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(3) An estimate of the annual and recurring savings the 
initiative is expected to generate and a description of the meth-
odology used to derive that estimate. 
(4) An estimate of the total transition costs attributable 
to the initiative. 
(5) Guidance for use by agencies in evaluating the benefits 
of the initiative and in developing alternative strategies should 
expected benefits fail to materialize. 
(c) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
provide a copy of the report to the Government Accountability 
Office at the same time the report is submitted to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
The Government Accountability Office shall review the report and 
brief the Committees on its views concerning the report within 
45 days after receiving the report from the Director. 
SEC. 748. No later than 180 days after enactment of this 
Act, the Office of Management and Budget shall establish a pilot 
program to develop and implement an inventory to track the cost 
and size (in contractor manpower equivalents) of service contracts, 
particularly with respect to contracts that have been performed 
poorly by a contractor because of excessive costs or inferior quality, 
as determined by a contracting officer within the last five years, 
involve inherently governmental functions, or were undertaken 
without competition. The pilot program shall be established in 
at least three Cabinet-level departments, based on varying levels 
of annual contracting for services, as reported by the Federal 
Procurement Data System’s Federal Procurement Report for fiscal 
year 2005, including at least one Cabinet-level department that 
contracts out annually for $10,000,000,000 or more in services, 
at least one Cabinet-level department that contracts out annually 
for between $5,000,000,000 and $9,000,000,000 in services, and 
at least one Cabinet-level department that contracts out annually 
for under $5,000,000,000 in services. 
SEC. 749. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference 
to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in any title other than title IV or VIII 
shall not apply to such title IV or VIII. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
SEC. 801. Whenever in this Act, an amount is specified within 
an appropriation for particular purposes or objects of expenditure, 
such amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as 
the maximum amount that may be expended for said purpose 
or object rather than an amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 802. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for 
expenses of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations 
concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government, 
when authorized by the Mayor, or, in the case of the Council 
of the District of Columbia, funds may be expended with the 
authorization of the Chairman of the Council. 
SEC. 803. There are appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for 
making refunds and for the payment of legal settlements or judg-
ments that have been entered against the District of Columbia 
government.
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SEC. 804. (a) None of the Federal funds provided in this Act 
shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or implementa-
tion of any policy including boycott designed to support or defeat 
legislation pending before Congress or any State legislature. 
(b) The District of Columbia may use local funds provided 
in this title to carry out lobbying activities on any matter. 
SEC. 805. (a) None of the funds provided under this Act to 
the agencies funded by this Act, both Federal and District govern-
ment agencies, that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in fiscal year 2008, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury 
of the United States derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation 
or expenditures for an agency through a reprogramming of funds 
which— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or responsibility center; 
(3) establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, 
limited or increased under this Act; 
(4) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
program, project, or responsibility center for which funds have 
been denied or restricted; 
(5) reestablishes any program or project previously deferred 
through reprogramming; 
(6) augments any existing program, project, or responsi-
bility center through a reprogramming of funds in excess of 
$3,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or 
(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned 
to a specific program, project or responsibility center, 
unless in the case of Federal funds, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and Senate are notified in 
writing 15 days in advance of the reprogramming and in the case 
of local funds, the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and Senate are provided summary reports on 
April 1, 2008 and October 1, 2008, setting forth detailed information 
regarding each such local funds reprogramming conducted subject 
to this subsection. 
(b) None of the local funds contained in this Act may be avail-
able for obligation or expenditure for an agency through a transfer 
of any local funds in excess of $3,000,000 from one appropriation 
heading to another unless the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and Senate are provided summary 
reports on April 1, 2008 and October 1, 2008, setting forth detailed 
information regarding each reprogramming conducted subject to 
this subsection, except that in no event may the amount of any 
funds transferred exceed 4 percent of the local funds in the appro-
priations. 
(c) The District of Columbia Government is authorized to 
approve and execute reprogramming and transfer requests of local 
funds under this title through December 1, 2008. 
SEC. 806. Consistent with the provisions of section 1301(a) 
of title 31, United States Code, appropriations under this Act shall 
be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were 
made except as otherwise provided by law. 
SEC. 807. Notwithstanding section 8344(a) of title 5, United 
States Code, the amendment made by section 2 of the District 
Government Reemployed Annuitant Offset Elimination Amendment 
Act of 2004 (D.C. Law 15–207) shall apply with respect to any
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individual employed in an appointive or elective position with the 
District of Columbia government after December 7, 2004. 
SEC. 808. No later than 30 days after the end of the first 
quarter of fiscal year 2008, the Mayor of the District of Columbia 
shall submit to the Council of the District of Columbia and the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate the new fiscal year 2008 revenue estimates as of the end 
of such quarter. These estimates shall be used in the budget request 
for fiscal year 2009. The officially revised estimates at midyear 
shall be used for the midyear report. 
SEC. 809. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act may 
be used by the District of Columbia to provide for salaries, expenses, 
or other costs associated with the offices of United States Senator 
or United States Representative under section 4(d) of the District 
of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 
(D.C. Law 3–171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–123). 
SEC. 810. None of the Federal funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the Health Care Benefits 
Expansion Act of 1992 (D.C. Law 9–114; D.C. Official Code, sec. 
32–701 et seq.) or to otherwise implement or enforce any system 
of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples, including but not 
limited to registration for the purpose of extending employment, 
health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the same basis 
that such benefits are extended to legally married couples. 
SEC. 811. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia may accept, obligate, and expend Federal, 
private, and other grants received by the District government that 
are not reflected in the amounts appropriated in this Act. 
(b)(1) No such Federal, private, or other grant may be obligated, 
or expended pursuant to subsection (a) until— 
(A) the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
submits to the Council a report setting forth detailed informa-
tion regarding such grant; and 
(B) the Council has reviewed and approved the obligation, 
and expenditure of such grant. 
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the Council shall be 
deemed to have reviewed and approved the obligation, and expendi-
ture of a grant if— 
(A) no written notice of disapproval is filed with the Sec-
retary of the Council within 14 calendar days of the receipt 
of the report from the Chief Financial Officer under paragraph 
(1)(A); or 
(B) if such a notice of disapproval is filed within such 
deadline, the Council does not by resolution disapprove the 
obligation, or expenditure of the grant within 30 calendar days 
of the initial receipt of the report from the Chief Financial 
Officer under paragraph (1)(A). 
(c) No amount may be obligated or expended from the general 
fund or other funds of the District of Columbia government in 
anticipation of the approval or receipt of a grant under subsection 
(b)(2) or in anticipation of the approval or receipt of a Federal, 
private, or other grant not subject to such subsection. 
(d) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
may adjust the budget for Federal, private, and other grants
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received by the District government reflected in the amounts appro-
priated in this title, or approved and received under subsection 
(b)(2) to reflect a change in the actual amount of the grant. 
(e) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
shall prepare a quarterly report setting forth detailed information 
regarding all Federal, private, and other grants subject to this 
section. Each such report shall be submitted to the Council of 
the District of Columbia and to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and Senate not later than 15 
days after the end of the quarter covered by the report. 
SEC. 812. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
none of the funds made available by this Act or by any other 
Act may be used to provide any officer or employee of the District 
of Columbia with an official vehicle unless the officer or employee 
uses the vehicle only in the performance of the officer’s or employee’s 
official duties. For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘‘official 
duties’’ does not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s 
residence and workplace, except in the case of— 
(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan Police Depart-
ment who resides in the District of Columbia or is otherwise 
designated by the Chief of the Department; 
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an officer or employee 
of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Serv-
ices Department who resides in the District of Columbia and 
is on call 24 hours a day or is otherwise designated by the 
Fire Chief; 
(3) at the discretion of the Director of the Department 
of Corrections, an officer or employee of the District of Columbia 
Department of Corrections who resides in the District of 
Columbia and is on call 24 hours a day or is otherwise des-
ignated by the Director; 
(4) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and 
(5) the Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia. 
(b) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
shall submit by March 1, 2008, an inventory, as of September 
30, 2007, of all vehicles owned, leased or operated by the District 
of Columbia government. The inventory shall include, but not be 
limited to, the department to which the vehicle is assigned; the 
year and make of the vehicle; the acquisition date and cost; the 
general condition of the vehicle; annual operating and maintenance 
costs; current mileage; and whether the vehicle is allowed to be 
taken home by a District officer or employee and if so, the officer 
or employee’s title and resident location. 
SEC. 813. (a) None of the Federal funds contained in this 
Act may be used by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel 
or any other officer or entity of the District government to provide 
assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to 
require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress 
for the District of Columbia. 
(b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Columbia Cor-
poration Counsel from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private 
lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the District government 
regarding such lawsuits. 
SEC. 814. None of the Federal funds contained in this Act 
may be used for any program of distributing sterile needles or 
syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.