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any other Act may be used to provide any officer or em-
ployee of the District of Columbia with an official vehicle 
unless the officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the 
performance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties. For 
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘‘official duties’’ does 
not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s resi-
dence and workplace, except in the case of— 
(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan 
Police Department who resides in the District of Co-
lumbia or is otherwise designated by the Chief of the 
Department; 
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an officer 
or employee of the District of Columbia Fire and 
Emergency Medical Services Department who resides 
in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 hours 
a day or is otherwise designated by the Fire Chief; 
(3) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and 
(4) the Chairman of the Council of the District 
of Columbia. 
(b) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Co-
lumbia shall submit by March 1, 2006, an inventory, as 
of September 30, 2005, of all vehicles owned, leased or oper-
ated by the District of Columbia government. The inventory 
shall include, but not be limited to, the department to which 
the vehicle is assigned; the year and make of the vehicle;
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the acquisition date and cost; the general condition of the 
vehicle; annual operating and maintenance costs; current 
mileage; and whether the vehicle is allowed to be taken home 
by a District officer or employee and if so, the officer or 
employee’s title and resident location. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be used for purposes of the annual independent audit of 
the District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2006 
unless— 
(1) the audit is conducted by the Inspector Gen-
eral of the District of Columbia, in coordination with 
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Colum-
bia, pursuant to section 208(a)(4) of the District of 
Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 1985 (D.C. 
Official Code, section 2–302.8); and 
(2) the audit includes as a basic financial state-
ment a comparison of audited actual year-end results 
with the revenues submitted in the budget document 
for such year and the appropriations enacted into law 
for such year using the format, terminology, and clas-
sifications contained in the law making the appro-
priations for the year and its legislative history. 
SEC. 116. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act 
may be used by the District of Columbia Corporation Coun-
sel or any other officer or entity of the District government
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to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action 
which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting rep-
resentation in Congress for the District of Columbia. 
(b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Colum-
bia Corporation Counsel from reviewing or commenting on 
briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials 
of the District government regarding such lawsuits. 
SEC. 117. (a) None of the Federal funds contained in 
this Act may be used for any program of distributing sterile 
needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any ille-
gal drug. 
(b) Any individual or entity who receives any funds 
contained in this Act and who carries out any program 
described in subsection (a) shall account for all funds used 
for such program separately from any funds contained in 
this Act. 
SEC. 118. None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be used after the expiration of the 60-day period that begins 
on the date of the enactment of this Act to pay the salary 
of any chief financial officer of any office of the District 
of Columbia government (including any independent agen-
cy of the District of Columbia) who has not filed a certifi-
cation with the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer of 
the District of Columbia that the officer understands the 
duties and restrictions applicable to the officer and the offi-
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cer’s agency as a result of this Act (and the amendments 
made by this Act), including any duty to prepare a report 
requested either in the Act or in any of the reports accom-
panying the Act and the deadline by which each report 
must be submitted: Provided, That the Chief Financial Offi-
cer of the District of Columbia shall provide to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate by April 1, 2006 and October 1, 2006, a summary 
list showing each report, the due date, and the date sub-
mitted to the Committees. 
SEC. 119. Nothing in this Act may be construed to pre-
vent the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from 
addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive cov-
erage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent of Con-
gress that any legislation enacted on such issue should in-
clude a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which provides exceptions for 
religious beliefs and moral convictions. 
SEC. 120. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and Senate, the Committee on Govern-
ment Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate quarterly re-
ports addressing— 
(1) crime, including the homicide rate, imple-
mentation of community policing, the number of po-
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lice officers on local beats, and the closing down of 
open-air drug markets; 
(2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treat-
ment, including the number of treatment slots, the 
number of people served, the number of people on 
waiting lists, and the effectiveness of treatment pro-
grams; 
(3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent 
offenders, including the number of halfway houses es-
capes and steps taken to improve monitoring and su-
pervision of halfway house residents to reduce the 
number of escapes to be provided in consultation with 
the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency 
for the District of Columbia; 
(4) education, including access to special edu-
cation services and student achievement to be pro-
vided in consultation with the District of Columbia 
Public Schools and the District of Columbia public 
charter schools; 
(5) improvement in basic District services, in-
cluding rat control and abatement; 
(6) application for and management of Federal 
grants, including the number and type of grants for 
which the District was eligible but failed to apply 
and the number and type of grants awarded to the
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District but for which the District failed to spend the 
amounts received; and 
(7) indicators of child well-being. 
SEC. 121. (a) 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 ap-
propriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Coun-
cil of the District of Columbia a revised appropriated funds 
operating budget in the format of the budget that the Dis-
trict of Columbia government submitted pursuant to section 
442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Offi-
cial Code, section 1–204.42), for all agencies of the District 
of Columbia government for fiscal year 2006 that is in the 
total amount of the approved appropriation and that re-
aligns all budgeted data for personal services and other- 
than-personal-services, respectively, with anticipated actual 
expenditures. 
(b) This section shall apply only to an agency where 
the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia cer-
tifies that a reallocation is required to address unantici-
pated changes in program requirements. 
SEC. 122. Notwithstanding any other law, in fiscal 
year 2006 and in each subsequent fiscal year, the District 
of Columbia Courts shall transfer to the general treasury 
of the District of Columbia all fines levied and collected by
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the Courts under section 10(b)(1) and (2) of the District 
of Columbia Traffic Act (D.C. Official Code, section 50– 
2201.05(b)(1) and (2)): Provided, that the transferred funds 
are hereby made available and shall remain available until 
expended and shall be used by the Office of the Attorney 
General of the District of Columbia for enforcement and 
prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws in accordance 
with section 10(b)(3) of the District of Columbia Traffic 
Act (D.C. Official Code, section 50–2201.05(b)(3)). 
SEC. 123. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act 
may be made available to pay— 
(1) the fees of an attorney who represents a 
party in an action or an attorney who defends an ac-
tion brought against the District of Columbia Public 
Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) in excess of $4,000 
for that action; or 
(2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the 
Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
determines to have a pecuniary interest, either 
through an attorney, officer, or employee of the firm, 
in any special education diagnostic services, schools, 
or other special education service providers.
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(b) In this section, the term ‘‘action’’ includes an ad-
ministrative proceeding and any ensuing or related pro-
ceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 124. The Chief Financial Officer of the District 
of Columbia shall require attorneys in special education 
cases brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (IDEA) in the District of Columbia to certify 
in writing that the attorney or representative rendered any 
and all services for which they receive awards, including 
those received under a settlement agreement or as part of 
an administrative proceeding, under the IDEA from the 
District of Columbia. As part of the certification, the Chief 
Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall require 
all attorneys in IDEA cases to disclose any financial, cor-
porate, legal, memberships on boards of directors, or other 
relationships with any special education diagnostic serv-
ices, schools, or other special education service providers to 
which the attorneys have referred any clients as part of this 
certification. The Chief Financial Officer shall prepare and 
submit quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and Senate on the cer-
tification of and the amount paid by the government of the 
District of Columbia, including the District of Columbia 
Public Schools, to attorneys in cases brought under IDEA. 
The Inspector General of the District of Columbia may con-
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duct investigations to determine the accuracy of the certifi-
cations. 
SEC. 125. The amount appropriated by this title may 
be increased by no more than $42,000,000 from funds iden-
tified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the 
District’s fiscal year 2005 unexpended general fund surplus. 
The District may obligate and expend these amounts only 
in accordance with the following conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia shall certify that the use of any such 
amounts is not anticipated to have a negative impact 
on the District’s long-term financial, fiscal, and eco-
nomic vitality. 
(2) The District of Columbia may only use these 
funds for the following expenditures: 
(A) One-time expenditures. 
(B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending. 
(C) Debt Reduction. 
(D) Program needs. 
(E) Expenditures to avoid revenue short-
falls. 
(3) The amounts shall be obligated and expended 
in accordance with laws enacted by the Council in 
support of each such obligation or expenditure.
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(4) The amounts may not be used to fund the 
agencies of the District of Columbia government 
under court ordered receivership. 
(5) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor notifies the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the obli-
gation or expenditure. 
SEC. 126. (a) The fourth proviso in the item relating 
to ‘‘Federal Payment for School Improvement’’ in the Dis-
trict of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 
108–335; 118 Stat. 1327) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘$4,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$4,000,000, to remain available until expended,’’; 
and 
(2) by striking ‘‘$2,000,000 shall be for a new 
incentive fund’’ and inserting ‘‘$2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for a new incentive 
fund’’. 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the District of Co-
lumbia Appropriations Act, 2005. 
SEC. 127. (a) To account for an unanticipated growth 
of revenue collections, the amount appropriated as District
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of Columbia Funds pursuant to this Act may be in-
creased— 
(1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 25 
percent, in the case of amounts proposed to be allo-
cated as ‘‘Other-Type Funds’’ in the Fiscal Year 2006 
Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to 
Congress by the District of Columbia on June 6, 
2005; and 
(2) by an aggregate amount of not more than 6 
percent, in the case of any other amounts proposed to 
be allocated in such Proposed Budget and Financial 
Plan. 
(b) The District of Columbia may obligate and expend 
any increase in the amount of funds authorized under this 
section only in accordance with the following conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia shall certify— 
(A) the increase in revenue; and 
(B) that the use of the amounts is not an-
ticipated to have a negative impact on the long- 
term financial, fiscal, or economic health of the 
District. 
(2) The amounts shall be obligated and expended 
in accordance with laws enacted by the Council of the 
District of Columbia in support of each such obliga-
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tion and expenditure, consistent with the require-
ments of this Act. 
(3) The amounts may not be used to fund any 
agencies of the District government operating under 
court-ordered receivership. 
(4) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor has notified the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the 
obligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 128. Beginning in fiscal year 2006 and for each 
fiscal year thereafter, the Chief Financial Officer for the 
District of Columbia may, for the purpose of cash flow man-
agement, conduct short-term borrowing from the emergency 
reserve fund and from the contingency reserve fund estab-
lished under section 450A of the District of Columbia Home 
Rule Act (Public Law 98–198): Provided, That the amount 
borrowed shall not exceed 50 percent of the total amount 
of funds contained in both the emergency and contingency 
reserve funds at the time of borrowing: Provided further, 
That the borrowing shall not deplete either fund by more 
than 50 percent: Provided further, That 100 percent of the 
funds borrowed shall be replenished within 9 months of the 
time of the borrowing or by the end of the fiscal year, which-
ever occurs earlier: Provided further, That in the event that
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short-term borrowing has been conducted and the emergency 
or the contingency funds are later depleted below 50 percent 
as a result of an emergency or contingency, an amount 
equal to the amount necessary to restore reserve levels to 
50 percent of the total amount of funds contained in both 
the emergency and contingency reserve fund must be replen-
ished from the amount borrowed within 60 days. 
SEC. 129. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act 
may be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regula-
tion to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with 
the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I sub-
stance under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) 
or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative. 
(b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treat-
ment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, ap-
proved by the electors of the District of Columbia on Novem-
ber 3, 1998, shall not take effect. 
SEC. 130. None of the funds appropriated under this 
Act shall be expended for any abortion except where the life 
of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried 
to term or where the pregnancy is the result of an act of 
rape or incest. 
SEC. 131. CONVEYANCE OF TITLE FOR EDUCATIONAL 
PURPOSES.—Section 7 of the District of Columbia Stadium 
Act of 1957 (Public Law 85–300, 71 Stat. 619), as amend-
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ed, is further amended by inserting after paragraph (d)(4) 
the following: 
‘‘(e)(1) Upon receipt of a written description from the 
District of Columbia of not more than 15 contiguous acres 
(hereinafter referred to as ‘the 15 acres’), with the longest 
side of the 15 acres abutting one of the roads bounding the 
property, within the area designated ‘D’ on the revised map 
entitled ‘Map to Designate Transfer of Stadium and Lease 
of Parking Lots to the District’ and bound by Oklahoma 
Avenue, NE, Benning Road, NE, the Metro line, and C 
Street, NE, and execution of a long-term lease that is con-
tingent up the Secretary’s conveyance of the 15 acres and 
for the purpose consistent with this paragraph, the Sec-
retary shall convey the 15 acres described land to the Dis-
trict of Columbia for the purpose of siting, developing, and 
operating an educational institution for the public welfare, 
with first preference given to a pre-collegiate public board-
ing school. 
‘‘(2) Upon conveyance, the portion of the stadium lease 
that affects the 15 acres on the property and all the condi-
tions associated therewith shall terminate, and the 15 acres 
property shall be removed from the ‘Map to Designate 
Transfer of Stadium and Lease of Parking Lots to the Dis-
trict’, and the long-term lease described in paragraph (1) 
shall take effect immediately.’’.
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SEC. 132. CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES 
OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. The authority that the 
Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia exercised 
with respect to personnel and the preparation of fiscal im-
pact statements during a control period (as defined in Pub-
lic Law 104–8) shall remain in effect until September 30, 
2006. 
SEC. 133. CLARIFICATION OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES 
OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. The entire process used 
by the Chief Financial Officer to acquire any and all kinds 
of goods, works and services by any contractual means, in-
cluding but not limited to purchase, lease or rental, shall 
be exempt from all of the provisions of the District of Co-
lumbia’s Procurement Practices Act: Provided, That provi-
sions made by this subsection shall take effect as if enacted 
in D.C. Law 11–259 and shall remain in effect until Sep-
tember 30, 2006. 
SEC. 134. Section 4013 of the Uniform Per Student 
Funding Formula for Public Schools and Public Charter 
Schools Amendment Act of 2005, passed on first reading 
on May 10, 2005 (engrossed version of Bill 16–200), is here-
by enacted into law. 
SEC. 135. The Chief Financial Officer of the District 
is hereby authorized to transfer $5,000,000 from the local 
funds appropriated for the Deputy Mayor for Economic De-
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velopment to the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation and to 
reallocate the appropriation authority for such funds to a 
heading to be entitled ‘‘Anacostia Waterfront Corporation’’ 
in addition, an amount of $3,200,000 is hereby appro-
priated from the local funds made available to the Ana-
costia Waterfront Corporation in fiscal year 2005. Pro-
vided, That all of the funds made available herein to the 
Anacostia Waterfront Corporation shall remain available 
until expended. 
SEC. 136. Amounts appropriated in the Act for the De-
partment of Health may be increased by $250,000 in local 
funds to remain available until expended to conduct a 
health study in Spring Valley. 
SEC. 137. WAIVER OF CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF 
AMENDMENTS
TO BALLPARK OMNIBUS FINANCING
AND 
REVENUE
ACT
OF
2004.—Notwithstanding 
section 
602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, 
amendments to the Ballpark Technical Amendments Act of 
2005 and the Ballpark Fee Rebate Act of 2005 shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment by the District of Colum-
bia.
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This division may be cited as the ‘‘District of Colum-
bia Appropriations Act, 2006’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 30, 2005. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk. 
Passed the Senate October 20, 2005. 
Attest: 
EMILY J. REYNOLDS, 
Secretary.