In the Senate of the United States, 
September 30, 2015. 
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 719) entitled ‘‘An Act to require the Transpor-
tation Security Administration to conform to existing Federal 
law and regulations regarding criminal investigator positions, 
and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following 
SENATE AMENDMENT TO HOUSE AMENDMENT TO 
SENATE AMENDMENT: 
At the end add the following: 
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 2016, and for other purposes, namely: 
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at 
a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2015 and under the authority 
and conditions provided in such Acts, for continuing
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(7) The Department of the Interior, Environ-
ment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 
(division F of Public Law 113–235). 
(8) The Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2015 (division G of Public 
Law 113–235), except title VI. 
(9) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
2015 (division H of Public Law 113–235). 
(10) The Military Construction and Veterans Af-
fairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 
(division I of Public Law 113–235). 
(11) The Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
2015 (division J of Public Law 113–235), except title 
IX. 
(12) The Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2015 (division K of Public Law 113–235). 
(13) Section 11 of the Consolidated and Further 
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 
113–235). 
(b) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) 
is hereby reduced by 0.2108 percent.
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SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made avail-
able or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the 
Department of Defense shall be used for: (1) the new produc-
tion of items not funded for production in fiscal year 2015 
or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates above 
those sustained with fiscal year 2015 funds; or (3) the initi-
ation, resumption, or continuation of any project, activity, 
operation, or organization (defined as any project, sub-
project, activity, budget activity, program element, and sub-
program 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 in-
cludes a program element and subprogram element within 
an appropriation account) for which appropriations, funds, 
or other authority were not available during fiscal year 
2015. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or au-
thority 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.
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SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in section 102, 
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 appropriations, 
funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal 
year 2015. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted 
pursuant to this Act shall cover all obligations or expendi-
tures incurred for any project or activity during the period 
for which funds or authority for such project or activity 
are available under this Act. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2016, 
appropriations and funds made available and authority 
granted pursuant to this Act shall be available until which-
ever of the following first occurs: (1) the enactment into law 
of an appropriation for any project or activity provided 
for in this Act; (2) the enactment into law of the applicable 
appropriations Act for fiscal year 2016 without any provi-
sion for such project or activity; or (3) December 11, 2015. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this Act 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or 
authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable ap-
propriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted 
into law.
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SEC. 108. Appropriations made and funds made avail-
able by or authority granted pursuant to this Act 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 Act may 
be construed to waive any other provision of law governing 
the apportionment of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, except section 106, for those programs that would other-
wise have high initial rates of operation or complete dis-
tribution of appropriations at the beginning of fiscal year 
2016 because of distributions of funding to States, foreign 
countries, grantees, or others, such high initial rates of oper-
ation or complete distribution shall not be made, and no 
grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this 
Act that would impinge on final funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This Act shall be implemented so that only 
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the 
Act 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 appro-
priations Acts for fiscal year 2015, and for activities under 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, activities shall be con-
tinued at the rate to maintain program levels under current
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law, under the authority and conditions provided in the 
applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2015, to be 
continued through the date specified in section 106(3). 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for man-
datory payments due on or about the first day of any month 
that begins after October 2015 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 de-
partment and agency may be apportioned up to the rate 
for operations necessary to avoid furloughs within such de-
partment or agency, consistent with the applicable appro-
priations Act for fiscal year 2015, except that such author-
ity 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 ex-
penses. 
SEC. 113. Funds appropriated by this Act may be obli-
gated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public 
Law 91–672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State De-
partment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), 
section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fis-
cal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section
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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 Act that was previously designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency 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 Con-
tingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act or as being for disaster re-
lief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of such Act, respec-
tively. 
(b) The reduction in section 101(b) of this Act shall 
not apply to— 
(1) amounts designated under subsection (a) of 
this section; or 
(2) amounts made available by section 101(a) by 
reference to the second paragraph under the heading 
‘‘Social Security Administration—Limitation on Ad-
ministrative Expenses’’ in division G of Public Law 
113–235; or 
(3) amounts made available by section 101(a) by 
reference to the paragraph under the heading ‘‘Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services—Health Care