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SEC. 203. No appropriation or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 201 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 1995.
SEC. 204. No provision which is included in the ap-
propriations Act enumerated in section 201 but which was
not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal
year 1995 and which by its terms is applicable to more
than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be appli-
cable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in
this title of this joint resolution.
SEC. 205. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this title of this joint resolution shall cover
all obligations 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 title of this joint resolution.
SEC. 206. Unless otherwise provided for in this title
of this joint resolution or in the applicable appropriations
Act, appropriations and funds made available and author-
ity granted pursuant to this title of this title of this joint
resolution shall be available until (a) enactment into law
of an appropriation for any project or activity provided
for in this title of this joint resolution, or (b) the enact-
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ment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by both
Houses without any provision for such project or activity,
or (c) January 3, 1996, whichever first occurs.
SEC. 207. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 206, none
of the funds appropriated under this title of this joint reso-
lution shall be expended for any abortion except where the
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were
carried to term or where the pregnancy is the result of
an act of rape or incest.
SEC. 208. Expenditures made pursuant to this title
of this joint resolution shall be charged to the applicable
appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in
which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authoriza-
tion is contained is enacted into law.
SEC. 209. No provision in the appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 201 of this title
of this joint resolution that makes the availability of any
appropriation provided therein dependent upon the enact-
ment of additional authorizing or other legislation shall
be effective before the date set forth in section 206(c) of
this joint resolution.
SEC. 210. Appropriations and funds made available
by or authority granted pursuant to this title of this joint
resolution may be used without regard to the time limita-
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tions 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 provi-
sion of law governing the apportionment of funds.
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 206, when-
ever the Act listed in section 201 as passed by both the
House and Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint
resolution, does not include funding for an ongoing project
or activity for which there is a budget request, or whenever
the rate for operations for an ongoing project or activity
provided by section 201 for which there is a budget re-
quest would result in the project or activity being signifi-
cantly reduced, the pertinent project or activity may be
continued under the authority and conditions provided in
the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995
by increasing the rate for operations provided by section
201 to a rate for operations not to exceed one that pro-
vides the minimal level that would enable existing activi-
ties to continue. No new contracts or grants shall be
awarded in excess of an amount that bears the same ratio
to the rate for operations provided by this section as the
number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
For the purposes of this title of this joint resolution the
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minimal level means a rate for operations that is reduced
from the current rate by 25 percent.
SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 206, when-
ever the rate for operations for any continuing project or
activity provided by section 201 or section 211 for which
there is a budget request would result in a furlough of
Government employees, that rate for operations may be
increased to the minimum level that would enable the fur-
lough to be avoided. No new contracts or grants shall be
awarded in excess of an amount that bears the same ratio
to the rate for operations provided by this section as the
number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
SEC. 213. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except sections 206, 211,
and 212, for those programs that had high initial rates
of operation or complete distribution of funding at the be-
ginning of the fiscal year in fiscal year 1995 because of
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries,
grantees, or others, similar distributions of funds for fiscal
year 1996 shall not be made and no grants shall be award-
ed for such programs funded by this title of this resolution
that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
SEC. 214. This title of this joint resolution shall be
implemented so that only the most limited funding action
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of that permitted in this title of this resolution shall be
taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and
activities.
SEC. 215. The provisions of section 132 of the Dis-
trict of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law
100–202, shall not apply for this title of this joint resolu-
tion.
SEC. 216. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 206, none
of the funds appropriated under this title of this joint reso-
lution shall be used to implement or enforce any system
or registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples whether
they are homosexual, lesbian, heterosexual, including but
not limited to registration for the purpose of extending
employment, health, or governmental benefits to such cou-
ples on the same basis that such benefits are extended to
legally married couples; nor shall any funds made available
pursuant to any provision of this title of this joint resolu-
tion otherwise be used to implement or enforce D.C. Act
9–188, signed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia
on April 15, 1992.
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