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ber 1, 2007, a summary list showing each report, the due 
date, and the date submitted to the Committees. 
SEC. 518. 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 insurance plans, but it is the intent 
of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue 
should include a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which provides excep-
tions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. 
SEC. 519. The Mayor of the District of Columbia 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and Senate, the Committee on 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate 
quarterly reports addressing—
(1) crime, including the homicide rate, imple-
mentation of community policing, the number of po-
lice officers on local beats, and the closing down of 
open-air drug markets; 
(2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treat-
ment, including the number of treatment slots, the 
number of people served, the number of people on 
waiting lists, and the effectiveness of treatment pro-
grams;
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(3) management of parolees and pre-trial vio-
lent offenders, including the number of halfway 
houses escapes and steps taken to improve moni-
toring and supervision of halfway house residents to 
reduce the number of escapes to be provided in con-
sultation with the Court Services and Offender Su-
pervision Agency for the District of Columbia; 
(4) education, including access to special edu-
cation services and student achievement to be pro-
vided in consultation with the District of Columbia 
Public Schools and the District of Columbia public 
charter schools; 
(5) improvement in basic District services, in-
cluding 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; and 
(7) indicators of child well-being. 
SEC. 520. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial 
Officer of the District of Columbia shall submit to the ap-
propriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the
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Council of the District of Columbia a revised appropriated 
funds operating budget in the format of the budget that 
the District of Columbia government submitted pursuant 
to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 
(D.C. Official Code, section 1–204.42), for all agencies of 
the District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2007 
that is in the total amount of the approved appropriation 
and that realigns all budgeted data for personal services 
and other-than-personal-services, respectively, with antici-
pated actual expenditures. 
(b) This section shall apply only to an agency where 
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
certifies that a reallocation is required to address unantici-
pated changes in program requirements. 
SEC. 521. (a) None of the funds contained in this 
Act may be made available to pay—
(1) the fees of an attorney who represents a 
party in an action or an attorney who defends an ac-
tion brought against the District of Columbia Public 
Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) in excess of 
$4,000 for that action; or 
(2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the 
Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
determines to have a pecuniary interest, either
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through an attorney, officer, or employee of the 
firm, in any special education diagnostic services, 
schools, or other special education service providers. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘action’’ includes an ad-
ministrative proceeding and any ensuing or related pro-
ceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 522. The Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia shall require attorneys in special education 
cases brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (IDEA) in the District of Columbia to certify 
in writing that the attorney or representative rendered any 
and all services for which they receive awards, including 
those received under a settlement agreement or as part 
of an administrative proceeding, under the IDEA from the 
District of Columbia. As part of the certification, the Chief 
Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall require 
all attorneys in IDEA cases to disclose any financial, cor-
porate, legal, memberships on boards of directors, or other 
relationships with any special education diagnostic serv-
ices, schools, or other special education service providers 
to which the attorneys have referred any clients as part 
of this certification. The Chief Financial Officer shall pre-
pare and submit quarterly reports to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-
ate on the certification of and the amount paid by the gov-
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ernment of the District of Columbia, including the District 
of Columbia Public Schools, to attorneys in cases brought 
under IDEA. The Inspector General of the District of Co-
lumbia may conduct investigations to determine the accu-
racy of the certifications. 
SEC. 523. The amount appropriated by this Act may 
be increased by no more than $42,000,000 from funds 
identified in the comprehensive annual financial report as 
the District’s fiscal year 2006 unexpended general fund 
surplus. The District may obligate and expend these 
amounts only in accordance with the following conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia shall certify that the use of any such 
amounts is not anticipated to have a negative impact 
on the District’s long-term financial, fiscal, and eco-
nomic vitality. 
(2) The District of Columbia may only use 
these funds for the following expenditures: 
(A) One-time expenditures. 
(B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending. 
(C) Debt Reduction. 
(D) Program needs. 
(E) Expenditures to avoid revenue short-
falls.
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(3) The amounts shall be obligated and ex-
pended in accordance with laws enacted by the 
Council in support of each such obligation or ex-
penditure. 
(4) The amounts may not be used to fund the 
agencies of the District of Columbia government 
under court ordered receivership. 
(5) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor notifies the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the ob-
ligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 524. (a) To account for an unanticipated growth 
of revenue collections, the amount appropriated as District 
of Columbia Funds pursuant to this Act may be in-
creased—
(1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 
25 percent, in the case of amounts proposed to be 
allocated as ‘‘Other-Type Funds’’ in the Fiscal Year 
2007 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan sub-
mitted to Congress by the District of Columbia; and 
(2) by an aggregate amount of not more than 
6 percent, in the case of any other amounts pro-
posed to be allocated in such Proposed Budget and 
Financial Plan.
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(b) The District of Columbia may obligate and ex-
pend any increase in the amount of funds authorized 
under this section only in accordance with the following 
conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia shall certify—
(A) the increase in revenue; and 
(B) that the use of the amounts is not an-
ticipated to have a negative impact on the long-
term financial, fiscal, or economic health of the 
District. 
(2) The amounts shall be obligated and ex-
pended in accordance with laws enacted by the 
Council of the District of Columbia in support of 
each such obligation and expenditure, consistent 
with the requirements of this Act. 
(3) The amounts may not be used to fund any 
agencies of the District government operating under 
court-ordered receivership. 
(4) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor has notified the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance 
of the obligation or expenditure.
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SEC. 525. The Chief Financial Officer for the District 
of Columbia may, for the purpose of cash flow manage-
ment, conduct short-term borrowing from the emergency 
reserve fund and from the contingency reserve fund estab-
lished under section 450A of the District of Columbia 
Home Rule Act (Public Law 93–198): Provided, That the 
amount borrowed shall not exceed 50 percent of the total 
amount of funds contained in both the emergency and con-
tingency reserve funds at the time of borrowing: Provided 
further, That the borrowing shall not deplete either fund 
by more than 50 percent: Provided further, That 100 per-
cent of the funds borrowed shall be replenished within 9 
months of the time of the borrowing or by the end of the 
fiscal year, whichever occurs earlier: Provided further, 
That in the event that short-term borrowing has been con-
ducted and the emergency or the contingency funds are 
later depleted below 50 percent as a result of an emer-
gency or contingency, an amount equal to the amount nec-
essary to restore reserve levels to 50 percent of the total 
amount of funds contained in both the emergency and con-
tingency reserve fund must be replenished from the 
amount borrowed within 60 days. 
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds contained in this 
Act may be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or 
regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associ-
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ated with the possession, use, or distribution of any sched-
ule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 802) or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative. 
(b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treat-
ment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, ap-
proved by the electors of the District of Columbia on No-
vember 3, 1998, shall not take effect. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated under this 
Act shall be expended for any abortion except where the 
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were 
carried to term or where the pregnancy is the result of 
an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 528. The authority that the Chief Financial Of-
ficer of the District of Columbia exercised with respect to 
personnel and the preparation of fiscal impact statements 
during a control period (as defined in Public Law 104–
8) shall remain in effect until September 30, 2007. 
SEC. 529. The entire process used by the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer to acquire any and all kinds of goods, 
works and services by any contractual means, including 
but not limited to purchase, lease or rental, shall be ex-
empt from all of the provisions of the District of Colum-
bia’s Procurement Practices Act of 1985: Provided, That 
provisions made by this section shall take effect as if en-
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acted in D.C. Law 11–259 and shall remain in effect until 
September 30, 2007. 
SEC. 530. (a) DIRECT APPROPRIATION.—Section 
307(a) of the District of Columbia Court Reform and 
Criminal Procedure Act of 1970 (sec. 2—1607(a), D.C. 
Official Code) is amended by striking the first 2 sentences 
and inserting the following: ‘‘There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Service in each fiscal year such funds 
as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 11233 of 
the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (sec. 24—133, D.C. Of-
ficial Code) is amended by striking subsection (f). 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2007 
and each succeeding fiscal year. 
SEC. 531. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this division shall 
be treated as referring only to the provisions of this title. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 
Appropriations Act, 2007’’.
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TITLE VI 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the President, including an ex-
pense allowance at the rate of $50,000 per annum as au-
thorized by 3 U.S.C. 102, $450,000: Provided, That none 
of the funds made available for official expenses shall be 
expended for any other purpose and any unused amount 
shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 1552 of 
title 31, United States Code. 
WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the White House as au-
thorized by law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; 
subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which 
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that 
section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, newspapers, 
periodicals, teletype news service, and travel (not to exceed 
$100,000 to be expended and accounted for as provided 
by 3 U.S.C. 103); and not to exceed $19,000 for official 
entertainment expenses, to be available for allocation with-
in the Executive Office of the President, $51,952,000: 
Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this head-
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ing, up to $1,500,000 (increased by $750,000) shall be 
for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. 
EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, re-
furnishing, improvement, heating, and lighting, including 
electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Residence at 
the White House and official entertainment expenses of 
the President, $12,041,000, to be expended and accounted 
for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 112–114. 
REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES 
For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Resi-
dence at the White House, such sums as may be nec-
essary: Provided, That all reimbursable operating expenses 
of the Executive Residence shall be made in accordance 
with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided further, 
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such 
amount for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the 
exclusive authority of the Executive Residence to incur ob-
ligations and to receive offsetting collections, for such ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Executive Residence 
shall require each person sponsoring a reimbursable polit-
ical event to pay in advance an amount equal to the esti-
mated cost of the event, and all such advance payments 
shall be credited to this account and remain available until
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expended: Provided further, That the Executive Residence 
shall require the national committee of the political party 
of the President to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be 
separately accounted for and available for expenses relat-
ing to reimbursable political events sponsored by such 
committee during such fiscal year: Provided further, That 
the Executive Residence shall ensure that a written notice 
of any amount owed for a reimbursable operating expense 
under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing 
such amount within 60 days after such expense is in-
curred, and that such amount is collected within 30 days 
after the submission of such notice: Provided further, That 
the Executive Residence shall charge interest and assess 
penalties and other charges on any such amount that is 
not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with 
the interest and penalty provisions applicable to an out-
standing debt on a United States Government claim under 
section 3717 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-
ther, That each such amount that is reimbursed, and any 
accompanying interest and charges, shall be deposited in 
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, 
That the Executive Residence shall prepare and submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations, by not later than 
90 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this 
Act, a report setting forth the reimbursable operating ex-
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penses of the Executive Residence during the preceding 
fiscal year, including the total amount of such expenses, 
the amount of such total that consists of reimbursable offi-
cial and ceremonial events, the amount of such total that 
consists of reimbursable political events, and the portion 
of each such amount that has been reimbursed as of the 
date of the report: Provided further, That the Executive 
Residence shall maintain a system for the tracking of ex-
penses related to reimbursable events within the Executive 
Residence that includes a standard for the classification 
of any such expense as political or nonpolitical: Provided 
further, That no provision of this paragraph may be con-
strued to exempt the Executive Residence from any other 
applicable requirement of subchapter I or II of chapter 
37 of title 31, United States Code. 
WHITE HOUSE REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the 
Executive Residence at the White House, $1,600,000, to 
remain available until expended, for required maintenance, 
safety and health issues, and continued preventative main-
tenance.
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COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic 
Advisers in carrying out its functions under the Employ-
ment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021), $4,002,000. 
OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Devel-
opment, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 
and 3 U.S.C. 107, $3,385,000. 
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Security 
Council, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $8,405,000. 
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administra-
tion, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 
and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$91,393,000, of which $11,397,000 shall remain available 
until expended for the Capital Investment Plan for contin-
ued modernization of the information technology infra-
structure within the Executive Office of the President.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management 
and Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and to carry 
out the provisions of chapter 35 of title 44, United States 
Code, $76,185,000, of which not to exceed $3,000 shall 
be available for official representation expenses: Provided, 
That, as provided in 31 U.S.C. 1301(a), appropriations 
shall be applied only to the objects for which appropria-
tions were made and shall be allocated in accordance with 
the terms and conditions set forth in the accompanying 
statement of the managers except as otherwise provided 
by law: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated in this Act for the Office of Management and 
Budget may be used for the purpose of reviewing any agri-
cultural marketing orders or any activities or regulations 
under the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agree-
ment Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available for the Office of 
Management and Budget by this Act may be expended for 
the altering of the transcript of actual testimony of wit-
nesses, except for testimony of officials of the Office of 
Management and Budget, before the Committees on Ap-
propriations or their subcommittees: Provided further,
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That the preceding shall not apply to printed hearings re-
leased by the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That the Office of Management and Budget shall 
have not more than 60 days in which to perform budgetary 
policy reviews of water resource matters on which the 
Chief of Engineers has reported: Provided further, That 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall notify the appropriate authorizing and Appropria-
tions Committees when the 60-day review is initiated: Pro-
vided further, That if water resource reports have not been 
transmitted to the appropriate authorizing and appro-
priating committees within 15 days of the end of the OMB 
review period based on the notification from the Director, 
Congress shall assume OMB concurrence with the report 
and act accordingly. 
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy; for research activities pursuant to 
the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); not to exceed 
$10,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
and for participation in joint projects or in the provision 
of services on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, 
research, or public organizations or agencies, with or with-
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out reimbursement, $26,928,000; of which $1,316,000 
shall remain available until expended for policy research 
and evaluation: Provided, That the Office is authorized to 
accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, both real and 
personal, public and private, without fiscal year limitation, 
for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the 
Office. 
COUNTERDRUG TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CENTER 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the Counterdrug Tech-
nology Assessment Center for research activities pursuant 
to the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthor-
ization Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
$19,600,000, which shall remain available until expended, 
consisting of $9,600,000 for counternarcotics research 
and development projects, of which up to $1,000,000 is 
to be directed to supply reduction activities, and 
$10,000,000 for the continued operation of the technology 
transfer program: Provided, That the $9,600,000 for 
counternarcotics research and development projects shall 
be available for transfer to other Federal departments or 
agencies.
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FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking 
Areas Program, $227,000,000 (increased by $8,000,000) 
for drug control activities consistent with the approved 
strategy for each of the designated High Intensity Drug 
Trafficking Areas, of which no less than 51 percent shall 
be transferred to State and local entities for drug control 
activities: Provided, That up to 49 percent, to remain 
available until September 30, 2007, may be transferred 
to Federal agencies and departments at a rate to be deter-
mined by the Director, of which not less than $2,000,000 
shall be used for auditing services and associated activi-
ties, and at least $500,000 of the $2,000,000 shall be used 
to develop and implement a data collection system to 
measure the performance of the High Intensity Drug 
Trafficking Areas Program. 
OTHER FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities to support a national anti-drug cam-
paign for youth, and for other purposes, authorized by the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization 
Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), $194,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which the amounts are