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Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.

Public Law 118-35 · H.R. 2872 · 118th Congress · began in the House

Signed by Joe Biden (D) on Jan 19, 2024 · Public Lands and Natural Resources

Sponsor: Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA-6)

Cosponsors (3): Rep. Mike Thompson,

Passage votesYeaNay

  • HouseRecorded vote: 314 yea, 108 nay314–108
  • SenateRecorded vote: 77 yea, 18 nay77–18
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The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.

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Summary

The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.

Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024

This act provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies. The act also extends several expiring programs and authorities, including several public health programs.

DIVISION A--FURTHER ADDITIONAL CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024

Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024

(Sec. 101) This section provides continuing FY2024 appropriations for federal agencies. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and prevents a government shutdown that would otherwise occur if the FY2024 appropriations bills have not been enacted when the existing CR expires.

The CR provides funding through March 1, 2024, for agencies and programs that were funded in the following four FY2023 appropriations acts:

• the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;

• the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023;

• the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023; and

• the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023.

(Under the current CR, these agencies and programs are funded through January 19, 2024.)

For most other federal agencies and programs, the CR provides funding through March 8, 2024. (Under the current CR, these agencies and programs are funded through February 2, 2024.)

The CR generally funds most programs and activities at the FY2023 levels with several exceptions that provide funding flexibility and additional appropriations for various programs. For example, the CR includes exceptions for the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration.

In addition, the CR allows the Department of Defense to obligate specified funds from the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account for the procurement of one Columbia Class Submarine.

The CR also extends the authority for the U.S. Parole Commission.

DIVISION B--OTHER MATTERS

TITLE I--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Subtitle A--Public Health Extenders

(Sec. 101) This section extends through March 8, 2024, funding for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program, the Community Health Center Fund, and the National Health Services Corps. (The program supports education and training of medical students in primary care residency programs in community-based ambulatory patient care centers. The fund supports (1) grants for outpatient health care facilities that serve medically underserved populations; and (2) the National Health Service Corps, which provides scholarships and student loan repayment awards to health care providers who agree to work in areas with health care provider shortages.)

(Sec. 102) This section extends funding through March 8, 2024, for the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. (The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.)

(Sec. 103) This section extends through March 8, 2024, the authority that allows states and tribes to request the temporary reassignment of state and local health department personnel who are funded through certain federal programs to immediately address a public health emergency.

It also extends through March 8, 2024, provisions that prohibit the disclosure of information about Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs that could compromise national security (e.g., information regarding biomedical threats).

The section extends provisions that authorize HHS to engage with developers of medical countermeasures, and that provide for related antitrust exemptions, for the purpose of furthering product development.

Additionally, the section extends through March 8, 2024, the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters, and the National Advisory Committee on Individuals with Disabilities and Disasters.

It also extends through March 8, 2024, the authority of HHS to directly appoint candidates to positions within the National Disaster Medical System if HHS determines the number of personnel in the system is insufficient to address a public health emergency or potential public health emergency.

(The National Disaster Medical System is a partnership between HHS, the Department of Defense, and other federal departments that responds to public health and other emergencies, including by deploying medical response teams.)

Subtitle B--Medicaid

(Sec. 121) This section delays reductions to Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) allotments until March 9, 2024. (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payments under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income patients.)

(Sec. 122) This section reduces the amount of funding available to the Medicaid Improvement Fund for activities relating to mechanized claims systems beginning in FY2028.

Subtitle C--Medicare

(Sec. 131) This section extends through March 8, 2024, certain minimum adjustments to the work geographic index with respect to payments for physician services under Medicare.

(Sec. 132) This section reduces funding for the Medicare Improvement Fund.

Subtitle D--Human Services

(Sec. 141) This section funds through March 8, 2024, programs that support child welfare services and activities. Specifically, it funds the (1) Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Service Program, which provides grants to states and Indian tribes to support preventive interventions and other activities to keep families together; and (2) the MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, which supports efforts to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanent living arrangements for children (e.g., parental reunification or adoption).

(Sec. 142) This section extends funding through March 8, 2024, for the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program. This program supports projects to implement sexual risk avoidance education that teaches participants to voluntarily refrain from nonmarital sexual activities.

(Sec. 143) This section extends funding through March 8, 2024, for the Personal Responsibility Education Program. This program provides grants to states to educate young people about abstinence and contraception for prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The program also supports pregnant and parenting youth

TITLE II--COMPACTS

(Sec. 201) This section extends through March 8, 2024, provisions that provide grants and other financial assistance to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

TITLE III--COUNTER-UAS AUTHORITIES

(Sec. 301) This section extends through March 8, 2024, the authority of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to take certain actions to mitigate a credible threat to certain facilities or assets from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). These include certain facilities that are located in the United States and identified as high-risk and a potential target for unlawful UAS activity.

TITLE IV--BUDGETARY EFFECTS

(Sec. 401) This section exempts the budgetary effects of this division from (1) the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO Act), (2) the Senate PAYGO rule, and (3) certain budget scorekeeping rules.

Who voted for it

Every House member of the 118th Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 314 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.

314 yea108 nay11 present or did not vote

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Democrats who voted yea(207)

Republicans who voted yea(107)

Data notes

The House’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 733 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.

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Committees

The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.

  • Natural Resources Committee · House · discharged from, markup by, referred to, reported bySubcommittee: Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee
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Related bills

2 bills the Library of Congress relates to this one.

  • S. 788 · became Public Law 118-25Related bill

    Duck Stamp Modernization Act of 2023

  • S.Con.Res. 25Related bill

    A concurrent resolution providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 2872.

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Related bills are identified by the Congressional Research Service, the House and the Senate: companion and identical bills, bills with similar text, bills that were folded into this law, and rules that brought it to the floor. A bill that is itself a public law in this site’s data links here; the others link to Congress.gov.

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Timeline

From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 40 actions.

  1. Jan 19, 2024Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 118-35.
  2. Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
  3. FloorFloor · Presented to President.
  4. Jan 18, 2024Resolving differencesResolving differences · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  5. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 314 - 108 (Roll no. 15).House roll call 15
  6. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Ms. Granger moved that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment.
  7. FloorFloor · POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2872, the chair put the question on the motion and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Roy demanded the yeas and nays and the Ch…
  8. FloorFloor · DEBATE - The House proceeded with 40 minutes of debate on the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2872.
  9. FloorFloor · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  10. FloorFloor · Passed Senate, under the order of 1/17/2024, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 77 - 18. Record Vote Number: 12.Senate roll call 12
  11. FloorFloor · Motion by Senator Marshall to commit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 13 - 82. Record Vote Number: 11.Senate roll call 11
  12. FloorFloor · Considered by Senate.
  13. OtherOther · Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 314 - 108 (Roll no. 15).House roll call 15
  14. Jan 17, 2024FloorFloor · Measure laid before Senate by motion.
  15. FloorFloor · Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
  16. FloorFloor · Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S125)
  17. Jan 16, 2024FloorFloor · Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 68 - 13. Record Vote Number: 9. (CR S117-118)Senate roll call 9
  18. FloorFloor · Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S105)
  19. Jan 11, 2024FloorFloor · Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.
  20. FloorFloor · Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S87)
  21. Nov 9, 2023CalendarCalendar · Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 243.
  22. Sep 21, 2023CommitteeCommittee · Received in the Senate.
  23. Sep 20, 2023FloorFloor · The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
  24. FloorFloor · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  25. FloorFloor · On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
  26. FloorFloor · Considered as unfinished business.
  27. Sep 18, 2023FloorFloor · At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Collins objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
  28. FloorFloor · DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2872.
  29. FloorFloor · Considered under suspension of the rules.
  30. FloorFloor · Mr. Collins moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
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Every action the Library of Congress lists for the bill, from introduction to signing, plus the dated committee hearings. The source lists many steps twice (the chamber’s own entry and the Library of Congress copy, or a presidential and a became-law entry with the same words); those are shown once. Amendments are listed in their own section.

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Amendments

5 amendments offered to the bill, with the last recorded step of each.

Where each amendment ended up

  • S.Amdt. 1385SenateSen. Rand PaulR-KY· offered Jan 17, 2024No vote recorded

    Jan 17, 2024: Senate amendment submitted

    Offered, no vote recorded

  • S.Amdt. 1384SenateSen. Rand PaulR-KY· offered Jan 17, 2024Rejected

    To limit foreign assistance to the Palestinian Authority or any other Palestinian governing entity in the West Bank and Gaza.

    Jan 18, 2024: Amendment SA 1384, under the order of 1/17/2024, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 44 - 50. Record Vote Number: 10.

    Rejected

  • S.Amdt. 1383SenateSen. Ted CruzR-TX· offered Jan 17, 2024No vote recorded

    Jan 17, 2024: Senate amendment submitted

    Offered, no vote recorded

  • S.Amdt. 1382SenateSen. Mike BraunR-IN· offered Jan 17, 2024No vote recorded

    Jan 17, 2024: Senate amendment submitted

    Offered, no vote recorded

  • S.Amdt. 1381SenateSen. Patty MurrayD-WA· offered Jan 16, 2024Agreed to

    In the nature of a substitute.

    Jan 18, 2024: Amendment SA 1381 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

    Agreed to
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Amendments offered to this bill in either chamber, as the Library of Congress records them: each with a status read from its last recorded step: agreed to, rejected, withdrawn, ruled out of order, fell with another amendment, or offered with no vote recorded (most Senate amendments are only ever offered). The wording of each amendment is the source’s. Amendments to amendments and amendments to other bills are not listed.

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Official record

The bill’s full text is on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.