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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 10, 2001 115 STAT. 2503 TITLE II—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT AND RULEMAKING Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement SEC. 201. RESTRICTIONS ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE HOUSE. (a) IN GENERAL.— (1) In the House, except as provided in subsection (b), an advance appropriation may not be reported in a bill or joint resolution making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation, and may not be in order as an amendment thereto. (2) Managers on the part of the House may not agree to a Senate amendment that would violate paragraph (1) unless specific authority to agree to the amendment first is given by the House by a separate vote with respect thereto. (b) EXCEPTION. —In the House, an advance appropriation may be provided— (1) for fiscal year 2003 for programs, projects, activities or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution under the heading "Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations" in an aggregate amount not to exceed $23,159,000,000 in new budget authority; and (2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (c) DEFINITION. —In this section, the term "advance appropriation" means any discretionary new budget authority in a bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2002 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2002. SEC. 202. RESTRICTIONS ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE SEN- ATE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b), it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any reported bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that would provide an advance appropriation. (b) EXCEPTION. — An advance appropriation may be provided— (1) for fiscal year 2003 for programs, projects, activities or accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying this resolution under the heading "Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations" in an aggregate amount not to exceed $23,159,000,000 in new budget authority; and (2) for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (c) APPLICATION OF POINT OF ORDER IN THE SENATE.— (1) WAIVER AND APPEAL. —In the Senate, subsection (a) 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 subsection (a). (2) FORM OF THE POINT OF ORDER. — A point of order under subsection (a) may be raised by a Senator as provided in section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

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