[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2512 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2512

     To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the 
consideration in the House of Representatives or the Senate of measures 
  that appropriate funds for earmarks to private, for-profit entities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2009

     Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. Kind, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Walz, Mr. 
    Hensarling, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Kirk, and Mr. Smith of Washington) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to 
      be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the 
consideration in the House of Representatives or the Senate of measures 
  that appropriate funds for earmarks to private, for-profit entities.

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

SECTION 1. EARMARK POINT OF ORDER.

    Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Earmark Point of Order.--(1) It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint 
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if that 
measure or any accompanying report or joint explanatory statement of 
managers contains any earmark for which the intended recipient is a 
private, for-profit entity.
    ``(2) As used in this subsection, the term `earmark' has the 
meaning given to the term `congressional earmark' in clause 9 of rule 
XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.''.

SEC. 2. SUPER MAJORITY POINT OF ORDER IN THE SENATE.

    Subsections (c)(1) and (d)(2) of section 904 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 are amended by inserting ``312(g),'' after 
``310(d)(2),''.
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