IA 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 31 

Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland 

Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 22, 2019 

Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD submitted the following joint resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Appropriations 

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 28, 

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) Amounts appropriated by operation of the 

20 amendments made by section 1 for the salaries and ex21 penses of employees shall be available for payment of sala22 ries in accordance with section 1341(c) of title 31, United 

23 States Code (as added by the Government Employee Fair 

24 Treatment Act of 2019). 


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1 (b) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the ap2 propriations made and authority granted by this joint res3 olution for the purposes of maintaining the essential level 

4 of activity to protect life and property and bringing about 

5 orderly termination of Government functions, and for pur6 poses as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby ratified 

7 and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions 

8 of this joint resolution, and for purposes of such obliga9 tions the time period covered by this joint resolution shall 

10 be considered to include the period beginning on or about 

11 December 22, 2018, during which there occurred a lapse 

12 in appropriations. 

13 SEC. 3. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) 

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

15 continue carrying out a Federal program or furloughed 

16 State employees (or the grantee’s employees) whose com17 pensation is advanced or reimbursed in whole or in part 

18 by the Federal Government— 

19 (1) such furloughed employees shall be com20 pensated at their standard rate of compensation for 

21 such period; 

22 (2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be 

23 reimbursed for expenses that would have been paid 

24 by the Federal Government during such period had 

25 appropriations been available, including the cost of 


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1 compensating such furloughed employees, together 

2 with interest thereon calculated under section 

3 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and 

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

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

6 such Federal program to reimburse such State (or 

7 the grantee), together with interest thereon cal8 culated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 

9 States Code. 

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

11 and the term ‘‘grantee’’, including United States terri12 tories and possessions, shall have the meaning given such 

13 terms under the applicable Federal program under sub14 section (a). In addition, ‘‘to continue carrying out a Fed15 eral program’’ means the continued performance by a 

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

17 lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that the 

18 State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior 

19 to the period of the lapse in appropriations. 

20 (c) The authority under this section applies with re21 spect to the period of a lapse in appropriations beginning 

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

23 of enactment of this joint resolution with respect to the 

24 Department of Homeland Security which, but for such 

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1 bursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in 

2 this section with respect to the program involved. Pay3 ments and reimbursements under this authority shall be 

4 made only to the extent and in amounts provided in ad5 vance in appropriations Acts. 

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