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		<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code>
		<congress>111th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session>2d Session</session>
		<legis-num>H. R. 5752</legis-num>
		<current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber>
		<action>
			<action-date date="20100715">July 15, 2010</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="Q000023">Mr. Quigley</sponsor> (for
			 himself, <cosponsor name-id="M001175">Mr. Minnick</cosponsor>, and
			 <cosponsor name-id="F000454">Mr. Foster</cosponsor>) introduced the following
			 bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HBU00">Committee
			 on the Budget</committee-name>, and in addition to the Committees on
			 <committee-name committee-id="HRU00">Rules</committee-name> and
			 <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Ways and Means</committee-name>, 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</action-desc>
		</action>
		<legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
		<official-title>To make the Federal budget process more transparent and
		  to make future budgets more sustainable.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body id="H2BEDE8F25A664C1C868EBA9870C7ED45" style="OLC">
		<section id="HBE268ED73D394863828CD44B778B24BD" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the
			 <quote><short-title>Transparent and Sustainable Budget Act
			 of 2010</short-title></quote>.</text>
		</section><section id="HDC66E7A4EBDD42AE9E1D937DCF7953F5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header>Findings and
			 purpose</header>
			<subsection id="HACCF8878F9DA4D8D9F39C55AC55D6D41"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Congress finds that—</text>
				<paragraph id="H96CC4B69885E4648932DA85F50E8B5FE"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the public debt as a share of gross
			 domestic product should be stabilized at not more than 60 percent within 10
			 fiscal years;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HA968301D1A6040D099EF3CBD7E953AEA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">annual deficits as a share of gross
			 domestic product should be reduced to not more than three percent within 10
			 fiscal years;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H774A1AC9B3E1467B9E84FC5AA58A2311"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Joint Committee on Taxation found that
			 247 tax expenditures totaled $1.2 trillion in 2008, greater than all Federal
			 discretionary spending in that year; and</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HA2A296A05EE746ECBC4C625715FFBB45"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">tax expenditures are analogous to spending
			 programs, and future budgets and deficit control measures should reflect this
			 fact.</text>
				</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA05CFA073BBD404985EF6EA8C7261C2F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The
			 Congress declares that it is essential—</text>
				<paragraph id="HBB5283760ECB4106972330F6746EE056"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish the sustainability of public
			 debt and annual deficits as a fundamental objective of the budget
			 process;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="HFF2EFA2AAE56424C917216964D9F3F57"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to ensure that the
			 budget of the United States Government is fully transparent, comprehensible,
			 and accurate;</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H781539F851714B2F8931557482BA6D81"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to establish effective controls over tax
			 expenditures and to integrate them into the budget process; and</text>
				</paragraph><paragraph id="H79788E93D4F3473A860D2D9209B7E0F7"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to initiate a public discussion about
			 fiscal sustainability and budget transparency.</text>
				</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H9D56B3A4575F41D2B97FE4E53310BFEB"><enum>3.</enum><header>Table of
			 contents</header>
			<toc container-level="legis-body-container" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded" lowest-level="section" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" regeneration="yes-regeneration">
				<toc-entry idref="HBE268ED73D394863828CD44B778B24BD" level="section">Sec. 1. Short title.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HDC66E7A4EBDD42AE9E1D937DCF7953F5" level="section">Sec. 2. Findings and purpose.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H9D56B3A4575F41D2B97FE4E53310BFEB" level="section">Sec. 3. Table of contents.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H1A00509A236B412B866625359CCCF503" level="title">Title I—Budget process reforms</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H25F92C04132748B489DDA1C0C5FB3A8A" level="subtitle">Subtitle A—Reform of the President’s Budget</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HA96CFD430F10497C91055DEFEDA924DD" level="section">Sec. 101. Long-term fiscal responsibility.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H3DAA1038F3E84CCF8E6380E7EA894AB6" level="subtitle">Subtitle B—Reform of the Congressional Budget
				Resolution</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HE777C3C8DB714356B6CD2D2A29781984" level="section">Sec. 111. Long-term fiscal responsibility.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H3982B77E065149CF99DA7B6DC36629E9" level="subtitle">Subtitle C—Prompt consideration of recommendations of the
				National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HD679384DD9E4421A9F1FAE67A14820D3" level="section">Sec. 121. Prompt consideration of recommendations of the
				National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HB5219D7E535046C788C19F38CA33273F" level="subtitle">Subtitle D—Quadrennial Fiscal Sustainability
				Report</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H77268960A99B4AC7B64CFD55B8DA9071" level="section">Sec. 131. OMB quadrennial reports.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H2FB2B3AF5BDB4263942D70BD09091124" level="subtitle">Subtitle E—Presidential address to Congress on fiscal
				sustainability</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H164D069DA6534ED5AF498F9EA9C0CC55" level="section">Sec. 141. Presidential address on long-term fiscal
				sustainability.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H192BAA86AB5B47AF8FD0FE7F7533F396" level="title">Title II—Accounting and scoring reforms</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H1A8697EF0F3845B2B628E6DFC276D79E" level="subtitle">Subtitle A—Discounted baseline</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H3A7C383B79284B4D9F9E3D75D678DB5F" level="section">Sec. 201. Discounted baseline.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H2E28A6B9C73840939C2A2E420B1088B8" level="subtitle">Subtitle B—Alternative net cost estimate</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H1C2099416302489EBE17DA7654ABE56E" level="section">Sec. 211. Alternative analysis by Congressional Budget
				Office.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H56C41B4B0A7541A7A98395FAC75393C2" level="subtitle">Subtitle C—Deficit control mechanism</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H6E9FF162F0A844A7A0D86C9C408FAEF5" level="section">Sec. 221. Alternative net cost estimate by Congressional Budget
				Office.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H950DEEF792BD4C86AD81CD2F8177C437" level="subtitle">Subtitle D—Accrual accounting report</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HBF9AEC8CFE014607B36945C7B21F5553" level="section">Sec. 231. Accrual accounting report.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HC6BDB19E423B4165B5E5DF60AD52B86F" level="subtitle">Subtitle E—On-Budget status of trust funds and
				GSEs</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HA6592EA31A404753A66C24AD0484285A" level="section">Sec. 241. OMB report respecting budgetary status of trust funds
				and GSEs.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HA3AEBD4602D04A2EB7938804E76CADCC" level="title">Title III—Tax expenditure reforms</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HB3F7E1D36A4A4AE19081F659C7BF9768" level="subtitle">Subtitle A—Identification of tax expenditures</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H218A8F4CFBE94E0ABB10D4AEBCF9D61E" level="section">Sec. 301. JCT reports on tax expenditures.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H91BD61BB54F7419D9A0F18F95D8045A7" level="section">Sec. 302. Definition of tax subsidy.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H8B933CD3D185424180A00AD53BD18149" level="subtitle">Subtitle B—Enforcement of tax expenditure
				requirements</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H178689D4825547F0BDD264E942449295" level="section">Sec. 311. Tax expenditure points of order.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HCCBCE5045B0B445C8425483676D4DB15" level="subtitle">Subtitle C—Executive branch reporting of tax
				expenditures</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H83CC45EA35E84DBA9BF59FDD74F4DCE7" level="section">Sec. 331. Executive branch reporting of tax
				expenditures.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HE8408CB0ED2F49CF83B2ADB2C0655D33" level="subtitle">Subtitle D—Tax expenditure data</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H86CAD79C6F6C4A3DB87F211A5ABA877E" level="section">Sec. 341. Development of electronic income tax filing
				system.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="H08701E3221214BB1B251492A5C0A4942" level="section">Sec. 342. GAO report on tax expenditures.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HD6A7C92E715D420BAD105C47E04AB12F" level="section">Sec. 343. Treasury report on tax expenditures.</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HA90B915BE6BC4439877A3648D985145A" level="subtitle">Subtitle E—Tax expenditure performance reviews</toc-entry>
				<toc-entry idref="HD38B5FD49F12480C82DE51B8CD80E591" level="section">Sec. 351. CBO tax expenditure performance reviews.</toc-entry>
			</toc>
		</section><title id="H1A00509A236B412B866625359CCCF503"><enum>I</enum><header>Budget process
			 reforms</header>
			<subtitle id="H25F92C04132748B489DDA1C0C5FB3A8A"><enum>A</enum><header>Reform of the
			 President’s Budget</header>
				<section id="HA96CFD430F10497C91055DEFEDA924DD"><enum>101.</enum><header>Long-term
			 fiscal responsibility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
			 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
			 following new subsection:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD95AC2360C92413B8BDC4E7F24B06640" style="USC">
						<subsection id="id169B7762CFDF4FC89BEB2A8E44DE6C9E"><enum>(i)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA81AAEBBD4A84CC1AF61F60B0387E397"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The budget transmitted pursuant to
				subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall include—</text>
								<subparagraph id="H47FF9177F60B4C1A8063B9F479C2F14E" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a scorecard of progress in meeting the
				debt and deficit reduction targets set forth in subparagraph (B);</text>
								</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H893B0C32020742E192C1C0CD804ED58D" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
				plan for long-term fiscal sustainability, defined as reducing to within 10
				fiscal years and then maintaining a debt to potential gross domestic product
				(GDP) ratio, as defined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget,
				of not more than 60 percent and an annual deficit to GDP ratio of not more than
				three percent;</text>
								</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1C21BAA07E164FA6876973D2D7BC1CAD" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
				supplemental report from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget of
				the nonbudgeted fiscal exposures of the Government, which may be included in
				the Analytical Perspectives report, and shall include—</text>
									<clause id="HF8E59B34468C4C56A4D4A2DD03773390"><enum>(i)</enum><text>explicit liabilities and implicit
				promises embedded in the structure of current programs, including Federal
				credit programs; and</text>
									</clause><clause id="H00D9719C95CF4D419E12EE876D2DD589"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a concise description of,
				including cost information for, such exposures; and</text>
									</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBE46093BEC224DFC9FAE1569A209019C" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>explicit goals for carrying out the
				long-term fiscal sustainability plan for the first fiscal year after the fiscal
				year of the budget submission and each of the nine ensuing fiscal years.</text>
								</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4151B80FEEE44E0487B1D98DAB0FFA6E" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unless the supplemental report is included
				in the Analytical Perspectives report referred to in paragraph (1)(C), then not
				later than March 15 of each calendar year, the Director of the Office of
				Management and Budget shall transmit such report to the President and to
				Congress.</text>
							</paragraph><paragraph id="HEAB7E3244E2E40AC8CDF77209632D705" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than two months after the
				supplemental report referred to in paragraph (1)(C) is transmitted to the
				President and to Congress, the Comptroller General shall publish a report
				auditing the supplemental report referred to in paragraph
				(1)(C).</text>
							</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</section></subtitle><subtitle id="H3DAA1038F3E84CCF8E6380E7EA894AB6"><enum>B</enum><header>Reform of the
			 Congressional Budget Resolution</header>
				<section id="HE777C3C8DB714356B6CD2D2A29781984"><enum>111.</enum><header>Long-term
			 fiscal responsibility</header>
					<subsection id="H5A015C2241BF44A6B9CAFE2F23255EBB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Content of
			 Congressional budget resolution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act
			 of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85327B30DF8340188472E9B956618E44" style="OLC">
							<subsection id="HA900FA38B13544B3A64B0A786FD20DC5"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Additional
				matters in report accompanying the resolution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The report accompanying the resolution
				shall include—</text>
								<paragraph id="HAB14F7DCB41843FE8724A9491964025B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a scorecard of
				progress in meeting the debt and deficit reduction targets set forth in
				paragraph (2); and</text>
								</paragraph><paragraph id="H549E0CA3C32B413A98911A2C24A7EFBE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a plan for
				long-term fiscal sustainability, defined as reducing to within 10 fiscal years
				and then maintaining a debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of not more
				than 60 percent and an annual deficit to GDP ratio of not more than three
				percent.</text>
								</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection><subsection id="H2B7BE36E686B48D598B98257E8F7EC19"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional
			 matters in CBO reports to budget committees</header><text>Section 202(e) of the
			 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following
			 new paragraph:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3DACD3FFEA3149C39D863E4E6D8C3E0C" style="OLC">
							<paragraph id="HAAF79213380B4B04837E8CFCA5F8DAE9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On or before February 15 of each year, the
				Director shall submit to the Committees on the Budget of the House of
				Representatives and the Senate, a report that includes an assessment of the
				plan for long-term fiscal sustainability set forth in section 1105(i)(1) of
				title 31, United States Code, and include it in the most recent budget
				submission of the President, pursuant to subsection (a) of that section. When
				such plan is submitted to the Committees on the Budget, the Director shall
				place it on the public Web site of the Congressional Budget
				Office.</text>
							</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H3982B77E065149CF99DA7B6DC36629E9"><enum>C</enum><header>Prompt
			 consideration of recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal
			 Responsibility and Reform</header>
				<section id="HD679384DD9E4421A9F1FAE67A14820D3"><enum>121.</enum><header>Prompt
			 consideration of recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal
			 Responsibility and Reform</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It
			 is the sense of Congress that the recommendations reported to Congress by the
			 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform should receive prompt
			 consideration, and that neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate
			 should obstruct a final roll call vote on such recommendations.</text>
				</section></subtitle><subtitle id="HB5219D7E535046C788C19F38CA33273F"><enum>D</enum><header>Quadrennial Fiscal
			 Sustainability Report</header>
				<section id="H77268960A99B4AC7B64CFD55B8DA9071"><enum>131.</enum><header>OMB quadrennial
			 reports</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Director of the
			 Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of the
			 Treasury, shall publically issue, including by publishing on its Web site, a
			 Quadrennial Fiscal Sustainability Report not later than April 1, 2013 and April
			 1 of every fourth year thereafter. The report shall address the long-term
			 fiscal sustainability of the Government, including its ability to manage
			 finances to meet spending commitments, with a detailed analysis of social
			 insurance programs, for the budget year and for the 30-year period commencing
			 with the budget year.</text>
				</section></subtitle><subtitle id="H2FB2B3AF5BDB4263942D70BD09091124"><enum>E</enum><header>Presidential
			 address to Congress on fiscal sustainability</header>
				<section id="H164D069DA6534ED5AF498F9EA9C0CC55"><enum>141.</enum><header>Presidential
			 address on long-term fiscal sustainability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">During October 2011 and each October
			 thereafter, there shall be convened a joint session of Congress at which the
			 President shall be invited to give an address on the long-term fiscal
			 sustainability of the Government. As used in the preceding sentence, the term
			 <term>long-term fiscal sustainability</term> means the ability of the
			 Government to achieve and then maintain a debt to gross domestic product ratio
			 of not more than 60 percent and an annual deficit to gross domestic product
			 ratio of not more than 3 percent.</text>
				</section></subtitle></title><title id="H192BAA86AB5B47AF8FD0FE7F7533F396"><enum>II</enum><header>Accounting and
			 scoring reforms</header>
			<subtitle id="H1A8697EF0F3845B2B628E6DFC276D79E"><enum>A</enum><header>Discounted
			 baseline</header>
				<section id="H3A7C383B79284B4D9F9E3D75D678DB5F"><enum>201.</enum><header>Discounted
			 baseline</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 257 of the
			 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended as
			 follows:</text>
					<paragraph id="H96E561A41D9348548D3C54BBE46C9311"><enum>(1)</enum><text>At the end of
			 subsection (a), insert the following new sentence: “For any budget year the
			 discounted baseline refers to an alternative projection of current-year levels
			 of new budget authority, outlays, revenues, and the surplus or deficit into the
			 budget year and the outyears, for a minimum of 30 years, based on laws enacted
			 through the applicable year, and annually discounted for—</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC54FFC127A204D508CCF45C45FE89592" style="OLC">
							<paragraph id="HEA009EC2BFEB4C49AB39F1B7726CDB90"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the present value of money, set at the
				prevailing interest rate for 30-year Treasury bonds; and</text>
							</paragraph><paragraph id="H6904E3C50DAF4107A879FA67F93D95A8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the uncertainty of
				policies announced for the outyears, set at 10
				percent.</text>
							</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H2819BE0BC3564CFA876BCD03C3292632"><enum>(2)</enum><text>At the end, add
			 the following new subsection:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6BCEB7A1881C4E40A69CFAE3BF113288" style="OLC">
							<subsection id="H607CE2077EB3481088E80D70EA996850"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Discounted
				baseline</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The discounted
				baseline shall be computed using the same exceptions, assumptions, and other
				qualifying guidelines applicable to the baseline under this
				section.</text>
							</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H2E28A6B9C73840939C2A2E420B1088B8"><enum>B</enum><header>Alternative net
			 cost estimate</header>
				<section id="H1C2099416302489EBE17DA7654ABE56E"><enum>211.</enum><header>Alternative
			 analysis by Congressional Budget Office</header>
					<subsection id="HFF46412317A34DD3B56C4E2EF0E2268F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
			 general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Part A of title IV of
			 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the
			 following new section:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBF4C05CC79304D57AEDF2860DFE0F5CB" style="traditional">
							<section id="H2C5558CC8ED548A3BC0EC7AF638C5E90"><enum>407.</enum><header>Alternative analysis by Congressional Budget
		  Office</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H452A6B3560644B489CBB028AD7F76CD9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Alternative net cost
				estimates</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent
				practicable, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall prepare for
				each bill or joint resolution of a public character reported by any committee
				of the House of Representatives or the Senate (except the Committee on
				Appropriations of each House) and for amendments thereto and conference reports
				thereon an alternative net cost estimate.</text>
								</subsection><subsection id="H0B0E18CA6FCC4B039312A099F6B4FEFA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Calculation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The alternative net cost estimate of
				proposed measures shall be calculated by comparing the current discounted
				baseline with an alternative discounted baseline that accounts for the policy
				changes in the proposed measures reported from committee.</text>
								</subsection><subsection id="HB9032CD7C6A445CE9D74E4683777E992"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Period</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The alternative net cost estimate shall
				cover as many years as the Director deems appropriate for the applicable
				legislation to have a significant budgetary impact, but for not more than 30
				fiscal years.</text>
								</subsection><subsection id="HE64876BA21284BCEAB530F7D9A6961EB"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Submissions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent practicable, the alternative
				net cost estimate shall be submitted—</text>
									<paragraph id="HF6988BE74E494DA1BB6CE429D5818A32"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for a reported
				bill or resolution referred to in subsection (a), to the House of
				Representatives or the Senate, as applicable, at the same time as the
				submission under section 402;</text>
									</paragraph><paragraph id="H03C48884DB284D17B9BA6976B9953708"><enum>(2)</enum><text>for any amendment,
				to the applicable House of Congress before the amendment is offered; and</text>
									</paragraph><paragraph id="H44C2D849B0964AA5A244B42EB3F12E6F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>for any conference
				report, to the House of Representatives and the Senate before the conference
				report is first
				considered.</text>
									</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection><subsection id="H223494F3924F4BB6B7D3ECB40EB2294C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
			 amendment</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 406 the following new item:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14E0375DE99E4BAFB2937AACB3893858" style="OLC">
							<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
								<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 407. Alternative analysis by
				Congressional Budget
				Office.</toc-entry>
							</toc>
							<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H56C41B4B0A7541A7A98395FAC75393C2"><enum>C</enum><header>Deficit control
			 mechanism</header>
				<section id="H6E9FF162F0A844A7A0D86C9C408FAEF5"><enum>221.</enum><header>Alternative net
			 cost estimate by Congressional Budget Office</header>
					<subsection id="H3D1FAAB78C3B4C7BB81B67B8FF86C30D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
			 general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Part A of title IV of
			 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by section 211) is further
			 amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD464F2BEE8A1401D82FFFFB3DE9632A8" style="traditional">
							<section id="H577A4DC88D954E52954A84045E511031"><enum>408.</enum><header>Alternative net cost estimate by Congressional Budget
		  Office</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2CDBA51A8331446CB733B519E585AD38"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Alternative net cost
				estimate</header><text>The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall,
				to the extent practicable, prepare for each bill or joint resolution of a
				public character reported by any committee of the House of Representatives or
				the Senate (except the Committee on Appropriations of each House) and for
				amendments thereto and conference reports thereon a statement of whether the
				measure’s alternative net cost would exceed $5 billion. The alternative net
				cost shall be obtained by computing the total value of the measure, discounting
				for the present value of money and the uncertainty of policies announced for
				future periods, using the same methodology as in section 407.</text>
								</subsection><subsection id="H0E908EF09406444AB481F831B64AFD49"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Point of
				order</header><text>It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or
				the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or
				conference report for which the Director issues a statement under the preceding
				subsection that shows a alternative net cost exceeding $5 billion, as adjusted
				annually for inflation.</text>
								</subsection><subsection id="H3E5D7E42A522442A87468011C28FBDC1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Emergency
				designation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a measure or
				provision is designated as an emergency requirement under the applicable rules
				of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Director shall not include
				the cost of such a provision in the statement of the budgetary effects of such
				measure or provision.</text>
								</subsection><subsection id="H9234A2CB9BCE4EE18B76221B21D4AC73"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Public
				availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than
				14 days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays) after Congress
				adjourns to end a session, the Director shall make publicly available and cause
				to be printed in the Federal Register an annual Discounted Score Deficit
				Control report. The report shall include up-to-date deficit control mechanism
				scorecards, information about emergency legislation (if any) designated under
				subsection (c), and other data and explanations that enhance public
				understanding of this Act and actions taken under
				it.</text>
								</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection><subsection id="HA30B432BC6024638B6A52F22849E0DDB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
			 amendments</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA7B67DB6425648EE973C5BE119D93C88"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (c)(1) and (d)(2) of section
			 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 are amended by inserting
			 <quote>408(b),</quote> after <quote>313,</quote>.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H25F76E12A6904B1E85CD9232D124BE31" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The table of contents set forth in
			 section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
			 (as amended by section 211) is further amended by inserting after the item
			 relating to section 407 the following new item:</text>
							<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H64B993B3806E40AC9538B2D84DE66F02" style="OLC">
								<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
									<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 408. Alternative net cost estimate by
				Congressional Budget
				Office.</toc-entry>
								</toc>
								<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
						</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H950DEEF792BD4C86AD81CD2F8177C437"><enum>D</enum><header>Accrual accounting
			 report</header>
				<section id="HBF9AEC8CFE014607B36945C7B21F5553"><enum>231.</enum><header>Accrual
			 accounting report</header>
					<subsection id="H9936035ED1144A5EBC6AF178C9A9D80F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Accrual-Based
			 accounting system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
			 Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall develop a proposal for
			 the implementation of an accrual-based accounting system for certain portions
			 of the budget, including—</text>
						<paragraph id="H408D674666C54F849F643F914D2229EE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>insurance,
			 including social insurance programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and
			 Medicaid;</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H420D27AD97654A00B1FD07DA519732E1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>environmental
			 liabilities;</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H0E71586512594FF19411A10BA431A41F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Federal employee
			 pensions;</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H2FCBA6496B1E4A7C9D4C5C3B5546A973"><enum>(4)</enum><text>retiree health
			 benefits; and</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H86CC4799EF0D476193BA00EA0B4C7191"><enum>(5)</enum><text>other budget items
			 where accrual-based accounting would feasibly capture significant future cash
			 resource requirements that are not reflected in the cash-based budget; where
			 appropriate and reasonable.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H19DDDA6BD9A844F8936F700753F80517"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Within
			 one year of the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of
			 Management and Budget shall submit a report to Congress setting forth the
			 legislation necessary for the implementation of an accrual-based accounting
			 system for part of the budget, along with any recommendations regarding its
			 proposed legislation.</text>
					</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HC6BDB19E423B4165B5E5DF60AD52B86F"><enum>E</enum><header>On-Budget status
			 of trust funds and GSEs</header>
				<section id="HA6592EA31A404753A66C24AD0484285A"><enum>241.</enum><header>OMB report
			 respecting budgetary status of trust funds and GSEs</header>
					<subsection id="H0968065C6AC648ECAB12A7B15E78DFAC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Within one year after the date of enactment
			 of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a
			 report to Congress on the various scenarios by which the receipts and
			 disbursements of the following entities could be counted as new budget
			 authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for the purposes of the
			 budget of the United States Government as submitted by the President, the
			 congressional budget, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
			 1985, and the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010:</text>
						<paragraph id="H21514342240D4F92A48E8481B318E27F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs),
			 including the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan
			 Mortgage Corporation.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="HCD65585049F444E6B2E0DE3BAB9C5CB0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The various trust funds, including the
			 Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability
			 Insurance Trust Fund, and the Highway Trust Fund.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H163694F3483A401D92B89D33399EC5C8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Specific
			 recommendations</header><text>In the report described in subsection (a), the
			 Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide a specific
			 recommendation for each scenario described in the report, taking into account
			 at least the following factors:</text>
						<paragraph id="H851F27774D934D39BBF05202AD3198F5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Whether the
			 reformed budget would more or less accurately reflect the Government’s
			 finances, short-, medium-, and long-term.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H1A664E1AF41D4514A375084C55C1CBD4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Challenges
			 associated with implementing the reformed budget.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H8D13555A8349434AA0D9B073780322E4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Whether the
			 reformed budget would be more or less useful in enforcing the pay-as-you-go
			 requirements of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and other deficit
			 control provisions.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H07040A0C5FED4DF9891E275AA9A9D2E9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Whether the
			 reformed budget could use the same accounting standard for all budget
			 items.</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H7DF4A4D7288243789D6D41AD4B8A7BDD"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Whether the
			 reformed budget would have any impact on the financing of Government-sponsored
			 enterprises, trust funds, Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle></title><title id="HA3AEBD4602D04A2EB7938804E76CADCC"><enum>III</enum><header>Tax
			 expenditure reforms</header>
			<subtitle id="HB3F7E1D36A4A4AE19081F659C7BF9768"><enum>A</enum><header>Identification of
			 tax expenditures</header>
				<section id="H218A8F4CFBE94E0ABB10D4AEBCF9D61E"><enum>301.</enum><header>JCT reports on
			 tax expenditures</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
			 202(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by inserting
			 <quote>(1)</quote> before <quote>For</quote> and by adding at the end the
			 following new paragraph:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CA3D18ED25D45CB952EE1341342B29F" style="traditional">
						<paragraph id="HFCAAE241BAB2455595D90E8D06969954" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Reports to Congress by the Joint
				Committee on Taxation identifying tax expenditures shall also—</text>
							<subparagraph id="H5EE5DB1EEBBA4230B61F31E3A134E16E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>include an aggregate net cost of tax
				expenditures that estimates the net impact of all tax expenditures on tax
				revenues, taking into account, where possible, interaction between such tax
				expenditures; and</text>
							</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF22032EB91EC4317A6E525125D96D2DE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>compare this aggregate net cost with
				the total revenue currently raised by the Internal Revenue Code of
				1986.</text>
							</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</section><section id="H91BD61BB54F7419D9A0F18F95D8045A7"><enum>302.</enum><header>Definition of
			 tax subsidy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3 of the
			 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by adding
			 at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
					<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B40B423877B452896B6A68A686AF793" style="OLC">
						<paragraph id="H2637E26320E94C558FEF9EBB6C23551E"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>tax subsidy</term> means
				those tax expenditures that are deliberately inconsistent with an identifiable
				general rule of the present tax law, and that collect less revenue than does
				the general
				rule.</text>
						</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
				</section></subtitle><subtitle id="H8B933CD3D185424180A00AD53BD18149"><enum>B</enum><header>Enforcement of tax
			 expenditure requirements</header>
				<section id="H178689D4825547F0BDD264E942449295"><enum>311.</enum><header>Tax expenditure
			 points of order</header>
					<subsection id="HF8A8DB38FE364BD59253A9C0719B5FA3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Points of
			 order</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the
			 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following
			 new section:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA03CF3CEEA64D689BCBF0AF48562CC0" style="traditional">
							<section id="HABC6B1CEB1C94CC0B2958FD5D19BC574"><enum>316.</enum><header>Tax expenditure points of order</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H32593609E99F4A3FABFDE958A2759600"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Tax expenditure point
				of order</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE786369691E94885B88D05C5D017D902"><enum>(1)</enum><text>It shall not be in order
				in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint
				resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means of the House or the
				Committee on Finance of the Senate that proposes to amend the Internal Revenue
				Code of 1986 to establish a new tax expenditure unless the committee report
				includes—</text>
										<subparagraph id="H44D07CBF6F6045AC96691137CBAF5ED9" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a clear statement of the purpose of
				the tax expenditure, including a justification of why this purpose is best
				achieved through the tax system rather than as an outlay;</text>
										</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H388A9B1781494FB9983F54C5D9CAC31E" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an explanation of how the tax
				expenditure will be implemented and integrated with other related tax
				expenditures and outlays;</text>
										</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H43BD396792D24B44B0CF0E90A7A3AF18" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a macroeconomic impact analysis;
				and</text>
										</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7ACE0425A400488499F1D154CE6329BE" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a statement from the Joint Committee
				on Taxation explaining why a macroeconomic analysis is not calculable.</text>
										</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5BA1B9C46D5146748E1DE4712B135C42" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>As used in paragraph (1), the term
				<term>macroeconomic impact analysis</term> means—</text>
										<subparagraph id="H707208212C3C40528DE8AE35EE1F1E73"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an
				estimate prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation of the changes in economic
				output, employment, capital stock, and tax revenues expected to result from
				enactment of the applicable bill or joint resolution; and</text>
										</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H47262C09F4A84F9DB8E4BEFBA90279B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
				statement from the Joint Committee on Taxation identifying the critical
				assumptions and the source of data underlying that estimate.</text>
										</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H5B5451DB35264FDEB96481CEDC3C17E0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Tax subsidy
				points of order</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H3956DA857858424C9D48EE5A33957A51"><enum>(1)</enum><text>It shall not be in order
				in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint
				resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that contains a new tax
				subsidy, or modifies an existing tax subsidy so that the modified tax code
				collects less revenue than the current tax code for the ten-year period
				beginning with the fiscal year in which the modification takes effect, without
				a provision terminating it after not more than ten years.</text>
									</paragraph><paragraph id="HB441E5CFDF0A4A87BA44A21DEBD7600C" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H85934F9C03844EAE9BE3C520D8DA0B68"><enum>(A)</enum><text>It shall not be in order
				in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint
				resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means of the House or the
				Committee on Finance of the Senate, as applicable, that proposes to amend the
				Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a new tax subsidy, or to modify an
				existing tax subsidy so that the modified tax code would collect less revenue
				than the current tax code, unless—</text>
											<clause id="H721DFBE3EDEE43FDA003EFFEE8F8BD23" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each new tax subsidy or each modification
				of an existing tax subsidy is explicitly approved by the affirmative vote of
				the applicable committee, quorum being present; and</text>
											</clause><clause id="HDAC6F472317142549DEDC60025D76814" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the chair of the applicable committee
				causes such official statement to be printed in the Congressional Record before
				consideration of the applicable bill or joint resolution;</text>
											</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="subsection">as determined under paragraph (3).</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3166E58F23824B5D82C3942C4B7EB898" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Speaker of the House and the
				presiding officer of the Senate shall determine the applicable committee by
				determining the committee of jurisdication of legislation authorizing
				comparable spending programs or by considering the tax subsidy to be a spending
				program. For purposes of paragraph (2), the applicable committee shall be the
				committee determined under the preceding
				sentence.</text>
										</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection><subsection id="H162F218F37904FDCAFF8ECF88CD9CBD5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rules
			 amendment</header><text>Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of
			 Representatives, as amended by section 221(b), is further amended by adding
			 before the period at the end thereof the following: <quote>, or a rule or order
			 that would waive any point of order set forth in section 316 of the
			 Congressional Budget Act of 1974</quote>.</text>
					</subsection><subsection id="HACF4F6175B024BE19B59E15A92ECCA3A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming
			 amendment</header><text>The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the
			 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (as amended by section
			 211) is further amended by inserting after the item relating to section 315 the
			 following new item:</text>
						<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4A66CD3014642A491E9B2311A711154" style="OLC">
							<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
								<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 316. Tax expenditure points of
				order.</toc-entry>
							</toc>
							<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
					</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HCCBCE5045B0B445C8425483676D4DB15"><enum>C</enum><header>Executive branch
			 reporting of tax expenditures</header>
				<section id="H83CC45EA35E84DBA9BF59FDD74F4DCE7"><enum>331.</enum><header>Executive
			 branch reporting of tax expenditures</header>
					<subsection commented="no" id="H58113A5CE13049ED925724F83278803D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>OMB guidance
			 regarding tax expenditures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Office of Management
			 and Budget shall develop clear and consistent guidance to agencies on how to
			 incorporate tax expenditures in their strategic plans, annual performance
			 plans, and performance and accountability reports, to provide a broader
			 perspective and more cohesive plan of the Government’s goals and
			 strategies.</text>
					</subsection><subsection id="H6B5282BD3076470EBC028A92758490B9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting of tax
			 expenditure data</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director
			 of the Office of Management and Budget shall require agencies to report tax
			 expenditure data related to their overall mission in their annual financial
			 statements.</text>
					</subsection><subsection id="H4330D38EFABC47C2BE908E069811714C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>As
			 used in this section—</text>
						<paragraph id="H16F2C6ABDEC64CA3943F006E10CBC8FC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
			 <term>agency</term> has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (1) of
			 section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and</text>
						</paragraph><paragraph id="H2935C0047DF647AF98A4DC896D354F0F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term <term>tax
			 expenditure</term> has the meaning given to such term in paragraph (3) of
			 section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of
			 1974.</text>
						</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HE8408CB0ED2F49CF83B2ADB2C0655D33"><enum>D</enum><header>Tax expenditure
			 data</header>
				<section id="H86CAD79C6F6C4A3DB87F211A5ABA877E"><enum>341.</enum><header>Development of
			 electronic income tax filing system</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of
			 enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury (or his designee) shall
			 develop and report to Congress on the legislative steps necessary to implement
			 an income tax filing system which—</text>
					<paragraph id="H482159B7090B4BA4997DCD7D195DDB0E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>allows users to
			 save their work;</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="HAF65EE6E4EB8415D89DBE59AB0B8CA91"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provides simple
			 instructions for filing;</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="HEDCB75F92DE046D6B37B8FC9DA0B56C4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">allows users to file their income tax
			 returns electronically; and</text>
					</paragraph><paragraph id="H1D6D1FBA21D74E6E8BC8E4DCF244A453"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">respects taxpayer privacy and security
			 concerns.</text>
					</paragraph></section><section id="H08701E3221214BB1B251492A5C0A4942"><enum>342.</enum><header>GAO report on
			 tax expenditures</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later
			 than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Government
			 Accountability Office shall publish a written report making recommendations for
			 improving the rules of the Internal Revenue Service to facilitate the
			 evaluation of tax expenditures. Such report shall include a description of how
			 to implement such improvements, including a list of the key steps in such
			 implementation.</text>
				</section><section id="HD6A7C92E715D420BAD105C47E04AB12F"><enum>343.</enum><header>Treasury report
			 on tax expenditures</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later
			 than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the
			 Treasury (or his designee) shall make a written report to Congress which
			 describes how the Secretary intends to use the Internal Revenue Service panel
			 data sample which was created to facilitate the evaluation of savings-related
			 tax expenditures. Such report shall also include a description of all other
			 efforts related to tax expenditure data acquisition that the Secretary has
			 taken or plans to undertake.</text>
				</section></subtitle><subtitle id="HA90B915BE6BC4439877A3648D985145A"><enum>E</enum><header>Tax expenditure
			 performance reviews</header>
				<section id="HD38B5FD49F12480C82DE51B8CD80E591"><enum>351.</enum><header>CBO tax
			 expenditure performance reviews</header>
					<subsection id="H5E6B1160CD5F485288662AF1889BE494"><enum>(a)</enum><header>CBO performance
			 review schedule and reports</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HB8D26096B4B949DAB13B1572210B5237"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Title II of the
			 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following
			 new section:</text>
							<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H391A1FA5BBEC4F65A300456155205824" style="traditional">
								<section id="H1F5C8A21A62F490D8B8BC326F9E8877D"><enum>204.</enum><header>CBO performance review schedule and
		  reports</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H8C70C4CA91EE4937AE9BBE3A55ED142F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Performance review
				schedule</header>
										<paragraph id="HCBC78A19B0D64E9E930FD0B4F7926B10"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall conduct performance
				reviews of tax expenditures, as identified by the Joint Committee on Taxation,
				on an ongoing basis. The Director shall develop the schedule for these reviews,
				such that each tax expenditure is reviewed at least once in every four-year
				period. A four-year schedule shall be submitted by the Director to Congress,
				the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the Office of Management and
				Budget during January of each calendar year.</text>
										</paragraph><paragraph id="H90A4D07588CC4346BC8CF6C3DDF917BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Within three months after the enactment of
				any new tax expenditure, the Director shall revise the most recent four-year
				schedule of tax expenditure performance reviews and submit them with the
				quarterly reports as set forth in section 204(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget
				Act of 1974.</text>
										</paragraph><paragraph id="HCF9C3DC3F3EE4C3489DC2D286774EA03"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Not later than one
				year after the enactment of this Act, the Director shall have submitted to
				Congress, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the Office of
				Management and Budget the first four-year schedule and begin the first
				performance reviews under paragraph (1).</text>
										</paragraph><paragraph id="H70154C6AD57646ABA7B05D13C5814F86"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The Director shall
				endeavor to develop a four-year schedule that provides for the simultaneous
				review of tax expenditures that have similar policy objectives.</text>
										</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA104E666619E494D972886B6FB0CF3F8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reports</header>
										<paragraph id="HCD7DFA7D7651489C9B5067DECE6C0AB6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall report each of its
				performance reviews of tax expenditures to Congress, the Secretary of the
				Treasury, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in quarterly
				reports and containing all of the performance reviews conducted since the
				preceding report.</text>
										</paragraph><paragraph id="H96F61F8DEF44467C8EB4C4E002F19DB9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director may conduct expedited
				performance reviews for any tax expenditure that has an estimated annual fiscal
				impact of less than $1 billion, annually adjusted for inflation, unless the
				Secretary of the Treasury requests or the chairs and ranking minority members
				of the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate
				jointly request, in writing, a full review.</text>
										</paragraph><paragraph id="H1988BD8856194B6EB3A70621FF9CFEF9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each performance review, except for
				expedited performance reviews, shall include the following explanations,
				descriptions, estimates, analyses, and recommendations:</text>
											<subparagraph id="HB962F162D2C8419B82682A9B511A22F2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An explanation of the tax expenditure and
				any relevant economic, social, or other context under which it was first
				enacted.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFAF35E34031742C2B5CBBBEDFBB390E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>A description of
				the intended purpose of the tax expenditure.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7B5B6214597E47999627113FB6A780C0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>An analysis of the
				overall success of the tax expenditure in achieving such purpose, and evidence
				supporting such analysis.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0615F7D715DA4CB6A48EF858AC03FACC"><enum>(D)</enum><text>An analysis of the
				extent to which further extending the tax expenditure, or making it permanent,
				would contribute to achieving such purpose.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H52825776900445A7B79F84A4AAFD620D"><enum>(E)</enum><text>A description of
				the direct and indirect beneficiaries of the tax expenditure, also
				specifying—</text>
												<clause id="H13B22712EB534B9AB405DC5E2C593635"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any unintended
				beneficiaries of the tax expenditure;</text>
												</clause><clause id="H5585D0F9C5054C3288FD21AD874518CD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the classes of
				individuals, types of organizations, or types of industries whose Federal tax
				liabilities are directly affected by the tax expenditure;</text>
												</clause><clause id="H2022C958276B4A32A125EBCD2E06FF34"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the extent to
				which terminating the tax expenditure may have negative effects on the category
				of taxpayers that currently benefit from the tax preference and on the economy;
				and</text>
												</clause><clause id="HBB21AE65FA2C4712AAD470478446D0BD"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the extent to
				which the termination of the tax expenditure would affect the distribution of
				liability for payments of Federal taxes.</text>
												</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9398A2837EE0493490B07587CB8C88DB"><enum>(F)</enum><text>An analysis of
				whether the tax expenditure is the most cost-effective method for achieving the
				purpose for which it was intended, and a description of any more cost-effective
				methods through which such purpose could be accomplished, and in particular the
				extent to which a direct spending program might be preferable to a tax
				expenditure, including—</text>
												<clause id="H767CD2216BE94A4B9362E2B4BA9C95E5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether an outlay program might achieve the
				same policy objectives as a tax expenditure;</text>
												</clause><clause id="HB376E4B4334C44E2B185D66462574BD8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>whether an outlay
				program might reduce deadweight losses and improve economic efficiency in the
				national economy; and</text>
												</clause><clause id="H4506C9063DEF4C55B028E7E70C8209EA"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>whether a direct
				spending program might be more or less expense to administer.</text>
												</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4368F8573EBB486BA1340E27914F5E3B"><enum>(G)</enum><text>A description of
				any unintended effects of the tax expenditure that is useful in understanding
				the tax expenditure’s overall value.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H42CE8E7E1CC04E1EAB676728C11E44AD"><enum>(H)</enum><text>A description of
				any interactions (actual or potential) with other tax expenditures or direct
				spending programs in the same or related budget function that should be studied
				further.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8CD84BF5ECAC4228A71C4C2343444F16"><enum>(I)</enum><text>An estimate of the
				annual cost in forgone revenues of the tax expenditure, as well as a projection
				of the cost in foregone revenues for the ensuing ten fiscal years.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0D7D3546D3064F54BF96F8FA37CE6831"><enum>(J)</enum><text>A description of
				any further information needed to complete a more thorough examination and
				analysis of the tax expenditure, and what is necessary to make such information
				available.</text>
											</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H86D45C51DB4E4C33BB09E86122269B5F"><enum>(K)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A specific recommendation, based on
				analysis conducted in the performance review, as to whether the tax expenditure
				should be continued without modification, modified (including converted fully
				or partly into a direct spending program), scheduled for sunset, reviewed at a
				later date, or terminated immediately. The Director may decline to provide a
				specific recommendation, but in each such case shall provide an explanation of
				why a recommendation has not been given.</text>
											</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA9C15EF66E1E4EDC9BA10725FC27DBBA"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An expedited performance review shall
				include at least the explanations, descriptions, estimates, analyses, and
				recommendations as listed in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), (I), (J), and
				(K) of paragraph (3).</text>
										</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H897FF41364F74A8AB666B2ACA9886025"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Committee
				hearings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60
				days after the submission of any performance review report under subsection
				(b), the Committees on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the
				Committee on Finance of the Senate shall hold public hearings to consider the
				performance review recommendations contained in that report. The Committees on
				the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate may also hold
				hearings on such performance review
				recommendations.</text>
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						</paragraph><paragraph id="H9C6BA8E7AD424468AAEF2C29D93779C6" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><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 203 the following new
			 item:</text>
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									<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 204. CBO performance review schedule
				and
				reports.</toc-entry>
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						</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3FFC38357B69416FA230543265CB3977"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treasury and OMB
			 comments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60
			 days after submission of a performance review report pursuant to section 204(b)
			 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Secretary of the Treasury and the
			 Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall each provide to Congress
			 and to the Director of the Congressional Budget Office detailed, written
			 comments on the performance review recommendations, stating whether the
			 Secretary of the Treasury or the Director of the Office of Management and
			 Budget, as applicable, agrees or disagrees with all or any part of the report
			 or, if no opinion is given, providing an explanation of why the Secretary or
			 the Director has no opinion or has not given one.</text>
					</subsection></section></subtitle></title></legis-body>
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