An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010.

Sets forth the congressional budget for the Federal Government for FY 2006, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2005 through 2010.

Title I: Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY 2005 through 2010, with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits; (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public.

(Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for Social Security and specified major functional categories for FY 2005 through 2010. Title II: Reconciliation - (Sec. 201) Requires, by June 6, 2005, recommendations to the Senate Committee on the Budget of changes in law within their respective jurisdictions sufficient to reduce outlays by specified amounts by the following Committees: (1) Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; (2) Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; (3) Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (4) Energy and Natural Resources; (5) Environment and Public Works; and (6) Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Requires the Senate Committee on the Budget to report to the Senate a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision.

Directs the Senate Committee on Finance to report a reconciliation bill by: (1) September 7, 2005, that consists of changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the total level of revenues by no more than $19.016 billion for FY 2006 and $128.580 billion for the period FY 2006 through 2010; and (2) September 16, 2005, that consists solely of changes in laws within its jurisdiction to increase the statutory debt limit by $446.464 billion.

Title III: Reserve Funds - Creates reserve funds, subject to specified conditions, for: (1) health information technology and pay-for-performance; (2) an Asbestos Injury Trust Fund; (3) the uninsured; (4) the Land and Water Conservation Fund; (5) the Federal Pell Grant Program; (6) Higher Education; (7) energy legislation; (8) the safe importation of prescription drugs; (9) the bipartisan Medicaid commission; (10) patriotic employers of national guardsmen and reservists; (11) the Family Opportunity Act; (12) the restoration of SCHIP funds; (13) Hope credit; (14) influenza vaccine shortage prevention; and (15) the extension of treatment of combat pay for earned income and child tax credits. (Sec. 301) Allows the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget (Chairman) to revise allocations of new budget authority and outlays, revenue aggregates, and other appropriate aggregates (allocations and aggregates), provided that it would not increase the deficit for FY 2006 through FY 2010, if the Senate Finance Committee or the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions reports legislation providing incentives or other support for adoption of modern information technology to improve quality in health care, and providing for performance-based payments based on accepted clinical performance measures that improve the quality in health care. (Sec. 302) Allows the Chairman to make the appropriate adjustments in committee allocations and aggregates, provided that it would not increase the deficit for FY 2006 through 2056, if the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reports legislation that: (1) compensates injured victims of asbestos-related disease; (2) does not compensate uninjured claimants or those suffering from a disease not shown to be asbestos-related disease; (3) requires strict medical criteria; and (4) is reasonably expected to remain funded from non-Federal sources for the 50-year life of the fund. (Sec. 303) Allows the Chairman to revise allocations and aggregates, provided that it would not increase the deficit for FY 2006 and for the period FY 2006 through FY 2010, if the Senate Finance Committee or the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions reports legislation that addresses health care costs, coverage, or care for the uninsured, provides safety net access to integrated and other health care services, or increases the number of people with health insurance (provided that such increase is not obtained primarily as a result of increasing premiums for the currently insured), and increases access to coverage through mechanisms that decrease the growth of health care costs, and may include tax- and market-based measures. (Sec. 304) Allows the Chairman to revise committee allocations for the Senate Committee on Appropriations and other appropriate budgetary aggregates, if the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources reports legislation that permits exploration and production of oil in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and such measure is enacted and the reconciliation instruction set out in this Act is met, by the amount provided in reported legislation that provides funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Federal Land Acquisition and Stateside Grant Programs, the Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Program, and the Forest Legacy Program, at least at the previous year's levels, adjusted for inflation, and makes available a portion of the receipts resulting from enactment of such legislation permitting exploration and production of oil in the 1002 Area and for such Fund and Programs. Limits the adjustment to $350 million in new budget authority in each of FY 2008 through 2010. (Sec. 305) Allows the Chairman to revise appropriately committee allocations and aggregates, if the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions reports legislation that eliminates the accumulated shortfall of budget authority resulting from insufficient appropriations of discretionary new budget authority previously enacted for the Federal Pell Grant Program for awards made through the award year 2005-2006. Limits the adjustment to $4.300 billion in new budget authority for FY 2006. (Sec. 306) Allows the Chairman to revise committee allocations and aggregates if the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions reports legislation that reauthorizes the Higher Education Act of 1965. Limits amounts to $748 billion in new budget authority and $684 billion in outlays for FY 2006, and $5.603 billion in new budget authority and $5.099 billion in outlays for FY 2006 through 2010. (Sec. 307) Allows the Chairman to revise committee allocations and aggregates if the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources reports legislation that provides for a national energy policy, and in conjunction with revenue legislation that does not reduce net revenues by more than $803 billion in FY 2006 and $4.557 billion for FY 2006 through 2010, Limits amounts to $100 million in new budget authority for FY 2006 and the outlays flowing therefrom and $2 billion in new budget authority for the period FY 2006 through 2010 and the outlays flowing therefrom. (Sec. 308) Allows the Chairman to revise allocations and aggregates if the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions reports legislation that permits the safe importation of prescription drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from specified countries with strong safety laws, provided that any such measure would not increase the deficit for FY 2006 and for the period FY 2006 through 2010. (Sec. 309) Allows the Chairman to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates, and increase the allocation of new budget authority appropriately to such Committees for FY 2005 and FY 2006 and for the period FY 2005 through 2009 to the extent such adjustment is offset by an increase in receipts appropriated to the highway trust fund for the applicable fiscal year, if the Senate Committees on Environment and Public Works; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; or Commerce, Science, and Transportation reports legislation that provides new budget authority for the budget accounts or portions thereof, for programs, projects, and activities for highways, highway safety, and transit, in excess of: (1) $42.606 billion for FY 2005; (2) $43.131 billion for FY 2006; or (3) $231.088 billion for FY 2005 through 2009. Provides that for FY 2006 and in subsequent fiscal years, if legislation is reported that changes obligation limitations such that the total limitations exceed $42.686 billion for FY 2006 for programs, projects, and activities for highways, highway safety, and transit, and if legislation has been enacted that satisfies the conditions set forth in section 309 for such fiscal year, the Chairman may increase the allocation of outlays and aggregates for the committees reporting such measures, but not to exceed the amount of such excess that was offset in FY 2006.

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