S.Amdt. 591

SA 591. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2026 through 2034; 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
PROTECTING TAXPAYER INFORMATION FROM NON-
GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS AND GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS
WITHOUT SECURITY CLEARANCES.

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
protecting taxpayer information retained by executive
agencies, which may include protecting that information from
individuals who are not employed by the Federal Government,
individuals serving as special Government employees (as
defined in section 202 of title 18, United States Code), and
individuals who do not have sufficient security clearances,
have not passed all background checks, or have not taken all
information security training, by the amounts provided in
such legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of
the total of fiscal years 2025 through 2034.
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