1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pay Our Protectors Act of 2019 . 2. Continuing appropriations for certain employees of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice (a) Definition In this section, the term covered excepted employee means an officer or employee— (1) who is an officer or employee of an agency that is subject to a lapse in appropriations during fiscal year 2019; (2) who is— (A) an officer or employee of— (i) U.S. Customs and Border Protection; (ii) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; (iii) the Transportation Safety Administration; (iv) the Coast Guard; (v) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or (vi) the Central Intelligence Agency; (B) an attorney employed by the Department of Justice who prosecutes criminal offenses; or (C) an immigration judge employed by the Department of Justice; and (3) who is an excepted employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management. (b) Appropriation There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2019, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the head of each agency that employs 1 or more covered excepted employees for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2019 are not in effect such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to each covered excepted employee of the agency. (c) Termination Appropriations made available and authority granted under subsection (b) shall be available to the head of an agency until the earliest of— (1) the enactment into law of a regular appropriations Act providing appropriations for the agency for fiscal year 2019; (2) the enactment into law of a law providing continuing or regular appropriations for the agency for fiscal year 2019 that does not provide appropriations for the purpose for which amounts are appropriated under subsection (b)