Sec. 401. budget-related legislation not subject to appropriations
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## Sec. 401 budget-related legislation not subject to appropriations **[**[2 U.S.C. 651](/us/usc/t2/s651)**]** ###
(a)Controls on Certain Budget-related Legislation Not Subject to Appropriations It shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution (in the House of Representatives only, as reported), amendment, motion, or conference report that provides— ####
(1)new authority to enter into contracts under which the United States is obligated to make outlays; ####
(2)new authority to incur indebtedness (other than indebtedness incurred under chapter 31 of title 31 of the United States Code) for the repayment of which the United States is liable; or ####
(3)new credit authority; unless that bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report also provides that the new authority is to be effective for any fiscal year only to the extent or in the amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts. ###
(b)Legislation Providing New Entitlement Authority ####
(1)Point of order It shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution (in the House of Representatives only, as reported), amendment, motion, or conference report that provides new entitlement authority that is to become effective during the current fiscal year. ####
(2)If any committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate reports any bill or resolution which provides new entitlement authority which is to become effective during a fiscal year and the amount of new budget authority which will be required for such fiscal year if such bill or resolution is enacted as so reported exceeds the appropriate allocation of new budget authority reported under section 302(a) in connection with the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year, such bill or resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate or may then be referred to the Committee on Appropriations of the House, as the case may be, with instructions to report it, with the committee's recommendations, within 15 calendar days (not counting any day on which that House is not in session) beginning with the day following the day on which it is so referred. If the Committee on Appropriations of either House fails to report a bill or resolution referred to it under this paragraph within such 15–day period, the committee shall automatically be discharged from further consideration of such bill or resolution and such bill or resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. ####
(3)The Committee on Appropriations of each House shall have jurisdiction to report any bill or resolution referred to it under paragraph
(2)with an amendment which limits the total amount of new spending authority provided in such bill or resolution. ###
(c)Exceptions ####
(1)Subsections
(a)and
(b)shall not apply to new spending authority if the budget authority for outlays which will result from such new spending authority is derived14— 14Section 10116(a)(4)(A) of Public Law 105–33 provides for an amendment to strike “new spending authority if the budget authority for outlays which result from such new spending authority is derived” and insert “new authority described in those subsections if outlays from that new authority will flow”. Such amendment could not be carried out because the word “will” appears after “for outlays which” in law. #####
(A)from a trust fund established by the Social Security Act (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act); or #####
(B)from any other trust fund, 90 percent or more of the receipts of which consist or will consist of amounts (transferred from the general fund of the Treasury) equivalent to amounts of taxes (related to the purposes for which such outlays are or will be made) received in the Treasury under specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. ####
(2)Subsections
(a)and
(b)shall not apply to new authority described in those subsections to the extent that— #####
(A)the outlays resulting therefrom are made by an organization which is
(i)a mixed-ownership Government corporation (as defined in section 201 of the Government Corporation Control Act), or
(ii)a wholly owned Government corporation (as defined in section 101 of such Act) which is specifically exempted by law from compliance with any or all of the provisions of that Act, as of the date of enactment of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; or #####
(B)the outlays resulting therefrom consist exclusively of the proceeds of gifts or bequests made to the United States for a specific purpose. ####
(3)In the House of Representatives, subsections
(a)and
(b)shall not apply to new authority described in those subsections to the extent that a provision in a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto or a conference report thereon, establishes prospectively for a Federal office or position a specified or minimum level of compensation to be funded by annual discretionary appropriations.
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- Pub. L. 105-33
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