115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 123 

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, 
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1 DIVISION A—FURTHER CON2 TINUING APPROPRIATIONS 

3 ACT, 2018 

4 SEC. 101. FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS. 

5 The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (division D 

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

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

8 2017’’. 

9 This division may be cited as the ‘‘Further Con10 tinuing Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 

11 DIVISION B—CHILDREN’S 

12 HEALTH INSURANCE PRO13 GRAM (CHIP) ALLOCATION 

14 REDISTRIBUTION SPECIAL 

15 RULE 

16 SEC. 201. CHIP ALLOCATION REDISTRIBUTION SPECIAL 

17 RULE FOR CERTAIN SHORTFALL STATES 

18 DURING FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 

19 2018. 

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

21 U.S.C. 1397dd(f)(2)) is amended— 

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

23 follows: 
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1 ‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF REDISTRIBUTED

2 AMOUNTS IF INSUFFICIENT AMOUNTS AVAIL3 ABLE.— 

4 ‘‘(i) PRORATION RULE.—Subject to 

5 clause (ii), if the amounts available for re6 distribution under paragraph (1) for a fis7 cal year are less than the total amounts of 

8 the estimated shortfalls determined for the 

9 year under subparagraph (A), the amount 

10 to be redistributed under such paragraph 

11 for each shortfall State shall be reduced 

12 proportionally. 

13 ‘‘(ii) SPECIAL RULE FOR FIRST QUAR14 TER OF FISCAL YEAR 2018.— 

15 ‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For the pe16 riod beginning on October 1, 2017, 

17 and ending December 31, 2017, with 

18 respect to any amounts available for 

19 redistribution under paragraph (1) for 

20 fiscal year 2018, the Secretary shall 

21 redistribute under such paragraph 

22 such amounts to each emergency 

23 shortfall State (as defined in sub24 clause (II)) in such amount as is 

25 equal to the amount of the shortfall 
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1 described in subclause (II) for such 

2 State and period (as may be adjusted 

3 under subparagraph (C)) before the 

4 Secretary may redistribute such 

5 amounts to any shortfall State that is 

6 not an emergency shortfall State. In 

7 the case of any amounts redistributed 

8 under this subclause to a State that is 

9 not an emergency shortfall State, such 

10 amounts shall be determined in ac11 cordance with clause (i). 

12 ‘‘(II) EMERGENCY SHORTFALL

13 STATE DEFINED.—For purposes of 

14 this clause, the term ‘emergency 

15 shortfall State’ means, with respect to 

16 the period beginning October 1, 2017, 

17 and ending December 31, 2017, a 

18 shortfall State for which the Secretary 

19 estimates, in accordance with sub20 paragraph (A) (unless otherwise speci21 fied in this subclause), that the pro22 jected expenditures under the State 

23 child health plan and under section 

24 2105(g) (calculated as if the reference 

25 under section 2105(g)(4)(A) to ‘2017’ 
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1 were a reference to ‘2018’ and insofar 

2 as the allotments are available to the 

3 State under this subsection or sub4 section (e) or (m)) for such period will 

5 exceed the sum of the amounts de6 scribed in clauses (i) through (iii) of 

7 subparagraph (A) for such period, in8 cluding after application of any 

9 amount redistributed under paragraph 

10 (1) before such date of enactment to 

11 such State. A shortfall State may be 

12 an emergency shortfall State under 

13 the previous sentence without regard 

14 to whether any amounts were redis15 tributed before such date of enact16 ment to such State under paragraph 

17 (1) for fiscal year 2018. 

18 ‘‘(III) APPLICATION OF QUALI19 FYING STATE OPTION.—During the 

20 period described in subclause (I), sec21 tion 2105(g)(4) shall apply to a quali22 fying State (as defined in section 

23 2105(g)(2)) as if under section 

24 2105(g)(4)— 
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1 ‘‘(aa) the reference to ‘2017’ 

2 were a reference to ‘2018’; and 

3 ‘‘(bb) the reference to ‘under 

4 subsections (e) and (m) of such 

5 section’ were a reference to 

6 ‘under subsections (e), (f), and 

7 (m) of such section’.’’; and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub9 paragraph: 

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

11 in this paragraph may be construed as pre12 venting a commonwealth or territory described 

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

14 shortfall State or an emergency shortfall 

15 State.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives December 7, 

2017. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 123 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal 

year 2018, and for other purposes.