[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 122 Public Print (PP)]
1st Session
H. J. RES. 122
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 29, 1995
Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate numbered
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and
for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, (1)<DELETED>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 the
fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes, namely:
<DELETED>TITLE I</DELETED>
<DELETED>CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1995 for continuing projects or activities
including the costs of direct loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise
specifically provided for in this joint resolution) which were
conducted in the fiscal year 1995 and for which appropriations, funds,
or other authority would be available in the following appropriations
Acts:</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State,
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996,
notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956, section 701 of the United States
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994
and 1995 (Public Law 103-236), and section 53 of the Arms
Control and Disarmament Act;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
1996, notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the National
Security Act of 1947;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The District of Columbia Appropriations Act,
1996;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996, notwithstanding
section 10 of Public Law 91-672 and section 15(a) of the State
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1996;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996,
H.R. 2492;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Department of Transportation Appropriations
Act, 1996;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Treasury, Postal Service, and General
Government Appropriations Act, 1996;</DELETED>
<DELETED> The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing
and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1996:</DELETED>
<DELETED>Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made
available or the authority which would be granted in these Acts is
greater than that which would be available or granted under current
operations, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued at a
rate for operations not exceeding the current rate.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Whenever the amount which would be made available or
the authority which would be granted under an Act listed in this
section as passed by the House as of the date of enactment of this
joint resolution, is different from that which would be available or
granted under such Act as passed by the Senate as of the date of
enactment of this joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity
shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the current
rate or the rate permitted by the action of the House or the Senate,
whichever is lower, under the authority and conditions provided in the
applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That
where an item is not included in either version or where an item is
included in only one version of the Act as passed by both Houses as of
the date of enactment of this joint resolution, the pertinent project
or activity shall not be continued except as provided for in section
111 or 112 under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the
applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1995.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has been passed
by only the House or only the Senate as of the date of enactment of
this joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity shall be
continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the
one House at a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate or
the rate permitted by the action of the one House, whichever is lower,
and under the authority and conditions provided in the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That where an
item is funded in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year
1995 and not included in the version passed by the one House as of the
date of enactment of this joint resolution, the pertinent project or
activity shall not be continued except as provided for in section 111
or 112 under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the
applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1995.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 102. No appropriation or funds made available or
authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense
shall be used for new production of items not funded for production in
fiscal year 1995 or prior years, for the increase in production rates
above those sustained with fiscal year 1995 funds, or to initiate,
resume, or continue any project, activity, operation, or organization
which are defined as any project, subproject, activity, budget
activity, program element, and subprogram within a program element and
for investment items are further defined as a P-1 line item in a budget
activity within an appropriation account and an R-1 line item which
includes a program element and subprogram element within an
appropriation account, for which appropriations, funds, or other
authority were not available during the fiscal year 1995: Provided,
That 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.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be
available to the extent and in the manner which would be provided by
the pertinent appropriations Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 104. 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 the fiscal year
1995.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 105. No provision which is included in an
appropriations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was not included
in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 and which by
its terms is applicable to more than one appropriation, fund, or
authority shall be applicable to any appropriation, fund, or authority
provided in this joint resolution.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 106. 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 until (a) enactment into law of an
appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this joint
resolution, or (b) the enactment into law of the applicable
appropriations Act by both Houses without any provision for such
project or activity, or (c) December 5, 1995, whichever first
occurs.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 107. Appropriations made and authority granted
pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or
expenditures incurred for any program, project, or activity during the
period for which funds or authority for such project or activity are
available under this joint resolution.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 108. 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.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 109. No provision in the appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 1996 referred to in section 101 of this joint resolution
that makes the availability of any appropriation provided therein
dependent upon the enactment of additional authorizing or other
legislation shall be effective before the date set forth in section
106(c) of this joint resolution.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 110. Appropriations 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 herein shall be construed to waive any other
provision of law governing the apportionment of funds.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 111. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever an Act listed in section
101 as passed by both the House and Senate as of the date of enactment
of this joint resolution, does not include funding for an ongoing
project or activity for which there is a budget request, or whenever an
Act listed in section 101 has been passed by only the House or only the
Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint resolution, and an
item funded in fiscal year 1995 is not included in the version passed
by the one House, or whenever the rate for operations for an ongoing
project or activity provided by section 101 for which there is a budget
request would result in the project or activity being significantly
reduced, the pertinent project or activity may be continued under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1995 by increasing the rate for operations provided
by section 101 to a rate for operations not to exceed one that provides
the minimal level that would enable existing activities to continue. No
new contracts or grants shall be awarded in excess of an amount that
bears the same ratio to the rate for operations provided by this
section as the number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
For the purposes of the Act, the minimal level means a rate for
operations that is reduced from the current rate by 40
percent.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever the rate for operations
for any continuing project or activity provided by section 101 or
section 111 for which there is a budget request would result in a
furlough of Government employees, that rate for operations may be
increased to the minimum level that would enable the furlough to be
avoided. No new contracts or grants shall be awarded in excess of an
amount that bears the same ratio to the rate for operations provided by
this section as the number of days covered by this resolution bears to
366.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except sections 106, 111, and 112, for those programs
that had high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of
funding at the beginning of the fiscal year in fiscal year 1995 because
of distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or
others, similar distributions of funds for fiscal year 1996 shall not
be made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this
resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 114. This joint resolution shall be implemented so
that only the most limited funding action of that permitted in the
resolution shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of
projects and activities.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 115. The provisions of section 132 of the District of
Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law 100-202, shall not apply
for this joint resolution. Included in the apportionment for the
Federal Payment to the District of Columbia shall be an additional
$15,000,000 above the amount otherwise made available by this joint
resolution, for purposes of certain capital construction loan
repayments pursuant to Public Law 85-451, as amended.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the authority and conditions for
the application of appropriations for the Office of Technology
Assessment as contained in the conference report on the Legislative
Branch Appropriations Act, 1996, House Report 104-212, shall be
followed when applying the funding made available by this joint
resolution.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, any distribution of funding under
the Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research account in the
Department of Education may be made up to an amount that bears the same
ratio to the rate for operation for this account provided by this joint
resolution as the number of days covered by this resolution bears to
366.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the authorities provided under
subsection (a) of section 140 of the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) shall remain in
effect during the period of this joint resolution, notwithstanding
paragraph (3) of said subsection.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the amount made available to the
Securities and Exchange Commission, under the heading Salaries and
Expenses, shall include, in addition to direct appropriations, the
amount it collects under the fee rate and offsetting collection
authority contained in Public Law 103-352, which fee rate and
offsetting collection authority shall remain in effect during the
period of this joint resolution.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 120. Until enactment of legislation providing funding
for the entire fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, for the
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies, funds available for
necessary expenses of the Bureau of Mines are for continuing limited
health and safety and related research, materials partnerships, and
minerals information activities; for mineral assessments in Alaska; and
for terminating all other activities of the Bureau of Mines.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 121. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, funds for the Environmental
Protection Agency shall be made available in the appropriation accounts
which are provided in H.R. 2099 as reported on September 13,
1995.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 122. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for
projects and activities that would be funded under the heading
``International Organizations and Conferences, Contributions to
International Organizations'' in the Departments of Commerce, Justice,
and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1996, shall be the amount provided by the provisions of sections 101,
111, and 112 multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered by
this resolution to 366 and multiplied further by 1.27.</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 123. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations of the
following projects or activities shall be only the minimum necessary to
accomplish orderly termination:</DELETED>
<DELETED> Administrative Conference of the United
States;</DELETED>
<DELETED> Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
(except that activities to carry out the provisions of Public
Law 104-4 may continue);</DELETED>
<DELETED> Interstate Commerce Commission;</DELETED>
<DELETED> Pennsylvania Avenue Development
Corporation;</DELETED>
<DELETED> Land and Water Conservation Fund, State
Assistance; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement, Rural Abandoned Mine Program.</DELETED>
<DELETED>TITLE II</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 201. WAIVER OF REQUIREMENT FOR PARCHMENT
PRINTING.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) Waiver.--The provisions of sections 106 and 107 of
title 1, United States Code, are waived with respect to the printing
(on parchment or otherwise) of the enrollment of any of the following
measures of the first session of the One Hundred Fourth Congress
presented to the President after the enactment of this joint
resolution:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) A continuing resolution.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) A debt limit extension measure.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) A reconciliation bill.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Certification by Committee on House Oversight.--The
enrollment of a measure to which subsection (a) applies shall be in
such form as the Committee on House Oversight of the House of
Representatives certifies to be a true enrollment.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 202. DEFINITIONS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> As used in this joint resolution:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Continuing resolution.--The term ``continuing
resolution'' means a bill or joint resolution that includes
provisions making further continuing appropriations for fiscal
year 1996.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Debt limit extension measure.--The term ``debt
limit extension measure'' means a bill or joint resolution that
includes provisions increasing or waiving (for a temporary
period or otherwise) the public debt limit under section
3101(b) of title 31, United States Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) Reconciliation bill.--The term
``reconciliation bill'' means a bill that is a reconciliation
bill within the meaning of section 310 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974.</DELETED>
<DELETED>TITLE III</DELETED>
<DELETED>COMMITMENT TO A SEVEN-YEAR BALANCED BUDGET</DELETED>
<DELETED> Sec. 301. (a) The President and the Congress shall enact
legislation in the 104th Congress to achieve a unified balanced budget
not later than the fiscal year 2002 as scored by the non-partisan
Congressional Budget Office.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) The unified balanced budget in subsection (a) shall be
based on the most current economic and technical assumptions of the
Congressional Budget Office.</DELETED>
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 the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I
CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary under the authority
and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 1995 for continuing projects or activities including the
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically
provided for in this joint resolution) which were conducted in the
fiscal year 1995 and for which appropriations, funds, or other
authority would be available in the following appropriations Acts:
The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996,
notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956, section 701 of the United States
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994
and 1995 (Public Law 103-236), and section 53 of the Arms
Control and Disarmament Act;
The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1996,
notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act
of 1947;
The District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs Appropriations Act, 1996, notwithstanding section 10
of Public Law 91-672 and section 15(a) of the State Department
Basic Authorities Act of 1956;
The Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996, H.R. 2492;
The Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government
Appropriations Act, 1996;
The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996:
Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made available or the
authority which would be granted in these Acts is greater than that
which would be available or granted under current operations, the
pertinent project or activity shall be continued at a rate for
operations not exceeding the current rate.
(b) Whenever the amount which would be made available or the
authority which would be granted under an Act listed in this section as
passed by the House as of the date of enactment of this joint
resolution, is different from that which would be available or granted
under such Act as passed by the Senate as of the date of enactment of
this joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity shall be
continued at a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate or
the rate permitted by the action of the House or the Senate, whichever
is lower, under the authority and conditions provided in the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That where an
item is not included in either version or where an item is included in
only one version of the Act as passed by both Houses as of the date of
enactment of this joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity
shall not be continued except as provided for in section 111 or 112
under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and under the authority and
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1995.
(c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has been passed by only
the House or only the Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint
resolution, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued under
the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the one House at a
rate for operations not exceeding the current rate or the rate
permitted by the action of the one House, whichever is lower, and under
the authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations
Act for the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That where an item is funded in
the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and not
included in the version passed by the one House as of the date of
enactment of this joint resolution, the pertinent project or activity
shall not be continued except as provided for in section 111 or 112
under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and under the authority and
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1995.
Sec. 102. No appropriation or funds made available or authority
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense shall be
used for new production of items not funded for production in fiscal
year 1995 or prior years, for the increase in production rates above
those sustained with fiscal year 1995 funds, or to initiate, resume, or
continue any project, activity, operation, or organization which are
defined as any project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program
element, and subprogram within a program element and for investment
items are further defined as a P-1 line item in a budget activity
within an appropriation account and an R-1 line item which includes a
program element and subprogram element within an appropriation account,
for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 1995: Provided, That 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.
Sec. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be available to
the extent and in the manner which would be provided by the pertinent
appropriations Act.
Sec. 104. 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 the fiscal year 1995.
Sec. 105. No provision which is included in an appropriations Act
enumerated in section 101 but which was not included in the applicable
appropriations Act for fiscal year 1995 and which by its terms is
applicable to more than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be
applicable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in this
joint resolution.
Sec. 106. 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 until (a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any
project or activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the
enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act by both Houses
without any provision for such project or activity, or (c) December 15,
1995, whichever first occurs.
Sec. 107. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to
this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expenditures
incurred for any program, project, or activity during the period for
which funds or authority for such project or activity are available
under this joint resolution.
Sec. 108. 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. 109. No provision in the appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1996 referred to in section 101 of this joint resolution that
makes the availability of any appropriation provided therein dependent
upon the enactment of additional authorizing or other legislation shall
be effective before the date set forth in section 106(c) of this joint
resolution.
Sec. 110. Appropriations 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
herein shall 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 106, whenever an Act listed in section 101
as passed by both the House and Senate as of the date of enactment of
this joint resolution, does not include funding for an ongoing project
or activity for which there is a budget request, or whenever an Act
listed in section 101 has been passed by only the House or only the
Senate as of the date of enactment of this joint resolution, and an
item funded in fiscal year 1995 is not included in the version passed
by the one House, or whenever the rate for operations for an ongoing
project or activity provided by section 101 for which there is a budget
request would result in the project or activity being significantly
reduced, the pertinent project or activity may be continued under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1995 by increasing the rate for operations provided
by section 101 to a rate for operations not to exceed one that provides
the minimal level that would enable existing activities to continue. No
new contracts or grants shall be awarded in excess of an amount that
bears the same ratio to the rate for operations provided by this
section as the number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
For the purposes of the Act, the minimal level means a rate for
operations that is reduced from the current rate by 25 percent.
Sec. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, whenever the rate for operations for
any continuing project or activity provided by section 101 or section
111 for which there is a budget request would result in a furlough of
Government employees, that rate for operations may be increased to the
minimum level that would enable the furlough to be avoided. No new
contracts or grants shall be awarded in excess of an amount that bears
the same ratio to the rate for operations provided by this section as
the number of days covered by this resolution bears to 366.
Sec. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except sections 106, 111, and 112, for those programs that
had high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of funding
at the beginning of the fiscal year in fiscal year 1995 because of
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or
others, similar distributions of funds for fiscal year 1996 shall not
be made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this
resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
Sec. 114. This joint resolution shall be implemented so that only
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the resolution
shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and
activities.
Sec. 115. The provisions of section 132 of the District of Columbia
Appropriations Act, 1988, Public Law 100-202, shall not apply for this
joint resolution. Included in the apportionment for the Federal Payment
to the District of Columbia shall be an additional $16,575,016 above
the amount otherwise made available by this joint resolution, for
reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned for certain capital
improvement projects pursuant to Public Law 81-533, as amended; Public
Law 83-364, as amended; Public Law 85-451, as amended; and Public Law
86-515, as amended, including interest as required thereby.
Sec. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the authority and conditions for the
application of appropriations for the Office of Technology Assessment
as contained in the conference report on the Legislative Branch
Appropriations Act, 1996, House Report 104-212, shall be followed when
applying the funding made available by this joint resolution.
Sec. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, any distribution of funding under the
Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research account in the
Department of Education may be made up to an amount that bears the same
ratio to the rate for operation for this account provided by this joint
resolution as the number of days covered by this resolution bears to
366.
Sec. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the authorities provided under
subsection (a) of section 140 of the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) shall remain in
effect during the period of this joint resolution, notwithstanding
paragraph (3) of said subsection.
Sec. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the amount made available to the
Securities and Exchange Commission, under the heading Salaries and
Expenses, shall include, in addition to direct appropriations, the
amount it collects under the fee rate and offsetting collection
authority contained in Public Law 103-352, which fee rate and
offsetting collection authority shall remain in effect during the
period of this joint resolution.
Sec. 120. Until enactment of legislation providing funding for the
entire fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, for the Department of the
Interior and Related Agencies, funds available for necessary expenses
of the Bureau of Mines are for continuing limited health and safety and
related research, materials partnerships, and minerals information
activities; for mineral assessments in Alaska; and for terminating all
other activities of the Bureau of Mines.
Sec. 121. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, funds for the Environmental Protection
Agency shall be made available in the appropriation accounts which are
provided in H.R. 2099 as reported on September 13, 1995.
Sec. 122. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for projects
and activities that would be funded under the heading ``International
Organizations and Conferences, Contributions to International
Organizations'' in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, shall be the
amount provided by the provisions of sections 101, 111, and 112
multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered by this
resolution to 366.
Sec. 123. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations of the
following projects or activities shall be only the minimum necessary to
accomplish orderly termination:
Administrative Conference of the United States;
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (except
that activities to carry out the provisions of Public Law 104-4
may continue);
Interstate Commerce Commission;
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation;
Land and Water Conservation Fund, State Assistance; and
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Rural
Abandoned Mine Program.
Sec. 124. Compensation and Ratification of Authority.--(a) Any
Federal employees furloughed as a result of a lapse in appropriations,
if any, after midnight November 13, 1995, until the enactment of this
Act shall be compensated at their standard rate of compensation for the
period during which there was a lapse in appropriations.
(b) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations
made and authority granted by this Act for the purposes of maintaining
the essential level of activity to protect life and property and bring
about orderly termination of Government functions are hereby ratified
and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions of this Act.
TITLE II
SEC. 201. WAIVER OF REQUIREMENT FOR PARCHMENT PRINTING.
(a) Waiver.--The provisions of sections 106 and 107 of title 1,
United States Code, are waived with respect to the printing (on
parchment or otherwise) of the enrollment of any of the following
measures of the first session of the One Hundred Fourth Congress
presented to the President after the enactment of this joint
resolution:
(1) A continuing resolution.
(2) A debt limit extension measure.
(3) A reconciliation bill.
(b) Certification by Committee on House Oversight.--The enrollment
of a measure to which subsection (a) applies shall be in such form as
the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives
certifies to be a true enrollment.
SEC. 202. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this joint resolution:
(1) Continuing resolution.--The term ``continuing
resolution'' means a bill or joint resolution that includes
provisions making further continuing appropriations for fiscal
year 1996.
(2) Debt limit extension measure.--The term ``debt limit
extension measure'' means a bill or joint resolution that
includes provisions increasing or waiving (for a temporary
period or otherwise) the public debt limit under section
3101(b) of title 31, United States Code.
(3) Reconciliation bill.--The term ``reconciliation bill''
means a bill that is a reconciliation bill within the meaning
of section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
SEC. 203. COMMITMENT TO A SEVEN YEAR BALANCED BUDGET.
(a) The President and the Congress shall enact legislation in the
first session of the One Hundred Fourth Congress to achieve a balanced
budget not later than fiscal year 2002 as estimated by the
Congressional Budget Office, and the President and the Congress agree
that the balanced budget must protect future generations, ensure
Medicare solvency, reform welfare, and provide adequate funding for
Medicaid, education, agriculture, national defense, veterans, and the
environment. Further, the balanced budget shall adopt tax policies to
help working families and to stimulate future economic growth.
(b) The balanced budget agreement shall be estimated by the
Congressional Budget Office based on its most recent current economic
and technical assumptions, following a thorough consultation and review
with the Office of Management and Budget, and other Government and
private experts.
Passed the House of Representatives November 16
(legislative day, November 15), 1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate November 19, 1995.
Attest:
KELLY D. JOHNSTON,
Secretary.
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