IA 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. J. RES. 117 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 
Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Com-
mittee 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 committee concerned 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2013, 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 2013, 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 2012 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 joint resolution, that were con-
ducted in fiscal year 2012, and for which appropriations, 
funds, or other authority were made available in the fol-
lowing appropriations Acts: 
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2012 (division A of Public Law 
112–55), except for the appropriations designated by 
the Congress as being for disaster relief in section 
735 of such Act. 
(2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (division B 
of Public Law 112–55), except for the appropriation 
designated by the Congress as being for disaster re-
lief in the second paragraph under the heading ‘‘De-
partment of Commerce—Economic Development Ad-
ministration—Economic 
Development 
Assistance 
Programs’’ in such Act. 
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(11) The Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
2012 (division I of Public Law 112–74). 
(12) The Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2012 (division C of Public Law 112–55), except 
for the appropriations designated by the Congress as 
being for disaster relief under the heading ‘‘Depart-
ment of Transportation—Federal Highway Adminis-
tration—Emergency Relief’’ and in the last proviso 
of section 239 of such Act. 
(13) The Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 
2012 (Public Law 112–77), except for appropria-
tions under the heading ‘‘Corps of Engineers-Civil’’. 
(b) Whenever an amount designated for Overseas 
Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (in this section 
referred to as an ‘‘OCO/GWOT amount’’) in an Act de-
scribed in paragraph (3) or (10) of subsection (a) that 
would be made available for a project or activity is dif-
ferent from the amount requested in the President’s fiscal 
year 2013 budget request, the project or activity shall be 
continued at a rate for operations that would be permitted 
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by, and such designation shall be applied to, the amount 
in the President’s fiscal year 2013 budget request. 
(c) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) 
is hereby increased by 0.612 percent. Such increase shall 
not apply to OCO/GWOT amounts or to amounts incor-
porated in this joint resolution by reference to the Disaster 
Relief Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–77). 
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 
2012 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates 
above those sustained with fiscal year 2012 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 2012. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or au-
thority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Depart-
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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 2012. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga-
tions or expenditures incurred for any project or activity 
during the period for which funds or authority for such 
project or activity are available under this joint resolution. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint 
resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal 
year 2013, appropriations and funds made available and 
authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall 
be available until whichever of the following first occurs: 
(1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any 
project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) 
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the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations 
Act for fiscal year 2013 without any provision for such 
project or activity; or (3) March 27, 2013. 
SEC. 107. 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. 108. Appropriations made and funds made 
available by or authority granted pursuant to 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 31, United States Code, but 
nothing in this joint resolution may be construed to waive 
any other provision of law governing the apportionment 
of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this joint resolution, except section 106, for those pro-
grams that would otherwise have high initial rates of oper-
ation or complete distribution of appropriations at the be-
ginning of fiscal year 2013 because of distributions of 
funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, 
such high initial rates of operation or complete distribu-
tion shall not be made, and no grants shall be awarded 
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for such programs funded by this joint resolution that 
would impinge on final funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This joint resolution shall be implemented 
so that only the most limited funding action of that per-
mitted in the joint resolution shall be taken in order to 
provide for continuation of projects and activities. 
SEC. 111. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory 
payments whose budget authority was provided in appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2012, and for activities under 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, activities shall be 
continued at the rate to maintain program levels under 
current law, under the authority and conditions provided 
in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2012, 
to be continued through the date specified in section 
106(3). 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for man-
datory payments due on or about the first day of any 
month that begins after October 2012 but not later than 
30 days after the date specified in section 106(3) may con-
tinue to be made, and funds shall be available for such 
payments. 
SEC. 112. Amounts made available under section 101 
for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each 
department and agency may be apportioned up to the rate 
for operations necessary to avoid furloughs within such de-
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partment or agency, consistent with the applicable appro-
priations Act for fiscal year 2012, except that such author-
ity provided under this section shall not be used until after 
the department or agency has taken all necessary actions 
to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative ex-
penses. 
SEC. 113. Funds appropriated by this joint resolution 
may be obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 
of Public Law 91–672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of 
the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 
U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the Foreign Relations Au-
thorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 
6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414(a)(1)). 
SEC. 114. (a) Section 147 of Public Law 111–242, 
as added by Public Law 111–322, shall be applied by sub-
stituting the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint 
resolution for ‘‘December 31, 2012’’ each place it appears. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
statutory pay adjustment (as defined in section 147(b)(2) 
of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Public Law 
111–242)) otherwise scheduled to take effect during fiscal 
year 2013 but prior to the date specified in section 106(3) 
of this joint resolution may take effect on the first day 
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tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate, for the period through the date specified 
in section 106(3) of this joint resolution, a spending, ex-
penditure, or operating plan— 
(1) at the program, project, or activity level (or, 
for national intelligence programs funded in the De-
partment of Defense Appropriations Act, at the ex-
penditure center and project level); or 
(2) as applicable, at any greater level of detail 
required for funds covered by such a plan in an ap-
propriations Act referred to in section 101, in the 
joint explanatory statement accompanying such Act, 
or in committee report language incorporated by ref-
erence in such joint explanatory statement. 
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date on which 
any sequestration is ordered by the President under sec-
tion 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, each department and agency in sub-
section (c) shall submit to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate the 
spending, expenditure, or operating plan required under 
subsection (a), updated to reflect any adjustments to fund-
ing as a result of the sequestration and any extension of 
the date specified in section 106(3) of this joint resolution. 
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(c) The departments and agencies to which this sec-
tion applies are as follows: 
(1) The Department of Agriculture. 
(2) The Department of Commerce. 
(3) The Department of Defense. 
(4) The Department of Education. 
(5) The Department of Energy. 
(6) The Department of Health and Human 
Services. 
(7) The Department of Homeland Security. 
(8) The Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment. 
(9) The Department of the Interior. 
(10) The Department of Justice. 
(11) The Department of Labor. 
(12) The Department of State and United 
States Agency for International Development. 
(13) The Department of Transportation. 
(14) The Department of the Treasury. 
(15) The Department of Veterans Affairs. 
(16) The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration. 
(17) The National Science Foundation. 
(18) The Judiciary. 
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(19) With respect to amounts made available 
under the heading ‘‘Executive Office of the Presi-
dent and Funds Appropriated to the President’’, 
agencies funded under such heading. 
(20) The Federal Communications Commission. 
(21) The General Services Administration. 
(22) The Office of Personnel Management. 
(23) The National Archives and Records Ad-
ministration. 
(24) The Securities and Exchange Commission. 
(25) The Small Business Administration. 
(26) The Environmental Protection Agency. 
(27) The Indian Health Service. 
(28) The Smithsonian Institution. 
(29) The Social Security Administration. 
(30) The Corporation for National and Commu-
nity Service. 
(31) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 
(32) The Food and Drug Administration. 
(33) The Commodity Futures Trading Commis-
sion. 
(34) The Central Intelligence Agency. 
(35) The National Security Agency. 
(36) The National Reconnaissance Office. 
(37) The Defense Intelligence Agency. 
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(38) The National Geospatial Intelligence Agen-
cy. 
(39) The Office of the Director of National In-
telligence. 
SEC. 117. Not later than November 1, 2012, and 
each month thereafter through the month following the 
period covered by this joint resolution, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate a report on all obligations incurred 
by each department and agency in the period covered by 
this joint resolution. Such report shall— 
(1) set forth obligations by account; 
(2) compare the obligations incurred in the pe-
riod covered by the report to the obligations incurred 
in the same period in fiscal year 2012; and 
(3) specify each executive branch account for 
which funds made available by this joint resolution 
are apportioned at a different rate for operations 
than the rate otherwise provided in section 101, with 
an estimate of the different rate otherwise provided 
in such section and the total obligations estimated to 
be incurred under this joint resolution for such ac-
count. 
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SEC. 118. Section 726(15) of division A of Public 
Law 112–55 shall be applied to amounts made available 
by this joint resolution without regard to the first proviso 
of such section. 
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are 
provided for ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Domestic Food 
Programs—Food and Nutrition Service—Commodity As-
sistance Program’’, at a rate for operations of 
$253,952,000, of which $186,935,000 shall be for the 
Commodity Supplemental Food Program. 
SEC. 120. (a) Amounts made available under section 
101 for ‘‘Department of Commerce—National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration—Procurement, Acquisi-
tion and Construction’’ may be apportioned up to the rate 
for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch 
schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the 
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite sys-
tem. 
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enact-
ment of this joint resolution, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget shall submit to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate a plan to maintain the launch schedules 
and life cycle cost estimates established in fiscal year 2012 
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for the satellite systems described in subsection (a) and 
options for reducing costs, including management costs. 
SEC. 121. Through the earlier of the date specified 
in section 106(3) of this joint resolution or the date of 
the enactment of an Act authorizing appropriations for 
fiscal year 2013 for military activities of the Department 
of Defense, no appropriation or funds made available or 
authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Depart-
ment of Defense shall be used to— 
(1) retire, divest, realign, or transfer aircraft of 
the Air Force; 
(2) disestablish or convert any unit associated 
with aircraft described in paragraph (1) or any unit 
of the Air National Guard or Air Force Reserve; or 
(3) retire C–23 Sherpa aircraft. 
SEC. 122. The authority provided by section 801 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 2399) shall continue 
in effect, notwithstanding subsection (f) of such section, 
through the earlier of the date specified in section 106(3) 
of this joint resolution or the date of the enactment of 
an Act authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 123. The authority provided by section 
572(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
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Fiscal Year 2006 (20 U.S.C. 7703b(b)(4)) shall continue 
in effect through the earlier of the date specified in section 
106(3) of this joint resolution or the date of the enactment 
of an Act authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2013 
for military activities of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 124. In addition to any other transfer authority 
available to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of 
Defense may transfer an amount designated for Overseas 
Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 made available by 
this joint resolution for the Department of Defense be-
tween such appropriations, to be merged with and to be 
available for the same purposes, and the same time period, 
as the appropriation or fund to which transferred. The 
Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense 
committees not fewer than 15 days prior to any transfer 
made pursuant to this section. 
SEC. 125. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, amounts 
are provided for ‘‘Department of Energy—National Nu-
clear Security Administration—Weapons Activities’’ at a 
rate for operations of $7,577,341,000. 
(b) Section 301(c) of title III of division B of Public 
Law 112–74 shall not apply to amounts made available 
by this section. 
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SEC. 126. In addition to the amounts otherwise made 
available by section 101 for ‘‘Department of Energy—Na-
tional Nuclear Security Administration—Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation’’, an additional amount is made available 
for domestic uranium enrichment research, development, 
and 
demonstration 
at 
a 
rate 
for 
operations 
of 
$100,000,000. 
SEC. 127. Section 14704 of title 40, United States 
Code, shall be applied to amounts made available by this 
joint resolution by substituting the date specified in sec-
tion 106(3) of this joint resolution for ‘‘October 1, 2012’’. 
SEC. 128. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this joint resolution, except section 106, the District of 
Columbia may expend local funds under the heading ‘‘Dis-
trict of Columbia Funds’’ for such programs and activities 
under title IV of H.R. 6020 (112th Congress), as reported 
by the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives, at the rate set forth under ‘‘District of Co-
lumbia Funds—Summary of Expenses’’ as included in the 
Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request Act of 2012 (D.C. Act 
19–381), as modified as of the date of the enactment of 
this joint resolution. 
SEC. 129. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are 
provided for ‘‘District of Columbia—Federal Funds— 
Federal Payment for Emergency Planning and Security 
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Costs in the District of Columbia’’ at a rate for operations 
of $24,700,000, of which not less than $9,800,000 shall 
be used for costs associated with the Presidential Inau-
guration. 
SEC. 130. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are 
provided for ‘‘General Services Administration—Ex-
penses, Presidential Transition’’ for necessary expenses to 
carry out the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (3 
U.S.C. 102 note), at a rate for operations of $8,947,000, 
of which not to exceed $1,000,000 is for activities author-
ized by sections 3(a)(8) and (9) of such Act. 
SEC. 131. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, amounts 
are provided for ‘‘Executive Office of the President—Of-
fice of Administration—Presidential Transition Adminis-
trative Support’’ to carry out the Presidential Transition 
Act of 1963 (3 U.S.C. 102 note) at a rate for operations 
of $8,000,000. 
(b) Such funds may be transferred to other accounts 
in this joint resolution or any other Act that provide fund-
ing for offices within the Executive Office of the President 
and the Office of the Vice President to carry out the Presi-
dential Transition Act of 1963 (3 U.S.C. 102 note). 
SEC. 132. Notwithstanding section 101, the fifth pro-
viso under the heading ‘‘Federal Communications Com-
mission—Salaries and Expenses’’ in division C of Public 
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Law 
112–74 
shall 
be 
applied 
by 
substituting 
‘‘$98,739,000’’ for ‘‘$85,000,000’’. 
SEC. 133. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this joint resolution, amounts made available by section 
101 for ‘‘Department of the Treasury—Departmental Of-
fices—Salaries and Expenses’’ and ‘‘Department of the 
Treasury—Office of Inspector General—Salaries and Ex-
penses’’ may be used for activities in connection with sec-
tion 1602(e) of the Resources and Ecosystems Sustain-
ability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of 
the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (subtitle F of title I 
of division A of Public Law 112–141). 
SEC. 134. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are 
provided for ‘‘Office of Government Ethics—Salaries and 
Expenses’’ at a rate for operations of $18,664,000, of 
which $5,000,000 shall be for development and deploy-
ment of the centralized, publicly accessible database re-
quired in section 11(b) of the STOCK Act (Public Law 
112–105). 
SEC. 135. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are 
provided for ‘‘Small Business Administration—Business 
Loans Program Account’’ for the cost of guaranteed loans 
as authorized by section 7(a) of the Small Business Act 
and section 503 of the Small Business Investment Act of 
1958 at a rate for operations of $333,600,000. 
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SEC. 136. (a) Amounts made available by this joint 
resolution for ‘‘Department of Homeland Security—U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection—Salaries and Expenses’’ 
shall be obligated at the rate for operations necessary to 
maintain the staffing levels (including by backfilling va-
cant positions) of Border Patrol agents, Customs and Bor-
der Protection officers, and Air and Marine interdiction 
agents in effect at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal 
year 2012, or, with respect to Border Patrol agents, at 
such greater levels as may otherwise be required in the 
second proviso under the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection—Salaries and Expenses’’ in division D of 
Public Law 112–74. Any increase of the rate for oper-
ations for such purpose under this subsection shall be de-
rived by adjusting amounts otherwise made available with-
in such account by this joint resolution, without regard 
to the restrictions on reprogramming in section 503 of di-
vision D of Public Law 112–74. 
(b) Not later than 15 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this joint resolution, the Commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection shall submit to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate a detailed expenditure plan for ‘‘Depart-
ment of Homeland Security—U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection—Salaries and Expenses’’ at the program, 
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