Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016
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Congress declares that this concurrent resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016 and that this concurrent resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025. The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016. TITLE I—Recommended levels and amounts Subtitle A—Budgetary levels in both Houses Sec. 1101. Recommended levels and amounts.
Sec. 1102. Major functional categories. Subtitle B—Levels and amounts in the Senate Sec. 1201. Social Security in the Senate. Sec. 1202. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses in the Senate. TITLE II—Reconciliation Sec. 2001. Reconciliation in the Senate. Sec. 2002. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. TITLE III—Budget enforcement Subtitle A—Budget enforcement in both Houses Sec. 3101. Point of order against increasing long-term deficits or direct spending.
Sec. 3102. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism. Sec. 3103. Point of order against certain changes in mandatory programs. Sec. 3104. Point of order against provisions that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund. Sec. 3105. Fair-value credit estimates. Sec. 3106. Scoring rule for currency modernization. Sec. 3107. Long-term scoring of changes in spending limits and extension of highway programs. Sec. 3108. Requiring clearer reporting of projected Federal spending and deficits.
Sec. 3109. Congressional Budget Office estimates of measures with significant outlay effects. Sec. 3110. Prohibiting the use of guarantee fees as an offset. Sec. 3111. Information for Congress and the public about projected Federal outlays, revenues, and deficits. Sec. 3112. Honest accounting: cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects. Subtitle B—Budget enforcement in the Senate Sec. 3201. Extension of enforcement of budgetary points of order in the Senate.
Sec. 3202. Point of order against advance appropriations in the Senate. Sec. 3203. Supermajority enforcement of unfunded mandates in the Senate. Sec. 3204. Repeal of Senate point of order against certain reconciliation legislation. Sec. 3205. Prohibition on agreeing to legislation without a score in the Senate. Sec. 3206. Protecting the savings in reported reconciliation bills in the Senate. Sec. 3207. Scoring rule for certain energy contracts in the Senate. Sec. 3208. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding in the Senate.
Subtitle C—Budget enforcement in the House of Representatives Sec. 3301. Limitation on measures affecting Social Security solvency in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3302. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3303. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3304. Limitation on advance appropriations in the House of Representatives. Sec. 3305.
Certain energy contracts in the House of Representatives. Subtitle D—Other provisions Sec. 3401. Submission of findings for the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse. Sec. 3402. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. Sec. 3403. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. Sec. 3404. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. Sec. 3405. Exercise of rulemaking powers. TITLE IV—Reserve funds Subtitle A—Reserve Funds in both Houses Sec. 4101.
Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for struggling Americans. Subtitle B—Reserve Funds in the Senate Sec. 4301. Spending-neutral reserve fund to increase the pace of economic growth and private sector job creation in the United States. Sec. 4302. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen America's priorities. Sec. 4303. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable health care choices for all. Sec. 4304.
Deficit-neutral reserve fund for improving access to the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Sec. 4305. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for other health reforms. Sec. 4306. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for child welfare. Sec. 4307. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and servicemembers. Sec. 4308. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for tax reform and administration. Sec. 4309. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to invest in the infrastructure in America. Sec. 4310. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for air transportation.
Sec. 4311. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote jobs in the United States through international trade. Sec. 4312. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase employment opportunities for disabled workers. Sec. 4313. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Higher Education Act reform. Sec. 4314. Spending-neutral reserve fund for energy legislation. Sec. 4315. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform environmental statutes. Sec. 4316. Spending-neutral reserve fund for water resources legislation.
Sec. 4317. Spending-neutral reserve fund on mineral security and mineral rights. Sec. 4318. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reform the abandoned mine lands program. Sec. 4319. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve forest health. Sec. 4320. Spending-neutral reserve fund to reauthorize funding for payments in lieu of taxes to counties and other units of local government. Sec. 4321. Spending-neutral reserve fund for financial regulatory system reform. Sec. 4322. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal program administration.
Sec. 4323. Spending-neutral reserve fund to implement agreements with freely associated states. Sec. 4324. Spending-neutral reserve fund to protect payments to rural hospitals and create sustainable access for rural communities. Sec. 4325. Spending-neutral reserve fund to encourage State medicaid demonstration programs to promote independent living and integrated work for the disabled. Sec. 4326. Spending-neutral reserve fund to allow pharmacists to be paid for the provision of services under Medicare.
Sec. 4327. Spending-neutral reserve fund to improve our Nation’s community health centers. Sec. 4328. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the funding of independent agencies, which may include subjecting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the regular appropriations process. Sec. 4329. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reform, improve, and enhance 529 college savings plans. Sec. 4330. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to securing overseas diplomatic facilities of the United States.
Sec. 4331. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to expanding, enhancing, or otherwise improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sec. 4332. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting manufacturing in the United States. Sec. 4333. Spending-neutral reserve fund to prohibit aliens without legal status in the United States from qualifying for a refundable tax credit. Sec. 4334. Deficit-reduction reserve fund for report elimination or modification. Sec. 4335.
Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address heroin, methamphetamine, and prescription opioid abuse. Sec. 4336. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen our Department of Defense civilian workforce. Sec. 4337. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Department of Defense reform. Sec. 4338. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs. Sec. 4339. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide energy assistance and invest in energy efficiency and conservation.
Sec. 4340. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end Operation Choke Point and protect the Second Amendment. Sec. 4341. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the use of Federal funds for the bailout of improvident State and local governments. Sec. 4342. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve health outcomes and lower the costs of caring for medically complex children in Medicaid. Sec. 4343. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to maintain and enhance access, choice, and accountability in veterans care through the Veterans Choice Card program.
Sec. 4344. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting equal pay. Sec. 4345. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to legislation submitted to Congress by the President of the United States to protect and strengthen Social Security. Sec. 4346. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to a simplified income-driven student loan repayment option. Sec. 4347. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal Water Pollution Control Act focused on the protection of water quality.
Sec. 4348. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Israel. Sec. 4349. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to family and medical leave. Sec. 4350. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing health care to veterans who have geographic inaccessibility to care. Sec. 4351. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing access to higher education for low-income Americans through the Federal Pell Grant program. Sec. 4352. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to transparency in health premium billing.
Sec. 4353. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to carbon emissions. Sec. 4354. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to requiring the Federal Government to allow states to opt out of Common Core without penalty. Sec. 4355. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of certain Federal land. Sec. 4356. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding of international organizations during the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation.
Sec. 4357. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reimposing waived sanctions and imposing new sanctions against Iran for violations of the Joint Plan of Action or a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Sec. 4358. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting United States citizens held hostage in the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, between November 3, 1979, and January 20, 1981. Sec. 4359. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers.
Sec. 4360. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to permanently eliminate the Federal estate tax. Sec. 4361. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency of greenhouse gas emissions. Sec. 4362. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately held water rights and permits. Sec. 4363. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting awarding of construction contracts based on awardees entering or not entering into agreements with labor organizations.
Sec. 4364. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent American jobs from being moved overseas by reducing the corporate income tax rate. Sec. 4365. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to increase wages for American workers. Sec. 4366. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to deterring the migration of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Sec. 4367. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring proper economic consideration in designation of critical habitat.
Sec. 4368. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to end too big to fail bailouts for Wall Street mega-banks (over $500 billion in total assets). Sec. 4369. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending Washington’s illegal exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Sec. 4370. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing funding for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Sec. 4371. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting the return of children who have been legally adopted by United States citizens from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sec. 4372. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to development of a new nuclear-capable cruise missile by the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Sec. 4373. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide equity in the tax treatment of public safety officer death benefits. Sec. 4374. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating the backlog of sexual assault evidence kits. Sec. 4375. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to mixed oxide fuel fabrication.
Sec. 4376. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming Offices of Inspectors General and preventing extended vacancies. Sec. 4377. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving retirement security. Sec. 4378. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the competitiveness of the United States. Sec. 4379. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that the conservation of northern long-eared bat populations and local economic development are compatible. Sec. 4380.
Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve cybersecurity. Sec. 4381. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow the Drug Enforcement Administration and Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter into joint task forces with tribal and local law enforcement agencies. Sec. 4382. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging cost savings in office space used by Federal agencies. Sec. 4383. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs through small business development centers.
Sec. 4384. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs meet the needs of women veterans. Sec. 4385. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting efficient resourcing for the Asia rebalance policy. Sec. 4386. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing access to marijuana edibles by children in States that have decriminalized marijuana. Sec. 4387. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing mortgage lending to rural areas.
Sec. 4388. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the construction of Arctic polar icebreakers. Sec. 4389. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to researching health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces. Sec. 4390. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to raising the Family of Funds limit of the Small Business Investment Company Program. Sec. 4391. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to detection, investigation, and prosecution of the owners and operators of websites who knowingly allow such websites to be used to advertise commercial sex with children over the Internet.
Sec. 4392. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting the reliability of the electricity grid. Sec. 4393. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to preserve and protect the open Internet. Sec. 4394. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to reforming the Federal regulatory process. Sec. 4395. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing coverage of virtual colonoscopies as a colorectal cancer screening test under the Medicare program. Sec. 4396. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the modernization of the nuclear command, control, and communications architecture of the United States.
Sec. 4397. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to BARDA and the BioShield Special Reserve Fund. Sec. 4398. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the nuclear forces and missions of the Air Force. Sec. 4399. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to promoting economic growth and job creation for small businesses and full funding for at-sea and dockside monitoring for certain fisheries. Sec. 4400. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the definition of full-time employee.
Sec. 4401. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal regulatory process. Sec. 4402. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to expedite awards under the Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program. Sec. 4403. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the increased use of performance contracting in Federal facilities. Sec. 4404. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving information sharing by the Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs with respect to investigations relating to substandard health care, delayed and denied health care, patient deaths, other findings that directly relate to patient care, and other management issues of the Department.
Sec. 4405. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the disproportionate regulatory burdens on community banks and credit unions. Sec. 4406. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect the Corporation for National and Community Service. Sec. 4407. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ensuring that Department of Justice attorneys comply with disclosure obligations in criminal prosecutions. Sec. 4408. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote biomedical research. Sec. 4409. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing access to necessary equipment for Medicare beneficiaries.
Sec. 4410. Spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prioritizing the construction of infrastructure projects that are of national and regional significance and projects in high priority corridors. Sec. 4411. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to encouraging the United States' NATO allies to reverse declines in defense spending and bear a more proportionate burden for ensuring the security of NATO. Sec. 4412. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the investigation and recovery of missing weapons and military equipment provided to the Government of Yemen by the United States Government.
Sec. 4413. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to improving higher education data and transparency. Sec. 4414. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Native children. Sec. 4415. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to provide additional funding for international strategic communications. Sec. 4416. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for elementary and secondary education. Sec. 4417. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to support research. Sec. 4418. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to support for Ukraine.
Sec. 4419. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to underground and surface mining safety research. Sec. 4420. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to saving Medicare. Subtitle C—Reserve Funds in the House of Representatives Sec. 4501. Reserve fund for the repeal of the President's health care law. Sec. 4502. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for promoting real health care reform. Sec. 4503. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the President's health care law.
Sec. 4504. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Sec. 4505. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for graduate medical education. Sec. 4506. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. Sec. 4507. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. Sec. 4508. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for revenue measures. Sec. 4509. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for transportation. Sec. 4510. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform.
Sec. 4511. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for national defense. TITLE V—Estimates of direct spending in the House of Representatives Sec. 5001. Direct spending. TITLE VI—Policy Statements Subtitle A—Policy statements in both Houses Sec. 6101. Policy statement on balanced budget amendment. Sec. 6102. Policy statement on Social Security. Subtitle B—Policy statement in the House of Representatives Sec. 6201. Policy statement on budget process and baseline reform. Sec. 6202. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation.
Sec. 6203. Policy statement on tax reform. Sec. 6204. Policy statement on trade. Sec. 6205. Policy statement on repealing the President’s health care law and promoting real health care reform. Sec. 6206. Policy statement on Medicare. Sec. 6207. Policy statement on medical discovery, development, delivery and innovation. Sec. 6208. Policy statement on Federal regulatory reform. Sec. 6209. Policy statement on higher education and workforce development opportunity. Sec. 6210. Policy statement on Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sec. 6211. Policy statement on Federal accounting methodologies. Sec. 6212. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized spending. Sec. 6213. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. Sec. 6214. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. Sec. 6215. Policy statement on responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Sec. 6216. Policy statement on No Budget, No Pay . Sec. 6217. Policy statement on national security funding.