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SEC. 938. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds appropriated or made available 
under this Act or any other appropriations Act may be 
used to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on 
the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to 
implement the proposed regulations of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management to add sections 300.311 through 
300.316 to part 300 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, published in the Federal Register, volume 68, 
number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the detail 
of executive branch employees to the legislative branch). 
SEC. 939. Each Executive department and agency 
shall evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before 
issuing the individual a government travel charge card. 
The department or agency may not issue a government 
travel charge card to an individual that either lacks a cred-
it history or is found to have an unsatisfactory credit his-
tory as a result of this evaluation: Provided, That this re-
striction shall not preclude issuance of a restricted-use 
charge, debit, or stored value card made in accordance 
with agency procedures to: (1) an individual with an un-
satisfactory credit history where such card is used to pay 
travel expenses and the agency determines there is no suit-
able alternative payment mechanism available before 
issuing the card; or (2) an individual who lacks a credit
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history. Each Executive department and agency shall es-
tablish guidelines and procedures for disciplinary actions 
to be taken against agency personnel for improper, fraud-
ulent, or abusive use of government charge cards, which 
shall include appropriate disciplinary actions for use of 
charge cards for purposes, and at establishments, that are 
inconsistent with the official business of the Department 
or agency or with applicable standards of conduct. 
SEC. 940. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, 
and/or lease any additional facilities, except within or con-
tiguous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose 
of conducting Federal law enforcement training without 
advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations, 
except that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 
is authorized to obtain the temporary use of additional fa-
cilities by lease, contract, or other agreement for training 
which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facili-
ties. 
SEC. 941. From funds made available in this or any 
other Act under the headings ‘‘The White House’’, ‘‘Spe-
cial Assistance to the President and the Official Residence 
of Residence of the Vice President’’, ‘‘Council on Environ-
mental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality’’, 
‘‘Office of Science and Technology Policy’’, and ‘‘Office
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of the United States Trade Representative’’, the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget (or such other 
officer as the President may designate in writing) may, 
15 days after giving notice to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives, 
transfer not to exceed 10 percent of any such appropria-
tion to any other such appropriation, to be merged with 
and available for the same time and for the same purposes 
as the appropriation to which transferred: Provided, That 
the amount of an appropriation shall not be increased by 
more than 50 percent by such transfers: Provided further, 
That no amount shall be transferred from the heading 
‘‘Special Assistance to the President and the Official Resi-
dence of the Vice President’’ without approval of the Vice 
President. 
SEC. 942. Section 4(b) of the Federal Activities In-
ventory Reform Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–270) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(5) Executive agencies with fewer than 100 
full-time employees as of the first day of the fiscal 
year. However, such an agency shall be subject to 
section 2 to the extent it plans to conduct a public-
private competition for the performance of an activ-
ity that is not inherently governmental.’’.
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SEC. 943. (a) No funds shall be available for trans-
fers or reimbursements to the E-Government Initiatives 
sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) prior to 15 days following submission of a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations by the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget or receipt of ap-
proval to transfer funds by the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
(b) The report in (a) shall detail: 
(1) the amount proposed for transfer for any 
department and agency by program office, bureau, 
or activity, as appropriate; 
(2) the specific use of funds; 
(3) the relevance of that use to that department 
or agency and each bureau or office within, which is 
contributing funds; and 
(4) a description on any such activities for 
which funds were appropriated that will not be im-
plemented or partially implemented by the depart-
ment or agency as a result of the transfer. 
SEC. 944. (a) The adjustment in rates of basic pay 
for employees under the statutory pay systems that takes 
effect in fiscal year 2006 under sections 5303 and 5304 
of title 5, United States Code, shall be an increase of 3.1 
percent, and this adjustment shall apply to civilian em-
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ployees in the Department of Defense and the Department 
of Homeland Security and such adjustments shall be effec-
tive as of the first day of the first applicable pay period 
beginning on or after January 1, 2006. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 913 of this Act, the ad-
justment in rates of basic pay for the statutory pay sys-
tems that take place in fiscal year 2006 under sections 
5344 and 5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
no less than the percentage in paragraph (a) as employees 
in the same location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted 
pursuant to the statutory pay systems under section 5303 
and 5304 of title 5, United States Code. Prevailing rate 
employees at locations where there are no employees whose 
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 of 
title 5 and prevailing rate employees described in section 
5343(a)(5) of title 5 shall be considered to be located in 
the pay locality designated as ‘‘Rest of US’’ pursuant to 
section 5304 of title 5 for purposes of this paragraph. 
(c) Funds used to carry out this section shall be paid 
from appropriations, which are made to each applicable 
department or agency for salaries and expenses for fiscal 
year 2006. 
SEC. 945. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 604(d) of the 
Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681b(d)) is 
amended to read as follows:
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‘‘(d) LIMITATION ON USE OF CONSUMER REPORT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A credit card issuer may 
not use any negative information contained in a con-
sumer report to increase any annual percentage rate 
applicable to a credit card account, or to remove or 
increase any introductory annual percentage rate of 
interest applicable to such account, for any reason 
other than an action or omission of the card holder 
that is directly related to such account. 
‘‘(2) NOTICE
TO
CONSUMER.—The limitation 
under paragraph (1) on the use by a credit card 
issuer of information in a consumer report shall be 
clearly and conspicuously described to the consumer 
by the credit card issuer in any disclosure or state-
ment required to be made to the consumer under 
this title.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
Section 604(a)(3)(F)(ii) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act 
(15 U.S.C. 1681b(a)(3)(F)(ii)) is amended by inserting 
‘‘subject to subsection (d),’’ before ‘‘to review’’. 
SEC. 946. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this Act or any other 
Act may be used by an executive branch agency to produce 
any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or dis-
tribution in the United States, unless the story includes
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a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was 
prepared or funded by that executive branch agency. 
SEC. 947. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to administer, implement, or enforce the 
amendment made to section 515.533 of title 31, Code of 
Federal Regulations, that was published in the Federal 
Register on February 25, 2005. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Treas-
ury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the 
District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2006’’.
Union Calendar No. 93
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3058
[Report No. 109–153] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and 
Urban Development, the Judiciary, District of 
Columbia, and independent agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2006, and for other 
purposes. 
JUNE 24, 2005
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed