115 STAT. 2504 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 10, 2001 (3) CONFERENCE REPORTS.— If a point of order is sustained under subsection (a) against a conference report in the Senate, the report shall be disposed of as provided in section 313(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (d) 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. (e) SENSE OF CONGRESS. —It is the sense of Congress that the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 should be amended to address procedures for advance appropriations for fiscal years beginning with fiscal year 2003. SEC. 203. MECHANISM FOR IMPLEMENTING INCREASE OF FISCAL YEAR 2002 DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. (a) FINDINGS. —The Senate finds the following: (1) Unless and until the discretionary spending limit for fiscal year 2002 (as set out in section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) is increased, aggregate appropriations which exceed the current law limits would still be out of order in the Senate and subject to a supermajority vote. (2) Except for a necessary adjustment included in function 920 (to comply with section 312(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974), the functional totals contained in this concurrent resolution envision a level of discretionary spending for fiscal year 2002 as follows: (A) For the discretionary category: $659,540,000,000 in new budget authority and $647,780,000,000 in outlays. (B) For the highway category: $28,489,000,000 in outlays. (C) For the mass transit category: $5,275,000,000 in outlays. (D) For the conservation category: $1,760,000,000 in new budg:et authority and $1,232,000,000 in outlays. (3) To facilitate the Senate completing its legislative responsibilities for the 1st Session of the 107th Congress in a timely fashion, it is imperative that the Senate consider legislation which establishes appropriate discretionary spending limits for fiscal year 2002 through 2006 as soon as possible. (b) ADJUSTMENT TO ALLOCATIONS AND OTHER BUDGETARY AGGRE- GATES AND LEVELS. — Whenever a bill or joint resolution becomes law that increases the discretionary spending limit for fiscal year 2002 set out in section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall increase the allocation called for in section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) to the appropriate Committee on Appropriations and shall also appropriately adjust all other budgetary aggregates and levels contained in this resolution. (c) SENATE DEFENSE FIREWALL.— (1) DEFINITION.— In this subsection, for purposes of enforcement in the Senate for fiscal year 2002, the term "discretionary spending limit" means— (A) for the defense category, $325,070,000,000 in new budget authority; and
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