1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Deficit Reduction Act of
2009
.
(b)
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—Discretionary Spending Limits
Sec. 101. Discretionary spending limits.
Sec. 102. Sequestration for discretionary limits.
Sec. 103. Adjustments to discretionary spending
limits.
Sec. 104. Low-growth report.
Sec. 105. Conforming amendments.
TITLE II—Deficit Limits
Sec. 201. Deficit limits.
Sec. 202. Effective date.
TITLE III—General Provisions
Sec. 301. Exempt programs and activities.
Sec. 302. Enforcement procedures under the Congressional Budget
Act.
Sec. 303. Definitions.
<enum>I</enum><header>Discretionary
Spending Limits </header>
<section id="H8DB85EEE897E49CF8FCB6A35B20CC3AB"><enum>101.</enum><header>Discretionary
spending limits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 251(c)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by
striking beginning with <quote>means—</quote> through paragraph (13) and
inserting <quote>means, for fiscal years 2011 through 2019, the baseline, minus
any spending designated as an emergency, for the preceding fiscal year as
adjusted for inflation and</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HAEA9A9BB38934700ACE12BE46A1F7DC5"><enum>102.</enum><header>Sequestration
for discretionary limits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (a) of section 251 of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are amended to read
as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8E4DF5C9623243BB9AB97C3931F86D36" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H188A2F2390E8428B8AC0F8BBB228D9D3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Sequestration</header>
<paragraph id="HFE2F964A4ED742C4A607DE3FB2AAD445"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 45
calendar days after Congress adjourns to end a session, OMB shall conduct a
sequestration to eliminate the budget year breach, if any, resulting from
budget authority and outlays in excess of the discretionary spending
limit.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H29291EC4785F4F178C18BF29A50CDC66"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Breach
calculation</header><text>The breach is, if greater than zero, the breach for
the budget year, minus any adjustments pursuant to subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H408A68E8BAD643DF9DC0C8AB66F1FA73"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><text>To
eliminate the breach in a budget year, each account shall be reduced by a
dollar amount calculated by multiplying the level of sequesterable budgetary
resources in that account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary to
enforce subsection (c).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0E73FC1AAC574D7ABDD9A0097B764C96"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Look
back</header><text>If, after June 30, an appropriation for the fiscal year in
progress is enacted that causes a breach, the discretionary spending limits for
the next fiscal year shall be reduced by the amount or amounts of that
breach.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H4698C35830F5404FBFA56B48AF9641FF"><enum>103.</enum><header>Adjustments to
discretionary spending limits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB6C22DD572DA482BB97A3690BCF7FC1A">
<subsection id="H684F3B0EB7D541EFBE7776FD6EFB0AAF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Adjustments to
Discretionary Spending Limits</header>
<paragraph id="H0B2533DB1C3D421485C1EFE4C2998FE7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Concepts and
definitions</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 changes
in concepts and definitions. Such changes shall equal the baseline levels of
new budget authority and outlays using up-to-date concepts and definitions
minus those levels using the concepts and definitions in effect before such
changes. Such changes may only be made after consultation with the Committees
on Appropriations and the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate
and that consultation shall include written communication to such committees
that affords such committees the opportunity to comment before official action
is taken for such changes.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1E12B0F361F645F6A845C50F6EBFDD7C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Adjustments</header>
<subparagraph id="H2CD5F63364DE4643913AC265E0B8608A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Emergency
designation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If appropriations
for discretionary accounts are enacted that the President designates as
emergency requirements and that the Congress so designates in statute, the
adjustment shall be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts
designated as emergency requirements and the outlays flowing in all fiscal
years from such appropriations.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBE3E508FA9EB44C2883FF6D5FA7E3CC1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Overseas
contingency operations designation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If appropriations for discretionary
accounts are enacted that the President designates as overseas contingency
operations related to the global war on terrorism, including Iraq and
Afghanistan, that the Congress so designates in statute, the adjustment shall
be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts designated as
overseas contingency operations and the outlays flowing in all fiscal years
from such appropriations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E90388D479A429596607992E10B7385"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Special outlay
allowance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, in any fiscal
year, outlays for a category exceed the discretionary spending limit for that
category but new budget authority does not exceed its limit for that category
(after application of the first step of a spending reduction described in
subsection (a)(2), if necessary), the adjustment in outlays for a fiscal year
is the amount of the excess but not to exceed 0.5 percent of the sum of the
adjusted discretionary spending limits on outlays for that fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H09D6245903294632970E866D9BFCF84D"><enum>104.</enum><header>Low-growth
report</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 254(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H151F53BCCBB4469CB5885CC63877408A" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HCC379DB921D1498EBAD6CBD53B0A2382"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Low-Growth
report</header>
<paragraph id="H19ECEE95206F406E929493B3EA38D22E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>At any time, OMB, in consultation with the Secretary of
Commerce, shall notify the Congress if—</text>
<subparagraph id="HFB21D1008CF849419D780AF38FBC3B95"><enum>(A)</enum><text>during the period
consisting of the quarter during which such notification is given, the quarter
preceding such notification, the 4 quarters following such notification, OMB
has determined that real economic growth is projected or estimated to be less
than 1 percent with respect to each of any 2 consecutive quarters within such
period; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H29CBBAFC86A54EAD8B1207216EEEC229"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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 for the
following four quarters is projected or estimated to be less than 1 percent
with respect to each of any two consecutive quarters.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF22C21D25BEC4A0187475133CDBE4B38"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Suspension</header><text>Sequestration
under sections 251 and 253A shall be suspended in any fiscal year in which
there occur 2 quarters of low growth as described in subparagraphs (A) or (B)
of paragraph
(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H309A9465F2244E4EBFCB7F4EE632C0D7"><enum>105.</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 275(b) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by
striking <quote>2002</quote> and inserting <quote>2019</quote> and by striking
<quote>2006</quote> and inserting <quote>2019</quote>.</text>
</section><enum>II</enum><header>Deficit
Limits</header>
<section id="H90BC9949CE6A4D1B8AC0612DEFEDF023"><enum>201.</enum><header>Deficit
limits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting after section 253
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E204C2C67314BF7A89BDEEEC3F2FD53" style="OLC">
<section id="H0126D9CDCCB2497FA1EA898494F3ED27"><enum>253A.</enum><header>Enforcing
deficit limits</header>
<subsection id="HF5CC701E56404F91A2C2BC81B04EAC9D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Enforcing
Deficit Limits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this
section, the term <term>deficit limit</term> means an amount, as estimated by
OMB, that equals—</text>
<paragraph id="HB47F40145CF34B57BA70A8320E24E920"><enum>(1)</enum><text>4 percent of GDP
for fiscal year 2012; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1F2993121EE449728A44148B89445416"><enum>(2)</enum><text>3 percent of GDP
for fiscal years 2013 through 2019.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H898ADE12AABD4E88B0491ECC57E40DE4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Determining the
GDP</header><text>The Office of Management and Budget shall estimate the GDP at
the outset of the fiscal year, on April 30, on August 20, and 15 days after the
conclusion of the fiscal year. CBO shall provide advisory reports calculating
the GDP at identical times.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HBDEF1C06434F418DBE8EC1CFDEE0399F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Sequestration</header>
<paragraph id="HE8CC13071A41410195CE6DA63AB13ACC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header>
<subparagraph id="H030352246ABC43C6B23F2FC15AD88451"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Excess
deficit</header><text>Not later than 45 calendar days after Congress adjourns,
OMB shall conduct a sequestration to eliminate the excess deficit.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H329CC3C912A341AEA5387B763E7047AE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For
purposes of this subsection, the term <term>excess deficit</term> means the
deficit for the preceding year minus the deficit limit as described in the
subsection (a) and adjusted pursuant to paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H00B0C6EC0DAF4704996FEF9E3D8305C7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Adjustments</header>
<subparagraph id="H450C75296AE24FBBA2D7F16BFFEF150F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Emergency
designation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If direct
spending or appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted that the
President designates as emergency requirements and that the Congress so
designates in statute, the adjustment shall be the total of such direct
spending or appropriations in discretionary accounts designated as emergency
requirements and the outlays flowing in all fiscal years from such spending or
appropriations.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD08480FA9A974DC788B8FFFA4760C567"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Overseas
contingency operations designation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If direct spending or appropriations for
discretionary accounts are enacted that the President designates as overseas
contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism, including Iraq
and Afghanistan, that the Congress so designates in statute, the adjustment
shall be the total of such direct spending or appropriations in discretionary
accounts designated as overseas contingency operations and the outlays flowing
in all fiscal years from such spending or appropriations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H1BD17457D1EA459297125A16A22D8B69"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Preview
report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">CBO shall submit an
advisory sequestration preview report as described in section 254(c)(4) on
August 10 of each year. OMB shall produce an sequestration preview report on
August 20 as described in section 254(c)(4). Fifteen days after Congress
adjourns, the OMB shall issue an update sequestration report as described in
section 254(e). Thirty days later, the OMB should issue its final sequestration
report as described in section 254(f)(3). It shall be accompanied by a
Presidential order detailing the uniform spending reductions. The reductions
should generally follow the process set forth in section 253 and 254, except as
provided in this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1E346ABD14114C19AA18575FB54EB0AE"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Congressional
action</header><text>If the August 20 OMB report projects a sequestration, the
Senate and House Budget Committees may report a resolution directing their
committees to change the existing law to achieve the goals outlined in the
August 20 report. If the Committees report their respective resolutions, a
reconciliation process shall be triggered in accordance with section
258C.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0BDC6593F9B64D9E8E8B4180D20A51D8"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reducing nonexempt budgetary resources by a
uniform percentage</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">OMB shall
calculate the uniform percentage by which the budgetary resources of nonexempt
direct and discretionary spending programs are to be sequestered such that the
outlay savings resulting from that sequestration, as calculated under this
subsection, to eliminate the excess deficit. If the uniform percentage
calculated under the prior sentence exceeds 4 percent, the Medicare programs
described in section 256(d) shall be reduced by 4 percent and the uniform
percentage by which the budgetary resources of all other nonexempt direct and
discretionary spending programs are to be sequestered shall be increased, as
necessary, so that the sequestration of Medicare and of all other nonexempt
direct and discretionary spending programs together produce the required outlay
savings.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9ADB18A4C92E4BCCA4B96306C7B7E181"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Look
back</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, after June 30, a
bill resulting in outlays for the fiscal year in progress is enacted that
causes an excess deficit, the excess deficit for the next fiscal year shall be
increased by the amount or amounts of that
breach.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HEBE593C48C8C4E678EDDCF15244040B5"><enum>202.</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title shall apply to
fiscal year 2012 and subsequent fiscal years through fiscal year 2019.</text>
</section><enum>III</enum><header>General
Provisions</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDB0BE1655FB442FAB511FCBDA6A4F8B8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exempt programs and activities</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5EDF76118AE440799E63E7A90204931"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Designations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by redesignating subsection
(i) as (j) and striking <quote>1998</quote> and inserting in lieu thereof
<quote>2010</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H628487BA8694464E8F833C74224D751F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Social security, veterans programs, net
interest, and tax credits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (a) through (d) of section 255
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are amended to
read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF70084A9933B42DB9198D550C7462F2A" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCEA121F0C726464FB6D9CCF526E2FBC6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Social security benefits and tier I
railroad retirement benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Benefits payable under the old-age,
survivors, and disability insurance program established under title II of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), and benefits payable under section
231b(a), 231b(f)(2), 231c(a), and 231c(f) of title 45 United States Code, shall
be exempt from reduction under any order issued under this part.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7D339B9CB2C644F295D7748E263F3230"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Veterans programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following program shall be exempt from
reduction under any order issued under this part:</text>
<list level="paragraph" list-type="none">
<list-item>All programs administered by the Department of
Veterans Affairs.</list-item>
<list-item>Special Benefits for Certain World War II Veterans
(28–0401–0–1–701).</list-item></list>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H09F9255F45224D87AEDB104214B56A87"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Net interest</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No reduction of payments for net interest
(all of major functional category 900) shall be made under any order issued
under this part.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H42462B7C712F4D318B7AAA4360D79914"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Refundable income tax credits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments to individuals made pursuant to
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 establishing refundable tax
credits shall be exempt from reduction under any order issued under this
part.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H878660F2AD68458D8955C117F5437794"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other programs and activities, low-Income
programs, and economic recovery programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (g) and (h) of section 255 of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are amended to
read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6536617175D74118A44FC7FE078092DE" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA2D5CD99038442C9A354B4AC525A2C5"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other programs and activities</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7F6DADA601EE42FF88743FA1C937B474"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HEF4F8E2F0E914350A8DA97C7A7E45B52"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following budget accounts and
activities shall be exempt from reduction under any order issued under this
part:</text>
<list level="subparagraph" list-type="none">
<list-item>Activities resulting from private donations,
bequests, or voluntary contributions to the Government.</list-item>
<list-item>Activities financed by voluntary payments to the
Government for goods or services to be provided for such
payments.</list-item>
<list-item>Administration of Territories, Northern Mariana
Islands Covenant grants (14–0412–0–1–808).</list-item>
<list-item>Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and Other
Funds (16–0327–0–1–600).</list-item>
<list-item>Black Lung Disability Trust Fund Refinancing
(16–0329–0–1–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Bonneville Power Administration Fund and borrowing
authority established pursuant to section 13 of Public Law 93–454 (1974), as
amended (89–4045–0–3–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Claims, Judgments, and Relief Acts
(20–1895–0–1–808).</list-item>
<list-item>Compact of Free Association
(14–0415–0–1–808).</list-item>
<list-item>Compensation of the President
(11–0209–01–1–802).</list-item>
<list-item>Comptroller of the Currency, Assessment Funds
(20–8413–0–8–373).</list-item>
<list-item>Continuing Fund, Southeastern Power Administration
(89–5653–0–2–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Continuing Fund, Southwestern Power Administration
(89–5649–0–2–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Dual Benefits Payments Account
(60–0111–0–1–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Emergency Fund, Western Area Power Administration
(89–5069–0–2–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Exchange Stabilization Fund
(20–4444–0–3–155).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Deposit
Insurance Fund (51–4596–4–4–373).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FSLIC
Resolution Fund (51–4065–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Noninterest
Bearing Transaction Account Guarantee (51–4458–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Senior
Unsecured Debt Guarantee (51–4457–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Housing Finance Agency, Administrative
Expenses (95–5532–0–2–371).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Judicial
Retirement and Survivors Annuity Fund (20–1713–0–1–752).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Pension
Fund (20–1714–0–1–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Payments to the Railroad Retirement Accounts
(60–0113–0–1–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Reserve Bank Reimbursement Fund
(20–1884–0–1–803).</list-item>
<list-item>Financial Agent Services
(20–1802–0–1–803).</list-item>
<list-item>Foreign Military Sales Trust Fund
(11–8242–0–7–155).</list-item>
<list-item>Hazardous Waste Management, Conservation Reserve
Program (12–4336–0–3–999).</list-item>
<list-item>Host Nation Support Fund for Relocation
(97–8337–0–7–051).</list-item>
<list-item>Internal Revenue Collections for Puerto Rico
(20–5737–0–2–806).</list-item>
<list-item>Intragovernmental funds, including those from which
the outlays are derived primarily from resources paid in from other government
accounts, except to the extent such funds are augmented by direct
appropriations for the fiscal year during which an order is in
effect.</list-item>
<list-item>Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund
(75–9931–0–3–551).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Central
Liquidity Facility (25–4470–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Corporate
Credit Union Share Guarantee Program (25–4476–0–3–376).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Credit Union
Homeowners Affordability Relief Program (25–4473–0–3–371).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Credit Union
Share Insurance Fund (25–4468–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Credit Union
System Investment Program (25–4474–0–3–376).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Operating fund
(25–4056–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, Share
Insurance Fund Corporate Debt Guarantee Program
(25–4469–0–3–376).</list-item>
<list-item>National Credit Union Administration, U.S. Central
Federal Credit Union Capital Program (25–4475–0–3–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Office of Thrift Supervision
(20–4108–0–3–373).</list-item>
<list-item>Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund
(16–5155–0–2–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment of Vietnam and USS Pueblo prisoner-of-war
claims within the Salaries and Expenses, Foreign Claims Settlement account
(15–0100–0–1–153).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment to Civil Service Retirement and Disability
Fund (24–0200–0–1–805).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment to Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible
Retiree Health Care Fund (97–0850–0–1–054).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment to Judiciary Trust Funds
(10–0941–0–1–752).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment to Military Retirement Fund
(97–0040–0–1–054).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and
Disability Fund (19–0540–0–1–153).</list-item>
<list-item>Payments to Copyright Owners
(03–5175–0–2–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Payments to Health Care Trust Funds
(75–0580–0–1–571).</list-item>
<list-item>Payment to Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust
Fund (15–0333–0–1–054).</list-item>
<list-item>Payments to Social Security Trust Funds
(28–0404–0–1–651).</list-item>
<list-item>Payments to the United States Territories, Fiscal
Assistance (14–0418–0–1–806).</list-item>
<list-item>Payments to trust funds from excise taxes or other
receipts properly creditable to such trust funds.</list-item>
<list-item>Payments to widows and heirs of deceased Members of
Congress (00–0215–0–1–801).</list-item>
<list-item>Postal Service Fund
(18–4020–0–3–372).</list-item>
<list-item>Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund
(15–8116–0–1–054).</list-item>
<list-item>Reimbursement to Federal Reserve Banks
(20–0562–0–1–803).</list-item>
<list-item>Salaries of Article III judges.</list-item>
<list-item>Soldiers and Airmen’s Home, payment of claims
(84–8930–0–7–705).</list-item>
<list-item>Tennessee Valley Authority Fund, except nonpower
programs and activities (64–4110–0–3–999).</list-item>
<list-item>Tribal and Indian trust accounts within the
Department of the Interior which fund prior legal obligations of the Government
or which are established pursuant to Acts of Congress regarding Federal
management of tribal real property or other fiduciary responsibilities,
including but not limited to Tribal Special Fund (14–5265–0–2–452), Tribal
Trust Fund (14–8030–0–7–452), White Earth Settlement (14–2204–0–1–452), and
Indian Water Rights and Habitat Acquisition
(14–5505–0–2–303).</list-item>
<list-item>United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan
(95–8260–0–7–551).</list-item>
<list-item>United Mine Workers of America 1993 Benefit Plan
(95–8535–0–7–551).</list-item>
<list-item>United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund
(95–8295–0–7–551).</list-item>
<list-item>United States Enrichment Corporation Fund
(95–4054–0–3–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Universal Service Fund
(27–5183–0–2–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Vaccine Injury Compensation
(75–0320–0–1–551).</list-item>
<list-item>Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund
(20–8175–0–7–551).</list-item></list>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4DB3983AEDD04A54A96997CF0CAF2C01" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following Federal retirement and
disability accounts and activities shall be exempt from reduction under any
order issued under this part:</text>
<list level="subparagraph" list-type="none">
<list-item>Black Lung Disability Trust Fund
(20–8144–0–7–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System Fund (56–3400–0–1–054).</list-item>
<list-item>Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
(24–8135–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Comptrollers general retirement system
(05–0107–0–1–801).</list-item>
<list-item>Contributions to U.S. Park Police annuity benefits,
Other Permanent Appropriations (14–9924–0–2–303).</list-item>
<list-item>Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Retirement Fund
(95–8290–0–7–705).</list-item>
<list-item>Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree
Health Care Fund (97–5472–0–2–551).</list-item>
<list-item>District of Columbia Federal Pension Fund
(20–5511–0–2–601).</list-item>
<list-item>District of Columbia Judicial Retirement and
Survivors Annuity Fund (20–8212–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation
Fund (16–1523–0–1–053).</list-item>
<list-item>Foreign National Employees Separation Pay
(97–8165–0–7–051).</list-item>
<list-item>Foreign Service National Defined Contributions
Retirement Fund (19–5497–0–2–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Foreign Service National Separation Liability Trust
Fund (19–8340–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund
(19–8186–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Government Payment for Annuitants, Employees Health
Benefits (24–0206–0–1–551). </list-item>
<list-item>Government Payment for Annuitants, Employee Life
Insurance (24–0500–0–1–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Judicial Officers’ Retirement Fund
(10–8122–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Judicial Survivors’ Annuities Fund
(10–8110–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>Military Retirement Fund
(97–8097–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust
(60–8118–0–7–601).</list-item>
<list-item>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
retirement (13–1450–0–1–306).</list-item>
<list-item>Pensions for former Presidents
(47–0105–0–1–802).</list-item>
<list-item>Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund
(24–5391–0–2–551).</list-item>
<list-item>Public Safety Officer Benefits
(15–0403–0–1–754).</list-item>
<list-item>Rail Industry Pension Fund
(60–8011–0–7–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Retired Pay, Coast Guard
(70–0602–0–1–403).</list-item>
<list-item>Retirement Pay and Medical Benefits for Commissioned
Officers, Public Health Service (75–0379–0–1–551).</list-item>
<list-item>Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners
(16–0169–0–1–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Special Benefits, Federal Employees’ Compensation
Act (16–1521–0–1–600).</list-item>
<list-item>Special Workers Compensation Expenses
(16–9971–0–7–601).</list-item>
<list-item>Tax Court Judges Survivors Annuity Fund
(23–8115–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>United States Court of Federal Claims Judges’
Retirement Fund (10–8124–0–7–602).</list-item>
<list-item>United States Secret Service, DC Annuity
(70–0400–0–1–751).</list-item>
<list-item>Voluntary Separation Incentive Fund
(97–8335–0–7–051).</list-item></list>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAD5F7CDB51ED4E1E9FCAB4776EDF6110"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prior legal obligations of the Government
in the following budget accounts and activities shall be exempt from any order
issued under this part:</text>
<list level="subparagraph" list-type="none">
<list-item>Biomass Energy Development
(20–0114–0–1–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Check Forgery Insurance Fund
(20–4109–0–3–803).</list-item>
<list-item>Credit liquidating accounts.</list-item>
<list-item>Credit reestimates.</list-item>
<list-item>Employees Life Insurance Fund (24–8424–0–8–602).
</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund
(69–4120–0–3–402).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund
(12–4085–0–3–351).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Flood
Insurance Fund (58–4236–0–3–453).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie
Mac).</list-item>
<list-item>Federal National Mortgage Corporation (Fannie
Mae).</list-item>
<list-item>Geothermal resources development fund
(89–0206–0–1–271).</list-item>
<list-item>Low-Rent Public Housing—Loans and Other Expenses
(86–4098–0–3–604).</list-item>
<list-item>Maritime Administration, War Risk Insurance
Revolving Fund (69–4302–0–3–403).</list-item>
<list-item>Natural Resource Damage Assessment Fund
(14–1618–0–1–302).</list-item>
<list-item>Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Noncredit
Account (71–4184–0–3–151).</list-item>
<list-item>Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Fund
(16–4204–0–3–601).</list-item>
<list-item>San Joaquin Restoration Fund
(14–5537–0–2–301).</list-item>
<list-item>Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance Fund
(36–4009–0–3–701).</list-item>
<list-item>Terrorism Insurance Program
(20–0123–0–1–376).</list-item></list>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D739CA2B92146788133BA9FFA7C30EC"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Low-Income programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following programs shall be exempt from
reduction under any order issued under this part:</text>
<list level="paragraph" list-type="none">
<list-item>Academic Competitiveness/Smart Grant Program
(91–0205–0–1–502).</list-item>
<list-item>Child Care Entitlement to States
(75–1550–0–1–609).</list-item>
<list-item>Child Enrollment Contingency Fund
(75–5551–0–2–551).</list-item>
<list-item>Child Nutrition Programs (with the exception of
special milk programs) (12–3539–0–1–605). </list-item>
<list-item>Children’s Health Insurance Fund (75–0515–0–1–551).
</list-item>
<list-item>Commodity Supplemental Food Program
(12–3507–0–1–605). </list-item>
<list-item>Contingency Fund (75–1522–0–1–609).
</list-item>
<list-item>Family Support Programs (75–1501–0–1–609).
</list-item>
<list-item>Federal Pell Grants under section 401 Title IV of
the Higher Education Act.</list-item>
<list-item>Grants to States for Medicaid
(75–0512–0–1–551).</list-item>
<list-item>Payments for Foster Care and Permanency
(75–1545–0–1–609).</list-item>
<list-item>Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(12–3505–0–1–605).</list-item>
<list-item>Supplemental Security Income Program
(28–0406–0–1–609).</list-item>
<list-item>Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(75–1552–0–1–609).</list-item></list>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1568701ED5784CD3A5D6D541324BD661"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Economic recovery programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 255 of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding the following after
subsection (h):</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7860CD73FDBF4812B3ACDA049481FE89" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCDC89792D1FC488281EF3E3045BEEC88"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Economic recovery programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following programs shall be exempt from
reduction under any order issued under this part:</text>
<list level="paragraph" list-type="none">
<list-item>All programs enacted in, or increases in programs
provided by, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009.</list-item>
<list-item>Exchange Stabilization Fund-Money Market Mutual Fund
Guaranty Facility (20–4274–0–3–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Financial Stabilization Reserve (20–0131–4–1–376).
</list-item>
<list-item>GSE Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program
Account (20–0126–0–1–371).</list-item>
<list-item>GSE Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements
(20–0125–0–1–371).</list-item>
<list-item>Office of Financial Stability
(20–0128–0–1–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset
Relief Program (20–0133–0–1–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Troubled Asset Relief Program Account
(20–0132–0–1–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Troubled Asset Relief Program Equity Purchase
Program (20–0134–0–1–376).</list-item>
<list-item>Troubled Asset Relief Program, Home Affordable
Modification Program
(20–0136–0–1–604).</list-item></list>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H0D629D6761BD4DD4825A256501C59E4C"><enum>302.</enum><header>Enforcement
procedures under the Congressional Budget Act</header>
<subsection id="H570FED94F3344AE7976E88FA7259DCD3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974 is amended by adding after section 315 the following new
section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H83F6CE5FD94449BB89D21AF4D9E47B41" style="OLC">
<section id="H67FA27036B884CA7981A4BE25AA4C7FC"><enum>316.</enum><header>Enforcement
procedures</header>
<subsection id="H0307EED2BEF64FE9ACB6AC059003E3B7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Discretionary
Spending Limits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It shall not
be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill,
joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that includes any provision
that would cause the discretionary spending limits as set forth in section
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to be
exceeded.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H18A32D1E56744A76AC6BB6950AC6C4E7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Deficit
limits</header><text>It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives
or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference
report that includes any provision that would cause the most recently reported,
current deficit limits set forth in section 253A of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to be exceeded.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HFF0F839EF31C42C2A4F1110DA56D7611"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Waiver or
Suspension</header>
<paragraph id="H379224ED29794826990128122307DB5B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In the
Senate</header><text>The provisions of 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>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H57E5E40F5A85406BA204C56542450E3B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>In the
House</header><text>The provisions of this section may be waived or suspended
in the House of Representatives only by a rule or order proposing only to waive
such provisions by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly
chosen and sworn.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H15FDD37F2FB341E8A90BAF61A78461F5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Point of Order
Protection</header><text>In the House, it shall not be in order to consider a
rule or order that waives the application of paragraph (2) of subsection
(c).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H65C6A8FF18BC48838A07A65236334CD6"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Motion To
Suspend</header><text>It shall not be in order for the Speaker to entertain a
motion to suspend the application of this section under clause 1 of rule
XV.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HB2A338D0A49A42ECA4D664FF8CC62204"><enum>(b)</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
inserting after the item relating to section 315 the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE3AFEC8F85B04C80AB426F12E10D6AE2" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 316. Enforcement
procedures.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H8654C75DD4614A748A011EBB3FDD88BA"><enum>303.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 250(c)(4) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking paragraph (4),
redesignating the succeeding paragraphs accordingly, and adding the following
paragraphs:</text>
<quoted-block id="HF1896A50A68B458A911FD0F91852FC27">
<paragraph id="HF6376D68BF914AF881FE5B2FB90E109C"><enum>(19)</enum><text>The term
<term>spending reduction</term> refers to the cancellation of budgetary
resources provided by discretionary appropriations or mandatory
spending.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H38B6472CC3064E7E871E9118D38404B6"><enum>(20)</enum><text>The term
<term>GDP</term>, for any fiscal year, means the gross domestic product during
such fiscal year consistent with Department of Commerce definitions.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFDFEC747751245EEBA9B783E2E29F081"><enum>(21)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0107E926C87F4DBFB4AD9AAAB7A5C358"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The term <term>emergency
requirement</term> means any provision that provides new budget authority and
resulting outlays for a situation that poses a threat to life, property, or
national security and is—</text>
<clause id="HE851952273CB4562B328102CC96279B4" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>sudden, quickly coming into being,
and not building up over time;</text>
</clause><clause id="H49F75FA42C7648AAB3D655EA54E9DAF6" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an urgent, pressing, and
compelling need requiring immediate action;</text>
</clause><clause id="H2F7A9EA73CB94EB2B7EEF7A5DC452116" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>unforeseen, unpredictable, and
unanticipated; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H43B1CE6D70D842958E6E7BE41FF60DB1" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>not permanent, temporary in
nature.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA3EC410DD35B487F82952C4AF4C1A400" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>An emergency that is part of an
aggregate level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when normally
estimated in advance, is not
unforeseen.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section>