2 U.S.C. § 633 — Committee allocations

(a) Committee spending allocations. (1) The joint explanatory statement that accompanies a conference report on a concurrent budget resolution must allocate, consistently with the recommended resolution, total new budget authority and total outlays among each House and Senate committee with jurisdiction over legislation that provides or creates those amounts. The allocation must cover the resolution's first fiscal year, at least the next four fiscal years, and the total for that period. For the Committee on Appropriations, it only has to cover the resolution's fiscal year. (2) In the House, an item allocated to one committee cannot also be allocated to another. (3)(A) In the Senate, the amount allocated to Appropriations must be divided among the categories in section 900(c)(4) and cannot exceed the limits for those categories in section 901(c). (B) In the House, each committee's allocation for each fiscal year, except Appropriations, must be divided between amounts already provided or required by law when the conference report is filed and amounts not provided or required then. Appropriations' allocation must be divided between discretionary and mandatory amounts or programs, as appropriate, and consistently with the categories in section 900(c)(4). (4) A committee receiving no allocation is treated as receiving zero for new budget authority or outlays. (5)(A) If no concurrent budget resolution is adopted by April 15, the House Budget Committee chair must submit to the House as soon as practicable an allocation to Appropriations under paragraph (1), consistent with the discretionary spending levels in the latest agreed budget resolution for the appropriate fiscal year. (B) As soon as practicable after such an allocation is submitted, Appropriations must make suballocations and report them to the House.
(b) Suballocations by Appropriations Committees. As soon as practicable after a concurrent budget resolution is agreed to, each House Appropriations Committee, after consulting the other House's committee, must suballocate each amount allocated to it for the budget year among its subcommittees. It must promptly report those suballocations, including revisions, to its House. The House committee must also divide among its subcommittees the divisions made under subsection (a)(3)(B) and promptly report those divisions.
(c) Point of order. After Appropriations receives an allocation for a fiscal year, the House or Senate may not consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report within that committee's jurisdiction that provides new budget authority for that year until the committee makes the required suballocations.
(d) Subsequent concurrent resolutions. For a budget resolution referred to in section 635, the allocations and subdivisions are required only as necessary to reflect revisions in the latest agreed budget resolution.
(e) Alteration of allocations. After a committee reports the required allocations under subsection (b), it may report an alteration to its House. The alteration must be consistent with actions its House has already taken on legislation within the committee's jurisdiction.
(f) Legislation subject to point of order. (1) House. After Congress completes action on a fiscal-year budget resolution, the House may not consider a bill, joint resolution, or amendment providing new budget authority for any fiscal year, or a conference report on one, if enacting the reported bill or resolution, adopting and enacting the amendment, or enacting the bill or resolution in the conference-report form would exceed the applicable allocation under (a) or (b) for the first fiscal year or for all covered fiscal years. (2) Senate. After a budget resolution is agreed to, the Senate may not consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would exceed, for a committee other than Appropriations, its applicable new-budget-authority or outlay allocation under (a) for the first fiscal year or total period, or, for Appropriations, its applicable new-budget-authority or outlay suballocation under (b).
(g) Pay-as-you-go exception in the House. (1)(A) Subsection (f)(1), and section 634(a) after April 15, do not apply to a reported bill or joint resolution, its amendment, or its conference report if, for every fiscal year covered by the latest budget resolution, the proposed action would not increase the deficit and the relevant revenue increases are at least as large as the sum of (i) any increase in aggregate Federal revenues required by that resolution and (ii) any revenue increase required by pay-as-you-go procedures under section 632(b)(8), if included in the resolution. In calculating the relevant revenue increases, include increases in legislation already enacted during the current session and any increases in the proposed legislation that exceed its outlay increase. (B) Section 642(a), as it applies to revenues, does not apply if the proposed action would not increase the deficit for every covered fiscal year and outlay reductions already enacted, plus any proposed reductions exceeding the proposed revenue reduction, are at least as large as the sum of (i) any aggregate Federal-outlay reduction required by the resolution and (ii) any outlay reduction required by pay-as-you-go procedures under section 632(b)(8), if included in the resolution. (2)(A) As soon as practicable after Congress agrees to legislation that would have violated (f)(1) or section 642(a) but for these exceptions, the House Budget Committee chair must file appropriately revised allocations under (a), revised functional levels, and revised budget aggregates reflecting the legislation. (B) For this Act, those revised items are treated as items contained in the latest agreed budget resolution.