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 PUBLIC LAW 105-33—AUG. 5, 1997 111 STAT. 691 (2) POINT OF ORDER.— Section 401(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended— 2 USC 651. (A) by inserting "new" before "entitlement" in the heading; (B) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: "(1) POINT OF ORDER.—I t shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution (in the House of Representatives only, as reported), amendment, motion, or conference report that provides new entitlement authority that is to become effective during the current fiscal year."; and (C) in paragraph (2)— (i) by striking "new spending authority described in subsection (c)(2)(C)" and inserting "new entitlement authority"; and (ii) by striking "of that House" and inserting "of the Senate or may then be referred to the Committee on Appropriations of the House, as the case may be,". (3) DEFINITIONS. — Section 401 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking subsection (c). (4) EXCEPTIONS.— Section 401(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking "new spending authority if the budget authority for outlays which result from such new spending authority is derived" and inserting "new authority described in those subsections if outlays from that new authority will flow"; (B) by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); and (C) in paragraph (2), as redesignated, by striking "new spending authority" and inserting "new authority described in those subsections". (5) REDESIGNATION.— Subsection (d) of section 401 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is redesignated as subsection (0. (6) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. — (A) Clause 1(b)(4) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: "(4) The amount of new authority to enter into contracts under which the United States is obligated to make outlays, the budget authority for which is not provided in advance by appropriation Acts; new authority to incur indebtedness (other than indebtedness in incurred under chapter 31 of title 31 of the United States Code) for the repayment of which the United States is liable, the budget authority for which is not provided in advance by appropriation Acts; new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including bills and resolutions (reported by other committees) which provide new entitlement authority as defined in section 3(9) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and are referred to the committee under clause 4(a); authority to forego the collection by the United States of proprietary offsetting receipts, the budget authority for which is not provided in advance by appropriation Acts to offset such foregone receipts; and authority to make payments by the United States (including loans, grants, and pa3anents from

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