116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 31 

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— 
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1 (1) in section 105— 

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

3 the end; 

4 (B) in paragraph (3)— 

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

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

7 (ii) by striking the period at the end 

8 and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 

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

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

11 made available, and other authorities granted, pur12 suant to section 101(5) of this joint resolution for 

13 the Department of Homeland Security, February 28, 

14 2019.’’; and 

15 (2) in section 110, by adding at the end the fol16 lowing: 

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

18 budget authority was provided in the Department of 

19 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F 

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

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

22 105(3)’ each place it appears.’’. 

23 SEC. 2. (a) Amounts appropriated by operation of the 

24 amendments made by section 1 for the salaries and ex25 penses of employees shall be available for payment of sala-
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1 ries in accordance with section 1341(c) of title 31, United 

2 States Code (as added by the Government Employee Fair 

3 Treatment Act of 2019). 

4 (b) 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, and for purposes of such obliga12 tions the time period covered by this joint resolution shall 

13 be considered to include the period beginning on or about 

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

15 in appropriations. 

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

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

18 continue carrying out a Federal program or furloughed 

19 State employees (or the grantee’s employees) whose com20 pensation is advanced or reimbursed in whole or in part 

21 by the Federal Government— 

22 (1) such furloughed employees shall be com23 pensated at their standard rate of compensation for 

24 such period; 
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1 (2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be 

2 reimbursed for expenses that would have been paid 

3 by the Federal Government during such period had 

4 appropriations been available, including the cost of 

5 compensating such furloughed employees, together 

6 with interest thereon calculated under section 

7 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and 

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

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

10 such Federal program to reimburse such State (or 

11 the grantee), together with interest thereon cal12 culated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 

13 States Code. 

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

15 and the term ‘‘grantee’’, including United States terri16 tories and possessions, shall have the meaning given such 

17 terms under the applicable Federal program under sub18 section (a). In addition, ‘‘to continue carrying out a Fed19 eral program’’ means the continued performance by a 

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

21 lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that the 

22 State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior 

23 to the period of the lapse in appropriations. 

24 (c) The authority under this section applies with re25 spect to the period of a lapse in appropriations beginning 
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1 on or about December 22, 2018, and ending on the date 

2 of enactment of this joint resolution with respect to the 

3 Department of Homeland Security which, but for such 

4 lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reim5 bursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in 

6 this section with respect to the program involved. Pay7 ments and reimbursements under this authority shall be 

8 made only to the extent and in amounts provided in ad9 vance in appropriations Acts. 

Passed the House of Representatives January 24, 

2019. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 
116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 31 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making further continuing appropriations for the 

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