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Intergovernmental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergov-
ernmental Audit Forum shall be available to finance an
appropriate share of Forum costs as determined by the
Forum, including necessary travel expenses of non-Federal
participants. Payments hereunder to either the Forum or
the JFMIP may be credited as reimbursements to any ap-
propriation from which costs involved are initially fi-
nanced: Provided further, That to the extent that funds
are otherwise available for obligation, agreements or con-
tracts for the removal of asbestos, and renovation of the
building and building systems (including the heating, ven-
tilation and air conditioning system, electrical system and
other major building systems) of the General Accounting
Office Building may be made for periods not exceeding
five years: Provided further, That this appropriation and
appropriations for administrative expenses of any other
department or agency which is a member of the American
Consortium on International Public Administration
(ACIPA) shall be available to finance an appropriate share
of ACIPA costs as determined by the ACIPA, including
any expenses attributable to membership of ACIPA in the
International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
SEC. 211. (a) Effective June 30, 1996, the functions
of the Comptroller General identified in subsection (b) are
transferred to the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget, contingent upon the additional transfer to the
Office of Management and Budget of such personnel,
budget authority, records, and property of the General Ac-
counting Office relating to such functions as the Comp-
troller General and the Director jointly determine to be
necessary. The Director may delegate any such function,
in whole or in part, to any other agency or agencies if
the Director determines that such delegation would be
cost-effective or otherwise in the public interest, and may
transfer to such agency or agencies any personnel, budget
authority, records, and property received by the Director
pursuant to the preceding sentence that relate to the dele-
gated functions. Personnel transferred pursuant to this
provision shall not be separated or reduced in classifica-
tion or compensation for one year after any such transfer,
except for cause.
(b) The following provisions of the United States
Code contain the functions to be transferred pursuant to
subsection (a): sections 5564 and 5583 of title 5; sections
2312, 2575, 2733, 2734, 2771, 4712, and 9712 of title
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10; sections 1626 and 4195 of title 22; section 420 of title
24; sections 2414 and 2517 of title 28; sections 1304,
3702, 3726, and 3728 of title 31; sections 714 and 715
of title 32; section 554 of title 37; section 5122 of title
38; and section 256a of title 41.
SEC. 211. (a) Section 732 of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by adding a new subsection (h) as follows:
‘‘(h) Notwithstanding the provisions of subchapter I of
chapter 35 of title 5, United States Code, the Comptroller
General shall prescribe regulations for the release of officers
and employees of the General Accounting Office in a reduc-
tion in force which give due effect to tenure of employment,
military preference, performance and/or contributions to
the agency’s goals and objectives, and length of service. The
regulations shall, to the extent deemed feasible by the Comp-
troller General, be designed to minimize disruption to the
Office and to assist in promoting the efficiency of the Of-
fice.’’.
SEC. 212. Section 753 of title 31, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d)
as (c), (d), and (e), respectively.
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) a new sub-
section (b) as follows:
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‘‘(b) The Board has no authority to issue a stay of
any reduction in force action.’’; and
(3) in the second sentence of subsection (c), as re-
designated, by striking ‘‘(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)’’.
SEC. 213. The General Accounting Office may for such
officers and employees as it deems appropriate authorize
a payment to officers and employees who voluntarily sepa-
rate on or before September 30, 1995, whether by retirement
or resignation, which payment shall be paid in accordance
with the provisions of section 5597(d) of title 5, United
States Code.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. No part of the funds appropriated in this
Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private
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 Oversight and for the Senate issued
by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. 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. 303. Whenever any office or position not specifi-
cally established by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is ap-
propriated for herein or whenever the rate of compensa-
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tion or designation of any position appropriated for herein
is different from that specifically established for such posi-
tion by such Act, the rate of compensation and the des-
ignation of the position, or either, appropriated for or pro-
vided herein, shall be the permanent law with respect
thereto: Provided, That the provisions herein for the var-
ious items of official expenses of Members, officers, and
committees of the Senate and House of Representatives,
and clerk hire for Senators and Members of the House
of Representatives shall be the permanent law with respect
thereto.
SEC. 304. 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. 305. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act
should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
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greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 306. (a) Upon approval of the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and in
accordance with conditions determined by the Committee
on House Oversight, positions in connection with House
parking activities and related funding shall be transferred
from the appropriation ‘‘Architect of the Capitol, Capitol
buildings and grounds, House office buildings’’ to the ap-
propriation ‘‘House of Representatives, salaries, officers
and employees, Office of the Sergeant at Arms’’: Provided,
That the position of Superintendent of Garages shall be
subject to authorization in annual appropriation Acts.
(b) For purposes of section 8339(m) of title 5, United
States Code, the days of unused sick leave to the credit
of any such employee as of the date such employee is
transferred under subsection (a) shall be included in the
total service of such employee in connection with the com-
putation of any annuity under subsections (a) through (e)
and (o) of such section.
(c) In the case of days of annual leave to the credit
of any such employee as of the date such employee is
transferred under subsection (a) the Architect of the Cap-
itol is authorized to make a lump sum payment to each
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such employee for that annual leave. No such payment
shall be considered a payment or compensation within the
meaning of any law relating to dual compensation.
SEC. 307. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for the relocation of the office of any
Member of the House of Representatives within the House
office buildings.
SEC. 308. (a)(1) Effective October 1, 1995, the unex-
pended balances of appropriations specified in paragraph
(2) are transferred to the appropriation for general ex-
penses of the Capitol Police, to be used for design and
installation of security systems for the Capitol buildings
and grounds.
(2) The unexpended balances referred to in para-
graph (1) are—
(A) the unexpended balance of appropriations
for security installations, as referred to in the para-
graph under the heading ‘‘CAPITOL
BUILDINGS’’,
under the general headings ‘‘JOINT ITEMS’’, ‘‘AR-
CHITECT OF THE CAPITOL’’, and ‘‘CAPITOL
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS’’ in title I of the Legisla-
tive Branch Appropriations Act, 1995 (108 Stat.
1434), including any unexpended balance from a
prior fiscal year and any unexpended balance under
such headings in this Act; and
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(B) the unexpended balance of the appropria-
tion for an improved security plan, as transferred to
the Architect of the Capitol by section 102 of the
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989 (102
Stat. 2165).
(b) Effective October 1, 1995, the responsibility for
design and installation of security systems for the Capitol
buildings and grounds is transferred from the Architect
of the Capitol to the Capitol Police Board. Such design
and installation shall be carried out under the direction
of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Admin-
istration of the Senate, and without regard to section 3709
of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C.
5). On and after October 1, 1995, any alteration to a
structural, mechanical, or architectural feature of the Cap-
itol buildings and grounds that is required for a security
system under the preceding sentence may be carried out
only with the approval of the Architect of the Capitol.
(c)(1) Effective October 1, 1995, all positions speci-
fied in paragraph (2) and each individual holding any such
position (on a permanent basis) immediately before that
date, as identified by the Architect of the Capitol, shall
be transferred to the Capitol Police.
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(2) The positions referred to in paragraph (1) are
those positions which, immediately before October 1,
1995, are—
(A) under the Architect of the Capitol;
(B) within the Electronics Engineering Division
of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol; and
(C) related to the design or installation of secu-
rity systems for the Capitol buildings and grounds.
(3) All annual leave and sick leave standing to the
credit of an individual immediately before such individual
is transferred under paragraph (1) shall be credited to
such individual, without adjustment, in the new position
of the individual.
SEC. 309 308. (a) Section 230(a) of the Congres-
sional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1371(a)) is
amended by striking out ‘‘Administrative Conference of
the United States’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘Board’’.
(b) Section 230(d)(1) of the Congressional Account-
ability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1371(d)(1)) is amended—
(1) by striking out ‘‘Administrative Conference
of the United States’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘Board’’; and
(2) by striking out ‘‘and shall submit the study
and recommendations to the Board’’.
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SEC. 310 309. Section 122(d) of the Military Con-
struction Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103–110;
2 U.S.C. 141 note) is amended by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ‘‘The Provost Marshal (U.S. Army
Military Police), Fort George G. Meade, is authorized to
police the real property, including improvements thereon,
transferred under subsection (a), and to make arrests on
the said real property and within any improvements situ-
ated thereon for any violation of any law of the United
States, the District of Columbia, or any State, or of any
regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, and such au-
thority shall be construed as authorizing the Provost Mar-
shal, with the consent or upon the request of the Librarian
of Congress or his assistants, to enter any improvements
situated on the said real property that are under the juris-
diction of the Library of Congress to make arrests or to
patrol such structures.’’.
SEC. 311. (a)(1) Effective as prescribed by paragraph
(2), the administrative jurisdiction over the property de-
scribed in subsection (b), known as the Botanic Garden,
is transferred, without reimbursement, to the Secretary of
Agriculture. After such transfer, the Botanic Garden shall
continue as a scientific display garden to inform and edu-
cate visitors and the public as to the value of plants to
the well-being of humankind and the natural environment.
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(2) The transfer referred to in paragraph (1) shall
take effect—
(A) on October 1, 1996, with respect to the
property described in subsection (b)(1)(A); and
(B) on the later of October 31, 1996, or the
date
of
the
conveyance
described
in
subsection
(b)(1)(B), with respect to the property described in
that subsection.
(b)(1) The property referred to in subsection (a)(1)
is the property consisting of—
(A) Square 576 in the District of Columbia
(bounded by Maryland Avenue on the north, First
Street on the east, Independence Avenue on the
south, and Third Street on the west) and Square
578 in the District of Columbia (bounded by Inde-
pendence Avenue on the north, First Street on the
east, and Washington Avenue on the southwest),
other than the property included in the Capitol
Grounds by paragraph (20) of the first section of
Public Law 96–432 (40 U.S.C. 193a note);
(B) the site known as the Botanic Garden
Nursery at D.C. Village, consisting of 25 acres lo-
cated at 4701 Shepherd Parkway, S.W., Washing-
ton, D.C. (formerly part of a tract of land known as
Parcel 253/26), which site is to be conveyed by the
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District of Columbia to the Architect of the Capitol
pursuant to Public Law 98–340 (40 U.S.C. 215
note);
(C) all buildings, structures, and other improve-
ments located on the property described in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B), respectively; and
(D) all equipment and other personal property
that, immediately before the transfer under this sec-
tion, is located on the property described in subpara-
graphs (A) and (B), respectively, and is under the
control of the Architect of the Capitol, acting under
the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library.
(c) Not later than the date of the conveyance to the
Architect of the Capitol of the property described in sub-
section (b)(1)(B), the Architect of the Capitol and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall enter into an agreement to per-
mit the retention by the Architect of the Capitol of a por-
tion of that property for legislative branch storage and
support facilities and expansion of such facilities, and fa-
cilities to be developed for use by the Capitol Police.
(d)(1) Effective October 1, 1996, all employee posi-
tions specified in paragraph (2) and each individual hold-
ing any such position (on a permanent basis) immediately
before the transfer, as identified by the Architect of the
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Capitol, shall be transferred to the Department of Agri-
culture.
(2) The employee positions referred to in paragraph
(1) are those positions which, immediately before October
1, 1996, are under the Architect of the Capitol and are
primarily related to the functions of the Botanic Garden.
(3) All annual leave and sick leave standing to the
credit of an individual immediately before such individual
is transferred under paragraph (1) shall be credited to
such individual, without adjustment, in the new position
of the individual.
(e)(1) Notwithstanding the transfer under this sec-
tion, and without regard to the laws specified in paragraph
(2), the Architect of the Capitol shall retain full authority
for completing, under plans approved by the Architect, the
National Garden authorized by section 307E of the Legis-
lative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989 (40 U.S.C. 216c),
including the renovation of the Conservatory of the Bo-
tanic Garden under section 209(b) of Public Law 102–
229 (40 U.S.C. 216c note). In carrying out the preceding
sentence, the Architect—
(A) shall have full responsibility for design, con-
struction management and supervision, and accept-
ance of gifts;
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(B) shall inform the Secretary of Agriculture
from time to time of the progress of the work in-
volved; and
(C) shall notify the Secretary of Agriculture
when, as determined by the Architect, the National
Garden, including the renovation of the Conserv-
atory of the Botanic Garden, is complete.
(2) The laws referred to in paragraph (1) are section
2 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act providing for a comprehen-
sive development of the park and playground system of
the National Capital.’’, approved June 6, 1924 (40 U.S.C.
71a), and the first section of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act
establishing a Commission of Fine Arts.’’, approved May
17, 1910 (40 U.S.C. 104).
(f)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), effective
October 1, 1996, the unexpended balances of appropria-
tions for the Botanic Garden are transferred to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture.
(2) Any unexpended balances of appropriations for
completion of the National Garden, including the Conserv-
atory of the Botanic Garden, under subsection (e) shall
remain under the Architect of the Capitol.
(g) After the transfer under this section—
(1) under such terms and conditions as the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may impose, including a re-
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quirement for payment of fees for the benefit of the
Botanic Garden, the National Garden and the Con-
servatory of the Botanic Garden shall be available
for receptions sponsored by Members of Congress;
and
(2) the Secretary of Agriculture, through the
Botanic Garden, shall continue, with reimbursement,
to propagate and provide such plant materials as the
Architect may require for the United States Capitol
Grounds, and such indoor plant materials and cut
flowers as are authorized by policies of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
SEC. 312 310. Any amount appropriated in this Act
for ‘‘HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—Salaries and
Expenses—Members’ Representational Allowances’’ shall
be available only for fiscal year 1996. Any amount remain-
ing after all payments are made under such allowances
for such fiscal year shall be deposited in the Treasury,
to be used for deficit reduction.
SEC. 311. Section 316 of Public Law 101–302 is
amended in the first sentence of subsection (a) by striking
‘‘1995’’ and inserting ‘‘1996’’.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Legislative Branch
Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 22, 1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
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