H.R. 5548 (ih) Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes. [Introduced in House] ...

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106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5547

 Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia 
    and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the 
  revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
                     2001, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 25, 2000

  Mr. Istook introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

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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 the 
  revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
                     2001, 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 sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:

                             FEDERAL FUNDS

              Federal Payment for Resident Tuition Support

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia for a nationwide 
program to be administered by the Mayor for District of Columbia 
resident tuition support, $17,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds may be used on behalf of eligible 
District of Columbia residents to pay an amount based upon the 
difference between in-State and out-of-State tuition at public 
institutions of higher education, usable at both public and private 
institutions for higher education: Provided further, That the awarding 
of such funds may be prioritized on the basis of a resident's academic 
merit and such other factors as may be authorized.

        Federal Payment for Incentives for Adoption of Children

    The paragraph under the heading ``Federal Payment for Incentives 
for Adoption of Children'' in Public Law 106-113, approved November 29, 
1999 (113 Stat. 1501), is amended to read as follows: ``For a Federal 
payment to the District of Columbia to create incentives to promote the 
adoption of children in the District of Columbia foster care system, 
$5,000,000: Provided, That such funds shall remain available until 
September 30, 2002, and shall be used to carry out all of the 
provisions of title 38, except for section 3808, of the Fiscal Year 
2001 Budget Support Act of 2000, D.C. Bill 13-679, enrolled June 12, 
2000.''.

   Federal Payment to the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
                                Columbia

    For a Federal payment to the Chief Financial Officer of the 
District of Columbia, $1,250,000, of which $250,000 shall be for 
payment to a mentoring program and for hotline services; $250,000 shall 
be for payment to a youth development program with a character building 
curriculum; $250,000 shall be for payment to a basic values training 
program; and $500,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for 
the design, construction, and maintenance of a trash rack system to be 
installed at the Hickey Run stormwater outfall.

         Federal Payment for Commercial Revitalization Program

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, $1,500,000, to 
remain available until expended, for the Mayor, in consultation with 
the Council of the District of Columbia, to provide offsets against 
local taxes for a commercial revitalization program, such program to 
provide financial inducements, including loans, grants, offsets to 
local taxes and other instruments that promote commercial 
revitalization in Enterprise Zones and low and moderate income areas in 
the District of Columbia: Provided, That in carrying out such a 
program, the Mayor shall use Federal commercial revitalization 
proposals introduced in Congress as a guideline: Provided further, That 
not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Mayor shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and House of Representatives on the progress made in carrying 
out the commercial revitalization program.

       Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Public Schools

    For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia Public Schools, 
$500,000: Provided, That $250,000 of said amount shall be used for a 
program to reduce school violence: Provided further, That $250,000 of 
said amount shall be used for a program to enhance the reading skills 
of District public school students.

         Federal Payment to the Metropolitan Police Department

    For a Federal payment to the Metropolitan Police Department, 
$100,000: Provided, That said funds shall be used to fund a youth safe 
haven police mini-station for mentoring high risk youth.

           Federal Contribution to Covenant House Washington

    For a Federal contribution to Covenant House Washington for a 
contribution to the construction in Southeast Washington of a new 
community service center for homeless, runaway and at-risk youth, 
$500,000.

    Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee 
                               Operations

    For salaries and expenses of the District of Columbia Corrections 
Trustee, $134,200,000 for the administration and operation of 
correctional facilities and for the administrative operating costs of 
the Office of the Corrections Trustee, as authorized by section 11202 
of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement 
Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33; 111 Stat. 712) of which $1,000,000 is 
to fund an initiative to improve case processing in the District of 
Columbia criminal justice system: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, funds appropriated in this Act for the District 
of Columbia Corrections Trustee shall be apportioned quarterly by the 
Office of Management and Budget and obligated and expended in the same 
manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal 
agencies: Provided further, That in addition to the funds provided 
under this heading, the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee may 
use any remaining interest earned on the Federal payment made to the 
Trustee under the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1998, to 
carry out the activities funded under this heading.

           Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts

    For salaries and expenses for the District of Columbia Courts, 
$105,000,000 to be allocated as follows: for the District of Columbia 
Court of Appeals, $7,409,000; for the District of Columbia Superior 
Court, $71,121,000; for the District of Columbia Court System, 
$17,890,000; $5,255,000 to finance a pay adjustment of 8.48 percent for 
nonjudicial employees; and $3,325,000, including $825,000 for roofing 
repairs to the facility commonly referred to as the Old Courthouse and 
located at 451 Indiana Avenue, Northwest, to remain available until 
September 30, 2002, for capital improvements for District of Columbia 
courthouse facilities: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act or 
in any other Act shall be available for the purchase, installation or 
operation of an Integrated Justice Information System until a detailed 
plan and design has been submitted by the courts and approved by the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, all amounts under this heading shall be apportioned quarterly by 
the Office of Management and Budget and obligated and expended in the 
same manner as funds appropriated for salaries and expenses of other 
Federal agencies, with payroll and financial services to be provided on 
a contractual basis with the General Services Administration (GSA), 
said services to include the preparation of monthly financial reports, 
copies of which shall be submitted directly by GSA to the President and 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
and the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives.

            Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts

    For payments authorized under section 11-2604 and section 11-2605, 
D.C. Code (relating to representation provided under the District of 
Columbia Criminal Justice Act), payments for counsel appointed in 
proceedings in the Family Division of the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia under chapter 23 of title 16, D.C. Code, and 
payments for counsel authorized under section 21-2060, D.C. Code 
(relating to representation provided under the District of Columbia 
Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Durable Power of Attorney Act 
of 1986), $34,387,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That the funds provided in this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment 
to the District of Columbia Courts'' (other than the $3,325,000 
provided under such heading for capital improvements for District of 
Columbia courthouse facilities) may also be used for payments under 
this heading: Provided further, That, in addition to the funds provided 
under this heading, the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in 
the District of Columbia shall use funds provided in this Act under the 
heading ``Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts'' (other 
than the $3,325,000 provided under such heading for capital 
improvements for District of Columbia courthouse facilities), to make 
payments described under this heading for obligations incurred during 
any fiscal year: Provided further, That such funds shall be 
administered by the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the 
District of Columbia: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, this appropriation shall be apportioned quarterly by 
the Office of Management and Budget and obligated and expended in the 
same manner as funds appropriated for expenses of other Federal 
agencies, with payroll and financial services to be provided on a 
contractual basis with the General Services Administration (GSA), said 
services to include the preparation of monthly financial reports, 
copies of which shall be submitted directly by GSA to the President and 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 
Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
and the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives: 
Provided further, That the District of Columbia Courts shall implement 
the recommendations in the General Accounting Office Report GAO/AIMD/
OGC-99-226 regarding payments to court-appointed attorneys and shall 
report quarterly to the Office of Management and Budget and to the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the status of these 
reforms.

 Federal Payment to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency 
                      for the District of Columbia

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and hire of motor 
vehicles, of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the 
District of Columbia, as authorized by the National Capital 
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 (Public Law 
105-33; 111 Stat. 712), $112,527,000, of which $67,521,000 shall be for 
necessary expenses of Community Supervision and Sex Offender 
Registration, to include expenses relating to supervision of adults 
subject to protection orders or provision of services for or related to 
such persons; $18,778,000 shall be transferred to the Public Defender 
Service; and $26,228,000 shall be available to the Pretrial Services 
Agency: Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading, 
$17,854,000 shall be used to improve pretrial defendant and post-
conviction offender supervision, enhance drug testing and sanctions-
based treatment programs and other treatment services, expand 
intermediate sanctions and offender re-entry programs, continue 
planning and design proposals for a residential Sanctions Center and 
improve administrative infrastructure, including information 
technology; and $836,000 of the $17,854,000 referred to in this proviso 
is for the Public Defender Service: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, all amounts under this 
heading shall be apportioned quarterly by the Office of Management and 
Budget and obligated and expended in the same manner as funds 
appropriated for salaries and expenses of other Federal agencies: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 446 of the District of 
Columbia Home Rule Act or any provision of subchapter III of chapter 13 
of title 31, United States Code, the use of interest earned on the 
Federal payment made to the District of Columbia Offender Supervision, 
Defender, and Court Services Agency under the District of Columbia 
Appropriations Act, 1998, by the Agency during fiscal years 1998 and 
1999 shall not constitute a violation of such Act or such subchapter.

           Federal Payment for Washington Interfaith Network

    For a Federal payment to the Washington Interfaith Network to 
reimburse the Network for costs incurred in carrying out 
preconstruction activities at the former Fort Dupont Dwellings and 
Additions, $1,000,000: Provided, That such activities may include 
architectural and engineering studies, property appraisals, 
environmental assessments, grading and excavation, landscaping, paving, 
and the installation of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, sewer lines, and 
other utilities: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall make such payment only after the Network has received matching 
funds from private sources (including funds provided through loans) to 
carry out such activities in an aggregate amount which is equal to the 
amount of such payment (as certified by the Inspector General of the 
District of Columbia) and has provided the Secretary of the Treasury 
with a request for reimbursement which contains documentation certified 
by the Inspector General of the District of Columbia showing that the 
Network carried out the activities and that the costs incurred in 
carrying out the activities were equal to or less than the amount of 
the reimbursement requested: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided under this heading may be obligated or expended after December 
31, 2001 (without regard to whether the activities involved were 
carried out prior to such date).

   Federal Payment for Plan to Simplify Employee Compensation Systems

    For a Federal payment to the Mayor of the District of Columbia for 
a contract for the study and development of a plan to simplify the 
compensation systems, schedules, and work rules applicable to employees 
of the District government, $250,000: Provided, That under the terms of 
the contract the plan shall include (at a minimum) a review of the 
current compensation systems, schedules, and work rules applicable to 
such employees; a review of the best practices regarding the 
compensation systems, schedules, and work rules of State and local 
governments and other appropriate organizations; a proposal for 
simplifying the systems, schedules, and rules applicable to employees 
of the District government; and the development of strategies for 
implementing such proposal, including an identification of any 
statutory, contractual, or other barriers to implementing the proposal 
and an estimated time frame for implementing the proposal: Provided 
further, That under the terms of the contract the contractor shall 
submit the plan to the Mayor and to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and Senate: Provided further, That the 
Mayor shall develop a proposed solicitation for the contract not later 
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall 
submit a copy of the proposed solicitation to the Comptroller General 
for review at least 90 days prior to the issuance of such solicitation: 
Provided further, That not later than 45 days after receiving the 
proposed solicitation from the Mayor, the Comptroller General shall 
review the solicitation to ensure that it adequately addresses all of 
the necessary elements described under this heading and report to the 

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