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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9747 
Making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2025, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 
Mr. COLE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
Making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal 
year 2025, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Continuing Appropria-
tions and Extensions Act, 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of Contents. 
Sec. 3. References. 
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SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made avail-
able or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the 
Department of Defense shall be used for: 
(1) the new production of items not funded for pro-
duction in fiscal year 2024 or prior years; 
(2) the increase in production rates above those sus-
tained with fiscal year 2024 funds; or 
(3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of any 
project, activity, operation, or organization (defined as any 
project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program ele-
ment, and subprogram within a program element, and for 
any investment items defined as a P–1 line item in a budg-
et activity within an appropriation account and an R–1 
line item that includes a program element and subprogram 
element within an appropriation account) for which appro-
priations, funds, or other authority were not available dur-
ing fiscal year 2024. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or au-
thority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Depart-
ment of Defense shall be used to initiate multi-year pro-
curements utilizing advance procurement funding for eco-
nomic order quantity procurement unless specifically ap-
propriated later. 
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SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall 
be available to the extent and in the manner that would 
be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act. 
SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in section 
102, no appropriation or funds made available or author-
ity granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used to ini-
tiate or resume any project or activity for which appro-
priations, funds, or other authority were not available dur-
ing fiscal year 2024. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this Act shall cover all obligations or ex-
penditures incurred for any project or activity during the 
period for which funds or authority for such project or 
activity are available under this Act. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2025, appropriations and funds made available and au-
thority granted pursuant to this Act shall be available 
until whichever of the following first occurs: 
(1) The enactment into law of an appropriation 
for any project or activity provided for in this Act. 
(2) The enactment into law of the applicable 
appropriations Act for fiscal year 2025 without any 
provision for such project or activity. 
(3) December 20, 2024. 
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SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this Act 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or 
authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable ap-
propriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted 
into law. 
SEC. 108. Appropriations made and funds made 
available by or authority granted pursuant to this Act may 
be used without regard to the time limitations for submis-
sion and approval of apportionments set forth in section 
1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing in this 
Act may be construed to waive any other provision of law 
governing the apportionment of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, except section 106, for those programs that 
would otherwise have high initial rates of operation or 
complete distribution of appropriations at the beginning 
of fiscal year 2025 because of distributions of funding to 
States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, such high 
initial rates of operation or complete distribution shall not 
be made, and no grants shall be awarded for such pro-
grams funded by this Act that would impinge on final 
funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This Act shall be implemented so that only 
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the 
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Act shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of 
projects and activities. 
SEC. 111. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory 
payments whose budget authority was provided in appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2024, and for activities under 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, activities shall be 
continued at the rate to maintain program levels under 
current law, under the authority and conditions provided 
in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2024, 
to be continued through the date specified in section 
106(3). 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for man-
datory payments due on or about the first day of any 
month that begins after October 2024 but not later than 
30 days after the date specified in section 106(3) may con-
tinue to be made, and funds shall be available for such 
payments. 
SEC. 112. Amounts made available under section 101 
for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each 
department and agency may be apportioned up to the rate 
for operations necessary to avoid furloughs within such de-
partment or agency, consistent with the applicable appro-
priations Act for fiscal year 2024, except that such author-
ity provided under this section shall not be used until after 
the department or agency has taken all necessary actions 
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to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative ex-
penses. 
SEC. 113. Funds appropriated by this Act may be 
obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of 
Public Law 91–672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the 
State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 
U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the Foreign Relations Au-
thorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 
6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)). 
SEC. 114. (a) Each amount incorporated by reference 
in this Act that was previously designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 or as being for disaster relief 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of such Act is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of such Act or as 
being for disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) 
of such Act, respectively. 
(b) Section 6 of Public Laws 118–42 and 118–47 
shall apply to amounts designated in subsection (a) and 
sections 138, 140, and 151 of this Act as an emergency 
requirement. 
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(c) Each amount incorporated by reference in this 
Act that was previously designated in division B of Public 
Law 117–159, division J of Public Law 117–58, or in sec-
tion 443(b) of division G of Public Law 117–328 by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-
current resolution on the budget shall continue to be treat-
ed as an amount specified in section 103(b) of division 
A of Public Law 118–5. 
(d) This section shall become effective immediately 
upon enactment of this Act, and shall remain in effect 
through the date in section 106(3). 
SEC. 115. (a) Rescissions or cancellations of discre-
tionary budget authority that continue pursuant to section 
101 in Treasury Appropriations Fund Symbols (TAFS)— 
(1) to which other appropriations are not provided 
by this Act, but for which there is a current applicable 
TAFS that does receive an appropriation in this Act; or 
(2) which are no-year TAFS and receive other appro-
priations in this Act, may be continued instead by reduc-
ing the rate for operations otherwise provided by section 
101 for such current applicable TAFS, as long as doing 
so does not impinge on the final funding prerogatives of 
the Congress. 
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