H. Con. Res. 71 (General)

H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress)

Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for
Fiscal Year 2018

Concurrent Resolution

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018.

(a) Declaration.—Congress declares that this resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018 and that this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027.

(b) Table of Contents.—The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows:

Sec. 1.     Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.

Title I—Recommended Levels and Amounts

Subtitle A—Budgetary Levels an Both Houses

Sec. 1101. Recommended levels and amounts.
Sec. 1102. Major functional categories.

Subtitle B—Levels and Amounts In The Senate

Sec. 1201. Social Security in the Senate.
Sec. 1202. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses in the Senate.

Title II—Reconciliation and Related Matters

Sec. 2001. Reconciliation in the Senate.
Sec. 2002. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives.

Title III—Reserve Funds

Sec. 3001. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable health care for all.
Sec. 3002. Revenue-neutral reserve fund to reform the American tax system.

Sec. 3003. Reserve fund for reconciliation legislation.

Sec. 3004. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for extending the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Sec. 3005. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen American families.
Sec. 3006. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote innovative educational and nutritional models and systems for American students.
Sec. 3007. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the American banking system.
Sec. 3008. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote American agriculture, energy, transportation, and infrastructure improvements.
Sec. 3009. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to restore American military power.
Sec. 3010. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and service members.
Sec. 3011. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for public lands and the environment.
Sec. 3012. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to secure the American border.
Sec. 3013. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote economic growth, the private sector, and to enhance job creation.
Sec. 3014. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation modifying statutory budgetary controls.
Sec. 3015. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the taxpayer bailout of pension plans.
Sec. 3016. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to implementing work requirements in all means-tested Federal welfare programs.
Sec. 3017. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicare and repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Sec. 3018. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to affordable child and dependent care.
Sec. 3019. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to worker training programs.
Sec. 3020. Reserve fund for legislation to provide disaster funds for relief and recovery efforts to areas devastated by hurricanes and flooding in 2017.
Sec. 3021. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting Medicare and Medicaid.
Sec. 3022. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of tax relief for families with children.
Sec. 3023. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of tax relief for small businesses.
Sec. 3024. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to tax relief for hard-working middle-class Americans.
Sec. 3025. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to making the American tax system simpler and fairer for all Americans.
Sec. 3026. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to tax cuts for working American families.
Sec. 3027. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of incentives for businesses to invest in America and create jobs in America.
Sec. 3028. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating tax breaks for companies that ship jobs to foreign countries.
Sec. 3029. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing full, permanent, and mandatory funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program.
Sec. 3030. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to tax reform which maintains the progressivity of the tax system.
Sec. 3031. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to significantly improving the budget process.

Title IV—Budget Process

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement

Sec. 4101. Point of order against advance appropriations in the Senate.

Sec. 4102. Point of order against certain changes in mandatory programs.

Sec. 4103. Point of order against provisions that constitute changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund.

Sec. 4104. Point of order against designation of funds for overseas contingency operations.

Sec. 4105. Point of order against reconciliation amendments with unknown budgetary effects.

Sec. 4106. Pay-As-You-Go point of order in the Senate.

Sec. 4107. Honest accounting: cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate macroeconomic effects.

Sec. 4108. Adjustment authority for amendments to statutory caps.

Sec. 4109. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding in the Senate.

Sec. 4110. Adjustment for improved oversight of spending.

Sec. 4111. Repeal of certain limitations.

Sec. 4112. Emergency legislation.

Sec. 4113. Enforcement filing in the Senate.

Subtitle B—Other Provisions

Sec. 4201. Oversight of Government performance.

Sec. 4202. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses.

Sec. 4203. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates.

Sec. 4204. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions.

Sec. 4205. Adjustments to reflect legislation not included in the baseline.

Sec. 4206. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

Title VBudget Process in the House of Representatives

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement

Sec. 5101. Point of order against increasing long-term direct spending.
Sec. 5102. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism.
Sec. 5103. Limitation on changes in certain mandatory programs.
Sec. 5104. Limitation on advance appropriations.
Sec. 5105. Estimates of debt service costs.
Sec. 5106. Fair-value credit estimates.
Sec. 5107. Estimates of macroeconomic effects of major legislation.
Sec. 5108. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. 
Sec. 5109. Scoring rule for Energy Savings Performance Contracts.
Sec. 5110. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund.
Sec. 5111. Prohibition on use of Federal Reserve surpluses as an offset. .
Sec. 5112. Prohibition on use of guarantee fees as an offset.
Sec. 5113. Modification of reconciliation in the House of Representatives.

Subtitle B—Other Provisions

Sec. 5201. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses.
Sec. 5202. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates.
Sec. 5203. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions.
Sec. 5204. Adjustment for changes in the baseline.
Sec. 5205. Application of rule regarding limits on discretionary spending.
Sec. 5206. Enforcement filing in the House.
Sec. 5207. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

Subtitle C—Adjustment Authority

Sec. 5301. Adjustment authority for amendments to statutory caps.

Subtitle D—Reserve Funds 

Sec. 5401. Reserve fund for investments in national infrastructure.
Sec. 5402. Reserve fund for comprehensive tax reform.
Sec. 5403. Reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Sec. 5404. Reserve fund for the repeal or replacement of President Obama’s health care laws.

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