(8) in section 312, by striking ‘‘his service’’ and 
inserting ‘‘the service of such officer’’; and 
(9) in section 317, by striking ‘‘his delegate’’ and 
inserting ‘‘a delegate of the Director’’. 
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Government Account-
ability Office, including not more than $12,500 to be ex-
pended on the certification of the Comptroller General of 
the United States in connection with official representation 
and reception expenses; temporary or intermittent services 
under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, but 
at rates for individuals not more than the daily equivalent 
of the annual rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5315 of such title; hire of one pas-
senger motor vehicle; advance payments in foreign countries 
in accordance with section 3324 of title 31, United States 
Code; benefits comparable to those payable 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 pre-
scribed by the Comptroller General of the United States, 
rental of living quarters in foreign countries, $525,512,999: 
Provided, That in addition, $23,750,000 of payments re-
ceived 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 administrative expenses of any other de-
partment or agency which is a member of the National 
Intergovernmental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergovern-
mental Audit Forum shall be available to finance an appro-
priate share of either Forum’s costs as determined by the 
respective Forum, including necessary travel expenses of 
non-Federal participants: Provided further, That payments 
hereunder to the Forum may be credited as reimbursements 
to any appropriation from which costs involved are ini-
tially financed. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE 
SEC. 1401. (a) CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Chapter 7 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subchapter: 
‘‘Subchapter VII—Center for Audit Excellence 
‘‘SEC. 791. CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Comptroller General 
shall establish, maintain, and operate a center within the 
Government Accountability Office to be known as the ‘Cen-
ter for Audit Excellence’ (hereafter in this subchapter re-
ferred to as the ‘Center’). 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE AND ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall build insti-
tutional auditing capacity and promote good govern-
ance by providing affordable, relevant, and high-qual-
ity training, technical assistance, and products and 
services to qualified personnel and entities of govern-
ments (including the Federal Government, State and 
local governments, tribal governments, and govern-
ments of foreign nations), international organiza-
tions, and other private organizations. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION OF QUALIFIED PERSONNEL 
AND ENTITIES.—Personnel and entities shall be con-
sidered qualified for purposes of receiving training, 
technical assistance, and products or services from the 
Center under paragraph (1) in accordance with such 
criteria as the Comptroller General may establish and 
publish. 
‘‘(c) FEES.— 
‘‘(1) PERMITTING
CHARGING
OF
FEES.—The 
Comptroller General may establish, charge, and col-
lect fees (on a reimbursable or advance basis) for the 
training, technical assistance, and products and serv-
ices provided by the Center under this subchapter. 
‘‘(2) DEPOSIT INTO SEPARATE ACCOUNT.—The 
Comptroller General shall deposit all fees collected
under paragraph (1) into the Center for Audit Excel-
lence Account established under section 792. 
‘‘(d) GIFTS OF PROPERTY AND SERVICES.—The Comp-
troller General may accept and use conditional or non-con-
ditional gifts of property (both real and personal) and serv-
ices (including services of guest lecturers) to support the op-
eration of the Center, except that the Comptroller General 
may not accept or use such a gift if the Comptroller General 
determines that the acceptance or use of the gift would com-
promise or appear to compromise the integrity of the Gov-
ernment Accountability Office. 
‘‘(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PERSONNEL.— 
It is the sense of Congress that the Center should be staffed 
primarily by personnel of the Government Accountability 
Office who are not otherwise engaged in carrying out other 
duties of the Office under this chapter, so as to ensure that 
the operation of the Center will not detract from or impact 
the oversight and audit work of the Office. 
‘‘SEC. 792. ACCOUNT. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
SEPARATE
ACCOUNT.— 
There is established in the Treasury as a separate account 
for the Government Accountability Office the ‘Center for 
Audit Excellence Account’, which shall consist of the fees 
deposited by the Comptroller General under section 791(c) 
and such other amounts as may be appropriated under law.
‘‘(b) USE OF ACCOUNT.—Amounts in the Center for 
Audit Excellence Account shall be available to the Comp-
troller General, in amounts specified in appropriations 
Acts and without fiscal year limitation, to carry out this 
subchapter. 
‘‘SEC. 793. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this subchapter.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for chapter 7 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE 
‘‘791. Center for Audit Excellence. 
‘‘792. Account. 
‘‘793. Authorization of appropriations.’’ 
(b) APPROVAL OF BUSINESS PLAN.—The Comptroller 
General may not begin operating the Center for Audit Ex-
cellence under subchapter VII of chapter 7 of title 31, 
United States Code (as added by subsection (a)) until— 
(1) the Comptroller General submits a business 
plan for the Center to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and Senate; and 
(2) each such Committee approves the plan. 
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), 
$5,700,000: Provided, That funds made available to support 
Russian participants shall only be used for those engaging 
in free market development, humanitarian activities, and 
civic engagement, and shall not be used for senior officials 
of the central government of Russia. 
JOHN C. STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE 
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 
For payment to the John C. Stennis Center for Public 
Service Development Trust Fund established under section 
116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Train-
ing and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105), $430,000. 
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 
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 Com-
mittee on House Administration and for the Senate issued 
by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
FISCAL YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 202. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
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 ap-
propriated for is different from that specifically established 
by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation 
in this Act shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: 
Provided, That the provisions in this Act for the various 
items of official expenses of Members, officers, and commit-
tees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and clerk 
hire for Senators and Members of the House of Representa-
tives shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. 
CONSULTING SERVICES 
SEC. 204. The expenditure of any appropriation under 
this Act for any consulting service through procurement 
contract, under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures 
are a matter of public record and available for public in-
spection, 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. For fiscal year 2015 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, the Architect of the Capitol, in consultation with 
the District of Columbia, is authorized to maintain and im-
prove the landscape features, excluding streets, in Square 
580 up to the beginning of I–395. 
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 pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
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 Cap-
itol in this Act may be used to eliminate or restrict guided 
tours of the United States Capitol which are led by employ-
ees and interns of offices of Members of Congress 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 ap-
proval 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. 
ADJUSTMENTS TO COMPENSATION 
SEC. 209. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no adjustment shall be made under section 610(a) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) (relat-
ing to cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress) 
during fiscal year 2015.
NO BONUSES FOR CONTRACTORS BEHIND SCHEDULE OR 
OVER BUDGET 
SEC. 210. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to make bonus awards to contractors for 
work on projects for which the contractor is behind schedule 
or over budget, unless the head of the agency determines 
that any such deviations are due to unforeseeable events or 
are not significant within the context of the project. 
NO FUNDS FOR OFFICIAL PORTRAITS 
SEC. 211. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay for the painting of a portrait of 
an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including 
the President, the Vice President, a member of Congress (in-
cluding a Delegate or a Resident Commissioner to Con-
gress), the head of an executive branch agency (as defined 
in section 133 of title 41, United States Code), or the head 
of an office of the legislative branch. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Legislative Branch Ap-
propriations Act, 2015’’.
Calendar No. 436 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4487 
[Report No. 113–196] 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, 
and for other purposes. 
MAY 5, 2014 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations 
JUNE 19, 2014 
Reported with an amendment