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fund of at least the minimum contingency reserve balance
for such fiscal year, as determined under paragraph (2)).’’;
and
(2) by striking subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) and
inserting the following:
‘‘(B) APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE DEFINED.—In subpara-
graph (A), the ‘applicable percentage’ with respect to a
fiscal year means the following:
‘‘(i) For fiscal year 2002, 0 percent.
‘‘(ii) For fiscal year 2003, 0 percent.
‘‘(iii) For fiscal year 2004, 0 percent.
‘‘(iv) For fiscal year 2005, 1 percent.
‘‘(v) For fiscal year 2006, 2 percent.’’.
SEC. 134. INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAM. No funds appropriated
by this Act shall be available for an Integrated Product Team
until reorganization plans for the Integrated Product Team and
a Capital Construction Services Administration have been approved,
or deemed approved, by the Council: Provided, That this paragraph
shall not apply to funds appropriated for the Office of Contracting
and Procurement.
SEC. 135. 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 of Congress,
the Mayor, and the Council 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 (Public Law 93–198; D.C. Official Code,
sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the District of Columbia govern-
ment for such fiscal year that is in the total amount of the approved
appropriation and that realigns all budgeted data for personal serv-
ices and other-than-personal-services, respectively, with anticipated
actual expenditures.
SEC. 136. Section 403 of the District of Columbia Home Rule
Act, approved December 24, 1973 (Public Law 93–198; D.C. Official
Code, sec. 1–204.03), is amended as follows:
(1) Subsection (c) is amended by striking ‘‘shall receive,
in addition to the compensation to which he is entitled as
a member of the Council, $10,000 per annum, payable in equal
installments, for each year he serves as Chairman, but the
Chairman’’.
(2) A new subsection (d) is added to read as follows:
‘‘(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a), as of the effective date
of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001, the Chairman
shall receive compensation, payable in equal installments, at a
rate equal to $10,000 less than the annual compensation of the
Mayor.’’.
SEC. 137. RISK MANAGEMENT FOR SETTLEMENTS AND JUDG-
MENTS. In addition to any other authority to pay claims and judg-
ments, any department, agency, or instrumentality of the District
government may pay the settlement or judgment of a claim or
lawsuit in an amount less than $10,000, in accordance with the
Risk Management for Settlements and Judgments Amendment Act
of 2000, effective October 19, 2000 (D.C. Law 13–172; D.C. Official
Code, sec. 2–402).
SEC. 138. Notwithstanding section 602(c)(1) of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–206(c)(1), D.C. Code), the Closing
of Portions of 2nd and N Streets, N.E. and Alley System in Square
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710, S.O. 00–97, Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14–106) shall take effect
on the date of the enactment of such Act or the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, whichever is later.
SEC. 139. None of the funds contained in this Act may be
used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District
of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket num-
bers 93–030–(PA) and 93–031–(PA).
SEC. 140. (a) Notwithstanding 20 U.S.C. 1415, 42 U.S.C. 1988,
29 U.S.C 794a, or any other law, none of the funds appropriated
under this Act, or in appropriations Acts for subsequent fiscal
years, may be made available to pay attorneys’ fees accrued prior
to the effective date of this Act that exceeds a cap imposed on
attorneys’ fees by prior appropriations Acts that were in effect
during the fiscal year when the work was performed, or when
payment was requested for work previously performed, in an action
or proceeding brought against the District of Columbia Public
Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20
U.S.C. 1400 et seq.).
(b) No later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Superintendent of Schools for the District of Columbia
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations for the Senate
and the House of Representatives a written report for each of
the fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2001, detailing a complete itemized
list, by year, of the judgments for attorneys’ fees awarded to plain-
tiffs who prevailed in cases brought against the District of Columbia
or the District of Columbia Public Schools under section 615(i)(3)
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C.
1415(i)(3)). Such report shall specify: (1) the amount of each judg-
ment; (2) the total amount paid on each judgment as of the date
of the report; (3) the principal balance remaining due on each
such judgment as of the date of the report, the amount of interest
due as of December 31, 2001 on each unpaid amount; and the
prospective annual rate of interest applicable to the judgment as
of January 1, 2002; (4) the name of the Court and case number
for each judgment; (5) the aggregate total due in principal and
interest on the judgments; and (6) the amount paid by the District
of Columbia, in each case listed, to defense counsel representing
the District or the District of Columbia Public Schools.
SEC. 141. The Comptroller General, in consultation with the
relevant agencies and members of the Committees on Appropria-
tions Subcommittees on the District of Columbia, shall submit
by March 31, 2002 a report to the Committees on Appropriations
of the House and the Senate and the Committee on Governmental
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Government Reform
of the House of Representatives detailing the awards in judgment
rendered in the District of Columbia that were in excess of the
cap imposed by prior appropriations Acts in effect during the fiscal
year when the work was performed, or when payment was requested
for work previously performed, in actions brought against the Dis-
trict of Columbia Public Schools under the Individuals with Disabil-
ities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): Provided, That such
report shall include a comparison, to the extent practicable, of
the causes of action and judgments rendered against public school
districts of comparable demographics and population as the District.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia Appropria-
tions Act, 2002’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.