    [United States Senate Manual, 118th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 118-1]
    [Cleaves Manual of Conferences and Conference Reports]
    [Pages 444-445]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    [[Page 444]]

                                 TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE

                   Chapter 11--THE BUDGET AND FISCAL, BUDGET, AND PROGRAM
                                        INFORMATION

           383  Sec. 1105. Budget contents and submission to Congress

                                        * * * * * * *

                    (h)(1) If there is a medicare funding warning under
                section 801(a)(2) of the Medicare Prescription Drug,
                Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 made in a year,
                the President shall submit to Congress, within the 15-day
                period beginning on the date of the budget submission to
                Congress under subsection (a) for the succeeding year,
                proposed legislation to respond to such warning.
                    (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if, during the year in
                which the warning is made, legislation is enacted which
                eliminates excess general revenue medicare funding (as
                defined in section 801(c) of the Medicare Prescription Drug,
                Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003) for the 7-
                fiscal-year reporting period, as certified by the Board of
                Trustees of each medicare trust fund (as defined in section
                801(c)(5) of such Act) not later than 30 days after the date
                of the enactment of such legislation.

                                        * * * * * * *

           384  Sec. 1105 note. Procedures in the Senate
                    ``(a) Introduction and Referral of President's
                Legislative Proposal.--
                                ``(1) Introduction.--In the case of a
                            legislative proposal submitted by the President
                            pursuant to section 1105(h) of title 31, United
                            States Code, within the 15-day period specified
                            in paragraph (1) of such section, the Majority
                            Leader and Minority Leader of the Senate (or
                            their designees) shall introduce such proposal
                            (by request), the title of which is as follows:
                            `A bill to respond to a medicare funding
                            warning.' Such bill shall be introduced within 3
                            days of session after Congress receives such
                            proposal.
                                ``(2) Referral.--Any legislation introduced
                            pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be referred to
                            the Committee on Finance.
                    ``(b) Medicare Funding Legislation.--For purposes of
                this section, the term `medicare funding legislation'
                means--
                                ``(1) legislation introduced pursuant to
                            subsection (a)(1), but only if the legislative
                            proposal upon which the legislation is based was
                            submitted within the 15-day period referred to
                            in such subsection; or
                                ``(2) any bill the title of which is as
                            follows: `A bill to respond to a medicare
                            funding warning.'.
                    ``(c) Qualification for Special Procedures.--
                                ``(1) In general.--The special procedures
                            set forth in subsections (d) and (e) shall apply
                            to medicare funding legislation, as described in
                            subsection (b), only if the legislation--

                                    ``(A) is medicare funding legislation
                                that is passed by the House of
                                Representatives; or

                                    ``(B) contains matter within the
                                jurisdiction of the Committee on Finance in
                                the Senate.

    [[Page 445]]

                                ``(2) Failure to qualify for special
                            procedures.--If the medicare funding legislation
                            does not satisfy paragraph (1), then the
                            legislation shall be considered under the
                            ordinary procedures of the Standing Rules of the
                            Senate.
                    ``(d) Discharge.--
                                ``(1) In general.--If the Committee on
                            Finance has not reported medicare funding
                            legislation described in subsection (c)(1) by
                            June 30 of a year in which the President is
                            required to submit medicare funding legislation
                            to Congress under section 1105(h) of title 31,
                            United States Code, then any Senator may move to
                            discharge the Committee of any single medicare
                            funding legislation measure. Only one such
                            motion shall be in order in any session of
                            Congress.
                                ``(2) Debate limits.--Debate in the Senate
                            on any such motion to discharge, and all appeals
                            in connection therewith, shall be limited to not
                            more than 2 hours. The time shall be equally
                            divided between, and controlled by, the maker of
                            the motion and the Majority Leader, or their
                            designees, except that in the event the Majority
                            Leader is in favor of such motion, the time in
                            opposition thereto shall be controlled by the
                            Minority Leader or the Minority Leader's
                            designee. A point of order under this subsection
                            may be made at any time. It is not in order to
                            move to proceed to another measure or matter
                            while such motion (or the motion to reconsider
                            such motion) is pending.
                                ``(3) Amendments.--No amendment to the
                            motion to discharge shall be in order.
                                ``(4) Exception if certified legislation
                            enacted.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), it
                            shall not be in order to discharge the Committee
                            from further consideration of medicare funding
                            legislation pursuant to this subsection during a
                            session of a Congress if the chairman of the
                            Committee on the Budget of the Senate certifies
                            that medicare funding legislation has been
                            enacted that eliminates excess general revenue
                            medicare funding (as defined in section 801(c)
                            [set out as a note under section 1395i of Title
                            42, The Public Health and Welfare]) for each
                            fiscal year in the 7-fiscal-year reporting
                            period.
                    ``(e) Consideration.--After the date on which the
                Committee on Finance has reported medicare funding
                legislation described in subsection (c)(1), or has been
                discharged (under subsection (d)) from further consideration
                of, such legislation, it is in order (even though a previous
                motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for any
                Member of the Senate to move to proceed to the consideration
                of such legislation.
                    ``(f) Rules of the Senate.--This section is enacted by
                the Senate--
                                ``(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power
                            of the Senate and as such it is deemed a part of
                            the rules of the Senate, but applicable only
                            with respect to the procedure to be followed in
                            the Senate in the case of a bill described in
                            this paragraph, and it supersedes other rules
                            only to the extent that it is inconsistent with
                            such rules; and
                                ``(2) with full recognition of the
                            constitutional right of the Senate to change the
                            rules (so far as relating to the procedure of
                            the Senate) at any time, in the same manner, and
                            to the same extent as in the case of any other
                            rule of the Senate.'' (Pub. L. 108-173, Title
                            VIII, Sec. 804, Dec. 8, 2003, 117 Stat. 2363.)
                                38 u.s.c.--veterans' benefits

                       united states senate procedures enacted in law