To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to establish discretionary spending caps for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2013.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend through FY2013 the spending limits (spending caps) for the discretionary categories in new budget authority and outlays.

Repeals provisions terminating Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) enforcement mechanisms under such Act.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3442 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3442

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to establish discretionary spending caps for each of fiscal years 2011 
                             through 2013.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2009

  Mr. Hodes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to establish discretionary spending caps for each of fiscal years 2011 
                             through 2013.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF THE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING CAPS.

    (a) In General.--Paragraphs (1) through (13) of section 251(c) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) with respect to fiscal year 2011 for the 
        discretionary category: $1,126,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority and $1,189,000,000,000 in outlays;
            ``(2) with respect to fiscal year 2012 for the 
        discretionary category: $1,150,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority and $1,193,000,000,000 in outlays;
            ``(3) with respect to fiscal year 2013 for the 
        discretionary category: $1,177,000,000,000 in new budget 
        authority and $1,220,000,000,000 in outlays;''.
    (b) Expiration.--Section 275 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 note) is amended by striking 
subsection (b).
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