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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. J. RES. 23 

Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 2, 2013 

Mr. CRUZ introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Appropriations 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, 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, 

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

6 and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora7 tions, and other organizational units of Government for 

8 fiscal year 2014 and portions of fiscal year 2015, and for 

9 other purposes, namely: 

10 SEC. 101. Such amounts as may be necessary, at a 

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1 priations Acts for fiscal year 2013 and under the authority 

2 and conditions provided in such Acts, for continuing 

3 projects or activities (including the costs of direct loans 

4 and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise specifically 

5 provided for in this joint resolution, that were conducted 

6 in fiscal year 2013, and for which appropriations, funds, 

7 or other authority were made available for the programs, 

8 projects, and activities of the Department of Veterans Af9 fairs under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 

10 2013 (division E of Public Law 113–6). 

11 SEC. 102. The rate for operations provided by section 

12 101 for each account shall be calculated to reflect the full 

13 amount of any reduction required in fiscal year 2013 pur14 suant to— 

15 (1) any provision of division G of the Consoli16 dated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 

17 2013 (Public Law 113–6), including section 3004; 

18 and 

19 (2) the Presidential sequestration order dated 

20 March 1, 2013, except as attributable to budget au21 thority made available by— 

22 (A) sections 140(b) or 141(b) of the Con23 tinuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 (Public 

24 Law 112–175); or 


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1 (B) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 

2 2013 (Public Law 113–2). 

3 SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall 

4 be available to the extent and in the manner that would 

5 be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act. 

6 SEC. 104. No appropriation or funds made available 

7 or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used 

8 to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap9 propriations, funds, or other authority were not available 

10 during fiscal year 2013. 

11 SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant12 ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga13 tions or expenditures incurred for any project or activity 

14 during the period for which funds or authority for such 

15 project or activity are available under this joint resolution. 

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

17 resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal 

18 year 2014, appropriations and funds made available and 

19 authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall 

20 be available until whichever of the following first occurs: 

21 (1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any 

22 project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) 

23 the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations 

24 Act for fiscal year 2014 without any provision for such 

25 project or activity; or (3) January 1, 2015. 


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1 SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint 

2 resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, 

3 fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such appli4 cable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is 

5 enacted into law. 

6 SEC. 108. Appropriations made and funds made 

7 available by or authority granted pursuant to this joint 

8 resolution may be used without regard to the time limita9 tions for submission and approval of apportionments set 

10 forth in section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, but 

11 nothing in this joint resolution may be construed to waive 

12 any other provision of law governing the apportionment 

13 of funds. 

14 SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

15 this joint resolution, except section 106, for those pro16 grams that would otherwise have high initial rates of oper17 ation or complete distribution of appropriations at the be18 ginning of fiscal year 2014 because of distributions of 

19 funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, 

20 such high initial rates of operation or complete distribu21 tion shall not be made, and no grants shall be awarded 

22 for such programs funded by this joint resolution that 

23 would impinge on final funding prerogatives. 

24 SEC. 110. This joint resolution shall be implemented 

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1 mitted in the joint resolution shall be taken in order to 

2 provide for continuation of projects and activities. 

3 SEC. 111. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory 

4 payments whose budget authority was provided in appro5 priations Acts for fiscal year 2013, and for activities under 

6 the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, activities shall be 

7 continued at the rate to maintain program levels under 

8 current law, under the authority and conditions provided 

9 in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2013, 

10 to be continued through the date specified in section 

11 106(3). 

12 (b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for man13 datory payments due on or about the first day of any 

14 month that begins after October 2013 but not later than 

15 30 days after the date specified in section 106(3) may con16 tinue to be made, and funds shall be available for such 

17 payments. 

18 SEC. 112. Amounts made available under section 101 

19 for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each 

20 department and agency may be apportioned up to the rate 

21 for operations necessary to avoid furloughs within such de22 partment or agency, consistent with the applicable appro23 priations Act for fiscal year 2013, except that such author24 ity provided under this section shall not be used until after 

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1 to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative ex2 penses. 

3 SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

4 law, no funds made available under this joint resolution 

5 may be used to carry out any provisions of the Patient 

6 Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111– 

7 148) or title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care 

8 and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 

9 111–152), or of the amendments made by either such Act. 

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