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Office and to assist in promoting the efficiency of the Of-
fice.’’.
Ω41æSEC. 212. Section 753 of title 31, United States
Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d)
as (c), (d), and (e), respectively.
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) a new sub-
section (b) as follows:
‘‘(b) The Board has no authority to issue a stay of
any reduction in force action.’’; and
(3) in the second sentence of subsection (c), as re-
designated, by striking ‘‘(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)’’.
Ω42æSEC. 213. The General Accounting Office may for
such officers and employees as it deems appropriate author-
ize a payment to officers and employees who voluntarily
separate on or before September 30, 1995, whether by retire-
ment or resignation, which payment shall be paid in ac-
cordance with the provisions of section 5597(d) of title 5,
United States Code.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. 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
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Committee on House Oversight and for the Senate issued
by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 303. Whenever any office or position not specifi-
cally established by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is ap-
propriated for herein or whenever the rate of compensa-
tion or designation of any position appropriated for herein
is different from that specifically established for such posi-
tion by such Act, the rate of compensation and the des-
ignation of the position, or either, appropriated for or pro-
vided herein, shall be the permanent law with respect
thereto: Provided, That the provisions herein for the var-
ious items of official expenses of Members, officers, and
committees of the Senate and House of Representatives,
and clerk hire for Senators and Members of the House
of Representatives shall be the permanent law with respect
thereto.
SEC. 304. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter
of public record and available for public inspection, except
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where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 305. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act
should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 306. (a) Upon approval of the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and in
accordance with conditions determined by the Committee
on House Oversight, positions in connection with House
parking activities and related funding shall be transferred
from the appropriation ‘‘Architect of the Capitol, Capitol
buildings and grounds, House office buildings’’ to the ap-
propriation ‘‘House of Representatives, salaries, officers
and employees, Office of the Sergeant at Arms’’: Provided,
That the position of Superintendent of Garages shall be
subject to authorization in annual appropriation Acts.
(b) For purposes of section 8339(m) of title 5, United
States Code, the days of unused sick leave to the credit
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of any such employee as of the date such employee is
transferred under subsection (a) shall be included in the
total service of such employee in connection with the com-
putation of any annuity under subsections (a) through (e)
and (o) of such section.
(c) In the case of days of annual leave to the credit
of any such employee as of the date such employee is
transferred under subsection (a) the Architect of the Cap-
itol is authorized to make a lump sum payment to each
such employee for that annual leave. No such payment
shall be considered a payment or compensation within the
meaning of any law relating to dual compensation.
SEC. 307. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for the relocation of the office of any
Member of the House of Representatives within the House
office buildings.
Ω43æSEC. 308. (a)(1) Effective October 1, 1995, the
unexpended balances of appropriations specified in para-
graph (2) are transferred to the appropriation for general
expenses of the Capitol Police, to be used for design and
installation of security systems for the Capitol buildings
and grounds.
(2) The unexpended balances referred to in para-
graph (1) are—
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(A) the unexpended balance of appropriations
for security installations, as referred to in the para-
graph under the heading ‘‘CAPITOL
BUILDINGS’’,
under the general headings ‘‘JOINT ITEMS’’, ‘‘AR-
CHITECT OF THE CAPITOL’’, and ‘‘CAPITOL
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS’’ in title I of the Legisla-
tive Branch Appropriations Act, 1995 (108 Stat.
1434), including any unexpended balance from a
prior fiscal year and any unexpended balance under
such headings in this Act; and
(B) the unexpended balance of the appropria-
tion for an improved security plan, as transferred to
the Architect of the Capitol by section 102 of the
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989 (102
Stat. 2165).
(b) Effective October 1, 1995, the responsibility for
design and installation of security systems for the Capitol
buildings and grounds is transferred from the Architect
of the Capitol to the Capitol Police Board. Such design
and installation shall be carried out under the direction
of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Admin-
istration of the Senate, and without regard to section 3709
of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C.
5). On and after October 1, 1995, any alteration to a