106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. J. RES. 68
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal
year 2000, and for other purposes.
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. J. RES. 68
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2000,
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,
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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 2000, and for other purposes, namely:
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1999 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 1999 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, 2000;
(2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2000, notwithstanding section 15 of
the State Department Basic Authorities Act of
1956, section 701 of the United States Information
and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal
Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236), and
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section 53 of the Arms Control and Disarmament
Act;
(3) the Department of Defense Appropriations
Act, 2000, notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the
National Security Act of 1947;
(4) the District of Columbia Appropriations
Act, 2000;
(5) the Energy and Water Development Appro-
priations Act, 2000;
(6) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing,
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000,
notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91–672
and section 15 of the State Department Basic Au-
thorities Act of 1956;
(7) the Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000;
(8) the Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2000, the House or Senate
reported version of which, if such reported version
exists, shall be deemed to have passed the House or
Senate respectively as of October 1, 1999, for the
purposes of this joint resolution, unless a reported
version is passed as of October 1, 1999, in which
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case the passed version shall be used in place of the
reported version for purposes of this joint resolution;
(9) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,
2000;
(10) the Department of Transportation and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000;
(11) the Treasury and General Government Ap-
propriations Act, 2000; and
(12) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000:
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 Octo-
ber 1, 1999, is different than that which would be avail-
able or granted under current operations, the pertinent
project or activity shall be continued at a rate for oper-
ations not exceeding the current rate: Provided further,
That whenever there is no amount made available under
any of these appropriations Acts as passed by the House
and Senate as of October 1, 1999, for a continuing project
or activity which was conducted in fiscal year 1999 and
for which there is fiscal year 2000 funding included in
the budget request, the pertinent project or activity shall
be continued at the rate for current operations under the
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authority and conditions provided in the applicable appro-
priations Act for the fiscal year 1999.
(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, 1999, is different from that which would be
available or granted under such Act as passed by the Sen-
ate as of October 1, 1999, 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 2000 and under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1999.
(c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has
been passed by only the House or only the Senate as of
October 1, 1999, the pertinent project or activity shall be
continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority
granted by the one House at a rate for operations not ex-
ceeding the current rate and under the authority and con-
ditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 1999: 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, 1999, for a continuing project or activity which was
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conducted in fiscal year 1999 and for which there is fiscal
year 2000 funding included in the budget request, the per-
tinent 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 1999.
(d) If the Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2000, has not been reported in either the House
or the Senate as of October 1, 1999, continuing projects
or activities that were conducted in fiscal year 1999 shall
be continued at the current rate under the appropriation,
fund or authority and terms and conditions provided in
the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1999.
SEC. 102. No appropriation or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the De-
partment of Defense shall be used for new production of
items not funded for production in fiscal year 1999 or
prior years, for the increase in production rates above
those sustained with fiscal year 1999 funds, or to initiate,
resume, or continue any project, activity, operation, or or-
ganization which are defined as any project, subproject,
activity, budget activity, program element, and subpro-
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gram within a program element and for investment items
are further defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity
within an appropriation account and an R–1 line item
which includes a program element and subprogram ele-
ment within an appropriation account, for which appro-
priations, funds, or other authority were not available dur-
ing the fiscal year 1999: Provided, That 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 pro-
curement funding for economic order quantity procure-
ment unless specifically appropriated later.
SEC. 103. 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. 104. 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 1999.
SEC. 105. 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 1999 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. 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; (b) the en-
actment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by
both Houses without any provision for such project or ac-
tivity; or (c) October 21, 1999, whichever first occurs.
SEC. 107. 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. 108. 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. 109. No provision in the appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 2000 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. 110. 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. 111. 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. 112. 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 1999 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 2000 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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SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper-
ations for projects and activities that would be funded
under the heading ‘‘International Organizations and Con-
ferences, Contributions to International Organizations’’ in
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Ju-
diciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,
shall be the amount provided by the provisions of section
101 multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered
by this resolution to 366.
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper-
ations for the following activities funded with Federal
Funds for the District of Columbia, shall be at a rate for
operations not exceeding the current rate, multiplied by
the ratio of the number of days covered by this joint reso-
lution to 366: Corrections Trustee Operations, Public De-
fender Services, Parole Revocation, Adult Probation, Of-
fender Supervision, Sex Offender Registration, Pretrial
Services, District of Columbia Courts, and Defender Serv-
ices 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
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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 any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper-
ations for reimbursement of past losses for the Commodity
Credit Corporation Fund shall be $11,500,000,000.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding section 235(a)(2) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2195(a)(2)),
the authority of section 234(a) (b) and (c), of the same
Act, shall remain in effect during the period of this joint
resolution.
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding sections 101, 104, and
106 of this joint resolution, funds may be used to initiate
or resume projects or activities at a rate in excess of the
current rate to the extent necessary, consistent with exist-
ing agency plans, to achieve Year 2000 (Y2K) computer
compliance and for implementation of business continuity
and contingency plans.
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding sections 101 and 104 of
this joint resolution, not to exceed $189,524,382 shall be
available for projects and activities for decennial census
programs for the period covered by this joint resolution.
SEC. 120. Notwithstanding section 101 of this joint
resolution, the rate for operations for projects and activi-
ties funded by accounts in the Departments of Commerce,