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District of Columbia).
    (2) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
submit, by November 15, 1998, an inventory, as of September 30, 1998, 
of all vehicles owned, leased or operated by the District of Columbia 
government. The inventory shall include, but not be limited to, the 
department to which the vehicle is assigned; the year and make of the 
vehicle; the acquisition date and cost; the general condition of the 
vehicle; annual operating and maintenance costs; current mileage; and 
whether the vehicle is allowed to be taken home by a District officer 
or employee and if so, the officer or employee's title and resident 
location.
    (b) Source of Payment for Employees Detailed Within Government.--
For purposes of determining the amount of funds expended by any entity 
within the District of Columbia government during fiscal year 1999 and 
each succeeding fiscal year, any expenditures of the District 
government attributable to any officer or employee of the District 
government who provides services which are within the authority and 
jurisdiction of the entity (including any portion of the compensation 
paid to the officer or employee attributable to the time spent in 
providing such services) shall be treated as expenditures made from the 
entity's budget, without regard to whether the officer or employee is 
assigned to the entity or otherwise treated as an officer or employee 
of the entity.
    Sec. 142. (a) Compliance With Buy American Act.--None of the funds 
made available in this Act may be expended by an entity unless the 
entity agrees that in expending the funds the entity will comply with 
the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c).
    (b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
            (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In 
        the case of any equipment or product that may be authorized to 
        be purchased with financial assistance provided using funds 
        made available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress 
        that entities receiving the assistance should, in expending the 
        assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products 
        to the greatest extent practicable.
            (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing 
        financial assistance using funds made available in this Act, 
        the head of each agency of the Federal or District of Columbia 
        government shall provide to each recipient of the assistance a 
        notice describing the statement made in paragraph (1) by the 
        Congress.
    (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling Products 
as Made in America.--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 inscription with the same 
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is 
not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to 
receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in 
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility 
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code 
of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 143. Notwithstanding any provision of any federally granted 
charter or any other provision of law, the real property of the 
National Education Association located in the District of Columbia 
shall be subject to taxation by the District of Columbia in the same 
manner as any similar organization.
    Sec. 144. None of the funds contained in this or any other Act may 
be used to pay the salary or expenses of any officer or employee of any 
department or agency of the District of Columbia government or of any 
entity within the District of Columbia government who fails to provide 
information requested by the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
Columbia.
    Sec. 145. None of the funds contained in this Act may be used for 
purposes of the annual independent audit of the District of Columbia 
government (including the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility 
and Management Assistance Authority) for fiscal year 1999 unless--
            (1) the audit is conducted (either directly or by contract) 
        by the Inspector General of the District of Columbia; and
            (2) the audit includes a comparison of audited actual year-
        end results with the revenues submitted in the budget document 
        for such year and the appropriations enacted into law for such 
        year.
    Sec. 146. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize any 
office, agency or entity to expend funds for programs or functions for 
which a reorganization plan is required but has not been approved by 
the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management 
Assistance Authority (hereafter in this section referred to as 
``Authority''). Appropriations made by this Act for such programs or 
functions are conditioned only on the approval by the Authority of the 
required reorganization plans.
    Sec. 147. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or 
regulation, the evaluation process and instruments for evaluating 
District of Columbia public schools employees shall be a non-negotiable 
item for collective bargaining purposes.
    Sec. 148. None of the funds contained in this Act may be used by 
the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other officer or 
entity of the District government to provide assistance for any 
petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to 
provide for voting representation in Congress for the District of 
Columbia.
    Sec. 149. The Residency Requirement Reinstatement Amendment Act of 
1998 (D.C. Act 12-340) is hereby repealed.
    Sec. 150. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no 
Federal funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to carry out 
any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the 
hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
    This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Appropriations 
Act, 1999''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 378

105th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4380

                          [Report No. 105-670]

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                                 A BILL

 Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia 
and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against revenues of 
 said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                             August 3, 1998

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
                       and ordered to be printed

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