118 STAT. 1138 PUBLIC LAW 108–309—SEPT. 30, 2004 (12) The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropria tions Act, 2004. 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. SEC. 103. The appropriations Acts listed in section 101 shall be deemed to include miscellaneous and supplemental appropriation laws enacted during fiscal year 2004. 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 fiscal year 2004. SEC. 105. 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. 106. Activities authorized for 2004 by sections 1902(a)(10)(E)(iv) and 1933 of the Social Security Act shall continue through the date specified in section 107(c) of this joint resolution: Provided, That for purposes of the budget scoring guidance in effect for the Congress and the Executive branch respectively, and notwithstanding rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of con ference accompanying Conference Report 105–217, the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be direct spending. SEC. 107. 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 resolu tion shall be available until (a) enactment into law of an appropria tion for any project or activity provided for in 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) November 20, 2004, whichever first occurs. SEC. 108. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authoriza tion whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted into law. SEC. 109. 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. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, except section 107, for those programs that had high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of fiscal year 2004 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 2005 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. 111. This joint resolution shall be implemented so that only the most limited funding action of that permitted in the joint Expiration date.
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