S.Amdt. 237Senate113th Congress (2013-2015)

S.Amdt. 237

What it does: 2 changes: adds 2 sections
Submitted March 21, 2013

What it changes

2 changes to S.Con.Res. 8 · all shown in the resolution's text

Adds 2 sections
  1. Change 1: Adds SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO SUPPORT THE CLOSURE AND CONSOLIDATION OF OVERSEAS MILITARY PROPERTIES AND INSTALLATIONS TO ACHIEVE COST SAVINGS AND EFFICIENCIES at the end of title III

    Adds a section

    In S.Con.Res. 8 · Placed on Calendar Senate

    The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would reduce inefficient overlap, improve access, and enhance outcomes with Federal workforce development, job training, and reemployment programs, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2023.

    Inserted: SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO SUPPORT THE CLOSURE AND CONSOLIDATION OF OVERSEAS MILITARY PROPERTIES AND INSTALLATIONS TO ACHIEVE COST SAVINGS AND EFFICIENCIES.

    Inserted: The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would support the closure and consolidation of overseas military properties and installations to achieve cost savings and efficiencies, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2023.

    Original wording

    At the end of title III, add the following:

  2. Change 2: Adds SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING A DOMESTIC ROUND OF BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT IN FISCAL YEAR 2015 OR 2017 at the end of subtitle A of title IV

    Adds a section

    In S.Con.Res. 8 · Placed on Calendar Senate

    (e) Form of the Point of Order.--When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.

    Inserted: SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING A DOMESTIC ROUND OF BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT IN FISCAL YEAR 2015 OR 2017.

    Inserted: (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, or conference report that would authorize a domestic round of base closure and realignment in fiscal year 2015 or 2017.

    Inserted: (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).

    Original wording

    At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

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As printed

SA 237. Mr. BEGICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3__. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO SUPPORT THE CLOSURE AND CONSOLIDATION OF OVERSEAS MILITARY PROPERTIES AND INSTALLATIONS TO ACHIEVE COST SAVINGS AND EFFICIENCIES.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that would support the closure and consolidation of overseas military properties and installations to achieve cost savings and efficiencies, by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2023.

At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING A DOMESTIC ROUND OF BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT IN FISCAL YEAR 2015 OR 2017.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, or conference report that would authorize a domestic round of base closure and realignment in fiscal year 2015 or 2017.

(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).

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March 21, 2013