BPLA (Contents)

Budget Process Law Annotated (1993)

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985

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Sec. 273. REVENUE ESTIMATES.¹⁷⁷⁰ 

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1770. Section 13202(b) of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (see infra p. 716) transferred the text of what used to be section 273 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to Section 201 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. See supra p. 32. Before enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, the text of section 273 read as follows:

For the purposes of revenue legislation which is income, estate and gift, excise, and payroll taxes (i.e., Social Security), considered or enacted in any session of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office shall use exclusively during that session of Congress revenue estimates provided to it by the Joint Committee on Taxation. During that session of Congress such revenue estimates shall be transmitted by the Congressional Budget Office to any committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate requesting such estimates, and shall be used by such Committees in determining such estimates. The Budget Committees of the Senate and House shall determine all estimates with respect to scoring points of order and with respect to the execution of the purposes of this Act.

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Counsel Notes

BCR: Section 273. Revenue Estimates (Transferred)

Text of Section 13202(b) (BPLA): 

(b) Transfer.—The text of section 273 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is transferred to section 201 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and is designated as subsection (g).

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