S. 2765: Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-10-31 · Economics and Public Finance · Latest: By Senator Enzi from Committee on the Budget filed written report. Report No. 116-325. Additional views filed.

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Where it came from: introduced 2019-10-31 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: By Senator Enzi from Committee on the Budget filed written report. Report No. 116-325. Additional views filed. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act

Plain summary

Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act This bill makes several modifications to the federal budget process, including the procedures for considering congressional budget resolutions and adjusting the debt limit. Among other modifications, the bill includes provisions that require biennial congressional budget resolutions, instead of the annual budget resolutions required under current law; retain the existing annual appropriations process; require a budget resolution to specify a target for the ratio of the debt held by the public to the gross domestic product (GDP) for each year covered by the resolution; require the debt-to-GDP target to be enforced using a reconciliation process that requires deficit reduction legislation to be considered using expedited legislative procedures; allow a budget resolution to include the amount of tax expenditures; provide for automatic adjustments of the debt limit and statutory discretionary spending limits to conform to the levels in the budget resolution; modify the procedures for considering budget resolutions in the Senate; allow budget resolutions that have bipartisan support and meet specified requirements to be considered in the Senate using expedited procedures; modify and establish budget points of order that may be raised against legislation; rename the Committee on the Budget of the Senate as the Committee on Fiscal Control and the Budget of the Senate; and expand reporting requirements for congressional committees, the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office.

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Official text

Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] · 23 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 2765, Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act (2019-12-10)

Cosponsors on this site

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), John Barrasso (R-WY), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mark R. Warner (D-VA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), James Lankford (R-OK), James E. Risch (R-ID)

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Appropriation: Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
Bill: A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
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Resolution: A formal statement or decision by a legislative body. Simple resolutions often only express an opinion or set rules for one chamber; they do not become law.
Statute: A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate)
Congress.gov
Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s2765.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>

Record fed-us-cong116-s2765 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116