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agreement shall, at a minimum, require that the person
will not disclose any classified information received in the
course of such activity unless specifically authorized to do
so by the United States Government. Such nondisclosure
forms shall also make it clear that they do not bar disclo-
sures to Congress or to an authorized official of an execu-
tive agency or the Department of Justice that are essential
to reporting a substantial violation of law.
SEC. 623. No part of any funds appropriated in this
or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the execu-
tive branch, other than for normal and recognized execu-
tive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda
purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of
any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television or
film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation
pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the
Congress itself.
SEC. 624. (a) IN GENERAL.—No later than Septem-
ber 30, 1999, the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget shall submit to the Congress a report that
provides—
(1) estimates of the total annual costs and ben-
efits of Federal regulatory programs, including
quantitative and nonquantitative measures of regu-
latory costs and benefits;
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(2) estimates of the costs and benefits (includ-
ing quantitative and nonquantitative measures) of
each rule that is likely to have a gross annual effect
on the economy of $100,000,000 or more in in-
creased costs;
(3) an assessment of the direct and indirect im-
pacts of Federal rules on the private sector, State
and local government, and the Federal Government;
and
(4) recommendations from the Director and a
description of significant public comments to reform
or eliminate any Federal regulatory program or pro-
gram element that is inefficient, ineffective, or is not
a sound use of the Nation’s resources.
(b) NOTICE.—The Director shall provide public no-
tice and an opportunity to comment on the report under
subsection (a) before the report is issued in final form.
SEC. 625. None of the funds appropriated by this or
any other Act, may be used by an agency to provide a
Federal employee’s home address to any labor organiza-
tion, unless the employee has authorized such disclosure
or such disclosure has been ordered by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction.
SEC. 626. The Secretary of the Treasury is author-
ized to establish scientific certification standards for explo-
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sives detection canines, and shall provide, on a reimburs-
able basis, for the certification of explosives detection ca-
nines employed by Federal agencies, or other agencies pro-
viding explosives detection services at airports in the
United States.
SEC. 627. None of the funds made available in this
or any other Act may be used to provide any non-public
information such as mailing or telephone lists to any per-
son or any organization outside of the Federal Govern-
ment without the approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations.
SEC. 628. For purposes of each provision of law
amended by section 704(a)(2) of the Ethics Reform Act
of 1989 (5 U.S.C. 5318 note), no adjustment under sec-
tion 5303 of title 5, United States Code, shall be consid-
ered to have taken effect in fiscal year 1999 in the rates
of basic pay for the statutory pay systems.
SEC. 629. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be used for publicity or propa-
ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore
authorized by the Congress.
SEC. 630. None of the funds appropriated in this or
any other Act shall be used to acquire information tech-
nologies which do not comply with part 39.106 (Year 2000
compliance) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless
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an agency’s Chief Information Officer determines that
noncompliance with part 39.106 is necessary to the func-
tion and operation of the requesting agency or the acquisi-
tion is required by a signed contract with the agency in
effect before the date of enactment of this Act. Any waiver
granted by the Chief Information Officer shall be reported
to the Office of Management and Budget, and copies shall
be provided to Congress.
SEC. 631. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the United States Customs Service may be used
to allow the importation into the United States of any
good, ware, article, or merchandise mined, produced, or
manufactured by forced or indentured child labor, as de-
termined pursuant to section 307 of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).
SEC. 632. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no part of any funds provided by this Act or any other
Act beginning in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter shall be
available for paying Sunday premium pay to any employee
unless such employee actually performed work during the
time corresponding to such premium pay.
SEC. 633. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal
Government, who—
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(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any
direct oral or written communication or contact with
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining
to the employment of such other officer or employee
or pertaining to the department or agency of such
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-
sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member,
committee, or subcommittee; or
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay,
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or
performance of efficiency rating, denies promotion
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to
such other officer or employee, by reason of any
communication or contact of such other officer or
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-
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committee of the Congress as described in paragraph
(1).
SEC. 634. Section 404(a) of the Government Manage-
ment Reform Act of 1994 is amended by striking the pe-
riod at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting ‘‘; and’’,
and by adding at the end the following paragraph:
‘‘(3) the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5
U.S.C. App.).’’.
SEC. 635. Notwithstanding section 611 of this Act
and notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United
States Code, funds made available for fiscal year 1999,
by this or any other Act shall be available for the inter-
agency funding of specific projects, workshops, studies,
and similar efforts to carry out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Council (authorized by Ex-
ecutive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple Federal
departments, agencies, or entities.
SEC. 636. Section 626(b) of the Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government Appropriations Act,
1997, as contained in section 101(f) of Public Law 104–
208 (110 Stat. 3009–360), the Omnibus Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 1997, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) Until the end of the current FTS 2000 con-
tracts, or September 30, 1999, whichever is sooner, sub-
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section (a) shall continue to apply to the use of the funds
appropriated by this or any other Act.’’.
SEC. 637. (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
(1) the term ‘‘crime of violence’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 16 of title 18, United
States Code; and
(2) the term ‘‘law enforcement officer’’ means
any employee described in subparagraph (A), (B), or
(C) of section 8401(17) of title 5, United States
Code; and any special agent in the Diplomatic Secu-
rity Service of the Department of State.
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, for purposes of chapter 171 of title
28, United States Code, or any other provision of law re-
lating to tort liability, a law enforcement officer shall be
construed to be acting within the scope of his or her office
or employment, if the officer takes any action, including
the use of force, that is determined by the officer to be
necessary to—
(1) protect an individual in the presence of the
officer from a crime of violence;
(2) provide immediate assistance to an individ-
ual who has suffered or who is threatened with bod-
ily harm; or
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(3) prevent the escape of any individual who the
officer reasonably believes to have committed in the
presence of the officer a crime of violence.
SEC. 638. The Administrator of General Services
may provide, from government-wide credit card rebates,
up to $3,000,000 in support of the Joint Financial Man-
agement Improvement Program as approved by the Chief
Financial Officer’s Council.
SEC. 639. FEDERAL FIREFIGHTERS OVERTIME PAY
REFORM ACT OF 1998.—(a) Subchapter V of chapter 55
of title 5, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in section 5542 by adding the following new
subsection at the end thereof:
‘‘(f) In applying subsection (a) of this section with
respect to a firefighter who is subject to section 5545b—
‘‘(1) such subsection (a) shall be deemed to
apply to hours of work officially ordered or approved
in excess of 106 hours in a biweekly pay period, or,
if the agency establishes a weekly basis for overtime
pay computation, in excess of 53 hours in an admin-
istrative workweek; and
‘‘(2) the overtime hourly rate of pay is an
amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly
rate of basic pay under section 5545b (b)(1)(A) or
(c)(1)(B), as applicable, and such overtime hourly
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rate of pay may not be less than such hourly rate
of basic pay in applying the limitation on the over-
time rate provided in paragraph (2) of such sub-
section (a).’’; and
(2) by inserting after section 5545a the follow-
ing new section:
‘‘§ 5545b. Pay for firefighters
‘‘(a) This section applies to an employee whose posi-
tion is classified in the firefighter occupation in conform-
ance with the GS–081 standard published by the Office
of Personnel Management, and whose normal work sched-
ule, as in effect throughout the year, consists of regular
tours of duty which average at least 106 hours per bi-
weekly pay period.
‘‘(b)(1) If the regular tour of duty of a firefighter
subject to this section generally consists of 24-hour shifts,
rather than a basic 40-hour workweek (as determined
under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel
Management), section 5504(b) shall be applied as follows
in computing pay—
‘‘(A) paragraph (1) of such section shall be
deemed to require that the annual rate be divided by
2756 to derive the hourly rate; and
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‘‘(B) the computation of such firefighter’s daily,
weekly, or biweekly rate shall be based on the hourly
rate under subparagraph (A);
‘‘(2) For the purpose of sections 5595(c), 5941,
8331(3), and 8704(c), and for such other purposes as may
be expressly provided for by law or as the Office of Person-
nel Management may by regulation prescribe, the basic
pay of a firefighter subject to this subsection shall include
an amount equal to the firefighter’s basic hourly rate (as
computed under paragraph (1)(A)) for all hours in such
firefighter’s regular tour of duty (including overtime
hours).
‘‘(c)(1) If the regular tour of duty of a firefighter
subject to this section includes a basic 40-hour workweek
(as determined under regulations prescribed by the Office
of Personnel Management), section 5504(b) shall be ap-
plied as follows in computing pay—
‘‘(A) the provisions of such section shall apply
to the hours within the basic 40-hour workweek’’
‘‘(B) for hours outside the basic 40-hour work-
week, such section shall be deemed to require that
the hourly rate be derived by dividing the annual
rate by 2756; and
‘‘(C) the computation of such firefighter’s daily,
weekly, or biweekly rate shall be based on subpara-
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graphs (A) and (B), as each applies to the hours in-
volved.
‘‘(2) For purposes of sections 5595(c), 5941,
8331(3), and 8704(c), and for such other purposes as may
be expressly provided for by law or as the Office of Person-
nel Management may by regulation prescribe, the basic
pay of a firefighter subject to this subsection shall in-
clude—
‘‘(A) an amount computed under paragraph
(1)(A) for the hours within the basic 40-hour work-
week; and
‘‘(B) an amount equal to the firefighter’s basic
hourly rate (as computed under paragraph (1)(B))
for all hours outside the basic 40-hour workweek
that are within such firefighter’s regular tour of
duty (including overtime hours).
‘‘(d)(1) A firefighter who is subject to this section
shall receive overtime pay in accordance with section 5542,
but shall not receive premium pay provided by other provi-
sions of this subchapter.
‘‘(2) For the purpose of applying section 7(k) of the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to a firefighter who
is subject to this section, no violation referred to in such
section 7(k) shall be deemed to have occurred if the re-
quirements of section 5542(a) are met, applying section
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5542(a) as provided in subsection (f) of that section: Pro-
vided, That the overtime hourly rate of pay for such fire-
fighter shall in all cases be an amount equal to one and
one-half times the firefighter’s hourly rate of basic pay
under subsection (b)(1)(A) or (c)(1)(B) of this section, as
applicable.
‘‘(3) The Office of Personnel Management may pre-
scribe regulations, with respect to firefighters subject to
this section, that would permit an agency to reduce or
eliminate the variation in the amount of firefighters’ bi-
weekly pay caused by work scheduling cycles that result
in varying hours in the regular tours of duty from pay
period to pay period. Under such regulations, the pay that
a firefighter would otherwise receive for regular tours of
duty over the work scheduling cycle shall, to the extent
practicable, remain unaffected.’’.
(b) The analysis for chapter 55 of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by inserting at the appropriate
place the following new item:
‘‘5545b. Pay for firefighters.’’.
(c) Section 4109 of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by adding the following new subsection at the
end thereof:
‘‘(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(1), a firefighter
who is subject to section 5545b of this title shall be paid