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sonnel Management to be consistent with the purpose of this
section.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for
service performed after September 30, 1998.
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of
law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribution,
or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis
of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic
pay payable after the application of this section shall be
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by this
section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable
were this section not in effect.
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section if
the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary to
ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees.
SEC. 615. During the period in which the head of any
department or agency, or any other officer or civilian em-
ployee of the Government appointed by the President of the
United States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or
expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or redecorate the
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office of such department head, agency head, officer, or em-
ployee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for
any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing
or redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees on
Appropriations of the House and Senate. For the purposes
of this section, the word ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire
suite of offices assigned to the individual, as well as any
other space used primarily by the individual or the use of
which is directly controlled by the individual.
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig-
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of con-
ducting Federal law enforcement training without the ad-
vance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations, except that the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center is authorized to obtain the temporary use
of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement
for training which cannot be accommodated in existing
Center facilities.
SEC. 617. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31,
United States Code, or section 611 of this Act, funds made
available for fiscal year 1999 by this or any other Act shall
be available for the interagency funding of national security
and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives
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which benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or en-
tities, as provided by Executive Order No. 12472 (April 3,
1984).
SEC. 618. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality for the
salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a position
of a confidential or policy-determining character excepted
from the competitive service pursuant to section 3302 of
title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the
Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality employ-
ing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position
was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the
employee to the White House.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to
Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed
to or from—
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
(2) the National Security Agency;
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense
for the collection of specialized national foreign intel-
ligence through reconnaissance programs;
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(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of
the Department of State;
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration of the Department of Justice, the De-
partment of Transportation, the Department of the
Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing
intelligence functions; and
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence.
SEC. 619. No department, agency, or instrumentality
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under
this or any other Act for fiscal year 1999 shall obligate or
expend any such funds, unless such department, agency, or
instrumentality has in place, and will continue to admin-
ister in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that
all of its workplaces are free from discrimination and sex-
ual harassment and that all of its workplaces are not in
violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of
1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
SEC. 620. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act may be used to pay for the expenses of travel of
employees, including employees of the Executive Office of
the President, not directly responsible for the discharge of
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official governmental tasks and duties: Provided, That this
restriction shall not apply to the family of the President,
Members of Congress or their spouses, Heads of State of a
foreign country or their designees, persons providing assist-
ance to the President for official purposes, or other individ-
uals so designated by the President.
SEC. 621. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the
President, or his designee, must certify to Congress, annu-
ally, that no person or persons with direct or indirect re-
sponsibility for administering the Executive Office of the
President’s Drug-Free Workplace Plan are themselves sub-
ject to a program of individual random drug testing.
SEC. 622. (a) None of the funds made available in this
or any other Act may be obligated or expended for any em-
ployee training that—
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge,
skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the perform-
ance of official duties;
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels
of emotional response or psychological stress in some
participants;
(3) does not require prior employee notification
of the content and methods to be used in the training
and written end of course evaluation;
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(4) contains any methods or content associated
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Employ-
ment Opportunity Commission Notice N–915.022,
dated September 2, 1988; or
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, partici-
pants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the work-
place.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties.
SEC. 623. No funds appropriated in this or any other
Act for fiscal year 1999 may be used to implement or en-
force the agreements in Standard Forms 312 and 4355 of
the Government or any other nondisclosure policy, form, or
agreement if such policy, form, or agreement does not con-
tain the following provisions: ‘‘These restrictions are con-
sistent with and do not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise
alter the employee obligations, rights, or liabilities created
by Executive Order No. 12356; section 7211 of title 5,
United States Code (governing disclosures to Congress); sec-
tion 1034 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by
the Military Whistleblower Protection Act (governing dis-
closure to Congress by members of the military); section
2302(b)(8) of title 5, United States Code, as amended by
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graphs (A) and (B), as each applies to the hours in-
volved.
‘‘(2) For purposes of sections 5595(c), 5941, 8331(3),
and 8704(c), and for such other purposes as may be ex-
pressly provided for by law or as the Office of Personnel
Management may by regulation prescribe, the basic pay of
a firefighter subject to this subsection shall include—
‘‘(A) an amount computed under paragraph
(1)(A) for the hours within the basic 40-hour work-
week; and
‘‘(B) an amount equal to the firefighter’s basic
hourly rate (as computed under paragraph (1)(B))
for all hours outside the basic 40-hour workweek that
are within such firefighter’s regular tour of duty (in-
cluding overtime hours).
‘‘(d)(1) A firefighter who is subject to this section shall
receive overtime pay in accordance with section 5542, but
shall not receive premium pay provided by other provisions
of this subchapter.
‘‘(2) For the purpose of applying section 7(k) of the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to a firefighter who is
subject to this section, no violation referred to in such sec-
tion 7(k) shall be deemed to have occurred if the require-
ments of section 5542(a) are met, applying section 5542(a)
as provided in subsection (f) of that section. The overtime