Title: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
This joint resolution provides continuing FY2019 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the earlier of February 28, 2019, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation.
It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and ends the partial DHS shutdown that began on December 22, 2018, because the existing CR expired and the FY2019 DHS appropriations bill has not been enacted.
The CR also
Additionally, the CR has the effect of extending through February 28, 2019, several immigration programs and authorities that were extended in prior CRs and expired on December 21, 2018.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 31 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 31

Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
         Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2019

 Ms. Roybal-Allard submitted the following joint resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
Making further continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
         Security for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled,
    Section 1. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (division C of 
Public Law 115-245) is further amended--
            (1) in section 105--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by inserting ``except as provided in 
                        paragraph (4),'' before ``December''; and
                            (ii) by striking the period at the end and 
                        inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) with respect to appropriations and funds made 
        available, and other authorities granted, pursuant to section 
        101(5) of this joint resolution for the Department of Homeland 
        Security, February 28, 2019.''; and
            (2) in section 110, by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) With respect to mandatory payments whose budget authority was 
provided in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
2018 (division F of Public Law 115-141), subsections (a) and (b) shall 
be applied by substituting `section 105(4)' for `section 105(3)' each 
place it appears.''.
    Sec. 2. (a) Amounts appropriated by operation of the amendments 
made by section 1 for the salaries and expenses of employees shall be 
available for payment of salaries in accordance with section 1341(c) of 
title 31, United States Code (as added by the Government Employee Fair 
Treatment Act of 2019).
    (b) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations 
made and authority granted by this joint resolution for the purposes of 
maintaining the essential level of activity to protect life and 
property and bringing about orderly termination of Government 
functions, and for purposes as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby 
ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions of 
this joint resolution, and for purposes of such obligations the time 
period covered by this joint resolution shall be considered to include 
the period beginning on or about December 22, 2018, during which there 
occurred a lapse in appropriations.
    Sec. 3. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) used State 
funds (or the grantee's non-Federal funds) to continue carrying out a 
Federal program or furloughed State employees (or the grantee's 
employees) whose compensation is advanced or reimbursed in whole or in 
part by the Federal Government--
            (1) such furloughed employees shall be compensated at their 
        standard rate of compensation for such period;
            (2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be reimbursed 
        for expenses that would have been paid by the Federal 
        Government during such period had appropriations been 
        available, including the cost of compensating such furloughed 
        employees, together with interest thereon calculated under 
        section 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and
            (3) the State (or such other grantee) may use funds 
        available to the State (or the grantee) under such Federal 
        program to reimburse such State (or the grantee), together with 
        interest thereon calculated under section 6503(d) of title 31, 
        United States Code.
    (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``State'' and the term 
``grantee'', including United States territories and possessions, shall 
have the meaning given such terms under the applicable Federal program 
under subsection (a). In addition, ``to continue carrying out a Federal 
program'' means the continued performance by a State or other Federal 
grantee, during the period of a lapse in appropriations, of a Federal 
program that the State or such other grantee had been carrying out 
prior to the period of the lapse in appropriations.
    (c) The authority under this section applies with respect to the 
period of a lapse in appropriations beginning on or about December 22, 
2018, and ending on the date of enactment of this joint resolution with 
respect to the Department of Homeland Security which, but for such 
lapse in appropriations, would have paid, or made reimbursement 
relating to, any of the expenses referred to in this section with 
respect to the program involved. Payments and reimbursements under this 
authority shall be made only to the extent and in amounts provided in 
advance in appropriations Acts.
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