text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Modified Line Item Veto/Expedited 
  Rescissions Act of 1993''.
  
  SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED RESCISSIONS.
  
      (a) In General.--Part B of title X of the Congressional Budget and 
  Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by 
  redesignating sections 1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, 
  respectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following new 
  section:
  
         ``expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions
  
      ``Sec. 1013. (a) Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority.--In 
  addition to the method of rescinding budget authority specified in 
  section 1012, the President may propose, at the time and in the manner 
  provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget authority 
  provided in an appropriations Act. Funds made available for obligation 
  under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission again under 
  this section or section 1012.
      ``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
              ``(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of enactment of 
          an appropriation Act, the President may transmit to Congress a 
          special message proposing to rescind amounts of budget 
          authority provided in that Act and include with that special 
          message a draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that 
          budget authority. That bill shall clearly identify the amount 
          of budget authority that is proposed to be rescinded for each 
          program, project, or activity to which that budget authority 
          relates.
              ``(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that includes 
          accounts within the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee 
          of the Committee on Appropriations, the President in proposing 
          to rescind budget authority under this section shall send a 
          separate special message and accompanying draft bill for 
          accounts within the jurisdiction of each such subcommittee.
              ``(3) Each special message shall specify, with respect to 
          the budget authority proposed to be rescinded, the matters 
          referred to in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a).
      ``(c) Limitation on Amounts Subject to Rescission.--
              ``(1) The amount of budget authority which the President 
          may propose to rescind in a special message under this section 
          for a particular program, project, or activity for a fiscal 
          year may not exceed 25 percent of the amount appropriated for 
          that program, project, or activity in that Act.
              ``(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1) shall only 
          apply to amounts specifically authorized to be appropriated for 
          a particular program, project, or activity.
      ``(d) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
              ``(1)(A) Before the close of the second legislative day of 
          the House of Representatives after the date of receipt of a 
          special message transmitted to Congress under subsection (b), 
          the majority leader or minority leader of the House of 
          Representatives shall introduce (by request) the draft bill 
          accompanying that special message. If the bill is not 
          introduced as provided in the preceding sentence, then, on the 
          third legislative day of the House of Representatives after the 
          date of receipt of that special message, any Member of that 
          House may introduce the bill.
              ``(B) The bill shall be referred to the Committee on 
          Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The committee 
          shall report the bill without substantive revision and with or 
          without recommendation. The bill shall be reported not later 
          than the seventh legislative day of that House after the date 
          of receipt of that special message. If the Committee on 
          Appropriations fails to report the bill within that period, 
          that committee shall be automatically discharged from 
          consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be placed on the 
          appropriate calendar.
              ``(C) During consideration under this paragraph, any Member 
          of the House of Representatives may move to strike any proposed 
          rescission or rescissions of budget authority if supported by 
          49 other Members.
              ``(D) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be taken in 
          the House of Representatives on or before the close of the 10th 
          legislative day of that House after the date of the 
          introduction of the bill in that House. If the bill is passed, 
          the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall cause the bill 
          to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the Senate 
          within one calendar day of the day on which the bill is passed.
              ``(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representatives to 
          proceed to the consideration of a bill under this section shall 
          be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the 
          motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move 
          to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
          disagreed to.
              ``(B) Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill 
          under this section shall not exceed 4 hours, which shall be 
          divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
          bill. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. 
          It shall not be in order to move to recommit a bill under this 
          section or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill is 
          agreed to or disagreed to.
              ``(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to the 
          application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
          procedure relating to a bill under this section shall be 
          decided without debate.
              ``(D) Except to the extent specifically provided in the 
          preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a 
          bill under this section shall be governed by the Rules of the 
          House of Representatives.
              ``(3)(A) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursuant to 
          paragraph (1)(D) shall be referred to its Committee on 
          Appropriations. The committee shall report the bill without 
          substantive revision and with or without recommendation. The 
          bill shall be reported not later than the seventh legislative 
          day of the Senate after it receives the bill. A committee 
          failing to report the bill within such period shall be 
          automatically discharged from consideration of the bill, and 
          the bill shall be placed upon the appropriate calendar.
              ``(B) During consideration under this paragraph, any Member 
          of the Senate may move to strike any proposed rescission or 
          rescissions of budget authority if supported by 14 other 
          Members.
              ``(C) A vote on final passage of a bill transmitted to the 
          Senate shall be taken on or before the close of the 10th 
          legislative day of the Senate after the date on which the bill 
          is transmitted. If the bill is passed in the Senate without 
          amendment, the Secretary of the Senate shall cause the 
          engrossed bill to be returned to the House of Representatives.
              ``(D) If the bill is amended in the Senate solely as 
          provided by subparagraph (B), the Secretary of the Senate shall 
          cause an engrossed amendment (in the nature of a substitute) to 
          be returned to the House of Representatives. Any Member of the 
          House may offer a privileged motion that the House concur in 
          that Senate amendment. That motion is not subject to a demand 
          for division of the question and the previous question is 
          considered as ordered on the motion to final adoption without 
          intervening motion.
              ``(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the 
          consideration of a bill under this section shall be privileged 
          and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
          order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote 
          by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
              ``(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill under this section, 
          and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, 
          shall not exceed 10 hours. The time shall be equally divided 
          between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the 
          minority leader or their designees.
              ``(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or 
          appeal in connection with a bill under this section shall be 
          limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 
          and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill, 
          except that in the event the manager of the bill is in favor of 
          any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, 
          shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. 
          Such leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their 
          control on the passage of a bill, allot additional time to any 
          Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or 
          appeal.
              ``(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a 
          bill under this section is not debatable. A motion to recommit 
          a bill under this section is not in order.
      ``(e) Amendments and Divisions Prohibited.--Except as provided by 
  paragraph (1)(C) or (3)(B) of subsection (d), no amendment to a bill 
  considered under this section shall be in order in either the House of 
  Representatives or the Senate. It shall not be in order to demand a 
  division of the question in the House of Representatives (or in a 
  Committee of the Whole) or in the Senate. No motion to suspend the 
  application of this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor 
  shall it be in order in either House to suspend the application of this 
  subsection by unanimous consent.
      ``(f) Requirement To Make Available for Obligation.--Any amount of 
  budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message 
  transmitted to Congress under subsection (b) shall be made available 
  for obligation on the day after the date on which either House defeats 
  the bill transmitted with that special message.
      ``(g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
              ``(1) the term `appropriation Act' means any general or 
          special appropriation Act, and any Act or joint resolution 
          making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations; 
          and
              ``(2) the term `legislative day' means, with respect to 
          either House of Congress, any day during which that House is in 
          session.''.
      (b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of such Act (2 
  U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
              (1) by striking ``and 1017'' in subsection (a) and 
          inserting ``1013, and 1018''; and
              (2) by striking ``section 1017'' in subsection (d) and 
          inserting ``sections 1013 and 1018''.
      (c) Conforming Amendments.--
              (1) Section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended--
                      (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``1013'' and 
                  inserting ``1014''; and
                      (B) in paragraph (5)--
                              (i) by striking ``1016'' and inserting 
                          ``1017''; and
                              (ii) by striking ``1017(b)(1)'' and 
                          inserting ``1018(b)(1)''.
              (2) Section 1015 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) (as 
          redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended--
                      (A) by striking ``1012 or 1013'' each place it 
                  appears and inserting ``1012, 1013, or 1014'';
                      (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``1012'' and 
                  inserting ``1012 or 1013'';
                      (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``1013'' and 
                  inserting ``1014''; and
                      (D) in subsection (e)(2)--
                              (i) by striking ``and'' at the end of 
                          subparagraph (A);
                              (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
                          subparagraph (C);
                              (iii) by striking ``1013'' in subparagraph 
                          (C) (as so redesignated) and inserting 
                          ``1014''; and
                              (iv) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
                          the following new subparagraph:
                      ``(B) he has transmitted a special message under 
                  section 1013 with respect to a proposed rescission; 
                  and''.
              (3) Section 1016 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686) (as 
          redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended by striking ``1012 or 
          1013'' each place it appears and inserting ``1012, 1013, or 
          1014''.
      (d) Clerical Amendments.--The table of sections for subpart B of 
  title X of such Act is amended--
              (1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 1013 
          through 1017 as items relating to sections 1014 through 1018; 
          and
              (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 1012 
          the following new item:
  
  ``Sec. 1013. Expedited consideration of certain proposed 
                              rescissions.''.
target: Modified Line Item Veto/Expedited Rescissions Act of 1993 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to allow the President to transmit to both Houses of the Congress, for expedited consideration, a special message proposing to rescind all or part of any item of budget authority provided in an appropriation bill. 
  Requires that such special message be transmitted not later than three days after the President approves the appropriation bill and be accompanied by draft bill or joint resolution that would, if enacted, rescind the budget authority proposed to be rescinded.  Limits the amount subject to rescission to 25 percent of the amount appropriated. 
  Sets forth House and Senate procedures for the expedited consideration of such a proposal.
feat_title: Modified Line Item Veto/Expedited Rescissions Act of 1993