[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1301 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1301

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen


                                 An Act


 
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    Sec. 101.  The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (division D of 
Public Law 115-56) is further amended by inserting after section 165 
the following new section:
    ``Sec. 166. (a) Employees furloughed as a result of any lapse in 
appropriations which begins on or about February 9, 2018, shall be 
compensated at their standard rate of compensation, for the period of 
such lapse in appropriations, as soon as practicable after such lapse 
in appropriations ends.
    ``(b) For purposes of this section, `employee' means:
        ``(1) a Federal employee;
        ``(2) an employee of the District of Columbia Courts;
        ``(3) an employee of the Public Defender Service for the 
    District of Columbia; or
        ``(4) a District of Columbia Government employee.
    ``(c) All obligations incurred in anticipation of the 
appropriations made and authority granted by this division for the 
purposes of maintaining the essential level of activity to protect life 
and property and bringing about orderly termination of Government 
functions, and for purposes as otherwise authorized by law, are hereby 
ratified and approved if otherwise in accord with the provisions of 
this division.''.
    Sec. 102.  For the purposes of division D of Public Law 115-56, the 
time covered by such division shall be considered to include the period 
which began on or about February 9, 2018, during which there occurred a 
lapse in appropriations.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Continuing Appropriations Amendments 
Act, 2018''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.