H. R. 2775 
One Hundred Thirteenth 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 thirteen 
An Act 
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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, 
corporations, and other organizational units of Government for fiscal 
year 2014, and for other purposes, namely: 
DIVISION A—CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2014 
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate 
for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts 
for fiscal year 2013 and under the authority and conditions provided 
in such Acts, for continuing projects or activities (including the 
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise 
specifically provided for in this joint resolution, that were conducted 
in fiscal year 2013, and for which appropriations, funds, or other 
authority were made available in the following appropriations Acts: 
(1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 
(division A of Public Law 113–6), except section 735. 
(2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2013 (division B of Public Law 113–6). 
(3) The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 
(division C of Public Law 113–6). 
(4) The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
Act, 2013 (division D of Public Law 113–6). 
(5) The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of Public 
Law 113–6). 
(6) The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 
(division F of Public Law 113–6). 
(b) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) for each 
account shall be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduc-
tion required in fiscal year 2013 pursuant to— 
(1) any provision of division G of the Consolidated and 
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 113– 
6), including section 3004; and 
(2) the Presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 
2013, except as attributable to budget authority made available 
by—
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(A) sections 140(b) or 141(b) of the Continuing Appro-
priations Resolution, 2013 (Public Law 112–175); or 
(B) the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public 
Law 113–2). 
SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made available or 
authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of 
Defense shall be used for: (1) the new production of items not 
funded for production in fiscal year 2013 or prior years; (2) the 
increase in production rates above those sustained with fiscal year 
2013 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 investment 
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 within an appropriation account) 
for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not avail-
able during fiscal year 2013. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense 
shall be used to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance 
procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement 
unless specifically appropriated 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 authority granted pursu-
ant to section 101 shall be used to initiate or resume any project 
or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were 
not available during fiscal year 2013. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant 
to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations 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 2014, appro-
priations 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) the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act 
for fiscal year 2014 without any provision for such project or activity; 
or (3) January 15, 2014. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authoriza-
tion whenever a bill in which such applicable 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 limitations 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.
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SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, except section 106, for those programs that would other-
wise have high initial rates of operation or complete distribution 
of appropriations at the beginning of fiscal year 2014 because of 
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or 
others, such high initial rates of operation or complete distribution 
shall not be made, and no grants shall be awarded for such pro-
grams 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 permitted 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 appropriations Acts for 
fiscal year 2013, 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 condi-
tions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2013, to be continued through the date specified in section 106(3). 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for mandatory pay-
ments due on or about the first day of any month that begins 
after October 2013 but not later than 30 days after the date specified 
in section 106(3) may continue 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 department or agency, consistent 
with the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2013, except 
that such authority 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 expenses. 
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 Authorization 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. 3094(a)(1)). 
SEC. 114. (a) Each amount incorporated by reference in this 
joint resolution that was previously designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 or as being for disaster relief 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of such Act is designated by the 
Congress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act or as being 
for disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of such Act, 
respectively. 
(b) Of the amounts made available by section 101 for ‘‘Social 
Security Administration, Limitation on Administrative Expenses’’ 
for the cost associated with continuing disability reviews under 
titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act and for the cost associ-
ated with conducting redeterminations of eligibility under title XVI 
of the Social Security Act, $273,000,000 is provided to meet the 
terms of section 251(b)(2)(B)(ii)(III) of the Balanced Budget and
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Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and 
$469,639,000 is additional new budget authority specified for pur-
poses of section 251(b)(2)(B) of such Act. 
(c) Section 5 of Public Law 113–6 shall apply to amounts 
designated in subsection (a) for Overseas Contingency Operations/ 
Global War on Terrorism. 
SEC. 115. (a) Employees furloughed as a result of any lapse 
in appropriations which begins on or about October 1, 2013, shall 
be compensated at their standard rate of compensation, for the 
period of such lapse in appropriations, as soon as practicable after 
such lapse in appropriations ends. 
(b) For purposes of this section, ‘‘employee’’ means: 
(1) a federal employee; 
(2) an employee of the District of Columbia Courts; 
(3) an employee of the Public Defender Service for the 
District of Columbia; or 
(4) a District of Columbia Government employee. 
(c) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations 
made and authority granted by this joint resolution 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 purposes as otherwise authorized by law, are 
hereby ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the provi-
sions of this joint resolution. 
SEC. 116. (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 
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 2014 (not limited to periods beginning 
or ending after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution) 
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 
reimbursement relating to, any of the expenses referred to in this