the public, Members of Congress, other Government agen-
cies, and designated depository and international exchange 
libraries as authorized by law, $31,500,000: Provided, 
That amounts of not more than $2,000,000 from current 
year appropriations are authorized for producing and dis-
seminating Congressional serial sets and other related 
publications for fiscal years 2013 and 2014 to depository 
and other designated libraries: Provided further, That any 
unobligated or unexpended balances in this account or ac-
counts for similar purposes for preceding fiscal years may 
be transferred to the Government Printing Office revolv-
ing fund for carrying out the purposes of this heading, 
subject to the approval of the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and Senate. 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE REVOLVING FUND 
For payment to the Government Printing Office Re-
volving Fund, $11,348,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for information technology development and facili-
ties repair: Provided, That the Government Printing Of-
fice is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, with-
in the limits of funds available and in accordance with law, 
and to make such contracts and commitments without re-
gard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 9104 
of title 31, United States Code, as may be necessary in 
carrying out the programs and purposes set forth in the
budget for the current fiscal year for the Government 
Printing Office Revolving Fund: Provided further, That 
not more than $7,500 may be expended on the certifi-
cation of the Public Printer in connection with official rep-
resentation and reception expenses: Provided further, That 
the revolving fund shall be available for the hire or pur-
chase of not more than 12 passenger motor vehicles: Pro-
vided further, That expenditures in connection with travel 
expenses of the advisory councils to the Public Printer 
shall be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of 
title 44, United States Code: Provided further, That the 
revolving fund shall be available for temporary or intermit-
tent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United 
States Code, but at rates for individuals not more than 
the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for 
level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 
such title: Provided further, That activities financed 
through the revolving fund may provide information in any 
format: Provided further, That the revolving fund and the 
funds provided under the headings ‘‘Office of Super-
intendent of Documents’’ and ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ 
may not be used for contracted security services at the 
Government Printing Office’s passport facility in the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Government Account-
ability Office, including not more than $12,500 to be ex-
pended on the certification of the Comptroller General of 
the United States in connection with official representa-
tion and reception expenses; temporary or intermittent 
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States 
Code, but at rates for individuals not more than the daily 
equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for level IV of 
the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title; 
hire of one passenger motor vehicle; advance payments in 
foreign countries in accordance with section 3324 of title 
31, United States Code; benefits comparable to those pay-
able under sections 901(5), (6), and (8) of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), (6), and (8)); 
and under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States, rental of living quarters in for-
eign countries, $519,622,000: Provided, That, in addition, 
$23,750,000 of payments received under sections 782, 
3521, and 9105 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That this appropriation and appropriations for adminis-
trative expenses of any other department or agency which 
is a member of the National Intergovernmental Audit
Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit Forum 
shall be available to finance an appropriate share of either 
Forum’s costs as determined by the respective Forum, in-
cluding necessary travel expenses of non-Federal partici-
pants: Provided further, That payments hereunder to the 
Forum may be credited as reimbursements to any appro-
priation from which costs involved are initially financed. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE 
SEC. 1201. (a) CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Chapter 7 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subchapter: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—CENTER FOR AUDIT 
EXCELLENCE 
‘‘§ 791. Center for audit excellence 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Comptroller General 
shall establish, maintain, and operate a center within the 
Government Accountability Office to be known as the 
‘Center for Audit Excellence’ (hereafter in this subchapter 
referred to as the ‘Center’). 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE AND ACTIVITIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall build in-
stitutional auditing capacity and promote good gov-
ernance by providing affordable, relevant, and high-
quality training, technical assistance, and products 
and services to qualified personnel and entities of 
governments (including the Federal government, 
State and local governments, tribal governments, 
and governments of foreign nations), international 
organizations, and other private organizations. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION
OF
QUALIFIED
PER-
SONNEL
AND
ENTITIES.—Personnel and entities 
shall be considered qualified for purposes of receiv-
ing training, technical assistance, and products or 
services from the Center under paragraph (1) in ac-
cordance with such criteria as the Comptroller Gen-
eral may establish and publish. 
‘‘(c) FEES.— 
‘‘(1) PERMITTING
CHARGING
OF
FEES.—The 
Comptroller General may establish, charge, and col-
lect fees (on a reimbursable or advance basis) for 
the training, technical assistance, and products and 
services provided by the Center under this sub-
chapter. 
‘‘(2) DEPOSIT INTO SEPARATE ACCOUNT.—The 
Comptroller General shall deposit all fees collected 
under paragraph (1) into the Center for Audit Ex-
cellence Account established under section 792.
‘‘(d) GIFTS
OF PROPERTY
AND SERVICES.—The 
Comptroller General may accept and use conditional or 
non-conditional gifts of property (both real and personal) 
and services (including services of guest lecturers) to sup-
port the operation of the Center, except that the Comp-
troller General may not accept or use such a gift if the 
Comptroller General determines that the acceptance or 
use of the gift would compromise or appear to compromise 
the integrity of the Government Accountability Office. 
‘‘(e) SENSE
OF
CONGRESS
REGARDING
PER-
SONNEL.—It is the sense of Congress that the Center 
should be staffed primarily by personnel of the Govern-
ment Accountability Office who are not otherwise engaged 
in carrying out other duties of the Office under this chap-
ter, so as to ensure that the operation of the Center will 
not have a negative impact on the ability of the Office 
to maintain a consistently high level of service to Con-
gress. 
‘‘§ 792. Account 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF SEPARATE ACCOUNT.— 
There is established in the Treasury as a separate account 
for the Government Accountability Office the ‘Center for 
Audit Excellence Account’, which shall consist of the fees 
deposited by the Comptroller General under section 791(c)
and such other amounts as may be appropriated under 
law. 
‘‘(b) USE OF ACCOUNT.—Amounts in the Center for 
Audit Excellence Account shall be available to the Comp-
troller General, in amounts specified in appropriations 
Acts and without fiscal year limitation, to carry out this 
subchapter. 
‘‘§ 793. Authorization of Appropriations 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this subchapter.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for chapter 7 of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—CENTER FOR AUDIT EXCELLENCE 
‘‘791. Center for Audit Excellence. 
‘‘792. Account. 
‘‘793. Authorization of appropriations.’’. 
(b) APPROVAL
OF BUSINESS PLAN.—The Comp-
troller General may not begin operating the Center for 
Audit Excellence under subchapter VII of chapter 7 of 
title 31, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)) 
until— 
(1) the Comptroller General submits a business 
plan for the Center to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and Senate; 
and 
(2) each such Committee approves the plan.
OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER TRUST 
FUND 
For a payment to the Open World Leadership Center 
Trust Fund for financing activities of the Open World 
Leadership Center under section 313 of the Legislative 
Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 (2 U.S.C. 1151), 
$3,420,000. 
JOHN C. STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC 
SERVICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 
For payment to the John C. Stennis Center for Pub-
lic Service Development Trust Fund established under 
section 116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Serv-
ice Training and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105), 
$430,000. 
TITLE II—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. 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 fa-
cilities for the House of Representatives issued by the 
Committee on House Administration and for the Senate 
issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration. 
SEC. 202. No part of the funds appropriated in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year 
2015 unless expressly so provided in this Act.
SEC. 203. Whenever in this Act any office or position 
not specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act of 
1929 (46 Stat. 32 et seq.) is appropriated for or the rate 
of compensation or designation of any office or position 
appropriated for is different from that specifically estab-
lished by such Act, the rate of compensation and the des-
ignation in this Act shall be the permanent law with re-
spect thereto: Provided, That the provisions in this Act 
for the various items of official expenses of Members, offi-
cers, and committees of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of 
the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law 
with respect thereto. 
SEC. 204. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, under section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such ex-
penditures are a matter of public record and available for 
public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued 
under existing law. 
SEC. 205. Amounts available for administrative ex-
penses of any legislative branch entity which participates 
in the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council 
(LBFMC) established by charter on March 26, 1996, shall
be available to finance an appropriate share of LBFMC 
costs as determined by the LBFMC, except that the total 
LBFMC costs to be shared among all participating legisla-
tive branch entities (in such allocations among the entities 
as the entities may determine) may not exceed $2,000. 
SEC. 206. The Architect of the Capitol, in consulta-
tion with the District of Columbia, is authorized to main-
tain and improve the landscape features, excluding streets, 
in the irregular shaped grassy areas bounded by Wash-
ington Avenue, SW on the northeast, Second Street, SW 
on the west, Square 582 on the south, and the beginning 
of the I–395 tunnel on the southeast. 
SEC. 207. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 208. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
none of the funds made available to the Architect of the 
Capitol in this Act may be used to eliminate or restrict 
guided tours of the United States Capitol which are led 
by employees and interns of offices of Members of Con-
gress and other offices of the House of Representatives 
and Senate.
(b) At the direction of the Capitol Police Board, or 
at the direction of the Architect of the Capitol with the 
approval of the Capitol Police Board, guided tours of the 
United States Capitol which are led by employees and in-
terns described in subsection (a) may be suspended tempo-
rarily or otherwise subject to restriction for security or re-
lated reasons to the same extent as guided tours of the 
United States Capitol which are led by the Architect of 
the Capitol. 
SEC. 209. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no adjustment shall be made under section 610(a) 
of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 
31) (relating to cost of living adjustments for Members 
of Congress) during fiscal year 2015. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 210. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, ex-
cluding Senate items, exceeds the amount of proposed new 
budget authority is $0 (increased by $3,166,946). 
SEC. 211. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to deliver a printed copy of the report 
of disbursements for the operations of the House of Rep-
resentatives under section 106 of the House of Represent-
atives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act
(2 U.S.C. 5535) to the office of a Member of the House 
of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to the Congress). 
SEC. 212. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to deliver to the office of a Member of 
the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress) a printed copy 
of the Daily Calendar of the House of Representatives 
which is prepared by the Clerk of the House of Represent-
atives. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Legislative Branch Ap-
propriations Act, 2015’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 1, 2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4487 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, 
and for other purposes.