116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 31 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making further continuing appropriations for the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2019, and 
for other purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2019 (division C of Public Law 115–245) is further 
amended—
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(1) in section 105— 
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘except as provided in 
paragraph (4),’’ before ‘‘December’’; and 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) with respect to appropriations and funds 
made available, and other authorities granted, pur-
suant to section 101(5) of this joint resolution for 
the Department of Homeland Security, February 28, 
2019.’’; and 
(2) in section 110, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) With respect to mandatory payments whose 
budget authority was provided in the Department of 
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F 
of Public Law 115–141), subsections (a) and (b) shall be 
applied by substituting ‘section 105(4)’ for ‘section 
105(3)’ each place it appears.’’. 
SEC. 2. (a) Amounts appropriated by operation of the 
amendments made by section 1 for the salaries and ex-
penses of employees shall be available for payment of sala-
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ries in accordance with section 1341(c) of title 31, United 
States Code (as added by the Government Employee Fair 
Treatment Act of 2019). 
(b) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the ap-
propriations made and authority granted by this joint res-
olution for the purposes of maintaining the essential level 
of activity to protect life and property and bringing about 
orderly termination of Government functions, and for pur-
poses as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby ratified 
and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions 
of this joint resolution, and for purposes of such obliga-
tions the time period covered by this joint resolution shall 
be considered to include the period beginning on or about 
December 22, 2018, during which there occurred a lapse 
in appropriations. 
SEC. 3. (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 com-
pensation is advanced or reimbursed in whole or in part 
by the Federal Government— 
(1) such furloughed employees shall be com-
pensated at their standard rate of compensation for 
such period;
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(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be 
reimbursed for expenses that would have been paid 
by the Federal Government 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 available to the State (or the grantee) under 
such Federal program to reimburse such State (or 
the grantee), together with interest thereon cal-
culated under section 6503(d) of title 31, United 
States Code. 
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘State’’ 
and the term ‘‘grantee’’, including United States terri-
tories and possessions, shall have the meaning given such 
terms under the applicable Federal program under sub-
section (a). In addition, ‘‘to continue carrying out a Fed-
eral program’’ means the 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 re-
spect to the period of a lapse in appropriations beginning
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on or about December 22, 2018, and ending on the date 
of enactment of this joint resolution with respect to the 
Department of Homeland Security which, but for such 
lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reim-
bursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in 
this section with respect to the program involved. Pay-
ments and reimbursements under this authority shall be 
made only to the extent and in amounts provided in ad-
vance in appropriations Acts. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 24, 
2019. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 31 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making further continuing appropriations for the 
Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 
2019, and for other purposes.