to carry out any powers and functions relating to
sex offender registration that are granted to the
Agency or to the Trustee under any District of Co-
lumbia law.
SEC. 167. (a) None of the funds contained in this
Act may be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or
regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associ-
ated with the possession, use, or distribution of any sched-
ule I substance 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 No-
vember 3, 1998, shall not take effect.
SEC. 168. (a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby trans-
ferred from the District of Columbia Financial Responsi-
bility and Management Assistance Authority (hereinafter
referred to as the ‘‘Authority’’) to the District of Columbia
the sum of $5,000,000 for the Mayor, in consultation with
the Council of the District of Columbia, to provide offsets
against local taxes for a commercial revitalization pro-
gram, such program to be available in enterprise zones
and low and moderate income areas in the District of Co-
lumbia: Provided, That in carrying out such a program,
the Mayor shall use Federal commercial revitalization pro-
posals introduced in Congress as a guideline.
(b) SOURCE OF FUNDS.—The amount transferred
under subsection (a) shall be derived from interest earned
on accounts held by the Authority on behalf of the District
of Columbia.
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Mayor shall report to the
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House
of Representatives on the progress made in carrying out
the commercial revitalization program.
SEC. 169. SECTION 456 OF THE DISTRICT OF CO-
LUMBIA HOME RULE ACT (SECTION 47–231 ET SEQ. OF
THE D.C. CODE, AS ADDED BY THE FEDERAL PAYMENT
REAUTHORIZATION ACT
OF 1994 (PUBLIC LAW 103–
373)) IS AMENDED—
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘District of
Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management
Assistance Authority’’ and inserting ‘‘Mayor’’; and
(2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘Author-
ity’’ and inserting ‘‘Mayor’’.
SEC. 170. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the
following:
(1) The District of Columbia has recently wit-
nessed a spate of senseless killings of innocent citi-
zens caught in the crossfire of shootings. A Justice
Department crime victimization survey found that
while the city saw a decline in the homicide rate be-
tween 1996 and 1997, the rate was the highest
among a dozen cities and more than double the sec-
ond highest city.
(2) The District of Columbia has not made ade-
quate funding available to fight drug abuse in recent
years, and the city has not deployed its resources as
effectively 
as 
possible. 
In 
fiscal 
year 
1998,
$20,900,000 was spent on publicly funded drug
treatment in the District compared to $29,000,000
in fiscal year 1993. The District’s Addiction and
Prevention and Recovery Agency currently has only
2,200 treatment slots, a 50 percent drop from 1994,
with more than 1,100 people on waiting lists.
(3) The District of Columbia has seen a rash
of inmate escapes from halfway houses. According to
Department of Corrections records, between October
21, 1998 and January 19, 1999, 376 of the 1,125
inmates assigned to halfway houses walked away.
Nearly 280 of the 376 escapees were awaiting trial
including 2 charged with murder.
(4) The District of Columbia public schools sys-
tem faces serious challenges in correcting chronic
problems, particularly long-standing deficiencies in
providing special education services to the 1 in 10
District students needing program benefits, includ-
ing backlogged assessments, and repeated failure to
meet a compliance agreement on special education
reached with the Department of Education.
(5) Deficiencies in the delivery of basic public
services from cleaning streets to waiting time at De-
partment of Motor Vehicles to a rat population esti-
mated earlier this year to exceed the human popu-
lation have generated considerable public frustration.
(6) Last year, the District of Columbia forfeited
millions of dollars in Federal grants after Federal
auditors determined that several agencies exceeded
grant restrictions and in other instances, failed to
spend funds before the grants expired.
(7) Findings of a 1999 report by the Annie E.
Casey Foundation that measured the well-being of
children reflected that, with 1 exception, the District
ranked worst in the United States in every category
from infant mortality to the rate of teenage births
to statistics chronicling child poverty.
(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of
the Congress that in considering the District of Colum-
bia’s fiscal year 2001 budget, the Congress will take into
consideration progress or lack of progress in 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 drug abuse treatment, including
the number of treatment slots, the number of people
served, the number of people on waiting lists, and
the effectiveness of treatment programs.
(3) Management of parolees and pretrial 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.
(4) Education, including access to special edu-
cation services and student achievement.
(5) Improvement in basic city services, includ-
ing rat control and abatement.
(6) Application for and management of Federal
grants.
(7) Indicators of child well-being.
SEC. 171. The Mayor, prior to using Federal Med-
icaid payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals to
serve a small number of childless adults, should consider