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108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 180

To reform Federal budget procedures to restrain congressional spending, 
foster greater oversight of the budget, account for accurate Government 
                 agency costs, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 2003

 Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin (for himself, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Akin, Mr. 
   Royce, and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Budget, for a period ending not later 
than June 1, 2003, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Ways and 
     Means, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To reform Federal budget procedures to restrain congressional spending, 
foster greater oversight of the budget, account for accurate Government 
                 agency costs, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited at the ``Budget Fraud 
Elimination Act of 2003''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
                      TITLE I--TRUTH IN BUDGETING

                  Subtitle A--Limit on the Public Debt

Sec. 101. Findings.
Sec. 102. Purpose.
Sec. 103. Limit on public debt.
            Subtitle B--Establishment of Biennial Budgeting

Sec. 111. Findings.
Sec. 112. Revision of timetable.
Sec. 113. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment 
                            Control Act of 1974.
Sec. 114. Amendments to rules of House of Representatives.
Sec. 115. Amendments to title 31, United States Code.
Sec. 116. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriation 
                            acts.
Sec. 117. Multiyear authorizations.
Sec. 118. Government strategic and performance plans on a biennial 
                            basis.
Sec. 119. Biennial appropriation bills.
Sec. 120. Assistance by Federal agencies to standing committees of the 
                            Senate and the House of Representatives.
Sec. 121. Report on two-year fiscal period.
Sec. 122. Special transition period for the 109th Congress.
Sec. 123. Effective date.
                      TITLE II--TRUTH IN SPENDING

               Subtitle A--Emergency Spending Legislation

Sec. 201. Emergency spending legislation and the baseline.
Sec. 202. OMB emergency criteria.
Sec. 203. Point of order to enforce definition of emergency.
                       Subtitle B--The Byrd Rule

Sec. 211. Limitation on Byrd rule.
              Subtitle C--Spending Accountability Reserve

Sec. 231. Short title.
Sec. 232. Spending accountability reserve ledger.
Sec. 233. Downward adjustment of section 302(a) allocations and section 
                            302(b) suballocations.
Sec. 234. Periodic reporting of ledger statements.
Sec. 235. Downward adjustment of discretionary spending limits.
Sec. 236. Reduction in revenues.
Subtitle D--Enhanced Rescissions of Budget Authority Identified by the 
                     President as Wasteful Spending

Sec. 251. Short title.
Sec. 252. Enhanced consideration of certain proposed rescissions.
    Subtitle E--Extension of Discretionary Spending Limits and Paygo

Sec. 261. Amendments to sections 251, 252, and 275 of the Balanced 
                            Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
                            1985.
        Subtitle F--Paygo Requirements and the On-Budget Surplus

Sec. 271. Paygo requirements and the on-budget surplus.
     Subtitle G--Treatment of Extraneous Appropriations in Omnibus 
                         Appropriation Measures

Sec. 281. Treatment of extraneous appropriations.
TITLE III--BUDGETING AND MANAGING FOR RESULTS: FULL FUNDING FOR FEDERAL 
                             RETIREE COSTS

 Subtitle A--Accrual Funding of Pensions and Retirement Pay forederal 
               Employees and Uniformed Services Personnel

Sec. 301. Civil Service Retirement System.
Sec. 302. Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.
Sec. 303. Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System.
Sec. 304. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Retirement System.
Sec. 305. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned 
                            Officer Corps Retirement System.
Sec. 306. Coast Guard Military Retirement System.
 Subtitle B--Accrual Funding of Post-Retirement Health Benefits Costs 
                         for Federal Employees

Sec. 311. Federal employees health benefits fund.
Sec. 312. Funding uniformed services health benefits for all retirees.
Sec. 313. Effective date.

                      TITLE I--TRUTH IN BUDGETING

                  Subtitle A--Limit on the Public Debt

SEC. 101. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Since 1997, Congress has paid down and retired 
        approximately $450,000,000,000 of the Government's debt which 
        was previously held by the public.
            (2) This reduction in the Government's debt to the public 
        should permit a lowering of the statutory debt ceiling. 
        However, the statutory definition mingles both the public debt 
        and intragovernment liabilities, the latter of which do not 
        represent resource withdrawals for the economy.
            (3) Intragovernment accounts such as the social security 
        trust funds, the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, 
        the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, and the 
        Unemployment Trust Fund constitute accrued liabilities of the 
        Government which will be paid from future receipts, taxes, or 
        borrowing. If the Government issues debt to the public to fund 
        such liabilities in the future, that debt will properly be 
        subject to the debt ceiling.
            (4) Properly defining the debt of the Government would 
        permit lowering the debt ceiling to take account of, and lock 
        in, the fiscal progress that has been made.

SEC. 102. PURPOSE.

    It is the purpose of this subtitle to--
            (1) properly define the public debt to exclude 
        intragovernment obligations; and
            (2) reduce the public debt ceiling in recognition of the 
        reduction in outstanding public debt in recent years, and to 
        encourage further fiscal responsibility and progress toward 
eliminating the remaining outstanding debt.

SEC. 103. LIMIT ON PUBLIC DEBT.

    Section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 3101. Public debt limit
    ``(a) In this section, the current redemption value of an 
obligation issued on a discount basis and redeemable before maturity at 
the option of its holder is deemed to be the face amount of the 
obligation.
    ``(b) The face amount of obligations issued under this chapter and 
the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are 
guaranteed by the United States Government (except guaranteed 
obligations held by the Secretary of the Treasury and intragovernmental 
holdings) may not be more than $3,870,000,000,000 outstanding at one 
time, subject to changes periodically made in that amount as provided 
by law.
    ``(c) For purposes of this section, the face amount, for any month, 
of any obligation issued on a discount basis that is not redeemable 
before maturity at the option of the holder of the obligation is an 
amount equal to the sum of--
            ``(1) the original issue price of the obligation, plus
            ``(2) the portion of the discount on the obligation 
        attributable to periods before the beginning of such month (as 
        determined under the principles of section 1272(a) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 without regard to any exceptions 
        contained in paragraph (2) of such section).
    ``(d) For purposes of this section, the term `intragovernment 
holding' is any obligation issued by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
any Federal trust fund or Government account, whether in respect of 
public money, money otherwise required to be deposited in the Treasury, 
or amounts appropriated.''.

            Subtitle B--Establishment of Biennial Budgeting

SECTION 111. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the annual appropriations and budget process 
        increasingly dominates the congressional agenda and Congress 
        regularly fails to meet the deadlines of the Congressional 
        Budget Act of 1974;
            (2) the design of the budget process has led to repetitive 
        and time-consuming budget votes, decreasing the time available 
        for the systematic and programmatic oversight of Federal 
        programs and delaying the enactment of legislation necessary to 
        fund the Government;
            (3) Congress' responsibility to improve the efficiency, 
        economy, and effectiveness of governmental operations, evaluate 
        programs and performance, detect and prevent poor 
        administration, waste, or abuse in Government programs, ensure 
        that executive policies reflect the public interest, ensure 
        administrative compliance with legislative intent, and prevent 
        executive encroachment on legislative authority and 
        prerogatives is undermined by the current time-consuming and 
        repetitive budget process;
            (4) an annual budget process encourages inefficiency in the 
        management, stability, and predictability of Federal funding, 
        particularly for States and localities;
            (5) a biennial budget process will reduce the number of 
        budget-related votes during each Congress, enhance 
        congressional oversight of Government operations, encourage 
        longer time horizons in policy planning and greater stability 
        in fiscal policy;
            (6) a biennial budget process was a principal 
        recommendation of the 1993 Joint Committee on the Organization 
        of Congress and the Vice President's National Performance 
        Review;
            (7) since the enactment of the Congressional Budget Act of 
        1974, more than 50 bills addressing a two-year budget cycle 
        have been introduced, 10 biennial budget related provisions 
        were reported by congressional committees, 7 passed either 
        chamber and 4 were enacted; more than 40 congressional or 
        special committee hearings addressed the issue of biennial 
        budgeting; and the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of 
        Management and Budget, and 5 different special task forces or 
        joint committees of Congress have either recommended biennial 
        budgeting or further studies of it;
            (8) the adoption of a biennial budget process was 
        recommended by President Reagan in the fiscal year 1989 budget 
        submission, by President Bush in the fiscal year 1990 and 1991 
        budget submissions, by President Clinton in the fiscal year 
        1995, 2000, and 2001 budget submissions, and by President Bush 
        in the fiscal year 2002 budget submission; and
            (9) a bipartisan majority of Members of the House of 
        Representatives support a biennial budget process.

SEC. 112. REVISION OF TIMETABLE.

    Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631) 
is amended to read as follows:

                              ``timetable

    ``Sec. 300. (a) In General.--Except as provided by subsection (b), 
the timetable with respect to the congressional budget process for any 
Congress (beginning with the One Hundred Tenth Congress) is as follows:
      

                                       ``First Session
``On or before:                        Action to be completed:
 
First Monday in February.............  President submits budget recommendations.
February 15..........................  Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
Not later than 6 weeks after budget    Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.
 submission.
April 1..............................  Budget Committees report concurrent resolution on the biennial budget.
May 15...............................  Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the biennial
                                        budget.
May 15...............................  Biennial appropriation bills may be considered in the House.
June 10..............................  House Appropriations Committee reports last biennial appropriation bill.
June 30..............................  House completes action on biennial appropriation bills.
October 1............................  Biennium begins.
 
                                       ``Second Session
 
``On or before:                        Action to be completed:
 
February 15..........................  President submits budget review.
Not later than 6 weeks after           Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
 President submits budget review.
The last day of the session..........  Congress completes action on bills and resolutions authorizing new budget
                                        authority for the succeeding biennium.
 

    ``(b) Special Rule.--In the case of any first session of Congress 
that begins in any year during which the term of a President (except a 
President who succeeds himself) begins, the following dates shall 
supersede those set forth in subsection (a):


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