F9B4"><enum>320.</enum><header>Circuit breaker to protect Social Security</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idB49781F5CBE946BCB140F140ABBDAD68"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Circuit Breaker</header><text>If in any year the Congressional Budget Office, in its report pursuant to section 202(e)(1), projects an on-budget deficit (excluding Social Security) for the budget year or any subsequent fiscal year covered by those projections, then the concurrent resolution on the budget for the budget year shall reduce on-budget deficits relative to the projections of Congressional Budget Office and put the budget on a path to achieve on-budget balance within 5 years, and shall include such provisions as are necessary to protect Social Security and facilitate deficit reduction, except it shall not contain any reduction in Social Security benefits.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID120FA54AFEF64D469F2AB57EFD1FD2D0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Point of Order</header><text>If in any year the Congressional Budget Office, in its report pursuant to section 202(e)(1), projects an on-budget deficit for the budget year or any subsequent fiscal year covered by those projections, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a concurrent resolution on the budget for the budget year or any conference report thereon that fails to reduce on-budget deficits relative to the projections of Congressional Budget Office and put the budget on a path to achieve on-budget balance within 5 years.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID8C039FF10F214C9CB9C55C1420F13867"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Amendments to Budget Resolution</header><text>If in any year the Congressional Budget Office, in its report pursuant to section 202(e)(1), projects an on-budget deficit for the budget year or any subsequent fiscal year covered by those projections, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider an amendment to a concurrent resolution on the budget that would increase on-budget deficits relative to the concurrent resolution on the budget in any fiscal year covered by that concurrent resolution on the budget or cause the budget to fail to achieve on-budget balance within 5 years.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID930325289C0A4A72AA7711B1591CF980"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Suspension of Requirement During War or Low Economic Growth</header>
<paragraph id="IDAA941CF8A5494E29A941F6E458F51A89"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Low growth</header><text>If the most recent of the Department of Commerce’s advance, preliminary, or final reports of actual real economic growth indicate that the rate of real economic growth (as measured by real GDP) for each of the most recently reported quarter and the immediately preceding quarter is less than 1 percent, this section is suspended.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID89509F558E1A403AACF25ED13DC3D10D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>War</header><text>If a declaration of war is in effect, this section is suspended.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="IDAE017174C9354F0BAB77F5B4575F9749"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Supermajority Waiver and Appeals</header>
<paragraph id="IDD6888C9C8CD741C298626796D4B44E84"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>Subsections (b) and (c) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDDD5DFD06B0654B069ABE7986DB96AB4E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of this subsection shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the bill or joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this subsection.</text> </paragraph></subsection>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID82B41ADD2ED74F548759CD733198D9DB"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Budget Year</header><text>In this section, the term <term>budget year</term> shall have the same meaning as in section 250(c)(12) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="id79CACFE035BB4E86B24D90AB2EA55443"><enum>515.</enum><header>Limitation on long-term spending proposals</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="ID3537BBA0954149A0890856A9235CEEFA"><enum>321.</enum><header>Limitation on long-term spending proposals</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id3A8F774E16C441989AFBDDFA5E72BC14"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Congressional Budget Office Analysis of Proposals</header><text>The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare for each bill or joint resolution reported from committee (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations), or amendments thereto or conference reports thereon, an estimate of whether the measure would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in direct spending in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods beginning in fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2055.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID985F790BB96A4B7D81803DAE89E7ADE9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Point of Order</header><text>In the Senate, it shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause a net increase in direct spending in excess of $5 billion in any of the four 10-year periods beginning in 2016 through 2055.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDEE40A60E493F45E1AFFF1E2B0A1F0300"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>This section may be waived or suspended only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID5957BB78932545A89989C8133E38FB27"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDFA8998D2023545E1B00F8D73E6F401D3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Determinations of Budget Levels</header><text>For purposes of this section, the levels of net direct spending shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID3DB1886ECA8049088FEB347C9070A983"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Application to Reconciliation</header><text>This section shall not apply to any legislation reported pursuant to reconciliation directions contained in a concurrent resolution on the budget.</text> </subsection>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID955842D6A2744FC1B6248C927316CBA5"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Sunset</header><text>This section shall expire on September 30, 2010.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="idCCB8600203E448998C087B2D2B045924"><enum>516.</enum><header>Avoiding paygo point of order</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="ID8f82084700864efe9eb75cd86cfeb887"><enum>322.</enum><header>Avoiding paygo point of order</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idF51847584C0248A79553A1CAB7941C5A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any provision in appropriations legislation, including any amendment thereto, motion in relation thereto, or conference report thereon, that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) were it included in legislation other than appropriations legislation, if the total of such provisions has a net cost over the total of all fiscal years after the year for which the legislation is providing appropriations.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID360e69b1c1f74172a0d908e3e5503a06"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Determination</header><text>For purposes of this section, the determination of whether a provision violates subsection (a) shall be made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID9744d1bf3545424589e6a93fcfb27b34"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Supermajority waiver and appeal</header><text>This section may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID702d95f7dff5468182d502a622a953fb"><enum>(d)</enum><header>General point of order</header><text>It shall be in order for a Senator to raise a single point of order that several provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report violate this section. The Presiding Officer may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the provisions against which the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding Officer so sustains the point of order as to some of the provisions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Senator raised the point of order, then only those provisions (including provision of an amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions against which the point of order was raised. Such a motion to waive is amendable in accordance with rules and precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer ruled.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDb8a64c82fa454943bbb2b9544cb04c91"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Form of the point of order</header><text>When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="id22B659BC97254B7EAC7E4E1EE5FE3772"><enum>517.</enum><header>Pay-as-you-go point of order in the Senate</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section id="ID4a16c865cd094494abaf66d96824de62"><enum>323.</enum><header>Pay-as-you-go point of order in the Senate</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id6D16DEBBF04345B5A50A6712A20EEE6E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Point of order</header>
<paragraph id="IDec1ffca731f64156b8a4d94cef61d58e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any direct spending or revenue legislation that would decrease a projected on-budget surplus or increase or create an on-budget deficit beyond those surpluses or deficits that would result from the direct spending and revenue levels assumed in the most recently agreed to budget resolution, for any 1 of the 4 applicable time periods, as measured in paragraphs (5) and (6).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID18621923e28f432099a39e77a504d237"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicable time periods</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>applicable time period</term> means any 1 of the 4 following periods:</text>
<subparagraph id="ID78850c6c67cd4412bf36151ad4a12cbe"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The fiscal year immediately preceding the first fiscal year covered by the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID442bd6532d1040dbbc536b101276d1ca"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The first fiscal year covered by the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID95197e2bad234b959d8867d20b9a1c74"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The period of the first 5 fiscal years covered by the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget, starting with the fiscal year described in (B).</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDdcce303f04b84f21967e8f6119ed14a6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The period of the 5 fiscal years following the first 5 fiscal years described in (C) covered in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID8dfaa3a5564c4d71af7657c1eb8f2668"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Direct-spending legislation</header><text>For purposes of this subsection and except as provided in paragraph (4), the term <term>direct-spending</term> means any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that affects direct spending as that term is defined in section 3(3).</text> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID2681f06881924215b2a2e646d7bd56d3"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the terms <term>direct-spending</term> and <term>revenue legislation</term> do not include—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID9735449eb78d41f4918a69419d7759a5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any concurrent resolution on the budget; or</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="IDd2a5b926a5734c90a01338c7905c6f17"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any provision of legislation that affects the full funding of, and continuation of, the deposit insurance guarantee commitment in effect on the date of enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="ID9a2aabf3b0574f12bc9c6987bf616964"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Baseline</header><text>Estimates prepared pursuant to this section shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID6a82548284614908ba6c1de57f687aa2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>use the baseline surplus or deficit used for the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget; and</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7d2c542d1ceb40b5826cfd34a7a56533"><enum>(B)</enum><text>be calculated consistent with the requirements of subsections (b) through (d) of section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 for fiscal years beyond those covered by that concurrent resolution on the budget.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="IDbdbce2cc7b0340d6b41ad16b01ce068a"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Pay-as-you-go scorecard</header>
<subparagraph id="idA36D6D181DA74991A17B33811C11E755"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget shall set the pay-as-you-go scorecard balance at the time of the adoption of the conference agreement on the Congressional Budget Resolution, and that balance shall reflect the sum of the direct spending and revenue effects (relative to the baseline described in (5)) of all revenue and direct spending legislation assumed by such resolution.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="idB69A9B9DE7074007B759015E1490885E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Adjustments for legislation other than appropriations bills</header><text>The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget shall adjust the pay-as-you-go scorecard balance for the direct spending and revenue effects of legislation that has been approved by both Houses (and subject to presentment to the President) subsequent to the adoption of the conference agreement of the Congressional Budget Resolution, except that the pay-as-you-go scorecard shall not be adjusted by the direct spending effects of legislation cleared for the President pursuant to section 223 of the Stop Over Spending Act of 2007.</text> </subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="ID7e9f036f15344e7b8ceef2114523a0e3"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Adjustments for appropriations bills</header><text>The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget shall adjust the pay-as-you-go scorecard balance for the direct spending effects of appropriations legislation that has been approved by both Houses (and subject to presentment to the President) that would have been estimated as affecting direct spending under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) were it included in legislation other than appropriations legislation. The adjustment shall be for years after the year for which appropriations are made.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="ID8c3115af25424f71b64bb47246780bc4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="IDd271ea16f5f948e09313fe7add1003f3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of this section shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the bill or joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID7731899abec047f28b2e974688e97020"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Determination of budget levels</header><text>For purposes of this section, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, and revenues for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="ID487b32619b224324a9c14e7d3f0e5573"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Sunset</header><text>This section shall expire on September 30, 2012.</text> </subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>
<section id="IDCB0E216179C34413B5E19F1E925D8E2D"><enum>518.</enum><header>Appropriations requests of the President</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1108(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>Congress or a</quote> and inserting <quote>Congress and a</quote>.</text> </section>
<section id="ID976888649F4D42738AF4A4EF1092FFEA"><enum>519.</enum><header>Budget baseline</header>
<subsection id="idC61AE2EB593A456BBCD40C28092CBCC2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985, as in effect on December 31, 2006, is reenacted effective January 1, 2007.</text> </subsection>
<subsection id="idCC3713741F8142C7BADD11B94BB73A66"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendment</header><text>Section 257(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985, as reenacted by subsection (a), is amended by striking paragraph (2).</text> </subsection></section>