The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 2016 includes reconciliation instructions to both the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. This document provides general information for submitting reconciliation recommendations and summarizes special rules and procedures that govern the contents and consideration of a reconciliation bill—elements that should be forefront as the two committees draft their submissions.
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Section 2001(a) of the conference report for S. Con. Res. 11, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 2016 directs the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) to recommend changes in laws within their respective jurisdictions to reduce the on-budget deficit by a total of $1 billion—each—over the ten-year period of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
Reports are due no later than Friday, July 24, 2015.