PUBLIC LAW 105-33 —AUG. 5, 1997 111 STAT. 687 security outlays over social security revenues in a fiscal year or years with such an excess. "(2) TAX TREATMENT.—For purposes of subsection (a)(3), no provision of any legislation involving a change in chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be treated as affecting the amount of social security revenues or outlays unless that provision changes the income tax treatment of social security benefits. "(c) EXCEPTION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. —Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply in the House of Representatives to any bill, joint resolution, or amendment that provides new budget authority for a fiscal year or to any conference report on any such bill or resolution, if— "(1) the enactment of that bill or resolution as reported; "(2) the adoption and enactment of that amendment; or "(3) the enactment of that bill or resolution in the form recommended in that conference report; would not cause the appropriate allocation of new budget authority made pursuant to section 302(a) for that fiscal year to be exceeded.". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by striking the item relating to section 311 and inserting the following: "Sec. 311. Budget-related legislation must be within appropriate levels.". SEC. 10113. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 312. (a) IN GENERAL. —Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: 2 USC 643. "DETERMINATIONS AND POINTS OF ORDER "SEC. 312. (a) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For purposes of this title and title IV, the levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority, and revenues for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as applicable. "(b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING POINT OF ORDER IN THE SEN- ATE, — "(1) IN GENERAL.— Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill or resolution (or amendment, motion, or conference report on that bill or resolution) that would exceed any of the discretionary spending limits in section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. "(2) EXCEPTIONS. —This subsection shall not apply if a declaration of war by the Congress is in effect or if a joint resolution pursuant to section 258 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 has been enacted. "(c) MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT POINT OF ORDER IN THE SEN- ATE.— It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year, or to consider any amendment to that concurrent resolution, or to consider a conference report on that concurrent resolution, if— "(1) the level of total outlays for the first fiscal year set forth in that concurrent resolution or conference report exceeds; or
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