In the Senate of the United States, 

January 25 (legislative day, January 24), 2019. 

Resolved, That the resolution from the House of Representatives (H.J. Res. 28) entitled ‘‘Joint resolution making 

further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and 

for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following 

AMENDMENT: 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

following: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This joint resolution may 

2 be cited as the ‘‘Further Additional Continuing Appropria3 tions Act, 2019’’. 

4 SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 

5 (division C of Public Law 115–245) is further amended— 

6 (1) by striking the date specified in section 

7 105(3) and inserting ‘‘February 15, 2019’’; and 

8 (2) by adding after section 136 the following: 

9 ‘‘SEC. 137. Amounts made available in this Act for 

10 personnel pay, allowances, and benefits in each department 
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1 and agency shall be available for obligations incurred pur2 suant to subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31, United 

3 States Code. 

4 ‘‘SEC. 138. All obligations incurred and in anticipa5 tion of the appropriations made and authority granted by 

6 this Act for the purposes of maintaining the essential level 

7 of activity to protect life and property and bringing about 

8 orderly termination of Government function, and for pur9 poses as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby ratified 

10 and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions of 

11 this Act. 

12 ‘‘SEC. 139. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) 

13 used State funds (or the grantee’s non-Federal funds) to 

14 continue carrying out a Federal program or furloughed 

15 State employees (or the grantee’s employees) whose com16 pensation is advanced or reimbursed in whole or in part 

17 by the Federal Government— 

18 ‘‘(1) such furloughed employees shall be com19 pensated at their standard rate of compensation for 

20 such period; 

21 ‘‘(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be re22 imbursed for expenses that would have been paid by 

23 the Federal Government during such period had ap24 propriations been available, including the cost of com25 pensating such furloughed employees, together with 
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1 interest thereon calculated under section 6503(d) of 

2 title 31, United States Code; and 

3 ‘‘(3) the State (or such other grantee) may use 

4 funds available to the State (or the grantee) under 

5 such Federal program to reimburse such State (or the 

6 grantee), together with interest thereon calculated 

7 under section 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code. 

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

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

10 defined under the applicable Federal program under sub11 section (a). In addition, ‘to continue carrying out a Federal 

12 program’ means the continued performance by a State or 

13 other Federal grantee, during the period of a lapse in ap14 propriations, of a Federal program that the State or such 

15 other grantee had been carrying out prior to the period of 

16 the lapse in appropriations. 

17 ‘‘(c) The authority under this section applies with re18 spect to any period in fiscal year 2019 (not limited to peri19 ods beginning or ending after the date of the enactment of 

20 this Act) during which there occurs a lapse in appropria21 tions with respect to any department or agency of the Fed22 eral Government which, but for such lapse in appropria23 tions, would have paid, or made reimbursement relating to, 

24 any of the expenses referred to in this section with respect 

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

2 in amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts. 

3 ‘‘SEC. 140. Notwithstanding section 251(a)(1) of the 

4 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 

5 1985 and the timetable in section 254(a) of such Act, the 

6 final sequestration report for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to 

7 section 254(f)(1) of such Act and any order for fiscal year 

8 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(5) of such Act shall be 

9 issued, for the Congressional Budget Office, 10 days after 

10 the date specified in section 105(3), and for the Office of 

11 Management and Budget, 15 days after the date specified 

12 in section 105(3). 

13 ‘‘SEC. 141. Section 319L(e)(1)(A) of the Public Health 

14 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–7e(e)(1)(A)) shall continue in 

15 effect through the date specified in section 105(3) of this 

16 Act. 

17 ‘‘SEC. 142. Section 405(a) of the Pandemic and All 

18 Hazards Preparedness Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6a note) shall 

19 continue in effect through the date specified in section 

20 105(3) of this Act.’’. 

21 SEC. 102. For the purposes of division C of Public Law 

22 115–245, the time covered by such division shall be consid23 ered to include the period which began on or about Decem24 ber 22, 2018, during which there occurred a lapse in appro25 priations. 
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1 SEC. 103. Subsection (c)(2) of section 1341 of title 31, 

2 United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, and subject 

3 to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse’’ 

4 before the period. 

5 SEC. 104. For the purposes of the annual report issued 

6 pursuant to section 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act 

7 of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 934) after adjournment of the second ses8 sion of the 115th Congress, and for determining whether a 

9 sequestration order is necessary under such section, the 

10 debit for the budget year on the 5-year scorecard, if any, 

11 and the 10-year scorecard, if any, shall be deducted from 

12 such scorecard in 2019 and added to such scorecard in 

13 2020. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 
116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 28 

AMENDMENT