1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Spending Control Act of
2011
.
(b)
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Title I—Spending limits and deficit control
Sec. 101. Direct spending limits.
Sec. 102. Total spending limits.
Sec. 103. Deficit limits.
Sec. 104. Repeal of statutory PAYGO.
Sec. 105. Reports and orders.
Sec. 106. Exempt programs and activities; special sequestration
rules.
Sec. 107. Adjustments for changes in direct
spending.
Title II—Budgeting for emergencies and war
Sec. 201. Allocations for the global war on
terrorism.
Sec. 202. Emergency and global war on terrorism (GWOT)
adjustment procedures.
Sec. 203. Elimination of emergency adjustments.
Sec. 204. Conforming amendment to the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Title III—Enforcing cut-as-you-go
Sec. 301. Enforcing Cut-As-You-Go.
Title IV—Supermajority points of order
Sec. 401. Supermajority points of order.
<enum>I</enum><header>Spending limits
and deficit control</header>
<section id="H9CEEACF8F39C49EF9E90D94B25CC09F4"><enum>101.</enum><header>Direct spending
limits</header>
<subsection id="HC6C2D092631D4F53A50C3A32D77E62D2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Control of
direct spending</header><text>Section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB0003E01E75F492AB3B576098E95C2A7" style="OLC">
<section id="H1A022C24EFA54F9C81ECCE3133181660"><enum>252.</enum><header>Direct spending
limits</header>
<subsection id="HFA21C39C763B465DAC539743CED8259A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Direct spending
limits</header><text>The total level of direct spending for each fiscal year
set forth below is as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H2536892285DD455D9197769ACB95E52D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2013—</text>
<subparagraph id="HFCFF63F968B445FA937DFF7693CEFD56"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $515,001,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDB6B6666485D4CE18BCFBC0D9229BEF9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $293,611,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8C5C2BDB0EFD4DDE8C4BAD38C21ACC08"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$474,527,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H1789B5A6FBFB41EAA2455ABC857D7FFF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2014—</text>
<subparagraph id="H61BCEA4484934A21AB2024B3E76317B5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $545,303,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9BFFB701F5F94E6E90387426D55617C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $287,942,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA77506FC2B004A05A6A1B967BECE2291"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$431,870,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H819C07E75EA34F97B998CE6B2A968213"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2015—</text>
<subparagraph id="H44E9FB1382D6486D97B410D982265A3E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $568,450,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9E7BBC693D414DAE816BC9E926E762BA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $276,890,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1CDCA0D6881E4B23849C1B3DF191C5F4"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$401,509,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEAA75EEDBA1347DEABE671381A27D3B0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2016—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7F99732474DA43B8A80F2B74458BACAA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $614,243,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H137819BA01584EEF8953B2F9F35E7390"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $270,287,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFD16F5A20F354DC291D31B802508A305"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$422,579,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H340D3AFAD28141079E792F79E294A284"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2017—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDB025732692D4C3CB7C94AE8E32D2330"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $633,169,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H60A558438C51482F82BF35E6BE841DC7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $288,914,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC0484BD68778491AB4AD9C56E3730A42"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$414,028,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2127651EF9A24C9EA879EF20FDDAD850"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2018—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6B0784691B514A01A05F2368BFD9A83C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $652,180,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBCA2BE2FF9844B63834F4C266D8D4CD1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $297,823,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H835D29FD090D45C8A5B1C4172B78A636"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$412,225,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HBE5E4ED4242044909EFD2AE4E1EDB702"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2019—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF768B669FEB548048AF839FC55C98494"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $706,477,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H395F3C10F2F249B78295E616A5DA410E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $318,508,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9AB298B35AC44464AA36D53F7F6CF3AB"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$423,383,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA2615B2AE5EC4EEC92E52257D3CA2B07"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2020—</text>
<subparagraph id="HECDF6E9F7CF84CC693632A355CADE038"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $753,235,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE0C34C22E4204E4A8755AD51FED4DDDA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $341,284,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9799D628204148AFA187189C130AB0E3"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$432,352,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC9BA870062A6432583D45404EAE68324"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2021—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7499BEEEF2A348DBA9250044AABF76B6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare, $803,952,000,000 in budget
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H151EF1FAD6B74BB4BA4D63DDA38389EC"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, $348,739,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing
therefrom; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD3F626702F724565B3BDF142A7FB2E71"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for all other direct spending,
$440,804,000,000 in budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6EF4C3B3B21541839D4F52A089E5A23A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA3B13FCC717C44CE99C80E616BCD2752"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Within 15 calendar days
after Congress adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a sequestration
under sections 251, 251A, 253, but after any sequestration required by section
251 and 251A and before sections 252A and 253, there shall be a sequestration
to eliminate any direct spending in excess of the direct spending limits set
forth in subsection (a), as applicable, for the budget year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H79BC17F4D5444245A8143F25096FCB91" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount required to be sequestered in a
fiscal year under paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H336AD6DA8040463A968593B49C63718A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicare spending shall be obtained
from non-exempt direct spending accounts for Medicare;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1039BECE8FEA4A44A591F175A02079BD"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for Medicaid and other health-related
spending shall be obtained from non-exempt direct spending accounts for
Medicaid and other health-related spending; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7B9C2B30F6334A8C80A31749B402754B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>for all other direct spending shall be
obtained from non-exempt direct spending accounts.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HECE02A855B4243C88F10B65ECE4D7B3F" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Each account referred to in
subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of paragraph (2) shall be reduced by the uniform
percentage necessary to reduce any excess direct spending in accounts in that
subparagraph to the applicable level set forth in subsection (a), as
applicable, for the budget year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H79361B0257C14F37884B299AF402B59E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Scorekeeping
guidelines</header><text>OMB and CBO, after consultation with each other and
the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate,
shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HB1A986E672C244AC85DC69089165FF1B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>determine common
scorekeeping guidelines; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6CA5380D6AB94C5EA1C4C3A6B6A5AAD4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in conformance
with such guidelines, prepare estimates under this
section</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H6B223ED5E89349D8A256FCFC34ED2247"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section
250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3105FDA9930E4E72BD7E41DCD9D919CA" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HCE7248EFC71F4383882826844BD15A6F"><enum>(22)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Medicare</term> means
programs within budget function 570.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE34714CB725742C8B2B7A58809E13520"><enum>(23)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Medicaid and other
health-related spending</term> means programs within budget function
550.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBA6F31461DA44283B3A1DBB4D97E7453"><enum>(24)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>other direct spending</term>
means programs other than those within budget functions 550 and 570, excluding
Social Security and net
interest.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H3D681BC9432044828C89D52FE3F0AEB0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The item relating to section 252 in the table of
contents set forth in 250(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HFD2634DA88284323BA86DFB32BCAC864" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 252. Direct spending
limits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H3986F5EF12FE4AE2A5E4E15AE7BDC97C"><enum>102.</enum><header>Total spending
limits</header>
<subsection id="HD88E83D3591E4D8C9515704FBF3ACA90"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Total spending
limits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding after section
252 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block id="H397E5F673D1A48009B534C67A6DE32CE">
<section id="HED0A7EB02EBC4521B74D221A5E1341FA"><enum>252A.</enum><header>Total spending
limits</header>
<subsection id="H28EA4325BC5C4C13A2E9D3E35AC27F6B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H8AAD21CBEFDD43E0A6FA57AE2F87E03B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Within 15 calendar days after Congress
adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a spending reduction ordered
under sections 251, 251A, 252, and 253, but after any spending reduction
required by sections 251, 251A, and 252, and before section 253, there shall be
a sequestration of all non-exempt direct spending accounts and discretionary
accounts to eliminate any total spending in excess of the total spending limits
set forth in subsection (b) for the budget year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H43E06D7AEAE14C9993E7949354EE4AE8" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Each account referred to in paragraph
(1) shall be reduced by the uniform percentage necessary to reduce total
spending to the applicable level set forth in subsection (b) for the budget
year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H9989FC67F5804B278D02282CB736FA58"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Total spending
limits</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H901E6846F772447396716821927B1A5A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2013: 21.7 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H90D43D594C51413E8A87DF5D2F22B628"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2014: 20.8 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H21411E7C30CA4120B49F8CFE5DB6433F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2015: 20.2 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H256C87C91B85486BA26E0948934F8FCC"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2016: 20.1 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H70064CC1B299452E9A6CBD1DF6B935F1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>fiscal year 2017:
19.9 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HEB5376CDC834438A9E1F4418B9FEBEF9"><enum>(6)</enum><text>fiscal year 2018:
19.7 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6F118B709E604345B46136CF5FB43FE7"><enum>(7)</enum><text>fiscal year 2019:
19.9 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HCED1F4996BF447A9A8ADBF10E3E56C1D"><enum>(8)</enum><text>fiscal year 2020:
19.9 percent; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H2010E4DAC8394146A58CC2C7AE978D13"><enum>(9)</enum><text>fiscal year 2021:
19.9 percent;</text>
</paragraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subsection">of the current projected gross
domestic product of the United States for the budget
year.</continuation-text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H03E871336E124D83B5BA14291B723D92"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as amended by section 101) is further
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block id="HE4C3F374E39D42FF9B28E38FB50165D8" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H05C928856E0848CE9305EB8F72C4DCAB"><enum>(25)</enum><text>The term
<term>total spending</term> means all outlays of the Government, including
those from off-budget
entities.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H046685A2A4764807B52FEA6AD1075FD7"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents set forth in 250(a) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by
inserting after the item relating to section 252 the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block id="H8FA83F0F980C4B3D9AA3430CB32E27AD" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 252A. Total spending
limits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H67B5BE9A93E44CACB083804610522962"><enum>103.</enum><header>Deficit
limits</header>
<subsection id="H394546FF232F46D4993C85CC4C1B3710"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Deficit
limits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 253 of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B3DFB01972E48BF8BA1D19C8F11BA3A" style="OLC">
<section id="H6D4FD2B537F44B17B4221CBE1B4DFF5C"><enum>253.</enum><header>Deficit
limits</header>
<subsection id="H0B2E6D7E9F4549F39E98F6DAC553DAEB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Deficit
projections</header>
<paragraph id="HC005A5EDFA364C859BD974AFD2B51C78"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deficit
amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the current
fiscal year and each subsequent ten fiscal years:</text>
<subparagraph id="H64E65B00911B4CD898FF07355DA4E258"><enum>(A)</enum><text>OMB shall prepare
a report comparing projected total deficits and the deficit limits in
subsection (c), and include such report in the budget as submitted by the
President annually under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States
Code.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBB64A2E24CA14D4BA94AB2ED5793FF59"><enum>(B)</enum><text>CBO shall prepare
a report comparing projected total deficit amounts and the deficit limits in
subsection (c) and include such report in the CBO annual baseline and
reestimate of the President’s budget.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7C17BEA1EF1C4066A34584B60EBD353B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Inclusion in
spending reduction orders</header><text>Reports prepared pursuant to subsection
(a) shall be included in the spending reduction report set forth in subsection
(b).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D4EB1BF7F6248F0B231DA1649C96874"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD9223F1C847C43F2B13F53809DDE4074"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Within 15 calendar days
after Congress adjourns to end a session and on the same day as a spending
reduction ordered under sections 251, 251A, 252, and 252A, but after any
spending reduction required by section 251, 251A, 252, or 252A, there shall be
a sequestration to eliminate any excess deficit.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC0015C0EF2434DC9B50A24B6F84D08CE" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The amount required to be sequestered
in a fiscal year under paragraph (1) shall be obtained from non-exempt direct
spending and discretionary spending accounts. Each account shall be reduced by
the uniform percentage necessary to achieve the required reduction in the
deficit so as not to exceed the deficit limit for that fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HFC5E3F78AD944D5CA5FE887855AA5342"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deficit
limits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the
term <term>deficit limit</term> means an amount that equals with respect
to—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HED0BACD8F04943A397BBA666684935E3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2013: 4.3 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD50EEE4945D94632A9D627BD74AE01D2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2014: 2.8 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H61E05A2EE44544DAB20E2954009D73D8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2015: 2.4 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA6570CDA1D9048389C4D724BBB58B603"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2016: 2.5 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD1ADC6C8F39247299200DD64B62A4ADC"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2017: 2.0 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H73B83BDA73B2499783CCD6763CF68902"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2018: 1.8 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H3DA139A25F3149B9858D58373E4A385B"><enum>(7)</enum><text>fiscal year 2019:
1.9 percent;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC7D2F4F2FE704E47B93E9AC6142E6046"><enum>(8)</enum><text>fiscal year 2020:
1.8 percent; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H96E66106451147D0BDC92595E36F2AFC"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">fiscal year 2021: 1.6 percent;</text>
</paragraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subsection">of the current projected gross
domestic product of the United States for the budget
year.</continuation-text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HCF59B6A343984C56A74B5F2B117D332A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The item relating to section 253 in the table of
contents set forth in section 250(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H4F9B24C865FB430298A19CAE0B6A1878" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 253. Deficit
limits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HCB8259F68100418B89EA14EEE31947F0"><enum>104.</enum><header>Repeal of
statutory PAYGO</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Statutory
Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 931 note) is repealed.</text>
</section><section id="HBD71F90EC90242ADA51602E628061E15"><enum>105.</enum><header>Reports and
orders</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 254 of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H89697D992FA44C3FBD59950BF7184B1C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by repealing paragraph (1) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD4DF9313115D45B5B939BD49A10C1CEF" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H502AAFCAE3CF4E9F9E047FFFD07CFCB1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reporting
requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the dates
specified in subsection (a), OMB and CBO shall issue a preview report regarding
discretionary, direct, total, and deficit sequestration based on laws enacted
through those
dates.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H626B83AAAD004EADA4D4EA6916915008"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by repealing paragraph (3) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H55D0139B3EA243119823E641E97A180B" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H1CEF8E630AB04D6BBC083A5AAE7D8985"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Direct spending
sequestration reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
preview report shall set forth for the budget year estimates for each of the
following:</text>
<subparagraph id="HF28548B2E7154FBB96CBE03DE6567905"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The amount of any
excess direct spending for Medicare, for Medicaid and other health-related
spending, and for all other direct spending.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC0405C7C3C844E65ACF6B2B64AD33615"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The sequestration
percentage or percentages necessary to reduce any direct spending in accounts
for Medicare, for Medicaid and other health-related spending, and for all other
direct spending, as
applicable.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6311E12AA4DB44658C1B2350C09DC30A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by repealing paragraph (4), by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6),
and by inserting the following new paragraphs:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFE812FDCBCEE4DB2AAF5BB04DAFABE6F" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HF82B71BC14124193AB7D36A8C03301E6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Total spending
sequestration reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
preview report shall set forth for the budget year estimates for each of the
following:</text>
<subparagraph id="HC9AC96DCB8784BE2825CE2C64C226704"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The amount of the
current projected gross domestic product of the United States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9AA1711C9F1F40FD96FDD23C156AA3EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Estimated total
spending.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H937F72F7E99B409098F23F006F7EFDBF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The amount by
which the total spending exceeds the total spending limit.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCA9F542467FB4C1CAC2316C44D39791F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The sequestration
percentage necessary to eliminate any excess total spending.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6687875569CD4A6DAA54AEB9C75D22D3"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Deficit
sequestration reports</header><text>The preview report shall set forth for the
budget year estimates for each of the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="H567C476C34FC40618BD4579E61864297"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The amount of the
projected gross domestic product of the United States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4A2F83FE98794E5C8F52F8972AC5CE5F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The estimated
deficit.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEC92F3234ED04B979DD7BA1D6BD4DC80"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The amount by
which the estimated deficit exceeds the deficit limit.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H27231E8AAA11441D807ACC15ABD5B3DD"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The sequestration
percentage necessary to eliminate any excess deficit
spending.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H882B00370BB84547828DDE76367122B7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(f)(3), by amending the side heading and the first sentence to read as follows:
<quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Direct, total, and deficit
sequestration reports</header-in-text>.—The final report shall contain all the
information required in the direct, total, and deficit sequestration preview
reports. The final report shall also include any net increase or decrease in
the current year resulting from all OMB estimates for the current year of
direct spending that were not reflected in the final OMB sequestration report
for the current year.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7D3C212002354F4E998A75E5D1FBDFE2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (f),
by amending paragraph (4) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2353567E7C224EDAB4201F6CBFCA0C83" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HEFAD0BBF06CF44FB9687C6D499D6D35F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Explanation of
differences</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The OMB report
shall explain any material differences between OMB and CBO estimates in any
comparable reports.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7A92EDEF41984B2490F55EFFD6A9086E"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (g),
by striking <quote>(f)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>(f)(5)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H3A7E63EC48754F20B5D33FED36A94221"><enum>106.</enum><header>Exempt programs
and activities; special sequestration rules</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Sections 255 and 256 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="H214BA787EA7140DF962A5499454A0D6D" style="OLC">
<section id="H8087A46C6760421984020ED33B456400"><enum>255.</enum><header>Exempt programs
and activities</header>
<subsection id="H1BC33F440572411DAF02DF6C9223E939"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Exempt programs
and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The following
shall be exempt from reduction under any order issued under this part:</text>
<paragraph id="HE42CE5E1788E47BF9E60EE6C4835F873"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Payments for net
interest.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H81B80BED74B343AB879BFDC238EF1C19"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Benefits payable
under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established
under title II of the Social Security Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H67BF5C0B1C6D4A299B66E82F71DBC800"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Compensation,
pensions, and benefits provided to veterans defined as direct spending payable
by the Department of Veterans Affairs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC14B19A1703D492BAD4C0271278E210E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Obligated balances
of budget authority carried over from prior fiscal years.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H44927775F2EF4FC2B582D30CBB751254"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Any obligations of
the Federal Government required to be paid under the United States Constitution
or legally contractual obligations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC5BC9862116A4C0698EBAB236B4DD2AC"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Claims, Judgments,
and Relief Acts (20–1895–0–1–808).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H954D33C2F8A04271B97ED22DE85CE4C5"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Intragovernmental
transfers.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H071508D9F632489FB0DF04E868D2C3F9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Optional
Exemption of Military Personnel</header>
<paragraph id="HE71A180AED6743F9AFC8488EE2DBE5FB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The President may, with respect to any military personnel
account, exempt that account from sequestration or provide for a lower uniform
percentage reduction than would otherwise apply.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70AC1E46A04847C0BA9A000B74C2B9FA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The
President may not use the authority provided by paragraph (1) unless the
President notifies the Congress of the manner in which such authority will be
exercised on or before the date specified in section 254(a) for the budget
year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H12C1D8C46F2944F2A0A3F83209C8E1C4"><enum>256.</enum><header>General and
special sequestration rules</header>
<subsection id="H6DA19F2D3C324CEDBC299FE137D77281"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Limitations</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H18D9A50A59944D3089AE63C59AAF96EA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>No direct spending
program that OMB estimates for the budget year is growing at a rate that
exceeds the estimated rate of growth of the consumer price index for that year
shall be subject to a spending reduction of more than four percent of its
budgetary resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H154EF97B96B74503AE30F2CC11C488C4" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>No direct spending program that OMB
estimates for the budget year is growing at a rate that is equal to or less
than the consumer price index for that year shall be subject to a spending
reduction.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H0714481187964FF9A803EF33A7522C47"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Student
loans</header><text>For all student loans under part B or D of title IV of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 made during the period when a sequestration order
under section 254 is in effect as required by section 252, 252A, or 253,
origination fees under sections 438(c)(2) and (6) and 455(c) and loan
processing and issuance fees under section 428(f)(1)(A)(ii) of that Act shall
each be increased by the uniform percentage specified in that sequestration
order, and, for student loans originated during the period of the sequestration
accruing during the period of the sequestration shall be reduced by the uniform
percentage specified in that sequestration order.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HCC914D3D3BA4468EBD0BC241876D8896"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Special rules
for Medicare program</header>
<paragraph id="HADF64E98FE6144128CC8C9008BE81953"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Calculation of
reduction in payment amounts</header><text>To achieve the total percentage
reduction in those programs required by section 252, 252A, or 253, subject to
paragraph (2), and notwithstanding section 710 of the Social Security Act, OMB
shall determine, and the applicable Presidential order under section 254 shall
implement, the percentage reduction that shall apply, with respect to the
health insurance programs under title XVIII of the Social Security Act—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3EAF3E1815024AAAA6346374AD9A7C1D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of
parts A and B of such title, to individual payments for services furnished
during the one-year period beginning on the first day of the first month
beginning after the date the order is issued (or, if later, the date specified
in paragraph (4)); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFBA0FE82C9914C188DC658C1A8503EC4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of
parts C and D, to monthly payments under contracts under such parts for the
same one-year period;</text>
</subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">such that
the reduction made in payments under that order shall achieve the required
total percentage reduction in those payments for that period.</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="H2AE9979501E94A74A10A9CC7FA4D90C8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Uniform
reduction rate; maximum permissible reduction</header><text>Reductions in
payments for programs and activities under such title XVIII pursuant to a
sequestration order under section 254 shall be at a uniform rate across all
such programs and activities subject to such order.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6A2A7A61EF4C4BCC948C10C58E4C4580"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Timing of
application of reductions</header>
<subparagraph id="HE1351061B4844D13BA90BA011878E884"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if a reduction is
made under paragraph (1) in payment amounts pursuant to a sequestration order,
the reduction shall be applied to payment for services furnished during the
effective period of the order. For purposes of the previous sentence, in the
case of inpatient services furnished for an individual, the services shall be
considered to be furnished on the date of the individual's discharge from the
inpatient facility.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H655E4345B6244F5DB33DC11BDC0B07DE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Payment on the
basis of cost reporting periods</header><text>In the case in which payment for
services of a provider of services is made under title XVIII of the Social
Security Act on a basis relating to the reasonable cost incurred for the
services during a cost reporting period of the provider, if a reduction is made
under paragraph (1) in payment amounts pursuant to a sequestration order, the
reduction shall be applied to payment for costs for such services incurred at
any time during each cost reporting period of the provider any part of which
occurs during the effective period of the order, but only (for each such cost
reporting period) in the same proportion as the fraction of the cost reporting
period that occurs during the effective period of the order.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC4E69523CE3946FABA6D240D3DE2C2E6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Timing of
subsequent sequestration order</header><text>A sequestration order required by
section 252, 252A, or 253 with respect to programs under such title XVIII shall
not take effect until the first month beginning after the end of the effective
period of any prior sequestration order with respect to such programs, as
determined in accordance with paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H11E2C9AFE80F44DCA6EF20257A3DCC58"><enum>(5)</enum><header>No increase in
beneficiary charges in assignment-related cases</header><text>If a reduction in
payment amounts is made under paragraph (1) for services for which payment
under part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act is made on the basis of
an assignment described in section 1842(b)(3)(B)(ii), in accordance with
section 1842(b)(6)(B), or under the procedure described in section 1870(f)(1),
of such Act, the person furnishing the services shall be considered to have
accepted payment of the reasonable charge for the services, less any reduction
in payment amount made pursuant to a sequestration order, as payment in
full.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5F162CDBA12D499CB234935416E8458A"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Sequestration
disregarded in computing payment amounts</header><text>The Secretary of Health
and Human Services shall not take into account any reductions in payment
amounts which have been or may be effected under this part, for purposes of
computing any adjustments to payment rates under such title XVIII, specifically
including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8C5FB589970D405CAD2DF52BBB94E055"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the part C growth
percentage under section 1853(c)(6);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H17A54AC817B74A0798F9EE9BD3841D6A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the part D annual
growth rate under section 1860D–2(b)(6); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H24266BDD17C044D2B5E81CC401CFE21E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>application of
risk corridors to part D payment rates under section 1860D–15(e).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE2610F9030E446CD95A341012F3F02ED"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effects of
sequestration</header><text>The effects of sequestration shall be as
follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H257A407E83FA45A1B4D67884C437F3C3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Budgetary
resources sequestered from any account shall be permanently cancelled, except
as provided in paragraph (6).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H88A67EFD9E774B6783C988E49D935EF1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Except as
otherwise provided, the same percentage sequestration shall apply to all
programs, projects, and activities within a budget account (with programs,
projects, and activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying
report for the relevant fiscal year covering that account, or for accounts not
included in appropriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently submitted
President's budget).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAB6486BD14694EAAB010F94547A213AA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Administrative
regulations or similar actions implementing a sequestration shall be made
within 120 days of the sequestration order. To the extent that formula
allocations differ at different levels of budgetary resources within an
account, program, project, or activity, the sequestration shall be interpreted
as producing a lower total appropriation, with the remaining amount of the
appropriation being obligated in a manner consistent with program allocation
formulas in substantive law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFF43255FFD974418911E6F9EA9C10D9E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Except as
otherwise provided, obligations in sequestered accounts shall be reduced only
in the fiscal year in which a sequester occurs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFEC94E788B854888ADE623E2BDECC9DA"><enum>(5)</enum><text>If an automatic
spending increase is sequestered, the increase (in the applicable index) that
was disregarded as a result of that sequestration shall not be taken into
account in any subsequent fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6CD54C7177DE4A5AB87A90F4A0DF044A"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Budgetary
resources sequestered in revolving, trust, and special fund accounts and
offsetting collections sequestered in appropriation accounts shall not be
available for obligation during the fiscal year in which the sequestration
occurs, but shall be available in subsequent years to the extent otherwise
provided in law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H292C4B459B69408A86E9280EA6AB1619"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Commodity Credit
Corporation</header>
<paragraph id="H94038C345EA04C5986899DCB9D0DC531"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Powers and
authorities of the commodity credit corporation</header><text>This title shall
not restrict the Commodity Credit Corporation in the discharge of its authority
and responsibility as a corporation to buy and sell commodities in world trade,
to use the proceeds as a revolving fund to meet other obligations and otherwise
operate as a corporation, the purpose for which it was created.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE6A8194D69BE48E5932922B26DAB0CBA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Reduction in
payments made under contracts</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H53BC61FF67404C4F8502EA14DDDDE1E4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Loan eligibility under
any contract entered into with a person by the Commodity Credit Corporation
prior to the time an order has been issued under section 254 shall not be
reduced by an order subsequently issued. Subject to subparagraph (B), after an
order is issued under such section for a fiscal year, any cash payments for
loans or loan deficiencies made by the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be
subject to reduction under the order.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAECB361830C44C339668565F99C67FA9" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Each loan contract entered into with
producers or producer cooperatives with respect to a particular crop of a
commodity and subject to reduction under subparagraph (A) shall be reduced in
accordance with the same terms and conditions. If some, but not all, contracts
applicable to a crop of a commodity have been entered into prior to the
issuance of an order under section 254, the order shall provide that the
necessary reduction in payments under contracts applicable to the commodity be
uniformly applied to all contracts for the next succeeding crop of the
commodity, under the authority provided in paragraph (3).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFAC9D55642604902885706609E517976"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Delayed
reduction in outlays permissible</header><text>Notwithstanding any other
provision of this title, if an order under section 254 is issued with respect
to a fiscal year, any reduction under the order applicable to contracts
described in paragraph (1) may provide for reductions in outlays for the
account involved to occur in the fiscal year following the fiscal year to which
the order applies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6E4C57852384489C8E3437D8D3B7A2F8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Uniform
percentage rate of reduction and other limitations</header><text>All reductions
described in paragraph (2) required to be made in connection with an order
issued under section 254 with respect to a fiscal year shall be made so as to
ensure that outlays for each program, project, activity, or account involved
are reduced by a percentage rate that is uniform for all such programs,
projects, activities, and accounts, and may not be made so as to achieve a
percentage rate of reduction in any such item exceeding the rate specified in
the order.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8487520BA8EE4BC19B31FAB0622152B5"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Dairy
program</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection,
as the sole means of achieving any reduction in outlays under the milk price
support program, the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide for a reduction to
be made in the price received by producers for all milk produced in the United
States and marketed by producers for commercial use. That price reduction
(measured in cents per hundred weight of milk marketed) shall occur under
section 201(d)(2)(A) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446(d)(2)(A)),
shall begin on the day any sequestration order is issued under section 254, and
shall not exceed the aggregate amount of the reduction in outlays under the
milk price support program that otherwise would have been achieved by reducing
payments for the purchase of milk or the products of milk under this subsection
during the applicable fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H268CDA41183246A4B6F23DB3A98192BB"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Certain
authority not to be limited</header><text>Nothing in this joint resolution
shall limit or reduce, in any way, any appropriation that provides the
Commodity Credit Corporation with budget authority to cover the Corporation's
net realized losses.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H641F000C9E194092AE031E1F70EC842C"><enum>107.</enum><header>Adjustments for
changes in direct spending</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H92B65715FC9F4E0990910189BD3550D5" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HC9E5750ED277460793328A97DA09E3B1"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Changes in
direct spending programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If
an appropriation for the budget year causes a change in direct spending in any
outyear, then there shall be an appropriate adjustment for that outyear for the
discretionary spending limit under this section and the direct spending limit
under section
252.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>II</enum><header>Budgeting for
emergencies and war</header>
<section id="H96307303DCCD467BB9FD8496065C443F"><enum>201.</enum><header>Allocations for
the global war on terrorism</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 302(a)(5) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34255DFAE5A24C60BB2FFA9CE910A0B1" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H6FA542208FD846E29133AF36ADBB9A58"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Global war on
terrorism (GWOT)</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The joint
explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on a concurrent
resolution on the budget for a fiscal year may include an allocation,
consistent with the resolution recommended in the conference report, of the
level for the global war on terrorism (GWOT) for that fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H3BD36E4B886A4E2790A712F91B1E5BCA"><enum>202.</enum><header>Emergency and
global war on terrorism (GWOT) adjustment procedures</header>
<subsection id="H23849399BB7D41529B92C075E5551784"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</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="HE9953419E60246BD9BA9A47F857D7BB3" style="traditional">
<section id="HFA0AA3316F9B4DC794B748101B8B7B06"><enum>318.</enum><header>Emergencies; global war on terrorism
(GWOT)</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H4312D87A24FF43E98FA090517750F977"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Adjustment
procedures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before any
adjustment is made pursuant to this section for any bill or joint resolution,
or conference report thereon, that designates a provision an emergency or for
the global war on terrorism (GWOT), the enactment of which would cause an
increase in budget authority or decrease in revenue:</text>
<paragraph id="H2EDF0A8C6CD04DF88E19BB76F5B2E5E7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The chairman of the Committee on the Budget
of the House of Representatives or the Senate shall convene a meeting of that
committee, where it shall be in order, subject to the terms set forth in this
section, for one motion described in paragraph (2) to be made to authorize the
chairman to make adjustments above the applicable allocation set forth in the
most recently enacted concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to the
requirement of section 302(a)(5) or (6).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H357B177492E6461D9CD538F9FE9CAB54"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The motion referred to in paragraph (1)
shall be in the following form: <quote>I move that the chairman of the
Committee on the Budget be authorized to adjust the allocations and aggregates
set forth in the concurrent resolution on the budget by the following amount:
$____ for fiscal year ___.</quote>, with the blanks being filled in with an
amount and fiscal year determined by the chairman of the Committee on the
Budget of the House of Representatives or the Senate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDF55E258A4084EE0849E935C3362DD47"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The motion set
forth in paragraph (2) shall be open for debate and amendment, but any
amendment offered thereto is only in order if limited to changing an amount in
the motion.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3B7348687D524AA4907AB6A3FD43CF4A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Alternate
adjustment procedures for emergencies and the global war on
terrorism</header><text>The chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives or the Senate shall make any adjustments he deems
necessary under this section if he determines such adjustments are essential to
respond to an urgent and imminent need.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0074BD811EB8497E8897BF73B51FABC6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Legislation
providing for an adjustment of discretionary caps</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H586814A1375F443591DE00955D8E3875"><enum>(1)</enum><text>If any committee of the
House of Representatives or the Senate reports any bill or resolution which
provides funding designated for emergencies or for the global war on terrorism,
such bill or resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on the Budget
of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may be, with
instructions to report it, with an amendment to section 251(c) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 for an appropriate adjustment
for the applicable fiscal year, within 15 calendar days (not counting any day
on which that House is not in session) beginning with the day following the day
on which it is referred. If the Committee on the Budget of either House fails
to report a bill or resolution referred to it under this paragraph within such
15-day period, the committee shall automatically be discharged from further
consideration of such bill or resolution and such bill or resolution shall be
placed on the appropriate calendar.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCC891BF4F73646C7874658B63CA08578" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Committee on the Budget of each
House shall have jurisdiction to report any bill or resolution referred to it
under paragraph (1) with an amendment which changes the discretionary spending
limit for the applicable fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HABD48D67CAF94B71BE227B09D9DB2919"><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 317 the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8C9E56CAE8F44824AF4E9D7AD4AA09C1" style="OLC">
<toc container-level="quoted-block-container" idref="HE9953419E60246BD9BA9A47F857D7BB3" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded" lowest-level="section" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" regeneration="yes-regeneration">
<toc-entry idref="HFA0AA3316F9B4DC794B748101B8B7B06" level="section">Sec. 318. Emergencies; global war on terrorism
(GWOT).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H65387210A31A4BAE9C992ECD8681D79F"><enum>203.</enum><header>Elimination of
emergency adjustments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
314 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking subsection
(d) and redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d).</text>
</section><section id="HBEFE85E020174D768EC0BDCE5DCA93CB"><enum>204.</enum><header>Conforming
amendment to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Sections 251(b)(2)(A),
251(b)(2)(D), and 252(d)(4)(B) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 are repealed and section 251(b)(2) is amended by
redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B),
respectively.</text>
</section><enum>III</enum><header>Enforcing
Cut-As-You-Go</header>
<section id="H384C45DDA1C04270B027A45805E6C844"><enum>301.</enum><header>Enforcing
Cut-As-You-go</header>
<subsection id="HDD23EA27D09341BBB8ED06295DFCBE5D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Cut-As-You-Go
point of order</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H5A571C75C22B4E009ED9AAFB5005A01A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Title III of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by section 201) is further amended
by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H559309D3175B4F5BAAB81A0941600154" style="traditional">
<section commented="no" id="H293ED74C520B4654A6FAEB48098AD033"><enum>317.</enum><header>Enforcing Cut-As-You-Go</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H585E8E3A814A447CBC47AF726917AF52"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Point of
order</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HEA42F1F282EC4926B8A90CAD47EC2D5D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Except as provided in
subsections (b) and (c), it shall not be in order in the House of
Representatives or the Senate to consider a bill or joint resolution, or an
amendment thereto or a conference report thereon, if the provisions of such
measure have the net effect of increasing direct spending for the period of
either—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H2B8D86DC69E54084BAC0E094C6FD3C2B" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the current year, the budget year, and
the four fiscal years following that budget year; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H697D6AC7BA0849979D8FC8774EC24034" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the current year, the budget year, and
the nine fiscal years following that budget year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HEAFEF642BB354A938ADBCF5B32AC1DD2" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For the purpose of this section, the
terms <term>budget year</term> and <term>current year</term> have the meanings
specified in section 250 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, and the term <term>direct spending</term> includes provisions in
appropriation Acts that make outyear changes to or restrictions on entitlement
law or other direct spending contained in an appropriation Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H77D9C7982969464C8A8698458D764F47"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Special rule in
the House</header><text>If a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto,
is considered pursuant to a special order of the House of Representatives
directing the Clerk to add as new matter at the end of such bill or joint
resolution the entire text of a separate measure or measures as passed by the
House of Representatives, the new matter proposed to be added shall be included
in the evaluation under subsection (a) of the bill, joint resolution, or
amendment.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H54780BAE4E0D42B1A5DD1A23A85468D4" 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 318 the following new
item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B311932AC2A4D00BDB3D393BB7056F3" style="OLC">
<toc container-level="quoted-block-container" idref="H559309D3175B4F5BAAB81A0941600154" lowest-bolded-level="division-lowest-bolded" lowest-level="section" quoted-block="no-quoted-block" regeneration="yes-regeneration">
<toc-entry idref="H293ED74C520B4654A6FAEB48098AD033" level="section">Sec. 317. Enforcing
Cut-As-You-Go.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HACC4D423E3604017A46D3FEE50076D5C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repealer</header><text>Clause
10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is repealed.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Supermajority
points of order</header>
<section id="H8DEAC590DC61415887C1A6027C8734B8"><enum>401.</enum><header>Supermajority
points of order</header>
<subsection id="H71D97FB4DAD640ACB23913E4B18D5FF2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Waivers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 904(c) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF608B6724FC5424EB24E6A8FBF277C84" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H2BAC67BBCB484C0596FD825FFF0FEF3C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Waivers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sections 301(i), 302(c), 302(f), 305(b)(2),
305(c)(4), 306, 310(d)(2), 310(g), 311(a), 312(b), 312(c), 313, 314(e), 317(a),
904(c), and 904(d) of this Act and section 258C(a)(5) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 may be waived or suspended in the
Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen
and
sworn.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H7D0E96CF2C68482CB0EDABE15C796322"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text>Section
904(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by repealing
paragraphs (2) and (3) and by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new
paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A1A8DBBBA994C45B27E7337A3295088" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HE58E98B2FF70407BB9979267AFC8B7D5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Appeals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
Members, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an
appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under any section
referred to in subsection
(c).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HB73EF37382A0493E8D9297E04EEDC957"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Expiration</header><text>Subsection
(e) of section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is repealed.</text>
</subsection></section>