H. J. Res. 28 
One Hundred Sixteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen 
Joint Resolution 
Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other pur-
poses. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This joint resolution may be cited 
as the ‘‘Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019’’. 
SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (division 
C of Public Law 115–245) is further amended— 
(1) by striking the date specified in section 105(3) and 
inserting ‘‘February 15, 2019’’; and 
(2) by adding after section 136 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 137. Amounts made available in this Act for personnel 
pay, allowances, and benefits in each department and agency shall 
be available for obligations incurred pursuant to subsection (c) 
of section 1341 of title 31, United States Code. 
‘‘SEC. 138. All obligations incurred and in anticipation of the 
appropriations made and authority granted by this Act for the 
purposes of maintaining the essential level of activity to protect 
life and property and bringing about orderly termination of Govern-
ment function, and for purposes as otherwise authorized by law, 
are hereby ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the 
provisions of this Act. 
‘‘SEC. 139. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) used 
State funds (or the grantee’s non-Federal funds) to continue carrying 
out a Federal program or furloughed State employees (or the 
grantee’s 
employees) 
whose 
compensation 
is 
advanced 
or 
reimbursed in whole or in part by the Federal Government— 
‘‘(1) such furloughed employees shall be compensated at 
their standard rate of compensation for such period; 
‘‘(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be reimbursed 
for expenses that would have been paid by the Federal Govern-
ment during such period had appropriations been available, 
including the cost of compensating such furloughed employees, 
together with interest thereon calculated under section 6503(d) 
of title 31, United States Code; and 
‘‘(3) the State (or such other grantee) may use funds avail-
able to the State (or the grantee) under such Federal program 
to reimburse such State (or the grantee), together with interest 
thereon calculated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 
States Code. 
‘‘(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘State’ and the 
term ‘grantee’ shall have the meaning as such term is defined 
under the applicable Federal program under subsection (a). In 
addition, ‘to continue carrying out a Federal program’ means the
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continued performance by a State or other Federal grantee, during 
the period of a lapse in appropriations, of a Federal program that 
the State or such other grantee had been carrying out prior to 
the period of the lapse in appropriations. 
‘‘(c) The authority under this section applies with respect to 
any period in fiscal year 2019 (not limited to periods beginning 
or ending after the date of the enactment of this Act) during 
which there occurs a lapse in appropriations with respect to any 
department or agency of the Federal Government which, but for 
such lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reimburse-
ment relating to, any of the expenses referred to in this section 
with respect to the program involved. Payments and reimburse-
ments under this authority shall be made only to the extent and 
in amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts. 
‘‘SEC. 140. Notwithstanding section 251(a)(1) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the time-
table in section 254(a) of such Act, the final sequestration report 
for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(1) of such Act and 
any order for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(5) of 
such Act shall be issued, for the Congressional Budget Office, 10 
days after the date specified in section 105(3), and for the Office 
of Management and Budget, 15 days after the date specified in 
section 105(3). 
‘‘SEC. 141. Section 319L(e)(1)(A) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–7e(e)(1)(A)) shall continue in effect through 
the date specified in section 105(3) of this Act. 
‘‘SEC. 142. Section 405(a) of the Pandemic and All Hazards 
Preparedness Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–6a note) shall continue in effect 
through the date specified in section 105(3) of this Act.’’. 
SEC. 102. For the purposes of division C of Public Law 115– 
245, the time covered by such division shall be considered to include 
the period which began on or about December 22, 2018, during 
which there occurred a lapse in appropriations. 
SEC. 103. Subsection (c)(2) of section 1341 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘, and subject to the enactment 
of appropriations Acts ending the lapse’’ before the period. 
SEC. 104. For the purposes of the annual report issued pursuant 
to section 5 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 
934) after adjournment of the second session of the 115th Congress, 
and for determining whether a sequestration order is necessary 
under such section, the debit for the budget year on the 5-year
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scorecard, if any, and the 10-year scorecard, if any, shall be deducted 
from such scorecard in 2019 and added to such scorecard in 2020. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.