BPLA (Contents)

Budget Process Law Annotated (1993)

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985

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SEC. 225. JURISDICTION OF COMMitTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.^[1]

Clause 1(j) of Rule X^[2] of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by inserting after item (5) the following new item:

“(6) Measures providing for off-budget treatment of Federal agencies or programs.”^[3].

COUNSEL NOTES

[1] From the House Rules and Manual (114^th Congress) §719:

In the 104th Congress, the House amended the paragraph to expand the limited legislative jurisdiction of the committee by: (1) adding other measures setting forth appropriate levels of budget totals to subparagraph (2) (now subparagraph (1)); (2) granting the committee jurisdiction over the congressional budget process generally in a new subparagraph (3) (now subparagraph (2)); and (3) granting the committee jurisdiction over special controls over the Federal budget in a new subparagraph (4) (now subparagraph (3)), including receiving from the former Committee on Government Operations (now Oversight and Government Reform) jurisdiction over budgetary treatment of off- budget Federal agencies and measures providing exemption from sequestration orders issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (sec. 202(a), H. Res. 6, Jan. 4, 1995, p. 464).

[2] This section added these measures related to off-budget treatment of agencies or programs to the House Committee on Government Operations. This jurisdiction was changed in the 104^th Congress and now the House Committee on the Budget has jurisdiction over measures relating to such off-budget treatment. 

[3] Rule X, clause 1(j)(6), of Rules of the House prior to the 104^th Congress listed the jurisdiction of measures providing for off-budget treatment of Federal agencies or programs, which was added by this section (sec. 225 of Public Law 99-177, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985).

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