IA 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. J. RES. 99 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 
Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. YOHO, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. 
JODY B. HICE of Georgia, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. 
HUELSKAMP, Mr. BABIN, Mr. GOSAR, and Mr. PITTENGER) submitted 
the following joint resolution; 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 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, 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 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 
and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora-
tions, and other organizational units of Government for 
fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes, namely: 
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SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, 
at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable ap-
propriations Acts for fiscal year 2016 and under the au-
thority and conditions provided in such Acts, for con-
tinuing projects or activities (including the costs of direct 
loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise specifi-
cally provided for in this title, that were conducted in fis-
cal year 2016, and for which appropriations, funds, or 
other authority were made available in the following ap-
propriations Acts: 
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2016 (division A of Public Law 
114–113). 
(2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division B 
of Public Law 114–113). 
(3) The Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division C of Public Law 114–113). 
(4) The Energy and Water Development and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division 
D of Public Law 114–113). 
(5) The Financial Services and General Govern-
ment Appropriations Act, 2016 (division E of Public 
Law 114–113). 
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(6) The Department of Homeland Security Ap-
propriations Act, 2016 (division F of Public Law 
114–113). 
(7) The Department of the Interior, Environ-
ment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division G of Public Law 114–113). 
(8) The Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2016 (division H of Public 
Law 114–113). 
(9) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division I of Public Law 114–113). 
(10) The Military Construction and Veterans 
Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division J of Public Law 114–113). 
(11) The Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
2016 (division K of Public Law 114–113), except 
title IX. 
(12) The Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division L of Public Law 114–113). 
(b)(1) The rate for operations provided by subsection 
(a) in the revised security category (as defined in section 
250(c)(4)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
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Deficit Control Act of 1985) is hereby increased by the 
percentage necessary to achieve a rate for operations in 
such category of $536,000,000,000. 
(2) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) 
in the revised nonsecurity category (as defined in section 
250(c)(4)(E) of such Act) is hereby reduced by the per-
centage necessary to achieve a rate for operations in such 
category of $504,000,000,000. 
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 pro-
duction of items not funded for production in fiscal year 
2016 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates 
above those sustained with fiscal year 2016 funds; or (3) 
the initiation, resumption, or continuation of any project, 
activity, operation, or organization (defined as any project, 
subproject, activity, budget activity, program element, and 
subprogram within a program element, and for any invest-
ment items defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity 
within an appropriation account and an R–1 line item that 
includes a program element and subprogram element with-
in an appropriation account) for which appropriations, 
funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal 
year 2016. 
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(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. 
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 2016. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this title 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 title. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this title 
or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2017, appropriations and funds made available and au-
thority granted pursuant to this title shall be available 
until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) the enact-
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ment into law of an appropriation for any project or activ-
ity provided for in this title; (2) the enactment into law 
of the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017 
without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) 
February 28, 2017. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this title 
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 title 
may be used without regard to the time limitations for 
submission and approval of apportionments set forth in 
section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing 
in this title may be construed to waive any other provision 
of law governing the apportionment of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this title, 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 2017 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-
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grams funded by this title that would impinge on final 
funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This title shall be implemented so that only 
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the 
title shall be taken in order to provide for continuation 
of projects and activities. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution under the heading ‘‘Department of Jus-
tice—Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law 
Enforcement Assistance’’ may be used in contravention of 
section 642(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Im-
migrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373(a)). 
SEC. 112. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this joint resolution or any other Act, including any depos-
its into the ‘‘Immigration Examinations Fee Account’’ es-
tablished under section 286(m) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(m)), to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal 
agency, may be used to implement, administer, enforce, 
or carry out (including through the issuance of any regula-
tions) any of the policy changes set forth in the following 
memoranda (or any substantially similar policy changes 
issued or taken on or after December 16, 2015, whether 
set forth in memorandum, Executive order, regulation, di-
rective, or by other action): 
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(1) The memorandum from the Director of 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement enti-
tled ‘‘Civil Immigration Enforcement: Priorities for 
the Apprehension, Detention, and Removal of 
Aliens’’ dated March 2, 2011. 
(2) The memorandum from the Director of 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement enti-
tled ‘‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion Consistent 
with the Civil Immigration Enforcement Priorities of 
the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention, and 
Removal of Aliens’’ dated June 17, 2011. 
(3) The memorandum from the Principal Legal 
Advisor of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment entitled ‘‘Case-by-Case Review of Incoming 
and Certain Pending Cases’’ dated June 17, 2011. 
(4) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Exercising Prosecu-
torial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who 
Came to the United States as Children’’ dated June 
15, 2012. 
(5) The memorandum from the Director of 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement enti-
tled ‘‘Civil Immigration Enforcement: Guidance on 
the Use of Detainers in the Federal, State, Local, 
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and Tribal Criminal Justice Systems’’ dated Decem-
ber 21, 2012. 
(6) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Southern Border and 
Approaches Campaign’’ dated November 20, 2014. 
(7) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Policies for the Appre-
hension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented 
Immigrants’’ dated November 20, 2014. 
(8) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Secure Communities’’ 
dated November 20, 2014. 
(9) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Exercising Prosecu-
torial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who 
Came to the United States as Children and with Re-
spect to Certain Individuals Who Are the Parents of 
U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents’’ dated No-
vember 20, 2014. 
(10) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Expansion of the Pro-
visional Waiver Program’’ dated November 20, 
2014. 
(11) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Policies Supporting 
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U.S. High-Skilled Businesses and Workers’’ dated 
November 20, 2014. 
(12) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Families of U.S. 
Armed Forces Members and Enlistees’’ dated No-
vember 20, 2014. 
(13) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Directive to Provide 
Consistency Regarding Advance Parole’’ dated No-
vember 20, 2014. 
(14) The memorandum from the Secretary of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Policies to Promote 
and Increase Access to U.S. Citizenship’’ dated No-
vember 20, 2014. 
(15) The memorandum from the President enti-
tled ‘‘Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immi-
grant Visa System for the 21st Century’’ dated No-
vember 21, 2014. 
(16) The memorandum from the President enti-
tled ‘‘Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully 
Integrating Immigrants and Refugees’’ dated No-
vember 21, 2014. 
(b) The memoranda referred to in subsection (a) (or 
any substantially similar policy changes issued or taken 
on or after December 16, 2015, whether set forth in 
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memorandum, Executive order, regulation, directive, or by 
other action) have no statutory or constitutional basis and 
therefore have no legal effect. 
(c) No funds or fees made available to the Secretary 
of Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal 
agency, by this joint resolution or any other Act, including 
any deposits into the ‘‘Immigration Examinations Fee Ac-
count’’ established under section 286(m) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(m)), may be used 
to grant any Federal benefit to any alien pursuant to any 
of the policy changes set forth in the memoranda referred 
to in subsection (a) (or any substantially similar policy 
changes issued or taken on or after December 16, 2015, 
whether set forth in memorandum, Executive order, regu-
lation, directive, or by other action). 
(d) The budgetary effects of this section shall not be 
entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant 
to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
2010. 
(e) 
Notwithstanding 
Rule 
of 
the 
Budget 
Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory 
statement of the committee of conference accompanying 
Conference Report 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
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1985, the budgetary effects of this section shall not be 
estimated— 
(1) for purposes of section 251 of the such Act; 
and 
(2) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 
3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as 
being included in an appropriation Act. 
SEC. 113. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to carry out the provisions 
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public 
Law 111–148) or title I or subtitle B of title II of the 
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 
(Public Law 111–152), or any amendment made by the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or by such 
title I or subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and 
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be— 
(1) used to provide a Federal public benefit (as 
such term is defined in section 401(c) of the Per-
sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Rec-
onciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611(c))) to an 
alien admitted as a refugee under section 207 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157); 
or 
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(2) made available to the Office of Refugee Re-
settlement or to the United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Refugees. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce the letter entitled ‘‘Dear Colleague Letter on 
Transgender Students’’, dated May 13, 2016, issued joint-
ly by the Department of Justice and the Department of 
Education, relating to title IX of the Education Amend-
ments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.). 
SEC. 116. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce the rule submitted by the Department of Labor 
relating to defining and delimiting the exemptions regard-
ing the rates of pay for executive, administrative, profes-
sional, outside sales, and computer employees (81 Fed. 
Reg. 32552 (May 23, 2016)). 
SEC. 117. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to develop, adopt, implement, 
administer, or enforce any change to the regulations and 
guidance in effect on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the 
definition of waters under the jurisdiction of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.), 
including the provisions of the rules dated November 13, 
1986, and August 25, 1993, relating to said jurisdiction, 
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and the guidance documents dated January 15, 2003, and 
December 2, 2008, relating to said jurisdiction. 
SEC. 118. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce the rule submitted by the Department of Labor 
relating to ‘‘Definition of the Term ‘Fiduciary’; Conflict 
of Interest Rule—Retirement Investment Advice’’ (pub-
lished at 81 Fed. Reg. 20946 (April 8, 2016)). 
SEC. 119. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce the rule submitted by the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency relating to ‘‘Carbon Pollution Emission 
Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Util-
ity Generating Units’’ (published at 80 Fed. Reg. 64662 
(October 23, 2015)). 
SEC. 120. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be made available to Planned Parent-
hood Federation of America, or to any of its affiliates, 
subsidiaries, successors, or clinics. 
SEC. 121. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to fund the implementation 
of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding Iran 
and submitted to the Congress on July 19, 2015, or any 
side deals to the nuclear agreement (including all related 
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materials and annexes) between the International Atomic 
Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran. 
SEC. 122. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to enforce, or implement in 
any fashion, any rule or regulation that enforces any as-
pect of any agreement, including the agreements entitled 
‘‘Framework on Convention on Climate Change’’ and 
‘‘Draft Decision/CP.21’’, reached by the ‘‘COP21’’ con-
ference, held in Paris, France in December of 2015. 
SEC. 123. None of the funds made available by this 
joint resolution may be used to enforce the decision of the 
Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. 
Hodges, 135 S.Ct. 2584; (2015). 
SEC. 124. During fiscal year 2017, no Federal de-
partment or agency may implement, administer, or en-
force, and no Federal funds may be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce, any provision of the Dodd-Frank 
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public 
Law 111–203) or any provision contained in an amend-
ment made by such Act. 
SEC. 125. Subsection (a) of section 539 of division 
B of Public Law 114–113 shall apply to funds made avail-
able by such Public Law and by this joint resolution not-
withstanding subsection (b) of that section. 
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