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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
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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,
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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-
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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.
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SEC. 111. 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 
offices of United States Senator or United States Rep-
resentative under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia 
Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 
(D.C. Law 3–171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1–123). 
SEC. 112. 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. 113. 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 oth-
erwise implement or enforce any system of registration of 
unmarried, cohabiting couples, including but not limited 
to registration for the purpose of extending employment, 
health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the 
same basis that such benefits are extended to legally mar-
ried couples. 
SEC. 114. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this Act, the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer of the District of Columbia may accept,
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obligate, and expend Federal, private, and other grants 
received by the District government that are not reflected 
in the amounts appropriated in this Act. 
(b)(1) No such Federal, private, or other grant may 
be accepted, 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 
acceptance, obligation, and expenditure of such 
grant. 
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the Council 
shall be deemed to have reviewed and approved the accept-
ance, obligation, 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 acceptance, obligation, or expenditure 
of the grant within 30 calendar days of the initial 
receipt of the report from the Chief Financial Offi-
cer under paragraph (1)(A).