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Calendar No. 6 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 1 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 4, 2019 

Received; read the first time 

JANUARY 8, 2019 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2019, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 

4 2019 (division C of Public Law 115–245) is further 

5 amended— 

6 (1) in section 105— 

7 (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 

8 the end; 

9 (B) in paragraph (3)— 


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1 (i) by inserting ‘‘except as provided in 

2 paragraph (4),’’ before ‘‘December’’; and 

3 (ii) by striking the period at the end 

4 and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 

5 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(4) with respect to appropriations and funds 

7 made available, and other authorities granted, pur8 suant to section 101(5) of this joint resolution for 

9 the Department of Homeland Security, February 8, 

10 2019.’’; and 

11 (2) in section 110, by adding at the end the fol12 lowing: 

13 ‘‘(c) With respect to mandatory payments whose 

14 budget authority was provided in the Department of 

15 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F 

16 of Public Law 115–141), subsections (a) and (b) shall be 

17 applied by substituting ‘section 105(4)’ for ‘section 

18 105(3)’ each place it appears.’’. 

19 SEC. 2. (a) Employees furloughed as a result of a 

20 lapse in appropriations beginning on or about December 

21 22, 2018, and ending on the date of the enactment of this 

22 joint resolution shall be compensated at their standard 

23 rate of compensation, for the period of such lapse in ap24 propriations, as soon as practicable after such lapse in ap25 propriations ends. 


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

2 any Federal employee whose salary and expenses are pro3 vided by the amendment made by section 1(1)(C). 

4 (c) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the ap5 propriations made and authority granted by this joint res6 olution for the purposes of maintaining the essential level 

7 of activity to protect life and property and bringing about 

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

10 and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions 

11 of this joint resolution. 

12 SEC. 3. (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 

22 reimbursed for expenses that would have been paid 

23 by the Federal Government during such period had 

24 appropriations been available, including the cost of 

25 compensating such furloughed employees, together 


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1 with interest thereon calculated under section 

2 6503(d) of 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 

6 the grantee), together with interest thereon cal7 culated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 

8 States Code. 

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

10 and the term ‘‘grantee’’, including United States terri11 tories and possessions, shall have the meaning given such 

12 terms under the applicable Federal program under sub13 section (a). In addition, ‘‘to continue carrying out a Fed14 eral program’’ means the continued performance by a 

15 State or other Federal grantee, during the period of a 

16 lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that the 

17 State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior 

18 to the period of the lapse in appropriations. 

19 (c) The authority under this section applies with re20 spect to the period of a lapse in appropriations beginning 

21 on or about December 22, 2018, and ending on the date 

22 of enactment of this joint resolution with respect to the 

23 Department of Homeland Security which, but for such 

24 lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reim25 bursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in 


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1 this section with respect to the program involved. Pay2 ments and reimbursements under this authority shall be 

3 made only to the extent and in amounts provided in ad4 vance in appropriations Acts. 

Passed the House of Representatives January 3, 

2019. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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Calendar No. 6 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 1 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making further continuing appropriations for the 

2019, and for other purposes. Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 

JANUARY 8, 2019 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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