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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2902

To amend the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to revise and make permanent the use of a formula

based on adjusted District General Fund revenues as the basis for

determining the amount of the annual Federal payment to the District

of Columbia, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

AUGUST 5, 1993

Mr. STARK (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MCDERMOTT, and Mr. WHEAT)

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the

District of Columbia

A BILL

To amend the District of Columbia Self-Government and

Governmental Reorganization Act to revise and make

permanent the use of a formula based on adjusted District General Fund revenues as the basis for determining

the amount of the annual Federal payment to the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Payment For5 mula Revision Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. PERMANENT USE AND REVISION OF FORMULA TO

2 DETERMINE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL FEDERAL

3 PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 503 of the District of Co5 lumbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganiza6 tion Act (sec. 47–3406.1, D.C. Code) is amended to read

7 as follows:

8 ‘‘FEDERAL PAYMENT FORMULA

9 ‘‘SEC. 503. (a) Subject to subsection (b), there is au10 thorized to be appropriated as the annual Federal pay11 ment to the District of Columbia for a fiscal year (begin12 ning with fiscal year 1995) an amount equal to the appli13 cable percentage of the adjusted District General Fund

14 revenues for the second fiscal year preceding such fiscal

15 year, as such revenues are reported in the independent

16 audit of the financial operations of the government of the

17 District of Columbia conducted under section 4(a) of Pub18 lic Law 94–399 and as reviewed by the Comptroller Gen19 eral under section 715(e) of title 31, United States Code.

20 ‘‘(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the amount au21 thorized to be appropriated under such subsection for a

22 fiscal year may not be less than an amount equal to the

23 average of the annual Federal payments made to the Dis24 trict of Columbia pursuant to this title during the 3 fiscal

25 years immediately preceding such fiscal year.
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1 ‘‘(c) In this section, the following definitions shall

2 apply:

3 ‘‘(1) The term ‘applicable percentage’ means—

4 ‘‘(A) with respect to fiscal year 1995, 25

5 percent; and

6 ‘‘(B) with respect to each succeeding fiscal

7 year, the lesser of—

8 ‘‘(i) the applicable percentage deter9 mined under this paragraph for the pre10 ceding fiscal year increased by 1.0, or

11 ‘‘(ii) 30 percent.

12 ‘‘(2) The term ‘adjusted District General Fund

13 revenues’ means all revenues of the General Fund of

14 the government of the District of Columbia, adjusted

15 to include operating transfers from the Lottery and

16 Games Fund to such General Fund (but no other

17 payments or transfers to such fund from any other

18 intragovernmental source), and not including—

19 ‘‘(A) revenues that are required to be ac20 counted for in a fund other than such General

21 Fund; and

22 ‘‘(B) revenues from Federal sources.

23 ‘‘(3) The term ‘revenues from Federal sources’

24 means revenues derived from payments made by the

25 Federal Government to the District of Columbia, in-
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1 cluding fees or charges for products or services,

2 grants, payments in lieu of taxes, and direct appro3 priations.’’.

4 SEC. 3. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

5 (a) INDEPENDENT ANNUAL AUDIT OF DISTRICT FI6 NANCIAL OPERATIONS.—The first sentence of section 4(a)

7 of Public Law 94–399 (sec. 47–119(a), D.C. Code) is

8 amended by striking ‘‘a report of the revenues’’ and all

9 that follows and inserting the following: ‘‘a report of the

10 adjusted District General Fund revenues for the fiscal

11 year (as described in section 503(c)(2) of the District of

12 Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganiza13 tion Act).’’.

14 (b) REVIEW BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—Section

15 715(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by

16 striking ‘‘report of the breakdown’’ and all that follows

17 and inserting the following: ‘‘report of the adjusted Dis18 trict General Fund revenues for the preceding fiscal year

19 that is included in the independent annual audit of the

20 financial operations of the government of the District of

21 Columbia conducted for such fiscal year under section 4(a)

22 of Public Law 94–399.’’.

23 SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

24 The amendments made by this Act shall apply to fis25 cal years beginning with fiscal year 1995.
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