106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 68

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal

year 2000, and for other purposes.
106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 68

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2000,

and for other purposes.

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of

4 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
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1 and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts,

2 and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora3 tions, and other organizational units of Government for

4 the fiscal year 2000, and for other purposes, namely:

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

6 under the authority and conditions provided in the appli7 cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1999 for con8 tinuing projects or activities including the costs of direct

9 loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically pro10 vided for in this joint resolution) which were conducted

11 in the fiscal year 1999 and for which appropriations,

12 funds, or other authority would be available in the fol13 lowing appropriations Acts:

14 (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food

15 and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap16 propriations Act, 2000;

17 (2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and

18 State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appro19 priations Act, 2000, notwithstanding section 15 of

20 the State Department Basic Authorities Act of

21 1956, section 701 of the United States Information

22 and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313

23 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal

24 Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236), and
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1 section 53 of the Arms Control and Disarmament

2 Act;

3 (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations

4 Act, 2000, notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the

5 National Security Act of 1947;

6 (4) the District of Columbia Appropriations

7 Act, 2000;

8 (5) the Energy and Water Development Appro9 priations Act, 2000;

10 (6) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing,

11 and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000,

12 notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91–672

13 and section 15 of the State Department Basic Au14 thorities Act of 1956;

15 (7) the Department of the Interior and Related

16 Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000;

17 (8) the Departments of Labor, Health and

18 Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen19 cies Appropriations Act, 2000, the House or Senate

20 reported version of which, if such reported version

21 exists, shall be deemed to have passed the House or

22 Senate respectively as of October 1, 1999, for the

23 purposes of this joint resolution, unless a reported

24 version is passed as of October 1, 1999, in which
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1 case the passed version shall be used in place of the

2 reported version for purposes of this joint resolution;

3 (9) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,

4 2000;

5 (10) the Department of Transportation and Re6 lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000;

7 (11) the Treasury and General Government Ap8 propriations Act, 2000; and

9 (12) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and

10 Housing and Urban Development, and Independent

11 Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000:

12 Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made

13 available or the authority which would be granted in

14 these Acts as passed by the House and Senate as of Octo15 ber 1, 1999, is different than that which would be avail16 able or granted under current operations, the pertinent

17 project or activity shall be continued at a rate for oper18 ations not exceeding the current rate: Provided further,

19 That whenever there is no amount made available under

20 any of these appropriations Acts as passed by the House

21 and Senate as of October 1, 1999, for a continuing project

22 or activity which was conducted in fiscal year 1999 and

23 for which there is fiscal year 2000 funding included in

24 the budget request, the pertinent project or activity shall

25 be continued at the rate for current operations under the
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1 authority and conditions provided in the applicable appro2 priations Act for the fiscal year 1999.

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

5 Act listed in this section as passed by the House as of

6 October 1, 1999, is different from that which would be

7 available or granted under such Act as passed by the Sen8 ate as of October 1, 1999, the pertinent project or activity

9 shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding

10 the current rate under the appropriation, fund, or author11 ity granted by the applicable appropriations Act for the

12 fiscal year 2000 and under the authority and conditions

13 provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal

14 year 1999.

15 (c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has

16 been passed by only the House or only the Senate as of

17 October 1, 1999, the pertinent project or activity shall be

18 continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority

19 granted by the one House at a rate for operations not ex20 ceeding the current rate and under the authority and con21 ditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for

22 the fiscal year 1999: Provided, That whenever there is no

23 amount made available under any of these appropriations

24 Acts as passed by the House or the Senate as of October

25 1, 1999, for a continuing project or activity which was
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1 conducted in fiscal year 1999 and for which there is fiscal

2 year 2000 funding included in the budget request, the per3 tinent project or activity shall be continued at the rate

4 for current operations under the authority and conditions

5 provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal

6 year 1999.

7 (d) If the Departments of Labor, Health and Human

8 Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropria9 tions Act, 2000, has not been reported in either the House

10 or the Senate as of October 1, 1999, continuing projects

11 or activities that were conducted in fiscal year 1999 shall

12 be continued at the current rate under the appropriation,

13 fund or authority and terms and conditions provided in

14 the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,

15 and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,

16 1999.

17 SEC. 102. No appropriation or funds made available

18 or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the De19 partment of Defense shall be used for new production of

20 items not funded for production in fiscal year 1999 or

21 prior years, for the increase in production rates above

22 those sustained with fiscal year 1999 funds, or to initiate,

23 resume, or continue any project, activity, operation, or or24 ganization which are defined as any project, subproject,

25 activity, budget activity, program element, and subpro-
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1 gram within a program element and for investment items

2 are further defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity

3 within an appropriation account and an R–1 line item

4 which includes a program element and subprogram ele5 ment within an appropriation account, for which appro6 priations, funds, or other authority were not available dur7 ing the fiscal year 1999: Provided, That no appropriation

8 or funds made available or authority granted pursuant to

9 section 101 for the Department of Defense shall be used

10 to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance pro11 curement funding for economic order quantity procure12 ment unless specifically appropriated later.

13 SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall

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

15 be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.

16 SEC. 104. No appropriation or funds made available

17 or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used

18 to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap19 propriations, funds, or other authority were not available

20 during the fiscal year 1999.

21 SEC. 105. No provision which is included in an appro22 priations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was

23 not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal

24 year 1999 and which by its terms is applicable to more

25 than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be appli-
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1 cable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in

2 this joint resolution.

3 SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint

4 resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act, appro5 priations and funds made available and authority granted

6 pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until:

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

8 or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (b) the en9 actment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by

10 both Houses without any provision for such project or ac11 tivity; or (c) October 21, 1999, whichever first occurs.

12 SEC. 107. Appropriations made and authority grant13 ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga14 tions or expenditures incurred for any program, project,

15 or activity during the period for which funds or authority

16 for such project or activity are available under this joint

17 resolution.

18 SEC. 108. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint

19 resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation,

20 fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such appli21 cable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is

22 enacted into law.

23 SEC. 109. No provision in the appropriations Act for

24 the fiscal year 2000 referred to in section 101 of this Act

25 that makes the availability of any appropriation provided
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1 therein dependent upon the enactment of additional au2 thorizing or other legislation shall be effective before the

3 date set forth in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.

4 SEC. 110. Appropriations and funds made available

5 by or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution

6 may be used without regard to the time limitations for

7 submission and approval of apportionments set forth in

8 section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing

9 herein shall be construed to waive any other provision of

10 law governing the apportionment of funds.

11 SEC. 111. This joint resolution shall be implemented

12 so that only the most limited funding action of that per13 mitted in the joint resolution shall be taken in order to

14 provide for continuation of projects and activities.

15 SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of

16 this joint resolution, except section 106, for those pro17 grams that had high initial rates of operation or complete

18 distribution of fiscal year 1999 appropriations at the be19 ginning of that fiscal year because of distributions of fund20 ing to States, foreign countries, grantees or others, similar

21 distributions of funds for fiscal year 2000 shall not be

22 made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs

23 funded by this resolution that would impinge on final

24 funding prerogatives.
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1 SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of

2 this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper3 ations for projects and activities that would be funded

4 under the heading ‘‘International Organizations and Con5 ferences, Contributions to International Organizations’’ in

6 the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Ju7 diciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,

8 shall be the amount provided by the provisions of section

9 101 multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered

10 by this resolution to 366.

11 SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of

12 this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper13 ations for the following activities funded with Federal

14 Funds for the District of Columbia, shall be at a rate for

15 operations not exceeding the current rate, multiplied by

16 the ratio of the number of days covered by this joint reso17 lution to 366: Corrections Trustee Operations, Public De18 fender Services, Parole Revocation, Adult Probation, Of19 fender Supervision, Sex Offender Registration, Pretrial

20 Services, District of Columbia Courts, and Defender Serv21 ices in District of Columbia Courts.

22 SEC. 115. Activities authorized by sections

23 1309(a)(2), as amended by Public Law 104–208, and

24 1376(c) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as
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1 amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), may continue through

2 the date specified in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.

3 SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of

4 this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper5 ations for reimbursement of past losses for the Commodity

6 Credit Corporation Fund shall be $11,500,000,000.

7 SEC. 117. Notwithstanding section 235(a)(2) of the

8 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2195(a)(2)),

9 the authority of section 234(a) (b) and (c), of the same

10 Act, shall remain in effect during the period of this joint

11 resolution.

12 SEC. 118. Notwithstanding sections 101, 104, and

13 106 of this joint resolution, funds may be used to initiate

14 or resume projects or activities at a rate in excess of the

15 current rate to the extent necessary, consistent with exist16 ing agency plans, to achieve Year 2000 (Y2K) computer

17 compliance and for implementation of business continuity

18 and contingency plans.

19 SEC. 119. Notwithstanding sections 101 and 104 of

20 this joint resolution, not to exceed $189,524,382 shall be

21 available for projects and activities for decennial census

22 programs for the period covered by this joint resolution.

23 SEC. 120. Notwithstanding section 101 of this joint

24 resolution, the rate for operations for projects and activi25 ties funded by accounts in the Departments of Commerce,
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1 Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies

2 Appropriations Act, 2000 as passed by the House and

3 Senate affected by the foreign affairs reorganization shall

4 be at the current rate for the accounts funding such

5 projects and activities in the Departments of Commerce,

6 Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies

7 Appropriations Act, 1999, distributed into the accounts

8 established in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and

9 State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations

10 Act, 2000 as passed by the House and Senate.

11 SEC. 121. Notwithstanding section 309(g) of the

12 United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22

13 U.S.C. 6208) and section 101 of this joint resolution, the

14 rate for operation for Radio Free Asia shall be at the cur15 rent rate for operations and under the terms provided for

16 in the fiscal year 1999 grant from the Broadcasting Board

17 of Governors to RFA, Inc.

18 SEC. 122. Public Law 106–46 is amended by deleting

19 ‘‘October 1, 1999’’ and inserting ‘‘November 1, 1999’’.

Passed the House of Representatives September 28,

1999.

Attest:

Clerk.