District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1980
PL 96-93 (H.R.4580), enacted 10/30/1979

PUBLIC LAW 96-93—OCT. 30, 1979 
93 STAT. 713 
Public Law 96-93 
96th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
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activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for 
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the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following District of 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not Columbia 
otherwise appropriated, for the District of Columbia for the fiscal AcfTgso 
year ending September 30, 1980, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—TEMPORARY COMMISSION ON FINANCIAL 
OVERSIGHT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the Act creating the Temporary Commission on Financial Oversight 
of the District of Columbia (Public Law 94-399), $500,000, which shall D.C. Code 47-101 
be available until expended: Provided, That the Temporary Commis- "ote. 
sion on Financial Oversight of the District of Columbia shall have the 
power to appoint, fix the compensation of, and remove an Executive 
Director and additional staff members without regard to chapter 51, 
subchapters III and VI of chapter 53, and chapter 75 of title 5, United 
States Code, and those provisions of such title relating to the 5 USC 5101 et 
appointment in the competitive service. For purposes of pay (other seq., 5331, 5361, 
than pay of the Executive Director) and employment benefits, rights, 
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and privileges, all personnel of the Commission shall be treated as 
Congressional employees. The Executive Director may be paid com-
pensation at a rate not to exceed the rate prescribed for level IV of the 
Federal Executive Salary Schedule. 
5 USC 5815. 
TITLE II—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
For payment to the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1980, $238,200,000, as authorized by the District of 
Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, 
Public Law 93-198, as amended (D.C. Code 47-2501d); and $10,500,000 
in lieu of reimbursements for charges for water and water services 
and sanitary sewer services furnished to facilities of the United 
States Government as authorized by the Act of May 18, 1954, as 
amended (D.C. Code 43-1541 and 1611). 
LOANS TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR CAPITAL OUTLAY 
For loans to the District of Columbia, as authorized by the District 
of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization 
Act, Public Law 93-198, as amended, $125,000,000, which together 
with balances of previous appropriations for this purpose, shall 
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remain available until expended and be advanced upon request of the 
Mayor. 
DIVISION OF EXPENSES 
The following amounts are appropriated for the District of Colum-
bia for the current fiscal year out of the general fund of the District of 
Columbia, except as otherwise specifically provided: 
GOVERNMENTAL DIRECTION AND SUPPORT 
Governmental direction and support, $63,456,900, of which 
$300,000 shall be payable from the revenue sharing trust fund: 
Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 for the Mayor, and $2,500 for the 
Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia shall be available 
from this appropriation for expenditures for official purposes: Pro-
vided further, That for the purpose of assessing and reassessing real 
property in the District of Columbia, $5,000 of this appropriation 
shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at 
rates for individuals not in excess of $100 per diem: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $7,500 of this appropriation shall be available for 
test borings and soil investigations: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $500,000 of this appropriation shall be available for settlement 
of property damage claims not in excess of $1,500 each and personal 
injury claims not in excess of $5,000 each: Provided further. That 
$500,000 of this appropriation, to remain available until expended, 
shall be for the District of Columbia's contribution toward the 
expenses of the Temporary Commission on Financial Oversight of the 
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e 47-101 District of Columbia, as authorized by Public Law 94-399, approved 
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September 4,1976. 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION 
Economic development and regulation, $16,127,000. 
PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUSTICE 
Public safety and justice, including purchase of one hundred and 
thirty-five passenger motor vehicles for replacement only (including 
one hundred and thirty for police-type use and five for fire-type use 
without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the 
current fiscal year); $295,472,300, of which $5,863,400 shall be payable 
from the revenue sharing trust fund: Provided, That the Police 
Department is authorized to replace not to exceed twenty-five passen-
ger carrying vehicles, and the Fire Department not to exceed five 
such vehicles annually whenever the cost of repair to any damaged 
vehicle exceeds three-fourths the cost of the replacement: Provided 
further. That funds appropriated for expenses under the Criminal 
D.C. Code 
Justice Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-412) for fiscal year 1980 shall be 
11-2601 note. 
available for obligations incurred under that Act in each fiscal year 
since inception in fiscal year 1975: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $200,000 shall be available from this appropriation for the 
Chief of Police for the prevention and detection of crime: Provided 
further, That $50,000 of any appropriations available to the District of 
Columbia may be used to match financial contributions from the 
Department of Defense to the District of Columbia Office of 
Emergency Preparedness for the purchase of civil defense equipment 
and supplies approved by the Department of Defense, when 
authorized by the Mayor. 
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993 STAT. 715 
PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM 
Public education system, including the development of national 
defense education programs, $312,493,500, of which $8,164,100 shall 
be payable from the revenue sharing trust fund, to be allocated as 
follows: $232,100,200 for the District of Columbia Public Schools; 
$22,705,000 for the Teachers' Retirement Fund; $47,611,600 for the 
University of the District of Columbia; $9,725,200 for the Public 
Library; and $351,500 for the Commission on the Arts and Human-
ities: Provided, That the District of Columbia Public Schools are 
authorized to accept not to exceed thirty-one motor vehicles for 
exclusive use in the driver education program: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $1,000 for the Superintendent of Schools and $2,500 for 
the President of the University of the District of Columbia shall be 
available from this appropriation for expenditures for official pur-
poses: Provided further. That the $22,705,000 of this appropriation 
allocated for the Teachers' Retirement Fund shall be transferred to 
the Teachers' Retirement Fund, in accordance with the provisions of 
section 7 of the Act of August 7,1946 (60 Stat. 879, as amended; D.C. 
Code, sec. 31-727): Provided further. That not less than $7,257,800 of 
this appropriation shall be used exclusively for maintenance of the 
public schools. 
HUMAN SUPPORT SERVICES 
Human support services, including care and treatment of indigent 
patients in institutions under contracts to be made by the Director of 
the Department of Human Resources, $347,359,500, of which 
$6,728,200 shall be payable from the revenue sharing trust fund: 
Provided, That the inpatient rate under such contracts shall not 
exceed $76 per diem and the outpatient rate shall not exceed $12 per 
visit except for services provided to patients who are eligible for such 
services under the District of Columbia plan for medical assistance 
under title XIX of the Social Security Act, and the inpatient rate 42 use 1396 et 
(excluding the proportionate share for repairs and construction) for seq. 
services rendered by Saint Elizabeths Hospital for patient care shall 
be at the per diem rate established pursuant to 24 U.S.C. 168a: 
Provided further. That total reimbursements to Saint Elizabeths 
Hospital, including funds from title XIX of the Social Security Act, 
shall not exceed $18,691,800: Provided further. That $5,807,100 of this 
appropriation, to remain available until expended, shall be available 
solely for District of Columbia employees' disability compensation: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated for the 
summer youth jobs program shall be obligated until the Subcommit-
tees on the District of Columbia Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate have approved a plan submitted by 
the Mayor and the City Council detailing proposed expenditures. 
TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE 
Transportation services and assistance, including rental of one 
passenger-carrying vehicle for use by the Mayor and purchase of one 
hundred and twenty-nine passenger-carrying vehicles, of which 
seventy-eight shall be for replacement only, $92,084,100, of which 
$7,444,300 shall be payable from the revenue sharing trust fund: 
Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the 
purchase of driver-training vehicles: Provided 
further. 
That 
$2,900,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the fiscal year 
1978 Metrobus operating subsidy: Provided further. That $4,890,400 
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of this appropriation shall be available for the fiscal year 1979 
Metrobus operating subsidy. 
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND SUPPLY 
Environmental 
services and supply, $78,297,800, of which 
$1,500,000 shall be payable from the revenue sharing trust fund: 
Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting 
ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or 
from apartment houses with four or more apartments, or from any 
building or connected group of buildings operating as a rooming or 
boarding house as defined in the housing regulations of the District of 
Columbia. 
PERSONAL SERVICES 
For pay increases and related costs, to be transferred by the Mayor 
of the District of Columbia to the appropriations for the fiscal year 
1980 from which employees are properly payable, $58,354,500. 
REPAYMENT OF LOANS AND INTEREST 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in compli-
ance with the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended; 
sections 108, 217, and 402 of the Act of May 18,1954 (68 Stat. 103,109, 
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and 110), as amended; the Act of July 2,1954 (68 Stat. 443); section 9 of 
43-1616 note' 
^^® ^^^ ^^ September 7, 1957 (71 Stat. 619), as amended; section 1 of 
7-133 
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the Act of June 6,1958 (72 Stat. 183), as amended; section 4 of the Act 
D.C. Code 
of June 12, 1960 (74 Stat. 211), as amended; and section 723 of the 
2-1727. 
District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorgani-
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zation Act (Public Law 93-198), as amended, including interest as 
43-i6^^ 
required thereby, $120,457,300. 
D.C. Code 9-220 
note and 47-241 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
note. 
For construction projects as authorized by the Acts of April 22,1904 
D.C. Code 
(33 Stat. 244), May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 105, 110), J u n e 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 
43-1510L 
183), August 20, 1958 (72 Stat. 686), and the Act of December 9, 1969 
43-i&^7-l32 
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7-133 note. 
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specifications; conducting preliminary survej's; erection of struc-
D.C. Code 9-220. 
tures, including building improvement and alteration and treatment 
D-C. Code 
of grounds; to remain available until expended, $157,531,300: Pro-
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vided, That $5,378,100 shall be available for construction services by 
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the Director of the Department of General Services or by contract for 
architectural engineering services, as may be determined by the 
Mayor, and the funds for the use of the Director of the Department of 
General Services shall be advanced to the appropriation account 
"Construction Services, Department of General Services": Provided 
further, That the amount appropriated to the Construction Services 
Fund, Department of General Services, be limited, during the current 
fiscal year, to ten per centum of appropriations for all construction 
projects, except for Project Numbered 24-99, Permanent Improve-
ments, for which construction services shall be limited to twenty per 
centum of the appropriation: Provided further. Notwithstanding the 
foregoing, all authorizations for capital outlay projects, except those 
projects covered by the first sentence of section 23(a) of the Federal-
D.C. Code 7-135 
Aid Highway Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-495, approved August 23, 
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1968), for which funds are provided by this paragraph, shall expire on 
September 30, 1981, except authorizations for projects as to which 
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funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to such date. Upon 
expiration of any such project authorization the funds provided 
herein for such project shall lapse. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS-DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
SEC. 201. Except as otherwise provided in this title, all vouchers 
covering expenditures of appropriations contained in this title shall 
be audited before payment by the designated certifying official and 
the vouchers as approved shall be paid by checks issued by the 
designated disbursing official. 
SEC. 202. Whenever in this title an amount is specified within an 
appropriation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such 
amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maxi-
mum amount which may be expended for said purpose or object 
rather than an amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 203. Appropriations in this title shall be available, when 
authorized or approved by the Mayor, for allowances for privately 
owned conveyances used for the performance of official duties at 17 
cents per mile but not to exceed $60 a month for each automobile and 
at 11 cents per mile but not to exceed $40 a month for each 
motorcycle, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, except 
that one hundred and thirteen (eighteen for venereal disease investi-
gators in the Department of Human Resources) such automobile 
allowances at not more than $935 each per annum may be authorized 
or approved by the Mayor. 
SEC. 204. Appropriations in this title shall be available for expenses 
of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations concerned with 
the work of the District of Columbia government, when authorized by 
the Mayor. 
SEC. 205. Appropriations in this title shall not be used for or in 
connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforce-
ment of any regulation or order of the Public Service Commission 
requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connec-
tion with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab 
except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones 
and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been 
prescribed by the Public Service Commission. 
SEC. 206. Appropriations in this title shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 
two cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 207. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for making 
refunds and for the payment of judgments which have been entered 
against the government of the District of Columbia: Provided, That 
no part of any funds so appropriated shall be used for the payment of 
any judgment entered by any court against the government of the 
District of Columbia requiring the payment for electric current for 
street lighting at a rate in excess of two cents per kilowatt-hour for 
current consumed: Provided further. That nothing contained in this 
section shall be construed as modifying or affecting the provisions of 
paragraph 3, subsection (c) of section 11 of title XII of the District of 
Columbia Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, as amended. 
SEC. 208. Appropriations in this title shall be available for the 
payment of public assistance without reference to the requirement of 
subsection (b) of section 5 of the District of Columbia Public Assist-
ance Act of 1962 and for the non-Federal share of funds necessary to 
qualify for Federal assistance under the Act of July 31, 1968 (Public 
Law 90-445). 
D.C. Code 7-701 
note. 
Refunds and 
judgement 
pajnnents. 
D.C. Code 
47-1586J. 
Public 
assistance. 
D.C. Code 3-204 
note. 
D.C. Code 3-204. 
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note. 
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D.C. Oxie 
40-501a note. 
Travel and per 
diem 
expenditures. 
D.C. Ckxie 1-216 
note. 
Experts and 
consultants. 
Budget, 
transmittal to 
Congress. 
SEC. 209. No part of any appropriation contained in this title shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 210. No part of any funds appropriated by this title shall be 
used to pay the compensation (whether by contract or otherwise) of 
any individual for performing services as a chauffeur or driver for 
any designated officer or employee of the District of Columbia 
government (other than the Mayor, Chief of Police, and Fire Chief), or 
for performing services as a chauffeur or driver of a motor vehicle 
assigned for the personal or individual use of any such officer or 
employee (other than the Mayor, Chief of Police, and Fire Chief). No 
part of any funds appropriated by this title, in excess of $1,000 per 
month in the aggregate ($12,000 per annum) shall be used to pay the 
compensation (whether by contract or otherwise) of individuals for 
performing services as a chauffeur or driver for the Mayor, or for 
performing services as a chauffeur or driver of a motor vehicle 
assigned for the personal or individual use of the Mayor. 
SEC. 211. Not to exceed AVz per centum of the total of all funds 
appropriated by this title for personal compensation may be used to 
pay the cost of overtime or temporary positions. 
SEC. 212. The total expenditure of funds appropriated by this title 
for authorized travel and per diem costs outside the District of 
Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia shall not exceed $225,000. 
SEC. 213. Appropriations in this title shall not be available, during 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for the compensation of 
any person appointed— 
(1) as a full-time employee to a permanent, authorized position 
in the government of the District of Columbia during any month 
when the number of such employees is greater than 37,886: 
Provided, That— 
(A) positions within this city emplo3n]ient limitation shall 
be set aside as the maximum number of permanent, author-
ized employees as follows: Appropriated positions, 33,659 of 
which 9,652 shall be for Public Schools; reimbursable and 
revolving fund positions, 1,090; capital outlay positions, 781; 
District of Columbia General Hospital, 2,356; and 
(B) the District of Columbia Public Schools and the District 
of Columbia General Hospital shall not exceed their respec-
tive employment limitations and are hereby required to 
report monthly to the Mayor, for the purpose of maintaining 
controls on city-wide emplo5anent, regarding the total 
number of current employees and the total number of 
separations and filling of positions within their respective 
employment limitations; or 
(2) as a temporary or part-time employee in the government of 
the District of Columbia during any month in which the number 
of such employees exceeds the number of such employees for the 
same month of the preceding fiscal year. 
SEC. 214. No funds appropriated in this title, for the government of 
the District of Columbia for the operation of educational institutions, 
the compensation of personnel, or for other educational purposes may 
be used to permit, encourage, facilitate, or further partisan political 
activities. Nothing herein is intended to prohibit the availability of 
school buildings for the use of any community group during non-
school hours. 
SEC. 215. Appropriations in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at rates to be fixed by the Mayor. 
SEC. 216. The annual budget for the District of Columbia govern-
ment for fiscal year 1981 shall be transmitted to the Congress by not 
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D.C. Code 47-331 
note. 
later than February 1,1980. None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act shall be made available to pay the salary of any employee of the 
government of the District of Columbia whose name, title, grade, 
salary, past work experience, and salary history are not available for 
inspection by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations or 
their duly authorized representatives. 
SEC. 217. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necesaary for making 
payments authorized by the District of Columbia Revenue Recovery 
Act of 1977, D.C. Law 2-20, approved September 23,1977. 
SEC. 218. None of the fun^ contained in this Act shall be made 
available to pay the salary of any employee of the government of the 
District of Columbia whose name and salary are not available for 
public inspection. 
SEC. 219. No part of this appropriation shall be used for publicity or 
propaganda purposes or implementation of any policy including 
boycott designed to support or defeat legislation pending before 
Congress or any State legislature. 
SEC. 220. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act shall be 
used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would 
be endangered if the fetus were carried to term; or except for such 
medical procedures necessary for the victims of rape or incest, when 
such rape or incest has been reported promptly to a law enforcement 
agency or public health service. Nor are payments prohibited for 
drugs or devices to prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum, or for 
medical procedures necessary for the termination of an ectopic 
pregnancy. 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation Short title. 
Act, 1980". 
Approved October 30, 1979. 
Abortions, 
nonavailability 
of funds; 
exceptions. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 96-294 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 96-443 (Comm. of 
ConfcrGuc©) 
SENATE REPORT No. 96-257 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 125 (1979): 
July 11, 17, considered and pfissed House. 
July 27, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 16, House agreed to conference report; receded from its disagreement and 
concurred in one Senate amendment, and in others with amendments. 
Oct. 22, Senate agreed to conference report, concurred in House amendments.