[Congressional Bills 103th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4913 Introduced in House (IH)] 103d CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4913 To ensure that no extraneous items are included in any bill containing an emergency designation. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 5, 1994 Mr. Stenholm (for himself, Mr. Penny, and Mr. Kasich) introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Government Operations and Rules _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To ensure that no extraneous items are included in any bill containing an emergency designation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Spending Control Act of 1994''. SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY SPENDING. (a) Emergency Appropriations.--Section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``However, OMB shall not adjust any discretionary spending limit under this clause for any statute that designates appropriations as emergency requirements if that statute contains an appropriation for any other matter, event, or occurrence, including another emergency, but that statute may contain other offsetting provisions that reduce spending or nonemergency appropriations for the designated emergency.''. (b) Emergency Legislation.--Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended-- (1) in its first sentence by inserting ``(which statute contains no other appropriation for any other matter, including another emergency)'' after ``statute''; and (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``However, OMB shall not designate any such amounts of new budget authority, outlays, or receipts as emergency requirements in the report required under subsection (d) if that statute contains any other matter, event, or occurrence, including another emergency, but that statute may contain other offsetting provisions that reduce spending or nonemergency appropriations for the designated emergency.''. (c) New Point of Order.--Title IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ``point of order regarding emergencies ``Sec. 408. It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, containing an emergency designation for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(D) or 252(e) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 if it also provides an appropriation for any other item (including another emergency) or contains any other matter (including another emergency), but that bill or joint resolution, amendment, or conference report may contain other offsetting provisions that reduce spending or nonemergency appropriations for the designated emergency.''. (d) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 the following new item: ``Sec. 408. Point of order regarding emergencies.''. <all>