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2 U.S.C. 633: Committee allocations

Created in 1974 by Public Law 93-344. Changed by 4 later laws. No bill we track in this Congress changes it.

9 other sections of the Code cite this one, including 2 U.S.C. 632, 2 U.S.C. 634, 2 U.S.C. 639, 2 U.S.C. 641, 2 U.S.C. 642.

This Congress

No bill we track in the 119th Congress changes this section.

    How it got here

    2013

    • Pub. L. 113–67 substituted "Committee on the Budget" for "committee on the Budget". Law text · (g)

    1997

    • Pub. L. 105–33, §10106(a), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which required inclusion of certain allocations to committees of the House of Representatives and of the Senate in the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on a concurrent resolution … (Balanced Budget Act of 1997) Law text · (a)
    • Pub. L. 105–33, §10106(a), added subsec. (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which required committees of each House to subdivide among their subcommittees the allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to them in joint explanatory statement accompanying confere… (Balanced Budget Act of 1997) Law text · (b)
    • Pub. L. 105–33, §10106(b), reenacted heading without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report, pro… (Balanced Budget Act of 1997) Law text · (c)
    • Pub. L. 105–33, §10106(c)(1), substituted "providing new budget authority for any fiscal year" for "providing new budget authority for such fiscal year or new entitlement authority effective during such fiscal year" in introductory provisions and "applicable allocation of new budget… (Balanced Budget Act of 1997) Law text · (f)
    • Pub. L. 105–33, §10106(c)(2), reenacted heading without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text provided that consideration in the Senate was not in order for certain bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that provided for budget ou… (Balanced Budget Act of 1997) Law text · (f)
    • Pub. L. 105–33, §10106(d), amended heading and text of subsec. (g) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "For purposes of this section, the levels of new budget authority, spending authority as described in section 651(c)(2) of this title, outlays, and new credit authori… (Balanced Budget Act of 1997) Law text · (g)

    1990

    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13201(b)(3)(A), substituted "and total entitlement authority" for "total entitlement authority, and total credit authority", "or such entitlement authority" for "such entitlement authority, or such credit authority", and "and entitlement authority" for "entitlement… · (a)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13303(c)(1), inserted "social security outlays for the fiscal year of the resolution and for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years," after "appropriate levels of". · (a)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13201(b)(3)(B), substituted "total budget outlays and total new budget authority" for "total budget outlays, total new budget authority and new credit authority". · (a)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13112(a)(6), struck out "the House of Representatives and" after "among each committee of". · (a)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13201(b)(3)(C), substituted "budget outlays and new budget authority" for "budget outlays, new budget authority, and new credit authority". · (b)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13207(a)(1)(A), substituted "bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report" for "bill or resolution, or amendment thereto". · (c)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13201(b)(3)(D), struck out par. (3) which read as follows: "new credit authority for a fiscal year;". · (c)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13207(a)(1)(B), inserted "joint" before "resolution" the second and third places appearing in introductory provisions. · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13201(b)(3)(E), substituted "year or new entitlement authority effective during such fiscal year," for "year, new entitlement authority effective during such fiscal year, or new credit authority for such fiscal year," in introductory provisions and "authority or new entitlement au… · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13303(c)(3), inserted three sentences at end beginning with "In applying this paragraph—". · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13303(c)(2), which directed the insertion of "or provides for social security outlays in excess of the appropriate allocation of social security outlays under subsection (a) of this section for the fiscal year of the resolution or for the total of that year and the 4 succeeding fi… · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13207(a)(2), substituted "outlays, new budget authority, or new spending authority (as defined in section 651(c)(2) of this title)" for "outlays or new budget authority". · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13207(a)(1)(B), substituted "bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report" for "bill or resolution (including a conference report thereon), or any amendment to a bill or resolution". · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13201(b)(2), temporarily inserted "or new credit authority" after "new budget authority". See Effective and Termination Dates of 1990 Amendment note below. · (f)
    • Pub. L. 101–508, §13112(a)(7), inserted "(A)" after "in excess of", substituted "under subsection (a) of this section, or (B) the appropriate allocation (if any) of such outlays or authority reported under subsection (b) of this section" for "under subsection (b) of this section", and inserted afte… · (f)

    1985

    • Pub. L. 99–177 substituted "Committee allocations" for "Matters to be included in joint statement of managers; reports by committees" in section catchline.
    • Pub. L. 99–177 amended subsec. (a) generally, providing for separate provisions relating to allocations of totals for the House of Representatives and for the Senate, with respect to the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on a concurrent resolution on the bu… · (a)
    • Pub. L. 99–177 amended subsec. (b) generally, inserting applicability to new credit authority. · (b)
    • Pub. L. 99–177 amended subsec. (c) generally, substituting provisions relating to point of order for provisions relating to subsequent concurrent resolutions. · (c)
    • Pub. L. 99–177, in amending section generally, added subsecs. (d) to (g). · (d), (e), (f), (g)

    Text, outline and history from the official U.S. Code (2024 edition) on GovInfo, published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Changes made after that edition appear under This Congress.