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(2) to pay the fees of an attorney or firm who 
represents a party in or defends an IDEA pro-
ceeding if the Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia determines that the attorney or firm 
has a pecuniary interest (either directly or through 
an attorney, officer, or employee of the firm) in any 
special education diagnostic services or schools or 
other special education service providers. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘IDEA proceeding’’ 
means any action or administrative proceeding (including 
any ensuing or related proceedings before a court of com-
petent jurisdiction) brought against the District of Colum-
bia Public Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.). 
SEC. 815. The Mayor of the District of Columbia 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate annual re-
ports addressing— 
(1) crime, including the homicide rate, imple-
mentation of community policing, the number of po-
lice officers on local beats, and the closing down of 
open-air drug markets; 
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(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, the retention rates in treatment programs, 
and the recidivism/re-arrest rates for treatment par-
ticipants; 
(3) management of parolees and pre-trial vio-
lent offenders, including the number of halfway 
houses escapes and steps taken to improve moni-
toring and supervision of halfway house residents to 
reduce the number of escapes to be provided in con-
sultation with the Court Services and Offender Su-
pervision Agency for the District of Columbia; 
(4) education, including access to special edu-
cation services and student achievement to be pro-
vided in consultation with the District of Columbia 
Public Schools and the District of Columbia public 
charter schools, repeated grade rates, high school 
graduation rates, post-secondary education attend-
ance rates, and teen pregnancy rates; 
(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 
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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; 
(7) indicators of child and family well-being in-
cluding child living arrangements by family struc-
ture, number of children aging out of foster care, 
poverty rates by family structure, crime by family 
structure, marriage rates by income quintile, and 
out-of-wedlock births; and 
(8) employment, including job status and par-
ticipation in assistance programs by income, edu-
cation and family structure. 
SEC. 816. Beginning in fiscal year 2009 and each fis-
cal year thereafter, the amount appropriated to the Dis-
trict of Columbia may be increased by no more than 
$100,000,000 from funds identified in the annual com-
prehensive annual financial report as the District’s imme-
diately preceding fiscal year’s unexpended general fund 
surplus. The District may obligate and expend these 
amounts only in accordance with the following conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia shall certify that the use of any such 
amounts is not anticipated to have a negative impact 
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on the District’s long-term financial, fiscal, and eco-
nomic vitality. 
(2) The District of Columbia may only use 
these funds for the following expenditures: 
(A) One-time expenditures. 
(B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending. 
(C) Debt Reduction. 
(D) Program needs. 
(E) Expenditures to avoid revenue short-
falls. 
(3) The amounts shall be obligated and ex-
pended in accordance with laws enacted by the 
Council in support of each such obligation or ex-
penditure. 
(4) The amounts may not be used to fund the 
agencies of the District of Columbia government 
under court ordered receivership. 
(5) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor notifies the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the 
obligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 817. (a) Beginning in fiscal year 2009 and each 
fiscal year thereafter, consistent with revenue collections, 
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