Sec. 3. Bills and resolutions subject to point of order

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It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider— any bill or resolution which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a period of more than 4 fiscal years, except as provided in section 4; or any bill or resolution which authorizes the enactment of an unlimited amount of new budget authority for any purpose or purposes. In the Senate, a point of order under this section may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

A point of order under this section may be waived in accordance with the procedures under section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 upon an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and sworn. 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 subsection (b), 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 paragraph), no further amendment shall be in order.