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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

99 STAT. 1056

Ante, pp. 1039, 1040. Ante, p. 1047.

PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985 on a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year, it shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, resolution, or amendment providing new budget authority for such fiscal year, providing new entitlement authority effective during such fiscal year, or reducing revenues for such fiscal year, or any conference report on any such bill or resolution, if— "(1) the enactment of such bill or resolution as reported; "(2) the adoption and enactment of such amendment; or "(3) the enactment of such bill or resolution in the form recommended in such conference report; would cause the appropriate level of total new budget authority or total budget outlays set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year to be exceeded, or would cause revenues to be less than the appropriate level of total revenues set forth in such concurrent resolution or, in the Senate, would otherwise result in a deficit for such fiscal year that exceeds the maximum deficit amount specified for such fiscal year in section 3(7) (except to the extent that paragraph (1) of section 301(i) or section 304(b), as the case may be, does not apply by reason of paragraph (2) of such subsection). "(b) EXCEPTION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—Subsection (a)

Ante, p. 1044.

shall not apply in the House of Representatives to any bill, resolution, or amendment which provides new budget authority or new entitlement authority effective during such fiscal year, or to any conference report on any such bill or resolution, if— "(1) the enactment of such bill or resolution as reported; "(2) the adoption and enactment of such amendment; or "(3) the enactment of such bill or resolution in the form recommended in such conference report, would not cause the appropriate allocation of new discretionary budget authority or new entitlement authority made pursuant to section 302(a) for such fiscal year, for the committee within whose jurisdiction such bill, resolution, or amendment falls, to be exceeded. "(c) DETERMINATION OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For purposes of this section, the levels of new budget authority, budget outlays, 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 of the Senate, as the case may be.".

Subpart II—Amendments to Title IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 SEC. 211. NEW SPENDING AUTHORITY.

2 USC 651.

Section 401 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: "BILLS PROVIDING NEW SPENDING AUTHORITY "SEC.

401. (a) CONTROLS ON LEGISLATION PROVIDING SPENDING

AUTHORITY.—It shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, resolution, or conference report, as reported to its House which provides new spending authority described in subsection (c)(2)(A) or (B) (or any amendment which provides such new spending authority), unless that bill, resolution, conference report, or amendment also provides