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tion shall be available exclusively for the purpose of funding
the Burial Assistance Program established by section 1802
of the Burial Assistance Program Reestablishment Act of
1999, effective October 20, 1999 (D.C. Law 13–38; D.C. Of-
ficial Code, section 4–1001).
PUBLIC WORKS
Public works, including rental of one passenger-car-
rying vehicle for use by the Mayor and three passenger-car-
rying vehicles for use by the Council of the District of Co-
lumbia 
and 
leasing 
of 
passenger-carrying 
vehicles,
$327,046,000 (including $308,028,000 from local funds,
$5,274,000 from Federal funds, and $13,744,000 from other
funds): Provided, That this appropriation shall not be
available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from
hotels and places of business.
EMERGENCY AND CONTINGENCY RESERVE FUNDS
For the emergency reserve fund and the contingency
reserve fund under section 450A of the District of Columbia
Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–204.50a), such
amounts from local funds as are necessary to meet the bal-
ance requirements for such funds under such section.
REPAYMENT OF LOANS AND INTEREST
For payment of principal, interest, and certain fees
directly resulting from borrowing by the District of Colum-
bia to fund District of Columbia capital projects as author-
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ized by sections 462, 475, and 490 of the District of Colum-
bia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, secs. 1–204.62, 1–
204.75, and 1–204.90), $311,504,000 from local funds: Pro-
vided, That for equipment leases, the Mayor may finance
$14,300,000 of equipment cost, plus cost of issuance not to
exceed 2 percent of the par amount being financed on a
lease purchase basis with a maturity not to exceed 5 years.
PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON SHORT-TERM BORROWING
For payment of interest on short-term borrowing,
$3,000,000 from local funds.
CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION
For principal and interest payments on the District’s
Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground
lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary
Square, $4,911,000 from local funds.
SETTLEMENTS AND JUDGMENTS
For making refunds and for the payment of legal set-
tlements or judgments that have been entered against the
District of Columbia government, $22,522,000: Provided,
That this appropriation shall not be construed as modifying
or affecting the provisions of section 103 of this Act.
WILSON BUILDING
For expenses associated with the John A. Wilson
Building, $3,704,000 from local funds.
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WORKFORCE INVESTMENTS
For workforce investments, $22,308,000 from local
funds, to be transferred by the Mayor of the District of Co-
lumbia within the various appropriation headings in this
Act for which employees are properly payable.
NON-DEPARTMENTAL AGENCY
To account for anticipated costs that cannot be allo-
cated to specific agencies during the development of the pro-
posed budget, $19,639,000 (including $11,455,000 from
local funds, and $8,184,000 from other funds) to be trans-
ferred by the Mayor of the District of Columbia within the
various appropriation headings in this Act: Provided, That
$5,000,000 in local funds shall be available to meet contrac-
tual obligations, and $11,455,000 in local funds shall be
for anticipated costs associated with the No Child Left Be-
hind Act.
EMERGENCY PLANNING AND SECURITY COSTS
From funds previously appropriated in this Act under
the heading ‘‘Federal Payment for Emergency Planning
and Security Costs in the District of Columbia’’,
$15,000,000.
TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE
From funds previously appropriated in this Act under
the heading ‘‘Federal Payment for Transportation Assist-
ance’’, $3,500,000.
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PAY-AS-YOU-GO CAPITAL
For Pay-As-You-Go Capital funds in lieu of capital
financing, $11,267,000, to be transferred to the Capital
Fund, subject to the Criteria for Spending Pay-as-You-Go
Funding Amendment Act of 2003, approved by the Council
of the District of Columbia on 1st reading, May 6, 2003
(Title 25 of Bill 15–218). Pursuant to this Act, there are
authorized to be transferred from Pay-As-You-Go Capital
funds to other headings of this Act, as necessary to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PROGRAM
For a Tax Increment Financing Program, $1,940,000
from local funds.
CASH RESERVE
For the cumulative cash reserve established pursuant
to section 202(j)(2) of the District of Columbia Financial
Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995, ap-
proved April 17, 1995 (Public Law 107–96; D.C. Official
Code, section 47–392.02(j)(2)), $50,000,000 from local
funds.
MEDICAID DISALLOWANCE
For making refunds associated with disallowed Med-
icaid funding an amount not to exceed $57,000,000 in local
funds to remain available until expended: Provided, That
funds are derived from a transfer from the funds identified
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in the fiscal year 2002 comprehensive annual financial re-
port as the District of Columbia’s Grants Disallowance bal-
ance.
ENTERPRISE AND OTHER FUNDS
WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY
For operation of the Water and Sewer Authority,
$259,095,000 from other funds, of which $18,692,000 shall
be apportioned for repayment of loans and interest incurred
for capital improvement projects ($18,094,000 and payable
to the District’s debt service fund).
For construction projects, $199,807,000, to be distrib-
uted as follows: $99,449,000 for the Blue Plains Wastewater
Treatment Plant, $16,739,000 for the sewer program,
$42,047,000 for the combined sewer program, $42,047,000
for the Combined Sewer Overflow Long-Term Control Plan,
$5,993,000 for the stormwater program, $24,431,000 for the
water program, and $11,148,000 for the capital equipment
program, in addition, $25,000,000 from funds previously
appropriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘Federal Pay-
ment to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Author-
ity’’.
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT
For 
operation 
of 
the 
Washington 
Aqueduct,
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STORMWATER PERMIT COMPLIANCE ENTERPRISE FUND
For operation of the Stormwater Permit Compliance
Enterprise Fund, $3,501,000 from other funds.
LOTTERY AND CHARITABLE GAMES ENTERPRISE FUND
For the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise
Fund, established by the District of Columbia Appropria-
tion Act, 1982, for the purpose of implementing the Law
to Legalize Lotteries, Daily Numbers Games, and Bingo
and Raffles for Charitable Purposes in the District of Co-
lumbia (D.C. Law 3–172; D.C. Official Code, sec. 3–1301
et seq. and sec. 22–1716 et seq.), $242,755,000: Provided,
That the District of Columbia shall identify the source of
funding for this appropriation title from the District’s own
locally generated revenues: Provided further, That no reve-
nues from Federal sources shall be used to support the oper-
ations or activities of the Lottery and Charitable Games
Control Board.
SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION
For the Sports and Entertainment Commission,
$13,979,000 from local funds.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RETIREMENT BOARD
For the District of Columbia Retirement Board, estab-
lished pursuant to section 121 of the District of Columbia
Retirement Reform Act of 1979 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–
711), $13,895,000 from the earnings of the applicable retire-
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ment funds to pay legal, management, investment, and
other fees and administrative expenses of the District of Co-
lumbia Retirement Board: Provided, That the District of
Columbia Retirement Board shall provide to the Congress
and to the Council of the District of Columbia a quarterly
report of the allocations of charges by fund and of expendi-
tures of all funds: Provided further, That the District of
Columbia Retirement Board shall provide the Mayor, for
transmittal to the Council of the District of Columbia, an
itemized accounting of the planned use of appropriated
funds in time for each annual budget submission and the
actual use of such funds in time for each annual audited
financial report.
WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER ENTERPRISE FUND
For the Washington Convention Center Enterprise
Fund, $69,742,000 from other funds.
NATIONAL CAPITAL REVITALIZATION CORPORATION
For the National Capital Revitalization Corporation,
$7,849,000 from other funds.
CAPITAL OUTLAY
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
For 
construction 
projects, 
an 
increase 
of
$1,004,796,000, of which $601,708,000 shall be from local
funds, $46,014,000 from Highway Trust funds, $38,311,000
from the Rights-of-way funds, $218,880,000 from Federal
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funds, and a rescission of $99,884,000 from local funds ap-
propriated under this heading in prior fiscal years, for a
net amount of $904,913,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, in addition, $5,000,000 from funds previously ap-
propriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘Federal Payment
for Capital Development in the District of Columbia’’ and
$6,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in this Act
for the ‘‘Anacostia Waterfront Initiative’’: Provided, That
funds for use of each capital project implementing agency
shall be managed and controlled in accordance with all pro-
cedures and limitations established under the Financial
Management System: Provided further, That all funds pro-
vided by this appropriation title shall be available only for
the specific projects and purposes intended.
TITLE III GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. Whenever in this Act, an amount is specified
within an appropriation for particular purposes or objects
of expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise specified,
shall be considered as the maximum amount that may be
expended for said purpose or object rather than an amount
set apart exclusively therefor.
SEC. 302. Appropriations in this Act shall be available
for expenses of travel and for the payment of dues of organi-
zations concerned with the work of the District of Columbia
government, when authorized by the Mayor: Provided, That
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in the case of the Council of the District of Columbia, funds
may be expended with the authorization of the Chairman
of the Council.
SEC. 303. There are appropriated from the applicable
funds of the District of Columbia such sums as may be nec-
essary for making refunds and for the payment of legal set-
tlements or judgments that have been entered against the
District of Columbia government: Provided, That nothing
contained in this section shall be construed as modifying
or affecting the provisions of section 11(c)(3) of title XII
of the District of Columbia Income and Franchise Tax Act
of 1947 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 47–1812.11(c)(3)).
SEC. 304. 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. 305. No funds appropriated in this Act for the
District of Columbia government for the operation of edu-
cational institutions, the compensation of personnel, or for
other educational purposes may be used to permit, encour-
age, facilitate, or further partisan political activities. Noth-
ing herein is intended to prohibit the availability of school
buildings for the use of any community or partisan polit-
ical group during non-school hours.
SEC. 306. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
shall be made available to pay the salary of any employee
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of the District of Columbia government whose name, title,
grade, and salary are not available for inspection by the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and Senate, the Committee on Government Reform of
the House of Representatives, the Committee on Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate, and the Council of the District
of Columbia, or their duly authorized representative.
SEC. 307. None of the Federal funds provided in this
Act may be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or
implementation of any policy including boycott designed to
support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or any
State legislature.
SEC. 308. (a) None of the Federal funds provided in
this Act may be used to carry out lobbying activities on
any matter.
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to pro-
hibit any elected official from advocating with respect to
any issue.
SEC. 309. (a) None of the funds provided under this
Act to the agencies funded by this Act, both Federal and
District government agencies, that remain available for ob-
ligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2004, or provided
from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States
derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies
funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or ex-
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penditure for an agency through a reprogramming of funds
which—
(1) creates new programs;
(2) eliminates a program, project, or responsi-
bility 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 pre-
viously deferred through reprogramming;
(6) augments any existing program, project, or
responsibility center through a reprogramming of
funds in excess of $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever
is less; or
(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel as-
signed to a specific program, project or responsibility
center,
unless the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and Senate are notified in writing 30 days
in advance of the reprogramming.
(b) None of the local funds contained in this Act may
be available for obligation or expenditure for an agency
through a transfer of any local funds from one appropria-
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tion heading to another unless the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate are
notified in writing 30 days in advance of the transfer, ex-
cept that in no event may the amount of any funds trans-
ferred exceed 4 percent of the local funds in the appropria-
tion.
SEC. 310. 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. 311. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, the provisions of the District of Columbia Government
Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Law 2–
139; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–601.01 et seq.), enacted pur-
suant to section 422(3) of the District of Columbia Home
Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–204.22(3)), shall apply
with respect to the compensation of District of Columbia
employees: Provided, That for pay purposes, employees of
the District of Columbia government shall not be subject
to the provisions of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 312. No later than 30 days after the end of the
first quarter of fiscal year 2004, the Mayor of the District
of Columbia shall submit to the Council of the District of
Columbia and the Committees on Appropriations of the
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House of Representatives and Senate the new fiscal year
2004 revenue estimates as of the end of such quarter. These
estimates shall be used in the budget request for fiscal year
2005. The officially revised estimates at midyear shall be
used for the midyear report.
SEC. 313. No sole source contract with the District of
Columbia government or any agency thereof may be re-
newed or extended without opening that contract to the
competitive bidding process as set forth in section 303 of
the District of Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 1985
(D.C. Law 6–85; D.C. Official Code, sec. 2–303.03), except
that the District of Columbia government or any agency
thereof may renew or extend sole source contracts for which
competition is not feasible or practical, but only if the deter-
mination as to whether to invoke the competitive bidding
process has been made in accordance with duly promulgated
rules and procedures and has been reviewed and certified
by the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia.
SEC. 314. (a) In the event a sequestration order is
issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 after the amounts appropriated
to the District of Columbia for the fiscal year involved have
been paid to the District of Columbia, the Mayor of the Dis-
trict of Columbia shall pay to the Secretary of the Treasury,
within 15 days after receipt of a request therefor from the
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Secretary of the Treasury, such amounts as are sequestered
by the order: Provided, That the sequestration percentage
specified in the order shall be applied proportionately to
each of the Federal appropriation accounts in this Act that
are not specifically exempted from sequestration by such
Act.
(b) For purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the term ‘‘program,
project, and activity’’ shall be synonymous with and refer
specifically to each account appropriating Federal funds in
this Act, and any sequestration order shall be applied to
each of the accounts rather than to the aggregate total of
those accounts: Provided, That sequestration orders shall
not be applied to any account that is specifically exempted
from sequestration by the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 315. (a)(1) An entity of the District of Columbia
government may accept and use a gift or donation during
fiscal year 2004 if—
(A) the Mayor approves the acceptance and use
of the gift or donation (except as provided in para-
graph (2) of this subsection); and
(B) the entity uses the gift or donation to carry
out its authorized functions or duties.
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(2) The Council of the District of Columbia and the
District of Columbia courts may accept and use gifts with-
out prior approval by the Mayor.
(b) Each entity of the District of Columbia government
shall keep accurate and detailed records of the acceptance
and use of any gift or donation under subsection (a), and
shall make such records available for audit and public in-
spection.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term ‘‘entity
of the District of Columbia government’’ includes an inde-
pendent agency of the District of Columbia.
(d) This section shall not apply to the District of Co-
lumbia Board of Education, which may, pursuant to the
laws and regulations of the District of Columbia, accept
and use gifts to the public schools without prior approval
by the Mayor.
SEC. 316. None of the Federal funds provided in this
Act may be used by the District of Columbia to provide
for salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the of-
fices of United States Senator or United States Representa-
tive under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia State-
hood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 (D.C.
Law 3–171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–123).
SEC. 317. None of the funds appropriated under this
Act shall be expended for any abortion except where the life
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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. 318. 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 im-
plement or enforce any system of registration of unmarried,
cohabiting couples, 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. 319. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Finan-
cial Officer of the District of Columbia may accept, obligate,
and expend Federal, private, and other grants received by
the District government that are not reflected in the
amounts appropriated in this Act.
(b) No such Federal, private, or other grant may be
accepted, obligated, or expended pursuant to subsection (a)
until—
(1) the Chief Financial Officer of the District of
Columbia submits to the Council a report setting
forth detailed information regarding such grant; and
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(2) the Council within 15 calendar days after re-
ceipt of the report submitted under paragraph (1) has
reviewed and approved the acceptance, obligation,
and expenditure of such grant.
(c) No amount may be obligated or expended from the
general fund or other funds of the District of Columbia gov-
ernment in anticipation of the approval or receipt of a
grant under subsection (b)(2) or in anticipation of the ap-
proval or receipt of a Federal, private, or other grant not
subject to such subsection.
(d) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Co-
lumbia shall prepare a quarterly report setting forth de-
tailed information regarding all Federal, private, and other
grants subject to this section. Each such report shall be sub-
mitted to the Council of the District of Columbia and to
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and Senate not later than 15 days after the
end of the quarter covered by the report.
SEC. 320. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, none of the funds made available by this Act or by
any other Act may be used to provide any officer or em-
ployee 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 paragraph, the term ‘‘official duties’’ does
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not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s resi-
dence and workplace, except in the case of—
(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan
Police Department who resides in the District of Co-
lumbia 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 Services Department who resides
in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 hours
a day;
(3) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and
(4) the Chairman of the Council of the District
of Columbia.
(b) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Co-
lumbia shall submit by March 1, 2004 an inventory, as of
September 30, 2003, of all vehicles owned, leased or operated
by the District of Columbia government. The inventory
shall include, 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
vehicle; 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 officer or
employee’s title and resident location.
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SEC. 321. No officer or employee of the District of Co-
lumbia government (including any independent agency of
the District of Columbia, but excluding the Office of the
Chief Technology Officer, the Office of the Chief Financial
Officer of the District of Columbia, and the Metropolitan
Police Department) may enter into an agreement in excess
of $2,500 for the procurement of goods or services on behalf
of any entity of the District government until the officer
or employee has conducted an analysis of how the procure-
ment 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 appli-
cable regulations and procedures of the General Services Ad-
ministration, including an analysis of any differences in
the costs to be incurred and the time required to obtain the
goods or services.
SEC. 322. None of the funds contained in this Act may
be used for purposes of the annual independent audit of
the District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2004
unless—
(1) the audit is conducted by the Inspector Gen-
eral of the District of Columbia, in coordination with
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Colum-
bia, pursuant to section 208(a)(4) of the District of
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Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 1985 (D.C.
Official Code, sec. 2–302.8); and
(2) the audit includes as a basic financial state-
ment a comparison of audited actual year-end results
with the revenues submitted in the budget document
for such year and the appropriations enacted into law
for such year using the format, terminology, and clas-
sifications contained in the law making the appro-
priations for the year and its legislative history.
SEC. 323. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act
may be used by the District of Columbia Corporation Coun-
sel 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 rep-
resentation in Congress for the District of Columbia.
(b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Colum-
bia Corporation Counsel from reviewing or commenting on
briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials
of the District government regarding such lawsuits.
SEC. 324. (a) 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 ille-
gal drug.
(b) Any individual or entity who receives any funds
contained in this Act and who carries out any program
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described in subsection (a) shall account for all funds used
for such program separately from any funds contained in
this Act.
SEC. 325. None of the funds contained in this Act may
be used after the expiration of the 60-day period that begins
on the date of the enactment of this Act to pay the salary
of any chief financial officer of any office of the District
of Columbia government (including any independent agen-
cy of the District of Columbia) who has not filed a certifi-
cation with the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer of
the District of Columbia that the officer understands the
duties and restrictions applicable to the officer and the offi-
cer’s agency as a result of this Act (and the amendments
made by this Act), including any duty to prepare a report
requested either in the Act or in any of the reports accom-
panying the Act and the deadline by which each report
must be submitted. The Chief Financial Officer of the Dis-
trict of Columbia shall provide to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate by
the 10th day after the end of each quarter a summary list
showing each report, the due date, and the date submitted
to the Committees.
SEC. 326. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act
may be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regula-
tion to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with
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the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I sub-
stance 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 Novem-
ber 3, 1998, shall not take effect.
SEC. 327. Nothing in this Act may be construed to pre-
vent the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from
addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive cov-
erage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent of Con-
gress that any legislation enacted on such issue should in-
clude a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which provides exceptions for
religious beliefs and moral convictions.
SEC. 328. (a) If the Superior Court of the District of
Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals does
not make a payment described in subsection (b) prior to
the expiration of the 45-day period which begins on the date
the Court receives a completed voucher for a claim for the
payment, interest shall be assessed against the amount of
the payment which would otherwise be made to take into
account the period which begins on the day after the expira-
tion of such 45-day period and which ends on the day the
Court makes the payment.
(b) A payment described in this subsection is—
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(1) a payment authorized under section 11–2604
and section 11–2605, D.C. Official Code (relating to
representation provided under the District of Colum-
bia Criminal Justice Act);
(2) a payment for counsel appointed in pro-
ceedings in the Family Court of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia under chapter 23 of title
16, D.C. Official Code; or
(3) a payment for counsel authorized under sec-
tion 21–2060, D.C. Official Code (relating to rep-
resentation provided under the District of Columbia
Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Durable
Power of Attorney Act of 1986).
(c) The chief judges of the Superior Court of the Dis-
trict of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals shall establish standards and criteria for deter-
mining whether vouchers submitted for claims for payments
described in subsection (b) are complete, and shall publish
and make such standards and criteria available to attor-
neys who practice before such Courts.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require
the assessment of interest against any claim (or portion of
any claim) which is denied by the Court involved.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to claims re-
ceived by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
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or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals during fiscal
year 2003 and any subsequent fiscal year.
SEC. 329. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and Senate, the Committee on Govern-
ment Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate quarterly re-
ports addressing the following issues—
(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;
(3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent
offenders, including the number of halfway house es-
capes and steps taken to improve monitoring and su-
pervision 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;
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(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. 330. No later than 30 calendar days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Offi-
cer of the District of Columbia shall submit to the appro-
priate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council
of the District of Columbia a revised appropriated funds
operating budget in the format of the budget that the Dis-
trict of Columbia government submitted pursuant to section
442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Offi-
cial Code, sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the District of
Columbia government for fiscal year 2004 that is in the
total amount of the approved appropriation and that re-
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aligns all budgeted data for personal services and other-
than-personal-services, respectively, with anticipated actual
expenditures.
SEC. 331. None of the funds contained in this Act may
be used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the
District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relat-
ing to docket numbers 93–030–(PA) and 93–031–(PA).
SEC. 332. None of the Federal funds made available
in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency,
or instrumentality of the United States Government, except
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.
SEC. 333. In addition to any other authority to pay
claims and judgments, any department, agency, or instru-
mentality of the District government may pay the settle-
ment or judgment of a claim or lawsuit in an amount less
than $10,000, in accordance with the Risk Management for
Settlements and Judgments Amendment Act of 2000 (D.C.
Law 13–172; D.C. Official Code, sec. 2–402).
SEC. 334. All funds from the Crime Victims Com-
pensation Fund, established pursuant to section 16 of the
Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act of 1996 (D.C.
Law 11–243; D.C. Official Code, sec. 4–514) (‘‘Compensa-
tion Act’’), that are designated for outreach activities pur-
suant to section 16(d)(2) of the Compensation Act shall be