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(c) EXCEPTION.—This section shall not apply to any 
Federal Government contract entered into before the date 
of the enactment of this Act, or to any task order issued 
pursuant to such contract. 
SEC. 746. (a) Each executive department and agency 
shall establish and maintain on the homepage of its website, 
an obvious, direct link to the website of its respective Inspec-
tor General. 
(b) Each Office of Inspector General shall: (1) post on 
its website any public report or audit or portion of any 
report or audit issued within one day of its release; (2) pro-
vide a service on its website to allow an individual to re-
quest automatic receipt of information relating to any pub-
lic report or audit or portion of that report or audit and 
which permits electronic transmittal of the information, or 
notice of the availability of the information without further 
request; and (3) establish and maintain a direct link on 
its website for individuals to anonymously report waste, 
fraud and abuse. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
SEC. 801. Whenever in this Act, an amount is specified 
within an appropriation for particular purposes or objects 
of expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise specified, 
shall be considered as the maximum amount that may be
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expended for said purpose or object rather than an amount 
set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 802. Appropriations in this Act shall be available 
for expenses of travel and for the payment of dues of organi-
zations 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 nec-
essary for making refunds and for the payment of legal set-
tlements 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 
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 ob-
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ligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, 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 specifically 
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 $3,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever 
is less; or 
(7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel as-
signed to a specific program, project or responsibility 
center, 
unless in the case of Federal funds, the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate are
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notified in writing 15 days in advance of the reprogram-
ming and in the case of local funds, the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate are 
provided summary reports on April 1, 2008 and October 
1, 2008, setting forth detailed information regarding each 
such local funds reprogramming conducted subject to this 
subsection. 
(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 $3,000,000 
from one appropriation heading to another unless the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and Senate are provided summary reports on April 1, 2008 
and October 1, 2008, setting forth detailed information re-
garding each reprogramming conducted subject to this sub-
section, except that in no event may the amount of any 
funds transferred exceed 4 percent of the local funds in the 
appropriations. 
(c) The District of Columbia Government is authorized 
to approve and execute reprogramming and transfer re-
quests of local funds under this title through December 1, 
2008. 
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
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the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided 
by law. 
SEC. 807. Notwithstanding any other provisions of 
law, the provisions of the District of Columbia Government 
Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Law 2– 
139; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–601.01 et seq.), enacted pur-
suant to section 422(3) of the District of Columbia 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, employees of the District of 
Columbia government shall not be subject to the provisions 
of title 5, United States Code: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other law (or 5 U.S.C. § 8344(a)), the District 
Government Reemployed Annuitant Offset Amendment Act 
of 2004, effective December 7, 2004 (D.C. Law 15–207; 51 
DCR 8799), shall apply to any individual employed in an 
appointive or elective position with the District of Colum-
bia government after December 7, 2004. 
SEC. 808. No later than 30 days after the end of the 
first quarter of fiscal year 2008, 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 
2008 revenue estimates as of the end of such quarter. These 
estimates shall be used in the budget request for fiscal year
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2009. The officially revised estimates at midyear shall be 
used for the midyear report. 
SEC. 809. None of the Federal funds provided in this 
Act may be used by the District of Columbia to provide 
for salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the of-
fices of United States Senator or United States Representa-
tive under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia State-
hood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 (D.C. 
Law 3–171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–123). 
SEC. 810. 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 otherwise im-
plement or enforce any system of registration of unmarried, 
cohabiting couples, including but not limited to registration 
for the purpose of extending employment, health, or govern-
mental benefits to such couples on the same basis that such 
benefits are extended to legally married couples. 
SEC. 811. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Finan-
cial Officer of the District of Columbia may accept, obligate, 
and expend Federal, private, and other grants received by 
the District government that are not reflected in the 
amounts appropriated in this Act.
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(b)(1) No such Federal, private, or other grant may 
be obligated, or expended pursuant to subsection (a) until— 
(A) the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia submits to the Council a report setting 
forth detailed information regarding such grant; and 
(B) the Council has reviewed and approved the 
obligation, and expenditure of such grant. 
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the Council 
shall be deemed to have reviewed and approved the obliga-
tion, and expenditure of a grant if— 
(A) no written notice of disapproval is filed with 
the Secretary of the Council within 14 calendar days 
of the receipt of the report from the Chief Financial 
Officer under paragraph (1)(A); or 
(B) if such a notice of disapproval is filed with-
in such deadline, the Council does not by resolution 
disapprove the obligation, or expenditure of the grant 
within 30 calendar days of the initial receipt of the 
report from the Chief Financial Officer under para-
graph (1)(A). 
(c) No amount may be obligated or expended from the 
general fund or other funds of the District of Columbia gov-
ernment in anticipation of the approval or receipt of a 
grant under subsection (b)(2) or in anticipation of the ap-
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proval or receipt of a Federal, private, or other grant not 
subject to such subsection. 
(d) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Co-
lumbia may adjust the budget for Federal, private, and 
other grants received by the District government reflected 
in the amounts appropriated in this title, or approved and 
received under subsection (b)(2) to reflect a change in the 
actual amount of the grant. 
(e) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Co-
lumbia shall prepare a quarterly report setting forth de-
tailed information regarding all Federal, private, and other 
grants subject to this section. Each such report shall be sub-
mitted to the Council of the District of Columbia and to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and Senate not later than 15 days after the 
end of the quarter covered by the report. 
SEC. 812. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this sec-
tion, none of the funds made available by this Act or by 
any other Act may be used to provide any officer or em-
ployee of the District of Columbia with an official vehicle 
unless the officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the 
performance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties. For 
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘‘official duties’’ does 
not include travel between the officer’s or employee’s resi-
dence and workplace, except in the case of—
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(1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan 
Police Department who resides in the District of Co-
lumbia or is otherwise designated by the Chief of the 
Department; 
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, an officer 
or employee of the District of Columbia Fire and 
Emergency Medical Services Department who resides 
in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 hours 
a day or is otherwise designated by the Fire Chief; 
(3) at the discretion of the Director of the De-
partment of Corrections, an officer or employee of the 
District of Columbia Department of Corrections who 
resides in the District of Columbia and is on call 24 
hours a day or is otherwise designated by the Direc-
tor; 
(4) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and 
(5) the Chairman of the Council of the District 
of Columbia. 
(b) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Co-
lumbia shall submit by March 1, 2008, an inventory, as 
of September 30, 2007, of all vehicles owned, leased or oper-
ated by the District of Columbia government. The inventory 
shall include, but not be limited to, the department to which 
the vehicle is assigned; the year and make of the vehicle; 
the acquisition date and cost; the general condition of the
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vehicle; annual operating and maintenance costs; current 
mileage; and whether the vehicle is allowed to be taken home 
by a District officer or employee and if so, the officer or 
employee’s title and resident location. 
SEC. 813. (a) None of the Federal funds contained in 
this Act may be used by the District of Columbia Corpora-
tion Counsel or any other officer or entity of the District 
government to provide assistance for any petition drive or 
civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for 
voting representation in Congress for the District of Colum-
bia. 
(b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Colum-
bia Corporation Counsel from reviewing or commenting on 
briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials 
of the District government regarding such lawsuits. 
SEC. 814. None of the Federal funds contained in this 
Act may be used for any program of distributing sterile 
needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any ille-
gal drug. 
SEC. 815. None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be used after the expiration of the 60-day period that begins 
on the date of the enactment of this Act to pay the salary 
of any chief financial officer of any office of the District 
of Columbia government (including any independent agen-
cy of the District of Columbia) who has not filed a certifi-
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cation with the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer of 
the District of Columbia that the officer understands the 
duties and restrictions applicable to the officer and the offi-
cer’s agency as a result of this Act (and the amendments 
made by this Act), including any duty to prepare a report 
requested either in the Act or in any of the reports accom-
panying the Act and the deadline by which each report 
must be submitted: Provided, That the Chief Financial Offi-
cer of the District of Columbia shall provide to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate by April 1, 2008 and October 1, 2008, a summary 
list showing each report, the due date, and the date sub-
mitted to the Committees. 
SEC. 816. Nothing in this Act may be construed to pre-
vent the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from 
addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive cov-
erage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent of Con-
gress that any legislation enacted on such issue should in-
clude a ‘‘conscience clause’’ which provides exceptions for 
religious beliefs and moral convictions. 
SEC. 817. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and Senate, the Committee on Govern-
ment Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
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mittee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate annual re-
ports addressing— 
(1) crime, including the homicide rate, imple-
mentation of community policing, the number of po-
lice officers on local beats, and the closing down of 
open-air drug markets; 
(2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treat-
ment, including the number of treatment slots, the 
number of people served, the number of people on 
waiting lists, and the effectiveness of treatment pro-
grams; 
(3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent 
offenders, including the number of halfway houses es-
capes and steps taken to improve monitoring and su-
pervision of halfway house residents to reduce the 
number of escapes to be provided in consultation with 
the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency 
for the District of Columbia; 
(4) education, including access to special edu-
cation services and student achievement to be pro-
vided in consultation with the District of Columbia 
Public Schools and the District of Columbia public 
charter schools; 
(5) improvement in basic District services, in-
cluding rat control and abatement;
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(6) application for and management of Federal 
grants, including the number and type of grants for 
which the District was eligible but failed to apply 
and the number and type of grants awarded to the 
District but for which the District failed to spend the 
amounts received; and 
(7) indicators of child well-being. 
SEC. 818. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial 
Officer of the District of Columbia shall submit to the ap-
propriate committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Coun-
cil of the District of Columbia a revised appropriated funds 
operating budget in the format of the budget that the Dis-
trict of Columbia government submitted pursuant to section 
442 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Offi-
cial Code, sec. 1–204.42), for all agencies of the District of 
Columbia government for fiscal year 2008 that is in the 
total amount of the approved appropriation and that re-
aligns all budgeted data for personal services and other- 
than-personal-services, respectively, with anticipated actual 
expenditures. 
(b) This section and its reporting requirement shall 
apply only to an agency where the Chief Financial Officer 
of the District of Columbia certifies that a reallocation is
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required to address unanticipated changes in program re-
quirements. 
SEC. 819. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act 
may be made available to pay— 
(1) the fees of an attorney who represents a 
party in an action or an attorney who defends an ac-
tion brought against the District of Columbia Public 
Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) in excess of $4,000 
for that action; or 
(2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the 
Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
determines to have a pecuniary interest, either 
through an attorney, officer, or employee of the firm, 
in any special education diagnostic services, schools, 
or other special education service providers. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘action’’ includes an ad-
ministrative proceeding and any ensuing or related pro-
ceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 820. The amount appropriated by this title may 
be increased by no more than $50,000,000 from funds iden-
tified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the 
District’s fiscal year 2007 unexpended general fund surplus. 
The District may obligate and expend these amounts only 
in accordance with the following conditions:
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(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia shall certify that the use of any such 
amounts is not anticipated to have a negative impact 
on the District’s long-term financial, fiscal, and eco-
nomic vitality. 
(2) The District of Columbia may only use these 
funds for the following expenditures: 
(A) One-time expenditures. 
(B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending. 
(C) Debt Reduction. 
(D) Program needs. 
(E) Expenditures to avoid revenue short-
falls. 
(3) The amounts shall be obligated and expended 
in accordance with laws enacted by the Council in 
support of each such obligation or expenditure. 
(4) The amounts may not be used to fund the 
agencies of the District of Columbia government 
under court ordered receivership. 
(5) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor notifies the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the obli-
gation or expenditure.
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SEC. 821. (a) To account for an unanticipated growth 
of revenue collections, the amount appropriated as District 
of Columbia Funds pursuant to this Act may be in-
creased— 
(1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 25 
percent, in the case of amounts proposed to be allo-
cated as ‘‘Other-Type Funds’’ in the Fiscal Year 2008 
Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to 
Congress by the District of Columbia; and 
(2) by an aggregate amount of not more than 6 
percent, in the case of any other amounts proposed to 
be allocated in such Proposed Budget and Financial 
Plan. 
(b) The District of Columbia may obligate and expend 
any increase in the amount of funds authorized under this 
section only in accordance with the following conditions: 
(1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia shall certify— 
(A) the increase in revenue; and 
(B) that the use of the amounts is not an-
ticipated to have a negative impact on the long- 
term financial, fiscal, or economic health of the 
District. 
(2) The amounts shall be obligated and expended 
in accordance with laws enacted by the Council of the
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District of Columbia in support of each such obliga-
tion and expenditure, consistent with the require-
ments of this Act. 
(3) The amounts may not be used to fund any 
agencies of the District government operating under 
court-ordered receivership. 
(4) The amounts may not be obligated or ex-
pended unless the Mayor has notified the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the 
obligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 822. The Chief Financial Officer for the District 
of Columbia may, for the purpose of cash flow management, 
conduct short-term borrowing from the emergency reserve 
fund and from the contingency reserve fund established 
under section 450A of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
Act (Public Law 93–198): Provided, That the amount bor-
rowed shall not exceed 50 percent of the total amount of 
funds contained in both the emergency and contingency re-
serve funds at the time of borrowing: Provided further, That 
the borrowing shall not deplete either fund by more than 
50 percent: Provided further, That 100 percent of the funds 
borrowed shall be replenished within 9 months of the time 
of the borrowing or by the end of the fiscal year, whichever 
occurs earlier: Provided further, That in the event that
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short-term borrowing has been conducted and the emergency 
or the contingency funds are later depleted below 50 percent 
as a result of an emergency or contingency, an amount 
equal to the amount necessary to restore reserve levels to 
50 percent of the total amount of funds contained in both 
the emergency and contingency reserve fund must be replen-
ished from the amount borrowed within 60 days. 
SEC. 823. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act 
may be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regula-
tion to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with 
the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I sub-
stance under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) 
or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative. 
(b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treat-
ment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, ap-
proved by the electors of the District of Columbia on Novem-
ber 3, 1998, shall not take effect. 
SEC. 824. None of the funds appropriated under this 
Act shall be expended for any abortion except where the life 
of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried 
to term or where the pregnancy is the result of an act of 
rape or incest. 
SEC. 825. (a) DIRECT
APPROPRIATION.—Section 
307(a) of the District of Columbia Court Reform and 
Criminal Procedure Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1607(a), D.C. Offi-
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cial Code) is amended by striking the first 2 sentences and 
inserting the following: ‘‘There are authorized to be appro-
priated to the Service in each fiscal year such funds as may 
be necessary to carry out this chapter.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 11233 of the 
Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (sec. 24–133, D.C. Official 
Code) is amended by striking subsection (f). 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2008 and each 
succeeding fiscal year. 
SEC. 826. Amounts appropriated in this Act as oper-
ating funds may be transferred to the District of Columbia’s 
enterprise and capital funds and such amounts, once trans-
ferred shall retain appropriation authority consistent with 
the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 827. The Student Funding Formula Assessment, 
Educational Data Warehouse, and Enrollment Fund Estab-
lishment Amendment Act of 2007, passed on first reading 
on May 15, 2007, (Engrossed version of Bill 17–148) is en-
acted into law. 
SEC. 828. Section 424(b)(2)(E) of the District of Co-
lumbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1–204.24b(b)(5), D.C. Official 
Code) is amended by striking the phrase ‘‘level I’’ and in-
serting the phrase ‘‘level I times 1.50’’ in its place: Pro-
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vided, That the changes made by this section shall be ap-
plied as of April 18, 2007. 
SEC. 829. Section 16(d) of the Victims of Violent 
Crime Compensation Act of 1996, effective April 9, 1997 
(D.C. Law 11–243; D.C. Official Code § 4–515(d)), is 
amended to read as follows— 
‘‘(d) Any unobligated balance existing in the Fund as 
of the end of each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 
2007) shall be transferred from the Fund to the Crime Vic-
tims Assistance Fund established by section 16a (D.C. Offi-
cial Code § 4–515.01) and shall be available for obligation 
and expenditures without fiscal year limitation. All such 
expenditures shall be in accordance with a plan developed 
by the District of Columbia that is submitted to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate.’’. 
SEC. 830. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any 
reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this title or in title 
IV shall be treated as referring only to the provisions of 
this title or of title IV. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Services and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 2008’’.
Calendar No. 268 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H.R. 2829 
[Report No. 110–129] 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for financial services and 
general goverment for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2008, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 29, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations 
JULY 13, 2007 
Reported with an amendment