[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 433 Received in Senate (RDS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 433


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 11, 1999

                                Received

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                                 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 9, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.