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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 the 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 the Senate are provided summary reports 
on April 1, 2009 and October 1, 2009, setting forth detailed informa-
tion regarding each such local funds reprogramming conducted sub-
ject 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 the Senate are provided summary 
reports on April 1, 2009 and October 1, 2009, setting forth detailed 
information regarding each reprogramming conducted subject to 
this subsection. 
(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, 2009. 
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. 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. 808. (a) Section 446B(f) of the District of Columbia Home 
Rule Act (sec. 1–204.46b(f), D.C. Official Code) is amended by 
striking ‘‘fiscal years 2006 through 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 
2006 and each succeeding fiscal year’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 
as if included in the enactment of the 2005 District of Columbia 
Omnibus Authorization Act. 
SEC. 809. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act may 
be used by the District of Columbia to provide for salaries, expenses,
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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. 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 section, 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 a District 
of Columbia government employee as may otherwise be des-
ignated 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. 
SEC. 811. (a) None of the Federal funds contained in this 
Act may be used by the District of Columbia Attorney General 
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 
Attorney General from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private 
lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the District government 
regarding such lawsuits. 
SEC. 812. 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. 
SEC. 813. Nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent 
the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing 
the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insur-
ance plans, but it is the intent of Congress that any legislation 
enacted on such issue should include a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which 
provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. 
SEC. 814. (a) Notwithstanding section 615(i)(3)(B) of the Individ-
uals With Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1415(i)(3)(B)), none 
of the funds contained in this Act or in any other Act making 
appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia for 
fiscal year 2009 or any succeeding fiscal year may be made avail-
able— 
(1) to pay the fees of an attorney who represents a party 
in or defends an IDEA proceeding which was initiated prior 
to the date of the enactment of this Act in an amount in 
excess of $4,000 for that proceeding; or
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(2) to pay the fees of an attorney or firm who represents 
a party in or defends an IDEA proceeding if the Chief Financial 
Officer of the District of Columbia determines that the attorney 
or firm has a pecuniary interest (either directly or through 
an attorney, officer, or employee of the firm) in any special 
education diagnostic services or schools or other special edu-
cation service providers. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘IDEA proceeding’’ means any 
action or administrative proceeding (including any ensuing or 
related proceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction) brought 
against the District of Columbia Public Schools under the Individ-
uals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.). 
SEC. 815. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate annual 
reports addressing— 
(1) crime, including the homicide rate, implementation of 
community policing, the number of police officers on local beats, 
and the closing down of open-air drug markets; 
(2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment, 
including the number of treatment slots, the number of people 
served, the number of people on waiting lists, and the effective-
ness of treatment programs, the retention rates in treatment 
programs, and the recidivism/re-arrest rates for treatment 
participants; 
(3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders, 
including the number of halfway houses escapes and steps 
taken to improve monitoring and supervision of halfway house 
residents to reduce the number of escapes to be provided in 
consultation with the Court Services and Offender Supervision 
Agency for the District of Columbia; 
(4) education, including access to special education services 
and student achievement to be provided in consultation with 
the District of Columbia Public Schools and the District of 
Columbia public charter schools, repeated grade rates, high 
school graduation rates, post-secondary education attendance 
rates, and teen pregnancy rates; 
(5) improvement in basic District services, including rat 
control and abatement; 
(6) application for and management of Federal grants, 
including the number and type of grants for which the District 
was eligible but failed to apply and the number and type 
of grants awarded to the District but for which the District 
failed to spend the amounts received; 
(7) indicators of child and family well-being including child 
living arrangements by family structure, number of children 
aging out of foster care, poverty rates by family structure, 
crime by family structure, marriage rates by income quintile, 
and out-of-wedlock births; and 
(8) employment, including job status and participation in 
assistance programs by income, education and family structure. 
SEC. 816. Beginning in fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, the amount appropriated to the District of Columbia 
may be increased by no more than $100,000,000 from funds identi-
fied in the annual comprehensive annual financial report as the