H. R. 2492—21
V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5316): Provided further,
That the revolving fund and the funds provided under the headings
‘‘OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS’’ and ‘‘SALARIES AND
EXPENSES’’ together may not be available for the full-time equivalent
employment of more than 3,800 workyears by the end of fiscal
year 1996: Provided further, That activities financed through the
revolving fund may provide information in any format: Provided
further, That the revolving fund shall not be used to administer
any flexible or compressed work schedule which applies to any
manager or supervisor in a position the grade or level of which
is equal to or higher than GS–15: Provided further, That expenses
for attendance at meetings shall not exceed $75,000.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office,
including not to exceed $7,000 to be expended on the certification
of the Comptroller General of the United States in connection
with official representation and reception expenses; services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to
exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for level IV of
the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5315); hire of one passenger
motor vehicle; advance payments in foreign countries in accordance
with 31 U.S.C. 3324; benefits comparable to those payable under
sections 901(5), 901(6) and 901(8) of the Foreign Service Act of
1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), 4081(6) and 4081(8)); and under regula-
tions prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States,
rental of living quarters in foreign countries and travel benefits
comparable with those which are now or hereafter may be granted
single employees of the Agency for International Development,
including single Foreign Service personnel assigned to AID projects,
by the Administrator of the Agency for International Development—
or his designee—under the authority of section 636(b) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2396(b)); $374,406,000: Provided,
That not more than $400,000 of reimbursements received incident
to the operation of the General Accounting Office Building shall
be available for use in fiscal year 1996: Provided further, That
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 9105 hereafter amounts reimbursed to
the Comptroller General pursuant to that section shall be deposited
to the appropriation of the General Accounting Office then available
and remain available until expended, and not more than $8,000,000
of such funds shall be available for use in fiscal year 1996: Provided
further, That this appropriation and appropriations for administra-
tive expenses of any other department or agency which is a member
of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP)
shall be available to finance an appropriate share of JFMIP costs
as determined by the JFMIP, including the salary of the Executive
Director and secretarial support: Provided further, That this appro-
priation and appropriations for administrative expenses of any other
department or agency which is a member of the National Intergov-
ernmental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit
Forum shall be available to finance an appropriate share of Forum
costs as determined by the Forum, including necessary travel
expenses of non-Federal participants. Payments hereunder to either
the Forum or the JFMIP may be credited as reimbursements to
H. R. 2492—22
any appropriation from which costs involved are initially financed:
Provided further, That to the extent that funds are otherwise avail-
able for obligation, agreements or contracts for the removal of
asbestos, and renovation of the building and building systems
(including the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system,
electrical system and other major building systems) of the General
Accounting Office Building may be made for periods not exceeding
five years: Provided further, That this appropriation and appropria-
tions for administrative expenses of any other department or agency
which is a member of the American Consortium on International
Public Administration (ACIPA) shall be available to finance an
appropriate share of ACIPA costs as determined by the ACIPA,
including any expenses attributable to membership of ACIPA in
the International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
SEC. 211. (a) Effective June 30, 1996, the functions of the
Comptroller General identified in subsection (b) are transferred
to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, contingent
upon the additional transfer to the Office of Management and
Budget of such personnel, budget authority, records, and property
of the General Accounting Office relating to such functions as
the Comptroller General and the Director jointly determine to be
necessary. The Director may delegate any such function, in whole
or in part, to any other agency or agencies if the Director determines
that such delegation would be cost-effective or otherwise in the
public interest, and may transfer to such agency or agencies any
personnel, budget authority, records, and property received by the
Director pursuant to the preceding sentence that relate to the
delegated functions. Personnel transferred pursuant to this provi-
sion shall not be separated or reduced in classification or compensa-
tion for one year after any such transfer, except for cause.
(b) The following provisions of the United States Code contain
the functions to be transferred pursuant to subsection (a): sections
5564 and 5583 of title 5; sections 2312, 2575, 2733, 2734, 2771,
4712, and 9712 of title 10; sections 1626 and 4195 of title 22;
section 420 of title 24; sections 2414 and 2517 of title 28; sections
1304, 3702, 3726, and 3728 of title 31; sections 714 and 715 of
title 32; section 554 of title 37; section 5122 of title 38; and section
256a of title 41.
SEC. 212. (a) Section 732 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by adding a new subsection (h) as follows:
‘‘(h) Notwithstanding the provisions of subchapter I of chapter
35 of title 5, United States Code, the Comptroller General shall
prescribe regulations for the release of officers and employees of
the General Accounting Office in a reduction in force which give
due effect to tenure of employment, military preference, perform-
ance and/or contributions to the agency’s goals and objectives, and
length of service. The regulations shall, to the extent deemed fea-
sible by the Comptroller General, be designed to minimize disrup-
tion to the Office and to assist in promoting the efficiency of the
Office.’’.
SEC. 213. Section 753 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as (c),
(d), and (e), respectively;
H. R. 2492—23
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) a new subsection (b)
as follows:
‘‘(b) The Board has no authority to issue a stay of any reduction
in force action.’’; and
(3) in the second sentence of subsection (c), as redesignated,
by striking ‘‘(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)’’.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall
be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles, except
for emergency assistance and cleaning as may be provided under
regulations relating to parking facilities for the House of Represent-
atives issued by the Committee on House Oversight and for the
Senate issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 303. Whenever any office or position not specifically estab-
lished by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein
or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position
appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established
for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the
designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided
herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided,
That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses
of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House
of Representatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of
the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law with
respect thereto.
SEC. 304. The expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to exist-
ing law.
SEC. 305. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased
with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into any
contract with, any entity using funds made available in this Act,
the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the statement made
in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 306. (a) Upon approval of the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives, and in accordance with conditions
determined by the Committee on House Oversight, positions in
connection with House parking activities and related funding shall
be transferred from the appropriation ‘‘Architect of the Capitol,
Capitol buildings and grounds, House office buildings’’ to the appro-
priation ‘‘House of Representatives, salaries, officers and employees,
Office of the Sergeant at Arms’’: Provided, That the position of
Superintendent of Garages shall be subject to authorization in
annual appropriations Acts.
(b) For purposes of section 8339(m) of title 5, United States
Code, the days of unused sick leave to the credit of any such
H. R. 2492—24
employee as of the date such employee is transferred under sub-
section (a) shall be included in the total service of such employee
in connection with the computation of any annuity under sub-
sections (a) through (e) and (o) of such section.
(c) In the case of days of annual leave to the credit of any
such employee as of the date such employee is transferred under
subsection (a) the Architect of the Capitol is authorized to make
a lump sum payment to each such employee for that annual leave.
No such payment shall be considered a payment or compensation
within the meaning of any law relating to dual compensation.
SEC. 307. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used for the relocation of the office of any Member of the
House of Representatives within the House office buildings.
SEC. 308. (a)(1) Effective October 1, 1995, the unexpended
balances of appropriations specified in paragraph (2) are transferred
to the appropriation for general expenses of the Capitol Police,
to be used for design and installation of security systems for the
Capitol buildings and grounds.
(2) The unexpended balances referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(A) the unexpended balance of appropriations for security
installations, as referred to in the paragraph under the heading
‘‘CAPITOL
BUILDINGS’’, under the general headings ‘‘JOINT
ITEMS’’, ‘‘ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL’’, and ‘‘CAPITOL
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS’’ in title I of the Legislative Branch
Appropriations Act, 1995 (108 Stat. 1434), including any unex-
pended balance from a prior fiscal year and any unexpended
balance under such headings in this Act; and
(B) the unexpended balance of the appropriation for an
improved security plan, as transferred to the Architect of the
Capitol by section 102 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations
Act, 1989 (102 Stat. 2165).
(b) Effective October 1, 1995, the responsibility for design and
installation of security systems for the Capitol buildings and
grounds is transferred from the Architect of the Capitol to the
Capitol Police Board. Such design and installation shall be carried
out under the direction of the Committee on House Oversight of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and
Administration of the Senate, and without regard to section 3709
of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C. 5). On
and after October 1, 1995, any alteration to a structural, mechani-
cal, or architectural feature of the Capitol buildings and grounds
that is required for a security system under the preceding sentence
may be carried out only with the approval of the Architect of
the Capitol.
(c)(1) Effective October 1, 1995, all positions specified in para-
graph (2) and each individual holding any such position (on a
permanent basis) immediately before that date, as identified by
the Architect of the Capitol, shall be transferred to the Capitol
Police.
(2) The positions referred to in paragraph (1) are those positions
which, immediately before October 1, 1995, are—
(A) under the Architect of the Capitol;
(B) within the Electronics Engineering Division of the
Office of the Architect of the Capitol; and
(C) related to the design or installation of security systems
for the Capitol buildings and grounds.