2 U.S.C. § 622 — Definitions

Page 174 TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS § 622 record, or information made available under this sub- section and determined by the Director to be con- fidential under paragraph (1). ‘‘(f) REQUIREMENT TO REPORT LEGISLATION.—(1) The committees of jurisdiction in the House shall prepare and report to the House no later than September 15, 1991, legislation to ensure the financial soundness of GSEs and to minimize the possibility that a GSE might require future assistance from the Government. ‘‘(2) It is the sense of the Senate that the committees of jurisdiction in the Senate shall prepare and report to the Senate no later than September 15, 1991, legislation to ensure the financial safety and soundness of GSEs and to minimize the possibility that a GSE might re- quire future assistance from the Government. ‘‘(f) [sic] PRESIDENT’S BUDGET.—The President’s an- nual budget submission shall include an analysis of the financial condition of the GSEs and the financial expo- sure of the Government, if any, posed by GSEs.’’ MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS AND 2-YEAR APPROPRIA- TIONS FOR SELECTED AGENCIES AND ACCOUNTS Pub. L. 100–119, title II, § 201, Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 784, provided that: ‘‘It is the sense of the Congress that the Congress should undertake an experiment with multiyear authorizations and 2-year appropriations for selected agencies and accounts. An evaluation of the ef- ficacy and desirability of such experiment should be conducted at the end of the 2-year period. The appro- priate committees are directed to develop a plan in consultation with the leadership of the House and Sen- ate to implement this experiment.’’ FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM Pub. L. 100–119, title II, § 203, Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 784, provided that: ‘‘It is the sense of the Congress that the Congress should undertake a coordinated effort to identify problems and develop specific recommenda- tions to reform the financial management systems of the United States Government, including consideration of the use of generally accepted accounting principles.’’ EXERCISE OF CONGRESSIONAL RULEMAKING POWER Pub. L. 93–344, title IX, § 904, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 331, as amended by Pub. L. 99–177, title II, § 271(a), Dec. 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 1094; Pub. L. 101–508, title XIII, §§ 13112(a)(11), 13208(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388–608, 1388–619; Pub. L. 104–130, § 4(c), Apr. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 1212; Pub. L. 105–33, title X, § 10119, Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 695; Pub. L. 112–25, title I, § 105(c), Aug. 2, 2011, 125 Stat. 247; Pub. L. 113–67, div. A, title I, § 122(16), (17), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1176, provided that: ‘‘(a) The provisions of this title and of titles I, III, IV, and V and the provisions of sections 701, 703, and 1017 [enacting this chapter (except subchapter IV) and sec- tions 190a–3 and 688 of this title, amending the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing Rules of the Senate, and sections 190b and 190d of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section and sections 190a–1 and 632 of this title] are enacted by the Congress— ‘‘(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and the Senate, respec- tively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and ‘‘(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. ‘‘(b) Any provision of title III or IV [enacting sub- chapters I and II of this chapter] may be waived or sus- pended in the Senate by a majority vote of the Mem- bers voting, a quorum being present, or by the unani- mous consent of the Senate. ‘‘(c) WAIVERS.— ‘‘(1) PERMANENT.—Sections 305(b)(2), 305(c)(4), 306, 310(d)(2), 313, 904(c), and 904(d) of this Act [sections 636(b)(2), (c)(4), 637, 641(d)(2), and 644 of this title and subsecs. (c) and (d) of this note] may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. ‘‘(2) TEMPORARY.—Sections 301(i), 302(c), 302(f), 310(g), 311(a), 312(b), 312(c), 314(e), and 314(f) of this Act [sections 632(i), 633(c), (f), 641(g), 642(a), 643(b), (c), and 645(e), (f) of this title] and sections 258(a)(4)(C), 258A(b)(3)(C)(i), 258B(f)(1), 258B(h)(1), 258B(h)(3), 258C(a)(5), and 258C(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 [sections 907a(a)(4)(C), 907b(b)(3)(C)(i), 907c(f)(1), (h)(1), (3), and 907d(a)(5), (b)(1) of this title] may be waived or sus- pended in the Senate only by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. ‘‘(d) APPEALS.— ‘‘(1) PROCEDURE.—Appeals in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of title III or IV [enacting subchapters I and II of this chapter] or section 1017 [section 688 of this title] shall, except as otherwise provided therein, be lim- ited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and con- trolled by, the mover and the manager of the resolu- tion, concurrent resolution, reconciliation bill, or re- scission bill, as the case may be. ‘‘(2) PERMANENT.—An affirmative vote of three- fifths of the Members, 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 sections 305(b)(2), 305(c)(4), 306, 310(d)(2), 313, 904(c), and 904(d) of this Act [sections 636(b)(2), (c)(4), 637, 641(d)(2), 644 of this title and subsecs. (c) and (d) of this note]. ‘‘(3) TEMPORARY.—An affirmative vote of three- fifths of the Members, 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 sections 301(i), 302(c), 302(f), 310(g), 311(a), 312(b), 312(c), 314(e), and 314(f) of this Act and sections 258(a)(4)(C), 258A(b)(3)(C)(i), 258B(f)(1), 258B(h)(1), 258B(h)(3), 258C(a)(5), and 258C(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. ‘‘(e) EXPIRATION OF CERTAIN SUPERMAJORITY VOTING REQUIREMENTS.—Subsections (c)(2) and (d)(3) shall ex- pire on September 30, 2002.’’ [Amendment of section 904 of Pub. L. 93–344, set out above, by Pub. L. 104–130 was reversed pursuant to sec- tion 5 of Pub. L. 104–130, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates note under section 691 of this title.] § 622. Definitions For purposes of this Act— (1) The terms ‘‘budget outlays’’ and ‘‘out- lays’’ mean, with respect to any fiscal year, expenditures and net lending of funds under budget authority during such year. (2) BUDGET AUTHORITY AND NEW BUDGET AU- THORITY.— (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘budget au- thority’’ means the authority provided by Federal law to incur financial obligations, as follows: (i) provisions of law that make funds available for obligation and expenditure (other than borrowing authority), includ- ing the authority to obligate and expend the proceeds of offsetting receipts and col- lections; (ii) borrowing authority, which means authority granted to a Federal entity to borrow and obligate and expend the bor- rowed funds, including through the issuance of promissory notes or other mon- etary credits; Page 175 TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS § 622 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘as’’. 2 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘exceed’’. (iii) contract authority, which means the making of funds available for obligation but not for expenditure; and (iv) offsetting receipts and collections as negative budget authority, and the reduc- tion thereof as positive budget authority. (B) LIMITATIONS ON BUDGET AUTHORITY.— With respect to the Federal Hospital Insur- ance Trust Fund, the Supplementary Med- ical Insurance Trust Fund, the Unemploy- ment Trust Fund, and the railroad retire- ment account, any amount that is precluded from obligation in a fiscal year by a provi- sion of law (such as a limitation or a benefit formula) shall not be budget authority in that year. (C) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—The term ‘‘new budget authority’’ means, with respect to a fiscal year— (i) budget authority that first becomes available for obligation in that year, in- cluding budget authority that becomes available in that year s 1 a result of a reap- propriation; or (ii) a change in any account in the avail- ability of unobligated balances of budget authority carried over from a prior year, resulting from a provision of law first ef- fective in that year; and includes a change in the estimated level of new budget authority provided in indefi- nite amounts by existing law. (3) The term ‘‘tax expenditures’’ means those revenue losses attributable to provisions of the Federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a special credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax li- ability; and the term ‘‘tax expenditures budg- et’’ means an enumeration of such tax expend- itures. (4) The term ‘‘concurrent resolution on the budget’’ means— (A) a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as pro- vided in section 632 of this title; and (B) any other concurrent resolution revis- ing the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as de- scribed in section 635 of this title. (5) The term ‘‘appropriation Act’’ means an Act referred to in section 105 of title 1. (6) The term ‘‘deficit’’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, the amount by which outlays exceeds 2 receipts during that year. (7) The term ‘‘surplus’’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, the amount by which receipts exceeds 2 outlays during that year. (8) The term ‘‘government-sponsored enter- prise’’ means a corporate entity created by a law of the United States that— (A)(i) has a Federal charter authorized by law; (ii) is privately owned, as evidenced by capital stock owned by private entities or individuals; (iii) is under the direction of a board of di- rectors, a majority of which is elected by private owners; (iv) is a financial institution with power to— (I) make loans or loan guarantees for limited purposes such as to provide credit for specific borrowers or one sector; and (II) raise funds by borrowing (which does not carry the full faith and credit of the Federal Government) or to guarantee the debt of others in unlimited amounts; and (B)(i) does not exercise powers that are re- served to the Government as sovereign (such as the power to tax or to regulate interstate commerce); (ii) does not have the power to commit the Government financially (but it may be a re- cipient of a loan guarantee commitment made by the Government); and (iii) has employees whose salaries and ex- penses are paid by the enterprise and are not Federal employees subject to title 5. (9) The term ‘‘entitlement authority’’ means— (A) the authority to make payments (in- cluding loans and grants), the budget au- thority for which is not provided for in ad- vance by appropriation Acts, to any person or government if, under the provisions of the law containing that authority, the United States is obligated to make such payments to persons or governments who meet the re- quirements established by that law; and (B) the food stamp program. (10) The term ‘‘credit authority’’ means au- thority to incur direct loan obligations or to incur primary loan guarantee commitments. (11) The terms ‘‘emergency’’ and ‘‘unantici- pated’’ have the meanings given to such terms in section 900(c) of this title. (Pub. L. 93–344, § 3, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 299; Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 302(c), as added Pub. L. 95–110, § 1, Sept. 20, 1977, 91 Stat. 884, renum- bered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944; Pub. L. 99–177, title II, §§ 201(a), 232(b), Dec. 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 1039, 1062; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095; Pub. L. 100–119, title I, § 106(a), Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 780; Pub. L. 100–203, title VIII, § 8003(c), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–282; Pub. L. 101–508, title XIII, §§ 13112(a)(2), 13201(b)(1), 13211(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388–607, 1388–614, 1388–620; Pub. L. 105–33, title X, § 10101, Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 678; Pub. L. 112–25, title I, § 105(b), Aug. 2, 2011, 125 Stat. 247.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This Act, referred to in text, means Pub. L. 93–344, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 297, known as the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which enacted chapters 17, 17A and 17B, and section 190a–3 of this title and sections 11a, 11c, 11d, 1020a of former Title 31, Money and Finance, amended sections 11, 665, 701, 1020, 1151, 1152, 1153, and 1154 of former Title 31, section 105 of Title 1, General Provisions, sections 190b and 190d of this title, repealed sections 571 and 581c–1 of former Title 31, and sections 66 and 81 of this title, and enacted Page 176 TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS § 623 provisions set out as notes under sections 190a–1, 621, 632, and 682 of this title, section 105 of Title 1, and sec- tion 1020 of former Title 31. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 621 of this title and Tables. CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 1302 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877. AMENDMENTS 2011—Par. (11). Pub. L. 112–25 added par. (11). 1997—Par. (9). Pub. L. 105–33 amended par. (9) gen- erally. Prior to amendment, par. (9) read as follows: ‘‘The term ‘entitlement authority’ means spending au- thority described by section 651(c)(2)(C) of this title.’’ 1990—Par. (2). Pub. L. 101–508, § 13211(a), amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as fol- lows: ‘‘The term ‘budget authority’ means authority provided by law to enter into obligations which will re- sult in immediate or future outlays involving Govern- ment funds or to collect offsetting receipts., except that such term does not include authority to insure or guarantee the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government. The term includes the cost for direct loan and loan guarantee programs, as those terms are defined by subchapter III of this chap- ter’’. Pub. L. 101–508, § 13201(b)(1), inserted at end: ‘‘The term includes the cost for direct loan and loan guar- antee programs, as those terms are defined by sub- chapter III of this chapter’’. Pars. (6) to (8). Pub. L. 101–508, § 13112(a)(2), added pars. (6) to (8) and struck out former par. (6) which de- fined ‘‘deficit’’ and contained provisions relating to cal- culation of the deficit, former par. (7) which defined ‘‘maximum deficit amount’’, and former par. (8) which defined ‘‘off-budget Federal entity’’. 1987—Par. (7)(C). Pub. L. 100–203, § 8003(c)(1), (2), redes- ignated subpar. (D) as (C). Former subpar. (C), which provided for maximum deficit amount of $108,000,000,000 for fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1987, was struck out. Par. (7)(D) to (I). Pub. L. 100–203, § 8003(c)(2)–(7), redes- ignated subpars. (E) to (I) as (D) to (H), respectively. Former subpar. (D) redesignated (C). Pub. L. 100–119 inserted subpars. (D) to (I) and struck out former subpars. (D) to (F) which read as follows: ‘‘(D) with respect to the fiscal year beginning Octo- ber 1, 1988, $72,000,000,000; ‘‘(E) with respect to the fiscal year beginning Octo- ber 1, 1989, $36,000,000,000; and ‘‘(F) with respect to the fiscal year beginning Octo- ber 1, 1990, zero.’’ 1986—Par. (6). Pub. L. 99–514 substituted ‘‘Internal Revenue Code of 1986’’ for ‘‘Internal Revenue Code of 1954’’, which for purposes of codification was translated as ‘‘title 26’’ thus requiring no change in text. 1985—Par. (2). Pub. L. 99–177, § 201(a)(2), inserted ref- erence to the collection of offsetting receipts, effective Apr. 15, 1986. Par. (4). Pub. L. 99–177, § 232(b), struck out subpar. (B) relating to concurrent resolutions as provided in sec- tion 641 of this title, and redesignated subpar. (C) as (B). Pars. (6) to (10). Pub. L. 99–177, § 201(a)(1), added pars. (6) to (10). 1977—Pub. L. 95–110 struck out designation ‘‘(a)’’ be- fore ‘‘For the purpose of this chapter’’ and struck out subsec. (b) which provided that Members of the respec- tive Houses of Congress who were members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy were to be treated as standing committees of their respective Houses of Con- gress. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CHANGE OF NAME References to the food stamp program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 considered to refer to the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under that Act, see section 4002(c) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 2012 of Title 7, Agriculture. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1990 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 101–508, title XIII, § 13211(b), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388–620, provided that: ‘‘The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall be effective for fiscal year 1992 and subsequent fiscal years.’’ EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1985 AMENDMENT Amendment by sections 201(a)(1) and 232(b) of Pub. L. 99–177 effective Dec. 12, 1985, and applicable with re- spect to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1985, and amendment by section 201(a)(2) of Pub. L. 99–177 effec- tive Apr. 15, 1986, see section 275(a)(1), (2)(A) of Pub. L. 99–177, as amended, formerly set out as an Effective and Termination Dates note under section 900 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 112–25, title I, § 104(a), Aug. 2, 2011, 125 Stat. 246. § 623. Continuing study of additional budget re- form proposals (a) The Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall study on a continuing basis proposals designed to improve and facilitate methods of congres- sional budgetmaking. The proposals to be stud- ied shall include, but are not limited to, pro- posals for— (1) improving the information base required for determining the effectiveness of new pro- grams by such means as pilot testing, survey research, and other experimental and analyt- ical techniques; (2) improving analytical and systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of existing pro- grams; (3) establishing maximum and minimum time limitations for program authorization; and (4) developing techniques of human resource accounting and other means of providing non- economic as well as economic evaluation measures. (b) The Committee on the Budget of each House shall, from time to time, report to its House the results of the study carried on by it under subsection (a), together with its rec- ommendations. (c) Nothing in this section shall preclude stud- ies to improve the budgetary process by any other committee of the House of Representa- tives or the Senate or any joint committee of the Congress. (Pub. L. 93–344, title VII, § 703, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 326.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 1303 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877. SUBCHAPTER I—CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS § 631. Timetable The timetable with respect to the congres- sional budget process for any fiscal year is as follows: