[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2857 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2857

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
   to create an adjustment to the discretionary spending limits for 
               appropriations for emergency job creation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2011

  Mr. Grijalva (for himself, Mr. Conyers, and Ms. Lee of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                               the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
   to create an adjustment to the discretionary spending limits for 
               appropriations for emergency job creation.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prioritize Emergency Job Creation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY JOB CREATION.

    Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Emergency job creation.--If, for fiscal years 
                2012 through 2021, appropriations for discretionary 
                accounts are enacted that Congress designates and the 
                President subsequently so designates as being for 
                emergency job creation in statute, the adjustment for a 
                fiscal year shall be the total of such appropriations 
                for the fiscal year in discretionary accounts 
                designated as being for emergency job creation.''.
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