Budget Enforcement and Accountability Act of 2007

Budget Enforcement and Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend Pay-As-You-Go requirements through FY2012 and enforcement mechanisms through FY2016.

Requires the Directors of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) each to report to the House Committee on the Budget on how to broaden the Pay-As-You-Go sequestration base and make it more fair and equitable.

Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any legislation or related motion that waives or suspends sequestration requirements of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act or otherwise would alter the balances of the Pay-As-You-Go scorecard under it.

Makes it out of order in the House or Senate to consider direct spending or receipts legislation, or a related motion, that would affect its treatment under such Act.

Permits waiver or suspension of such requirements, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate.

Makes it out of order in the House to consider a rule or order that waives the application of this Act.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2686 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2686

   To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985 to 
     extend the pay-as-you-go provisions through fiscal year 2012.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2007

 Mr. Hill (for himself, Mr. Moore of Kansas, Mr. Shuler, Mr. Melancon, 
 Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Matheson, Mr. 
  Tanner, Mr. Boyd of Florida, and Mr. Ross) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985 to 
     extend the pay-as-you-go provisions through fiscal year 2012.

    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 ``Budget Enforcement and 
Accountability Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Purpose.--Section 252(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking ``2002'' and 
inserting ``2012''.
    (b) Sequestration.--Section 252(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking ``2002'' 
and inserting ``2012''.
    (c) Expiration.--Section 275(b) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking ``2006'' 
and inserting ``2016''.
    (d) Broadening of Sequestration Base.--The Directors of the 
Congressional Budget Office and of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall each submit, not later than 6 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, a report to the Committee on the Budget of the House of 
Representatives that addresses the issue of how to broaden the pay-as-
you-go sequestration base and make it more fair and equitable.

SEC. 3. BUDGET EVASION POINTS OF ORDER.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Pay-as-you-go.--It shall not be in order in the House 
        of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint 
        resolution, or conference report thereon or amendment thereto, 
        or motion that waives or suspends the enforcement of section 
        252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
        1985 or otherwise would alter the balances of the pay-as-you-go 
        scorecard under that section.
            (2) Directed scoring.--It shall not be in order in the 
        House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any direct 
        spending or receipts legislation, or conference report thereon 
        or amendment thereto, or motion that would affect its treatment 
        under such section 252.
    (b) Waiver and Appeal in the Senate.--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. 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.
    (c) Enforcement in the House of Representatives.--It shall not be 
in order in the House of Representatives to consider a rule or order 
that waives the application of subsection (a).
    (d) Disposition of Points of Order in the House.--In the House of 
Representatives, as disposition of a point of order under subsection 
(a), the Chair shall put the question of consideration with respect to 
the proposition that is the subject of the point of order. A question 
of consideration under this section shall be debatable for 10 minutes 
by the Member initiating the point of order and for 10 minutes by an 
opponent of the point of order, but shall otherwise be decided without 
intervening motion except one that the House adjourn or that the 
Committee of the Whole rise, as the case may be.
    (e) Effect on Amendment in Order as Original Text in the House.--
The disposition of the question of consideration under this section 
with respect to a bill or joint resolution shall be considered also to 
determine the question of consideration under this subsection with 
respect to an amendment made in order as original text.

SEC. 4. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.

    The provisions of section 3 are enacted by Congress--
            (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking powers of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, and as such they shall be 
        considered as part of the rules of the House of Representatives 
        and the Senate, respectively, 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 
        the House of Representatives and the Senate to change such 
        rules at anytime, in the same manner, and to the same extent as 
        in the case of any other rule of the House of Representatives 
        or the Senate, respectively.
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