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CAPITAL OUTLAY
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
For construction projects, $1,260,524,000 of which
$929,450,000 is from local funds, $54,050,000 is from the
highway trust fund, and $277,024,000 is from Federal
funds, and a rescission of $41,886,500 from local funds
appropriated under this heading in prior fiscal years, for
a net amount of $1,218,637,500 to remain available until
expended: Provided, That funds for use of each capital
project implementing agency shall be managed and con-
trolled in accordance with all procedures and limitations
established under the Financial Management System: Pro-
vided further, That all funds provided by this appropria-
tion title shall be available only for the specific projects
and purposes intended: Provided further, That notwith-
standing the foregoing, all authorizations for capital out-
lay projects, except those projects covered by the first sen-
tence of section 23(a) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of
1968, approved August 23, 1968 (82 Stat. 827; Public
Law 90–495; D.C. Code, sec. 7–134, note), for which
funds are provided by this appropriation title, shall expire
on September 30, 2001, except authorizations for projects
as to which funds have been obligated in whole or in part
prior to September 30, 2001: Provided further, That upon
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expiration of any such project authorization the funds pro-
vided herein for the project shall lapse.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 101. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter
of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 102. Except as otherwise provided in this Act,
all vouchers covering expenditures of appropriations con-
tained in this Act shall be audited before payment by the
designated certifying official, and the vouchers as ap-
proved shall be paid by checks issued by the designated
disbursing official.
SEC. 103. Whenever in this Act, an amount is speci-
fied within an appropriation for particular purposes or ob-
jects of expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise speci-
fied, 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. 104. Appropriations in this Act shall be avail-
able, when authorized by the Mayor, for allowances for
privately owned automobiles and motorcycles used for the
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performance of official duties at rates established by the
Mayor: Provided, That such rates shall not exceed the
maximum prevailing rates for such vehicles as prescribed
in the Federal Property Management Regulations 101–7
(Federal Travel Regulations).
SEC. 105. Appropriations in this Act shall be avail-
able 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:
Provided, That in the case of the Council of the District
of Columbia, funds may be expended with the authoriza-
tion of the chair of the Council.
SEC. 106. 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
judgments that have been entered against the District of
Columbia government: Provided, That nothing contained
in this section shall be construed as modifying or affecting
the provisions of section 11(c)(3) of title XII of the Dis-
trict of Columbia Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947,
approved March 31, 1956 (70 Stat. 78; Public Law 84–
460; D.C. Code, sec. 47–1812.11(c)(3)).
SEC. 107. Appropriations in this Act shall be avail-
able for the payment of public assistance without reference
to the requirement of section 544 of the District of Colum-
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bia Public Assistance Act of 1982, effective April 6, 1982
(D.C. Law 4–101; D.C. Code, sec. 3–205.44), and for the
payment of the non-Federal share of funds necessary to
qualify for grants under subtitle A of title II of the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
SEC. 108. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 109. No funds appropriated in this Act for the
District of Columbia government for the operation of edu-
cational institutions, the compensation of personnel, or for
other educational purposes may be used to permit, encour-
age, facilitate, or further partisan political activities.
Nothing herein is intended to prohibit the availability of
school buildings for the use of any community or partisan
political group during non-school hours.
SEC. 110. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
shall be made available to pay the salary of any employee
of the District of Columbia government whose name, title,
grade, salary, past work experience, and salary history are
not available for inspection by the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations, the Subcommittee on the Dis-
trict of Columbia of the House Committee on Government
Reform, the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia
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of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and
the Council of the District of Columbia, or their duly au-
thorized representative.
SEC. 111. There are appropriated from the applicable
funds of the District of Columbia such sums as may be
necessary for making payments authorized by the District
of Columbia Revenue Recovery Act of 1977, effective Sep-
tember 23, 1977 (D.C. Law 2–20; D.C. Code, sec. 47–
421 et seq.).
SEC. 112. No part of this appropriation shall be used
for publicity or propaganda purposes or implementation
of any policy including boycott designed to support or de-
feat legislation pending before Congress or any State legis-
lature.
SEC. 113. At the start of the fiscal year, the Mayor
shall develop an annual plan, by quarter and by project,
for capital outlay borrowings: Provided, That within a rea-
sonable time after the close of each quarter, the Mayor
shall report to the Council of the District of Columbia and
the Congress the actual borrowings and spending progress
compared with projections.
SEC. 114. The Mayor shall not borrow any funds for
capital projects unless the Mayor has obtained prior ap-
proval from the Council of the District of Columbia, by
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resolution, identifying the projects and amounts to be fi-
nanced with such borrowings.
SEC. 115. The Mayor shall not expend any moneys
borrowed for capital projects for the operating expenses
of the District of Columbia government.
SEC. 116. None of the funds provided under this Act
to the agencies funded by this Act, both Federal and Dis-
trict government agencies, that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2000, 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 expenditure
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 by Con-
gress in the 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) rees-
tablishes through reprogramming any program or project
previously deferred through reprogramming; (6) augments
existing programs, projects, or responsibility centers
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of
$1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or (7) in-
creases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned to a spe-
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cific program, project, or responsibility center; unless the
Appropriations Committees of both the Senate and House
of Representatives are notified in writing 30 days in ad-
vance of any reprogramming as set forth in this section.
SEC. 117. None of the Federal funds provided in this
Act shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal
cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer
or employee of the District of Columbia.
SEC. 118. None of the Federal funds provided in this
Act shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger
automobiles as defined in the Automobile Fuel Efficiency
Act of 1980, approved October 10, 1980 (94 Stat. 1824;
Public Law 96–425; 15 U.S.C. 2001(2)), with an Environ-
mental Protection Agency estimated miles per gallon aver-
age of less than 22 miles per gallon: Provided, That this
section shall not apply to security, emergency rescue, or
armored vehicles.
COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN OFFICIALS
SEC. 119. (a) CITY ADMINISTRATOR.—The last sen-
tence of section 422(7) of the District of Columbia Home
Rule Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1–242(7)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘, not to exceed’’ and all that follows and inserting
a period.
(b) BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
OF REDEVELOPMENT
LAND AGENCY.—Section 1108(c)(2)(F) of the District of
Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel
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Act of 1978 (D.C. Code, sec. 1–612.8(c)(2)(F)) is amend-
ed to read as follows:
‘‘(F) Redevelopment Land Agency board mem-
bers shall be paid per diem compensation at a rate
established by the Mayor, except that such rate may
not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of
basic pay for level 15 of the District Schedule for
each day (including travel time) during which they
are engaged in the actual performance of their du-
ties.’’.
SEC. 120. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, the provisions of the District of Columbia Govern-
ment Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effec-
tive March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2–139; D.C. Code, sec. 1–
601.1 et seq.), enacted pursuant to section 422(3) of the
District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December
24, 1973 (87 Stat. 790; Public Law 93–198; D.C. Code,
sec. 1–242(3)), shall apply with respect to the compensa-
tion of District of Columbia employees: Provided, That for
pay purposes, employees of the District of Columbia gov-
ernment shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5,
United States Code.
SEC. 121. No later than 30 days after the end of the
first quarter of the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000,
the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit to the
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Council of the District of Columbia the new fiscal year
2000 revenue estimates as of the end of the first quarter
of fiscal year 2000. These estimates shall be used in the
budget request for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2001. The officially revised estimates at midyear shall be
used for the midyear report.
SEC. 122. No sole source contract with the District
of Columbia government or any agency thereof may be re-
newed or extended without opening that contract to the
competitive bidding process as set forth in section 303 of
the District of Columbia Procurement Practices Act of
1985, effective February 21, 1986 (D.C. Law 6–85; D.C.
Code, sec. 1–1183.3), except that the District of Columbia
government or any agency thereof may renew or extend
sole source contracts for which competition is not feasible
or practical: Provided, That the determination as to
whether to invoke the competitive bidding process has
been made in accordance with duly promulgated rules and
procedures and said determination has been reviewed and
approved by the District of Columbia Financial Responsi-
bility and Management Assistance Authority.
SEC. 123. For purposes of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, approved Decem-
ber 12, 1985, (99 Stat. 1037; Public Law 99–177), as
amended, the term ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall
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be synonymous with and refer specifically to each account
appropriating Federal funds in this Act, and any seques-
tration order shall be applied to each of the accounts rath-
er than to the aggregate total of those accounts: Provided,
That sequestration orders shall not be applied to any ac-
count that is specifically exempted from sequestration by
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985.
SEC. 124. In the event a sequestration order is issued
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, approved December 12, 1985 (99
Stat. 1037: Public Law 99–177), as amended, after the
amounts appropriated to the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year involved have been paid to the District of Co-
lumbia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall pay
to the Secretary of the Treasury, within 15 days after re-
ceipt of a request therefor from the Secretary of the
Treasury, such amounts as are sequestered by the order:
Provided, That the sequestration percentage specified in
the order shall be applied proportionately to each of the
Federal appropriation accounts in this Act that are not
specifically exempted from sequestration by such Act.
SEC. 125. (a) An entity of the District of Columbia
government may accept and use a gift or donation during
fiscal year 2000 if—
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(1) the Mayor approves the acceptance and use
of the gift or donation: Provided, That the Council
of the District of Columbia may accept and use gifts
without prior approval by the Mayor; and
(2) the entity uses the gift or donation to carry
out its authorized functions or duties.
(b) Each entity of the District of Columbia govern-
ment shall keep accurate and detailed records of the ac-
ceptance and use of any gift or donation under subsection
(a) of this section, and shall make such records available
for audit and public inspection.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term ‘‘entity
of the District of Columbia government’’ includes an inde-
pendent agency of the District of Columbia.
(d) This section shall not apply to the District of Co-
lumbia Board of Education, which may, pursuant to the
laws and regulations of the District of Columbia, accept
and use gifts to the public schools without prior approval
by the Mayor.
SEC. 126. 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 Rep-
resentative under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia
Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979,
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effective March 10, 1981 (D.C. Law 3–171; D.C. Code,
sec. 1–113(d)).
SEC. 127. (a) The University of the District of Co-
lumbia shall submit to the Mayor, the District of Columbia
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Au-
thority (hereafter in this section referred to as ‘‘Author-
ity’’), and the Council of the District of Columbia (here-
after in this section referred to as ‘‘Council’’) no later than
15 calendar days after the end of each quarter a report
that sets forth—
(1) current quarter expenditures and obliga-
tions, year-to-date expenditures and obligations, and
total fiscal year expenditure projections versus budg-
et broken out on the basis of control center, respon-
sibility center, and object class, and for all funds,
non-appropriated funds, and capital financing;
(2) a list of each account for which spending is
frozen and the amount of funds frozen, broken out
by control center, responsibility center, detailed ob-
ject, and for all funding sources;
(3) a list of all active contracts in excess of
$10,000 annually, which contains the name of each
contractor; the budget to which the contract is
charged, broken out on the basis of control center
and responsibility center, and contract identifying