IIA 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. J. RES. 123 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 7, 2017 
Received 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 
2018, and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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DIVISION 
A—FURTHER 
CON-
TINUING 
APPROPRIATIONS 
ACT, 2018 
SEC. 101. FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS. 
The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (division D 
of Public Law 115–56) is amended by striking the date 
specified in section 106(3) and inserting ‘‘December 22, 
2017’’. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Further Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 
DIVISION 
B—CHILDREN’S 
HEALTH 
INSURANCE 
PRO-
GRAM 
(CHIP) 
ALLOCATION 
REDISTRIBUTION 
SPECIAL 
RULE 
SEC. 201. CHIP ALLOCATION REDISTRIBUTION SPECIAL 
RULE FOR CERTAIN SHORTFALL STATES 
DURING FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 
2018. 
Section 2104(f)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1397dd(f)(2)) is amended— 
(1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 
follows: 
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‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF REDISTRIBUTED 
AMOUNTS
IF
INSUFFICIENT
AMOUNTS
AVAIL-
ABLE.— 
‘‘(i) PRORATION
RULE.—Subject to 
clause (ii), if the amounts available for re-
distribution under paragraph (1) for a fis-
cal year are less than the total amounts of 
the estimated shortfalls determined for the 
year under subparagraph (A), the amount 
to be redistributed under such paragraph 
for each shortfall State shall be reduced 
proportionally. 
‘‘(ii) SPECIAL RULE FOR FIRST QUAR-
TER OF FISCAL YEAR 2018.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—For the pe-
riod beginning on October 1, 2017, 
and ending December 31, 2017, with 
respect to any amounts available for 
redistribution under paragraph (1) for 
fiscal year 2018, the Secretary shall 
redistribute under such paragraph 
such amounts to each emergency 
shortfall State (as defined in sub-
clause (II)) in such amount as is 
equal to the amount of the shortfall 
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described in subclause (II) for such 
State and period (as may be adjusted 
under subparagraph (C)) before the 
Secretary 
may 
redistribute 
such 
amounts to any shortfall State that is 
not an emergency shortfall State. In 
the case of any amounts redistributed 
under this subclause to a State that is 
not an emergency shortfall State, such 
amounts shall be determined in ac-
cordance with clause (i). 
‘‘(II) EMERGENCY
SHORTFALL 
STATE
DEFINED.—For purposes of 
this clause, the term ‘emergency 
shortfall State’ means, with respect to 
the period beginning October 1, 2017, 
and ending December 31, 2017, a 
shortfall State for which the Secretary 
estimates, in accordance with sub-
paragraph (A) (unless otherwise speci-
fied in this subclause), that the pro-
jected expenditures under the State 
child health plan and under section 
2105(g) (calculated as if the reference 
under section 2105(g)(4)(A) to ‘2017’ 
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were a reference to ‘2018’ and insofar 
as the allotments are available to the 
State under this subsection or sub-
section (e) or (m)) for such period will 
exceed the sum of the amounts de-
scribed in clauses (i) through (iii) of 
subparagraph (A) for such period, in-
cluding 
after 
application 
of 
any 
amount redistributed under paragraph 
(1) before such date of enactment to 
such State. A shortfall State may be 
an emergency shortfall State under 
the previous sentence without regard 
to whether any amounts were redis-
tributed before such date of enact-
ment to such State under paragraph 
(1) for fiscal year 2018. 
‘‘(III) APPLICATION
OF
QUALI-
FYING
STATE
OPTION.—During the 
period described in subclause (I), sec-
tion 2105(g)(4) shall apply to a quali-
fying State (as defined in section 
2105(g)(2)) 
as 
if 
under 
section 
2105(g)(4)— 
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‘‘(aa) the reference to ‘2017’ 
were a reference to ‘2018’; and 
‘‘(bb) the reference to ‘under 
subsections (e) and (m) of such 
section’ were a reference to 
‘under subsections (e), (f), and 
(m) of such section’.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(D) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 
in this paragraph may be construed as pre-
venting a commonwealth or territory described 
in subsection (c)(3) from being treated as a 
shortfall State or an emergency shortfall 
State.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 7, 
2017. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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