H. J. Res. 28 

One Hundred Sixteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen 

Joint Resolution 

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This joint resolution may be cited 

as the ‘‘Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019’’. 

SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (division 

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

(1) by striking the date specified in section 105(3) and 

inserting ‘‘February 15, 2019’’; and 

(2) by adding after section 136 the following: 

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

pay, allowances, and benefits in each department and agency shall 

be available for obligations incurred pursuant to subsection (c) 

of section 1341 of title 31, United States Code. 

‘‘SEC. 138. All obligations incurred and in anticipation of the 

appropriations made and authority granted by this Act for the 

purposes of maintaining the essential level of activity to protect 

life and property and bringing about orderly termination of Government function, and for purposes as otherwise authorized by law, 

are hereby ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the 

provisions of this Act. 

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

State funds (or the grantee’s non-Federal funds) to continue carrying 

out a Federal program or furloughed State employees (or the 

grantee’s employees) whose compensation is advanced or 

reimbursed in whole or in part by the Federal Government— 

‘‘(1) such furloughed employees shall be compensated at 

their standard rate of compensation for such period; 

‘‘(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be reimbursed 

for expenses that would have been paid by the Federal Government during such period had appropriations been available, 

including the cost of compensating such furloughed employees, 

together with interest thereon calculated under section 6503(d) 

of title 31, United States Code; and 

‘‘(3) the State (or such other grantee) may use funds available to the State (or the grantee) under such Federal program 

to reimburse such State (or the grantee), together with interest 

thereon calculated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 

States Code. 

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

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

under the applicable Federal program under subsection (a). In 

addition, ‘to continue carrying out a Federal program’ means the 
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continued performance by a State or other Federal grantee, during 

the period of a lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that 

the State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior to 

the period of the lapse in appropriations. 

‘‘(c) The authority under this section applies with respect to 

any period in fiscal year 2019 (not limited to periods beginning 

or ending after the date of the enactment of this Act) during 

which there occurs a lapse in appropriations with respect to any 

department or agency of the Federal Government which, but for 

such lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reimbursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in this section 

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

in amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts. 

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

Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the timetable in section 254(a) of such Act, the final sequestration report 

for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(1) of such Act and 

any order for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(5) of 

such Act shall be issued, for the Congressional Budget Office, 10 

days after the date specified in section 105(3), and for the Office 

of Management and Budget, 15 days after the date specified in 

section 105(3). 

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

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

the date specified in section 105(3) of this Act. 

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

Preparedness Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6a note) shall continue in effect 

through the date specified in section 105(3) of this Act.’’. 

SEC. 102. For the purposes of division C of Public Law 115– 

245, the time covered by such division shall be considered to include 

the period which began on or about December 22, 2018, during 

which there occurred a lapse in appropriations. 

SEC. 103. Subsection (c)(2) of section 1341 of title 31, United 

States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, and subject to the enactment 

of appropriations Acts ending the lapse’’ before the period. 

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

to section 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 

934) after adjournment of the second session of the 115th Congress, 

and for determining whether a sequestration order is necessary 

under such section, the debit for the budget year on the 5-year 
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scorecard, if any, and the 10-year scorecard, if any, shall be deducted 

from such scorecard in 2019 and added to such scorecard in 2020. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.