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District’s immediately preceding fiscal year’s unexpended general 
fund surplus. The District may obligate and expend these amounts 
only in accordance with the following conditions: 
(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 economic 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 shortfalls. 
(3) The amounts shall be obligated and expended in accord-
ance 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 expended unless 
the Mayor notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate not fewer than 30 
days in advance of the obligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 817. (a) Beginning in fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal 
year thereafter, consistent with revenue collections, the amount 
appropriated as District of Columbia Funds may be increased— 
(1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 25 percent, 
in the case of amounts proposed to be allocated as ‘‘Other- 
Type Funds’’ in the annual 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 anticipated 
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 accord-
ance with laws enacted by the Council of the District of 
Columbia in support of each such obligation and expenditure, 
consistent with the requirements 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 expended unless 
the Mayor has notified the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate not fewer than 
30 days in advance of the obligation or expenditure. 
SEC. 818. Beginning in fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Columbia 
may, for the purpose of cash flow management, conduct short-
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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 borrowed shall not exceed 50 percent of the 
total amount of funds contained in both the emergency and contin-
gency reserve 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 bor-
rowed 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 short-term borrowing has 
been conducted and the emergency or the contingency reserve 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. 819. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act may 
be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize 
or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, 
or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols 
derivative. 
(b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initia-
tive of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors 
of the District of Columbia on November 3, 1998, shall not take 
effect. 
SEC. 820. 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. 821. Amounts appropriated in this Act as operating funds 
may be transferred to the District of Columbia’s enterprise and 
capital funds and such amounts, once transferred shall retain appro-
priation authority consistent with the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 822. (a) INCREASE IN THE HOURLY RATE FOR ATTORNEYS 
REPRESENTING
INDIGENT
DEFENDANTS
IN
THE
DISTRICT
OF 
COLUMBIA COURTS.—Section 11–2604(a), District of Columbia Offi-
cial Code, is amended by striking ‘‘$80 per hour’’ and inserting 
‘‘$90 per hour’’. 
(b) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
COMPENSATION
OF
ATTORNEYS
IN 
NEGLECT AND TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS.— 
Section 16–2326.01(b), District of Columbia Official Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘$1,760’’ and inserting 
‘‘$1,980’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘$1,760’’ and inserting 
‘‘$1,980’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘$2,400’’ and inserting 
‘‘$2,700’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘$1,200’’ and inserting 
‘‘$1,350’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section 
shall apply with respect to cases and proceedings initiated on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 823. Section 2 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act Relative to 
the control of wharf property and certain public spaces in the