    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 115-124
    115th Congress

    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''.

    Approved February 9, 2018.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 1301:
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    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
    Vol. 163 (2017):
    Mar. 8, considered and passed House.
    Vol. 164 (2018):
    Feb. 8, considered and passed
    Senate, amended. House concurred
    in Senate amendment.