BPLA (Contents)

Budget Process Law Annotated (1993)

Budget Enforcement Act of 1990

TITLE XIII — BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

[Pages 728-729]

SEC. 13208. standardization of additional deficit control provisions.

(a) Section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended—

(1) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

“(c) Waiver.—Sections 305(b)(2), 305(c)(4), 306, 904(c), and 904(d) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. Sections 301(i), 302(c), 302(f), 310(d)(2), 310(f), 311(a), 313, 601(b), and 606(c) of this Act and sections 258(a)(4)(C), 258A(b)(3)(C)(i), 258B(f)(1), 258B(h)(1), 258B(h)(3), 258C(a)(5), and 258C(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.”; and

(2) in subsection (d) by inserting at the end the following:

“An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under sections 305(b)(2), 305(c)(4), 306, 904(c), and 904(d). An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an [p. 729] appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under sections 301(1), 302(c), 302(f), 310(d)(2), 310(f), 311(a), 313, 601(b), and 606(c) of this Act and sections 258(a)(4)(C), 258A(b) (3) (C) (i), 258B(f)(1), 258B(h)(1), 258B(h)(3), 258C(a)(5), and 258C(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985”.

(b) Section 275(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (C), by striking the final word “and”;

(2) In subparagraph (D), by striking the final period and inserting “; and’; and

(3) by inserting at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(E) the second sentence of section 904(c) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and the final sentence of section 904(d) of that Act.” 

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