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 PUBLIC LAW 101-508 —NOV. 5, 1990 104 STAT. 1388-593 appropriation covered the entire fiscal year. If law permits the transfer of budget authority among budget accounts in the current year, the current-year level for an account shall reflect transfers accomplished by the submission of, or assumed for the current year in, the President's original budget for the budget year. "(d) UP-TODATE CONCEPTS. — In deriving the baseline for any budget year or outyear, current-year amounts shall be calculated using the concepts and definitions that are required for that budget year.". (2) Section 251(a)(6)(I) of such Act (as in effect immediately before 2 USC 901,907. the date of enactment of this Act) is redesignated as section 257(e) of such Act. Section 257(e) is amended by striking "assuming, for purposes of this paragraph and subparagraph (A)(i) of paragraph (3), that the" and inserting 'The". (f) Such Act is amended by inserting after section 257 the following: "SEC. 258. SUSPENSION IN THE EVENT OF WAR OR LOW GROWTH. 2 USC 907a. " (a) PROCEDURES IN THE EVENT OF A LOW GROWTH REPORT. — "(1) TRIGGER. —Whenever CBO issues a low-growth report under section 254(j), the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives may, and the Majority Leader of the Senate shall, introduce a joint resolution (in the form set forth in paragraph (2)) declaring that the conditions specified in section 254(j) are met and suspending the relevant provisions of this title, titles III and VI of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and section 1103 of title 31, United States Code. "(2) FORM OF JOINT RESOLUTION.— "(A) The matter after the resolving clause in any joint resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be as follows: 'That the Congress declares that the conditions specified in section 254(j) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are met, and the implementation of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, and part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are modified as described in section 258(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.'. "(B) The title of the joint resolution shall be 'Joint resolution suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.'; and the joint resolution shall not contain any preamble. "(3) COMMITTEE ACTION. —Each joint resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be referred to the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives or the Committee on the Budget of the Senate, as the case may be; and such Committee shall report the joint resolution to its House without amendment on or before the fifth day on which such House is in session after the date on which the joint resolution is introduced. If the Committee fails to report the joint resolution within the five-day period referred to in the preceding sentence, it shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution, and the joint resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.

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