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vided further, That for purposes of funds control and deter-
mining whether a violation exists under the Anti-Deficiency 
Act (31 U.S.C. 1341 et seq.), the point of obligation shall 
be the executed agreement or contract, except with respect 
to insurance and guarantee programs, certain types of sala-
ries and expenses funding, and incremental funding that 
is authorized under an executed agreement or contract, and 
shall be designated in the approved funds control plan: Pro-
vided further, That the Chief Financial Officer shall: (1) 
appoint qualified personnel to conduct investigations of po-
tential or actual violations; (2) establish minimum training 
requirements and other qualifications for personnel that 
may be appointed to conduct investigations; (3) establish 
guidelines and timeframes for the conduct and completion 
of investigations; (4) prescribe the content, format and other 
requirements for the submission of final reports on viola-
tions; and (5) prescribe such additional policies and proce-
dures as may be required for conducting investigations of, 
and administering, processing, and reporting on, potential 
and actual violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act and all 
other statutes and regulations governing the obligation and 
expenditure of funds made available in this or any other 
Act: Provided further, That $20,000,000 may be transferred 
to the Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall fill 7 out of 10 vacancies at the GS–14 and
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GS–15 levels until the total number of GS–14 and GS–15 
positions in the Department has been reduced from the 
number of GS–14 and GS–15 positions on the date of enact-
ment of Public Law 106–377 by 21⁄2 percent. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For additional capital for the Working Capital Fund 
(42 U.S.C. 3535) for the development of, modifications to, 
and infrastructure for Department-wide information tech-
nology systems, for the continuing operation of both Depart-
ment-wide and program-specific information systems, and 
for program-related development activities, $265,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That 
any amounts transferred to this Fund under this Act shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appro-
priated by previously enacted appropriations Acts or from 
within this Act may be used only for the purposes specified 
under this Fund, in addition to the purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $106,000,000, of which $24,000,000 shall be pro-
vided from the various funds of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration: Provided, That the Inspector General shall
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have independent authority over all personnel issues within 
this office. 
OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprises Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, including not 
to exceed $500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $60,000,000, to remain available until expended, to 
be derived from the Federal Housing Enterprises Oversight 
Fund: Provided, That not to exceed the amount provided 
herein shall be available from the general fund of the Treas-
ury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and make 
expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund: 
Provided further, That the general fund amount shall be 
reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year 
so as to result in a final appropriation from the general 
fund estimated at not more than $0. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 
(42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded, or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts
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of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded 
or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 
finance agencies or local governments or local housing agen-
cies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development for which settlement occurred after 
January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwith-
standing the previous sentence, the Secretary may award 
up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured 
and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide 
project owners with incentives to refinance their project at 
a lower interest rate. 
SEC. 302. None of the amounts made available under 
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2006 to investigate 
or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise law-
ful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including 
the filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal action, 
that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a 
court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 303. (a) Notwithstanding section 854(c)(1)(A) of 
the 
AIDS 
Housing 
Opportunity 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
12903(c)(1)(A)), from any amounts made available under 
this title for fiscal year 2006 that are allocated under such 
section, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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shall allocate and make a grant, in the amount determined 
under subsection (b), for any State that— 
(1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year 
under clause (ii) of such section; and 
(2) is not otherwise eligible for an allocation for 
fiscal year 2006 under such clause (ii) because the 
areas in the State outside of the metropolitan statis-
tical areas that qualify under clause (i) in fiscal year 
2006 do not have the number of cases of acquired im-
munodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) required under 
such clause. 
(b) The amount of the allocation and grant for any 
State described in subsection (a) shall be an amount based 
on the cumulative number of AIDS cases in the areas of 
that State that are outside of metropolitan statistical areas 
that qualify under clause (i) of such section 854(c)(1)(A) 
in fiscal year 2006, in proportion to AIDS cases among 
cities and States that qualify under clauses (i) and (ii) of 
such section and States deemed eligible under subsection 
(a). 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) 
of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12903(c)), to the City of New York, New York, on behalf 
of the New York-Wayne-White Plains, New York-New Jersey
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Metropolitan Division (hereafter ‘‘metropolitan division’’) 
of the New York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan 
Statistical Area, shall be adjusted by the Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development by: (1) allocating to the City 
of Jersey City, New Jersey, the proportion of the metropoli-
tan area’s or division’s amount that is based on the number 
of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the metropolitan 
area or division that is located in Hudson County, New 
Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan 
division’s high incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey 
also has a higher than average per capita incidence of 
AIDS; and (2) allocating to the City of Paterson, New Jer-
sey, the proportion of the metropolitan area’s or division’s 
amount that is based on the number of cases of AIDS re-
ported in the portion of the metropolitan area or division 
that is located in Bergen County and Passaic County, New 
Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan 
division’s high incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey 
also has a higher than average per capita incidence of 
AIDS. The recipient cities shall use amounts allocated 
under this subsection to carry out eligible activities under 
section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12904) in their respective portions of the metropoli-
tan division that is located in New Jersey.
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(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) 
of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)) 
to areas with a higher than average per capita incidence 
of AIDS, shall be adjusted by the Secretary on the basis 
of area incidence reported over a three year period. 
SEC. 304. (a) During fiscal year 2006, in the provision 
of rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in connection 
with a program to demonstrate the economy and effective-
ness of providing such assistance for use in assisted living 
facilities that is carried out in the counties of the State of 
Michigan specified in subsection (b) of this section, notwith-
standing paragraphs (3) and (18)(B)(iii) of such section 
8(o), a family residing in an assisted living facility in any 
such county, on behalf of which a public housing agency 
provides assistance pursuant to section 8(o)(18) of such Act, 
may be required, at the time the family initially receives 
such assistance, to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 per-
cent of the monthly adjusted income of the family by such 
a percentage or amount as the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development determines to be appropriate. 
(b) The counties specified in this subsection are Oak-
land County, Macomb County, Wayne County, and 
Washtenaw County, in the State of Michigan.
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SEC. 305. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pur-
suant to title III of this Act shall be made on a competitive 
basis and in accordance with section 102 of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989. 
SEC. 306. Funds of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall 
be available, without regard to the limitations on adminis-
trative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee basis, 
and for utilizing and making payment for services and fa-
cilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Gov-
ernment National Mortgage Association, Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Fed-
eral Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home 
Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended 
(12 U.S.C. 1811–1831). 
SEC. 307. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any ap-
propriation for the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall be available for any program, project or 
activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget esti-
mates submitted to Congress.
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SEC. 308. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are subject 
to the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, 
are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the 
limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each 
such corporation or agency and in accordance with law, 
and to make such contracts and commitments without re-
gard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 
of such Act as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-
grams set forth in the budget for 2006 for such corporation 
or agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That 
collections of these corporations and agencies may be used 
for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to 
the extent expressly provided for in this Act (unless such 
loans are in support of other forms of assistance provided 
for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this 
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guar-
anty operations of these corporations, or where loans or 
mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial 
interest of the United States Government. 
SEC. 309. None of the funds provided in this title for 
technical assistance, training, or management improve-
ments may be obligated or expended unless HUD provides 
to the Committees on Appropriations a description of each 
proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of the costs
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associated with each program, project or activity as part 
of the Budget Justifications. For fiscal year 2006, HUD 
shall transmit this information to the Committees by March 
15, 2006 for 30 days of review. 
SEC. 310. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall provide quarterly reports to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all uncom-
mitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in each 
program and activity within the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment and shall submit additional, updated budget informa-
tion to these Committees upon request. 
SEC. 311. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
in fiscal year 2006, in managing and disposing of any mul-
tifamily property that is owned or held by the Secretary 
and is occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families, 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
maintain any rental assistance payments under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 that are attached 
to any dwelling units in the property. To the extent the 
Secretary determines that such a multifamily property 
owned or held by the Secretary is not feasible for continued 
rental assistance payments under such section 8, the Sec-
retary may, in consultation with the tenants of that prop-
erty, contract for project-based rental assistance payments
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with an owner or owners of other existing housing prop-
erties or provide other rental assistance. 
SEC. 312. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the amount allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section 
854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12903(c)), to the City of Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf 
of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey Metro-
politan Division (hereafter ‘‘metropolitan division’’), shall 
be adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment by allocating to the State of New Jersey the propor-
tion of the metropolitan division’s amount that is based on 
the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the 
metropolitan division that is located in New Jersey, and 
adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan division’s 
high incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey also has 
a higher than average per capita incidence of AIDS. The 
State of New Jersey shall use amounts allocated to the State 
under this subsection to carry out eligible activities under 
section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12904) in the portion of the metropolitan division 
that is located in New Jersey. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall allocate 
to Wake County, North Carolina, the amounts that other-
wise would be allocated for fiscal year 2006 under section
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854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12903(c)) to the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf 
of the Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina Metropolitan Statis-
tical Area. Any amounts allocated to Wake County shall 
be used to carry out eligible activities under section 855 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) within such metropolitan sta-
tistical area. 
(c) Notwithstanding section 854(c) of the AIDS Hous-
ing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development may adjust the alloca-
tion of the amounts that otherwise would be allocated for 
fiscal year 2006 under section 854(c) of such Act, upon the 
written request of an applicant, in conjunction with the 
State(s), for a formula allocation on behalf of a metropoli-
tan statistical area, to designate the State or States in 
which the metropolitan statistical area is located as the eli-
gible grantee(s) of the allocation. In the case that a metro-
politan statistical area involves more than one State, such 
amounts allocated to each State shall be in proportion to 
the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the 
metropolitan statistical area located in that State. Any 
amounts allocated to a State under this section shall be used 
to carry out eligible activities within the portion of the met-
ropolitan statistical area located in that State.
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SEC. 313. The Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall submit the Department’s fiscal year 2007 
congressional budget justifications to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
using the identical structure provided under this Act and 
only in accordance with the direction specified in the report 
accompanying this Act. 
SEC. 314. Incremental vouchers previously made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’ or re-
newed under the heading, ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental Assist-
ance,’’ for non-elderly disabled families shall, to the extent 
practicable, continue to be provided to non-elderly disabled 
families upon turnover. 
SEC. 315. A public housing agency or such other entity 
that administers Federal housing assistance in the States 
of Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi shall not be required to 
include a resident of public housing or a recipient of assist-
ance provided under section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 on the board of directors or a similar governing 
board of such agency or entity as required under section 
(2)(b) of such Act. Each public housing agency or other en-
tity that administers Federal housing assistance under sec-
tion 8 in the States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi shall 
establish an advisory board of not less than 6 residents of 
public housing or recipients of section 8 assistance to pro-
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vide advice and comment to the public housing agency or 
other administering entity on issues related to public hous-
ing and section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not less 
than quarterly. 
SEC. 316. For this fiscal year and each fiscal year 
hereafter, the portion of any athletic scholarship assistance 
that is available for housing costs shall be considered ad-
justed income for purposes of section 3(b)(5) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937. 
SEC. 317. The funds made available for Native Alas-
kans under the heading ‘‘Native American Housing Block 
Grants’’ in title III of this Act shall be allocated to the same 
Native Alaskan housing block grant recipients that received 
funds in fiscal year 2004. 
SEC. 318. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, subject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), for 
this fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary 
may authorize the transfer of project-based assistance, debt 
and statutorily required low-income and very low-income 
use restrictions, associated with one multifamily housing 
project to another multifamily housing project. 
(b) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject 
to the following conditions: 
(1) the number of low-income and very low-in-
come units and the net dollar amount of Federal as-
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sistance provided by the transferring project shall re-
main the same in the receiving project; 
(2) the transferring project shall, as determined 
by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or eco-
nomically non-viable; 
(3) the receiving project shall meet or exceed ap-
plicable physical standards established by the Sec-
retary; 
(4) the owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
project shall notify and consult with the tenants re-
siding in the transferring project and provide a cer-
tification of approval by all appropriate local govern-
mental officials; 
(5) the tenants of the transferring project who re-
main eligible for assistance to be provided by the re-
ceiving project shall not be required to vacate their 
units in the transferring project until new units in 
the receiving project are available for occupancy; 
(6) if either the transferring project or the receiv-
ing project meets the condition specified in subsection 
(c)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project resulting 
from additional financing obtained by the owner shall 
be subordinate to any FHA-insured mortgage lien 
transferred to, or placed on, such project by the Sec-
retary;
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(7) if the transferring project meets the require-
ments of subsection (c)(2)(E), the owner or mortgagor 
of the receiving project shall execute and record either 
a continuation of the existing use agreement or a new 
use agreement for the project where, in either case, 
any use restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser 
duration than the existing use restrictions; and 
(8) any financial risk to the FHA General and 
Special Risk Insurance Fund, as determined by the 
Secretary, would be reduced as a result of a transfer 
completed under this section. 
(c) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in-
come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the statute 
and/or regulations governing the program under 
which the project is insured or assisted; 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 
means housing that meets one of the following condi-
tions— 
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
insured under the National Housing Act, 
(B) housing that has project-based assist-
ance attached to the structure, 
(C) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as amended by
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section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales National 
Affordable Housing Act, 
(D) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as such section 
existed before the enactment of the Cranston- 
Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act, or, 
(E) housing or vacant land that is subject 
to a use agreement; 
(3) the term ‘‘project-based assistance’’ means— 
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937; 
(B) assistance for housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as 
such section existed immediately before October 
1, 1983); 
(C) rent supplement payments under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1965; 
(D) additional assistance payments under 
section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act; 
and, 
(E) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959;
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(4) the term ‘‘receiving project’’ means the multi-
family housing project to which the project-based as-
sistance, debt, and statutorily required use low-in-
come and very low-income restrictions are to be 
transferred; 
(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 
multifamily housing project which is transferring the 
project-based assistance, debt and the statutorily re-
quired low-income and very low-income use restric-
tions to the receiving project; and, 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 319. (a) EXTENSION.—The Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development shall extend the term of the Moving 
to Work Demonstration Agreement entered into between a 
public housing agency and the Secretary under section 204, 
title V, of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appro-
priations Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–134, April 26, 
1996) if— 
(1) the public housing agency requests such ex-
tension in writing; 
(2) the public housing agency is not at the time 
of such request for extension in default under its Mov-
ing to Work Demonstration Agreement; and
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(3) the Moving to Work Demonstration Agree-
ment to be extended would otherwise expire on or be-
fore September 30, 2006. 
(b) TERMS.—Unless the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development and the public housing agency other-
wise agree, the extension under subsection (a) shall be upon 
the identical terms and conditions set forth in the extending 
agency’s existing Moving to Work Demonstration Agree-
ment, except that for each public housing agency that has 
been or will be granted an extension to its original Moving 
to Work Agreement, the Secretary shall require that data 
be collected so that the effect of Moving to Work policy 
changes on residents can be measured. 
(c) EXTENSION PERIOD.—The extension under sub-
section (a) shall be for such period as is requested by the 
public housing agency, not to exceed 3 years from the date 
of expiration of the extending agency’s existing Moving to 
Work Demonstration Agreement. 
(d) BREACH OF AGREEMENT.—Nothing contained in 
this section shall limit the authority of the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development to terminate any Moving 
to Work Demonstration Agreement of a public housing 
agency if the public housing agency is in breach of the pro-
visions of such agreement.
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SEC. 320. Incremental vouchers previously made avail-
able under the heading, ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’ or re-
newed under the heading, ‘‘Tenant-Based Rental Assist-
ance’’, for family unification shall, to the extent practicable, 
continue to be provided for family unification. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing 
and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2006’’. 
TITLE IV—THE JUDICIARY 
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Su-
preme Court, as required by law, excluding care of the 
building and grounds, including purchase or hire, driving, 
maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Chief 
Justice, not to exceed $10,000 for the purpose of trans-
porting Associate Justices, and hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; not to 
exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses; and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended as 
the Chief Justice may approve, $60,730,000, of which 
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended. 
CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS 
For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable 
the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed 
upon the Architect by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (40
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U.S.C. 13a–13b), $5,624,000, which shall remain available 
until expended. 
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL 
CIRCUIT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries of the chief judge, judges, and other officers 
and employees, and for necessary expenses of the court, as 
authorized by law, $23,489,000. 
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries of the chief judge and eight judges, salaries 
of the officers and employees of the court, services, and nec-
essary expenses of the court, as authorized by law, 
$15,480,000. 
COURTS OF APPEALS, DISTRICT COURTS, AND OTHER 
JUDICIAL SERVICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the salaries of circuit and district judges (includ-
ing judges of the territorial courts of the United States), 
justices and judges retired from office or from regular active 
service, judges of the United States Court of Federal Claims, 
bankruptcy judges, magistrate judges, and all other officers 
and employees of the Federal Judiciary not otherwise spe-
cifically provided for, and necessary expenses of the courts, 
as authorized by law, $4,374,959,000 (including the pur-
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chase of firearms and ammunition); of which not to exceed 
$27,817,000 shall remain available until expended for space 
alteration projects and for furniture and furnishings related 
to new space alteration and construction projects. 
In addition, for expenses of the United States Court 
of Federal Claims associated with processing cases under 
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public 
Law 99–660), not to exceed $3,833,000, to be appropriated 
from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. 
DEFENDER SERVICES 
For the operation of Federal Defender organizations; 
the compensation and reimbursement of expenses of attor-
neys appointed to represent persons under the Criminal 
Justice Act of 1964, as amended (18 U.S.C. 3006A); the 
compensation and reimbursement of expenses of persons 
furnishing investigative, expert and other services under the 
Criminal Justice Act of 1964 (18 U.S.C. 3006A(e)); the 
compensation (in accordance with Criminal Justice Act 
maximums) and reimbursement of expenses of attorneys ap-
pointed to assist the court in criminal cases where the de-
fendant has waived representation by counsel; the com-
pensation and reimbursement of travel expenses of guard-
ians ad litem acting on behalf of financially eligible minor 
or incompetent offenders in connection with transfers from 
the United States to foreign countries with which the 
United States has a treaty for the execution of penal sen-
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tences; the compensation of attorneys appointed to represent 
jurors in civil actions for the protection of their employ-
ment, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1875(d); and for nec-
essary training and general administrative expenses, 
$710,785,000, to remain available until expended. 
FEES OF JURORS AND COMMISSIONERS 
For fees and expenses of jurors as authorized by 28 
U.S.C. 1871 and 1876; compensation of jury commissioners 
as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1863; and compensation of com-
missioners appointed in condemnation cases pursuant to 
rule 71A(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (28 
U.S.C. Appendix Rule 71A(h)), $61,318,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the compensation 
of land commissioners shall not exceed the daily equivalent 
of the highest rate payable under section 5332 of title 5, 
United States Code. 
COURT SECURITY 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in-
cident to the provision of protective guard services for 
United States courthouses and other facilities housing Fed-
eral court operations, and the procurement, installation, 
and maintenance of security systems and equipment for 
United States courthouses and other facilities housing Fed-
eral court operations, including building ingress-egress con-
trol, inspection of mail and packages, directed security pa-
trols, perimeter security, basic security services provided by
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the Federal Protective Service, and other similar activities 
as authorized by section 1010 of the Judicial Improvement 
and Access to Justice Act (Public Law 100–702), 
$372,426,000, of which not to exceed $15,000,000 shall re-
main available until expended, to be expended directly or 
transferred to the United States Marshals Service, which 
shall be responsible for administering the Judicial Facility 
Security Program consistent with standards or guidelines 
agreed to by the Director of the Administrative Office of 
the United States Courts and the Attorney General. 
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 
COURTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of 
the United States Courts as authorized by law, including 
travel as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1345, hire of a passenger 
motor vehicle as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b), adver-
tising and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 
$72,198,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 is authorized 
for official reception and representation expenses and of 
which up to $1,000,000 shall be made available to the Na-
tional Academy of Public Administrators for a review of 
the financial and management procedures of the Federal 
Judiciary.
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FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Judicial Center, 
as authorized by Public Law 90–219, $22,350,000; of which 
$1,800,000 shall remain available through September 30, 
2007, to provide education and training to Federal court 
personnel; and of which not to exceed $1,500 is authorized 
for official reception and representation expenses. 
JUDICIAL RETIREMENT FUNDS 
PAYMENT TO JUDICIARY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Judicial Officers’ Retirement 
Fund, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 377(o), $36,800,000; to 
the Judicial Survivors’ Annuities Fund, as authorized by 
28 U.S.C. 376(c), $600,000; and to the United States Court 
of Federal Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund, as authorized 
by 28 U.S.C. 178(l), $3,200,000. 
UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the salaries and expenses necessary to carry out 
the provisions of chapter 58 of title 28, United States Code, 
$14,700,000, of which not to exceed $1,000 is authorized 
for official reception and representation expenses.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—THE JUDICIARY 
SEC. 401. Appropriations and authorizations made in 
this title which are available for salaries and expenses shall 
be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 402. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
made available for the current fiscal year for the Judiciary 
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, 
but no such appropriation, except ‘‘Courts of Appeals, Dis-
trict Courts, and Other Judicial Services, Defender Serv-
ices’’ and ‘‘Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other 
Judicial Services, Fees of Jurors and Commissioners’’, shall 
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: 
Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall 
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 705 
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or ex-
penditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section. 
SEC. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the salaries and expenses appropriation for Courts of Ap-
peals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses 
of the Judicial Conference of the United States: Provided, 
That such available funds shall not exceed $11,000 and 
shall be administered by the Director of the Administrative
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Office of the United States Courts in the capacity as Sec-
retary of the Judicial Conference. 
SEC. 404. Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, 
the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations a comprehensive fi-
nancial plan for the Judiciary allocating all sources of 
available funds including appropriations, fee collections, 
and carryover balances, to include a separate and detailed 
plan for the Judiciary Information Technology fund. 
SEC. 405. Pursuant to section 140 of Public Law 97– 
92, and from funds appropriated in this Act, Justices and 
judges of the United States are authorized during fiscal 
year 2006, to receive a salary adjustment in accordance 
with 28 U.S.C. 461. 
SEC. 406. The existing judgeship for the eastern dis-
trict of Missouri authorized by section 203(c) of the Judicial 
Improvements Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–650, 104 Stat. 
5089) as amended by Public Law 105–53, as of the effective 
date of this Act, shall be extended. The first vacancy in the 
office of district judge in this district occurring 20 years 
or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to 
fill the temporary judgeship created by section 203(c) shall 
not be filled. 
SEC. 407. Not later than 180 days after enactment of 
this Act, GAO shall provide the Committees on Appropria-