[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 15 (Monday, January 22, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H620-H621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PROVIDING FOR A CORRECTION IN THE ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 195

  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the 
Speaker's table the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 33) providing 
for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 195, and ask for its 
immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the concurrent resolution is as follows:

                            S. Con. Res. 33

       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 195, the 
     Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the 
     following corrections:
       (1) Insert before section 1 the following:

     ``DIVISION A--FEDERAL REGISTER PRINTING SAVINGS ACT OF 2017''.

       (2) In section 1, strike ``Act'' and insert ``division''.
       (3) Insert before section 2002 the following:
       ``Sec. 154 (a) Employees furloughed as a result of any 
     lapse in appropriations which begins on or about January 20, 
     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

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     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. 155. (a) If a State (or another Federal grantee) 
     used State funds (or the grantee's non-Federal funds) to 
     continue carrying out a Federal program or furloughed State 
     employees (or the grantee's employees) whose compensation is 
     advanced or reimbursed in whole or in part by the Federal 
     Government--
       ``(1) such furloughed employees shall be compensated at 
     their standard rate of compensation for such period;
       ``(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall be reimbursed 
     for expenses that would have been paid by the Federal 
     Government during such period had appropriations been 
     available, including the cost of compensating such furloughed 
     employees, together with interest thereon calculated under 
     section 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and
       ``(3) the State (or such other grantee) may use funds 
     available to the State (or the grantee) under such Federal 
     program to reimburse such State (or the grantee), together 
     with interest thereon calculated under section 6503(d) of 
     title 31, United States Code.
       ``(b) For purposes of this section, the term `State' and 
     the term `grantee' shall have the meaning as such term is 
     defined under the applicable Federal program under subsection 
     (a). In addition, `to continue carrying out a Federal 
     program' means the continued performance by a State or other 
     Federal grantee, during the period of a lapse in 
     appropriations, of a Federal program that the State or such 
     other grantee had been carrying out prior to the period of 
     the lapse in appropriations.
       ``(c) The authority under this section applies with respect 
     to any period in fiscal year 2018 (not limited to periods 
     beginning or ending after the date of the enactment of this 
     division) during which there occurs a lapse in appropriations 
     with respect to any department or agency of the Federal 
     Government which, but for such lapse in appropriations, would 
     have paid, or made reimbursement relating to, any of the 
     expenses referred to in this section with respect to the 
     program involved. Payments and reimbursements under this 
     authority shall be made only to the extent and in amounts 
     provided in advance in appropriations Acts.''.
       (4) Insert after section 2002 the following:
       ``Sec. 2003.  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 January 20, 
     2018, during which there occurred a lapse in 
     appropriations.''.
       (5) Amend the title so as to read: ``Making further 
     continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2018, and for other purposes''.

  The concurrent resolution was concurred in.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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