[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[H. Res. 1493 Engrossed in House (EH)]

H. Res. 1493

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                          July 1, 2010.
    Resolved,
    (a) Budget Enforcement.--For the purposes of budget enforcement:
            (1) Budget allocations.--The following allocations shall be the 
        allocations made pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget 
        Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations and shall be enforceable 
        under section 302(f)(1) of that Act:
                    (A) Fiscal year 2010.--In addition to amounts allocated 
                under the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
                2010 (S. Con. Res. 13), the allocation for new discretionary 
                budget authority to the Committee on Appropriations shall be 
                increased up to $538,000,000 for program integrity initiatives 
                listed in section 422(a) of S. Con. Res. 13. The outlay 
                allocation for fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2011 shall be 
                adjusted accordingly.
                    (B) Fiscal year 2011.--
                            (i) New discretionary budget authority, 
                        $1,121,000,000,000.
                            (ii) Discretionary outlays, $1,314,000,000,000.
                            (iii) New mandatory budget authority, 
                        $765,584,000,000.
                            (iv) Mandatory outlays, $755,502,000,000.
            (2) Discretionary spending enforcement provisions.--The provisions 
        of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. 
        Res. 13) shall remain in force and effect in the House, except that the 
        references in section 424 (point of order against advance 
        appropriations) to fiscal years 2010 and 2011 shall be references to 
        fiscal years 2011 and 2012, respectively.
    (b) Additional Enforcement Provisions.--For the purposes of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13)--
            (1) section 421 of S. Con. Res. 13 shall no longer apply to the 
        consideration of bills, joint resolutions, amendments, or conference 
        reports;
            (2) the chairman of the Committee on the Budget may exclude the 
        effect of any ``current policy adjustment'' as provided in section 4(c) 
        of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 from a determination of the 
        budgetary effects of any provision in a bill, joint resolution, 
        amendment, or conference report; and
            (3) the terms ``budget year'', ``current year'', and ``direct 
        spending'' have the meanings given those terms in section 250 of the 
        Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that 
        the term ``direct spending'' shall include provisions in appropriation 
        Acts that make outyear modifications to substantive law as described 
        under section 3(4)(C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
    (c) Sense of the House on Deficit Reduction.--
            (1) Findings.--The House finds that--
                    (A) passage of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
                passage of legislation to reform the defense acquisition system, 
                and passage of health care reform legislation reducing the 
                deficit represented valuable contributions to fiscal 
                responsibility;
                    (B) strengthening the economy and creating jobs are critical 
                to reducing the long-term deficit;
                    (C) fiscally responsible investments in education, including 
                the retention of high-quality teachers in the classroom, help to 
                lay the foundation for a stronger economy;
                    (D) the discretionary levels for 2011 included in this 
                resolution represent a reduction below the President's 
                comparable budgetary request, and further contribute to fiscal 
                discipline; and
                    (E) defending our country requires necessary investments and 
                reforms to strengthen our military--including providing 
                sufficient resources to aggressively pursue implementation of 
                GAO recommendations to achieve efficiencies, and evaluating 
                defense plans to ensure weapons systems that were developed to 
                counter Cold War-era threats are not redundant and applicable to 
                21st century threats.
            (2) Sense of the house on deficit reduction.--It is the sense of the 
        House that--
                    (A) by 2015 the Federal budget should be in primary 
                balance--meaning that outlays in the Federal budget shall equal 
                receipts during a fiscal year, not counting outlays for debt 
                service payments;
                    (B) the debt-to-GDP ratio should be stabilized at an 
                acceptable level once the economy recovers;
                    (C) not later than September 15, 2010, the chairs of 
                committees should submit for printing in the Congressional 
                Record findings that identify changes in law that help achieve 
                deficit reduction by reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and 
                mismanagement, promoting efficiency and reform of government, 
                and controlling spending within Government programs those 
                committees may authorize;
                    (D) prior to the adjournment of the 111th Congress, any 
                recommendations made by the National Commission on Fiscal 
                Responsibility and Reform and approved by the Senate should be 
                brought to a vote in the House of Representatives; and
                    (E) any deficit reduction achieved by the enactment of such 
                legislation should be used for deficit reduction only and should 
                not be available to offset the costs of future legislation.
    (d) Reserve Fund for Deficit Reduction.--Upon enactment of legislation 
containing recommendations in the final report of the National Commission on 
Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established by Executive Order No. 13531 on 
February 18, 2010, that decreases the deficit for either time period provided in 
clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the chairman 
of the Committee on the Budget shall, for the purposes of the Statutory Pay-As-
You-Go Act of 2010, exclude any net deficit reduction from his determination of 
the budgetary effects of such legislation, to ensure that the deficit reduction 
achieved by that legislation is used only for deficit reduction and is not 
available as an offset for any subsequent legislation.
    (e) House Rule XXVIII.--Nothing in this resolution shall be construed to 
engage rule XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.