Continuing Appropriations Amendments Act, 2018 Public Law 115–124 Continuing Appropriations Amendments Act, 2018 124 115–124 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2021-10-15 Continuing Appropriations Amendments Act, 2018 13881 115 2018-02-09 Continuing Appropriations Amendments Act, 2018 [(Public Law 115–124)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 115-124. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTMaking 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.”
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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”.