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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 123 

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 4, 2017 

Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN submitted the following joint resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Appropriations 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 

2018, and for other purposes. 

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 DIVISION A—FURTHER CON4 TINUING APPROPRIATIONS 

5 ACT, 2018 

6 SEC. 101. FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS. 

7 The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (division D 

8 of Public Law 115–56) is amended by striking the date 

9 specified in section 106(3) and inserting ‘‘December 22, 

10 2017’’. 


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1 This division may be cited as the ‘‘Further Con2 tinuing Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 

3 DIVISION B—CHILDREN’S 

4 HEALTH INSURANCE PRO5 GRAM (CHIP) ALLOCATION 

6 REDISTRIBUTION SPECIAL 

7 RULE 

8 SEC. 201. CHIP ALLOCATION REDISTRIBUTION SPECIAL 

9 RULE FOR CERTAIN SHORTFALL STATES 

10 DURING FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 

11 2018. 

12 Section 2104(f)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 

13 U.S.C. 1397dd(f)(2)) is amended— 

14 (1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 

15 follows: 

16 ‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF REDISTRIBUTED

17 AMOUNTS IF INSUFFICIENT AMOUNTS AVAIL18 ABLE.— 

19 ‘‘(i) PRORATION RULE.—Subject to 

20 clause (ii), if the amounts available for re21 distribution under paragraph (1) for a fis22 cal year are less than the total amounts of 

23 the estimated shortfalls determined for the 

24 year under subparagraph (A), the amount 

25 to be redistributed under such paragraph 


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1 for each shortfall State shall be reduced 

2 proportionally. 

3 ‘‘(ii) SPECIAL RULE FOR FIRST QUAR4 TER OF FISCAL YEAR 2018.— 

5 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For the pe6 riod beginning on October 1, 2017, 

7 and ending December 31, 2017, with 

8 respect to any amounts available for 

9 redistribution under paragraph (1) for 

10 fiscal year 2018, the Secretary shall 

11 redistribute under such paragraph 

12 such amounts to each emergency 

13 shortfall State (as defined in sub14 clause (II)) in such amount as is 

15 equal to the amount of the shortfall 

16 described in subclause (II) for such 

17 State and period (as may be adjusted 

18 under subparagraph (C)) before the 

19 Secretary may redistribute such 

20 amounts to any shortfall State that is 

21 not an emergency shortfall State. In 

22 the case of any amounts redistributed 

23 under this subclause to a State that is 

24 not an emergency shortfall State, such 


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1 amounts shall be determined in ac2 cordance with clause (i). 

3 ‘‘(II) EMERGENCY SHORTFALL

4 STATE DEFINED.—For purposes of 

5 this clause, the term ‘emergency 

6 shortfall State’ means, with respect to 

7 the period beginning October 1, 2017, 

8 and ending December 31, 2017, a 

9 shortfall State for which the Secretary 

10 estimates, in accordance with sub11 paragraph (A) (unless otherwise speci12 fied in this subclause), that the pro13 jected expenditures under the State 

14 child health plan and under section 

15 2105(g) (calculated as if the reference 

16 under section 2105(g)(4)(A) to ‘2017’ 

17 were a reference to ‘2018’ and insofar 

18 as the allotments are available to the 

19 State under this subsection or sub20 section (e) or (m)) for such period will 

21 exceed the sum of the amounts de22 scribed in clauses (i) through (iii) of 

23 subparagraph (A) for such period, in24 cluding after application of any 

25 amount redistributed under paragraph 


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1 (1) before such date of enactment to 

2 such State. A shortfall State may be 

3 an emergency shortfall State under 

4 the previous sentence without regard 

5 to whether any amounts were redis6 tributed before such date of enact7 ment to such State under paragraph 

8 (1) for fiscal year 2018. 

9 ‘‘(III) APPLICATION OF QUALI10 FYING STATE OPTION.—During the 

11 period described in subclause (I), sec12 tion 2105(g)(4) shall apply to a quali13 fying State (as defined in section 

14 2105(g)(2)) as if under section 

15 2105(g)(4)— 

16 ‘‘(aa) the reference to ‘2017’ 

17 were a reference to ‘2018’; and 

18 ‘‘(bb) the reference to ‘under 

19 subsections (e) and (m) of such 

20 section’ were a reference to 

21 ‘under subsections (e), (f), and 

22 (m) of such section’.’’; and 

23 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub24 paragraph: 


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1 ‘‘(D) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 

2 in this paragraph may be construed as pre3 venting a commonwealth or territory described 

4 in subsection (c)(3) from being treated as a 

5 shortfall State or an emergency shortfall 

6 State.’’. 

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