S.Amdt. 709

SA 709. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting
forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for
fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for
fiscal years 2022 through 2030; 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 RELATING TO FEDERAL
RELIEF PAYMENTS TO STATES, CITIES, AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS.

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,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
Federal relief payments to States, cities, and local
governments, which may include limitations preventing States,
cities, and local governments from using Federal relief
payments to fund budget deficits, debts, or pension
shortfalls that are not directly related to expenses incurred
due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 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 2021 through 2025 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2021 through 2030.
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