Reserve funds authorize the chair of the Budget Committee to revise the budgetary levels agreed to in the budget resolution in order to accommodate certain policies or legislation. A reserve fund provision may therefore change the initial levels provided in the resolution, allowing certain policies to be considered on the House or Senate floor without triggering a point of order for violating levels in the budget resolution. The authority granted by a reserve fund may be exercised only under the circumstances specified in the reserve fund and within any specified budgetary limits. While a reserve fund may demonstrate congressional support for subsequent legislative action on a specific policy, reserve funds themselves do not provide funding for that policy.
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