I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3633 
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to make local funds 
of the District of Columbia available for use by the District during 
any portion of a fiscal year in which no Federal law appropriating 
local funds for the fiscal year is in effect, at the rates of operation 
provided under the local budget act for the fiscal year, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to make 
local funds of the District of Columbia available for 
use by the District during any portion of a fiscal year 
in which no Federal law appropriating local funds for 
the fiscal year is in effect, at the rates of operation 
provided under the local budget act for the fiscal year, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 
Government Shutdown Avoidance Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LOCAL 
FUNDS IN ABSENCE OF FEDERAL LAW AP-
PROPRIATING LOCAL FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart 1 of part D of title IV 
of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act is amended 
by inserting after section 446B the following new section: 
‘‘AVAILABILITY OF LOCAL FUNDS IN ABSENCE OF 
FEDERAL LAW 
‘‘SEC. 446C. (a) AVAILABILITY OF LOCAL FUNDS AT 
RATE ESTABLISHED BY LOCAL LAW IN ABSENCE OF 
FEDERAL LAW APPROPRIATING LOCAL FUNDS.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of this Act, during any 
portion of a fiscal year in which neither the regular Dis-
trict of Columbia appropriation bill for the fiscal year nor 
a District of Columbia continuing resolution for the fiscal 
year is in effect, the District of Columbia may obligate 
and expend local funds for projects and activities in ac-
cordance with the local budget act for the fiscal year at 
the rate of operations provided under such local budget 
act. 
‘‘(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The obligation and 
expenditure of local funds for a project or activity during 
a fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be subject to 
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the terms and conditions imposed with respect to the obli-
gation and expenditure of local funds for the project or 
activity during the preceding fiscal year, or the authority 
granted for such project or activity under the applicable 
law in effect at the time. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘District of Columbia continuing 
resolution’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, any 
joint resolution making continuing appropriations 
for the fiscal year which includes continuing appro-
priations for the government of the District of Co-
lumbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in 
part against the revenues of the District; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘local budget act’ means, with re-
spect to a fiscal year, the act of the Council adopt-
ing the annual budget for the District of Columbia 
government for such fiscal year, as enacted pursuant 
to this Act; and 
‘‘(3) the term ‘regular District of Columbia ap-
propriation bill’ means, with respect to a fiscal year, 
an annual appropriation bill making appropriations, 
otherwise making funds available, or granting au-
thority, for the fiscal year for the government of the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable 
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in whole or in part against the revenues of the Dis-
trict. 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 
with respect to fiscal year 2017 and each succeeding fiscal 
year.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 446 of 
such Act (sec. 1–204.46, D.C. Official Code) is amended 
by inserting ‘‘section 446C,’’ after ‘‘section 446B,’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of subpart 1 of part D of title IV of the District of Colum-
bia Home Rule Act is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 446B the following: 
‘‘446C. Availability of local funds in absence of Federal law.’’. 
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