Coast Guard Sustained Funding Act of 2025

Coast Guard Sustained Funding Act of 2025

This bill provides continuing appropriations to the Coast Guard for pay and benefits when there is a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse.

Under the bill, a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse occurs when a bill providing appropriations for the Coast Guard for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the beginning of that fiscal year, and no joint resolution providing continuing appropriations for the Coast Guard is in effect.

If a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse occurs, the bill provides appropriations to the Coast Guard for (1) pay and allowances for military members of the Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service or inactive-duty training; and (2) pay and benefits for certain civilian and contract employees who are providing support to members of the Coast Guard or another Armed Force and are working during the funding lapse. 

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2051 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2051

To amend title 14, United States Code, to make appropriations for Coast 
    Guard pay in the event an appropriations Act expires before the 
     enactment of a new appropriations Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2025

  Mr. Green of Tennessee (for himself and Mr. Gimenez) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 14, United States Code, to make appropriations for Coast 
    Guard pay in the event an appropriations Act expires before the 
     enactment of a new appropriations Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Coast Guard Sustained Funding Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. PAY; CONTINUATION DURING LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 27 of title 14, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 2780. Pay; continuation during lapse in appropriations
    ``(a) In General.--In the case of any period in which there is a 
Coast Guard-specific funding lapse, there are appropriated such sums as 
may be necessary--
            ``(1) to provide pay and allowances to military members of 
        the Coast Guard, including the reserve component thereof, who 
        perform active service or inactive-duty training during such 
        period;
            ``(2) to provide pay and benefits to qualified civilian 
        employees of the Coast Guard; and
            ``(3) to provide pay and benefits to qualified contract 
        employees of the Coast Guard.
    ``(b) Application of Anti-Deficiency Act.--Section 1341 of title 31 
(commonly referred to as the `Anti-Deficiency Act') shall apply to 
operations carried out under this section, except--
            ``(1) in the case of law that expressly authorizes 
        incurring obligations in advance of appropriations;
            ``(2) operations that involve emergencies involving the 
        safety of human life or the protection of property; and
            ``(3) with respect to functions necessary to discharge the 
        congressional duties of the President.
    ``(c) Coast Guard-Specific Funding Lapse.--For purposes of this 
section, a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse occurs in any case in 
which a general appropriation bill providing appropriations for the 
Coast Guard for a fiscal year is not enacted before the beginning of 
such fiscal year (and no joint resolution making continuing 
appropriations for the Coast Guard is in effect).
    ``(d) Termination.--Appropriations and funds made available and 
authority granted for any fiscal year for any purpose under subsection 
(a) shall be available until whichever of the following first occurs:
            ``(1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including 
        a continuing appropriation) for such purpose.
            ``(2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or 
        continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any 
        appropriation for such purpose.
    ``(e) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Qualified civilian employee.--The term `qualified 
        civilian employee' means a civilian employee of the Coast Guard 
        who the Commandant determines is--
                    ``(A) providing support to members of the Coast 
                Guard or another Armed Force; or
                    ``(B) performing work as an excepted employee or an 
                employee performing emergency work, as such terms are 
                defined by the Office of Personnel Management.
            ``(2) Qualified contract employee of the coast guard.--The 
        term `qualified contract employee of the Coast Guard' means an 
        individual performing work under a contract who the Commandant 
        determines is--
                    ``(A) providing support to military members or 
                qualified civilian employees of the Coast Guard or 
                another Armed Force; or
                    ``(B) required to perform work during a lapse in 
                appropriations.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 27 of title 14, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

``2780. Pay; continuation during lapse in appropriations.''.
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