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Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by
adding after the item relating to section 316 the following new item:
``Sec. 317. Consideration of biennial appropriation bills.''.
SEC. 120. ASSISTANCE BY FEDERAL AGENCIES TO STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE
SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
(a) Information Regarding Agency Appropriations Requests.--To
assist each standing committee of the House of Representatives and the
Senate in carrying out its responsibilities, the head of each Federal
agency which administers the laws or parts of laws under the
jurisdiction of such committee shall provide to such committee such
studies, information, analyses, reports, and assistance as may be
requested by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee.
(b) Information Regarding Agency Program Administration.--To assist
each standing committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate
in carrying out its responsibilities, the head of any agency shall
furnish to such committee documentation, containing information
received, compiled, or maintained by the agency as part of the
operation or administration of a program, or specifically compiled
pursuant to a request in support of a review of a program, as may be
requested by the chairman and ranking minority member of such
committee.
(c) Summaries by Comptroller General.--Within thirty days after the
receipt of a request from a chairman and ranking minority member of a
standing committee having jurisdiction over a program being reviewed
and studied by such committee under this section, the Comptroller
General of the United States shall furnish to such committee summaries
of any audits or reviews of such program which the Comptroller General
has completed during the preceding six years.
(d) Congressional Assistance.--Consistent with their duties and
functions under law, the Comptroller General of the United States, the
Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and the Director of the
Congressional Research Service shall continue to furnish (consistent
with established protocols) to each standing committee of the House of
Representatives or the Senate such information, studies, analyses, and
reports as the chairman and ranking minority member may request to
assist the committee in conducting reviews and studies of programs
under this section.
SEC. 121. REPORT ON TWO-YEAR FISCAL PERIOD.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall--
(1) determine the impact and feasibility of changing the
definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on
that definition to a 2-year fiscal period with a biennial
budget process based on the 2-year period; and
(2) report the findings of the study to the Committees on
the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate and
the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives.
SEC. 122. SPECIAL TRANSITION PERIOD FOR THE 109TH CONGRESS.
(a) President's Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2006.--The budget
submission of the President pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, for fiscal year 2006 shall include the following:
(1) An identification of the budget accounts for which an
appropriation should be made for each fiscal year of the fiscal
year 2006-2007 biennium.
(2) Budget authority that should be provided for each such
fiscal year for the budget accounts identified under paragraph
(1).
(b) Review and Recommendations of the Committees on
Appropriations.--The Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate shall review the items included pursuant
to subsection (a) in the budget submission of the President for fiscal
year 2006 and include its recommendations thereon in its views and
estimates made under section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 within 6 weeks of that budget submission.
(c) Actions by the Committees on the Budget.--(1) The Committee on
the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall review
the items included pursuant to subsection (a) in the budget submission
of the President for fiscal year 2006 and the recommendations submitted
by the Committee on Appropriations of its House pursuant to subsection
(b) included in its views and estimates made under section 301(d) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
(2) The report of the Committee on the Budget of each House
accompanying the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year
2006 and the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying such
resolution shall also include allocations to the Committee on
Appropriations of its House of total new budget authority and total
outlays (which shall be deemed to be made pursuant to section 302(a) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for purposes of budget enforcement
under section 302(f)) for fiscal year 2005 from which the Committee on
Appropriations may report regular appropriation bills for fiscal year
2006 that include funding for certain accounts for each of fiscal years
2006 and 2007.
(3) The report of the Committee on the Budget of each House
accompanying the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year
2006 and the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying such
resolution shall also include the assumptions upon which such
allocations referred to in paragraph (2) are based.
(d) GAO Programmatic Oversight Assistance.--(1) During the first
session of the 109th Congress the committees of the House of
Representatives and the Senate are directed to work with the
Comptroller General of the United States to develop plans to transition
program authorizations to a multi-year schedule.
(2) During the 109th Congress, the Comptroller General of the
United States will continue to provide assistance to the Congress with
respect to programmatic oversight and in particular will assist the
committees of Congress in designing and conforming programmatic
oversight procedures for the fiscal year 2007-2008 biennium.
(e) CBO Authorization Report.--On or before January 15, 2006, the
Director of the Congressional Budget Office, after consultation with
the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives and Senate,
shall submit to the Congress a report listing (A) all programs and
activities funded during fiscal year 2006 for which authorizations for
appropriations have not been enacted for that fiscal year and (B) all
programs and activities funded during fiscal year 2006 for which
authorizations for appropriations will expire during that fiscal year,
fiscal year 2007, or fiscal year 2008.
(f) President's Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2007.--The budget
submission of the President pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, for fiscal year 2007 shall include an evaluation
of, and recommendations regarding, the transitional biennial budget
process for the fiscal year 2006-2007 biennium that was carried out
pursuant to this section.
(g) CBO Transitional Report.--On or before March 31, 2006, the
Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall submit to Congress an
evaluation of, and recommendations regarding, the transitional biennial
budget process for the fiscal year 2006-2008 biennium that was carried
out pursuant to this section.
SEC. 123. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as provided by sections 121 and 122, this title and the
amendments made by it shall take effect on January 1, 2007, and shall
apply to budget resolutions and appropriations for the biennium
beginning with fiscal year 2008.
TITLE II--TRUTH IN SPENDING
Subtitle A--Emergency Spending Legislation
SEC. 201. EMERGENCY SPENDING LEGISLATION AND THE BASELINE.
(a) In General.--Section 257(a) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting ``,
except for emergency appropriations covered by section 251(b)(2)(A) and
emergency legislation covered by section 252(e)'' before the period.
(b) Direct Spending and Receipts.--Section 257(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 legislation covered by section 252(e) shall
not be extended in the baseline.''.
(c) Discretionary Appropriations.--Section 257(c) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
``(7) Emergency appropriations covered by section
251(b)(2)(A) shall not be extended in the baseline.''.
SEC. 202. OMB EMERGENCY CRITERIA.
(a) Definition of Emergency.--Section 3 of the Congressional Budget
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (as amended by section 113(b)) is
further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(12)(A) The term `emergency' means a situation that--
``(i) requires new budget authority and outlays (or
new budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom)
for the prevention or mitigation of, or response to,
loss of life or property, or a threat to national
security; and
``(ii) is unanticipated.
``(B) As used in subparagraph (A), the term `unanticipated'
means that the underlying situation is--
``(i) sudden, which means quickly coming into being
or not building up over time;
``(ii) urgent, which means a pressing and
compelling need requiring immediate action;
``(iii) unforeseen, which means not predicted or
anticipated as an emerging need; and
``(iv) temporary, which means not of a permanent
duration.''.
(b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
``(20) The term `emergency' has the meaning given to such
term in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974.''.
SEC. 203. POINT OF ORDER TO ENFORCE DEFINITION OF EMERGENCY.
(a) In General.--Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(g) It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or
in the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, or an amendment
thereto or a conference report thereon, which carries an emergency
designation pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) or section 252(e) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.''.
(b) Waivers and Appeals in the Senate.--Sections 904(c)(2) and
904(d)(3) are amended by striking ``, and 312(c)'' and by inserting
``312(c), and 312(g)''.
Subtitle B--The Byrd Rule
SEC. 211. LIMITATION ON BYRD RULE.
(a) Protection of Conference Reports.--Section 313 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking subparagraph (E)
through the semicolon at the end thereof and by redesignating
subparagraph (F) as subparagraph (E);
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ``and again upon the
submission of a conference report on such a reconciliation bill
or resolution,'';
(3) by striking subsection (d);
(4) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d); and
(5) in subsection (e), as redesignated--
(A) by striking ``, motion, or conference report''
the first place it appears and inserting ``, or
motion''; and
(B) by striking ``, motion, or conference report''
the second and third places it appears and inserting
``or motion''.
(b) Conforming Amendment.--The first sentence of section 312(e) of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by inserting ``, except
for section 313,'' after ``Act''.
Subtitle C--Spending Accountability Reserve
SEC. 231. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ``Spending Accountability Reserve
Act of 2003''.
SEC. 232. SPENDING ACCOUNTABILITY RESERVE LEDGER.
(a) Establishment of Ledger.--Title III of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 (as amended by section 119(a)) is further amended by adding
at the end the following new section:
``spending accountability reserve ledger
``Sec. 318. (a) Establishment of Ledger.--The chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall each
maintain a ledger to be known as the `Spending Accountability Reserve
Ledger'. The Ledger shall be divided into entries corresponding to the
subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations. Each entry shall
consist of three components: the `House Reserve Balance'; the `Senate
Reserve Balance'; and the `Joint House-Senate Reserve Balance'.
``(b) Components of Ledger.--Each component in an entry shall
consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry
of a negative amount shall be made.
``(c) Credit of Amounts to Ledger.--(1) In the House of
Representatives or the Senate, whenever a Member offers an amendment to
an appropriation bill to reduce new budget authority in any account,
that Member may state the portion of such reduction that shall be--
``(A) credited to the House or Senate Reserve Balance, as
applicable; or
``(B) allowed to remain within the applicable section
302(b) suballocation.
If no such statement is made, the amount of reduction in new budget
authority resulting from the amendment shall be credited to the House
or Senate Reserve Balance, as applicable, if the amendment is agreed
to.
``(2)(A) Except as provided by subparagraph (B), the chairmen of
the Committees on the Budget shall, upon the engrossment of any
appropriation bill by the House of Representatives and upon the
engrossment of that bill by the Senate, credit to the applicable entry
balance of that House amounts of new budget authority and outlays equal
to the net amounts of reductions in new budget authority and in outlays
resulting from amendments agreed to by that House to that bill.
``(B) When computing the net amounts of reductions in new budget
authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by the
House of Representatives or the Senate to an appropriation bill, the
chairmen of the Committees on the Budget shall only count those
portions of such amendments agreed to that were so designated by the
Members offering such amendments as amounts to be credited to the House
or Senate Reserve Balance, as applicable, or that fall within the last
sentence of paragraph (1).
``(3) The chairmen of the Committees on the Budget shall, upon the
engrossment of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill, credit to
the applicable Joint House-Senate Reserve Balance the amounts of new
budget authority and outlays equal to--
``(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the
amount of new budget authority in the House Reserve Balance
plus (ii) the amount of new budget authority in the Senate
Reserve Balance for that bill; and
``(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of (i) the
amount of outlays in the House Reserve Balance plus (ii) the
amount of outlays in the Senate Reserve Balance for that bill.
``(4) Calculation of Reserve Savings in Senate.--For purposes of
calculating under this section the net amounts of reductions in new
budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by
the Senate on an appropriation bill, the amendments reported to the
Senate by its Committee on Appropriations shall be considered to be
part of the original text of the bill.
``(d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term `appropriation
bill' means any general or special appropriation bill, and any bill or
joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing
appropriations through the end of a fiscal year.
``(e) Tally During House Consideration.--The chairman of the
Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall maintain
a running tally of the amendments adopted reflecting increases and
decreases in budget authority in the bill as reported. This tally shall
be available to Members in the House of Representatives during
consideration of any appropriations bill by the House.''.
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