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Public Law 104-90
104th Congress
Joint Resolution
Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1996, and
for other purposes. <<NOTE: Jan. 4, 1996 - [H.J. Res. 153]>>
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: District of
Columbia.>> That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of the
general fund and enterprise funds of the District of Columbia for the
District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1996, and for other purposes,
namely:
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 title of 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
Act:
The District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1996:
Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made available or the
authority which would be granted in this Act 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 the 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.
Sec. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be available to
the extent and in the manner which would be provided by the pertinent
appropriations Act.
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Sec. 103. 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. 104. No provision which is included in the 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
title of this joint resolution.
Sec. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to this
title of 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 title of this joint resolution.
Sec. 106. <<NOTE: Termination date.>> Unless otherwise provided for
in this title of this joint resolution or in the applicable
appropriations Act, appropriations and funds made available and
authority granted pursuant to this title of this joint resolution shall
be available until (a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any
project or activity provided for in this title of 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)
January 25, 1996, whichever first occurs.
Sec. 107. <<NOTE: Abortion.>> Notwithstanding any other provision of
this title of this joint resolution, except section 106, none of the
funds appropriated under this title of this joint resolution shall be
expended for any abortion except where the life of the mother would be
endangered if the fetus were carried to term or where the pregnancy is
the result of an act of rape or incest.
Sec. 108. Expenditures made pursuant to this title of 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 title 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 title of 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 title of this
joint resolution, except section 106, whenever the 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 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
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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 this title of this joint
resolution 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 title 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 title 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
title of this resolution that would impinge on final funding
prerogatives.
Sec. 114. This title of this joint resolution shall be implemented
so that only the most limited funding action of that permitted in this
title of this 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
title of this joint resolution.
Sec. 116. <<NOTE: Domestic partners.>> Notwithstanding any other
provision of this title of this joint resolution, except section 106,
none of the funds appropriated under this title of this joint resolution
shall be used to
implement or enforce any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting
couples whether they are homosexual, lesbian, heterosexual, including
but not limited to registration for the purpose of extending employment,
health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the same basis that
such benefits are extended to legally married couples; nor shall any
funds made available pursuant to any provision of this title of this
joint resolution otherwise be
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used to implement or enforce D.C. Act 9-188, signed by the Mayor of the
District of Columbia on April 15, 1992.
Approved January 4, 1996.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 153:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 142 (1996):
Jan. 3, considered and passed House.
Jan. 4, considered and passed Senate.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 32 (1996):
Jan. 4, Presidential statement.
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