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SEC. 815. 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 agency of the District of Columbia) 
who has not filed a certification with the Mayor and the Chief 
Financial Officer of the District of Columbia that the officer under-
stands the duties and restrictions applicable to the officer and 
the officer’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 accompanying the Act 
and the deadline by which each report must be submitted: Provided, 
That the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and Senate by April 1, 2008 and October 1, 2008, 
a summary list showing each report, the due date, and the date 
submitted to the Committees. 
SEC. 816. Nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent 
the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing 
the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insur-
ance plans, but it is the intent of Congress that any legislation 
enacted on such issue should include a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which 
provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. 
SEC. 817. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and Senate, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate annual 
reports addressing— 
(1) crime, including the homicide rate, implementation of 
community policing, the number of police officers on local beats, 
and the closing down of open-air drug markets; 
(2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment, 
including the number of treatment slots, the number of people 
served, the number of people on waiting lists, and the effective-
ness of treatment programs; 
(3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders, 
including the number of halfway houses escapes and steps 
taken to improve monitoring and supervision 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; 
(4) education, including access to special education services 
and student achievement to be provided in consultation with 
the District of Columbia Public Schools and the District of 
Columbia public charter schools; 
(5) improvement in basic District services, including 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. 818. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia shall submit to the appropriate committees
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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 District of Columbia government submitted 
pursuant to section 442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the District 
of Columbia government for fiscal year 2008 that is in the total 
amount of the approved appropriation and that realigns all budg-
eted data for personal services and other-than-personal-services, 
respectively, with anticipated actual expenditures. 
(b) This section shall apply only to an agency where the Chief 
Financial Officer of the District of Columbia certifies that a realloca-
tion is required to address unanticipated changes in program 
requirements. 
SEC. 819. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be made available to pay— 
(1) the fees of an attorney who represents a party in 
an action or an attorney who defends an action brought against 
the District of Columbia Public Schools under the Individuals 
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) in 
excess of $4,000 for that action; or 
(2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the Chief Financial 
Officer of the District of Columbia determines to have a pecu-
niary interest, either through an attorney, officer, or employee 
of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, 
or other special education service providers. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘action’’ includes an administrative 
proceeding and any ensuing or related proceedings before a court 
of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 820. The amount appropriated by this title may be 
increased by no more than $100,000,000 from funds identified in 
the comprehensive annual financial report as the District’s fiscal 
year 2007 unexpended general fund surplus. The District may obli-
gate and expend these amounts only in accordance with the fol-
lowing 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 on the District’s long-term financial, 
fiscal, and economic 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 shortfalls. 
(3) The amounts shall be obligated and expended in accord-
ance with laws enacted by the Council in support of each 
such obligation or expenditure. 
(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 expended unless 
the Mayor notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and Senate not fewer than 30 days 
in advance of the obligation or expenditure.
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SEC. 821. (a) To account for an unanticipated growth of revenue 
collections, the amount appropriated as District of Columbia Funds 
pursuant to this Act may be increased— 
(1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 25 percent, 
in the case of amounts proposed to be allocated as ‘‘Other- 
Type Funds’’ in the Fiscal Year 2008 Proposed Budget and 
Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District of 
Columbia; and 
(2) by an aggregate amount of not more than 6 percent, 
in the case of any other amounts proposed to be allocated 
in such Proposed Budget and Financial Plan. 
(b) The District of Columbia may obligate and expend any 
increase in the amount of funds authorized under this section 
only in accordance with the following conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
shall certify— 
(A) the increase in revenue; and 
(B) that the use of the amounts is not anticipated 
to have a negative impact on the long-term financial, fiscal, 
or economic health of the District. 
(2) The amounts shall be obligated and expended in accord-
ance with laws enacted by the Council of the District of 
Columbia in support of each such obligation and expenditure, 
consistent with the requirements of this Act. 
(3) The amounts may not be used to fund any agencies 
of the District government operating under court-ordered 
receivership. 
(4) The amounts may not be obligated or expended unless 
the Mayor has notified the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and Senate not fewer than 30 
days in advance of the obligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 822. The Chief Financial Officer for the District of 
Columbia may, for the purpose of cash flow management, conduct 
short-term borrowing from the emergency reserve fund and from 
the contingency reserve fund established under section 450A of 
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law 98–198): 
Provided, That the amount borrowed shall not exceed 50 percent 
of the total amount of funds contained in both the emergency 
and contingency reserve funds at the time of borrowing: Provided 
further, That the borrowing shall not deplete either fund by more 
than 50 percent: Provided further, That 100 percent of the funds 
borrowed shall be replenished within 9 months of the time of 
the borrowing or by the end of the fiscal year, whichever occurs 
earlier: Provided further, That in the event that short-term bor-
rowing has been conducted and the emergency or the contingency 
funds are later depleted below 50 percent as a result of an emer-
gency or contingency, an amount equal to the amount necessary 
to restore reserve levels to 50 percent of the total amount of funds 
contained in both the emergency and contingency reserve fund 
must be replenished from the amount borrowed within 60 days. 
SEC. 823. (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 associated with the possession, use, 
or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols 
derivative.
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(b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initia-
tive of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors 
of the District of Columbia on November 3, 1998, shall not take 
effect. 
SEC. 824. None of the funds appropriated under this Act shall 
be expended for any abortion except where the life 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. 825. (a) DIRECT APPROPRIATION.—Section 307(a) of the 
District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act 
of 1970 (sec. 2–1607(a), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking 
the first 2 sentences and inserting the following: ‘‘There are author-
ized to be appropriated to the Service in each fiscal year such 
funds as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 11233 of the Balanced 
Budget Act of 1997 (sec. 24–133, D.C. Official Code) is amended 
by striking subsection (f). 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section 
shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2008 and each succeeding 
fiscal year. 
SEC. 826. Amounts appropriated in this Act as operating funds 
may be transferred to the District of Columbia’s enterprise and 
capital funds and such amounts, once transferred shall retain appro-
priation authority consistent with the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 827. In fiscal year 2008 and thereafter, amounts deposited 
in the Student Enrollment Fund shall be available for expenditure 
upon deposit and shall remain available until expended consistent 
with the terms detailed in ‘‘The Student Funding Formula Assess-
ment, Educational Data Warehouse, and Enrollment Fund 
Establishment Amendment Act of 2007’’ (title IV–D of D.C. Law 
L17–0020) and the entire provisions of that Act are incorporated 
herein by reference. 
SEC. 828. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference 
to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this title or in title IV shall be treated 
as referring only to the provisions of this title or of title IV. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Services and Gen-
eral Government Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
DIVISION E—DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY AND EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Home-
land Security, as authorized by section 102 of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 112), and executive management of 
the Department of Homeland Security, as authorized by law, 
$97,353,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 shall be for 
official reception and representation expenses: Provided further, 
That $15,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until the 
Secretary (1) certifies and reports to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives that the