The phrase "authorizing bill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in the context of legislation, referring to a bill that grants authority or permission for a specific action or program.
Example: "The Senate passed the authorizing bill, allowing the new healthcare initiative to move forward."
Alternatives: "enabling legislation" or "authorization measure".
Last week, for example, appropriations panels in both houses of Congress approved spending bills that would give DOE's Office of Science just a 0.9% increase next year, to $5.4 billion; that is less than what the Senate authorizing bill envisions. .
"If we don't pass a good global AIDS authorizing bill in the next couple of weeks I think our window is closed".
In its version of the authorizing bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee also cut $812 million from missile defense programs, transferring much of the money to shipbuilding programs.
It is an authorizing bill, meaning it can set only spending targets.
He then floated the possibility of an authorizing bill to create a geoengineering research program in late 2012.
Once Obama signs the bill into law, which could come as early as Friday, the research community will closely watch the Congressional appropriations process for the Defense Department to see if 2013 money flows the way the authorizing bill has outlined.
Both are "authorizing" bills, which mean they can set policy and suggest spending levels, but don't actually appropriate funding (authorized funding levels are often higher than what Congress actually approves).
They can then track payments, view authorized billing relationships and manage them on the Amazon Payments website.
The House and Senate did manage to pass bills authorizing the aid, but with significant differences.
The decision follows legislation in two neighboring countries, Argentina and Uruguay, where lawmakers have managed to pass bills authorizing same-sex marriage nationwide in recent years.
There is obviously a monetary cost to authorizing these bills, but more importantly there are human costs to not.
