S. Con. Res. 33 Agreed to January 22, 2018

One Hundred Fifteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen 

Concurrent Resolution 

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 195, the Clerk of 

the House of Representatives shall make the following corrections: 

(1) Insert before section 1 the following: 

‘‘DIVISION A—FEDERAL REGISTER 

PRINTING SAVINGS ACT OF 2017’’. 

(2) In section 1, strike ‘‘Act’’ and insert ‘‘division’’. 

(3) Insert before section 2002 the following: 

‘‘SEC. 154 (a) Employees furloughed as a result of any lapse 

in appropriations which begins on or about January 20, 2018, 

shall be compensated at their standard rate of compensation, for 

the period of such lapse in appropriations, as soon as practicable 

after such lapse in appropriations ends. 

‘‘(b) For purposes of this section, ‘employee’ means: 

‘‘(1) a Federal employee; 

‘‘(2) an employee of the District of Columbia Courts; 

‘‘(3) an employee of the Public Defender Service for the 

District of Columbia; or 

‘‘(4) a District of Columbia Government employee. 

‘‘(c) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations 

made and authority granted by this division for the purposes of 

maintaining the essential level of activity to protect life and property and bringing about orderly termination of Government functions, and for purposes as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby 

ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions 

of this division. 

‘‘SEC. 155. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) used 

State funds (or the grantee’s non-Federal funds) to continue carrying 

out a Federal program or furloughed State employees (or the 

grantee’s employees) whose compensation is advanced or 

reimbursed in whole or in part by the Federal Government— 

‘‘(1) such furloughed employees shall be compensated at 

their standard rate of compensation for such period; 

‘‘(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be reimbursed 

for expenses that would have been paid by the Federal Government during such period had appropriations been available, 

including the cost of compensating such furloughed employees, 

together with interest thereon calculated under section 6503(d) 

of title 31, United States Code; and 

‘‘(3) the State (or such other grantee) may use funds available to the State (or the grantee) under such Federal program 
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to reimburse such State (or the grantee), together with interest 

thereon calculated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 

States Code. 

‘‘(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘State’ and the 

term ‘grantee’ shall have the meaning as such term is defined 

under the applicable Federal program under subsection (a). In 

addition, ‘to continue carrying out a Federal program’ means the 

continued performance by a State or other Federal grantee, during 

the period of a lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that 

the State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior to 

the period of the lapse in appropriations. 

‘‘(c) The authority under this section applies with respect to 

any period in fiscal year 2018 (not limited to periods beginning 

or ending after the date of the enactment of this division) during 

which there occurs a lapse in appropriations with respect to any 

department or agency of the Federal Government which, but for 

such lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reimbursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in this section 

with respect to the program involved. Payments and reimbursements under this authority shall be made only to the extent and 

in amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts.’’. 

(4) Insert after section 2002 the following: 

‘‘SEC. 2003. For the purposes of division D of Public Law 115– 

56, the time covered by such division shall be considered to include 

the period which began on or about January 20, 2018, during 

which there occurred a lapse in appropriations.’’. 

(5) Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 

30, 2018, and for other purposes’’. 

Attest: 

Secretary of the Senate. 

Attest: 

Clerk of the House of Representatives.