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[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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