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(b) PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT. — The adjustments made pursuant to subsection (a) may be made to address the cost of the
prescription drug benefit.
SEC. 204. RESERVE FUND FOR AGRICULTURE.
(a) ADJUSTMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.— Whenever the Committee on Agriculture
of the House or the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry of the Senate reports a bill, or an amendment thereto
is offered (in the House), or a conference report thereon is
submitted that provides risk management or income assistance
for agriculture producers that complies with paragraph (2),
the appropriate chairman of the Committee on the Budget
shall increase the allocation of budget authority and outlays
to that committee by the amount of budget authority (and
the outlays resulting therefrom) provided by that legislation
for such purpose in accordance with subsection (b).
(2) CONDITION. —Legislation complies with this paragraph
if it does not cause a net increase in budget authority or
outlays for fiscal year 2000 and does not cause a net increase
in budget authority that is greater than $2,000,000,000 for
any of fiscal years 2001 through 2004.
(b) LIMITATIONS.—The adjustments to the allocations required
by subsection (a) shall not exceed—
(1) $6,000,000,000 in budget authority (and the outlays
resulting therefrom) for the period of fiscal years 2000 through
2004; and
(2) $6,000,000,000 in budget authority and outlays for the
period of fiscal years 2000 through 2009.
SEC. 205. TAX REDUCTION RESERVE FUND IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget
may reduce the spending and revenue aggregates and may revise
committee allocations for legislation that reduces revenues if such
legislation will not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus
for—
(1) fiscal year 2000;
(2) the period of fiscal years 2000 through 2004; or
(3) the period of fiscal years 2000 through 2009.
SEC. 206. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION POINT OF ORDER IN THE SEN-
ATE.
(a) DESIGNATIONS.—
(1) GUIDANCE.— In making a designation of a provision
of legislation as an emergency requirement under section
251(b)(2)(A) or 252(e) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, the committee report and any
statement of managers accompanying that legislation shall analyze whether a proposed emergency requirement meets all the
criteria in paragraph (2).
(2) CRITERIA.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The criteria to be considered in determining whether a proposed expenditure or tax change is
an emergency requirement or whether it is—
(i) necessary, essential, or vital (not merely useful
or beneficial);
(ii) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not
building up over time;
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