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(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon
at the end;
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking out ‘‘; and’’ and inserting
in lieu thereof a period; and
(4) by striking out paragraph (3).
(b) The first undesignated paragraph of section 1708 of title
44, United States Code, is amended by striking out the third sen-
tence.
(c) The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall
take effect on October 1, 1993.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office,
including not to exceed $7,000 to be expended on the certification
of the Comptroller General of the United States in connection
with official representation and reception expenses; services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to
exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for level IV of
the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5315); hire of one passenger
motor vehicle; advance payments in foreign countries in accordance
with 31 U.S.C. 3324; benefits comparable to those payable under
sections 901(5), 901(6) and 901(8) of the Foreign Service Act of
1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), 4081(6) and 4081(8)); and under regula-
tions prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States,
rental of living quarters in foreign countries and travel benefits
comparable with those which are now or hereafter may be granted
single employees of the Agency for International Development,
including single Foreign Service personnel assigned to AID projects,
by the Administrator of the Agency for International Development—
or his designee—under the authority of section 636(b) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2396(b)); $430,815,000: Provided,
That not more than $1,600,000 of reimbursements received incident
to the operation of the General Accounting Office Building shall
be available for use in fiscal year 1994: Provided further, That
this appropriation and appropriations for administrative expenses
of any other department or agency which is a member of the
Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) shall
be available to finance an appropriate share of JFMIP costs as
determined by the JFMIP, including the salary of the Executive
Director and secretarial support: Provided further, That this appro-
priation and appropriations for administrative expenses of any other
department or agency which is a member of the National Intergov-
ernmental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit
Forum shall be available to finance an appropriate share of Forum
costs as determined by the Forum, including necessary travel
expenses of non-Federal participants. Payments hereunder to either
the Forum or the JFMIP may be credited as reimbursements to
any appropriation from which costs involved are initially financed:
Provided further, That to the extent that funds are otherwise avail-
able for obligation, agreements or contracts for the removal of
asbestos, and renovation of the building and building systems
(including the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system,
electrical system and other major building systems) of the General
Accounting Office Building may be made for periods not exceeding
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five years: Provided further, That this appropriation and appropria-
tions for administrative expenses of any other department or agency
which is a member of the American Consortium on International
Public Administration (ACIPA) shall be available to finance an
appropriate share of ACIPA costs as determined by the ACIPA,
including any expenses attributable to membership of ACIPA in
the International Institute of Administrative Sciences: Provided
further, That of the amount provided under this heading, not to
exceed $500,000 shall be available for a broadbased organizational
performance review of the General Accounting Office, focused on
agency structure, skills, staffing, systems, and its execution of its
statutory and assigned responsibilities.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall
be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles, except
for emergency assistance and cleaning as may be provided under
regulations relating to parking facilities for the House of Represent-
atives issued by the Committee on House Administration and for
the Senate issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. 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. 303. Whenever any office or position not specifically estab-
lished by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein
or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position
appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established
for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the
designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided
herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided,
That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses
of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House
of Representatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of
the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law with
respect thereto.
SEC. 304. The expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to exist-
ing law.
SEC. 305. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and
subject to approval by the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations
of the Senate, amounts may be transferred from the appropriation
‘‘Library of Congress, Salaries and expenses’’ to the appropriation
‘‘Architect of the Capitol, Library buildings and grounds, Structural
and mechanical care’’ for the purpose of purchase, rental, lease,
or other agreement, of storage and warehouse space for use by
the Library of Congress during fiscal year 1994, and to incur
incidental expenses in connection with such use.
SEC. 306. (a) The General Accounting Office, the Government
Printing Office, or the Library of Congress may for such employees
as it deems appropriate authorize a payment to employees who
voluntarily separate before January 1, 1994, whether by retirement
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or resignation, which payment shall be paid in accordance with
the provisions of section 5597(d) of title 5, United States Code.
(b) The number of employee positions authorized for the Gen-
eral Accounting Office, the Government Printing Office, or the
Library of Congress, as the case may be, shall be reduced by
one position for each vacancy created by reason of a separation
under subsection (a). No funds appropriated by this Act for salaries
or expenses of any position that is eliminated under the preceding
sentence may be used for any other purpose.
SEC. 307. (a) The number of employee positions, on a full-
time equivalent basis, for each covered entity shall be reduced
by at least 4 percent from the level, other than those supported
by gift and trust funds, as of September 30, 1992, or, with the
approval of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate,
as of a later date, but not later than September 30, 1993. At
least 10 percent of the positions eliminated shall be positions the
pay for which is equal to or greater than the annual rate of basic
pay payable for grade GS–14 of the General Schedule.
(b) The reduction required by subsection (a) shall be completed
not later than September 30, 1995, with at least 62.5 percent
of the reduction for each covered entity to be achieved by September
30, 1994.
(c) The Comptroller General shall carry out compliance report-
ing under this section.
(d) As used in this section—
(1) the term ‘‘covered entity’’ means an entity of the legisla-
tive branch with more than 100 employee positions, on a full-
time equivalent basis, as of September 30, 1992; and
(2) the term ‘‘entity of the legislative branch’’ means the
House of Representatives, the Senate, the Office of the Architect
of the Capitol (including the Botanic Garden), the Capitol
Police, the Congressional Budget Office, the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal, the General Accounting Office, the Government Print-
ing Office, the Library of Congress, and the Office of Technology
Assessment.
SEC. 308. (a) For fiscal years 1995, 1996, and 1997, the submis-
sions in support of the amounts included in the Budget for each
entity of the legislative branch shall set forth a separate category
for administrative expenses. For fiscal years 1993 and 1994, the
administrative expenses for each entity of the legislative branch
shall be calculated and submitted in a separate category in the
same format as if submitted in support of amounts included in
the Budget.
(b) For fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, the submissions
under subsection (a) in the separate category for administrative
expenses for each entity of the legislative branch shall include
reductions from the amount calculated for administrative expenses
for fiscal year 1993, adjusted for inflation, as follows:
(1) Fiscal year 1994, reduction of not less than 3 percent.
(2) Fiscal year 1995, reduction of not less than 6 percent.
(3) Fiscal year 1996, reduction of not less than 9 percent.
(4) Fiscal year 1997, reduction of not less than 14 percent.
(c) The Comptroller General shall carry out compliance report-
ing under this section.
(d) As used in this section—
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(1) the term ‘‘administrative expenses’’ means expenses
of contractual services and supplies, other than rental pay-
ments, programmatic mission-essential expenses, reimbursable
expenses, and expenses required by law;
(2) the term ‘‘Budget’’ means the Budget of the United
States Government, submitted under section 1105 of title 31,
United States Code; and
(3) the term ‘‘entity of the legislative branch’’ means the
House of Representatives, the Senate, the Office of the Architect
of the Capitol (including the Botanic Garden), the Capitol
Police, the Congressional Budget Office, the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal, the General Accounting Office, the Government Print-
ing Office, the Library of Congress, and the Office of Technology
Assessment.
RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR CERTAIN PRIOR SERVICE WITH THE HOUSE
CHILD CARE CENTER
SEC. 309. (a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘House Child Care Center’’ means the House
of Representatives Child Care Center; and
(2) the term ‘‘Congressional employee’’ has the meaning
given such term—
(A) in subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United
States Code, to the extent that this section relates to the
Civil Service Retirement System; or
(B) in chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to
the extent that this section relates to the Federal Employ-
ees’ Retirement System.
(b) CSRS.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any individual who
is an employee of the House Child Care Center on the date of
enactment of this Act shall be allowed credit under subchapter
III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, as a Congressional
employee, for any service if—
(A) such service was performed before October 1, 1991,
as an employee of the House Child Care Center (as constituted
before that date); and
(B) the employee is subject to subchapter III of chapter
83 of such title as of the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) Credit for service described in paragraph (1)(A) shall not
be allowed under this section unless there is paid into the Civil
Service Retirement and Disability Fund, by or on behalf of the
employee involved, an amount equal to the deductions from pay
which would have been applicable under section 8334(c) of title
5, United States Code, for the period of service involved, if such
employee were then a Congressional employee, including interest.
Retirement credit may not be allowed under this section for any
such service unless the full amount of the deposit required under
the preceding sentence has been paid.
(c) FERS.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any individual who
is an employee of the House Child Care Center on the date of
enactment of this Act shall be allowed credit under chapter 84
of title 5, United States Code, as a Congressional employee, for
any service if—
(A) such service was performed before October 1, 1991,
as an employee of the House Child Care Center (as constituted
before that date); and
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