[106th Congress Public Law 62]
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Public Law 106-62
106th Congress
Joint Resolution
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2000, and for other
purposes. <<NOTE: Sept. 30, 1999 - [H.J. Res. 68]>>
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues,
receipts, and funds, for the several departments, agencies,
corporations, and other organizational units of Government for the
fiscal year 2000, 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 1999 for continuing projects or activities including the
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically
provided for in this joint resolution) which were conducted in the
fiscal year 1999 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority
would be available in the following appropriations Acts:
(1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000;
(2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000,
notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956, section 701 of the United States
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, section 313 of
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and
1995 (Public Law 103-236), and section 53 of the Arms Control
and Disarmament Act;
(3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000,
notwithstanding section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act
of 1947;
(4) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000;
(5) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act,
2000;
(6) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related
Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, notwithstanding section 10 of
Public Law 91-672 and section 15 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956;
(7) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000;
(8) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, the
House or Senate reported version of which, if such reported
version exists, shall be deemed to have passed the House or
Senate respectively as of October 1, 1999, for the purposes
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of this joint resolution, unless a reported version is passed as
of October 1, 1999, in which case the passed version shall be
used in place of the reported version for purposes of this joint
resolution;
(9) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2000;
(10) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000;
(11) the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act,
2000; and
(12) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act,
2000:
Provided, That whenever the amount which would be made available or the
authority which would be granted in these Acts as passed by the House
and Senate as of October 1, 1999, is different 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: Provided further, That whenever there is no amount made
available under any of these appropriations Acts as passed by the House
and Senate as of October 1, 1999, for a continuing project or activity
which was conducted in fiscal year 1999 and for which there is fiscal
year 2000 funding included in the budget request, the pertinent project
or activity shall be continued at the rate for current operations under
the authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations
Act for the fiscal year 1999.
(b) Whenever the amount which would be made available or the
authority which would be granted under an Act listed in this section as
passed by the House as of October 1, 1999, is different from that which
would be available or granted under such Act as passed by the Senate as
of October 1, 1999, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued
at a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate under the
appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the applicable
appropriations Act for the fiscal year 2000 and under the authority and
conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 1999.
(c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has been passed by only
the House or only the Senate as of October 1, 1999, the pertinent
project or activity shall be continued under the appropriation, fund, or
authority granted by the one House at a rate for operations not
exceeding the current rate and under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1999:
Provided, That whenever there is no amount made available under any of
these appropriations Acts as passed by the House or the Senate as of
October 1, 1999, for a continuing project or activity which was
conducted in fiscal year 1999 and for which there is fiscal year 2000
funding included in the budget request, the pertinent project or
activity shall be continued at the rate for current operations under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act
for the fiscal year 1999.
(d) If the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, has not been
reported in either the House or the Senate as of October 1, 1999,
continuing projects or activities that were conducted in fiscal year
1999 shall be continued at the current rate under the appropriation,
fund or authority and terms and conditions
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provided in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999.
Sec. 102. No appropriation or funds made available or authority
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense shall be
used for new production of items not funded for production in fiscal
year 1999 or prior years, for the increase in production rates above
those sustained with fiscal year 1999 funds, or to initiate, resume, or
continue any project, activity, operation, or organization which are
defined as any project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program
element, and subprogram within a program element and for investment
items are further defined as a P-1 line item in a budget activity within
an appropriation account and an R-1 line item which includes a program
element and subprogram element within an appropriation account, for
which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 1999: Provided, That no appropriation or funds
made available or authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the
Department of Defense shall be used to initiate multi-year procurements
utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity
procurement unless specifically appropriated later.
Sec. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be available to
the extent and in the manner which would be provided by the pertinent
appropriations Act.
Sec. 104. 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 1999.
Sec. 105. No provision which is included in an appropriations Act
enumerated in section 101 but which was not included in the applicable
appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999 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
joint resolution.
Sec. 106. <<NOTE: Termination date.>> Unless otherwise provided for
in this joint resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act,
appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant
to this joint resolution shall be available until: (a) enactment into
law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this
joint resolution; (b) the enactment into law of the applicable
appropriations Act by both Houses without any provision for such project
or activity; or (c) October 21, 1999, whichever first occurs.
Sec. 107. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to 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 joint
resolution.
Sec. 108. Expenditures made pursuant to 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
2000 referred to in section 101 of this Act 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.
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Sec. 110. Appropriations and funds made available by or authority
granted pursuant to 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. This joint resolution shall be implemented so that only
the most limited funding action of that permitted in the joint
resolution shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of
projects and activities.
Sec. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, for those programs that had high initial
rates of operation or complete distribution of fiscal year 1999
appropriations at the beginning of that fiscal year because of
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees or
others, similar distributions of funds for fiscal year 2000 shall not be
made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded by this
resolution that would impinge on final funding prerogatives.
Sec. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for projects and
activities that would be funded under the heading ``International
Organizations and Conferences, Contributions to International
Organizations'' in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, shall be the
amount provided by the provisions of section 101 multiplied by the ratio
of the number of days covered by this resolution to 366.
Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for the
following activities funded with Federal Funds for the District of
Columbia, shall be at a rate for operations not exceeding the current
rate, multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered by this
joint resolution to 366: Corrections Trustee Operations, Public Defender
Services, Parole Revocation, Adult Probation, Offender Supervision, Sex
Offender Registration, Pretrial Services, District of Columbia Courts,
and Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts.
Sec. 115. Activities authorized by sections 1309(a)(2), as amended
by Public Law 104-208, and 1376(c) of the National Flood Insurance Act
of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), may continue through the
date specified in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.
Sec. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 106, the rate for operations for
reimbursement of past losses for the Commodity Credit Corporation Fund
shall be $11,500,000,000.
Sec. 117. Notwithstanding section 235(a)(2) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2195(a)(2)), the authority of section
234(a) (b) and (c), of the same Act, shall remain in effect during the
period of this joint resolution.
Sec. 118. Notwithstanding sections 101, 104, and 106 of this joint
resolution, funds may be used to initiate or resume projects or
activities at a rate in excess of the current rate to the extent
necessary, consistent with existing agency plans, to achieve Year 2000
(Y2K) computer compliance and for implementation of business continuity
and contingency plans.
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Sec. 119. Notwithstanding sections 101 and 104 of this joint
resolution, not to exceed $189,524,382 shall be available for projects
and activities for decennial census programs for the period covered by
this joint resolution.
Sec. 120. Notwithstanding section 101 of this joint resolution, the
rate for operations for projects and activities funded by accounts in
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 as passed by the House and
Senate affected by the foreign affairs reorganization shall be at the
current rate for the accounts funding such projects and activities in
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, distributed into the accounts
established in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 as passed by
the House and Senate.
Sec. 121. Notwithstanding section 309(g) of the United States
International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6208) and section 101
of this joint resolution, the rate for operation for Radio Free Asia
shall be at the current rate for operations and under the terms provided
for in the fiscal year 1999 grant from the Broadcasting Board of
Governors to RFA, Inc.
Sec. 122. Public Law 106-46 <<NOTE: Ante, p. 227.>> is amended by
deleting ``October 1, 1999'' and inserting ``November 1, 1999''.
Approved September 30, 1999.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 68:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 145 (1999):
Sept. 28, considered and passed House and Senate.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 35 (1999):
Sept. 30, Presidential remarks.
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