SEC. 103. 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. 104. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly provided herein.
SEC. 105. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b),
no part of this appropriation shall be used for publicity
or propaganda purposes 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 Act to carry out lobbying activities on any
matter other than—
(1) the promotion or support of any boycott; or
(2) statehood for the District of Columbia or
voting representation in Congress for the District of
Columbia.
(c) Nothing in this section may be construed to pro-
hibit any elected official from advocating with respect to
any of the issues referred to in subsection (b).
SEC. 106. (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 2005, 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;
(6) augments any existing program, project, or
responsibility center through a reprogramming of
funds in excess of $1,000,000 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 the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and Senate are notified in writing 15 days
in advance of the reprogramming.
(b) None 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
$1,000,000 from one appropriation heading to another un-
less the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and Senate are notified in writing 15 days
in advance of the transfer, except that in no event may
the amount of any funds transferred exceed 4 percent of
the local funds in the appropriations.
SEC. 107. 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. 108. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, the provisions of the District of Columbia Govern-
ment Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C.
Law 2–139; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–601.01 et seq.),
enacted pursuant to section 422(3) of the District of Co-
lumbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–
204l.22(3)), shall apply with respect to the compensation
of District of Columbia employees. For pay purposes, em-
ployees of the District of Columbia government shall not
be subject to the provisions of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 109. No later than 30 days after the end of the
first quarter of fiscal year 2005, the Mayor of the District
of Columbia shall submit to the Council of the District
of Columbia and the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and Senate the new fiscal year
2005 revenue estimates as of the end of such quarter.
These estimates shall be used in the budget request for
fiscal year 2006. The officially revised estimates at mid-
year shall be used for the midyear report.
SEC. 110. No sole source contract with the District
of Columbia government or any agency thereof may be re-
newed or extended without opening that contract to the
competitive bidding process as set forth in section 303 of
the District of Columbia Procurement Practices Act of
1985 (D.C. Law 6–85; D.C. Official Code, sec. 2–303.03),
except that the District of Columbia government or any
agency thereof may renew or extend sole source contracts
for which competition is not feasible or practical, but only
if the determination as to whether to invoke the competi-
tive bidding process has been made in accordance with
duly promulgated rules and procedures and has been re-
viewed and certified by the Chief Financial Officer of the
District of Columbia.