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thereof, as the President determines are properly related
to the functions of the Chief Financial Officer under sec-
tion 901(c) of title 31, United States Code (as added by
subsection (a)).
(2) The personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, prop-
erty, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,
authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed,
held, used, arising from, available or to be made available,
of any office the functions, powers, or duties of which are
transferred under paragraph (1) shall also be so trans-
ferred.
(f) SEPARATE BUDGET REQUEST.—Section 1105(a)
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting
after paragraph (30) the following new paragraph:
‘‘(31) a separate statement of the amount of
appropriations requested for the Chief Financial Of-
ficer in the Executive Office of the President.’’.
(g) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
Section 503(a) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘respectively.’’
and inserting ‘‘respectively (excluding any officer
designated or appointed under section 901(c)).’’; and
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(2) in paragraph (8) by striking ‘‘Officers.’’ and
inserting ‘‘Officers (excluding any officer designated
or appointed under section 901(c)).’’.
ELECTRONIC FILING THRESHOLD
SEC. 639. Section 304(a) of the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434(a)) is amended by
striking paragraph (11) and inserting the following:
‘‘(11)(A) The Commission shall promulgate a regula-
tion under which a person required to file a designation,
statement, or report under this Act—
‘‘(i) is required to maintain and file a designa-
tion, statement, or report for any calendar year in
electronic form accessible by computers if the person
has, or has reason to expect to have, aggregate con-
tributions or expenditures in excess of a threshold
amount determined by the Commission; and
‘‘(ii) may maintain and file a designation, state-
ment, or report in electronic form or an alternative
form if not required to do so under the regulation
promulgated under clause (i).
‘‘(B) The Commission shall make a designation,
statement, report, or notification that is filed electronically
with the Commission accessible to the public on the Inter-
net not later than 24 hours after the designation, state-
ment, report, or notification is received by the Commis-
sion.
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‘‘(C) In promulgating a regulation under this para-
graph, the Commission shall provide methods (other than
requiring a signature on the document being filed) for
verifying designations, statements, and reports covered by
the regulation. Any document verified under any of the
methods shall be treated for all purposes (including pen-
alties for perjury) in the same manner as a document
verified by signature.’’.
ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES FOR IMPOSITION OF
PENALTIES FOR REPORTING VIOLATIONS
SEC. 640. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 309(a)(4) of
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C.
437g(a)(4)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘clause
(ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘clauses (ii) and subparagraph
(C)’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph:
‘‘(C)(i) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), in the
case of a violation of any requirement under this Act relat-
ing to the reporting of receipts or disbursements, the Com-
mission may—
‘‘(I) find that a person committed such a viola-
tion on the basis of information obtained pursuant
to the procedures described in paragraphs (1) and
(2); and
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‘‘(II) based on such finding, require the person
to pay a civil money penalty in an amount deter-
mined under a schedule of penalties which is estab-
lished and published by the Commission and which
takes into account the amount of the violation in-
volved, the existence of previous violations by the
person, and such other factors as the Commission
considers appropriate.
‘‘(ii) The Commission may not make any determina-
tion adverse to a person under clause (i) until the person
has been given written notice and an opportunity for the
determination to be made on the record.
‘‘(iii) Any person against whom an adverse deter-
mination is made under this subparagraph may obtain a
review of such determination in the district court of the
United States for the district in which the person is found,
resides, or transacts business, by filing in such court (prior
to the expiration of the 30-day period which begins on the
date the person receives notification of the determination)
a written petition requesting that the determination be
modified or set aside.’’
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section
309(a)(6)(A) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 437g(a)(6)(A)) is
amended by striking ‘‘paragraph (4)(A)’’ and inserting
‘‘paragraph (4)’’.
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(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply with respect to violations occurring
on or after January 1, 2000.
CHANGE IN CERTAIN REPORTING FROM A CALENDAR
YEAR BASIS TO AN ELECTION CYCLE BASIS
SEC. 641. Section 304(b) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
434(b)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(or election cycle, in the
case of an authorized committee of a candidate for Federal
office)’’ after ‘‘calendar year’’ each place it appears in
paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (6), and (7).
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY INSURANCE
SEC. 642. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 636 of the
Treasury Postal Service, and General Government Appro-
priations Act, 1997 (5 U.S.C. prec. 5941 note) is amended
in the first sentence by striking ‘‘may’’ and inserting
‘‘shall, subject to the availability of appropriations,’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall take effect on October 1, 1999, or the
date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later.
SEC. 643. IN GENERAL.—Hereafter, an Executive
agency which provides or proposes to provide child care
services for Federal employees may use appropriated
funds (otherwise available to such agency for salaries) to
provide child care, in a Federal or leased facility, or
through contract, for civilian employees of such agency.
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(b) AFFORDABILITY.—Amounts so provided with re-
spect to any such facility or contractor shall be applied
to improve the affordability of child care for lower income
Federal employees using or seeking to use the child care
services offered by such facility or contractor.
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall, within 180 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, issue regulations necessary to carry out
this section.
(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘Executive agency’’ has the meaning given such term
by section 105 of title 5, United States Code, but does
not include the General Accounting Office.
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT
SEC. 644. (a) INCREASE IN ANNUAL COMPENSA-
TION.—Section 102 of title 3, United States Code, is
amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘$200,000’’ 
and 
inserting
‘‘$400,000’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall take effect at noon on January 20, 2001.
CUSTOMS COMMISSIONER’S PAY CLASSIFICATION
SEC. 645. (a) Section 5315 of title 5, United States
Code, as amended, is amended by deleting the position of
‘‘Commissioner of Customs, Department of the Treasury’’.
(b) Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, as
amended, is amended by adding the position of ‘‘Commis-
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sioner of Customs, Department of the Treasury’’ after
‘‘Administrator, Research and Special Programs Adminis-
tration’’.
SEC. 646. Effective October 1, 1999, all personnel
of the General Accounting Office employed or maintained
to carry out functions of the Joint Financial Management
Improvement Program (JFMIP) shall be transferred to
the General Services Administration. The Director of the
Office of Personnel Management shall provide to the Gen-
eral Services Administration one permanent Senior Execu-
tive Service allocation for the position of the Executive Di-
rector of the JFMIP. Personnel transferred pursuant to
this section shall not be separated or reduced in classifica-
tion or compensation for one year after any such transfer,
except for cause.
SEC. 647. (a) None of the funds made available in
this or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year may
be obligated or expended for any new construction, renova-
tion, alteration to existing facilities, or other improvement,
at the Border Patrol Academy, located in Charleston,
South Carolina.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not prevent any obligation
or expenditure, approved in advance by the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
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Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, for minor im-
provements.
(c) No appropriated funds may be used to continue
operating the Border Patrol Academy, located in Charles-
ton, South Carolina, after September 30, 2004.
SEC. 648. It is the sense of the Congress that there
should continue to be parity between the adjustments in
the compensation of members of the uniformed services
and the adjustments in the compensation of civilian em-
ployees of the United States.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Treasury and General
Government Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Union Calendar No. 132
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2490
[Report No. 106–231]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Treasury Depart-
ment, the United States Postal Service, the Ex-
ecutive Office of the President, and certain Inde-
pendent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2000, and for other purposes.
JULY 13, 1999
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed