Sec. 9. Termination of certain existing authorizations
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It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider a bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for a fiscal year which begins 5 years after the effective date of this Act if the appropriation is made pursuant to a law, in effect on the effective date of this Act, authorizing new budget authority for a period of more than 4 fiscal years or for an unspecified number of fiscal years. In the Senate, a point of order raised under this section may be waived upon an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and sworn.
Except as provided in paragraph (2), if a point of order under this section is sustained, the matter as to which the point of order is raised shall be stricken. When a House of Congress is considering a conference report or an amendment between the Houses, upon a point of order under this section being sustained as to matter in the conference report or amendment, such material shall be deemed stricken, and the House of Congress shall proceed to consider the question of whether the House shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the amendment of the other House of Congress with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken.
In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or proposed amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this paragraph), no further amendment shall be in order.