117 S3770 IS: Preventing Runaway Inflation in Consumer Expenditures Act U.S. Senate 2022-03-07 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

II117th CONGRESS2d SessionS. 3770IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESMarch 7, 2022Mr. Lee (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the BudgetA BILLTo establish a point of order against legislation that would cause a net increase in outlays unless the Director of the Congressional Budget Office certifies that inflation is below 3 percent.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Preventing Runaway Inflation in Consumer Expenditures Act or the PRICE Act.

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Point of order against legislation that would cause a net increase in outlays unless the Director of the Congressional Budget Office certifies that inflation is below 3 percent

(a)

Point of order

It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would cause a net increase in outlays relative to the most recently published Congressional Budget Office baseline unless the Director of the Congressional Budget Office certifies (based on the most recent data available to the Director) that inflation, as measured in either the average of the annualized changes in the 3 most recently published monthly reports on the consumer price index for all-urban consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, or the previous year’s unadjusted annual change in that index, is below 3 percent.(b)

Waiver and appeal

Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).