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SEC. 638. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 901 of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c)(1) There shall be within the Executive Office of the Presi-
dent a Chief Financial Officer, who shall be designated or appointed
by the President from among individuals meeting the standards
described in subsection (a)(3). The position of Chief Financial Officer
established under this paragraph may be so established in any
Office (including the Office of Administration) of the Executive
Office of the President.
‘‘(2) The Chief Financial Officer designated or appointed under
this subsection shall, to the extent that the President determines
appropriate and in the interest of the United States, have the
same authority and perform the same functions as apply in the
case of a Chief Financial Officer of an agency described in subsection
(b).
‘‘(3) The President shall submit to Congress notification with
respect to any provision of section 902 that the President determines
shall not apply to a Chief Financial Officer designated or appointed
under this subsection.
‘‘(4) The President may designate an employee of the Executive
Office of the President (other than the Chief Financial Officer),
who shall be deemed ‘the head of the agency’ for purposes of
carrying out section 902, with respect to the Executive Office of
the President.’’.
(b) PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 90 days after
the effective date of this section, the President shall communicate
in writing, to the Chairmen of the Committees on Appropriations,
the Chairman of the Committee on Government Reform of the
House of Representatives, and the Chairman of the Committee
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, a plan for implementation
of the provisions of, and amendments made by, this section.
(c) DEADLINE FOR APPOINTMENT.—The Chief Financial Officer
designated or appointed under section 901(c) of title 31, United
States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall be so designated
or appointed not later than 180 days after the effective date of
this section.
(d) PAY.—The Chief Financial Officer designated or appointed
under such section shall receive basic pay at the rate payable
for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title
5, United States Code.
(e) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.—(1) The President may transfer
such offices, functions, powers, or duties thereof, as the President
determines are properly related to the functions of the Chief Finan-
cial Officer under section 901(c) of title 31, United States Code
(as added by subsection (a)).
(2) The personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property,
records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations,
allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from,
available or to be made available, of any office the functions, powers,
or duties of which are transferred under paragraph (1) shall also
be so transferred.
(f ) SEPARATE BUDGET REQUEST.—Section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended by inserting after paragraph (30)
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(31) a separate statement of the amount of appropriations
requested for the Chief Financial Officer in the Executive Office
of the President.’’.
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(g) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 503(a)
of title 31, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘respectively.’’ and inserting
‘‘respectively (excluding any officer designated or appointed
under section 901(c)).’’; and
(2) in paragraph (8) by striking ‘‘Officers.’’ and inserting
‘‘Officers (excluding any officer designated or appointed under
section 901(c)).’’.
(h) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect at noon
on January 20, 2001.
SEC. 639. (a) Section 304(a) of the Federal Election Campaign
Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434(a)) is amended by striking paragraph
(11) and inserting the following:
‘‘(11)(A) The Commission shall promulgate a regulation under
which a person required to file a designation, statement, or report
under this Act—
‘‘(i) is required to maintain and file a designation, state-
ment, or report for any calendar year in electronic form acces-
sible by computers if the person has, or has reason to expect
to have, aggregate contributions or expenditures in excess of
a threshold amount determined by the Commission; and
‘‘(ii) may maintain and file a designation, statement, or
report in electronic form or an alternative form if not required
to do so under the regulation promulgated under clause (i).
‘‘(B) The Commission shall make a designation, statement,
report, or notification that is filed electronically with the Commis-
sion accessible to the public on the Internet not later than 24
hours after the designation, statement, report, or notification is
received by the Commission.
‘‘(C) In promulgating a regulation under this paragraph, the
Commission shall provide methods (other than requiring a signature
on the document being filed) for verifying designations, statements,
and reports covered by the regulation. Any document verified under
any of the methods shall be treated for all purposes (including
penalties for perjury) in the same manner as a document verified
by signature.
‘‘(D) As used in this paragraph, the term ‘report’ means, with
respect to the Commission, a report, designation, or statement
required by this Act to be filed with the Commission.’’.
(b) The amendments made by this section shall be effective
for reporting periods beginning after December 31, 2000.
SEC. 640. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 309(a)(4) of the Federal
Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 437g(a)(4)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘clause (ii)’’ and
inserting ‘‘clauses (ii) and subparagraph (C)’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(C)(i) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), in the case of a
violation of any requirement of section 304(a) of the Act (2 U.S.C.
434(a)), the Commission may—
‘‘(I) find that a person committed such a violation on the
basis of information obtained pursuant to the procedures
described in paragraphs (1) and (2); and
‘‘(II) based on such finding, require the person to pay
a civil money penalty in an amount determined under a
schedule of penalties which is established and published by
the Commission and which takes into account the amount
of the violation involved, the existence of previous violations
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by the person, and such other factors as the Commission con-
siders appropriate.
‘‘(ii) The Commission may not make any determination adverse
to a person under clause (i) until the person has been given written
notice and an opportunity to be heard before the Commission.
‘‘(iii) Any person against whom an adverse determination is
made under this subparagraph may obtain a review of such deter-
mination in the district court of the United States for the district
in which the person resides, or transacts business, by filing in
such court (prior to the expiration of the 30-day period which
begins on the date the person receives notification of the determina-
tion) a written petition requesting that the determination be modi-
fied or set aside.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 309(a)(6)(A) of such Act
(2 U.S.C. 437g(a)(6)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘paragraph (4)(A)’’
and inserting ‘‘paragraph (4)’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section
shall apply with respect to violations occurring between January
1, 2000 and December 31, 2001.
SEC. 641. (a) Section 304(b) of the Federal Election Campaign
Act (2 U.S.C. 434(b)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(or election cycle,
in the case of an authorized committee of a candidate for Federal
office)’’ after ‘‘calendar year’’ each place it appears in paragraphs
(2), (3), (4), (6), and (7).
(b) The amendment made by this section shall become effective
with respect to reporting periods beginning after December 31,
2000.
SEC. 642. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 636 of the Treasury Postal
Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 (5
U.S.C. prec. 5941 note) is amended in the first sentence by striking
‘‘may’’ and inserting ‘‘shall’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall take effect on October 1, 1999, or the date of the enactment
of this Act, whichever is later.
SEC. 643. (a) IN GENERAL.—Upon promulgation of the regula-
tions required under subsection (c), an Executive agency which
provides or proposes to provide child care services for Federal
employees may use appropriated funds (otherwise available to such
agency for salaries) to provide child care, in a Federal or leased
facility, or through contract, for civilian employees of such agency.
(b) AFFORDABILITY.—Amounts so provided with respect to any
such facility or contractor shall be applied to improve the afford-
ability of child care for lower income Federal employees using
or seeking to use the child care services offered by such facility
or contractor.
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Management shall,
within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, issue
regulations necessary to carry out this section.
(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Execu-
tive agency’’ has the meaning given such term by section 105
of title 5, United States Code, but does not include the General
Accounting Office.
(e) NOTIFICATION.—None of the funds made available in this
or any other Act may be used to implement the provisions of
this section absent advance notification to the Committees on Appro-
priations.
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SEC. 644. (a) INCREASE IN ANNUAL COMPENSATION.—Section
102 of title 3, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘$200,000’’
and inserting ‘‘$400,000’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this section
shall take effect at noon on January 20, 2001.
SEC. 645. Effective October 1, 1999, all personnel of the General
Accounting Office employed or maintained to carry out functions
of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP)
shall be transferred to the General Services Administration. The
Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall provide to
the General Services Administration one permanent Senior Execu-
tive Service allocation for the position of the Executive Director
of the JFMIP. Personnel transferred pursuant to this section shall
not be separated or reduced in classification or compensation for
1 year after any such transfer, except for cause.
SEC. 646. (a) The adjustment in rates of basic pay for the
statutory pay systems that takes effect in fiscal year 2000 under
sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5, United States Code, shall be
an increase of 4.8 percent.
(b) Funds used to carry out this section shall be paid from
appropriations which are made to each applicable department or
agency for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 647. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman
may breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building
or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise
authorized to be present at the location.
SEC. 648. FEDERAL FUNDS IDENTIFIED. Any request for pro-
posals, solicitation, grant application, form, notification, press
release, or other publications involving the distribution of Federal
funds shall indicate the agency providing the funds and the amount
provided. This provision shall apply to direct payments, formula
funds, and grants received by a State receiving Federal funds.
SEC. 649. (a) Congress finds that—
(1) the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘VFW’’), which was formed
by veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine
Insurrection to help secure rights and benefits for their service,
will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in 1999;
(2) members of the VFW have fought, bled, and died in
every war, conflict, police action, and military intervention in
which the United States has engaged during this century;
(3) over its history, the VFW has ably represented the
interests of veterans in Congress and State Legislatures across
the Nation and established a network of trained service officers
who, at no charge, have helped millions of veterans and their
dependents to secure the education, disability compensation,
pension, and health care benefits they are rightfully entitled
to receive as a result of the military service performed by
those veterans;
(4) the VFW has also been deeply involved in national
education projects, awarding nearly $2,700,000 in scholarships
annually, as well as countless community projects initiated
by its 10,000 posts; and
(5) the United States Postal Service has issued commemo-
rative postage stamps honoring the VFW’s 50th and 75th
anniversaries, respectively.