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[H.R. 433 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.433

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine


                                 An Act


 
 To restore the management and personnel authority of the Mayor of the 
                          District of Columbia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Management 
Restoration Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
        (1) Among the major problems of the District of Columbia 
    government has been the failure to clearly delineate 
    accountability.
        (2) The statute establishing the District of Columbia Financial 
    Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority proved necessary 
    to enable the District to regain financial stability and management 
    control.
        (3) The District has performed significantly better than the 
    Congress had anticipated at the time of the passage of the 
    Authority statute.
        (4) The necessity for a financial authority has resulted in a 
    diffusion of responsibility between the Mayor, the Council, and the 
    Authority pending the time when the District government would 
    assume the home rule status quo ante.
        (5) This lack of clear lines of reporting authority, in turn, 
    has led to some redundancy and confusion about accountability and 
    authority.
        (6) The Authority statute requires the Authority to ``ensure 
    the most efficient and effective delivery of services, including 
    public safety services, by the District government'' and to 
    ``assist the District government in * * * ensuring the appropriate 
    and efficient delivery of services''.
        (7) With the coming of a new administration led by Mayor 
    Anthony Williams, the Authority has taken the first step to ensure 
    the accountability that will be necessary at the expiration of the 
    control period by delegating day-to-day operations over city 
    agencies previously under control of the Authority to the Mayor.
        (8) The Congress agrees that the best way to ensure clear and 
    unambiguous authority and full accountability is for the Mayor to 
    have full authority over city agencies so that citizens, the 
    Authority, and the Congress can ascertain responsibility.
        (9) The transition of authority to the new administration will 
    take nothing from the Authority's power to intervene during a 
    control period.

SEC. 3. RESTORATION OF MANAGEMENT AND PERSONNEL AUTHORITY OF MAYOR OF 
              THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle B of title XI of the Balanced Budget Act 
of 1997 (D.C. Code, sec. 47-395.1 et seq.) is repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1604(f)(2)(B) of the Taxpayer 
Relief Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-34; 111 Stat. 1099) is repealed.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.