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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. J. RES. 109
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2001, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 25, 2000
Mr. YOUNG of Florida introduced the following joint resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Appropriations
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2001,
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
the fiscal year 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
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cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 2000 for con-
tinuing projects or activities including the costs of direct
loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically pro-
vided for in this joint resolution) which were conducted
in the fiscal year 2000 and for which appropriations,
funds, or other authority would be available in the fol-
lowing appropriations Acts:
(1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2001;
(2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2001, notwithstanding section 15 of
the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956
and, section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authoriza-
tion Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law
103–236);
(3) the District of Columbia Appropriations
Act, 2001;
(4) the Energy and Water Development Appro-
priations Act, 2001;
(5) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing,
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001,
notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91–672
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and section 15 of the State Department Basic Au-
thorities Act of 1956;
(6) the Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001;
(7) the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2001;
(8) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,
2001;
(9) the Department of Transportation and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001;
(10) the Treasury and General Government Ap-
propriations Act, 2001; and
(11) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001:
Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made
available or the authority which would be granted in these
Acts as passed by the House and Senate as of October
1, 2000, is different than that which would be available
or granted under current operations, the pertinent project
or activity shall be continued at a rate for operations not
exceeding the current rate: Provided further, That when-
ever there is no amount made available under any of these
appropriations Acts as passed by the House and Senate
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as of October 1, 2000, for a continuing project or activity
which was conducted in fiscal year 2000 and for which
there is fiscal year 2001 funding included in the budget
request, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued
at the rate for current operations under the authority and
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 2000.
(b) Whenever the amount which would be made avail-
able or the authority which would be granted under an
Act listed in this section as passed by the House as of
October 1, 2000, is different from that which would be
available or granted under such Act as passed by the Sen-
ate as of October 1, 2000, the pertinent project or activity
shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding
the current rate under the appropriation, fund, or author-
ity granted by the applicable appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 2001 and under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 2000.
(c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has been
passed by only the House or only the Senate as of October
1, 2000, the pertinent project or activity shall be contin-
ued under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted
by the one House at a rate for operations not exceeding
the current rate and under the authority and conditions
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provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 2000: Provided, That whenever there is no amount
made available under any of these appropriations Acts as
passed by the House or the Senate as of October 1, 2000,
for a continuing project or activity which was conducted
in fiscal year 2000 and for which there is fiscal year 2001
funding included in the budget requested, the pertinent
project or activity shall be continued at the rate for cur-
rent operations under the authority and conditions pro-
vided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 2000.
SEC. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall
be available to the extent and in the manner which would
be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
SEC. 103. No appropriation or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used
to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap-
propriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 104. No provision which is included in an appro-
priations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was
not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal
year 2000 and which by its terms is applicable to more
than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be appli-
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cable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in
this joint resolution.
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga-
tions or expenditures incurred for any program, 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, appro-
priations and funds made available and authority granted
pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until
(a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project
or activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the
enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act
by both Houses without any provision for such project or
activity, or (c) October 6, 2000, whichever first occurs.
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. No provision in the appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 2001 referred to in section 101 of this Act
that makes the availability of any appropriation provided
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therein dependent upon the enactment of additional au-
thorizing or other legislation shall be effective before the
date set forth in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.
SEC. 109. Appropriations and funds made available
by or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution
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
herein shall be construed to waive any other provision of
law governing the apportionment of funds.
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. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, for those pro-
grams that had high initial rates of operation or complete
distribution of fiscal year 2000 appropriations at the be-
ginning of that fiscal year because of distributions of fund-
ing to States, foreign countries, grantees or others, similar
distributions of funds for fiscal year 2001 shall not be
made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs
funded by this resolution that would impinge on final
funding prerogatives.
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joint resolution to 365: Resident Tuition Support, Correc-
tions Trustee Operations, Court Services and Offender
Supervision, District of Columbia Courts, and Defender
Services in District of Columbia Courts.
SEC. 
115. 
Activities 
authorized 
by 
sections
1309(a)(2), as amended by Public Law 104–208, and
1376(c) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), may continue through
the date specified in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding subsections (a)(2) and
(h)(1)(B) of section 3011 of Public Law 106–31, activities
authorized for fiscal year 2000 by such section may con-
tinue during the period covered by this joint resolution.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, the rate for operations for projects
and activities for decennial census programs that would
be funded under the heading ‘‘Bureau of the Census, Peri-
odic Censuses and Programs’’ in the Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, shall be the budget
request.
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution except section 106, the United States
Geological Survey may sign a contract to maintain
Landsat-7 flight operations consistent with the President’s
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Budget proposal to transfer Landsat-7 flight operations
responsibility from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration to the United States Geological Survey be-
ginning in fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, funds previously appropriated to the
American Section of the International Joint Commission
in Public Law 106–246 may be obligated and expended
in fiscal year 2001 without regard to section 15 of the
State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as
amended.
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