S.Amdt. 259

SA 259. Mr. SESSIONS 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 appropriation place, insert the following:

SEC. ____. SENATE POINT OF ORDER AGAINST LEGISLATION INCREASING DIRECT SPENDING.

(a) Congressional Budget Office Analysis of Proposals.--The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare for each bill and joint resolution reported from committee (except measures within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Appropriations), and amendments thereto and conference reports thereon, an estimate of whether the measure would cause a net increase in direct spending in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the budget year provided for in the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget.

(b) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause a net increase in direct spending in any of the 4 consecutive 10-year periods described in subsection (a).

(c) Supermajority Waiver and Appeal in the Senate.--

(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.

(d) Budgetary Rule.--In the Senate, for purposes of this section, the levels of net increases in spending shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the Senate Committee on the Budget. Notwithstanding any other rule of the Senate, for purposes of determining budgetary impacts to evaluate the point of order established by this section, provisions contained in any bill, resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that increase offsetting receipts collected by the Federal Government shall not be scored under this section with respect to the level of budget authority, outlays, or revenues contained in such legislation.