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public charter school shall have the right
to purchase, lease-purchase, or lease, under
the terms described in clause (iii) of sub-
paragraph (C), any facility or property de-
scribed in this paragraph that has not been
put out for bid or transferred to a District
of Columbia agency by the Mayor as pro-
vided for in this subparagraph.’’.
(c) PREFERENCES FOR USE OF CURRENT PROP-
ERTY.—Section 2209(b)(2) of such Act (sec. 31–
2853.19(b)(2), D.C. Code) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ‘‘pur-
poses,’’ and inserting ‘‘purposes directly related to
its mission,’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph:
‘‘(C) PREFERENCE DESCRIBED.—A public
charter school shall have first priority to lease,
or otherwise contract for the use of, any prop-
erty described in subparagraph (B), at a rate
which does not exceed the rate charged a pri-
vate nonprofit entity for the use of a com-
parable property of the District of Columbia
public schools and which is reduced to take into
account the value of repairs or improvements
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made to the facility or property by the public
charter school.’’.
(d) EXERCISE OF PREFERENCES BY OTHER ENTI-
TIES.—Section 2209(b) of such Act (sec. 31–2853.19(b),
D.C. Code) is amended by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
‘‘(3) EXERCISE OF PREFERENCE BY CERTAIN
OTHER ENTITIES.—A public charter school may del-
egate to a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in the
District of Columbia the public charter school’s au-
thority under this subsection.’’.
SEC. 129. (a) MODIFICATION OF CONTRACTING RE-
QUIREMENTS.—
(1) CONTRACTS SUBJECT TO NOTICE REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Section 2204(c)(1)(A) of the District of
Columbia 
School 
Reform 
Act 
(sec. 
31–
2853.14(c)(1)(A), D.C. Code) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(A) NOTICE
REQUIREMENT
FOR
PRO-
CUREMENT CONTRACTS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Except in the case
of an emergency (as determined by the eli-
gible chartering authority of a public char-
ter school), with respect to any procure-
ment contract proposed to be awarded by
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the public charter school and having a
value equal to or exceeding $25,000, the
school shall publish a notice of a request
for proposals in the District of Columbia
Register and newspapers of general cir-
culation not less than 7 days prior to the
award of the contract.
‘‘(ii) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN CON-
TRACTS.—The notice requirement of clause
(i) shall not apply with respect to any con-
tract for the lease or purchase of real
property by a public charter school, any
employment contract for a staff member of
a public charter school, or any manage-
ment contract entered into by a public
charter school and the management com-
pany designated in its charter or its peti-
tion for a revised charter.’’.
(2) SUBMISSION OF CONTRACTS TO ELIGIBLE
CHARTERING AUTHORITY.—Section 2204(c)(1)(B) of
such Act (sec. 31–2853.14(c)(1)(B), D.C. Code) is
amended—
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘AUTHOR-
ITY’’ and inserting ‘‘ELIGIBLE CHARTERING AU-
THORITY’’;
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(B) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘Authority’’
and inserting ‘‘eligible chartering authority’’;
and
(C) by amending clause (ii) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(ii) EFFECTIVE
DATE
OF
CON-
TRACT.—A contract described in subpara-
graph (A) shall become effective on the
date that is 10 days after the date the
school makes the submission under clause
(i) with respect to the contract, or the ef-
fective date specified in the contract,
whichever is later.’’.
(b) CLARIFICATION OF APPLICATION OF SCHOOL RE-
FORM ACT.—
(1) WAIVER OF DUPLICATE AND CONFLICTING
PROVISIONS.—Section 2210 of such Act (sec. 31–
2853.20, D.C. Code) is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
‘‘(d) WAIVER OF APPLICATION OF DUPLICATE AND
CONFLICTING PROVISIONS.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, and except as otherwise provided in this
title, no provision of any law regarding the establishment,
administration, or operation of public charter schools in
the District of Columbia shall apply with respect to a
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public charter school or an eligible chartering authority
to the extent that the provision duplicates or is incon-
sistent with any provision of this title.’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made
by this subsection shall take effect as if included in
the enactment of the District of Columbia School
Reform Act of 1995.
(c) LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR PRESCHOOL OR
PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2204(c) of such Act
(sec. 31–2853.14(c), D.C. Code) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(18) LICENSING
AS
CHILD
DEVELOPMENT
CENTER.—A public charter school which offers a
preschool or prekindergarten program shall be sub-
ject to the same child care licensing requirements (if
any) which apply to a District of Columbia public
school which offers such a program.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(A) Section
2202 of such Act (sec. 31–2853.12, D.C. Code) is
amended by striking clause (17).
(B) Section 2203(h)(2) of such Act (sec. 31–
2853.13(h)(2), D.C. Code) is amended by striking
‘‘(17),’’.
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(d) Section 2403 of the District of Columbia School
Reform Act of 1995 (sec. 31–2853.43, D.C. Code) is
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(c) ASSIGNMENT OF PAYMENTS.—A public charter
school may assign any payments made to the school under
this section to a financial institution for use as collateral
to secure a loan or for the repayment of a loan.’’.
(e) Section 2210 of the District of Columbia School
Reform Act of 1995 (sec. 31–2853.20, D.C. Code), as
amended by subsection (b), is further amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(e) PARTICIPATION IN GSA PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any provi-
sion of this Act or any other provision of law, a pub-
lic charter school may acquire goods and services
through the General Services Administration and
may participate in programs of the Administration
in the same manner and to the same extent as any
entity of the District of Columbia government.
‘‘(2) PARTICIPATION
BY
CERTAIN
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—A public charter school may delegate to a
nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in the District of
Columbia the public charter school’s authority under
paragraph (1).’’.
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SEC. 130. 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. 131. None of the 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. Code, sec. 36–1401 et seq.) or to otherwise imple-
ment or enforce any system of registration of unmarried,
cohabiting couples (whether homosexual, heterosexual, or
lesbian), including but not limited to registration for the
purpose of extending employment, health, or govern-
mental benefits to such couples on the same basis that
such benefits are extended to legally married couples.
SEC. 132. The Superintendent of the District of Co-
lumbia Public Schools shall submit to the Congress, the
Mayor, the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility
and Management Assistance Authority, and the Council
of the District of Columbia 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-
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et, broken out on the basis of control center, respon-
sibility center, agency reporting code, and object
class, and for all funds, including 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 agency reporting code, 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,
responsibility center, and agency reporting code; and
contract identifying codes used by the District of Co-
lumbia Public Schools; payments made in the last
quarter and year-to-date, the total amount of the
contract and total payments made for the contract
and any modifications, extensions, renewals; and
specific modifications made to each contract in the
last month;
(4) all reprogramming requests and reports
that are required to be, and have been, submitted to
the Board of Education; and
(5) changes made in the last quarter to the or-
ganizational structure of the District of Columbia
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Public Schools, displaying previous and current con-
trol centers and responsibility centers, the names of
the organizational entities that have been changed,
the name of the staff member supervising each enti-
ty affected, and the reasons for the structural
change.
SEC. 133. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Superintendent of
the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Univer-
sity of the District of Columbia shall annually compile an
accurate and verifiable report on the positions and em-
ployees in the public school system and the university, re-
spectively. The annual report shall set forth—
(1) the number of validated schedule A posi-
tions in the District of Columbia public schools and
the University of the District of Columbia for fiscal
year 2000, fiscal year 2001, and thereafter on full-
time equivalent basis, including a compilation of all
positions by control center, responsibility center,
funding source, position type, position title, pay
plan, grade, and annual salary; and
(2) a compilation of all employees in the Dis-
trict of Columbia public schools and the University
of the District of Columbia as of the preceding De-
cember 31, verified as to its accuracy in accordance
with the functions that each employee actually per-
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forms, by control center, responsibility center, agen-
cy reporting code, program (including funding
source), activity, location for accounting purposes,
job title, grade and classification, annual salary, and
position control number.
(b) SUBMISSION.—The annual report required by
subsection (a) of this section shall be submitted to the
Congress, the Mayor, the District of Columbia Council,
the Consensus Commission, and the Authority, not later
than February 15 of each year.
SEC. 134. (a) No later than November 1, 2000, or
within 30 calendar days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, which ever occurs later, and each succeeding
year, the Superintendent of the District of Columbia
Public Schools and the University of the District of Co-
lumbia shall submit to the appropriate congressional
committees, the Mayor, the District of Columbia Council,
the Consensus Commission, and the District of Columbia
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Au-
thority, a revised appropriated funds operating budget for
the public school system and the University of the Dis-
trict of Columbia for such fiscal year that is in the total
amount of the approved appropriation and that realigns
budgeted data for personal services and other-than-per-
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sonal services, respectively, with anticipated actual ex-
penditures.
(b) The revised budget required by subsection (a) of
this section shall be submitted in the format of the budg-
et that the Superintendent of the District of Columbia
Public Schools and the University of the District of Co-
lumbia submit to the Mayor of the District of Columbia
for inclusion in the Mayor’s budget submission to the
Council of the District of Columbia pursuant to section
442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public
Law 93–198; D.C. Code, sec. 47–301).
SEC. 135. The District of Columbia Financial Re-
sponsibility and Management Assistance Authority, act-
ing on behalf of the District of Columbia Public Schools
(DCPS) in formulating the DCPS budget, the Board of
Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia,
the Board of Library Trustees, and the Board of Gov-
ernors of the University of the District of Columbia
School of Law shall vote on and approve the respective
annual or revised budgets for such entities before submis-
sion to the Mayor of the District of Columbia for inclu-
sion in the Mayor’s budget submission to the Council of
the District of Columbia in accordance with section 442
of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law
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93–198; D.C. Code, sec. 47–301), or before submitting
their respective budgets directly to the Council.
SEC. 136. (a) ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF GRANTS
NOT INCLUDED IN CEILING UNDER ‘‘DIVISION OF EX-
PENSES’’.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Mayor, in consultation
with the Chief Financial Officer, during a control
year, as defined in section 305(4) of the District of
Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management
Assistance Act of 1995 (Public Law 104–8; 109
Stat. 152), may accept, obligate, and expend Fed-
eral, private, and other grants received by the Dis-
trict government that are not reflected in the
amounts appropriated in this Act.
(2) REQUIREMENT OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFI-
CER REPORT AND AUTHORITY APPROVAL.—No such
Federal, private, or other grant may be accepted, ob-
ligated, or expended pursuant to paragraph (1)
until—
(A) the Chief Financial Officer of the Dis-
trict of Columbia submits to the Authority a re-
port setting forth detailed information regard-
ing such grant; and
(B) the Authority has reviewed and ap-
proved the acceptance, obligation, and expendi-
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ture of such grant in accordance with review
and approval procedures consistent with the
provisions of the District of Columbia Financial
Responsibility and Management Assistance Act
of 1995.
(3) PROHIBITION ON SPENDING IN ANTICIPA-
TION OF APPROVAL OR RECEIPT.—No amount may
be obligated or expended from the general fund or
other funds of the District government in anticipa-
tion of the approval or receipt of a grant under
paragraph (2)(B) of this subsection or in anticipa-
tion of the approval or receipt of a Federal, private,
or other grant not subject to such paragraph.
(4) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—The Chief Finan-
cial Officer of the District of Columbia shall prepare
a quarterly report setting forth detailed information
regarding all Federal, private, and other grants sub-
ject to this subsection. Each such report shall be
submitted to the Council of the District of Columbia,
and to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate, not later
than 15 days after the end of the quarter covered
by the report.
(b) REPORT ON EXPENDITURES BY FINANCIAL RE-
SPONSIBILITY AND MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE AUTHOR-
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Notwithstanding any provision of the District of Colum-
bia Home Rule Act (87 Stat. 774; Public Law 93–198)
the Council may comment or make recommendations con-
cerning such annual estimates but shall have no authority
under such Act to revise such estimates.
SEC. 138. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, rule, or regulation, an employee of the District of
Columbia public schools shall be—
(1) classified as an Educational Service em-
ployee;
(2) placed under the personnel authority of the
Board of Education; and
(3) subject to all Board of Education rules.
(b) School-based personnel shall constitute a sepa-
rate competitive area from nonschool-based personnel
who shall not compete with school-based personnel for re-
tention purposes.
SEC. 139. (a) RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF OFFICIAL
VEHICLES.—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 per-
formance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties. For
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘‘official duties’’
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does not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s
residence and workplace (except (1) in the case of an of-
ficer or employee of the Metropolitan Police Department
who resides in the District of Columbia or is otherwise
designated 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; (3) the Mayor of the Dis-
trict of Columbia; and (4) the Chairman of the Council
of the District of Columbia).
(b) INVENTORY OF VEHICLES.—The Chief Financial
Officer of the District of Columbia shall submit, by No-
vember 15, 2000, an inventory, as of September 30,
2000, of all vehicles owned, leased or operated by the
District of Columbia government. The inventory shall in-
clude, but not be limited to, the department to which the
vehicle is assigned; the year and make of the vehicle; the
acquisition date and cost; the general condition of the ve-
hicle; annual operating and maintenance costs; current
mileage; and whether the vehicle is allowed to be taken
home by a District officer or employee and if so, the offi-
cer or employee’s title and resident location.
SEC. 140. (a) SOURCE OF PAYMENT FOR EMPLOY-
EES DETAILED WITHIN GOVERNMENT.—For purposes of
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determining the amount of funds expended by any entity
within the District of Columbia government during fiscal
year 2001 and each succeeding fiscal year, any expendi-
tures of the District government attributable to any offi-
cer or employee of the District government who provides
services which are within the authority and jurisdiction of
the entity (including any portion of the compensation
paid to the officer or employee attributable to the time
spent in providing such services) shall be treated as ex-
penditures made from the entity’s budget, without regard
to whether the officer or employee is assigned to the enti-
ty or otherwise treated as an officer or employee of the
entity.
(b) MODIFICATION OF REDUCTION IN FORCE PRO-
CEDURES.—The District of Columbia Government Com-
prehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Code, sec.
1–601.1 et seq.), is further amended in section 2408(a)
by striking ‘‘2000’’ and inserting, ‘‘2001’’; in subsection
(b), by striking ‘‘2000’’ and inserting ‘‘2001’’; in sub-
section (i), by striking ‘‘2000’’ and inserting, ‘‘2001’’;
and in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘2000’’ and inserting,
‘‘2001’’.
(c) No officer or employee of the District of Columbia
government (including any independent agency of the Dis-
trict but excluding the District of Columbia Financial Re-
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sponsibility and Management Assistance Authority, the
Metropolitan Police Department, and the Office of the
Chief Technology Officer) may enter into an agreement
in excess of $2,500 for the procurement of goods or serv-
ices on behalf of any entity of the District government
until the officer or employee has conducted an analysis
of how the procurement of the goods and services involved
under the applicable regulations and procedures of the
District government would differ from the procurement of
the goods and services involved under the Federal supply
schedule and other applicable regulations and procedures
of the General Services Administration, including an anal-
ysis of any differences in the costs to be incurred and the
time required to obtain the goods or services.
SEC. 141. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, not later than 120 days after the date that a Dis-
trict of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) student is re-
ferred for evaluation or assessment—
(1) the District of Columbia Board of Edu-
cation or its successor, and DCPS shall assess or
evaluate a student who may have a disability and
who may require special education services; and
(2) if a student is classified as having a dis-
ability, as defined in section 101(a)(1) of the Indi-
viduals with Disabilities Education Act (84 Stat.
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175; 20 U.S.C. 1401(a)(1)) or in section 7(8) of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (87 Stat. 359; 29 U.S.C.
706(8)), the Board and DCPS shall place that stu-
dent in an appropriate program of special education
services.
SEC. 142. (a) COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN
ACT.—None of the funds made available in this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in
expending the funds the entity will comply with the Buy
American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c).
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products to the greatest extent
practicable.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each agency of the
Federal or District of Columbia government shall
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provide to each recipient of the assistance a notice
describing the statement made in paragraph (1) by
the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and in-
eligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 143. None of the funds contained in this Act
may be used for purposes of the annual independent
audit of the District of Columbia government (including
the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and
Management Assistance Authority) for fiscal year 2000
unless—
(1) the audit is conducted by the Inspector
General of the District of Columbia pursuant to sec-
tion 208(a)(4) of the District of Columbia Procure-
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ment Practices Act of 1985 (D.C. Code, sec. 1–
1182.8(a)(4)); and
(2) the audit includes a comparison of audited
actual year-end results with the revenues submitted
in the budget document for such year and the appro-
priations enacted into law for such year.
SEC. 144. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to
authorize any office, agency or entity to expend funds for
programs or functions for which a reorganization plan is
required but has not been approved by the District of Co-
lumbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assist-
ance Authority. Appropriations made by this Act for such
programs or functions are conditioned only on the ap-
proval by the Authority of the required reorganization
plans.
SEC. 145. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, rule, or regulation, the evaluation process and in-
struments for evaluating District of Columbia Public
School employees shall be a non-negotiable item for col-
lective bargaining purposes.
SEC. 146. None of the funds contained in this Act
may be used by the District of Columbia Corporation
Counsel or any other officer or entity of the District gov-
ernment to provide assistance for any petition drive or
civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for
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voting representation in Congress for the District of Co-
lumbia.
SEC. 147. None of the funds contained in this Act
may be used to transfer or confine inmates classified
above the medium security level, as defined by the Fed-
eral Bureau of Prisons classification instrument, to the
Northeast Ohio Correctional Center located in Youngs-
town, Ohio.
SEC. 148. (a) Section 202(j) of the District of Colum-
bia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance
Act of 1995 (sec. 47–392.2(j), DC Code), as amended by
section 148(a) of the District of Columbia Appropriations
Act, 2000, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(j) RESERVE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning with fiscal year
2000, the financial plan or budget submitted pursu-
ant to this Act shall contain $150,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, for a reserve to be es-
tablished by the Mayor, Council of the District of
Columbia, Chief Financial Officer for the District of
Columbia, and the District of Columbia Financial
Responsibility and Management Assistance Author-
ity.
‘‘(2) 
CONDITIONS
ON
USE.—The 
reserve
funds—
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‘‘(A) shall only be expended according to
criteria established by the Chief Financial Offi-
cer and approved by the Mayor, Council of the
District of Columbia, and District of Columbia
Financial Responsibility and Management As-
sistance Authority;
‘‘(B) shall not be used to fund the agencies
of the District of Columbia government under
court ordered receivership; and
‘‘(C) shall not be used to fund shortfalls in
the projected reductions budgeted in the budget
proposed by the District of Columbia govern-
ment for general supply schedule savings, man-
agement reform savings, and cafeteria plan sav-
ings.
‘‘(3) REPORT
REQUIREMENT.—The Authority
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the
Senate and House of Representatives in writing 30
days in advance of any expenditure of the reserve
funds.
‘‘(4) REPLENISHMENT.—Any amount of the re-
serve funds which is expended in one fiscal year
shall be replenished in the reserve funds from the
following fiscal year appropriations to maintain the
$150,000,000 balance.’’.
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(b) Section 202(k) of such Act (sec. 47–392.2(k), DC
Code), as amended by section 148(b) of the District of
Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000, is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(k) POSITIVE FUND BALANCE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The District of Columbia
shall maintain at the end of a fiscal year an annual
positive fund balance in the general fund of not less
than 4 percent of the projected general fund expend-
itures for the following fiscal year.
‘‘(2) EXCESS FUNDS.—Of funds remaining in
excess of the amounts required by paragraph (1)—
‘‘(A) not more than 50 percent may be
used for authorized non-recurring expenses; and
‘‘(B) not less than 50 percent shall be used
to reduce the debt of the District of Colum-
bia.’’.
(c) The amendments made by this section shall take
effect as if included in the enactment of the District of
Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000.
SEC. 149. Subsection 3(e) of Public Law 104–21
(D.C. Code sec. 7–134.2(e)) is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(e) INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDIT.—Not later than
February 1, 2001, and each February 1, thereafter, the
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Inspector General of the District of Columbia shall audit
the financial statements of the District of Columbia
Highway Trust Fund for the preceding fiscal year and
shall submit to Congress a report on the results of such
audit. Not later than May 31, 2001, and each May 31,
thereafter, the Inspector General shall examine the state-
ments forecasting the conditions and operations of the
Trust Fund for the next five fiscal years commencing on
the previous October 1 and shall submit to Congress a
report on the results of such examination.’’.
SEC. 150. 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. 151. (a) RESTRICTIONS
ON LEASES.—Upon
the expiration of the 60–day period that begins on the
date of the enactment of this Act, none of the funds con-
tained in this Act may be used to make rental payments
under a lease for the use of real property by the District
of Columbia government (including any independent
agency of the District) unless the lease and an abstract
of the lease have been filed (by the District of Columbia
or any other party to the lease) with the central office
of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, in an
indexed registry available for public inspection.
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(b) 
ADDITIONAL
RESTRICTIONS
ON
CURRENT
LEASES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon the expiration of the
60–day period that begins on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, in the case of a lease described in
paragraph (3), none for the funds contained in this
Act may be used to make rental payments under the
lease unless the lease is included in periodic reports
submitted by the Mayor and Council of the District
of Columbia to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and Senate describing
for each such lease the following information:
(A) The location of the property involved,
the name of the owners of record according to
the land records of the District of Columbia,
the name of the lessors according to the lease,
the rate of payment under the lease, the period
of time covered by the lease, and the conditions
under which the lease may be terminated.
(B) The extent to which the property is or
is not occupied by the District of Columbia gov-
ernment as of the end of the reporting period
involved.
(C) If the property is not occupied and uti-
lized by the District government as of the end
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of the reporting period involved, a plan for oc-
cupying and utilizing the property (including
construction or renovation work) or a status
statement regarding any efforts by the District
to terminate or renegotiate the lease.
(2) TIMING
OF
REPORTS.—The reports de-
scribed in paragraph (1) shall be submitted for each
calendar quarter (beginning with the quarter ending
December 31, 2000) not later than 20 days after the
end of the quarter involved, plus an initial report
submitted not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, which shall provide infor-
mation as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
(3) LEASES DESCRIBED.—A lease described in
this paragraph is a lease in effect as of the date of
the enactment of this Act for the use of real prop-
erty by the District of Columbia government (includ-
ing any independent agency of the District) which is
not being occupied by the District government (in-
cluding any independent agency of the District) as
of such date or during the 60-day period which be-
gins on the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 152. (a) MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING DISTRICT
GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.—Upon the expiration of the
60–day period that begins on the date of the enactment