CONSULTING SERVICES 
SEC. 204. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, under section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such ex-
penditures are a matter of public record and available for 
public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued 
under existing law. 
COSTS OF LBFMC 
SEC. 205. Amounts available for administrative ex-
penses of any legislative branch entity which participates 
in the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council 
(LBFMC) established by charter on March 26, 1996, shall 
be available to finance an appropriate share of LBFMC 
costs as determined by the LBFMC, except that the total 
LBFMC costs to be shared among all participating legisla-
tive branch entities (in such allocations among the entities 
as the entities may determine) may not exceed $2,000. 
LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE 
SEC. 206. The Architect of the Capitol, in consulta-
tion with the District of Columbia, is authorized to main-
tain and improve the landscape features, excluding streets, 
in the irregular shaped grassy areas bounded by Wash-
ington Avenue, SW on the northeast, Second Street, SW, 
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on the west, Square 582 on the south, and the beginning 
of the I–395 tunnel on the southeast. 
LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS 
SEC. 207. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
GUIDED TOURS OF THE CAPITOL 
SEC. 208. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
none of the funds made available to the Architect of the 
Capitol in this Act may be used to eliminate or restrict 
guided tours of the United States Capitol which are led 
by employees and interns of offices of Members of Con-
gress and other offices of the House of Representatives 
and Senate. 
(b) At the direction of the Capitol Police Board, or 
at the direction of the Architect of the Capitol with the 
approval of the Capitol Police Board, guided tours of the 
United States Capitol which are led by employees and in-
terns described in subsection (a) may be suspended tempo-
rarily or otherwise subject to restriction for security or re-
lated reasons to the same extent as guided tours of the 
United States Capitol which are led by the Architect of 
the Capitol. 
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DELIVERY OF BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 
SEC. 209. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to deliver a printed copy of a bill, joint 
resolution, or resolution to the office of a Member of the 
House of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resi-
dent Commissioner to the Congress) unless the Member 
requests a copy. 
DELIVERY OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 
SEC. 210. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to deliver a printed copy of any version 
of the Congressional Record to the office of a Member of 
the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress). 
LIMITATION ON AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO LEASE VEHICLES 
SEC. 211. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Chief Administrative Officer of 
the House of Representatives to make any payments from 
any Members’ Representational Allowance for the leasing 
of a vehicle, excluding mobile district offices, in an aggre-
gate amount that exceeds $1,000 for the vehicle in any 
month. 
AUTHORIZING COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY ON UNION SQUARE 
SEC. 212. (a) CONTINUATION OF TYPES OF ACTIVITY 
PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any limita-
tions on the use of the United States Capitol 
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Grounds (including section 5104(c) of title 40, 
United States Code), the Chief of the United States 
Capitol Police (hereafter referred to as the 
‘‘Chief’’)— 
(A) may issue a permit authorizing a per-
son to engage in commercial activity in Union 
Square if the activity is similar to the types of 
commercial activity permitted in Union Square 
prior to the transfer of jurisdiction and control 
of Union Square to the Architect of the Capitol 
under section 1202 of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–74); 
and 
(B) under the terms and conditions of such 
a permit, may require the person to whom the 
permit is issued to pay a fee to cover any costs 
incurred by the Architect of the Capitol as a re-
sult of the issuance of the permit, if the fees 
are similar to the fees collected by the Director 
of the National Park Service for commercial ac-
tivity permitted in Union Square prior to such 
transfer of jurisdiction and control. 
(2) REGULATIONS.—The Chief shall carry out 
this section in accordance with such regulations as 
the Capitol Police Board may promulgate pursuant 
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to the Board’s authority under section 14 of the Act 
of July 31, 1946 (2 U.S.C. 1969). 
(b) CAPITOL TRUST ACCOUNT.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in 
the Treasury of the United States an account for 
the Architect of the Capitol to be known as the 
‘‘Capitol Trust Account’’, consisting of all fees col-
lected by the Chief under subsection (a)(2). 
(2) TRANSFER.—Immediately upon receiving 
any fees collected under subsection (a)(2), the Chief 
shall transfer the fees to the Capitol Trust Account. 
(3) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts in the Capitol 
Trust Account shall be available without fiscal year 
limitation for such maintenance, improvements, and 
projects with respect to Union Square as the Archi-
tect of the Capitol considers appropriate, subject to 
the approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and Senate. 
(c) UNION SQUARE.—In this section, the term 
‘‘Union Square’’ means the area for which jurisdiction and 
control was transferred to the Architect of the Capitol 
under section 1202 of the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–74). 
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