Title: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
This joint resolution amends the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 to provide continuing FY2017 appropriations for most federal agencies through the earlier of May 5, 2017, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation.
It is commonly referred to as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a partial government shutdown that would otherwise occur after the existing CR expires on April 28, 2017, because 11 of the 12 FY2017 regular appropriations bills that fund the federal government have not been enacted. (The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 was signed into law on September 29, 2016.)
The CR also amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to extend through May 5, 2017, a provision that provides health care benefits for certain retired miners and their families.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 99 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 99

Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2017

Mr. Frelinghuysen introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Continuing 
Appropriations Act, 2017 (division C of Public Law 114-223) is further 
amended by--
            (1) striking the date specified in section 106(3) and 
        inserting ``May 5, 2017''; and
            (2) inserting after section 201 the following new section:
    ``Sec. 202. (a) This section may be cited as the `Further Continued 
Health Benefits for Miners Act'.
    ``(b) Section 402(h)(2)(C)(ii) of the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(h)(2)(C)(ii)) is amended--
            ``(1) in subclause (II), by striking `April 30, 2017' and 
        inserting `May 5, 2017';
            ``(2) in subclause (II)(aa), by striking `the Continued 
        Health Benefits for Miners Act' and inserting `the Further 
        Continued Health Benefits for Miners Act'; and
            ``(3) by adding at the end the following: `For purposes of 
        subclause (II)(aa), a beneficiary enrolled in the Plan as of 
        the date of the enactment of the Further Continued Health 
        Benefits for Miners Act shall be deemed to have been eligible 
        to receive health benefits under the Plan on January 1, 2017.'.
    ``(c) The provisions of section 167(d) of Public Law 114-223 (as 
added by Public Law 114-254) shall apply to this section.''.
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