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where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of
the Tariff Act of 1930.
SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this
Act shall be available in fiscal year 1999 for the purpose
of transferring control over the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center located at Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia,
New Mexico, out of the Department of the Treasury.
SEC. 505. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his period of active military or naval service, and
has, within 90 days after his release from such service or
from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his former position and has been certified by the
Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
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form the duties of his former position and has not been
restored thereto.
SEC. 506. No funds appropriated pursuant to this
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply
with sections 2 through 4 of the Buy American Act (41
U.S.C. 10a–10c).
SEC. 507. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equip-
ment or products that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided under this Act, it is the
sense of the Congress that entities receiving such assist-
ance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only
American-made equipment and products.
(b) NOTICE
TO RECIPIENTS
OF ASSISTANCE.—In
providing financial assistance under this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall provide to each recipient of
the assistance a notice describing the statement made in
subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 508. If it has been finally determined by a court
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription with the same meaning, to any product sold in
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the
United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive
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any contract or subcontract made with funds provided
pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspen-
sion, and ineligibility procedures described in sections
9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
SEC. 509. Except as otherwise specifically provided
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 1999 from
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses
for fiscal year 1999 in this Act, shall remain available
through September 30, 2000, for each such account, and
may be transferred to any other Department account, for
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance
with reprogramming guidelines.
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any
official background investigation report on any individual,
unless—
(1) such individual has given his or her express
written consent for such request not more than 6
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months prior to the date of such request and during
the same presidential administration; or
(2) such request is required due to extraor-
dinary circumstances involving national security.
SEC. 511. (a) APPOINTMENT AND TERM OF SERVICE
OF STAFF DIRECTOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL OF FED-
ERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The first sentence of section
306(f)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971 (2 U.S.C. 437c(f)(1)) is amended by striking
‘‘by the Commission’’ and inserting the following:
‘‘by an affirmative vote of not less than 4 members
of the Commission and may not serve for a term of
more than 4 consecutive years without reappoint-
ment in accordance with this paragraph’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made
by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to any in-
dividual serving as the staff director or general
counsel of the Federal Election Commission on or
after January 1, 1999, without regard to whether or
not the individual served as staff director or general
counsel prior to such date.
(b) TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS FILLING VACAN-
CIES; TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY UPON EXPIRATION
OF TERM.—Section 306(f)(1) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
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437c(f)(1)) is amended by inserting after the first sen-
tence the following new sentences: ‘‘An individual ap-
pointed as a staff director or general counsel to fill a va-
cancy occurring other than by the expiration of a term
of office shall be appointed only for the unexpired term
of the individual he or she succeeds. An individual serving
as staff director or general counsel may not serve in such
position after the expiration of the individual’s term unless
reappointed in accordance with this paragraph.’’.
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION REGARDING AUTHOR-
ITY OF ACTING GENERAL COUNSEL.—Section 306(f) of
such Act (2 U.S.C. 437c(f)) is amended by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(5) Nothing in this Act may be construed to prohibit
any individual serving as an acting general counsel of the
Commission from performing any functions of the general
counsel of the Commission.’’.
SEC. 512. Hereafter, any payment of attorneys fees,
costs, and sanctions required to be made by the Federal
Government pursuant to the order of the district court in
the case Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,
Inc. v. Clinton, 989 F. Supp. 8 (1997), or any appeal of
such case, shall be derived by transfer from amounts made
available in this or any other Act for any fiscal year for