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by individual department and agency, as well as aggregate 
totals of civilian, military, and contract workers. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DISTRICT OF 
COLUMBIA 
SEC. 801. Whenever in this Act, an amount is speci-
fied within an appropriation for particular purposes or ob-
jects of expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise speci-
fied, shall be considered as the maximum amount that 
may be expended for said purpose or object rather than 
an amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 802. Appropriations in this Act shall be avail-
able for expenses of travel and for the payment of dues 
of organizations concerned with the work of the District 
of Columbia government, when authorized by the Mayor, 
or, in the case of the Council of the District of Columbia, 
funds may be expended with the authorization of the 
Chairman of the Council. 
SEC. 803. There are appropriated from the applicable 
funds of the District of Columbia such sums as may be 
necessary for making refunds and for the payment of legal 
settlements or judgments that have been entered against 
the District of Columbia government. 
SEC. 804. (a) None of the Federal funds provided in 
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes 
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or implementation of any policy including boycott designed 
to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress 
or any State legislature. 
(b) The District of Columbia may use local funds pro-
vided in this title to carry out lobbying activities on any 
matter. 
SEC. 805. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act to the agencies funded by this Act, both Federal and 
District government agencies, that remain available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2009, or provided 
from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States 
derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies 
funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or ex-
penditures for an agency through a reprogramming of 
funds which— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or responsi-
bility center; 
(3) establishes or changes allocations specifi-
cally denied, limited or increased under this Act; 
(4) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any program, project, or responsibility center for 
which funds have been denied or restricted; 
(5) reestablishes any program or project pre-
viously deferred through reprogramming; 
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(6) augments any existing program, project, or 
responsibility center through a reprogramming of 
funds in excess of $3,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; or 
(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel 
assigned to a specific program, project or responsi-
bility center, 
unless in the case of Federal funds, the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate are notified in writing 15 days in advance of the 
reprogramming and in the case of local funds, the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate are provided summary reports on April 
1, 2009 and October 1, 2009, setting forth detailed infor-
mation regarding each such local funds reprogramming 
conducted subject to this subsection. 
(b) None of the local funds contained in this Act may 
be available for obligation or expenditure for an agency 
through a transfer of any local funds in excess of 
$3,000,000 from one appropriation heading to another un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are provided summary re-
ports on April 1, 2009 and October 1, 2009, setting forth 
detailed information regarding each reprogramming con-
ducted subject to this subsection. 
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(c) The District of Columbia government is author-
ized to approve and execute reprogramming and transfer 
requests of local funds under this title through December 
1, 2009. 
SEC. 806. Consistent with the provisions of section 
1301(a) of title 31, United States Code, appropriations 
under this Act shall be applied only to the objects for 
which the appropriations were made except as otherwise 
provided by law. 
SEC. 807. None of the Federal funds made available 
in this Act may be used to implement or enforce the 
Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (D.C. Law 
9–114; D.C. Official Code, sec. 32–701 et seq.) or to oth-
erwise implement or enforce any system of registration of 
unmarried, cohabiting couples, including but not limited 
to registration for the purpose of extending employment, 
health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the 
same basis that such benefits are extended to legally mar-
ried couples. 
SEC. 808. (a) Section 446B(f) of the District of Co-
lumbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–204.46b(f), D.C. Official 
Code) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 2006 through 
2008’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2006 and each suc-
ceeding fiscal year’’. 
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