Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015

(This measure has not been amended since the House agreed with an amendment to the Senate amendment on December 11, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Highlights:

The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 provides appropriations for most of the federal government through the end of FY2015 and continuing appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security through February 27, 2015.

The Act includes eleven of the twelve regular appropriations bills. Compared to FY2014 levels, the Act increases total funding for seven bills and decreases funding for four bills.

The Act increases total funding above FY2014 levels for:

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015;

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015;

Department of Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015;

Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015;

Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015;

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2015; and

Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015.

It decreases total funding below FY2014 levels for:

Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015;

Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2015;

Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2015; and

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015

The Act includes a continuing resolution that funds the Department of Homeland Security at current levels through February 27, 2015, or enactment of homeland security appropriations legislation.

It also includes Overseas Contingency Operations and emergency funding for activities related to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the spread of the Ebola virus.

In addition to providing appropriations, the Act includes provisions that:

permit multiemployer defined benefit pension plans expected to become insolvent to reduce benefits to participants,

increase limits for campaign contributions to national political party committees,

exempt expatriate health care plans from provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,

The summary continues for 1700 more paragraphs. Read it in full on Congress.gov

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Public Law" stage on December 16, 2014. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

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