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surrounding area, a Federal agency described in
paragraph (1) may consider, but shall not be bound
by, any decision or recommendation of—
(A) the National Capital Planning Com-
mission; or
(B) any other area commission or author-
ity.
SEC. 151. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds the fol-
lowing:
(1) The District of Columbia has recently wit-
nessed a spate of senseless killings of innocent citizens
caught in the crossfire of shootings. A Justice Depart-
ment crime victimization survey found that while the
city saw a decline in the homicide rate between 1996
and 1997, the rate was the highest among a dozen cit-
ies and more than double the second highest city.
(2) The District of Columbia has not made ade-
quate funding available to fight drug abuse in recent
years, and the city has not deployed its resources as
effectively 
as 
possible. 
In 
fiscal 
year 
1998,
$20,900,000 was spent on publicly funded drug treat-
ment in the District compared to $29,000,000 in fis-
cal year 1993. The District’s Addiction and Preven-
tion and Recovery Agency currently has only 2,200
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treatment slots, a 50 percent drop from 1994, with
more than 1,100 people on waiting lists.
(3) The District of Columbia has seen a rash of
inmate escapes from halfway houses. According to De-
partment of Corrections records, between October 21,
1998 and January 19, 1999, 376 of the 1,125 inmates
assigned to halfway houses walked away. Nearly 280
of the 376 escapees were awaiting trial including 2
charged with murder.
(4) The District of Columbia public schools sys-
tem faces serious challenges in correcting chronic
problems, particularly long-standing deficiencies in
providing special education services to the 1 in 10
District students needing program benefits, including
backlogged assessments, and repeated failure to meet
a compliance agreement on special education reached
with the Department of Education.
(5) Deficiencies in the delivery of basic public
services from cleaning streets to waiting time at De-
partment of Motor Vehicles to a rat population esti-
mated earlier this year to exceed the human popu-
lation have generated considerable public frustration.
(6) Last year, the District of Columbia forfeited
millions of dollars in Federal grants after Federal
auditors determined that several agencies exceeded
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grant restrictions and in other instances, failed to
spend funds before the grants expired.
(7) Findings of a 1999 report by the Annie E.
Casey Foundation that measured the well-being of
children reflected that, with 1 exception, the District
ranked worst in the United States in every category
from infant mortality to the rate of teenage births to
statistics chronicling child poverty.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that in considering the District of Columbia’s fiscal year
2001 budget, the Senate will take into consideration
progress or lack of progress in addressing the following
issues:
(1) Crime, including the homicide rate, imple-
mentation of community policing, the number of po-
lice officers on local beats, and the closing down of
open-air drug markets.
(2) Access to drug abuse treatment, including the
number of treatment slots, the number of people
served, the number of people on waiting lists, and the
effectiveness of treatment programs.
(3) Management of parolees and pretrial violent
offenders, including the number of halfway house es-
capes and steps taken to improve monitoring and su-
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pervision of halfway house residents to reduce the
number of escapes.
(4) Education, including access to special edu-
cation services and student achievement.
(5) Improvement in basic city services, including
rat control and abatement.
(6) Application for and management of Federal
grants.
(7) Indicators of child well-being.
SEC. 152. The Mayor, prior to using Federal Medicaid
payments to Disproportionate Share Hospitals to serve a
small number of childless adults, should consider the rec-
ommendations of the Health Care Development Commission
that has been appointed by the Council of the District of
Columbia to review this program, and consult and report
to Congress on the use of these funds.
SEC. 153. GAO STUDY OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. Not later than 1 year after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of
the United States shall—
(1) conduct a study of the law enforcement,
court, prison, probation, parole, and other compo-
nents of the criminal justice system of the District of
Columbia, in order to identify the components most
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in need of additional resources, including financial,
personnel, and management resources; and
(2) submit to Congress a report on the results of
the study under paragraph (1).
SEC. 154. TERMINATION OF PAROLE FOR ILLEGAL
DRUG USE. (a) ARREST FOR VIOLATION OF PAROLE.—Sec-
tion 205 of title 24 of the District of Columbia Code is
amended—
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘If the’’ and
inserting the following:
‘‘(a) If the’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), with respect to a
prisoner who is convicted of a crime of violence (as defined
in § 23–1331) and who is released on parole at any time
during the term or terms of the prisoner’s sentence for that
offense, the Board of Parole shall issue a warrant for the
retaking of the prisoner in accordance with this section, if
the Board, or any member thereof, has reliable information
(including positive drug test results) that the prisoner has
illegally used a controlled substance (as defined in § 33–
501) at any time during the term or terms of the prisoner’s
sentence.’’.