[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 19368-19379]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005

  On Wednesday, September 22, 2004, the Senate passed H.R. 4850, as 
follows:

                               H.R. 4850

         Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives 
     (H.R. 4850) entitled ``An Act making appropriations for the 
     government of the District of Columbia and other activities

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     chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said 
     District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and 
     for other purposes.'', do pass with the following amendment:
       Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

     That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the District of 
     Columbia and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2005, and for other purposes, namely:

                         TITLE I--FEDERAL FUNDS

              Federal Payment for Resident Tuition Support

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, to be 
     deposited into a dedicated account, for a nationwide program 
     to be administered by the Mayor, for District of Columbia 
     resident tuition support, $21,200,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That such funds, including any 
     interest accrued thereon, 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, or to pay up to 
     $2,500 each year at eligible private institutions of higher 
     education: Provided further, That the awarding of such funds 
     may be prioritized on the basis of a resident's academic 
     merit, the income and need of eligible students and such 
     other factors as may be authorized: Provided further, That 
     the District of Columbia government shall maintain a 
     dedicated account for the Resident Tuition Support Program 
     that shall consist of the Federal funds appropriated to the 
     Program in this Act and any subsequent appropriations, any 
     unobligated balances from prior fiscal years, and any 
     interest earned in this or any fiscal year: Provided further, 
     That the account shall be under the control of the District 
     of Columbia Chief Financial Officer who shall use those funds 
     solely for the purposes of carrying out the Resident Tuition 
     Support Program: Provided further, That the Office of the 
     Chief Financial Officer shall provide a quarterly financial 
     report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and Senate for these funds showing, by object 
     class, the expenditures made and the purpose therefor: 
     Provided further, That not more than 7 percent of the total 
     amount appropriated for this program may be used for 
     administrative expenses.

   Federal Payment for Emergency Planning and Security Costs in the 
                          District of Columbia

       For necessary expenses, as determined by the Mayor of the 
     District of Columbia in written consultation with the elected 
     county or city officials of surrounding jurisdictions, 
     $15,000,000, to remain available until expended, to reimburse 
     the District of Columbia for the costs of providing public 
     safety at events related to the presence of the national 
     capital in the District of Columbia and for the costs of 
     providing support to respond to immediate and specific 
     terrorist threats or attacks in the District of Columbia or 
     surrounding jurisdictions: Provided, That any amount provided 
     under this heading shall be available only after notice of 
     its proposed use has been transmitted by the President to 
     Congress and such amount has been apportioned pursuant to 
     chapter 15 of title 31, United States Code.

           Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts

       For salaries and expenses for the District of Columbia 
     Courts, $195,010,000, to be allocated as follows: for the 
     District of Columbia Court of Appeals, $8,952,000, of which 
     not to exceed $1,500 is for official reception and 
     representation expenses; for the District of Columbia 
     Superior Court, $84,948,000, of which not to exceed $1,500 is 
     for official reception and representation expenses; for the 
     District of Columbia Court System, $40,699,000, of which not 
     to exceed $1,500 is for official reception and representation 
     expenses; and $60,411,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2005, for capital improvements for District of 
     Columbia courthouse facilities: Provided, That funds made 
     available for capital improvements shall be expended 
     consistent with the General Services Administration master 
     plan study and building evaluation report: Provided further, 
     That notwithstanding any other provision of law, a single 
     contract or related contracts for development and 
     construction of facilities may be employed which collectively 
     include the full scope of the project: Provided further, That 
     the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause 
     ``availability of funds'' found at 48 CFR 52.232-18: 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 
     House of Representatives and Senate, the Committee on 
     Government Reform of the House of Representatives, and the 
     Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate: Provided 
     further, That 30 days after providing written notice to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and Senate, the District of Columbia Courts may reallocate 
     not more than $1,000,000 of the funds provided under this 
     heading among the items and entities funded under such 
     heading for operations, and not more than 4 percent of the 
     funds provided under this heading for facilities.

            Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts

       For payments authorized under section 11-2604 and section 
     11-2605, D.C. Official Code (relating to representation 
     provided under the District of Columbia Criminal Justice 
     Act), payments for counsel appointed in proceedings in the 
     Family Court of the Superior Court of the District of 
     Columbia under chapter 23 of title 16, D.C. Official Code, or 
     pursuant to contractual agreements to provide guardian ad 
     litem representation, training, technical assistance and/or 
     such other services as are necessary to improve the quality 
     of guardian ad litem representation, payments for counsel 
     appointed in adoption proceedings under chapter 3 of title 
     16, D.C. Code, and payments for counsel authorized under 
     section 21-2060, D.C. Official Code (relating to 
     representation provided under the District of Columbia 
     Guardianship, Protective Proceedings, and Durable Power of 
     Attorney Act of 1986), $34,500,000, 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 $53,011,000 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 $53,011,000 
     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 funds provided under 
     this heading 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 House of 
     Representatives and Senate, the Committee on Government 
     Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate.

 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 and the 
     Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, as 
     authorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self-
     Government Improvement Act of 1997, $182,490,000, of which 
     not to exceed $2,000 is for official reception and 
     representation expenses related to Community Supervision and 
     Pretrial Services Agency programs; of which not to exceed 
     $25,000 is for dues and assessments relating to the 
     implementation of the Court Services and Offender Supervision 
     Agency Interstate Supervision Act of 2002; of which 
     $113,343,000 shall be for necessary expenses of Community 
     Supervision and Sex Offender Registration, to include 
     expenses relating to the supervision of adults subject to 
     protection orders or the provision of services for or related 
     to such persons; of which $39,314,000 shall be available to 
     the Pretrial Services Agency; and of which $29,833,000 shall 
     be transferred to the Public Defender Service for the 
     District of Columbia: Provided, That $1,100,000 shall be to 
     lower supervision caseload ratios to 25:1 for special 
     population offenders: Provided further, That $200,000 shall 
     be to expand monitoring of offenders using global position 
     system technology: 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 chapter 12 
     of title 40, United States Code, the Director may acquire by 
     purchase, lease, condemnation, or donation, and renovate as 
     necessary, Building Number 17, 1900 Massachusetts Avenue, 
     Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia to house or 
     supervise offenders and defendants, with funds made available 
     for this purpose in Public Law 107-96: Provided further, That 
     the Director is authorized to accept and use gifts in the 
     form of in-kind contributions of space and hospitality to 
     support offender and defendant programs, and equipment and 
     vocational training services to educate and train offenders 
     and defendants: Provided further, That the Director shall 
     keep accurate and detailed records of the acceptance and use 
     of any gift or donation under the previous proviso, and shall 
     make such records available for audit and public inspection: 
     Provided further, That the Court Services and Offender 
     Supervision Agency Director is authorized to accept and use 
     reimbursement from the D.C. Government for space and services 
     provided on a cost reimbursement basis: Provided

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     further, That the Public Defender Service is authorized to 
     charge fees to cover cost of materials distributed to 
     attendees of educational events, including conferences, 
     sponsored by the Public Defender Service, and notwithstanding 
     31 U.S.C. 3302, said fees shall be credited to the Public 
     Defender Service account to be available for use without 
     further appropriation.

 Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia Water and 
     Sewer Authority, $10,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended, to continue implementation of the Combined Sewer 
     Overflow Long-Term Plan: Provided, That the District of 
     Columbia Water and Sewer Authority provides a 100 percent 
     match for this payment.

        Federal Payment for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 
     Department of Transportation, $3,000,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2006, for design and construction of a 
     continuous pedestrian and bicycle trail system from the 
     Potomac River to the District's border with Maryland.

      Federal Payment to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council

       For a Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Coordinating 
     Council, $1,300,000, to remain available until expended, to 
     support initiatives related to the coordination of Federal 
     and local criminal justice resources in the District of 
     Columbia.

         Federal Payment for the Unified Communications Center

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, 
     $7,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for 
     the Unified Communications Center.

             Federal Payment for Transportation Assistance

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia 
     Department of Transportation, $5,000,000, of which $1,000,000 
     shall be allocated to implement a downtown circulator transit 
     system, and of which $4,000,000 shall be to offset a portion 
     of the District of Columbia's allocated operating subsidy 
     payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 
     Authority.

    Federal Payment for Foster Care Improvements in the District of 
                                Columbia

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia for 
     foster care improvements, $5,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That $3,250,000 shall be for the 
     Child and Family Services Agency, of which $2,000,000 shall 
     be for the early intervention program to provide intensive 
     and immediate services for foster children; of which $750,000 
     shall be for the emergency support fund to purchase services 
     or technology necessary to allow children to remain in the 
     care of an approved and licensed family member; of which 
     $500,000 shall be for technology upgrades: Provided further, 
     That $1,250,000 shall be for the Department of Mental Health 
     to provide all court-ordered or agency-required mental health 
     screenings, assessments and treatments for children under the 
     supervision of the Child and Family Services Agency: Provided 
     further, That $500,000 shall be for the Washington 
     Metropolitan Council of Governments, to continue a program in 
     conjunction with the Foster and Adoptive Parents Advocacy 
     Center, to provide respite care for and recruitment of foster 
     parents: Provided further, That these Federal funds shall 
     supplement and not supplant local funds for the purposes 
     described under this heading.

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

       For a Federal payment to the Office of the Chief Financial 
     Officer of the District of Columbia, $32,500,000: Provided, 
     That these funds shall be available for the projects and in 
     the amounts specified in the statement of the managers on the 
     conference report accompanying this Act: Provided further, 
     That each entity that receives funding under this heading 
     shall submit to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of 
     the District of Columbia and the Committees on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and Senate a report on the 
     activities to be carried out with such funds no later than 
     March 15, 2005.

                 Federal Payment for School Improvement

       For a Federal payment for a School Improvement Program in 
     the District of Columbia, $40,000,000, to be allocated as 
     follows: for the District of Columbia Public Schools, 
     $13,000,000 to improve public school education in the 
     District of Columbia, $13,000,000 to expand quality public 
     charter schools in the District of Columbia; for the 
     Secretary of the Department of Education, $14,000,000 to 
     provide opportunity scholarships for students in the District 
     of Columbia in accordance with Public Law 108-199, of which 
     up to $1,000,000 may be used to administer and fund 
     assessments: Provided, That of the $13,000,000 for the 
     District of Columbia Public Schools, $5,000,000 shall be for 
     a new incentive fund to reward high performing or 
     significantly improved public schools; $5,000,000 shall be to 
     support the Transformation School Initiative directed to 
     schools in need of improvement: Provided further, That of the 
     remaining amounts, the Superintendent of the District of 
     Columbia Public Schools shall use such sums as necessary to 
     contract for management consulting services and implement 
     recommended reforms: Provided further, That the Comptroller 
     General shall conduct a financial audit of the District of 
     Columbia Public Schools: Provided further, That of the 
     $13,000,000 provided for public charter schools in the 
     District of Columbia, $4,000,000 shall be for the City Build 
     Initiative to create neighborhood-based charter schools; 
     $2,750,000 shall be for the Direct Loan Fund for Charter 
     Schools; $150,000 shall be for administrative expenses of the 
     Office of Charter School Financing and Support to expand 
     outreach and support of charter schools; $100,000 shall be 
     for the D.C. Public Charter School Association to enhance the 
     quality of charter schools; $4,000,000 shall be for the 
     development of an incubator facility for public charter 
     schools; and $2,000,000 shall be for a new incentive fund to 
     reward high performing or significantly improved public 
     charter schools: Provided further, That the District of 
     Columbia government shall establish a dedicated account for 
     the Office of Charter School Financing and Support (the 
     Office) that shall consist of the Federal funds appropriated 
     in this Act, any subsequent appropriations, any unobligated 
     balances from prior fiscal years, any additional grants, and 
     any interest and principal derived from loans made to Charter 
     Schools, and repayment of dollars utilized to support credit 
     enhancement earned in this or any fiscal year: Provided 
     further, That the account shall be under the control of the 
     District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer who shall use 
     those funds solely for the purposes of carrying out the 
     Credit Enhancement Program, Direct Loan Fund Grant Program, 
     and any other charter school financing under the management 
     of the Office: Provided further, That in this and subsequent 
     fiscal years the Office of the Chief Financial Officer shall 
     conduct an annual audit of the funds expended by the Office 
     and provide an annual financial report to the Mayor, the 
     Council of the District of Columbia, the Office of the 
     District of Columbia Treasurer and the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate for 
     these funds showing, by object class, the expenditures made 
     and the purpose therefor: Provided further, That not more 
     than $1,000,000 of the total amount appropriated for this 
     program may be used for administrative expenses and training 
     expenses related to the cost of the National Charter School 
     Conference(s) to be hosted by December 2006; and no more than 
     5 percent of the funds appropriated for the direct loan fund 
     may be used for administrative expenses related to the 
     administration and annual audit of the direct loan, grant, 
     and credit enhancement programs.

       Federal Payment for Bioterrorism and Forensics Laboratory

       For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, 
     $8,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2006, for 
     design, planning, and procurement costs associated with the 
     construction of a bioterrorism and forensics laboratory: 
     Provided, That the District of Columbia shall provide an 
     additional $2,300,000 with local funds as a condition of 
     receiving this payment.

                  TITLE II--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS

                           OPERATING EXPENSES

                          Division of Expenses

       The following amounts are appropriated for the District of 
     Columbia for the current fiscal year out of the general fund 
     of the District of Columbia, except as otherwise specifically 
     provided: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, except as provided in section 450A of the District of 
     Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204.50a) 
     and the provisions of this Act, the total amount appropriated 
     in this Act for operating expenses for the District of 
     Columbia for fiscal year 2005 under this heading shall not 
     exceed the lesser of the sum of the total revenues of the 
     District of Columbia for such fiscal year or $7,206,164,000 
     (of which $4,215,088,000 shall be from local funds, 
     $1,762,046,000 shall be from Federal funds, $1,214,843,000 
     shall be from other funds, and $14,817,000 shall be from 
     private funds), and an intra-district amount of $435,054,000, 
     in addition, $186,900,000 from funds previously appropriated 
     in this Act as Federal payments: Provided further, That this 
     amount may be increased by proceeds of one-time transactions, 
     which are expended for emergency or unanticipated operating 
     or capital needs: Provided further, That such increases shall 
     be approved by enactment of local District law and shall 
     comply with all reserve requirements contained in the 
     District of Columbia Home Rule Act as amended by this Act: 
     Provided further, That the Chief Financial Officer of the 
     District of Columbia shall take such steps as are necessary 
     to assure that the District of Columbia meets these 
     requirements, including the apportioning by the Chief 
     Financial Officer of the appropriations and funds made 
     available to the District during fiscal year 2005, except 
     that the Chief Financial Officer may not reprogram for 
     operating expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes, or 
     other obligations issued for capital projects.

                   Governmental Direction and Support

       Governmental direction and support, $416,069,000 (including 
     $261,068,000 from local funds, $100,256,000 from Federal 
     funds, and $54,745,000 from other funds), in addition, 
     $32,500,000 from funds previously appropriated in this Act 
     under the heading ``Federal Payment to the Office of the 
     Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia'', 
     $15,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in this Act 
     under the heading ``Federal Payment for Emergency Planning 
     and Security Costs in the District of

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     Columbia'', and $5,000,000 from funds previously appropriated 
     in this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment for Foster 
     Care Improvements in the District of Columbia'': Provided, 
     That not to exceed $9,300 for the Mayor, $9,300 for the 
     Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, $9,300 
     for the City Administrator, and $9,300 for the Office of the 
     Chief Financial Officer shall be available from this 
     appropriation for official reception and representation 
     expenses: Provided further, That any program fees collected 
     from the issuance of debt shall be available for the payment 
     of expenses of the debt management program of the District of 
     Columbia: Provided further, That no revenues from Federal 
     sources shall be used to support the operations or activities 
     of the Statehood Commission and Statehood Compact Commission: 
     Provided further, That the District of Columbia shall 
     identify the sources of funding for Admission to Statehood 
     from its own locally generated revenues: Provided further, 
     That notwithstanding any other provision of law, or Mayor's 
     Order 86-45, issued March 18, 1986, the Office of the Chief 
     Technology Officer's delegated small purchase authority shall 
     be $500,000: Provided further, That the District of Columbia 
     government may not require the Office of the Chief Technology 
     Officer to submit to any other procurement review process, or 
     to obtain the approval of or be restricted in any manner by 
     any official or employee of the District of Columbia 
     government, for purchases that do not exceed $500,000.

                  Economic Development and Regulation

       Economic development and regulation, $334,745,000 
     (including $55,764,000 from local funds, $93,050,000 from 
     Federal funds, $185,806,000 from other funds, and $125,000 
     from private funds), of which $13,000,000 collected by the 
     District of Columbia in the form of BID tax revenue shall be 
     paid to the respective BIDs pursuant to the Business 
     Improvement Districts Act of 1996 (D.C. Law 11-134; D.C. 
     Official Code, sec. 2-1215.01 et seq.), and the Business 
     Improvement Districts Amendment Act of 1997 (D.C. Law 12-26; 
     D.C. Official Code, sec. 2-1215.15 et seq.): Provided, That 
     such funds are available for acquiring services provided by 
     the General Services Administration: Provided further, That 
     Business Improvement Districts shall be exempt from taxes 
     levied by the District of Columbia: Provided further, That 
     local funds in the amount of $1,200,000 shall be appropriated 
     for the Excel Institute.

                       Public Safety and Justice

       Public safety and justice, $798,723,000 (including 
     $760,849,000 from local funds, $7,899,000 from Federal funds, 
     $29,966,000 from other funds, and $9,000 from private funds), 
     in addition, $1,300,000 from funds previously appropriated in 
     this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment to the Criminal 
     Justice Coordinating Council'': Provided, That not to exceed 
     $500,000 shall be available from this appropriation for the 
     Chief of Police for the prevention and detection of crime: 
     Provided further, That the Mayor shall reimburse the District 
     of Columbia National Guard for expenses incurred in 
     connection with services that are performed in emergencies by 
     the National Guard in a militia status and are requested by 
     the Mayor, in amounts that shall be jointly determined and 
     certified as due and payable for these services by the Mayor 
     and the Commanding General of the District of Columbia 
     National Guard: Provided further, That such sums as may be 
     necessary for reimbursement to the District of Columbia 
     National Guard under the preceding proviso shall be available 
     from this appropriation, and the availability of the sums 
     shall be deemed as constituting payment in advance for 
     emergency services involved.

                        Public Education System


                     (including transfers of funds)

       Public education system, including the development of 
     national defense education programs, $1,266,424,000 
     (including $1,058,709,000 from local funds, $194,979,000 from 
     Federal funds, $8,957,000 from other funds, $3,780,000 from 
     private funds to be allocated as follows:
       (1) District of columbia public schools.--$901,944,000 
     (including $760,494,000 from local funds, $130,450,000 from 
     Federal funds, $7,330,000 from other funds, $3,670,000 from 
     private funds, and not to exceed $6,816,000, to remain 
     available until expended, from the Medicaid and Special 
     Education Reform Fund established pursuant to the Medicaid 
     and Special Education Reform Fund Establishment Act of 2002 
     (D.C. Law 14-190; D.C. Official Code 4-204.51 et seq.)), and 
     $14,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in this Act 
     under the heading ``Federal Payment for School Improvement in 
     the District of Columbia'' shall be available for District of 
     Columbia Public Schools: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law, rule, or regulation, the evaluation 
     process and instruments for evaluating District of Columbia 
     Public School employees shall be a non-negotiable item for 
     collective bargaining purposes: Provided further, That this 
     appropriation shall not be available to subsidize the 
     education of any nonresident of the District of Columbia at 
     any District of Columbia public elementary or secondary 
     school during fiscal year 2005 unless the nonresident pays 
     tuition to the District of Columbia at a rate that covers 100 
     percent of the costs incurred by the District of Columbia 
     that are attributable to the education of the nonresident (as 
     established by the Superintendent of the District of Columbia 
     Public Schools): Provided further, That notwithstanding the 
     amounts otherwise provided under this heading or any other 
     provision of law, there shall be appropriated to the District 
     of Columbia Public Schools on July 1, 2005, an amount equal 
     to 10 percent of the total amount of the local funds provided 
     for the District of Columbia Public Schools in the proposed 
     budget of the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2005 (as 
     submitted to Congress), and the amount of such payment shall 
     be chargeable against the final amount provided for the 
     District of Columbia Public Schools under the District of 
     Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005: Provided further, That not 
     to exceed $9,300 for the Superintendent of Schools shall be 
     available from this appropriation for official reception and 
     representation expenses.
       (2) Teachers' retirement fund.--$9,200,000 from local funds 
     shall be available for the Teachers' Retirement Fund.
       (3) State education office.--$73,104,000 (including 
     $10,015,000 from local funds, $62,914,000 from Federal funds, 
     and $176,000 from other funds), in addition, $26,500,000 from 
     funds previously appropriated in this Act under the heading 
     ``Federal Payment for Resident Tuition Support'' and 
     $14,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in this Act 
     under the heading ``Federal Payment for School Improvement in 
     the District of Columbia'' shall be available for the State 
     Education Office: Provided, That of the amounts provided to 
     the State Education Office, $500,000 from local funds shall 
     remain available until June 30, 2006 for an audit of the 
     student enrollment of each District of Columbia Public School 
     and of each District of Columbia public charter school.
       (4) District of columbia public charter schools.--
     $196,802,000 from local funds shall be available for District 
     of Columbia public charter schools: Provided, That there 
     shall be quarterly disbursement of funds to the District of 
     Columbia public charter schools, with the first payment to 
     occur within 15 days of the beginning of the fiscal year: 
     Provided further, That if the entirety of this allocation has 
     not been provided as payments to any public charter schools 
     currently in operation through the per pupil funding formula, 
     the funds shall remain available as follows: (A) the first 
     $3,000,000 shall be deposited in the Credit Enhancement 
     Revolving Fund established pursuant to section 603(e) of the 
     Student Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 1996 
     (Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009; 20 U.S.C. 1155(e)); and 
     (B) the balance shall be for public education in accordance 
     with section 2403(b)(2) of the District of Columbia School 
     Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 38-
     1804.03(b)(2)): Provided further, That of the amounts made 
     available to District of Columbia public charter schools, 
     $25,000 shall be made available to the Office of the Chief 
     Financial Officer as authorized by section 2403(b)(6) of the 
     District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Official 
     Code, sec. 38-1804.03(b)(6)): Provided further, That $660,000 
     of this amount shall be available to the District of Columbia 
     Public Charter School Board for administrative costs: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding the amounts otherwise 
     provided under this heading or any other provision of law, 
     there shall be appropriated to the District of Columbia 
     public charter schools on July 1, 2005, an amount equal to 25 
     percent of the total amount of the local funds appropriations 
     request provided for payments to public charter schools in 
     the proposed budget of the District of Columbia for fiscal 
     year 2005 (as submitted to Congress), and the amount of such 
     payment shall be chargeable against the final amount provided 
     for such payments under the District of Columbia 
     Appropriations Act, 2005: Provided further, That 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds 
     appropriated herein for the District of Columbia Public 
     Charter Schools, the Chief Financial Officer of the District 
     of Columbia, in coordination with the District of Columbia 
     Chartering Authorities for the District of Columbia Public 
     Charter Schools, shall establish requirements, policies and 
     procedures for the performance of a single financial audit, 
     to be performed by one auditing firm selected by the Chief 
     Financial Officer of the District of Columbia: Provided 
     further, That beginning in fiscal year 2005, the District of 
     Columbia Chartering Authorities for the District of Columbia 
     Public Charter Schools shall implement and follow these 
     requirements (including, but not limited to, the terms and 
     conditions), policies and procedures to ensure the completion 
     of the annual financial single audit of all District of 
     Columbia Public Charter Schools conducted in accordance 
     herewith.
       (5) University of the district of columbia subsidy.--
     $49,602,000 from local funds shall be available for the 
     University of the District of Columbia: Provided, That this 
     appropriation shall not be available to subsidize the 
     education of nonresidents of the District of Columbia at the 
     University of the District of Columbia, unless the Board of 
     Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia 
     adopts, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, a 
     tuition rate schedule that will establish the tuition rate 
     for nonresident students at a level no lower than the 
     nonresident tuition rate charged at comparable public 
     institutions of higher education in the metropolitan area: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding the amounts otherwise 
     provided under this heading or any other provision of law, 
     there shall be appropriated to the University of the District 
     of Columbia on July 1, 2005, an amount equal to 10 percent of 
     the total amount of the local funds appropriations request 
     provided for the University of the District of Columbia in 
     the proposed budget of the District of Columbia for fiscal 
     year 2005 (as submitted to Congress), and the amount of such

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     payment shall be chargeable against the final amount provided 
     for the University of the District of Columbia under the 
     District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005: Provided 
     further, That not to exceed $9,300 for the President of the 
     University of the District of Columbia shall be available 
     from this appropriation for official reception and 
     representation expenses.
       (6) District of columbia public libraries.--$30,831,000 
     (including $28,978,000 from local funds, $1,093,000 from 
     Federal funds, and $651,000 from other funds) shall be 
     available for the District of Columbia Public Libraries: 
     Provided, That not to exceed $7,500 for the Public Librarian 
     shall be available from this appropriation for official 
     reception and representation expenses.
       (7) Commission on the arts and humanities.--$4,941,000 
     (including $3,618,000 from local funds, $523,000 from Federal 
     funds, and $800,000 from other funds) shall be available for 
     the Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

                         Human Support Services


                     (including transfer of funds)

       Human support services, $2,533,825,000 (including 
     $1,165,314,000 from local funds, $1,331,670,000 from Federal 
     funds, $27,441,000 from other funds, $9,400,000 from private 
     funds, in addition, $5,000,000 from funds previously 
     appropriated in this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment 
     to Foster Care Improvements in the District of Columbia'': 
     Provided, That $29,600,000 of this appropriation, to remain 
     available until expended, shall be available solely for 
     District of Columbia employees' disability compensation: 
     Provided further, That no less than $8,498,720, to remain 
     available until expended, shall be deposited in the Addiction 
     Recovery Fund, established pursuant to section 5 of the 
     Choice in Drug Treatment Act of 2000 (D.C. Law 13-146; D.C. 
     Official Code, sec. 7-3004) and used exclusively for the 
     purpose of the Choice in Drug Treatment program, established 
     pursuant to section 4 of the Choice in Drug Treatment Act of 
     2000 (D.C. Law 13-146; D.C. Official Code, sec. 7-3003), of 
     which $7,500,000 shall be provided from local funds: Provided 
     further, That none of the $8,498,720 for the Choice in Drug 
     Treatment program shall be used by the Department of Health's 
     Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration to provide 
     youth residential treatment services or youth outpatient 
     treatment services: Provided further, That no less than 
     $2,000,000 shall be available to the Department of Health's 
     Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration exclusively 
     for the purpose of providing youth residential treatment 
     services: Provided further, That no less than $1,575,416 
     shall be available to the Department of Health's Addiction 
     Prevention and Recovery Administration exclusively for the 
     purpose of providing youth outpatient treatment services, of 
     which $750,000 shall be made available exclusively to provide 
     intensive outpatient treatment slots, outpatient treatment 
     slots, and other program costs for youth in the care of the 
     Youth Services Administration: Provided further, That no less 
     than $1,400,000 shall be used by the Department of Health's 
     Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration to fund a 
     Child and Family Services Agency pilot project entitled 
     Family Treatment Court: Provided further, That $1,200,000 of 
     local funds, to remain available until expended, shall be 
     deposited in the Adoption Voucher Fund, established pursuant 
     to section 3805(a) of the Adoption Voucher Fund Act of 2000, 
     effective October 19, 2000 (D.C. Law 13-172; D.C. Official 
     Code, sec. 4-344(a)), to be used exclusively for the purposes 
     set forth in section 3805(b) of the Adoption Voucher Fund Act 
     (D.C. Official Code, sec. 4-344(b)): Provided further, That 
     no less than $300,000 shall be used by the Department of 
     Health's Environmental Health Administration to operate the 
     Total Maximum Daily Load program: Provided further, That no 
     less than $1,268,500 shall be used by the Department of 
     Health's Environmental Health Administration to operate its 
     air quality programs, of which no less than $242,000 shall be 
     used to fund 4 full-time air quality employees: Provided 
     further, That the Department of Human Services, Youth 
     Services Administration shall not expend any appropriated 
     fiscal year 2005 funds until the Mayor has submitted to the 
     Council by September 30, 2004 a plan, including time lines, 
     to close the Oak Hill Youth Center at the earliest feasible 
     date. All of the above proviso amounts in this heading relate 
     back to and are a subset of the first-referenced 
     appropriation amount of $2,533,825,000.

                              Public Works

       Public works, including rental of one passenger-carrying 
     vehicle for use by the Mayor and three passenger-carrying 
     vehicles for use by the Council of the District of Columbia 
     and leasing of passenger-carrying vehicles, $331,936,000 
     (including $312,035,000 from local funds, $4,000,000 from 
     Federal funds, and $15,901,000 from other funds), in 
     addition, $5,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in 
     this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment for 
     Transportation Assistance'': Provided, That this 
     appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or 
     miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business.

                              Cash Reserve

       For the cumulative cash reserve established pursuant to 
     section 202(j)(2) of the District of Columbia Financial 
     Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995 (D.C. 
     Official Code, sec. 47-392.02(j)(2)), $50,000,000 from local 
     funds.

                Emergency and Contingency Reserve Funds

       For the emergency reserve fund and the contingency reserve 
     fund under section 450A of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
     Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204.50a), such additional 
     amounts from the District's general fund balance as are 
     necessary to meet the balance requirements for funds under 
     section 450A.

                    Repayment of Loans and Interest

       For payment of principal, interest, and certain fees 
     directly resulting from borrowing by the District of Columbia 
     to fund District of Columbia capital projects as authorized 
     by sections 462, 475, and 490 of the District of Columbia 
     Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, secs. 1-204.62, 1-204.75, 
     and 1-204.90), $347,700,000 from local funds.

              Payment of Interest on Short-Term Borrowing

       For payment of interest on short-term borrowing, $4,000,000 
     from local funds.

                     Certificates of Participation

       For principal and interest payments on the District's 
     Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground 
     lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary 
     Square, $11,252,000 from local funds.

                       Settlements and Judgments

       For making refunds and for the payment of legal settlements 
     or judgments that have been entered against the District of 
     Columbia government, $20,270,000 from local funds: Provided, 
     That this appropriation shall not be construed as modifying 
     or affecting the provisions of section 103 of this Act.

                            Wilson Building

       For expenses associated with the John A. Wilson building, 
     $3,633,000 from local funds.

                         Workforce Investments

       For workforce investments, $38,114,000 from local funds, to 
     be transferred by the Mayor of the District of Columbia 
     within the various appropriation headings in this Act for 
     which employees are properly payable: Provided, That of this 
     amount $3,548,000 shall remain available until expended to 
     meet the requirements of the Compensation Agreement Between 
     the District of Columbia Government Units 1 and 2 Approval 
     Resolution of 2004, effective February 17, 2004 (Res. 15-459; 
     51 DCR 2325).

                        Non-Departmental Agency

       To account for anticipated costs that cannot be allocated 
     to specific agencies during the development of the proposed 
     budget, $13,946,000 (including $4,000,000 from local funds 
     and $9,946,000 from other funds) to be transferred by the 
     Mayor of the District of Columbia within the various 
     appropriations headings in this Act: Provided, That 
     $4,000,000 from local funds shall be for anticipated costs 
     associated with the No Child Left Behind Act.

                         Pay-As-You-Go Capital

       For Pay-As-You-Go Capital funds in lieu of capital 
     financing, $6,531,000 from local funds, to be transferred to 
     the Capital Fund, subject to the Criteria for Spending Pay-
     as-You-Go Funding Amendment Act of 2003 (D.C. Act 15-106): 
     Provided, That pursuant to this Act, there are authorized to 
     be transferred from Pay-As-You-Go Capital funds to other 
     headings of this Act, such sums as may be necessary to carry 
     out the purposes of this Act.

                  Emergency Planning and Security Fund

       For Emergency Planning and Security Fund, $15,000,000 from 
     funds previously appropriated in this Act under the heading 
     ``Federal Payment for Planning and Security Costs in the 
     District of Columbia''.

                Old Convention Center Demolition Reserve

       For the Old Convention Center Demolition Reserve, such 
     amounts as may be necessary, not to exceed $11,000,000, from 
     the District's general fund balance.

                    Tax Increment Financing Program

       For a Tax Increment Financing Program, such amounts as are 
     necessary to meet the Tax Increment Financing requirements, 
     not to exceed $9,710,000 from the District's general fund 
     balance.

                       Pay-As-You-Go Contingency

       For Pay-As-You-Go Contingency Fund, $43,137,000, subject to 
     the Criteria for Spending Pay-as-You-Go Funding Act of 2004, 
     approved by the Council of the District of Columbia on 1st 
     reading, May 14, 2004 (Title I of Bill 15-768), there are 
     authorized to be transferred from the contingency fund to 
     certain other headings of this Act as necessary to carry out 
     the purposes of this Act. Expenditures from the Pay-As-You-Go 
     Contingency Fund shall be subject to the approval of the 
     Council by resolution.

             Revised Revenue Estimate Contingency Priority

       If the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Columbia 
     certifies through a revised revenue estimate that funds are 
     available from local funds, such available funds shall be 
     expended as provided in the Contingency for Recordation and 
     Transfer Tax Reduction and the Office of Property Management 
     and Library Expenditures Act of 2004, approved by the Council 
     of the District of Columbia on 1st reading, May 14, 2004 
     (Bill 15-768), including up to $2,000,000 to the Office of 
     Property Management, up to $1,200,000 to the District of 
     Columbia Public Library, up to $256,000 to the D.C. Police 
     and Firefighters Retirement and Relief Board, and $132,600 
     for the Police and Fire Clinic.

                       ENTERPRISE AND OTHER FUNDS

                       Water and Sewer Authority

       For operation of the Water and Sewer Authority, 
     $287,206,000 from other funds, of which

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     $15,180,402 shall be apportioned for repayment of loans and 
     interest incurred for capital improvement projects and 
     payable to the District's debt service fund.
       For construction projects, $371,040,000, to be distributed 
     as follows: $181,656,000 for the Blue Plains Wastewater 
     Treatment Plant, $43,800,000 for the sewer program, 
     $9,118,000 for the stormwater program, $122,627,000 for the 
     water program, and $13,839,000 for the capital equipment 
     program; in addition, $10,000,000 from funds previously 
     appropriated in this Act under the heading ``Federal Payment 
     to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority'': 
     Provided, That the requirements and restrictions that are 
     applicable to general fund capital improvement projects and 
     set forth in this Act under the Capital Outlay appropriation 
     account shall apply to projects approved under this 
     appropriation account.

                          Washington Aqueduct

       For operation of the Washington Aqueduct, $47,972,000 from 
     other funds.

              Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund

        For operation of the Stormwater Permit Compliance 
     Enterprise Fund, $3,792,000 from other funds.

              Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund

       For the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund, 
     established by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
     1982, for the purpose of implementing the Law to Legalize 
     Lotteries, Daily Numbers Games, and Bingo and Raffles for 
     Charitable Purposes in the District of Columbia (D.C. Law 3-
     172; D.C. Official Code, sec. 3-1301 et seq. and sec. 22-1716 
     et seq.), $247,000,000 from other funds: Provided, That the 
     District of Columbia shall identify the source of funding for 
     this appropriation title from the District's own locally 
     generated revenues: Provided further, That no revenues from 
     Federal sources shall be used to support the operations or 
     activities of the Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board: 
     Provided further, That the Lottery and Charitable Games 
     Enterprise Fund is hereby authorized to make transfers to the 
     general fund of the District of Columbia, in excess of this 
     appropriation, if such funds are available for transfer.

                  Sports and Entertainment Commission

       For the Sports and Entertainment Commission, $7,322,000 
     from other funds: Provided, That the paragraph under the 
     heading ``Sports and Entertainment Commission'' in Public Law 
     108-199 (118 Stat. 125) is amended by striking the term 
     ``local funds'' and inserting the term ``other funds'' in its 
     place.

                 District of Columbia Retirement Board

       For the District of Columbia Retirement Board, established 
     pursuant to section 121 of the District of Columbia 
     Retirement Reform Act of 1979 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-
     711), $15,277,000 from the earnings of the applicable 
     retirement funds to pay legal, management, investment, and 
     other fees and administrative expenses of the District of 
     Columbia Retirement Board: Provided, That the District of 
     Columbia Retirement Board shall provide to the Congress and 
     to the Council of the District of Columbia a quarterly report 
     of the allocations of charges by fund and of expenditures of 
     all funds: Provided further, That the District of Columbia 
     Retirement Board shall provide the Mayor, for transmittal to 
     the Council of the District of Columbia, an itemized 
     accounting of the planned use of appropriated funds in time 
     for each annual budget submission and the actual use of such 
     funds in time for each annual audited financial report.

              Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund

       For the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund, 
     $77,176,000 from other funds.

              National Capital Revitalization Corporation

       For the National Capital Revitalization Corporation, 
     $7,850,000 from other funds.

                 University of the District of Columbia

       For the University of the District of Columbia, $85,102,000 
     (including, $49,602,000 from local funds previously 
     appropriated in this Act under the heading ``Public Education 
     Systems'', $15,192,000 from Federal funds, $19,434,000 from 
     other funds, and $873,000 from private funds): Provided, That 
     this appropriation shall not be available to subsidize the 
     education of nonresidents of the District of Columbia at the 
     University of the District of Columbia, unless the Board of 
     Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia 
     adopts, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, a 
     tuition rate schedule that will establish the tuition rate 
     for nonresident students at a level no lower than the 
     nonresident tuition rate charged at comparable public 
     institutions of higher education in the metropolitan area.

                     Unemployment Compensation Fund

       For the Unemployment Compensation Fund, $180,000,000 from 
     other funds.

               District of Columbia Personnel Trust Fund

       For the District of Columbia Personnel Trust Fund, $953,000 
     from other funds.

             District of Columbia Public Library Trust Fund

       For the District of Columbia Public Library Trust Fund, 
     $17,000 from other funds: Provided, That $7,000 shall be for 
     the Theodore W. Noyes Trust Fund: Provided further, That 
     $10,000 shall be for the Peabody Trust Fund.

                             Capital Outlay


                        (including rescissions)

       For construction projects, an increase of $1,087,649,000, 
     of which $839,897,000 shall be from local funds, $38,542,000 
     from Highway Trust funds, $37,000,000 from the Rights-of-way 
     funds, $172,209,000 from Federal funds, and a rescission of 
     $367,763,000 from local funds appropriated under this heading 
     in prior fiscal years, for a net amount of $725,886,000, to 
     remain available until expended; in addition, $7,000,000 from 
     funds previously appropriated in this Act under the heading 
     ``Federal Payment for the Unified Communications Center'' and 
     $3,000,000 from funds previously appropriated in this Act 
     under the heading ``Federal Payment for the Anacostia 
     Waterfront Initiative'': Provided, That funds for use of each 
     capital project implementing agency shall be managed and 
     controlled in accordance with all procedures and limitations 
     established under the Financial Management System: Provided 
     further, That all funds provided by this appropriation title 
     shall be available only for the specific projects and 
     purposes intended: Provided further, That the Office of the 
     Chief Technology Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
     implement the following information technology projects on 
     behalf of the District of Columbia Public Schools: Student 
     Information System (project number T2240), Student 
     Information System PCS (project number T2241), Enterprise 
     Resource Planning (project number T2242), E-Rate (project 
     number T2243), and SETS Expansion PCS (project number T2244).

                     TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 301. Whenever in this Act, an amount is specified 
     within an appropriation for particular purposes or objects of 
     expenditure, such amount, unless otherwise specified, shall 
     be considered as the maximum amount that may be expended for 
     said purpose or object rather than an amount set apart 
     exclusively therefor.
       Sec. 302. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for 
     expenses of travel and for the payment of dues of 
     organizations concerned with the work of the District of 
     Columbia government, when authorized by the Mayor: Provided, 
     That in the case of the Council of the District of Columbia, 
     funds may be expended with the authorization of the Chairman 
     of the Council.
       Sec. 303. There are appropriated from the applicable funds 
     of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for 
     making refunds and for the payment of legal settlements or 
     judgments that have been entered against the District of 
     Columbia government.
       Sec. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year unless expressly to provided herein.
       Sec. 305. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall 
     be made available to pay the salary of any employee of the 
     District of Columbia government whose name, title, grade, and 
     salary are not available for inspection by the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate, 
     the Committee on Government Reform of the House of 
     Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the 
     Senate, and the Council of the District of Columbia, or their 
     duly authorized representative.
       Sec. 306. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act 
     may be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or 
     implementation of any policy including boycott designed to 
     support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or any 
     State legislature.
       Sec. 307. (a) None of the Federal funds provided in this 
     Act may be used to carry out lobbying activities on any 
     matter.
       (b) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit 
     any elected official from advocating with respect to any 
     issue.
       Sec. 308. (a) None of the funds provided under this Act to 
     the agencies funded by this Act, both Federal and District 
     government agencies, that remain available for obligation or 
     expenditure in fiscal year 2005, or provided from any 
     accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the 
     collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
     Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditures for an 
     agency through a reprogramming of funds which--
       (1) creates new programs;
       (2) eliminates a program, project, or responsibility 
     center;
       (3) establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, 
     limited or increased under this Act;
       (4) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
     program, project, or responsibility center for which funds 
     have been denied or restricted;
       (5) reestablishes any program or project previously 
     deferred through reprogramming;
       (6) augments any existing program, project, or 
     responsibility center through a reprogramming of funds in 
     excess of $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
       (7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned to a 
     specific program, project or responsibility center, unless 
     the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and Senate are notified in writing 15 days in 
     advance of the reprogramming.
       (b) None of the local funds contained in this Act may be 
     available for obligation or expenditure for an agency through 
     a transfer of any local funds in excess of $1,000,000 from 
     one appropriation heading to another unless the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate are 
     notified in writing 15 days in advance of the transfer, 
     except that in no event may the amount of any funds 
     transferred exceed 4 percent of the local funds in the 
     appropriations.

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       Sec. 309. Consistent with the provisions of section 1301(a) 
     of title 31, United States Code, appropriations under this 
     Act shall be applied only to the objects for which the 
     appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.
       Sec. 310. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
     provisions of the District of Columbia Government 
     Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Law 2-139; 
     D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-601.01 et seq.), enacted pursuant 
     to section 422(3) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act 
     (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204l.22(3)), shall apply with 
     respect to the compensation of District of Columbia 
     employees: Provided, That for pay purposes, employees of the 
     District of Columbia government shall not be subject to the 
     provisions of title 5, United States Code.
       Sec. 311. No later than 30 days after the end of the first 
     quarter of fiscal year 2005, the Mayor of the District of 
     Columbia shall submit to the Council of the District of 
     Columbia and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and Senate the new fiscal year 2005 revenue 
     estimates as of the end of such quarter. These estimates 
     shall be used in the budget request for fiscal year 2005. The 
     officially revised estimates at midyear shall be used for the 
     midyear report.
       Sec. 312. No sole source contract with the District of 
     Columbia government or any agency thereof may be renewed or 
     extended without opening that contract to the competitive 
     bidding process as set forth in section 303 of the District 
     of Columbia Procurement Practices Act of 1985 (D.C. Law 6-85; 
     D.C. Official Code, sec. 2-303.03), except that the District 
     of Columbia government or any agency thereof may renew or 
     extend sole source contracts for which competition is not 
     feasible or practical, but only if the determination as to 
     whether to invoke the competitive bidding process has been 
     made in accordance with duly promulgated rules and procedures 
     and has been reviewed and certified by the Chief Financial 
     Officer of the District of Columbia.
       Sec. 313. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act 
     may be used by the District of Columbia to provide for 
     salaries, expenses, or other costs associated with the 
     offices of United States Senator or United States 
     Representative under section 4(d) of the District of Columbia 
     Statehood Constitutional Convention Initiatives of 1979 (D.C. 
     Law 3-171; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-123).
       Sec. 314. None of the funds appropriated under this Act 
     shall be expended for any abortion except where the life of 
     the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to 
     term or where the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape 
     or incest.
       Sec. 315. None of the Federal funds made available in this 
     Act may be used to implement or enforce the Health Care 
     Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (D.C. Law 9-114; D.C. Official 
     Code, sec. 32-701 et seq.) or to otherwise implement or 
     enforce any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting 
     couples, including but not limited to registration for the 
     purpose of extending employment, health, or governmental 
     benefits to such couples on the same basis that such benefits 
     are extended to legally married couples.
       Sec. 316. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     Act, the Mayor, in consultation with the Chief Financial 
     Officer of the District of Columbia may accept, obligate, and 
     expend Federal, private, and other grants received by the 
     District government that are not reflected in the amounts 
     appropriated in this Act.
       (b)(1) No such Federal, private, or other grant may be 
     accepted, obligated, or expended pursuant to subsection (a) 
     until--
       (A) the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
     submits to the Council a report setting forth detailed 
     information regarding such grant; and
       (B) the Council has reviewed and approved the acceptance, 
     obligation, and expenditure of such grant.
       (2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the Council shall be 
     deemed to have reviewed and approved the acceptance, 
     obligation, and expenditure of a grant if--
       (A) no written notice of disapproval is filed with the 
     Secretary of the Council within 14 calendar days of the 
     receipt of the report from the Chief Financial Officer under 
     paragraph (1)(A); or
       (B) if such a notice of disapproval is filed within such 
     deadline, the Council does not by resolution disapprove the 
     acceptance, obligation, or expenditure of the grant within 30 
     calendar days of the initial receipt of the report from the 
     Chief Financial Officer under paragraph (1)(A).
       (c) No amount may be obligated or expended from the general 
     fund or other funds of the District of Columbia government in 
     anticipation of the approval or receipt of a grant under 
     subsection (b)(2) or in anticipation of the approval or 
     receipt of a Federal, private, or other grant not subject to 
     such subsection.
       (d) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
     may adjust the budget for Federal, private, and other grants 
     received by the District government reflected in the amounts 
     appropriated in this Act, or approved and received under 
     subsection (b)(2) to reflect a change in the actual amount of 
     the grant.
       (e) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
     shall prepare a quarterly report setting forth detailed 
     information regarding all Federal, private, and other grants 
     subject to this section. Each such report shall be submitted 
     to the Council of the District of Columbia and to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and Senate not later than 15 days after the end of the 
     quarter covered by the report.
       Sec. 317. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
     none of the funds made available by this Act or by any other 
     Act may be used to provide any officer or employee of the 
     District of Columbia with an official vehicle unless the 
     officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the performance 
     of the officer's or employee's official duties. For purposes 
     of this paragraph, the term ``official duties'' does not 
     include travel between the officer's or employee's residence 
     and workplace, except in the case of--
       (1) an officer or employee of the Metropolitan Police 
     Department who resides in the District of Columbia or is 
     otherwise designated by the Chief of the Department;
       (2) an officer or employee of the District of Columbia Fire 
     and Emergency Medical Services Department who resides in the 
     District of Columbia and is on call 24 hours a day or is 
     otherwise designated by the Fire Chief;
       (3) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and
       (4) the Chairman of the Council of the District of 
     Columbia.
       (b) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 
     shall submit by March 1, 2005, an inventory, as of September 
     30, 2004, 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.
       Sec. 318. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
     used for purposes of the annual independent audit of the 
     District of Columbia government for fiscal year 2005 unless--
       (1) the audit is conducted by the Inspector General of the 
     District of Columbia, in coordination with the Chief 
     Financial Officer of the District of Columbia, pursuant to 
     section 208(a)(4) of the District of Columbia Procurement 
     Practices Act of 1985 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 2-302.8); and
       (2) the audit includes as a basic financial statement 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 using the 
     format, terminology, and classifications contained in the law 
     making the appropriations for the year and its legislative 
     history.
       Sec. 319. (a) None of the Federal 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.
       (b) Nothing in this section bars the District of Columbia 
     Corporation Counsel from reviewing or commenting on briefs in 
     private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the 
     District government regarding such lawsuits.
       Sec. 320. (a) None of the Federal funds contained in this 
     Act may be used for any program of distributing sterile 
     needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any 
     illegal drug.
       (b) Any individual or entity who receives any funds 
     contained in this Act and who carries out any program 
     described in subsection (a) shall account for all funds used 
     for such program separately from any funds contained in this 
     Act.
       Sec. 321. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
     used after the expiration of the 60-day period that begins on 
     the date of the enactment of this Act to pay the salary of 
     any chief financial officer of any office of the District of 
     Columbia government (including any independent agency of the 
     District of Columbia) who has not filed a certification with 
     the Mayor and the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
     Columbia that the officer understands the duties and 
     restrictions applicable to the officer and the officer's 
     agency as a result of this Act (and the amendments made by 
     this Act), including any duty to prepare a report requested 
     either in the Act or in any of the reports accompanying the 
     Act and the deadline by which each report must be submitted. 
     The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
     provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and Senate by the 10th day after the end of 
     each quarter a summary list showing each report, the due 
     date, and the date submitted to the Committees.
       Sec. 322. (a) None of the funds contained in this Act may 
     be used to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to 
     legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the 
     possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance 
     under the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) or any 
     tetrahydrocannabinols derivative.
       (b) The Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment 
     Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by 
     the electors of the District of Columbia on November 3, 1998, 
     shall not take effect.
       Sec. 323. Nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent 
     the Council or Mayor of the District of Columbia from 
     addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive 
     coverage by health insurance plans, but it is the intent of 
     Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should 
     include a ``conscience clause'' which provides exceptions for 
     religious beliefs and moral convictions.
       Sec. 324. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall 
     submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
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     Senate, the Committee on Government Reform of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate quarterly reports addressing--
       (1) crime, including the homicide rate, implementation of 
     community policing, the number of police officers on local 
     beats, and the closing down of open-air drug markets;
       (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment, 
     including the number of treatment slots, the number of people 
     served, the number of people on waiting lists, and the 
     effectiveness of treatment programs;
       (3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders, 
     including the number of halfway houses escapes and steps 
     taken to improve monitoring and supervision of halfway house 
     residents to reduce the number of escapes to be provided in 
     consultation with the Court Services and Offender Supervision 
     Agency for the District of Columbia;
       (4) education, including access to special education 
     services and student achievement to be provided in 
     consultation with the District of Columbia Public Schools and 
     the District of Columbia public charter schools;
       (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat 
     control and abatement;
       (6) application for and management of Federal grants, 
     including the number and type of grants for which the 
     District was eligible but failed to apply and the number and 
     type of grants awarded to the District but for which the 
     District failed to spend the amounts received; and
       (7) indicators of child well-being.
       Sec. 325. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Officer of 
     the District of Columbia shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress, the Mayor, and the Council of the 
     District of Columbia a revised appropriated funds operating 
     budget in the format of the budget that the District of 
     Columbia government submitted pursuant to section 442 of the 
     District of Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 
     1-204.42), for all agencies of the District of Columbia 
     government for fiscal year 2004 that is in the total amount 
     of the approved appropriation and that realigns all budgeted 
     data for personal services and other-than-personal-services, 
     respectively, with anticipated actual expenditures.
       (b) Applicability.--This provision shall apply only to an 
     agency where the Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
     Columbia certifies that a reallocation is required to address 
     unanticipated changes in program requirements.
       Sec. 326. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
     used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the 
     District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to 
     docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA).
       Sec. 327. Notwithstanding any other law, the District of 
     Columbia Courts shall transfer to the general treasury of the 
     District of Columbia all fines levied and collected by the 
     Courts under section 10(b)(1) and (2) of the District of 
     Columbia Traffic Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 50- 
     2201.05(b)(1) and (2)). The transferred funds shall remain 
     available until expended and shall be used by the Office of 
     the Corporation Counsel for enforcement and prosecution of 
     District traffic alcohol laws in accordance with section 
     10(b)(3) of the District of Columbia Traffic Act (D.C. 
     Official Code, sec. 50-2201.05(b)(3)).
       Sec. 328. None of the funds contained in this Act may be 
     made available to pay--
       (1) the fees of an attorney who represents a party in an 
     action or an attorney who defends an action, including an 
     administrative proceeding, brought against the District of 
     Columbia Public Schools under the Individuals with 
     Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) in excess 
     of $4,000 for that action; or
       (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the Chief 
     Financial Officer of the District of Columbia determines to 
     have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, 
     officer or employee of the firm, in any special education 
     diagnostic services, schools, or other special education 
     service providers.
       Sec. 329. The Chief Financial Officer of the District of 
     Columbia shall require attorneys in special education cases 
     brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) in 
     the District of Columbia to certify in writing that the 
     attorney or representative rendered any and all services for 
     which they receive awards, including those received under a 
     settlement agreement or as part of an administrative 
     proceeding, under the IDEA from the District of Columbia: 
     Provided, That as part of the certification, the Chief 
     Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall require 
     all attorneys in IDEA cases to disclose any financial, 
     corporate, legal, memberships on boards of directors, or 
     other relationships with any special education diagnostic 
     services, schools, or other special education service 
     providers to which the attorneys have referred any clients as 
     part of this certification: Provided further, That the Chief 
     Financial Officer shall prepare and submit quarterly reports 
     to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and Senate on the certification of and the 
     amount paid by the government of the District of Columbia, 
     including the District of Columbia Public Schools, to 
     attorneys in cases brought under IDEA: Provided further, That 
     the Inspector General of the District of Columbia may conduct 
     investigations to determine the accuracy of the 
     certifications.
       Sec. 330. Section 401(a) and (b) of Chapter 4 of Public Law 
     106-554 is hereby amended by striking paragraph (5).
       Sec. 331. Sections 11-1701(b)(5), 11-1704(b), 11-1723(b), 
     11-2102(a)(2), and the second and third sentences of Section 
     11-1724, of the District of Columbia Official Code, are 
     hereby repealed.
       Sec. 332. Section 11-1728 of the District of Columbia 
     Official Code, is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 11-1728. RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING OF PERSONNEL AND 
                   TRAVEL.

       ``(a) The Executive Officer shall be responsible for 
     recruiting such qualified personnel as may be necessary for 
     the District of Columbia Courts and for providing in-service 
     training for court personnel.
       ``(b) Travel under Federal supply schedules is authorized 
     for the travel of court personnel on official business. The 
     joint committee shall prescribe such requirements, conditions 
     and restrictions for such travel as it considers appropriate, 
     and shall include policies and procedures for preventing 
     abuses of that travel authority.''.
       Sec. 333. Section 450A of the District of Columbia Home 
     Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 803; D.C. 
     Official Code, sec. 1-204.50a), is amended as follows:
       (1) Subsection (a) is amended as follows:
       (A) Paragraph (1) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) In general.--There is established an emergency cash 
     reserve fund (`emergency reserve fund') as an interest-
     bearing account (separate from other accounts in the General 
     Fund) into which the Mayor shall make a deposit in cash not 
     later than October 1 of each fiscal year of such an amount as 
     may be required to maintain a balance in the fund of at least 
     2 percent of the operating expenditures as defined in 
     paragraph (2) of this subsection or such amount as may be 
     required for deposit in a fiscal year in which the District 
     is replenishing the emergency reserve fund pursuant to 
     subsection (a)(7).''.
       (B) Paragraph (2) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) In general.--For the purpose of this subsection, 
     operating expenditures is defined as the amount reported in 
     the District of Columbia's Comprehensive Annual Financial 
     Report for the fiscal year immediately preceding the current 
     fiscal year as the actual operating expenditure from local 
     funds, less such amounts that are attributed to debt service 
     payments for which a separate reserve fund is already 
     established under this Act.''.
       (C) Paragraph (7) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(7) Replenishment.--The District of Columbia shall 
     appropriate sufficient funds each fiscal year in the budget 
     process to replenish any amounts allocated from the emergency 
     reserve fund during the preceding fiscal years so that not 
     less than 50 percent of any amount allocated in the preceding 
     fiscal year or the amount necessary to restore the emergency 
     reserve fund to the 2 percent required balance, whichever is 
     less, is replenished by the end of the first fiscal year 
     following each such allocation and 100 percent of the amount 
     allocated or the amount necessary to restore the emergency 
     reserve fund to the 2 percent required balance, whichever is 
     less, is replenished by the end of the second fiscal year 
     following each such allocation.''.
       (2) Subsection (b) is amended as follows:
       (A) Paragraph (1) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) In general.--There is established a contingency cash 
     reserve fund (`contingency reserve fund') as an interest-
     bearing account, separate from other accounts in the General 
     Fund, into which the Mayor shall make a deposit in cash not 
     later than October 1 of each fiscal year of such amount as 
     may be required to maintain a balance in the fund of at least 
     4 percent of the operating expenditures as defined in 
     paragraph (2) of this subsection or such amount as may be 
     required for deposit in a fiscal year in which the District 
     is replenishing the emergency reserve fund pursuant to 
     subsection (b)(6).''.
       (B) Paragraph (2) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) In general.--For the purpose of this subsection, 
     operating expenditures is defined as the amount reported in 
     the District of Columbia's Comprehensive Annual Financial 
     Report for the fiscal year immediately preceding the current 
     fiscal year as the actual operating expenditure from local 
     funds, less such amounts that are attributed to debt service 
     payments for which a separate reserve fund is already 
     established under this Act.''.
       (C) Paragraph (6) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(6) Replenishment.--The District of Columbia shall 
     appropriate sufficient funds each fiscal year in the budget 
     process to replenish any amounts allocated from the 
     contingency reserve fund during the preceding fiscal years so 
     that not less than 50 percent of any amount allocated in the 
     preceding fiscal year or the amount necessary to restore the 
     contingency reserve fund to the 4 percent required balance, 
     whichever is less, is replenished by the end of the first 
     fiscal year following each such allocation and 100 percent of 
     the amount allocated or the amount necessary to restore the 
     contingency reserve fund to the 4 percent required balance, 
     whichever is less, is replenished by the end of the second 
     fiscal year following each such allocation.''.
       Sec. 334. For fiscal year 2005, the Chief Financial Officer 
     shall re-calculate the emergency and contingency cash reserve 
     funds amount established by Section 450A of the District of 
     Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 
     803; D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204.50a), as amended by this 
     Act and is authorized to transfer funds between the emergency 
     and contingency cash reserve funds to reach the required 
     percentages: Provided, That for fiscal year 2005, the Chief 
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     transfer funds from the emergency and contingency cash 
     reserve funds to the general fund of the District of Columbia 
     to the extent that such funds are not necessary to meet the 
     requirements established for each fund: Provided further, 
     That the Chief Financial Officer may not transfer funds from 
     the emergency or the contingency reserve funds to the extent 
     that such a transfer would lower the fiscal year 2005 total 
     percentage below 7 percent of operating expenditures, as 
     amended by this Act.
       Sec. 335. Section 6 of the Policemen and Firemen's 
     Retirement and Disability Act, approved August 21, 1957 
     (Public Law 85-157; 71 Stat. 399; D.C. Official Code Sec. 5-
     732) is amended by striking the phrase ``of this chapter, to 
     the extent that such benefit payments exceed the deductions 
     from the salaries of federal employees for credit to the 
     revenues of the District of Columbia.'' and inserting the 
     phrase ``of this chapter and to reimburse the District of 
     Columbia for the administrative costs associated with making 
     such benefit payments for credit to the revenues of the 
     District of Columbia: Provided, That benefit payment 
     reimbursement shall only be to the extent that such benefit 
     payments exceed the deductions from the salaries of federal 
     employees.'' in its place.
        Sec. 336. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     there is hereby appropriated for the Office of the Inspector 
     General such amounts in local funds, as are consistent with 
     the annual estimates for the expenditures and appropriations 
     necessary for the operation of the Office of the Inspector 
     General as prepared by the Inspector General and submitted to 
     the Mayor and forwarded to the Council pursuant to D.C. 
     Official Code 2-302.08(a)(2)(A) for fiscal year 2005: 
     Provided, That the Office of the Chief Financial Officer 
     shall take such steps as are necessary to implement the 
     provisions of this subsection.
       Sec. 337. The authority which the Chief Financial Officer 
     of the District of Columbia exercised with respect to 
     personnel, procurement, and the preparation of fiscal impact 
     statements during a control period (as defined in Public Law 
     104-8) shall remain in effect through September 30, 2005.
       Sec. 338. 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 add the following proviso: ``: Provided further, That the 
     funds provided under this heading for the establishment of a 
     scholarship fund for District of Columbia children of 
     adoptive families, and District of Columbia children without 
     parents due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack to be 
     used for post high school education and training, once 
     obligated by the District to establish the scholarship fund, 
     shall remain obligated and be retained by the District for 25 
     years from the date of obligation to allow for any individual 
     who is within the class of persons to be assisted by this 
     provision to reach post high school and to present 
     expenditures to be extinguished by the fund''.
       Sec. 339. Authority of OPCSFS. (a) Section 161(3)(E)(i) of 
     Public Law 106-522 shall be amended to include a new section 
     known as (E)(i)(IV) to establish regulations for 
     administering lease guarantees through the credit enhancement 
     fund to public charter schools in the District of Columbia.
       (b) The first sentence of section 143 of the District of 
     Columbia Appropriations Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-7, 117 
     STAT. 130) approved April 20, 2003 is amended by striking the 
     phrase, ``under the authority of the Department of Banking 
     and Financial Institutions'' and inserting ``under the 
     authority of the Mayor'' in its place.
       Sec. 340. Process for Filing Charter Petitions. D.C. Code 
     Sec. 38-1802.01 is amended by adding a new section (e) as 
     follows--
       ``(e) A petition to establish a public charter school in 
     the District of Columbia, or to convert a District of 
     Columbia public school or an existing private or independent 
     school, is a public document.''.
       Sec. 341. Amendments to Charter School Law. (a) Process for 
     Filing Charter Petitions.--Section 2201 of the District of 
     Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Code 38-1802.01) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(3)(B), by striking ``two-thirds'' and 
     inserting ``51 percent''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(3)(B), by striking ``two-thirds'' and 
     inserting ``51 percent''.
       (b) Employees.--Section 2207 of the District of Columbia 
     School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Code 38-1802.07) is amended 
     by adding at the end the following:
       ``(d) Teachers Remaining at Converted Public Charter 
     Schools.--A teacher employed at a District of Columbia public 
     school that converts to a public charter school under section 
     2201 shall have the option of remaining at the charter school 
     during the school's first year of operation after receiving 
     an extended leave of absence under subsection (a)(1). After 
     this 1-year period, the teacher may continue to be employed 
     at the public charter school, at the sole discretion of the 
     public charter school, or shall maintain current status 
     within the District of Columbia public school system.''.
       (c) Public School Services to Public Charter Schools.--
     Section 2209(b) of the District of Columbia School Reform Act 
     of 1995 (D.C. Code 38-1802.09(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as follows:
       ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, regulation, or order relating to the disposition of a 
     facility or property described in subparagraph (B), or to the 
     disposition of any property of the District of Columbia, the 
     Mayor and the District of Columbia government shall give a 
     right of first offer, which right shall be annually 
     reinstated with respect to any facility or property not 
     previously disposed of, or under contract to be disposed of, 
     to an eligible applicant whose petition to establish a public 
     charter school has been conditionally approved under section 
     2203(d)(2), or a Board of Trustees, with respect to the 
     purchase, lease, transfer, or use of a facility or property 
     described in subparagraph (B).'';
       (B) by amending subparagraph (B)(iii) to read as follows:
       ``(iii) With respect to which--

       ``(I) the Board of Education has transferred jurisdiction 
     to the Mayor and over which the Mayor has jurisdiction on the 
     effective date of this subclause; or
       ``(II) over which the Mayor or any successor agency gains 
     jurisdiction after the effective date of this subclause.''; 
     and

       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) Terms of purchase or lease.--The terms of purchase or 
     lease of a facility or property described in subparagraph (B) 
     shall--
       ``(i) be negotiated by the Mayor;
       ``(ii) include rent or an acquisition price, as applicable, 
     that is at least 25 percent less than the appraised value of 
     the property (based on use of the property for school 
     purposes); and
       ``(iii) include a lease period, if the property is to be 
     leased, of not less than 25 years, and renewable for 
     additional 25-year periods as long as the eligible applicant 
     or Board of Trustees maintains its charter.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``preference'' and 
     inserting ``a right to first offer''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Conversion public charter schools.--Any District of 
     Columbia public school that was approved to become a 
     conversion public charter school under section 2201 before 
     the effective date of this subsection or is approved to 
     become a conversion public charter school after the effective 
     date of this subsection, shall have the right to exclusively 
     occupy the facilities the school occupied as a District of 
     Columbia public school under a lease for a period of not less 
     than 25 years, renewable for additional 25-year periods as 
     long as the school maintains its charter at the non-profit 
     rate, or if there is no non-profit rate, at 25 percent less 
     than the fair market rate for school use.''.
       Sec. 342. Annual Report to Congress. Section 2211 of the 
     School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Code 38-1802.11) shall be 
     amended by:
       (1) adding the following new subparagraph at the end of 
     section 2211(a)(1):
       ``(D) Shall ensure that each public charter school complies 
     with the annual reporting requirement of subsection 38-
     1802.04(b)(11) of this Act, including submission of the 
     audited financial statement required by sub-subsection 
     (B)(ix) of that section.''; and
       (2) adding the following before the period at the end of 
     subparagraph (d): ``(10) details of major Board actions; (11) 
     major findings from school reviews of academic, financial, 
     and compliance with health and safety standards and resulting 
     Board action or recommendations; (12) details of the fifth 
     year review process and outcomes; (13) summary of annual 
     financial audits of all charter schools, including (a) the 
     number of schools that failed to timely submit the audited 
     financial statement required by that section; (b) the number 
     of schools whose audits revealed a failure to follow required 
     accounting practices or other material deficiencies; and (c) 
     the steps taken by the authority to ensure that deficiencies 
     found by the audits are rectified; (14) number of schools 
     which have required intervention by authorizing board to 
     address any academic or operational issue; (15) what 
     recommendations an authorizing board has made to correct 
     identified deficiencies''.
       Sec. 343. Lease to District of Columbia. (a) Lease.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, subject to subsection (b), the 
     Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Secretary'') shall lease to the government of the District 
     of Columbia, without consideration, the property described in 
     paragraph (2).
       (2) Property.--The property referred to in paragraph (1) 
     is--
       (A) the National Park Service land in Anacostia Park, the 
     boundaries of which are the Anacostia River to the west, 
     Watts Branch to the south, Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens to the 
     north, and Anacostia Avenue to the east (US Reservations 325 
     and 343, Section G); and
       (B) the community center under the jurisdiction of the 
     District of Columbia known as the ``Kenilworth Parkside 
     Community Center''.
       (b) Conditions of Lease.--
       (1) Term.--The lease under subsection (a)(1) shall be for a 
     period of 50 years.
       (2) Transfer of title.--The lease under subsection (a)(1) 
     shall be subject to such terms and conditions, to be included 
     in the lease, as are necessary to ensure that the property 
     leased under that subsection--
       (A) may be subleased by the District of Columbia to any 
     public entity or private not-for-profit corporation under a 
     public process; and
       (B) is used only for the provision of public recreational 
     facilities, open space, or public outdoor recreational 
     opportunities.
       (C) Nothing in the Act precludes the District of Columbia 
     from entering into a sublease for all or part of the property 
     with a public not-for-profit entity for the management or 
     maintenance of the property.

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       (3) Termination.--
       (A) In general.--The lease under subsection (a)(1) shall 
     terminate if--
       (i) any term or condition of the lease described in 
     paragraph (2) is violated, as determined by the Secretary; 
     and
       (ii) the violation is not corrected by the date that is 90 
     days after the date on which the Mayor of the District of 
     Columbia receives from the Secretary a written notice of the 
     violation.
       (B) Determination of correction.--A violation of a term or 
     condition of the lease under subsection (a)(1) shall be 
     determined to have been corrected under subparagraph (A)(ii) 
     if, after notification of the violation, the District of 
     Columbia and the Secretary enter into an agreement that the 
     Secretary considers to be adequate to ensure that the 
     property leased will be used in a manner consistent with 
     paragraph (2).
       (4) Prohibition of civil actions.--No person may bring a 
     civil action relating to a violation any term or condition of 
     the lease described in paragraph (2) before the date that is 
     90 days after the person notifies the Mayor of the District 
     of Columbia of the alleged violation (including the intent of 
     the person to bring a civil action for termination of the 
     lease under paragraph (3)).
       (5) Removal of structures; rehabilitation.--The lease under 
     subsection (a)(1) shall be subject to the condition that, in 
     the event of a termination of the lease under paragraph (3), 
     the District of Columbia shall bear the cost of removing 
     structures on, or rehabilitating, the property leased.
       (6) Administration of property.--If the lease under 
     subsection (a)(1) is terminated under paragraph (3), the 
     property covered by the lease shall be administered by the 
     Secretary as a unit of the National Park System in the 
     District of Columbia in accordance with--
       (A) the Act of August 25, 1916 (commonly known as the 
     ``National Park Service Organic Act'') (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.); 
     and
       (B) other laws (including regulations) generally applicable 
     to units of the National Park System.
       Sec. 344. Biennial Evaluation of Charter School Authorizing 
     Boards. (a) Biennial management evaluation of the District of 
     Columbia Chartering Authorities for the District of Columbia 
     Public Charter Schools shall be conducted by the Comptroller 
     General of the United States.
       (b) Evaluation shall include the following:
       (1) Establish standards to assess each authorizer's 
     procedures and oversight quality;
       (2) Identify gaps in oversight and recommendations;
       (3) Review processes of charter school applications;
       (4) Extent of ongoing monitoring, technical assistance, and 
     sanctions provided to schools;
       (5) Compliance with annual reporting requirements;
       (6) Actual budget expenditures for the preceding two fiscal 
     years;
       (7) Comparison of budget expenditures with mandated 
     responsibilities;
       (8) Alignment with best practices; and
       (9) Quality and timeliness of meeting Section 2211(d) of 
     the School Reform Act of 1995 (D.C. Code 38-1802.11(d)), as 
     amended.
       (c) Initial Interim Report to Congress.--The Government 
     Accountability Office shall submit to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate, no 
     later than May 1, 2005, a baseline report on the performance 
     of each authorizer in meeting the requirements of the School 
     Reform Act of 1995.
       (d) Hereafter Section 2214(f) of Public Law 104-143 (D.C. 
     Code 38-1802.14(f)), shall apply to the District of Columbia 
     Board of Education Charter Schools Office.
       Sec. 345. Clarifying Operations of Public Charter School 
     Board. Section 2214 of the School Reform Act of 1995 (Public 
     Law 104-134; D.C. Code 38-1802.14), is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (f) and inserting the following:
       ``(f) Audit.--The Board shall maintain its accounts 
     according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for 
     Not-for-Profit Organizations. The Board shall provide for an 
     audit of the financial statements of the Board by an 
     independent certified public accountant in accordance with 
     Government auditing standards for financial audits issued by 
     the Comptroller General of the United States. The findings 
     and recommendations of any such audit shall be forwarded to 
     the Mayor, the District of Columbia Council, the appropriate 
     congressional committees, and the Office of the Chief 
     Financial Officer.''; and
       (2) adding at the end the following:
       ``(h) Contracting and Procurement.--The Board shall have 
     the authority to solicit, award, and execute contracts 
     independently of the Office of Contracting and Procurement 
     and the Chief Procurement Officer. Nothing in chapter 3 of 
     title 2 of the District of Columbia Code shall affect the 
     authority of the Board under this subsection.''.
       This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia 
     Appropriations Act, 2005''.

                                S. 2781

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Comprehensive Peace in Sudan 
     Act of 2004''.

     SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

       In this Act:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
     on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on 
     International Relations of the House of Representatives.
       (2) JEM.--The term ``JEM'' means the Justice and Equality 
     Movement.
       (3) SLA.--The term ``SLA'' means the Sudanese Liberation 
     Army.
       (4) SPLM.--The term ``SPLM'' means the Sudan People's 
     Liberation Movement.

     SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) A comprehensive peace agreement for Sudan, as 
     envisioned in the Sudan Peace Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note), and 
     in the Machakos Protocol of 2002, is in jeopardy.
       (2) Since 1989, the Government of Sudan has repeatedly 
     engaged in and sponsored orchestrated campaigns of attacking 
     and dislocating targeted civilian populations, disrupting 
     their ability to sustain themselves, and subsequently 
     restricting assistance to those displaced in a coordinated 
     policy of ethnic cleansing that is most recently evident in 
     the Darfur region of Sudan.
       (3) In response to 2 decades of civil conflict in Sudan, 
     the United States has helped to establish an internationally 
     supported peace process to promote a negotiated settlement to 
     the war that has resulted in a framework peace agreement, the 
     Nairobi Declaration on the Final Phase of Peace in the Sudan 
     signed June 5, 2004.
       (4) At the same time that the Government of Sudan was 
     negotiating for a final countrywide peace, enumerated in the 
     Nairobi Declaration on the Final Phase of Peace in the Sudan, 
     it refused to engage in any meaningful discussion with regard 
     to its ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing in the region of 
     Darfur.
       (5) It was not until the international community expressed 
     its outrage, through high level visits by Secretary of State 
     Colin Powell and others, and through United Nations Security 
     Council Resolution 1556 of July 30, 2004, that the Government 
     of Sudan agreed to attend talks to bring peace to the Darfur 
     region.
       (6) The Government of the United States, in both the 
     executive branch and Congress, have concluded that genocide 
     has been committed and may still be occurring in Darfur, and 
     that the Government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear 
     responsibility for the genocide.
       (7) The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 
     has identified massive human rights violations in Darfur 
     perpetrated by the Government of Sudan and the Janjaweed, 
     which the Commissioner stated may constitute war crimes or 
     crimes against humanity.
       (8) Evidence collected by international observers in the 
     Darfur region between February 2003 and September 2004 
     indicate a coordinated effort to target African Sudanese 
     civilians in a scorched earth policy, from both air and 
     ground, that has destroyed African Sudanese villages, killing 
     and driving away its people, while Arab Sudanese villages 
     have been left unscathed.
       (9) As a result of this coordinated campaign, which 
     Congress and the executive branch have declared to be 
     genocide, reports indicate tens of thousands of African 
     Sudanese civilians killed, the systematic rape of thousands 
     of women and girls, the destruction of hundreds of Fur, 
     Masalit, and Zaghawa villages and other ethnically African 
     populations, including the poisoning of their wells and the 
     plunder of crops and cattle upon which they sustain 
     themselves.
       (10) According to the United Nations High Commissioner for 
     Refugees, 1,400,000 people have been displaced in the Darfur 
     region of Sudan, of whom over 200,000 have been forced to 
     flee to Chad as refugees.
       (11) The Government of Sudan conducted aerial attack 
     missions and deadly raids across the international border 
     between Sudan and Chad in an illegal effort to pursue 
     Sudanese civilians seeking refuge in Chad.
       (12) In addition to the thousands of violent deaths 
     directly caused by ongoing Sudanese military and government 
     sponsored Janjaweed attacks in the Darfur region, the 
     Government of Sudan has restricted humanitarian and human 
     rights workers' access to the Darfur area, primarily through 
     bureaucratic and administrative obstruction, in an attempt to 
     inflict the most devastating harm on those displaced from 
     their villages and homes without any means of sustenance or 
     shelter.
       (13) The Government of Sudan's continued support for the 
     Janjaweed and their obstruction of the delivery of food, 
     shelter, and medical care to the Darfur region is estimated 
     by the World Health Organization to be resulting in up to 
     10,000 deaths per month and, should current conditions 
     persist, is projected to escalate to thousands of deaths each 
     day by December 2004.
       (14) The Government of Chad served an important role in 
     facilitating the Darfur humanitarian cease-fire (the 
     N'Djamena Agreement dated April 8, 2004) for the Darfur 
     region between the Government of Sudan and the 2 opposition 
     rebel groups in Darfur (the JEM and the SLA) although both 
     sides have violated it repeatedly.
       (15) The people of Chad have responded courageously to the 
     plight of over 200,000 Darfur refugees by providing 
     assistance to them even though such assistance has adversely 
     affected their own means of livelihood.

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       (16) The cooperation and inclusion of all Sudanese is 
     essential to the establishment of peace and security 
     throughout all of Sudan.
       (17) The African Union has demonstrated renewed vigor in 
     regional affairs through its willingness to respond to the 
     crisis in Darfur, by convening talks between the parties and 
     deploying several hundred monitors and security forces to the 
     region, as well as by recognizing the need for a far larger 
     force with a broader mandate.
       (18) Despite the threat of international action expressed 
     through United Nations Security Council Resolution 1556 of 
     July 30, 2004, the Government of Sudan continues to obstruct 
     and prevent efforts to reverse the catastrophic consequences 
     that loom over Darfur.

     SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE CONFLICT IN DARFUR, 
                   SUDAN.

       (a) Sudan Peace Act.--It is the sense of Congress that the 
     Sudan Peace Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) remains relevant and 
     should be extended to include the Darfur region of Sudan.
       (b) Actions To Address the Conflict.--It is the sense of 
     Congress that--
       (1) a legitimate countrywide peace in Sudan will only be 
     possible if the Agreed Principles of Part A of the Machakos 
     Protocol of 2002, confirmed by the Nairobi Declaration on the 
     Final Phase of Peace in the Sudan signed June 5, 2004, 
     negotiated with the SPLM, apply to all of Sudan and to all of 
     the people of Sudan, including the Darfur region;
       (2) the parties to the N'Djamena Agreement (the Government 
     of Sudan, the SLA, and the JEM) must meet their obligations 
     under that Agreement to allow safe and immediate access of 
     all humanitarian assistance throughout the Darfur region and 
     must expedite the conclusion of a political agreement to end 
     the genocide and conflict in Darfur;
       (3) the United States should continue to provide 
     humanitarian assistance to the areas of Sudan to which the 
     United States has access and, at the same time, develop a 
     plan similar to that described in section 10 of the Sudan 
     Peace Act to provide assistance to the areas of Sudan to 
     which United States access has been obstructed or denied;
       (4) the international community, including African, Arab, 
     and Muslim nations, should immediately provide resources 
     necessary to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of 
     individuals at risk as a result of the Darfur crisis;
       (5) the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes 
     should travel to Chad and the Darfur region immediately to 
     investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity to develop 
     a more accurate understanding of the situation on the ground 
     and to better inform the report required in section 11(b) of 
     the Sudan Peace Act;
       (6) the United States and the international community 
     should--
       (A) provide all necessary assistance to deploy and sustain 
     an African Union Force of at least 4,200 personnel to the 
     Darfur region; and
       (B) work to increase the authorized level and expand the 
     mandate of such forces commensurate with the gravity and 
     scope of the problem in a region the size of France;
       (7) the President, acting through the Secretary of State 
     and the Permanent Representative of the United States to the 
     United Nations, should ensure that Sudan fulfills its 
     obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 
     1556 (July 30, 2004) and 1564 (September 18, 2004);
       (8) sanctions should be imposed on the assets and 
     activities of those Sudanese Government officials and other 
     individuals that are involved in carrying out the atrocities 
     in the Darfur region;
       (9) the Government of the United States should not 
     normalize relations with Sudan, including through the lifting 
     of any sanctions, until the Government of Sudan agrees to, 
     and takes demonstrable steps to implement, peace agreements 
     for all areas of Sudan, including Darfur; and
       (10) Presidential Proclamation 6958 issued November 22, 
     1996, which suspends entry into the United States of members 
     of the Government of Sudan, officials of that Government, and 
     members of the Sudanese Armed Forces, should continue to 
     remain in effect and be strictly enforced.

     SEC. 5. AMENDMENTS TO THE SUDAN PEACE ACT.

       (a) Assistance for the Crisis in Darfur and for 
     Comprehensive Peace in Sudan.--
       (1) In general.--The Sudan Peace Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 12. ASSISTANCE FOR THE CRISIS IN DARFUR AND FOR 
                   COMPREHENSIVE PEACE IN SUDAN.

       ``(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--
       ``(1) Humanitarian assistance.--There is authorized to be 
     appropriated to the President for assistance to address the 
     humanitarian and human rights crisis in the Darfur region and 
     its impact on eastern Chad, pursuant to the authority in 
     section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
     2292), $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, in addition to any 
     other funds otherwise available for such purpose.
       ``(2) Additional assistance.--Subject to the requirements 
     of this section, there is authorized to be appropriated to 
     the President, for development and humanitarian assistance 
     for Sudan upon the conclusion of a permanent, just, and 
     equitable peace agreement between the Government of Sudan and 
     the SPLM, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, in addition to 
     any other funds otherwise available for such purpose.
       ``(3) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the 
     authorization of appropriations under paragraph (1) or (2) 
     are authorized to remain available until expended, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law other than the 
     provisions of this section.
       ``(b) Requirement for Certification.--The assistance 
     authorized under subsection (a)(2) may be provided--
       ``(1) to the regions administered by the Government of 
     Sudan, in accordance with the peace agreement described in 
     subsection (a)(2), only if the President submits the 
     certification described in subsection (c); and
       ``(2) to the regions administered by the SPLM, in 
     accordance with the peace agreement described in subsection 
     (a)(2), only if the President submits the certification 
     described in subsection (d).
       ``(c) Certification with Regard to Actions of the 
     Government of Sudan.--The certification referred to in 
     subsection (b)(1) is a certification submitted by the 
     President to the appropriate congressional committees that--
       ``(1) the Government of Sudan is taking demonstrable steps 
     to--
       ``(A) ensure that the armed forces of Sudan and any 
     associated militias are not attacking civilians or 
     obstructing human rights monitors or the provision of 
     humanitarian assistance;
       ``(B) demobilize and disarm militias supported or created 
     by the Government of Sudan;
       ``(C) allow full and unfettered access for the provision of 
     humanitarian assistance to all regions of Sudan, including 
     Darfur; and
       ``(D) cooperate fully with the African Union, the United 
     Nations, and all other observer, monitoring, and protection 
     missions mandated to operate in Sudan; and
       ``(2) the Government of Sudan is complying with the 
     provisions of the peace agreement described in subsection 
     (a)(2).
       ``(d) Certification With Regard to SPLM's Compliance With a 
     Peace Agreement.--The certification referred to in subsection 
     (b)(2) is a certification submitted by the President to the 
     appropriate congressional committees that the SPLM is 
     complying with the provisions of the peace agreement 
     described in subsection (a)(2).
       ``(e) Suspension of Assistance.--If, on a date after the 
     President submits a certification described in subsection (c) 
     or (d), the President determines that either the Government 
     of Sudan or the SPLM has ceased taking the actions described 
     in the applicable subsection, the President shall immediately 
     suspend the provision of any assistance made available as a 
     result of such certification until the date on which the 
     President certifies that such entity has resumed taking such 
     actions.''.
       (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 3 of the Sudan Peace Act 
     (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(4) SPLM.--The term `SPLM' means the Sudan People's 
     Liberation Movement.''.
       (b) Reporting Requirement.--Section 8 of the Sudan Peace 
     Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended in the first sentence by 
     striking ``Sudan.'' and inserting ``Sudan, including the 
     conflict in the Darfur region.''.

     SEC. 6. OTHER RESTRICTIONS.

       (a) Blocking of Assets.--On the date that is 120 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act, if the President has not 
     submitted the certification described in subsection (c)(1) of 
     section 12 of the Sudan Peace Act, as added by section 5, the 
     President shall, consistent with the authorities granted in 
     the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
     1701 et seq.), block the assets of appropriate senior 
     officials of the Government of Sudan.
       (b) Continuation of Restrictions.--Restrictions against the 
     Government of Sudan that were imposed pursuant to title III 
     and sections 508, 512, and 527 of the Foreign Operations, 
     Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
     2004 (Division D of Public Law 108-199; 118 Stat. 143) or any 
     other similar provision of law may not be lifted pursuant to 
     such provisions of law unless the President also makes the 
     certification described in subsection (c) of section 12 of 
     the Sudan Peace Act, as added by section 5.

     SEC. 7. REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.

       (a) Requirement.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report on the planned 
     United States response to a comprehensive peace agreement for 
     Sudan.
       (b) Content.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include--
       (1) a description of the United States response to a 
     modified peace process between the Government of Sudan and 
     the SPLM that would account for the implementation of a peace 
     in all regions of Sudan, in particular Darfur; and
       (2) a contingency plan for extraordinary humanitarian 
     assistance should the Government of Sudan continue to 
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     the international humanitarian response to the crisis in 
     Darfur.
       (c) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a) 
     may be submitted in classified form.

     SEC. 8. TECHNICAL CORRECTION.

       Section 12 of the International Organizations Immunities 
     Act (22 U.S.C. 288f-2) is amended by striking ``Organization 
     of African Unity'' and inserting ``African Union''.

                            S. Con. Res. 119

       Whereas suicide is one of the most disruptive and tragic 
     events a family and a community can experience, and it occurs 
     at a national rate of 30,000 suicides annually;
       Whereas suicide is the fastest growing cause of death among 
     youths and the second leading cause of death among college 
     students;
       Whereas suicide kills youths 6 to 9 times more often than 
     homicide;
       Whereas research shows that 95 percent of all suicides are 
     preventable;
       Whereas research shows that the prevention of suicide must 
     be recognized as a national priority;
       Whereas community awareness and education will encourage 
     the development of strategies to prevent suicide;
       Whereas during the 105th Congress, both the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives unanimously agreed to resolutions 
     recognizing suicide as a national problem and declaring 
     suicide prevention programs to be a national priority (Senate 
     Resolution 84, 105th Congress, agreed to May 6, 1997, and 
     House of Representatives Resolution 212, 105th Congress, 
     agreed to October 9, 1998);
       Whereas the yellow ribbon is rapidly becoming recognized 
     internationally as the symbol for the awareness and 
     prevention of suicide, and it is recognized and used by 
     suicide prevention groups, crisis centers, schools, churches, 
     youth centers, hospitals, counselors, teachers, parents, and 
     especially youth themselves; and
       Whereas the week beginning September 19, 2004, should be 
     recognized as Yellow Ribbon Suicide Awareness and Prevention 
     Week: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That Congress--
       (1) recognizes that the need to increase awareness about 
     and prevent suicide is a compelling national priority;
       (2) reaffirms the commitment of Congress to the priorities 
     expressed by the 105th Congress, in Senate Resolution 84 and 
     House Resolution 212, to continue to recognize suicide 
     prevention as a national priority; and
       (3) encourages Americans, communities, and the Nation to 
     work to increase awareness about and prevent suicide.

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