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vided, That where an item is funded in the applicable ap-
propriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and not included
in the version passed by the one House 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 111 or 112 under the appropriation, fund, or au-
thority granted by the applicable appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 1995 and under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1995.
SEC. 102. No appropriation or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the De-
partment of Defense shall be used for new production of
items not funded for production in fiscal year 1995 or prior
years, for the increase in production rates above those sus-
tained with fiscal year 1995 funds, or to initiate, resume,
or continue any project, activity, operation, or organization
which are defined as any project, subproject, activity, budg-
et activity, program element, and subprogram within a
program element and for investment items are further de-
fined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity within an
appropriation account and an R–1 line item which in-
cludes a program element and subprogram element within
an appropriation account, for which appropriations, funds,
or other authority were not available during the fiscal year
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1995: Provided, That no appropriation or funds made
available or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for
the Department of Defense shall be used to initiate multi-
year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding
for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically
appropriated later.
SEC. 103. 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. 104. 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. 105. No provision which is included in an appro-
priations 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 applica-
ble to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in
this joint resolution.
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint
resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act, appro-
priations and funds made available and authority granted
pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until (a)
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enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or
activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the en-
actment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by
both Houses without any provision for such project or activ-
ity, or (c) December 15, 1995, whichever first occurs.
SEC. 107. Appropriations made and authority granted
pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations
or expenditures incurred for any program, project, or activ-
ity during the period for which funds or authority for such
project or activity are available under this joint resolution.
SEC. 108. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint
resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation,
fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such appli-
cable appropriation, fund, or authorization 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 joint
resolution that makes the availability of any appropriation
provided therein dependent upon the enactment of addi-
tional authorizing or other legislation shall be effective be-
fore the date set forth in section 106(c) of this joint resolu-
tion.
SEC. 110. Appropriations and funds made available
by or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution
may be used without regard to the time limitations for sub-
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mission and approval of apportionments set forth in section
1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing herein
shall be construed to waive any other provision of law gov-
erning the apportionment of funds.
SEC. 111. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever an 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 an Act listed in sec-
tion 101 has been passed by only the House or only the
Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint resolution,
and an item funded in fiscal year 1995 is not included in
the version passed by the one House, or whenever the rate
for operations for an ongoing project or activity provided
by section 101 for which there is a budget request would
result in the project or activity being significantly reduced,
the pertinent project or activity may be continued under
the authority and conditions provided in the applicable ap-
propriations 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 provides the minimal level
that would enable existing activities 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
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by this section as the number of days covered by this resolu-
tion bears to 366. For the purposes of the Act, 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
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever the rate for
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 furlough 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 resolu-
tion bears to 366.
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except sections 106, 111, and 112, for those
programs that had high initial rates of operation or com-
plete distribution of funding at the beginning of the fiscal
year in fiscal year 1995 because of distributions of funding
to States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, similar dis-
tributions of funds for fiscal year 1996 shall not be made
and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded
by this resolution that would impinge on final funding pre-
rogatives.
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SEC. 114. This joint resolution shall be implemented
so that only the most limited funding action of that per-
mitted in the resolution shall be taken in order to provide
for continuation of projects and activities.
SEC. 115. The provisions of section 132 of the District
of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law 100–
202, shall not apply for this joint resolution. Included in
the apportionment for the Federal Payment to the District
of Columbia shall be an additional $16,575,016 above the
amount otherwise made available by this joint resolution,
for reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned for
certain capital improvement projects pursuant to Public
Law 81–533, as amended; Public Law 83–364, as amended;
Public Law 85–451, as amended; and Public Law 86–515,
as amended, including interest as required thereby.
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the authority and condi-
tions for the application of appropriations for the Office
of Technology Assessment as contained in the conference re-
port on the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996,
House Report 104–212, shall be followed when applying the
funding made available by this joint resolution.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, any distribution of
funding under the Rehabilitation Services and Disability
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Research account in the Department of Education may be
made up to an amount that bears the same ratio to the
rate for operation for this account provided by this joint
resolution as the number of days covered by this resolution
bears to 366.
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the authorities provided
under subsection (a) of section 140 of the Foreign Relations
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public
Law 103–236) shall remain in effect during the period of
this joint resolution, notwithstanding paragraph (3) of said
subsection.
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the amount made avail-
able to the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the
heading Salaries and Expenses, shall include, in addition
to direct appropriations, the amount it collects under the
fee rate and offsetting collection authority contained in
Public Law 103–352, which fee rate and offsetting collection
authority shall remain in effect during the period of this
joint resolution.
SEC. 120. Until enactment of legislation providing
funding for the entire fiscal year ending September 30,
1996, for the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies, funds available for necessary expenses of the Bureau