Calendar No. 246

104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 123

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making further continuing appropriations for the

fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes.

NOVEMBER 18 (legislative day, NOVEMBER 16), 1995

Read twice and ordered placed on the calendar
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Calendar No. 246

104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 123

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

NOVEMBER 18 (legislative day, NOVEMBER 16), 1995

Received; read twice and ordered placed on the calendar

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year

1996, and for other purposes.

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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1 That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of

2 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,

3 and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts,

4 and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora5 tions, and other organizational units of Government for

6 the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes, namely:

7 SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary

8 under the authority and conditions provided in the appli9 cable appropriations Acts for the fiscal year 1995 for con10 tinuing the following projects or activities including the

11 costs of direct loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise

12 specifically provided for in this joint resolution) which

13 were conducted in the fiscal year 1995:

14 (1) All projects and activities necessary to pro15 vide for the expenses of Medicare contractors under

16 title XVIII of the Social Security Act under the ac17 count heading ‘‘Program management’’ under the

18 Health Care Financing Administration in the De19 partment of Health and Human Services.

20 (2) All projects and activities funded under the

21 account heading ‘‘Limitation on administrative ex22 penses’’ under the Social Security Administration.

23 (3) All projects and activities necessary to proc24 ess and provide for veterans compensation, pension

25 payments, dependency and indemnity compensation
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1 (DIC) payments, and to provide for veterans medical

2 care under the Department of Veterans Affairs.

3 (b) Whenever the amount which would be made avail4 able or the authority which would be granted under an

5 Act which included funding for fiscal year 1996 for the

6 projects and activities listed in this section as passed by

7 the House as of October 1, 1995, is different from that

8 which would be available or granted under such Act as

9 passed by the Senate as of October 1, 1995, the pertinent

10 project or activity shall be continued at a rate for oper11 ations not exceeding the average of the rates permitted

12 by the action of the House or the Senate under the author13 ity and conditions provided in the applicable appropria14 tions Act for the fiscal year 1995.

15 (c) Whenever an Act which included funding for fiscal

16 year 1996 for the projects and activities listed in this sec17 tion has been passed by only the House or only the Senate

18 as of October 1, 1995, the pertinent project or activity

19 shall be continued under the appropriation, fund, or au20 thority granted by the one House at a rate for operations

21 not exceeding the current rate or the rate permitted by

22 the action of the one House, whichever is lower, and under

23 the authority and conditions provided in the applicable ap24 propriations Act for the fiscal year 1995.
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1 SEC. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall

2 be available to the extent and in the manner which would

3 be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.

4 SEC. 103. No appropriations or funds made available

5 or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used

6 to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap7 propriations, funds, or other authority were not available

8 during the fiscal year 1995.

9 SEC. 104. No provision which is included in an appro10 priations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was

11 not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal

12 year 1995 and which by its terms is applicable to more

13 than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be appli14 cable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in

15 this joint resolution.

16 SEC. 105. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint

17 resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act, appro18 priations and funds made available and authority granted

19 pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until

20 (a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project

21 or activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the

22 enactment of the applicable appropriations Act by both

23 Houses without any provision for such project or activity,

24 or (c) September 30, 1996, whichever first occurs.
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1 SEC. 106. Appropriations made and authority grant2 ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga3 tions or expenditures incurred for any program, project,

4 or activity during the period for which funds or authority

5 for such project or activity are available under this joint

6 resolution.

7 SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint

8 resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation,

9 fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such appli10 cable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is

11 enacted into law.

12 SEC. 108. No provision in the appropriations Act for

13 the fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 101 of this joint

14 resolution that makes the availability of any appropriation

15 provided therein dependent upon the enactment of addi16 tional authorizing or other legislation shall be effective be17 fore the date set forth in section 105(c) of this joint reso18 lution.

19 SEC. 109. Appropriations and funds made available

20 by or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution

21 may be used without regard to the time limitations for

22 submission and approval of apportionments set forth in

23 section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing
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1 herein shall be construed to waive any other provision of

2 law governing the apportionment of funds.

Passed the House of Representatives November 18,

1995.

Attest: ROBIN H. CARLE,

Clerk.