SECTION 1. Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the “Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act”.
Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act
An Act
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 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. 2. Table of Contents.
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
Sec. 4. Statement of appropriations.
Sec. 5. Availability of funds.
Sec. 6. Explanatory statement.
DIVISION A— MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017
Title I— Department of Defense
Title II— Department of Veterans Affairs
Title III— Related agencies
Title IV— Overseas contingency operations
Title V— General provisions
DIVISION B— ZIKA RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS
Title I— Department of Health and Human Services
Title II— Department of State
Title III— General Provisions—This Division
DIVISION C— CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017
DIVISION D— RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS
SEC. 3. References.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to “this Act” contained in any division of this Act shall be treated as referring only to the provisions of that division.
SEC. 4. Statement of Appropriations.
The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017.
SEC. 5. Availability of Funds.
Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits such designations to the Congress.
SEC. 6. Explanatory Statement.
The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the Senate section of the Congressional Record on or about September 22, 2016, by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions A through D of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.
Any reference to the “joint explanatory statement accompanying this Act” contained in division A of this Act shall be considered to be a reference to the explanatory statement described in subsection (a).