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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 815 
To provide, in the event of a Government shutdown during fiscal year 2019, 
continuing appropriations to members and employees of the Coast Guard 
and law enforcement officers and custom and border protection officers 
within the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2019 
Mr. KELLY of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Appropriations 
A BILL 
To provide, in the event of a Government shutdown during 
fiscal year 2019, continuing appropriations to members 
and employees of the Coast Guard and law enforcement 
officers and custom and border protection officers within 
the Department of Homeland Security, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pay our Homeland 
Heroes Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COAST GUARD 
AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND 
CUSTOM AND BORDER PROTECTION OFFI-
CERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
SECURITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are hereby appropriated for 
fiscal year 2019, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for any period during which in-
terim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2019 are 
not in effect— 
(1) such sums as are necessary to provide pay 
and allowances to members and employees of the 
Coast Guard; and 
(2) such sums as are necessary to provide the 
salary and expenses of any law enforcement officer 
(as that term is defined in section 8401(17) of title 
5, United States Code) or customs and border pro-
tection officer (as that term is defined in section 
8401(36) of such title) within the Department of 
Homeland Security. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Appropriations and funds made 
available and authority granted pursuant to subsection (a) 
shall be available until whichever of the following first oc-
curs: 
(1) The enactment into law of an appropriation 
(including a continuing appropriation) for any pur-
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pose for which amounts are made available in sub-
section (a). 
(2) The enactment into law of the applicable 
regular or continuing appropriations resolution or 
other Act without any appropriation for such pur-
pose. 
(c) BACKPAY.—With respect to the period of a lapse 
in the appropriations described in subsection (a) beginning 
on or around December 22, 2018, and ending on the date 
of enactment of this Act, compensation provided by this 
section shall be considered to be payments made in accord-
ance with subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31, United 
States Code, as added by the Government Employee Fair 
Treatment Act of 2019. 
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