In the Senate of the United States,
November 19, 1995.
Resolved, That the resolution from the House of Rep-
resentatives (H.J. Res. 123) entitled ‘‘Joint resolution mak-
ing further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year
1996, and for other purposes’’ do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert:
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 1996, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I
CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary
under the authority and conditions provided in the applica-
ble appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 for continu-
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ing projects or activities including the costs of direct loans
and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically provided for
in this joint resolution) which were conducted in the fiscal
year 1995 and for which appropriations, funds, or other
authority would be available in the following appropria-
tions Acts:
The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1996, notwithstanding section 15 of the
State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, sec-
tion 701 of the United States Information and Edu-
cational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313 of the
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years
1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236), and section 53
of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act;
The Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
1996, notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947;
The District of Columbia Appropriations Act,
1996;
The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996, notwith-
standing section 10 of Public Law 91–672 and section
15(a) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act
of 1956;
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The Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 1996;
The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,
1996, H.R. 2492;
The Department of Transportation Appropria-
tions Act, 1996;
The Treasury, Postal Service, and General Gov-
ernment Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Independent Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1996:
Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made
available or the authority which would be granted in these
Acts is greater than that which would be available or grant-
ed under current operations, the pertinent project or activ-
ity shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding
the current rate.
(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 the date
of enactment of this joint resolution, is different from that
which would be available or granted under such Act as
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passed by the Senate as of the date of enactment of this
joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity shall be
continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the current
rate or the rate permitted by the action of the House or
the Senate, whichever is lower, under the authority and con-
ditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That where an item is not
included in either version or where an item is included in
only one version of the Act as passed by both Houses as
of the date of enactment of this joint resolution, the perti-
nent project or activity shall not be continued except as pro-
vided for in section 111 or 112 under the appropriation,
fund, or authority granted by the applicable appropriations
Act for the fiscal year 1995 and under the authority and
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1995.
(c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has been
passed by only the House or only the Senate as of the date
of enactment of this joint resolution, 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 exceeding the current rate or the rate per-
mitted by the action of the one House, whichever is lower,
and under the authority and conditions provided in the ap-
plicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995: Pro-
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vided, That where an item is funded in the applicable ap-
propriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and not included
in the version passed by the one House as of the date of
enactment of this joint resolution, the pertinent project or
activity shall not be continued except as provided for in
section 111 or 112 under the appropriation, fund, or au-
thority granted by the applicable appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 1995 and under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1995.
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 1995 or prior
years, for the increase in production rates above those sus-
tained with fiscal year 1995 funds, or to initiate, resume,
or continue any project, activity, operation, or organization
which are defined as any project, subproject, activity, budg-
et activity, program element, and subprogram within a
program element and for investment items are further de-
fined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity within an
appropriation account and an R–1 line item which in-
cludes a program element and subprogram element within
an appropriation account, for which appropriations, funds,
or other authority were not available during the fiscal year
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1995: 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 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 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 1995.
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 1995 and which by its terms is applicable to more
than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be applica-
ble 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)
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enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or
activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the en-
actment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by
both Houses without any provision for such project or activ-
ity, or (c) November 20, 1995, whichever first occurs. For
purposes of this resolution, the period of time covered by
this resolution shall be considered to have begun on Novem-
ber 14, 1995.
SEC. 107. Appropriations made and authority granted
pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations
or expenditures incurred for any program, project, or activ-
ity 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 1996 referred to in section 101 of this joint
resolution that makes the availability of any appropriation
provided therein dependent upon the enactment of addi-
tional authorizing or other legislation shall be effective be-
fore the date set forth in section 106(c) of this joint resolu-
tion.
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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 sub-
mission 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 gov-
erning the apportionment of funds.
SEC. 111. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever an Act listed
in section 101 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 an Act listed in sec-
tion 101 has been passed by only the House or only the
Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint resolution,
and an item funded in fiscal year 1995 is not included in
the version passed by the one House, or whenever the rate
for operations for an ongoing project or activity provided
by section 101 for which there is a budget request would
result in the project or activity being significantly reduced,
the pertinent project or activity may be continued under
the authority and conditions provided in the applicable ap-
propriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 by increasing the
rate for operations provided by section 101 to a rate for
operations not to exceed one that provides the minimal level
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that would enable existing activities 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 resolu-
tion bears to 366. For the purposes of the Act, the minimal
level means a rate for operations that is reduced from the
current rate by 25 percent.
SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever the rate for
operations for any continuing project or activity provided
by section 101 or section 111 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 furlough 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 resolu-
tion bears to 366.
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except sections 106, 111, and 112, for those
programs that had high initial rates of operation or com-
plete distribution of funding at the beginning of the fiscal
year in fiscal year 1995 because of distributions of funding
to States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, similar dis-
tributions of funds for fiscal year 1996 shall not be made
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and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded
by this resolution that would impinge on final funding pre-
rogatives.
SEC. 114. This joint resolution shall be implemented
so that only the most limited funding action of that per-
mitted in the resolution shall be taken in order to provide
for continuation of projects and activities.
SEC. 115. The provisions of section 132 of the District
of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law 100–
202, shall not apply for this joint resolution. Included in
the apportionment for the Federal Payment to the District
of Columbia shall be an additional $15,000,000 above the
amount otherwise made available by this joint resolution,
for purposes of certain capital construction loan repay-
ments pursuant to Public Law 85–451, as amended.
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the authority and condi-
tions for the application of appropriations for the Office
of Technology Assessment as contained in the conference re-
port on the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996,
House Report 104–212, shall be followed when applying the
funding made available by this joint resolution.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, any distribution of
funding under the Rehabilitation Services and Disability
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Research account in the Department of Education may be
made up to an amount that bears the same ratio to the
rate for operation for this account provided by this joint
resolution as the number of days covered by this resolution
bears to 366.
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the authorities provided
under subsection (a) of section 140 of the Foreign Relations
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public
Law 103–236) shall remain in effect during the period of
this joint resolution, notwithstanding paragraph (3) of said
subsection.
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the amount made avail-
able to the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the
heading Salaries and Expenses, shall include, in addition
to direct appropriations, the amount it collects under the
fee rate and offsetting collection authority contained in
Public Law 103–352, which fee rate and offsetting collection
authority shall remain in effect during the period of this
joint resolution.
SEC. 120. Until enactment of legislation providing
funding for the entire fiscal year ending September 30,
1996, for the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies, funds available for necessary expenses of the Bureau
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of Mines are for continuing limited health and safety and
related research, materials partnerships, and minerals in-
formation activities; for mineral assessments in Alaska; and
for terminating all other activities of the Bureau of Mines.
SEC. 121. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, funds for the Environ-
mental Protection Agency shall be made available in the
appropriation accounts which are provided in H.R. 2099
as reported on September 13, 1995.
SEC. 122. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations
for projects and activities that would be funded under the
heading ‘‘International Organizations and Conferences,
Contributions to International Organizations’’ in the De-
partments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, shall be the
amount provided by the provisions of sections 101, 111, and
112 multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered
by this resolution to 366 and multiplied further by 1.27.
SEC. 123. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations
of the following projects or activities shall be only the mini-
mum necessary to accomplish orderly termination:
Administrative Conference of the United States;
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Re-
lations (except that activities to carry out the provi-
sions of Public Law 104–4 may continue);
Interstate Commerce Commission;
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation;
Land and Water Conservation Fund, State As-
sistance; and
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and En-
forcement, Rural Abandoned Mine Program.
TITLE II
SEC. 201. WAIVER OF REQUIREMENT FOR PARCHMENT
PRINTING.
(a) WAIVER.—The provisions of sections 106 and 107
of title 1, United States Code, are waived with respect to
the printing (on parchment or otherwise) of the enrollment
of any of the following measures of the first session of the
One Hundred Fourth Congress presented to the President
after the enactment of this joint resolution:
(1) A continuing resolution.
(2) A debt limit extension measure.
(3) A reconciliation bill.
(b) CERTIFICATION BY COMMITTEE ON HOUSE OVER-
SIGHT.—The enrollment of a measure to which subsection
(a) applies shall be in such form as the Committee on House