able under sections 901(5), (6), and (8) of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), (6), and (8)); 
and under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States, rental of living quarters in for-
eign countries, $486,226,129: Provided, That, in addition, 
$32,368,000 of payments received under sections 782, 
3521, and 9105 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That this appropriation and appropriations for adminis-
trative expenses of any other department or agency which 
is a member of the National Intergovernmental Audit 
Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit Forum 
shall be available to finance an appropriate share of either 
Forum’s costs as determined by the respective Forum, in-
cluding necessary travel expenses of non-Federal partici-
pants: Provided further, That payments hereunder to the 
Forum may be credited as reimbursements to any appro-
priation from which costs involved are initially financed. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
USE OF ELECTRONIC FILING FOR PROCUREMENT 
PROTEST SYSTEM 
SEC. 1501. Section 3555(c) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) ELECTRONIC FILING AND DOCUMENT DISSEMI-
NATION SYSTEM.— 
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‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF SYS-
TEM.—The Comptroller General shall establish and 
operate an electronic filing and document dissemina-
tion system under which, in accordance with proce-
dures prescribed by the Comptroller General— 
‘‘(A) a person filing a protest under this 
subchapter may file the protest through elec-
tronic means; and 
‘‘(B) all documents and information re-
quired with respect to the protest may be dis-
seminated and made available to the parties to 
the protest through electronic means. 
‘‘(2) IMPOSITION OF FEES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller Gen-
eral may require each person who files a protest 
under this subchapter to pay a fee to support 
the establishment and operation of the elec-
tronic system under this subsection, without re-
gard to whether or not the person uses the sys-
tem with respect to the protest. 
‘‘(B) AMOUNT.—The Comptroller General 
shall establish (and from time to time shall up-
date) a schedule setting forth the amount of the 
fee to be paid under subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(3) TREATMENT OF AMOUNTS COLLECTED.— 
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‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—The 
Comptroller General shall maintain a separate 
account among the accounts of the Government 
Accountability Office for the electronic system 
under this subsection, and shall deposit all 
amounts received as fees under paragraph (2) 
into the account. 
‘‘(B) USE OF AMOUNTS.—Amounts in the 
account maintained under this paragraph shall 
be available to the Comptroller General, without 
fiscal year limitation, solely to establish and op-
erate the electronic system under this sub-
section.’’. 
OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER TRUST 
FUND 
For a payment to the Open World Leadership Center 
Trust Fund for financing activities of the Open World 
Leadership Center under section 313 of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 (2 U.S.C. 1151), 
$1,000,000. 
TITLE II 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF PRIVATE VEHICLES 
SEC. 201. No part of the funds appropriated in this 
Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private 
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vehicles, except for emergency assistance and cleaning as 
may be provided under regulations relating to parking fa-
cilities for the House of Representatives issued by the 
Committee on House Administration and for the Senate 
issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration. 
FISCAL YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 202. No part of the funds appropriated in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year 
2014 unless expressly so provided in this Act. 
RATES OF COMPENSATION AND DESIGNATION 
SEC. 203. Whenever in this Act any office or position 
not specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act of 
1929 (46 Stat. 32 et seq.) is appropriated for or the rate 
of compensation or designation of any office or position 
appropriated for is different from that specifically estab-
lished by such Act, the rate of compensation and the des-
ignation in this Act shall be the permanent law with re-
spect thereto: Provided, That the provisions in this Act 
for the various items of official expenses of Members, offi-
cers, and committees of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of 
the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law 
with respect thereto. 
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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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than 50 printed copies of any edition of the United States 
Code to all offices of the House of Representatives. 
AUTHORIZING COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY ON UNION SQUARE 
SEC. 213. (a) TREATMENT AS PART OF CAPITOL 
GROUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of chapter 51 
of title 40, United States Code, the United States 
Capitol Grounds shall include Union Square. 
(2) UNION SQUARE DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘Union Square’’ means the area for which 
jurisdiction and control was transferred to the Ar-
chitect of the Capitol under section 1202 of the Leg-
islative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public 
Law 112-74). 
(b) CONTINUATION OF TYPES OF ACTIVITY PRE-
VIOUSLY AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any limita-
tions on the use of the United States Capitol 
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 
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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 
to the Board’s authority under section 14 of the Act 
of July 31, 1946 (2 U.S.C. 1969), except that the 
Board shall promulgate the regulations in consulta-
tion with the Committee on House Administration of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate. 
(c) CAPITOL TRUST ACCOUNT.— 
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(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 (b)(2). 
(2) TRANSFER.—Immediately upon receiving 
any fees collected under subsection (b)(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. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect 
on the date of the enactment of the Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74). 
SEC. 214. It is the sense of the Congress that Con-
gress should not pass any legislation that authorizes 
spending cuts that would increase poverty in the United 
States. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 215. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
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Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, ex-
cluding Senate items, exceeds the amount of proposed new 
budget authority is $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Legislative Branch Ap-
propriations Act, 2014’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 126 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2792 
[Report No. 113–173] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, 
and for other purposes. 
JULY 23, 2013 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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