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[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 187 (Monday, November 13, 2023)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Ms. GRANGER:H.R. 6363.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 9, Clause 7:``No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but inConsequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regularStatement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of allpublic Money shall be published from time to time.''The single subject of this legislation is:Making further continuing appropriations.[Page H5729]
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- To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect to the work geographic index for physician payments under the Medicare program, and to revise the phase-in of clinical laboratory test payment changes under such program.
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Became Public Law No: 118-22.
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Became Public Law No: 118-22.
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Passed Senate, under the order of 11/15/2023, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 87 - 11. Record Vote Number: 312.
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Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
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Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (CR S5527)
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Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 248.
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Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (Legislative Day November 13, 2023).
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
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On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 336 - 95 (Roll no. 658). (text: CR H5793-5796)
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At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
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DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6363.
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Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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H.R. 6363, Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59755
As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on November 11, 2023https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-cr
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118-22
Economics and Public Finance
- ASEAN countries
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- Abortion
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- Access Board
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- Accounting and auditing
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- Administrative Conference of the U.S.
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- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Adoption and foster care
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
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- Advisory bodies
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- Afghanistan
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- Africa
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- African Development Foundation
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- Aging
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- Agricultural conservation and pollution
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- Agricultural education
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- Agricultural insurance
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- Agricultural marketing and promotion
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- Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
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- Agricultural research
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- Agricultural trade
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- Alabama
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- Alaska
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- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
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- Allergies
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- Alliances
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- Alternative and renewable resources
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- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
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- Alternative treatments
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- American Battle Monuments Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:13Z
- Animal and plant health
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Appalachian Regional Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Appropriations
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Aquatic ecology
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Arab-Israeli relations
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Architect of the Capitol
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Area studies and international education
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Arizona
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- Arkansas
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- Armed Forces Retirement Home
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Arms control and nonproliferation
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- Army Corps of Engineers
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- Asia
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- Atmospheric science and weather
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Australia
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Aviation and airports
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Azerbaijan
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- Bangladesh
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Birth defects
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Blood and blood diseases
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Border security and unlawful immigration
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Budget process
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Building construction
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Burma
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Buy American requirements
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- California
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Cambodia
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Canada
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Cancer
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Caribbean area
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Cemeteries and funerals
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Census and government statistics
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Central African Republic
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- Central America
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Central Europe
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- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
2023-11-20T21:31:28Z
- Child care and development
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Child health
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- Child safety and welfare
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- China
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- Citizenship and naturalization
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Civics education
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- Climate change and greenhouse gases
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Coal
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Coast guard
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Collective security
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Colombia
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Commission on Civil Rights
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Commodities markets
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Commodity Credit Corporation
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Commuting
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- Computer security and identity theft
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Computers and information technology
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- Conflicts and wars
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Congressional Research Service (CRS)
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Congressional agencies
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Congressional committees
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Congressional leadership
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- Congressional officers and employees
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Congressional oversight
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- Consumer Product Safety Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Crime victims
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Criminal justice information and records
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- Criminal procedure and sentencing
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Cuba
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Cultural exchanges and relations
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Defense spending
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Delta Regional Authority
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- Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Denali Commission
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- Department of Agriculture
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- Department of Commerce
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- Department of Energy
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2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Department of Homeland Security
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
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2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
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2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Department of Labor
2023-11-20T21:31:26Z
- Department of State
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Department of Transportation
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Department of Veterans Affairs
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Department of the Interior
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Department of the Treasury
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Digestive and metabolic diseases
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Disability and health-based discrimination
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Disability and paralysis
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Disaster relief and insurance
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- District of Columbia
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Domestic violence and child abuse
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
2023-11-20T21:31:27Z
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Drug therapy
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Economic development
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Education of the disadvantaged
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Education programs funding
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Educational facilities and institutions
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Egypt
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Election Assistance Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Electric power generation and transmission
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Elementary and secondary education
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Emergency communications systems
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Emergency planning and evacuation
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Employee benefits and pensions
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Employee hiring
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Employment and training programs
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Endangered and threatened species
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Energy assistance for the poor and aged
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Energy efficiency and conservation
2023-11-20T21:31:24Z
- Energy research
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Environmental health
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Environmental technology
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Ethiopia
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Europe
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Evidence and witnesses
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Executive Office of the President
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Executive agency funding and structure
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Export-Import Bank of the United States
2023-11-20T21:31:13Z
- Family planning and birth control
2023-11-20T21:31:25Z
- Family services
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Farm Credit Administration
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Farmland
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Federal Election Commission (FEC)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Labor Relations Authority
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Maritime Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal appellate courts
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Federal district courts
2023-11-20T21:31:18Z
- Federal officials
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Federal-Indian relations
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Firearms and explosives
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Fires
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- First responders and emergency personnel
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Fishes
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Floods and storm protection
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Florida
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Food assistance and relief
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Food supply, safety, and labeling
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Foreign aid and international relief
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Foreign labor
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Forests, forestry, trees
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Free trade and trade barriers
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Gaza Strip
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- General Services Administration
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Genetics
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Georgia
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Georgia (Republic)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government Accountability Office (GAO)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government Publishing Office (GPO)
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government information and archives
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government lending and loan guarantees
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Government trust funds
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Great Lakes
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Guam
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- HIV/AIDS
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Haiti
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Hawaii
2023-11-20T21:31:19Z
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Health care coverage and access
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Health facilities and institutions
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Health personnel
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Health programs administration and funding
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Health promotion and preventive care
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Health technology, devices, supplies
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Hearing, speech, and vision care
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Hereditary and development disorders
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Higher education
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Historic sites and heritage areas
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Historical and cultural resources
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Horticulture and plants
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- House of Representatives
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Housing and community development funding
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Housing finance and home ownership
2023-11-20T21:31:13Z
- Housing for the elderly and disabled
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Housing industry and standards
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Human rights
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Human trafficking
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Humanities programs funding
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Illinois
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Immigrant health and welfare
2023-11-20T21:31:20Z
- Immigration status and procedures
2023-11-20T21:31:21Z
- Immunology and vaccination
2023-11-20T21:31:13Z
- Indian claims
2023-11-20T21:31:21Z
- Indian lands and resources rights
2023-11-20T21:31:13Z
- Indian social and development programs
2023-11-20T21:31:21Z
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Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
This bill provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies and extends several expiring programs and authorities.
It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2024 appropriations bills have not been enacted when the existing CR expires on November 17, 2023. The CR generally funds most programs and activities at the FY2023 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs.
The CR provides funding through January 19, 2024, for agencies and programs that were funded in the following four FY2023 appropriations acts:
- the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023; and
- the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023.
For most other federal agencies and programs, the CR provides funding through February 2, 2024.
The CR also extends several programs and authorities, including
- programs authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the 2018 farm bill),
- several public health programs and authorities,
- the U.S. Parole Commission, and
- the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
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Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
This bill provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies. The bill also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including programs authorized by the 2018 farm bill and several public health programs.
DIVISION A--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024
(Sec. 101) This section provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies and extends several expiring programs and authorities.
It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2024 appropriations bills have not been enacted when the existing CR expires on November 17, 2023.
The CR provides funding through January 19, 2024, for agencies and programs that were funded in the following four FY2023 appropriations acts:
- the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023; and
- the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023.
For most other federal agencies and programs, the CR provides funding through February 2, 2024.
The CR generally funds most programs and activities at the FY2023 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs. For example, the CR includes exceptions for:
- the Navy's procurement of one Columbia Class Submarine,
- activities of the U.S. Secret Service that are related to National Special Security Events and the 2024 Presidential Campaign, and
- activities of the Department of Education that are necessary to ensure the continuation of student loan servicing activities.
This section also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including
- the U.S. Parole Commission,
- the authority for the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide physical protection and personal security for certain former or retired DOD officials who face serious and credible threats arising from duties performed while employed by DOD,
- restrictions on firearms that are undetectable by walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines commonly used at airports,
- limits on pay increases for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees,
- the exemption from the Antideficiency Act for the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, and
- the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
This section provides appropriations for a payment to Katherine Anne Feinstein, the beneficiary of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
DIVISION B--OTHER MATTERS
TITLE I--EXTENSIONS AND OTHER MATTERS
(Sec. 101) This section extends provisions that provide grants and other financial assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
(Sec. 102) This section extends programs authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the 2018 farm bill) until the later of (1) September 30, 2024, or (2) the date specified in the provision of the act.
This section extends and amends Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs, including by
- extending various programs for covered commodities, a loan commodity, sugarcane, or sugar beets for the 2024 crop year;
- extending the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program through December 31, 2024;
- limiting the 25% premium discount for the DMC program in 2024 to participating dairy operations that received the discount in 2023;
- allowing Dairy Forward Pricing Program contracts to be extended through September 30, 2027 (currently September 30, 2026);
- extending the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments through the 2024 crop year for a covered commodity;
- extending the suspension of permanent price support authorities for the 2024 crop year for covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and through December 31, 2024, for milk; and
- extending the suspension of provisions related to corn and wheat marketing quotas for wheat planted for harvest in calendar year 2024.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Grassroots Source Water Protection Program (SWPP) for FY2024. The SWPP is a joint project with the Farm Service Agency and the National Rural Water Association (a nonprofit water and wastewater utility membership organization), which is designed to help prevent pollution of surface and ground water that is used as the primary source of drinking water by rural residents.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program through FY2024. The program provides funding to help state and tribal governments encourage landowners to allow public access to their land for hunting, fishing, and other wildlife-dependent recreation.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program through FY2024. The program responds to the threat feral swine pose to agriculture, native ecosystems, and human and animal health.
This section extends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust through FY2024 to allow for eligible commodities to remain in the trust until September 30, 2024. The program makes funds available to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries.
This section extends the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) through FY2024. TEFAP provides food commodities (and cash support for storage and distribution costs) through states to local emergency feeding organizations (e.g., food banks).
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program through FY2024 to provide funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.
This section provides specified funds for scholarships for students at 1890 Institutions and extends the annual grant limitation by one year. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for awarding scholarships to students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.
This section also
- reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension Initiative for FY2024, a NIFA competitive grant program;
- provides specified funds for the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit corporation established to advance the research mission of USDA by supporting research activities focused on key problems of national and international significance; and
- extends through FY2024 a provision that prohibits USDA from declaring the Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Oklahoma, to be excess or surplus federal property, or otherwise conveying or transferring the property.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the biobased markets program (i.e., BioPreferred Program) through FY2024 to promote biobased products through (1) mandatory purchasing requirements for federal agencies and their contractors, and (2) a voluntary labeling initiative for biobased products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the bioenergy program for advanced biofuels (i.e., Advanced Biofuel Payment Program) through FY2024. The program provides payments to fuel producers to support and expand production of advanced biofuels (i.e., not derived from corn starch).
This section extends through the 2024 crop the Feedstock Flexibility Program (FFP) for Bioenergy Producers, which allows the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase surplus sugar from processors for resale to ethanol producers for ethanol fuel. Further, this section extends through September 1, 2024, requirements for USDA to provide notice to eligible entities and bioenergy producers of the quantity of eligible commodities that must be made available for purchase and sale for the crop year.
This section extends the authority and funding through FY2024 for USDA to collect and report data on the production and marketing of organic agricultural products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding through FY2024 for, modernization and improvement of international trade technology systems and data collection for imports of organically produced agricultural products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Organic Certification Cost Share Program for FY2024. The program provides cost-share assistance to producers and handlers of agricultural products who are obtaining or renewing their certification under the National Organic Program.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the multiple crop and pesticide use survey of farmers through FY2024. The USDA Office of Pest Management Policy conducts this survey to collect data for risk assessment modeling and mitigation for an active ingredient.
This section also extends
- the Pima Agriculture Cotton Trust Fund through December 31, 2024, which provides assistance to reduce the economic injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on cotton fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of cotton fabric;
- the Agriculture Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund through December 31, 2024, which provides assistance to reduce the economic injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on wool fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of wool fabric;
- the Wool Research and Promotion Program through FY2024, which provides grants to assist U.S. wool producers with improving the quality of wool and with developing and promoting the wool market;
- the Emergency Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund through FY2024, which funds a program that aims to bring together scientists to find scientifically sound and financially sustainable solutions to Huanglongbing (i.e., citrus greening, a bacterial disease spread by an insect that feeds on citrus); and
- the Sheep Production & Marketing Grant Program through FY2024, which seeks to strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of sheep and sheep products in the United States.
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain mandatory funding that was provided for (1) the Farm Service Agency to implement USDA commodity programs, and (2) certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program for forest management thinning and transition contracts.
This section extends various reporting requirements authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
This section rescinds specified funds that were provided to USDA for the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program, which provides loan guarantees to assist in the development of new and emerging technologies for the development of advanced biofuels, renewable chemicals, and biobased product manufacturing.
This section, with limited exceptions, must be applied and administered as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2023.
TITLE II--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle A--Public Health Extenders
(Sec. 201) This section extends through January 19, 2024, funding for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program, the Community Health Center Fund, and the National Health Services Corps. (The program supports education and training of medical students in primary care residency programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers. The fund supports (1) grants for outpatient health care facilities that serve medically underserved populations; and (2) the National Health Service Corps, which provides scholarships and student loan repayment awards to health care providers who agree to work in areas with health care provider shortages.)
(Sec. 202) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. (The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.)
(Sec. 203) This section extends through January 19, 2024, the authority that allows states and tribes to request the temporary reassignment of state and local health department personnel who are funded through certain federal programs to immediately address a public health emergency.
It also extends through January 19, 2024, provisions that prohibit the disclosure of information about Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs that could compromise national security (e.g., information regarding biomedical threats).
The section extends provisions that authorize HHS to engage with developers of medical countermeasures, and that provide for related antitrust exemptions, for the purpose of furthering product development.
Additionally, the section extends through January 19, 2024, the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters, and the National Advisory Committee on Individuals with Disabilities and Disasters.
It also extends through January 19, 2024, the authority of HHS to directly appoint candidates to positions within the National Disaster Medical System if HHS determines the number of personnel in the system is insufficient to address a public health emergency or potential public health emergency.
(The National Disaster Medical System is a partnership between HHS, the Department of Defense, and other federal departments that responds to public health and other emergencies, including by deploying medical response teams.)
Subtitle B--Medicaid
(Sec. 301) This section delays reductions to Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) allotments until January 20, 2024. (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payments under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income patients.)
(Sec. 302) This section reduces the amount of funding available to the Medicaid Improvement Fund for activities relating to mechanized claims systems beginning in FY2028.
Subtitle C--Human Services
(Sec. 401) This section funds through January 19, 2024, programs that support child welfare services and activities. Specifically, it funds the (1) Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Service Program, which provides grants to states and Indian tribes to support preventive interventions and other activities to keep families together; and (2) the MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, which supports efforts to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanent living arrangements for children (e.g., parental reunification or adoption).
(Sec. 402) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program. This program supports projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activities.
(Sec. 403) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Personal Responsibility Education Program. This program provides grants to states to educate young people about abstinence and contraception for prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The program also supports pregnant and parenting youth.
Subtitle D--Medicare
(Sec. 501) This section extends through January 19, 2024, certain minimum adjustments to the work geographic index with respect to payments for physician services under Medicare.
(Sec. 502) This section delays until 2025 certain laboratory reporting requirements that are used to determine payment rates for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under Medicare, as well as related payment reductions.
(Sec. 503) This section increases funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.
TITLE III--MISCELLANEOUS EXTENSIONS
(Sec. 601) This section extends through February 3, 2024, the authority of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to take certain actions to mitigate a credible threat to certain facilities or assets from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). These include certain facilities that are located in the United States and identified as high-risk and a potential target for unlawful UAS activity.
TITLE IV--BUDGETARY EFFECTS
(Sec. 701) This section exempts the budgetary effects of this division from (1) the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO Act), (2) the Senate PAYGO rule, and (3) certain budget scorekeeping rules.
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2023-11-15
Passed Senate
2023-12-04T15:10:26Z
Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
This bill provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies. The bill also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including programs authorized by the 2018 farm bill and several public health programs.
DIVISION A--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024
(Sec. 101) This section provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies and extends several expiring programs and authorities.
It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2024 appropriations bills have not been enacted when the existing CR expires on November 17, 2023.
The CR provides funding through January 19, 2024, for agencies and programs that were funded in the following four FY2023 appropriations acts:
- the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023; and
- the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023.
For most other federal agencies and programs, the CR provides funding through February 2, 2024.
The CR generally funds most programs and activities at the FY2023 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs. For example, the CR includes exceptions for:
- the Navy's procurement of one Columbia Class Submarine,
- activities of the U.S. Secret Service that are related to National Special Security Events and the 2024 Presidential Campaign, and
- activities of the Department of Education that are necessary to ensure the continuation of student loan servicing activities.
This section also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including
- the U.S. Parole Commission,
- the authority for the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide physical protection and personal security for certain former or retired DOD officials who face serious and credible threats arising from duties performed while employed by DOD,
- restrictions on firearms that are undetectable by walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines commonly used at airports,
- limits on pay increases for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees,
- the exemption from the Antideficiency Act for the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, and
- the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
This section provides appropriations for a payment to Katherine Anne Feinstein, the beneficiary of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
DIVISION B--OTHER MATTERS
TITLE I--EXTENSIONS AND OTHER MATTERS
(Sec. 101) This section extends provisions that provide grants and other financial assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
(Sec. 102) This section extends programs authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the 2018 farm bill) until the later of (1) September 30, 2024, or (2) the date specified in the provision of the act.
This section extends and amends Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs, including by
- extending various programs for covered commodities, a loan commodity, sugarcane, or sugar beets for the 2024 crop year;
- extending the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program through December 31, 2024;
- limiting the 25% premium discount for the DMC program in 2024 to participating dairy operations that received the discount in 2023;
- allowing Dairy Forward Pricing Program contracts to be extended through September 30, 2027 (currently September 30, 2026);
- extending the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments through the 2024 crop year for a covered commodity;
- extending the suspension of permanent price support authorities for the 2024 crop year for covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and through December 31, 2024, for milk; and
- extending the suspension of provisions related to corn and wheat marketing quotas for wheat planted for harvest in calendar year 2024.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Grassroots Source Water Protection Program (SWPP) for FY2024. The SWPP is a joint project with the Farm Service Agency and the National Rural Water Association (a nonprofit water and wastewater utility membership organization), which is designed to help prevent pollution of surface and ground water that is used as the primary source of drinking water by rural residents.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program through FY2024. The program provides funding to help state and tribal governments encourage landowners to allow public access to their land for hunting, fishing, and other wildlife-dependent recreation.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program through FY2024. The program responds to the threat feral swine pose to agriculture, native ecosystems, and human and animal health.
This section extends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust through FY2024 to allow for eligible commodities to remain in the trust until September 30, 2024. The program makes funds available to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries.
This section extends the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) through FY2024. TEFAP provides food commodities (and cash support for storage and distribution costs) through states to local emergency feeding organizations (e.g., food banks).
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program through FY2024 to provide funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.
This section provides specified funds for scholarships for students at 1890 Institutions and extends the annual grant limitation by one year. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for awarding scholarships to students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.
This section also
- reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension Initiative for FY2024, a NIFA competitive grant program;
- provides specified funds for the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit corporation established to advance the research mission of USDA by supporting research activities focused on key problems of national and international significance; and
- extends through FY2024 a provision that prohibits USDA from declaring the Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Oklahoma, to be excess or surplus federal property, or otherwise conveying or transferring the property.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the biobased markets program (i.e., BioPreferred Program) through FY2024 to promote biobased products through (1) mandatory purchasing requirements for federal agencies and their contractors, and (2) a voluntary labeling initiative for biobased products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the bioenergy program for advanced biofuels (i.e., Advanced Biofuel Payment Program) through FY2024. The program provides payments to fuel producers to support and expand production of advanced biofuels (i.e., not derived from corn starch).
This section extends through the 2024 crop the Feedstock Flexibility Program (FFP) for Bioenergy Producers, which allows the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase surplus sugar from processors for resale to ethanol producers for ethanol fuel. Further, this section extends through September 1, 2024, requirements for USDA to provide notice to eligible entities and bioenergy producers of the quantity of eligible commodities that must be made available for purchase and sale for the crop year.
This section extends the authority and funding through FY2024 for USDA to collect and report data on the production and marketing of organic agricultural products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding through FY2024 for, modernization and improvement of international trade technology systems and data collection for imports of organically produced agricultural products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Organic Certification Cost Share Program for FY2024. The program provides cost-share assistance to producers and handlers of agricultural products who are obtaining or renewing their certification under the National Organic Program.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the multiple crop and pesticide use survey of farmers through FY2024. The USDA Office of Pest Management Policy conducts this survey to collect data for risk assessment modeling and mitigation for an active ingredient.
This section also extends
- the Pima Agriculture Cotton Trust Fund through December 31, 2024, which provides assistance to reduce the economic injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on cotton fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of cotton fabric;
- the Agriculture Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund through December 31, 2024, which provides assistance to reduce the economic injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on wool fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of wool fabric;
- the Wool Research and Promotion Program through FY2024, which provides grants to assist U.S. wool producers with improving the quality of wool and with developing and promoting the wool market;
- the Emergency Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund through FY2024, which funds a program that aims to bring together scientists to find scientifically sound and financially sustainable solutions to Huanglongbing (i.e., citrus greening, a bacterial disease spread by an insect that feeds on citrus); and
- the Sheep Production & Marketing Grant Program through FY2024, which seeks to strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of sheep and sheep products in the United States.
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain mandatory funding that was provided for (1) the Farm Service Agency to implement USDA commodity programs, and (2) certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program for forest management thinning and transition contracts.
This section extends various reporting requirements authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
This section rescinds specified funds that were provided to USDA for the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program, which provides loan guarantees to assist in the development of new and emerging technologies for the development of advanced biofuels, renewable chemicals, and biobased product manufacturing.
This section, with limited exceptions, must be applied and administered as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2023.
TITLE II--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle A--Public Health Extenders
(Sec. 201) This section extends through January 19, 2024, funding for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program, the Community Health Center Fund, and the National Health Services Corps. (The program supports education and training of medical students in primary care residency programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers. The fund supports (1) grants for outpatient health care facilities that serve medically underserved populations; and (2) the National Health Service Corps, which provides scholarships and student loan repayment awards to health care providers who agree to work in areas with health care provider shortages.)
(Sec. 202) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. (The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.)
(Sec. 203) This section extends through January 19, 2024, the authority that allows states and tribes to request the temporary reassignment of state and local health department personnel who are funded through certain federal programs to immediately address a public health emergency.
It also extends through January 19, 2024, provisions that prohibit the disclosure of information about Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs that could compromise national security (e.g., information regarding biomedical threats).
The section extends provisions that authorize HHS to engage with developers of medical countermeasures, and that provide for related antitrust exemptions, for the purpose of furthering product development.
Additionally, the section extends through January 19, 2024, the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters, and the National Advisory Committee on Individuals with Disabilities and Disasters.
It also extends through January 19, 2024, the authority of HHS to directly appoint candidates to positions within the National Disaster Medical System if HHS determines the number of personnel in the system is insufficient to address a public health emergency or potential public health emergency.
(The National Disaster Medical System is a partnership between HHS, the Department of Defense, and other federal departments that responds to public health and other emergencies, including by deploying medical response teams.)
Subtitle B--Medicaid
(Sec. 301) This section delays reductions to Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) allotments until January 20, 2024. (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payments under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income patients.)
(Sec. 302) This section reduces the amount of funding available to the Medicaid Improvement Fund for activities relating to mechanized claims systems beginning in FY2028.
Subtitle C--Human Services
(Sec. 401) This section funds through January 19, 2024, programs that support child welfare services and activities. Specifically, it funds the (1) Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Service Program, which provides grants to states and Indian tribes to support preventive interventions and other activities to keep families together; and (2) the MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, which supports efforts to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanent living arrangements for children (e.g., parental reunification or adoption).
(Sec. 402) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program. This program supports projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activities.
(Sec. 403) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Personal Responsibility Education Program. This program provides grants to states to educate young people about abstinence and contraception for prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The program also supports pregnant and parenting youth.
Subtitle D--Medicare
(Sec. 501) This section extends through January 19, 2024, certain minimum adjustments to the work geographic index with respect to payments for physician services under Medicare.
(Sec. 502) This section delays until 2025 certain laboratory reporting requirements that are used to determine payment rates for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under Medicare, as well as related payment reductions.
(Sec. 503) This section increases funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.
TITLE III--MISCELLANEOUS EXTENSIONS
(Sec. 601) This section extends through February 3, 2024, the authority of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to take certain actions to mitigate a credible threat to certain facilities or assets from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). These include certain facilities that are located in the United States and identified as high-risk and a potential target for unlawful UAS activity.
TITLE IV--BUDGETARY EFFECTS
(Sec. 701) This section exempts the budgetary effects of this division from (1) the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO Act), (2) the Senate PAYGO rule, and (3) certain budget scorekeeping rules.
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2023-11-16
Public Law
2023-12-04T11:50:21Z
Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
This act provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies. The act also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including programs authorized by the 2018 farm bill and several public health programs.
DIVISION A--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024
(Sec. 101) This section provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies and extends several expiring programs and authorities.
It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2024 appropriations bills have not been enacted when the existing CR expires on November 17, 2023.
The CR provides funding through January 19, 2024, for agencies and programs that were funded in the following four FY2023 appropriations acts:
- the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;
- the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023; and
- the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023.
For most other federal agencies and programs, the CR provides funding through February 2, 2024.
The CR generally funds most programs and activities at the FY2023 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs. For example, the CR includes exceptions for:
- the Navy's procurement of one Columbia Class Submarine,
- activities of the U.S. Secret Service that are related to National Special Security Events and the 2024 Presidential Campaign, and
- activities of the Department of Education that are necessary to ensure the continuation of student loan servicing activities.
This section also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including
- the U.S. Parole Commission,
- the authority for the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide physical protection and personal security for certain former or retired DOD officials who face serious and credible threats arising from duties performed while employed by DOD,
- restrictions on firearms that are undetectable by walk-through metal detectors and X-ray machines commonly used at airports,
- limits on pay increases for the Vice President and certain senior political appointees,
- the exemption from the Antideficiency Act for the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, and
- the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
This section provides appropriations for a payment to Katherine Anne Feinstein, the beneficiary of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
DIVISION B--OTHER MATTERS
TITLE I--EXTENSIONS AND OTHER MATTERS
(Sec. 101) This section extends provisions that provide grants and other financial assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
(Sec. 102) This section extends programs authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the 2018 farm bill) until the later of (1) September 30, 2024, or (2) the date specified in the provision of the act.
This section extends and amends Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs, including by
- extending various programs for covered commodities, a loan commodity, sugarcane, or sugar beets for the 2024 crop year;
- extending the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program through December 31, 2024;
- limiting the 25% premium discount for the DMC program in 2024 to participating dairy operations that received the discount in 2023;
- allowing Dairy Forward Pricing Program contracts to be extended through September 30, 2027 (currently September 30, 2026);
- extending the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments through the 2024 crop year for a covered commodity;
- extending the suspension of permanent price support authorities for the 2024 crop year for covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and through December 31, 2024, for milk; and
- extending the suspension of provisions related to corn and wheat marketing quotas for wheat planted for harvest in calendar year 2024.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Grassroots Source Water Protection Program (SWPP) for FY2024. The SWPP is a joint project with the Farm Service Agency and the National Rural Water Association (a nonprofit water and wastewater utility membership organization), which is designed to help prevent pollution of surface and ground water that is used as the primary source of drinking water by rural residents.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program through FY2024. The program provides funding to help state and tribal governments encourage landowners to allow public access to their land for hunting, fishing, and other wildlife-dependent recreation.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program through FY2024. The program responds to the threat feral swine pose to agriculture, native ecosystems, and human and animal health.
This section extends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust through FY2024 to allow for eligible commodities to remain in the trust until September 30, 2024. The program makes funds available to provide emergency food assistance to developing countries.
This section extends the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) through FY2024. TEFAP provides food commodities (and cash support for storage and distribution costs) through states to local emergency feeding organizations (e.g., food banks).
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Rural Economic Development Loan & Grant Program through FY2024 to provide funding for rural projects through local utility organizations.
This section provides specified funds for scholarships for students at 1890 Institutions and extends the annual grant limitation by one year. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for awarding scholarships to students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.
This section also
- reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education, and Extension Initiative for FY2024, a NIFA competitive grant program;
- provides specified funds for the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit corporation established to advance the research mission of USDA by supporting research activities focused on key problems of national and international significance; and
- extends through FY2024 a provision that prohibits USDA from declaring the Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Oklahoma, to be excess or surplus federal property, or otherwise conveying or transferring the property.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the biobased markets program (i.e., BioPreferred Program) through FY2024 to promote biobased products through (1) mandatory purchasing requirements for federal agencies and their contractors, and (2) a voluntary labeling initiative for biobased products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the bioenergy program for advanced biofuels (i.e., Advanced Biofuel Payment Program) through FY2024. The program provides payments to fuel producers to support and expand production of advanced biofuels (i.e., not derived from corn starch).
This section extends through the 2024 crop the Feedstock Flexibility Program (FFP) for Bioenergy Producers, which allows the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase surplus sugar from processors for resale to ethanol producers for ethanol fuel. Further, this section extends through September 1, 2024, requirements for USDA to provide notice to eligible entities and bioenergy producers of the quantity of eligible commodities that must be made available for purchase and sale for the crop year.
This section extends the authority and funding through FY2024 for USDA to collect and report data on the production and marketing of organic agricultural products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding through FY2024 for, modernization and improvement of international trade technology systems and data collection for imports of organically produced agricultural products.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Organic Certification Cost Share Program for FY2024. The program provides cost-share assistance to producers and handlers of agricultural products who are obtaining or renewing their certification under the National Organic Program.
This section reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the multiple crop and pesticide use survey of farmers through FY2024. The USDA Office of Pest Management Policy conducts this survey to collect data for risk assessment modeling and mitigation for an active ingredient.
This section also extends
- the Pima Agriculture Cotton Trust Fund through December 31, 2024, which provides assistance to reduce the economic injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on cotton fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of cotton fabric;
- the Agriculture Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund through December 31, 2024, which provides assistance to reduce the economic injury to domestic manufacturers resulting from tariffs on wool fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel articles made of wool fabric;
- the Wool Research and Promotion Program through FY2024, which provides grants to assist U.S. wool producers with improving the quality of wool and with developing and promoting the wool market;
- the Emergency Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund through FY2024, which funds a program that aims to bring together scientists to find scientifically sound and financially sustainable solutions to Huanglongbing (i.e., citrus greening, a bacterial disease spread by an insect that feeds on citrus); and
- the Sheep Production & Marketing Grant Program through FY2024, which seeks to strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of sheep and sheep products in the United States.
This section specifies that the extension of farm bill programs does not apply to certain mandatory funding that was provided for (1) the Farm Service Agency to implement USDA commodity programs, and (2) certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program for forest management thinning and transition contracts.
This section extends various reporting requirements authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
This section rescinds specified funds that were provided to USDA for the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program, which provides loan guarantees to assist in the development of new and emerging technologies for the development of advanced biofuels, renewable chemicals, and biobased product manufacturing.
This section, with limited exceptions, must be applied and administered as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2023.
TITLE II--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle A--Public Health Extenders
(Sec. 201) This section extends through January 19, 2024, funding for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program, the Community Health Center Fund, and the National Health Services Corps. (The program supports education and training of medical students in primary care residency programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers. The fund supports (1) grants for outpatient health care facilities that serve medically underserved populations; and (2) the National Health Service Corps, which provides scholarships and student loan repayment awards to health care providers who agree to work in areas with health care provider shortages.)
(Sec. 202) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. (The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.)
(Sec. 203) This section extends through January 19, 2024, the authority that allows states and tribes to request the temporary reassignment of state and local health department personnel who are funded through certain federal programs to immediately address a public health emergency.
It also extends through January 19, 2024, provisions that prohibit the disclosure of information about Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs that could compromise national security (e.g., information regarding biomedical threats).
The section extends provisions that authorize HHS to engage with developers of medical countermeasures, and that provide for related antitrust exemptions, for the purpose of furthering product development.
Additionally, the section extends through January 19, 2024, the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters, and the National Advisory Committee on Individuals with Disabilities and Disasters.
It also extends through January 19, 2024, the authority of HHS to directly appoint candidates to positions within the National Disaster Medical System if HHS determines the number of personnel in the system is insufficient to address a public health emergency or potential public health emergency.
(The National Disaster Medical System is a partnership between HHS, the Department of Defense, and other federal departments that responds to public health and other emergencies, including by deploying medical response teams.)
Subtitle B--Medicaid
(Sec. 301) This section delays reductions to Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) allotments until January 20, 2024. (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payments under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income patients.)
(Sec. 302) This section reduces the amount of funding available to the Medicaid Improvement Fund for activities relating to mechanized claims systems beginning in FY2028.
Subtitle C--Human Services
(Sec. 401) This section funds through January 19, 2024, programs that support child welfare services and activities. Specifically, it funds the (1) Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Service Program, which provides grants to states and Indian tribes to support preventive interventions and other activities to keep families together; and (2) the MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, which supports efforts to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanent living arrangements for children (e.g., parental reunification or adoption).
(Sec. 402) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program. This program supports projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activities.
(Sec. 403) This section extends funding through January 19, 2024, for the Personal Responsibility Education Program. This program provides grants to states to educate young people about abstinence and contraception for prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The program also supports pregnant and parenting youth.
Subtitle D--Medicare
(Sec. 501) This section extends through January 19, 2024, certain minimum adjustments to the work geographic index with respect to payments for physician services under Medicare.
(Sec. 502) This section delays until 2025 certain laboratory reporting requirements that are used to determine payment rates for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under Medicare, as well as related payment reductions.
(Sec. 503) This section increases funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.
TITLE III--MISCELLANEOUS EXTENSIONS
(Sec. 601) This section extends through February 3, 2024, the authority of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to take certain actions to mitigate a credible threat to certain facilities or assets from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). These include certain facilities that are located in the United States and identified as high-risk and a potential target for unlawful UAS activity.
TITLE IV--BUDGETARY EFFECTS
(Sec. 701) This section exempts the budgetary effects of this division from (1) the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO Act), (2) the Senate PAYGO rule, and (3) certain budget scorekeeping rules.

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