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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. J. RES. 153
Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 3, 1996
Mr. WALSH introduced the following joint resolution; considered and passed
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year
1996, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of
the general fund and enterprise funds of the District of
Columbia for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year
1996, and for other purposes, namely:
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 for con-
tinuing projects or activities including the costs of direct
loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically pro-
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vided for in this title of this joint resolution) which were
conducted in the fiscal year 1995 and for which appropria-
tions, funds, or other authority would be available in the
following appropriations Act:
The District of Columbia Appropriations Act,
1996:
Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made
available or the authority which would be granted in this
Act is greater than that which would be available or grant-
ed under current operations, the pertinent project or activ-
ity shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceed-
ing the current rate.
(b) Whenever the amount which would be made avail-
able or the authority which would be granted under the
Act listed in this section as passed by the House as of
the date of enactment of this joint resolution, is different
from that which would be available or granted under such
Act as passed by the Senate as of the date of enactment
of this joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity
shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding
the current rate or the rate permitted by the action of
the House or the Senate, whichever is lower, under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appro-
priations Act for the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That
where an item is not included in either version or where
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an item is included in only one version of the Act as passed
by both Houses as of the date of enactment of this joint
resolution, the pertinent project or activity shall not be
continued except as provided for in section 101 or 112
under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the
applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall
be available to the extent and in the manner which would
be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
SEC. 103. No appropriation or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used
to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap-
propriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 104. No provision which is included in the ap-
propriations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was
not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal
year 1995 and which by its terms is applicable to more
than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be appli-
cable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in
this title of this joint resolution.
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this title of this joint resolution shall cover
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which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authoriza-
tion is contained is enacted into law.
SEC. 109. No provision in the appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 101 of this title
of this joint resolution that makes the availability of any
appropriation provided therein dependent upon the enact-
ment of additional authorizing or other legislation shall
be effective before the date set forth in section 106(c) of
this joint resolution.
SEC. 110. Appropriations and funds made available
by or authority granted pursuant to this title of this joint
resolution may be used without regard to the time limita-
tions for submission and approval of apportionments set
forth in section 1513 of title 3, United States Code, but
nothing herein shall be construed to waive any other provi-
sion of law governing the apportionment of funds.
SEC. 111. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 106, when-
ever the Act listed in section 101 as passed by both the
House and Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint
resolution, does not include funding for an ongoing project
or activity for which there is a budget request, or whenever
the rate for operations for an ongoing project or activity
provided by section 101 for which there is a budget re-
quest would result in the project or activity being signifi-
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cantly reduced, the pertinent project or activity may be
the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995
by increasing the rate for operations provided by section
101 to a rate for operations not to exceed one that pro-
vides the minimal level that would enable existing activi-
ties to continue. No new contracts or grants shall be
awarded in excess of an amount that bears the same ratio
to the rate for operations provided by this section as the
number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
For the purposes of this title of this joint resolution the
minimal level means a rate for operations that is reduced
from the current rate by 25 percent.
SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 106, when-
ever the rate of operations for any continuing project or
activity provided by section 101 or section 111 for which
there is a budget request would result in a furlough of
Government employees, that rate for operations may be
increased to the minimum level that would enable the fur-
lough to be avoided. No new contracts or grants shall be
awarded in excess of an amount that bears the same ratio
to the rate for operations provided by this section as the
number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except sections 106, 111,
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and 112, for those programs that had high initial rates
of operation or complete distribution of funding at the be-
ginning of the fiscal year in fiscal year 1995 because of
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries,
grantees, or others, similar distributions of funds for fiscal
year 1996 shall not be made and no grants shall be award-
ed for such programs funded by this title of this resolution
that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
SEC. 114. This title of this joint resolution shall be
implemented so that only the most limited funding action
of that permitted in this title of this resolution shall be
taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and
activities.
SEC. 115. The provisions of section 132 of the Dis-
trict of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law
100–202, shall not apply for this title of this joint resolu-
tion.
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 106, none
of the funds appropriated under this title of this joint reso-
lution shall be used to implement or enforce any system
or registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples whether
they are homosexual, lesbian, heterosexual, including but
not limited to registration for the purpose of extending
employment, health, or governmental benefits to such cou-
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ples on the same basis that such benefits are extended to
legally married couples; nor shall any funds made available
pursuant to any provision of this title of this joint resolu-
tion otherwise be used to implement or enforce D.C. Act
9–188, signed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia
on April 15, 1992.
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