Tap any paragraph to write a margin note. Your notes collect in the Desk below the text and file under cases with @. The side-by-side margin rail opens on a larger screen.

§
Marginalia
Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 2765 (Reported in Senate) — To improve Federal fiscal controls and the congressional budget process. · Sec. 401

Sec. 401. Special reconciliation instructions

1,436 words·~7 min read·/bill/116/s/2765/rs/section-401

A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.

Title III of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 631 et seq.), as amended by section 202 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following: Only if the Director of the Congressional Budget Office submits a report under section 202(h) indicating that the target for the ratio of the debt held by the public to the gross domestic product of the United States by the end of the last fiscal year covered by the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget will not be achieved, not later than April 15 of the first fiscal year of such biennium, the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate shall report to the Senate a simple resolution— specifying a total level of deficit reduction to be achieved and the period during which such reduction is to be achieved; and containing directives to 1 or more committees of the Senate specifying the total amount by which new budget authority or new entitlement authority contained in laws within the jurisdiction of each such committee is to be changed or revenues are to be changed to achieve the total level of deficit reduction.
If the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate reports a resolution in accordance with subsection (a), the resolution shall be deemed to be agreed to by the Senate. If a resolution is reported under subsection (a), not later than May 15 of the year in which the resolution is reported, each committee for which the resolution contains directives shall submit to the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate recommended changes in laws within the jurisdiction of the committee that comply with subsection (a)(2).
Subject to paragraph (2), after each committee for which a resolution reported under subsection
(a)contained directives has reported recommended changes to the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate, the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget shall report to the Senate special reconciliation legislation carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. If 1 or more committees do not report recommendations that comply with subsections (a)(2) and (c), the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate— shall report to the Senate special reconciliation legislation carrying out all reported recommendations that comply with subsections (a)(2) and (c), without any substantive revision; and may include in the legislation reported under subparagraph
(A)changes in laws within the jurisdiction of each noncompliant committee, if the changes in law comply with subsection (a)(2). It shall not be in order to consider any provision in legislation reported under subsection
(d)that contains material extraneous (within the meaning given that term under section 313) to the directives to the applicable committee. If a point of order is made by a Senator against a provision described in subparagraph (A), and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, that provision shall be stricken from the measure and may not be offered as an amendment from the floor. A point of order under subparagraph
(A)may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e). When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, legislation reported under subsection (d), upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to subparagraph (A), and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subparagraph), no further amendment shall be in order. In the Senate, this paragraph may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this paragraph. It shall not be in order to consider any title in legislation reported under subsection
(d)that would increase the deficit over— the period during which the level of deficit reduction specified in subsection (a)(1) is to be achieved; or the period covered by the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. If a point of order is made by a Senator against a title described in clause (i), and the point of order is sustained by the Chair, that title shall be stricken from the measure and may not be offered as an amendment from the floor. A point of order under clause
(i)may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e). When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill or joint resolution, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to clause (i), and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or House amendment shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this clause), no further amendment shall be in order. In the Senate, this subparagraph may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this subparagraph. It shall not be in order to consider an amendment to legislation reported under subsection
(d)that would reduce the amount of the decrease in the deficit, as compared to the legislation as reported by the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate, over— the period during which the level of deficit reduction specified in subsection (a)(1) is to be achieved; or the period covered by the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. In the Senate, this subparagraph may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this subparagraph. Not later than July 30 of an even-numbered year, the Senate shall proceed to consideration of legislation reported under subsection (d). Except as provided in subparagraph (B), and subject to subsection (e), if the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate reports legislation under subsection (d), the provisions of section 305 for the consideration in the Senate of concurrent resolutions on the budget and conference reports thereon shall also apply to the consideration in the Senate of such legislation and conference reports thereon. Consideration in the Senate on any legislation reported under subsection (d), and all amendments thereto and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 hours. If the President vetoes legislation reported under subsection (d), in the Senate there shall be not more than 1 hour of debate on the veto message, equally divided between the majority and minority leaders or their designees. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 316, as added by section 202 of this Act, the following: Sec. 317. Special reconciliation instructions. .
Connectionstraces to 1
Traces to 1 document
Citation graph
cites case law
Sec. 401
Special reconciliation instructions
U.S.C.§ 631
Cites 1Cited by 0 across 0 sources
★   the supreme law of the land   ★
Don't Tread on Me
E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one

"If you don't know your rights, you don't have any."

Marginalia · a citizen's law index
A research desk, not legal advice. Always read the cited source before relying on a summary.
Questions or an issue? support@self-law.org
disclaimerMarginalia is a research index, not a law firm. Nothing on this site is legal, tax, or financial advice and no attorney–client relationship is formed by using it. Statutes, regulations, and case law change; summaries, search results, AI output, and member posts may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Any interpretation drawn from material on this site should be validated by a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction before you act on it.