On October 21, 1998, President Clinton signed into law H.R. 4112 , the FY1999 Legislative BranchAppropriations bill ( P.L. 105-275 ). The actcontains $2.350 billion, a 2.7% increase over the FY1998 appropriation of $2.288 billion. Also on October 21, the President signed into law an omnibus consolidated and emergency supplemental appropriations bill that contains FY1999 emergencyfunding of $223.7 million for legislative branch activities. These funds were made available to three legislativeentities to cover expenses associated with theYear-2000 conversion of "information technology systems" ($16.9 million), to the Capitol Police Board forenhanced security of the Capitol complex and theLibrary of Congress ($106.8 million), and to the Architect of the Capitol for expenses of "planning, engineering,design, and construction" of a Capitol VisitorCenter ($100 million). On June 25, 1998, the House passed H.R. 4112 by a vote of 235-179. (1) The bill provided $1.8 billion, excluding fundsfor Senate internal activitiesand Senate activities funded in the Architect's budget. H.R. 4112 was a 1.68% increase over the FY1998comparable appropriation of $1.77billion. (2) Earlier, on June 23, the HouseCommittee on Appropriations reported H.R. 4112 ( H.Rept. 105-595 ). (3) On July 21, the Senate passed its version of H.R. 4112 , as amended, by a vote of 90-9. H.R. 4112 , as passed by the Senate, provided$1.6 billion for FY1999, excluding funds for House internal activities and House activities funded in the Architectof the Capitol's budget. This figurerepresented a 3.5 % increase over the FY1998 comparable appropriation of $1.5 billion. (4) Earlier, on June 5, 1998, the Senate Committeeon Appropriationsreported S. 2137 ( S.Rept. 105-204 ). (5) Conferees met and approved a final bill on October 18, and the House Appropriations Committee issued the conference report on October 22 ( H.Rept. 105-734 ).The House adopted the report on September 24, by a vote of 356-65; the Senate adopted it the following day, byvoice vote. In April 1998, both houses passed, and President Clinton signed into law, an FY1998 supplemental appropriations bill ( P.L. 105-174 ; H.R. 3579 )that provides $20 million for a perimeter security plan for the Capitol, Senate office buildings, and adjacent grounds,and $7.5 million to begin repair of theCapitol dome. Since the late 1970s, the legislative branch appropriations bill has been divided into two titles. Title I,Congressional Operations, contains budget authorities foractivities directly serving Congress. Included in this title are the budgets of the House, the Senate, Joint Items (jointHouse and Senate activities), theCongressional Budget Office, the Architect of the Capitol (except Library of Congress buildings and grounds), theCongressional Research Service within theLibrary of Congress, and congressional printing and binding done by the Government Printing Office. Title II, Related Agencies, contains budgets for activities not directly supporting Congress. Included in this title are the budgets of the Botanic Garden, Library ofCongress (except the Congressional Research Service), the Library buildings and grounds within the Architect ofthe Capitol, the Government Printing Office(except congressional printing and binding costs), and the General Accounting Office. Periodically since FY1978,the legislative bill has also contained additionaltitles for such purposes as capital improvements and special one-time functions. Title I budget authority was 70% of the total appropriation of $2.288 billion in the FY1998 Legislative Branch Appropriation Act. (6) Title II budget authority was30% of the total appropriation. In addition, there are legislative budget authorities that are not included in the annuallegislative branch appropriations act orsupplemental appropriations acts. These include permanent budget authorities, trust fund budget authorities, andother budget authorities. (7) Budget authorities appropriated permanently are available as the result of previously enacted legislation and do not require annual action. (8) Tables providingbudget authorities in recent bills appear at the end of this report. Trust funds are monies held in accounts that are credited with collections from specific sources earmarked by law for a defined purpose. Trust funds do not appearin the annual legislative branch bill since they are not budget authority. They are included in the U.S.Budget either as budget receipts or offsetting collections. (9) The Budget also shows some non-legislative entities within the legislative branch budget. These entities are funded in other appropriations bills. Thesenon-legislative entities are placed within the legislative budget section by the Office of Management and Budgetfor bookkeeping purposes. (10) Table 1. Status of Legislative Branch Appropriations, FY1999,H.R. 4112 a The Senate version was marked up by the full Committee on Appropriations. Submission of the FY1999 Budget Estimates. In February 1998, President Clinton submitted his FY1999budget of $2.263 billion for legislative activities funded in the legislative branch appropriations bill. This figure wassubsequently amended by individuallegislative branch agencies to $2.467 billion. (11) As amended, the request represented an increase of $218 million, or 9.7%, over the FY1998 appropriation of$2.249 billion, (12) before the FY1998 supplementaland a Government Printing Office transfer. The proposed FY1999 budget provided for an additional 122 FTEstaff positions (13) in the legislative branch (excluding the Senate). The number of FTEs would have been increased by 0.5%, from 23,045 to 23,166. (14) Consideration in the Senate. The Senate considered H.R. 4112 on July 17, 20, and July 21, whenit was passed, as amended. As passed, the bill contained $1.6 billion, excluding funds for House internal activitiesand House activities funded in the Architect ofthe Capitol's (AOCs) budget. This figure represented a 3.5% increase over the FY1998 comparable appropriationof $1.5 billion. (15) Among other provisions, theSenate bill: Appropriated 4.4% less than the FY1999 budget estimate, a decrease of $72.4 million. The FY1999 estimate was $1.657 billion; theFY1999 Senate bill was $1.59 billion; Appropriated a 3.5% increase, or $53.7 million, over the FY1998 budget. The FY1998 level is $1.5 billion; the FY1999 version was $1.59billion; Contained additional funds, mostly for employee cost-of-living pay adjustments and associated costs of those adjustments (3.1% of the total3.4% increase); (16) and, Provided for a 1.8% increase in the Senate's housekeeping budget, from $461.1 million in FY1998 to $469.4 million inFY1999. Five amendments were adopted by the Senate on July 20. These amendments contained language: (1) Amending the House bill to include appropriations for Senate internal operations and Senate activities funded under the Architect of the Capitol in H.R. 4112 ; (2) Increasing the appropriation for general expenses of the Capitol Police by $220,000 (from $6,077,000 to $6,297,000); (3) Creating a separate appropriations subaccount for the Committee on Appropriations, under the account, "Salaries, Officers, and Employees," deletingappropriations for the committee previously contained in the account, "Contingent Expenses of the Senate,"subaccount, "Inquiries and Investigations;" (4) Amending Title IV of the Senate bill establishing a Trade Deficit Review Commission; and, (5) Requiring certain legislative branch officials to submit to Congress lists of activities to be performed under their jurisdictions during FY2000, including thoseactivities "not inherently governmental functions." (17) Before passage on July 21, the Senate agreed, by a vote of 83-16, to invoke cloture, closing further debate on H.R. 4112 , as amended. Subsequently,an amendment to make reports of the Congressional Research Service available to the public on the Internet wasruled out of order as being non-germane whencloture was invoked. Earlier, on June 4, the Senate Committee on Appropriations marked up and ordered its version reported. On June 5, the committee reported S. 2137 . (18) Consideration in the House. On June 25, the House passed H.R. 4112 , by a vote of 235-179. (19) H.R. 4112 provided $1.8 billion, excluding funds for Senate internal activities and Senate activities fundedin the AOC's budget. Among other provisions, the House bill: Provided $1.8 billion, which is 1.68% over the FY1998 comparable appropriation of $1.77 billion.