S. 2791 — A bill to provide budget discipline and enforcement for fiscal year 2003 and beyond.

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Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to establish spending caps (discretionary spending) for FY 2003. Extends spending caps and budget flexibility among defense programs through FY 2007. Extends other deficit elimination provisions through FY 2011.

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to extend budget enforcement mechanisms in the Senate, including supermajority requirements, allocations filings, and points of order concerning advanced appropriations and pay-as-you-go (PAYGO).

Prohibits diversions from the Crime Victims Fund.

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2002-07-25
Introduced in Senate
2002-07-25
Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on the Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.

A bill to provide budget discipline and enforcement for fiscal year 2003 and beyond.

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