Title: Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018 during any period between October 1, 2017, and December 14, 2017, for which discretionary appropriations have lapsed, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
This joint resolution provides continuing FY2018 appropriations to federal agencies through December 14, 2017, or the enactment of specified appropriations legislation. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur when FY2018 begins on October 1, 2017, if the 12 FY2018 regular appropriations bills that fund the federal government have not been enacted.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 108 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 108

Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018 during any period 
between October 1, 2017, and December 14, 2017, for which discretionary 
          appropriations have lapsed, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2017

    Mr. Gallego submitted the following joint resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018 during any period 
between October 1, 2017, and December 14, 2017, for which discretionary 
          appropriations have lapsed, 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, 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 2018, and for other purposes, namely:
    Sec. 101.  Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for 
operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal 
year 2017 and under the authority and conditions provided in such Acts, 
for continuing projects or activities (including the costs of direct 
loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise specifically provided 
for in this joint resolution, for which appropriations, funds, or other 
authority were made available in the following appropriations Acts:
            (1) The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
        Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 
        (division A of Public Law 115-31).
            (2) The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
        Appropriations Act, 2017 (division B of Public Law 115-31).
            (3) The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017 
        (division C of Public Law 115-31).
            (4) The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies 
        Appropriations Act, 2017 (division D of Public Law 115-31).
            (5) The Financial Services and General Government 
        Appropriations Act, 2017 (division E of Public Law 115-31).
            (6) The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
        2017 (division F of Public Law 115-31).
            (7) The Department of the Interior, Environment, and 
        Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 (division G of Public 
        Law 115-31).
            (8) The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
        and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 
        (division H of Public Law 115-31).
            (9) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 
        (division I of Public Law 115-31).
            (10) The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and 
        Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 (division A of Public 
        Law 114-223).
            (11) The Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
        Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 (division J of Public 
        Law 115-31).
            (12) The Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
        Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 (division K of Public 
        Law 115-31).
    Sec. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense shall be 
used for--(1) the new production of items not funded for production in 
fiscal year 2017 or prior years; (2) the increase in production rates 
above those sustained with fiscal year 2017 funds; or (3) the 
initiation, resumption, or continuation of any project, activity, 
operation, or organization (defined as any project, subproject, 
activity, budget activity, program element, and subprogram 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 includes a program element and subprogram element within 
an appropriation account) for which appropriations, funds, or other 
authority were not available during fiscal year 2017.
    (b) 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.
    (c) Notwithstanding this section, the Secretary of Defense may, 
following notification of the congressional defense committees, 
initiate projects or activities required to be undertaken for force 
protection purposes using funds available from the Iraq Freedom Fund.
    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.
    Sec. 104.  Appropriations provided by this joint resolution that, 
in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017, carried a 
multiple-year or no-year period of availability shall retain a 
comparable period of availability.
    Sec. 105.  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 2017.
    Sec. 106.  Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to 
this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expenditures 
incurred for any project or activity during the period for which funds 
or authority for such project or activity are available under this 
joint resolution.
    Sec. 107.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this joint 
resolution, the requirements, authorities, conditions, limitations, and 
other provisions of the appropriations Acts referred to in section 101 
shall continue in effect through the period specified in section 108.
    Sec. 108.  Unless otherwise provided for in this joint resolution 
or in the applicable appropriations Act, appropriations and funds made 
available and authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall 
be available during any period between October 1, 2017, and December 
14, 2017, in which there is a lapse in discretionary appropriations, 
but shall no longer be available if any of the following occurs during 
such period: (1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any 
project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; or (2) the 
enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2018 without any provision for such project or activity.
    Sec. 109.  Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or 
authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, 
fund, or authorization is contained is enacted into law.
    Sec. 110.  Appropriations made 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 in this joint resolution may be construed to waive 
any other provision of law governing the apportionment of funds.
    Sec. 111.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, except section 108, for those programs that would otherwise 
have high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of 
appropriations at the beginning of fiscal year 2018 because of 
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or 
others, such high initial rates of operation or complete distribution 
shall not be made, and no grants shall be awarded for such programs 
funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final funding 
prerogatives.
    Sec. 112.  This joint resolution shall be implemented so that only 
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the joint 
resolution shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of 
projects and activities.
    Sec. 113. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory payments whose 
budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for fiscal year 
2017, and for activities under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, the 
levels established by section 101 shall be the amounts necessary to 
maintain program levels under current law and under the authority and 
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal 
year 2018.
    (b) Notwithstanding section 108, obligations for mandatory payments 
due on or about the first day of any month that begins after October 1, 
2017, but not later than 30 days after December 14, 2017, may continue 
to be made, and funds shall be available for such payments.
    Sec. 114.  Amounts made available under section 101 for civilian 
personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency may 
be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid 
furloughs within such department or agency, consistent with the 
applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017, except that such 
authority 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 expenses.
    Sec. 115.  Funds appropriated by this joint resolution may be 
obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91-672 
(22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State Department Basic Authorities 
Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and 
section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
414(a)(1)).
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