IA
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H.R. 2492
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 1 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the government of the District
of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole
or in part against the revenues of said District for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1994, and for other purposes, namely:
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TITLE I
FISCAL YEAR 1994 APPROPRIATIONS
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
For payment to the District of Columbia for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1994, $630,603,000, as au-
thorized by section 502(a) of the District of Columbia
Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act,
Public Law 93–198, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 47–
3406.1).
FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION TO RETIREMENT FUNDS
For the Federal contribution to the Police Officers
and Fire Fighters’, Teachers’, and Judges’ Retirement
Funds, as authorized by the District of Columbia Retire-
ment Reform Act, approved November 17, 1979 (93 Stat.
866; Public Law 96–122), $52,070,000, of which
$2,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 1994 and shall not be expended prior to Octo-
ber 1, 1994.
FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION FOR CRIME AND YOUTH
INITIATIVES
For a Federal contribution for crime and youth ini-
tiatives in the District of Columbia, $17,327,000.
DIVISION OF EXPENSES
The following amounts are appropriated for the Dis-
trict of Columbia for the current fiscal year out of the
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general fund of the District of Columbia, except as other-
wise specifically provided.
GOVERNMENTAL DIRECTION AND SUPPORT
Governmental direction and support, $118,543,000:
Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 for the Mayor,
$2,500 for the Chairman of the Council of the District
of Columbia, and $2,500 for the City Administrator shall
be available from this appropriation for expenditures for
official purposes: Provided further, That any program fees
collected from the issuance of debt shall be available for
the payment of expenses of the debt management program
of the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, there is hereby
appropriated from the earnings of the applicable retire-
ment funds $10,801,000 to pay legal, management, in-
vestment, and other fees and administrative expenses of
the District of Columbia Retirement Board: Provided fur-
ther, That the District of Columbia Retirement Board
shall provide to the Congress and to the Council of the
District of Columbia a quarterly report of the allocations
of charges by fund and of expenditures of all funds: Pro-
vided further, That the District of Columbia Retirement
Board shall provide the Mayor, for transmittal to the
Council of the District of Columbia, an item accounting
of the planned use of appropriated funds in time for each
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annual budget submission and the actual use of such
funds in time for each annual audited financial report:
Provided further, That no revenues from Federal sources
shall be used to support the operations or activities of the
Statehood Commission and Statehood Compact Commis-
sion.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION
Economic development and regulation, $85,348,000:
Provided, That the District of Columbia Housing Finance
Agency, established by section 201 of the District of Co-
lumbia Housing Finance Agency Act, effective March 3,
1979 (D.C. Law 2–135; D.C. Code, sec. 45–2111), based
upon its capability of repayments as determined each year
by the Council of the District of Columbia from the Hous-
ing Finance Agency’s annual audited financial statements
to the Council of the District of Columbia, shall repay to
the general fund an amount equal to the appropriated ad-
ministrative costs plus interest at a rate of four percent
per annum for a term of 15 years, with a deferral of pay-
ments for the first three years: Provided further, That not-
withstanding the foregoing provision, the obligation to
repay all or part of the amounts due shall be subject to
the rights of the owners of any bonds or notes issued by
the Housing Finance Agency and shall be repaid to the
District of Columbia government only from available oper-
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ating revenues of the Housing Finance Agency that are
in excess of the amounts required for debt service, reserve
funds, and operating expenses: Provided further, That
upon commencement of the debt service payments, such
payments shall be deposited into the general fund of the
District of Columbia.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUSTICE
Public safety and justice, including purchase of 135
passenger-carrying vehicles for replacement only, includ-
ing 130 for police-type use and five for fire-type use, with-
out regard to the general purchase price limitation for the
current fiscal year, $907,966,000: Provided, That the
Metropolitan Police Department is authorized to replace
not to exceed 25 passenger-carrying vehicles and the Fire
Department of the District of Columbia is authorized to
replace not to exceed five passenger-carrying vehicles an-
nually whenever the cost of repair to any damaged vehicle
exceeds three-fourths of the cost of the replacement: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be avail-
able from this appropriation for the Chief of Police for
the prevention and detection of crime: Provided further,
That the Metropolitan Police Department shall provide
quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House and Senate on efforts to increase efficiency and
improve the professionalism in the department: Provided
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further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
or Mayor’s Order 86–45, issued March 18, 1986, the Met-
ropolitan Police Department’s delegated small purchase
authority shall be $500,000: Provided further, That the
District of Columbia government may not require the Met-
ropolitan Police Department to submit to any other pro-
curement review process, or to obtain the approval of or
be restricted in any manner by any official or employee
of the District of Columbia government, for purchases
that do not exceed $500,000: Provided further, That funds
appropriated for expenses under the District of Columbia
Criminal Justice Act, approved September 3, 1974 (88
Stat. 1090; Public Law 93–412; D.C. Code, sec. 11–2601
et seq.), for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994,
shall be available for obligations incurred under the Act
in each fiscal year since inception in fiscal year 1975: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated for expenses under
the District of Columbia Neglect Representation Equity
Act of 1984, effective March 13, 1985 (D.C. Law 5–129;
D.C. Code, sec. 16–2304), for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 1994, shall be available for obligations in-
curred under the Act in each fiscal year since inception
in fiscal year 1985: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated for expenses under the District of Columbia
Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Durable Power
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of Attorney Act of 1986, effective February 27, 1987
(D.C. Law 6–204; D.C. Code, sec. 21–2060), for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1994, shall be available for ob-
ligations incurred under the Act in each fiscal year since
inception in fiscal year 1989: Provided further, That not
to exceed $1,500 for the Chief Judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, $1,500 for the Chief Judge
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and
$1,500 for the Executive Officer of the District of Colum-
bia Courts shall be available from this appropriation for
official purposes: Provided further, That the District of
Columbia shall operate and maintain a free, 24-hour tele-
phone information service whereby residents of the area
surrounding Lorton prison in Fairfax County, Virginia,
can promptly obtain information from District of Colum-
bia government officials on all disturbances at the prison,
including escapes, fires, riots, and similar incidents: Pro-
vided further, That the District of Columbia government
shall also take steps to publicize the availability of the 24-
hour telephone information service among the residents of
the area surrounding the Lorton prison: Provided further,
That not to exceed $100,000 of this appropriation shall
be used to reimburse Fairfax County, Virginia, and Prince
William County, Virginia, for expenses incurred by the
counties during the fiscal year ending September 30,
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1994, in relation to the Lorton prison complex: Provided
further, That such reimbursements shall be paid in all in-
stances in which the District requests the counties to pro-
vide police, fire, rescue, and related services to help deal
with escapes, riots, and similar disturbances involving the
prison: Provided further, That none of the funds provided
in this Act may be used to implement any staffing plan
for the District of Columbia Fire Department that in-
cludes the elimination of any positions for Administrative
Assistants to the Battalion Fire Chiefs of the Fire Fight-
ing Division of the Department: Provided further, That the
Mayor shall reimburse the District of Columbia National
Guard for expenses incurred in connection with services
that are performed in emergencies by the National Guard
in a militia status and are requested by the Mayor, in
amounts that shall be jointly determined and certified as
due and payable for these services by the Mayor and the
Commanding General of the District of Columbia National
Guard: Provided further, That such sums as may be nec-
essary for reimbursement to the District of Columbia Na-
tional Guard under the preceding proviso shall be available
from this appropriation, and the availability of the sums
shall be deemed as constituting payment in advance for
the emergency services involved: Provided further, That
the Mayor shall promulgate all necessary rules and regula-
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tions to provide that no police officer, firefighter, or cor-
rectional officer shall be permitted to work for more than
ten (10) hours of overtime excluding court time in any
one pay period, without the written approval of the Chief
of Police, Chief of the Fire Department, or Director of
the Department of Corrections: Provided further, That
such approval shall clearly state specific reasons as to why
such overtime was necessary.
PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
Public education system, including the development
of national defense education programs, $711,813,000, to
be allocated as follows: $517,682,000 for the public
schools of the District of Columbia; $98,600,000 shall be
allocated for the District of Columbia Teachers’ Retire-
ment Fund; $65,739,000 for the University of the District
of Columbia; $21,260,000 for the Public Library, of which
$200,000 shall be transferred to the Children’s Museum;
$3,540,000 for the Commission on the Arts and Human-
ities; $4,500,000 for the District of Columbia School of
Law; and $492,000 for the Education Licensure Commis-
sion: Provided, That the public schools of the District of
Columbia are authorized to accept not to exceed 31 motor
vehicles for exclusive use in the driver education program:
Provided further, That not to exceed $2,500 for the Super-
intendent of Schools, $2,500 for the President of the Uni-
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versity of the District of Columbia, and $2,000 for the
Public Librarian shall be available from this appropriation
for expenditures for official purposes: Provided further,
That no later than December 31, 1993, the Board of
Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia
shall implement resident and nonresident tuition rate in-
creases of not less than 20 percent of the rates in effect
on April 1, 1993: Provided further, That this appropria-
tion shall not be available to subsidize the education of
nonresidents of the District of Columbia at the University
of the District of Columbia, unless the Board of Trustees
of the University of the District of Columbia adopts, for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, a tuition rate
schedule that will establish the tuition rate for nonresident
students at a level no lower than the nonresident tuition
rate charged at comparable public institutions of higher
education in the metropolitan area.
HUMAN SUPPORT SERVICES
Human support services, $914,830,000: Provided,
That $17,905,000 of this appropriation, to remain avail-
able until expended, shall be available solely for District
of Columbia employees’ disability compensation: Provided
further, That the District shall not provide free govern-
ment services such as water, sewer, solid waste disposal
or collection, utilities, maintenance, repairs, or similar
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services to any legally constituted private nonprofit organi-
zation (as defined in section 411(5) of Public Law 100–
77, approved July 22, 1987) providing emergency shelter
services in the District, if the District would not be quali-
fied to receive reimbursement pursuant to the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Act, approved July 22, 1987 (101
Stat. 485; Public Law 100–77; 42 U.S.C. 11301 et seq.).
PUBLIC WORKS
Public works, including rental of one passenger-car-
rying vehicle for use by the Mayor and three passenger-
carrying vehicles for use by the Council of the District of
Columbia and purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles for
replacement only, $215,749,000: Provided, That this ap-
propriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or
miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business.
WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER FUND
For the Washington Convention Center Fund,
$12,850,000.
REPAYMENT OF LOANS AND INTEREST
For reimbursement to the United States of funds
loaned in compliance with An Act to provide for the estab-
lishment of a modern, adequate, and efficient hospital cen-
ter in the District of Columbia, approved August 7, 1946
(60 Stat. 896; Public Law 79–648); section 1 of An Act
to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Colum-
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bia to borrow funds for capital improvement programs and
to amend provisions of law relating to Federal Govern-
ment participation in meeting costs of maintaining the
Nation’s Capital City, approved June 6, 1958 (72 Stat.
183; Public Law 85–451; D.C. Code, sec. 9–219); section
4 of An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia to plan, construct, operate, and maintain a
sanitary sewer to connect the Dulles International Airport
with the District of Columbia system, approved June 12,
1960 (74 Stat. 211; Public Law 86–515); sections 723
and 743(f) of the District of Columbia Self-Government
and Governmental Reorganization Act of 1973, approved
December 24, 1973, as amended (87 Stat. 821; Public
Law 93–198; D.C. Code, sec. 47–321, note; 91 Stat.
1156; Public Law 95–131; D.C. Code, sec. 9–219, note),
including interest as required thereby, $312,948,000.
REPAYMENT OF GENERAL FUND RECOVERY DEBT
For the purpose of eliminating the $331,589,000
general fund accumulated deficit as of September 30,
1990, $38,337,000, as authorized by section 461(a) of the
District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental
Reorganization Act, approved December 24, 1973, as
amended (105 Stat. 540; Public Law 102–106; D.C. Code,
sec. 47–321(a)).
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OPTICAL AND DENTAL BENEFITS
For optical and dental costs for nonunion employees,
$3,423,000.
PAY ADJUSTMENT
For pay increases and related costs, to be transferred
by the Mayor of the District of Columbia within the var-
ious appropriation headings in this Act for fiscal year
1994 from which employees are properly payable,
$70,680,000.
PERSONAL AND NONPERSONAL SERVICES ADJUSTMENTS
The Mayor shall reduce appropriations and expendi-
tures for personal and nonpersonal services in the amount
of $27,062,000, within one or several of the various appro-
priation headings in this Act.
CAPITAL OUTLAY
For construction projects, $108,743,000, as author-
ized by An Act authorizing the laying of water mains and
service sewers in the District of Columbia, the levying of
assessments therefor, and for other purposes, approved
April 22, 1904 (33 Stat. 244; Public Law 58–140; D.C.
Code, secs. 43–1512 through 43–1519); the District of
Columbia Public Works Act of 1954, approved May 18,
1954 (68 Stat. 101; Public Law 83–364); An Act to au-
thorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to
borrow funds for capital improvement programs and to
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for which competition is not feasible or practical, provided
that the determination as to whether to invoke the com-
petitive bidding process has been made in accordance with
duly promulgated Board of Education rules and proce-
dures.
SEC. 126. For purposes of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, approved Decem-
ber 12, 1985 (99 Stat. 1037; Public Law 99–177), as
amended, the term ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall
be synonymous with and refer specifically to each account
appropriating Federal funds in this Act, and any seques-
tration order shall be applied to each of the accounts rath-
er than to the aggregate total of those accounts: Provided,
That sequestration orders shall not be applied to any ac-
count that is specifically exempted from sequestration by
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985, approved December 12, 1985 (99 Stat. 1037;
Public Law 99–177), as amended.
SEC. 127. In the event a sequestration order is issued
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, approved December 12, 1985 (99
Stat. 1037; Public Law 99–177), as amended, after the
amounts appropriated to the District of Columbia for the
fiscal year involved have been paid to the District of Co-
lumbia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall pay