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Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015

114th Congress · Approved Nov 2, 2015 · 129 Stat. 584

An Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short Title; Table of Contents.

(a)
Short Title.— This Act may be cited as the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015”.
(b)
Table of Contents.— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I— BUDGET ENFORCEMENT

Sec. 101. Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

Sec. 102. Authority for fiscal year 2017 budget resolution in the Senate.

TITLE II— AGRICULTURE

Sec. 201. Standard Reinsurance Agreement.

TITLE III— COMMERCE

Sec. 301. Debt collection improvements.

TITLE IV— STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

Sec. 401. Strategic Petroleum Reserve test drawdown and sale notification and definition change.

Sec. 402. Strategic Petroleum Reserve mission readiness optimization.

Sec. 403. Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown and sale.

Sec. 404. Energy Security and Infrastructure Modernization Fund.

TITLE V— PENSIONS

Sec. 501. Single employer plan annual premium rates.

Sec. 502. Pension Payment Acceleration.

Sec. 503. Mortality tables.

Sec. 504. Extension of current funding stabilization percentages to 2018, 2019, and 2020.

TITLE VI— HEALTH CARE

Sec. 601. Maintaining 2016 Medicare part B premium and deductible levels consistent with actuarially fair rates.

Sec. 602. Applying the Medicaid additional rebate requirement to generic drugs.

Sec. 603. Treatment of off-campus outpatient departments of a provider.

Sec. 604. Repeal of automatic enrollment requirement.

TITLE VII— JUDICIARY

Sec. 701. Civil monetary penalty inflation adjustments.

Sec. 702. Crime Victims Fund.

Sec. 703. Assets Forfeiture Fund.

TITLE VIII— SOCIAL SECURITY

Sec. 801. Short title.

Subtitle A— Ensuring Correct Payments and Reducing Fraud

Sec. 811. Expansion of cooperative disability investigations units.

Sec. 812. Exclusion of certain medical sources of evidence.

Sec. 813. New and stronger penalties.

Sec. 814. References to Social Security and Medicare in electronic communications.

Sec. 815. Change to cap adjustment authority.

Subtitle B— Promoting Opportunity for Disability Beneficiaries

Sec. 821. Temporary reauthorization of disability insurance demonstration project authority.

Sec. 822. Modification of demonstration project authority.

Sec. 823. Promoting opportunity demonstration project.

Sec. 824. Use of electronic payroll data to improve program administration.

Sec. 825. Treatment of earnings derived from services.

Sec. 826. Electronic reporting of earnings.

Subtitle C— Protecting Social Security Benefits

Sec. 831. Closure of unintended loopholes.

Sec. 832. Requirement for medical review.

Sec. 833. Reallocation of payroll tax revenue.

Sec. 834. Access to financial information for waivers and adjustments of recovery.

Subtitle D— Relieving Administrative Burdens and Miscellaneous Provisions

Sec. 841. Interagency coordination to improve program administration.

Sec. 842. Elimination of quinquennial determinations relating to wage credits for military service prior to 1957.

Sec. 843. Certification of benefits payable to a divorced spouse of a railroad worker to the Railroad Retirement Board.

Sec. 844. Technical amendments to eliminate obsolete provisions.

Sec. 845. Reporting requirements to Congress.

Sec. 846. Expedited examination of administrative law judges.

TITLE IX— TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT

Sec. 901. Temporary extension of public debt limit.

Sec. 902. Restoring congressional authority over the national debt.

TITLE X— SPECTRUM PIPELINE

Sec. 1001. Short title.

Sec. 1002. Definitions.

Sec. 1003. Rule of construction.

Sec. 1004. Identification, reallocation, and auction of Federal spectrum.

Sec. 1005. Additional uses of Spectrum Relocation Fund.

Sec. 1006. Plans for auction of certain spectrum.

Sec. 1007. FCC auction authority.

Sec. 1008. Reports to Congress.

TITLE XI— REVENUE PROVISIONS RELATED TO TAX COMPLIANCE

Sec. 1101. Partnership audits and adjustments.

Sec. 1102. Partnership interests created by gift.

TITLE XII— DESIGNATION OF SMALL HOUSE ROTUNDA

Sec. 1201. Designating small House rotunda as “Freedom Foyer”.