S.Amdt. 3067
What it does: Adds SEC. __. BUDGET POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT RAISES EXCISE TAX RATES at the end of subtitle C of title VI
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)What it changes
1 change to H.R. 976
Adds SEC. __. BUDGET POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT RAISES EXCISE TAX RATES at the end of subtitle C of title VI
Adds a sectionInserted: SEC. __. BUDGET POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT RAISES EXCISE TAX RATES.
Inserted: Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following:
Inserted: "POINT OF ORDER AGAINST RAISES IN EXCISE TAX RATES
Inserted: "Sec. 316. (a) In General.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, amendment between Houses, motion, or conference report that includes a Federal excise tax rate increase which disproportionately affects taxpayers with earned income of less than 200 percent of the Federal poverty level, as determined by the Joint Committee on Taxation. In this subsection, the term 'Federal excise tax rate increase' means any amendment to any section in subtitle D or E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes a new percentage or amount as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of tax imposed by any such section.
Inserted: "(b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
Inserted: "(1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
Inserted: "(2) Appeal.--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 this section.".
Original wording
At the end of subtitle C of title VI insert the following:
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As printed
SA 3067. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 976, to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle C of title VI insert the following:
SEC. __. BUDGET POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT RAISES EXCISE TAX RATES.
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following:
“POINT OF ORDER AGAINST RAISES IN EXCISE TAX RATES
“Sec. 316. (a) In General.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, amendment between Houses, motion, or conference report that includes a Federal excise tax rate increase which disproportionately affects taxpayers with earned income of less than 200 percent of the Federal poverty level, as determined by the Joint Committee on Taxation. In this subsection, the term ‘Federal excise tax rate increase' means any amendment to any section in subtitle D or E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, that imposes a new percentage or amount as a rate of tax and thereby increases the amount of tax imposed by any such section.
“(b) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal.--
“(1) Waiver.--This section may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
“(2) Appeal.--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 this section.”.
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Senate amendment submitted
September 26, 2007