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Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2014 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) departmental offices, (2) department-wide systems and capital investments programs, (3) the Office of Inspector General, (4) the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, (5) the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), (6) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, (7) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, (8) the U.S. Mint for the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund, (9) the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, (10) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account, and (11) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Sets forth certain transfers of funds, plus a rescission of certain funds from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
(Sec. 102) Requires the IRS to maintain a training program for IRS employees in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations.
(Sec. 104) Makes funds for the IRS under any Act available for improved facilities and increased staffing to provide sufficient and effective 1-800 help line service for taxpayers.
(Sec. 105) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to enter into, renew, extend, administer, implement, enforce, or provide oversight of any qualified tax collection contract.
(Sec. 106) Extends through September 29, 2015, the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary in this title) to establish, fix the compensation of, and appoint individuals to certain designated critical administrative, technical, and professional positions needed to carry out IRS functions.
(Sec. 107) Permits renewal of the terms of such appointments to an additional two years, based on a critical organizational need. (Currently such term is limited to four years only.)
(Sec. 108) Requires: (1) the IRS to issue a notice of confirmation of any address change relating to an employer making employment tax payments, (2) such notice to be sent to both the employer's former and new address, and (3) an IRS officer or employee to give special consideration to an offer-in-compromise from a taxpayer who has been the victim of fraud by a third party payroll tax preparer.
(Sec. 109) Requires the IRS to:
(Sec. 112) Bars the use of IRS funds to target U.S. citizens for exercising any right guaranteed under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
(Sec. 117) Bars the use of funds to the Department of the Treasury or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.
(Sec. 119) Extends from 14 to 17 years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project for employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).
(Sec. 120) Prohibits the U.S. Mint from using any federal funds to construct or operate any museum without the explicit approval of specified congressional committees.
(Sec. 121) Prohibits the use of funds to merge the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without the explicit approval of the same congressional committees.
(Sec. 122) Deems any funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2014, until enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2014.
(Sec. 123) Requires up to $5,000 to be made available from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Industrial Revolving Fund for necessary official reception and representation expenses.
(Sec. 124) Requires the Secretary to submit a Capital Investment Plan to congressional appropriations committees within 30 days after the submission of the President's annual budget.
(Sec. 125) Requires amounts appropriated to the Secretary for mandatory refunding of internal revenue collections to be administered as if they were made available through separate appropriations to the Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Attorney General.
Makes such appropriated funds available to:
Makes such funds available also for payment of interest and prior fiscal year claims.
(Sec. 126) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) locate and recover federal assets on behalf of any executive, judicial, or legislative agency in accordance with appropriate procedures; and (2) retain a portion of such recovered amounts to cover related administrative and operational costs.
Requires deposit of the amounts retained into an Unclaimed Assets Recovery Account established in the Treasury to cover costs associated with implementation and operation of the Secretary's asset recovery program.
(Sec. 127) Amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 with respect to the mandatory guarantee of payments on bonds or notes issued by a qualified issuer if their proceeds are used to make loans to eligible community development financial institutions for specified purposes.
Eliminates the authorization of appropriations to carry out such requirements.
States that these requirements satisfy federal credit reform requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 that:
Eliminates termination of the guarantee payments on September 30, 2014. (Thus continues them indefinitely.)
Title II: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Executive Office of the President Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for compensation of the President, the Executive Residence, and designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) the National Security Council (NSC) and the Homeland Security Council; (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); (5) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (6) various other specified federal drug control programs; (7) unanticipated needs; (8) data-driven innovation; (9) federal integrated, efficient, and effective uses of information technology; and (10) special assistance to the President and the official residence of the Vice President.
Sets forth certain transfers of funds.
(Sec. 202) Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to submit to congressional appropriations committees, within 60 days after the enactment of this Act, and before the initial obligation of more than 20% of the funds appropriated in any account for the Office, a detailed narrative and financial plan on the proposed uses of all funds under the account by program, project, and activity.
(Sec. 203) Limits the availability of appropriations to such Office in this Act to: (1) a 2% transfer between appropriated programs upon the advance approval of congressional appropriations committees; and (2) up to $1 million for reprogramming within a program, project, or activity upon such approval.
Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations to the Judiciary for FY2014 for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including defender services; (5) fees of jurors and commissioners; (6) court security; (7) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (8) the Federal Judicial Center; (9) judicial retirement funds; and (10) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Sets forth certain transfers of funds.
(Sec. 305) Requires the U.S. Marshals Service to provide, as a pilot program, specified security services (except investigations) for courthouses which federal law authorizes DHS to provide.
(Sec. 306) Authorizes the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Judicial Center, and the U.S Sentencing Commission to enter into contracts, to the same extent as executive agencies, for: (1) acquisition of severable services for a period that begins in one fiscal year and ends in the next; and (2) for multiple years for acquisition of property and services.
(Sec. 307) Amends the Judicial Improvement Act of 1990 to prohibit the filling of the first vacancy in the office of district judge in: (1) the district of Kansas occurring 23 (currently, 21) years and six months or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship; and (2) the district of Hawaii occurring 20 (currently, 19) years and six months or more after such confirmation date. (In effect lengthens by one year the respective temporary judgeships in the districts of Kansas and Hawaii.)
Amends the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, of 2006 to prohibit the filling of the first vacancy in the office of district judge in the eastern district of Missouri occurring 21 (currently, 20) years and six months or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship. (In effect lengthens by one year the period of the respective temporary judgeship in such district.)
Amends the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act to prohibit the filling of the first vacancy in the office of district judge in: (1) the northern district of Alabama, the district of Arizona, the southern district of Florida, the district of New Mexico, and the eastern district of Texas occurring 12 years (currently, 11 years) or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the respective temporary judgeships, and (2) the central district of California occurring 11 years (currently, 10 years) and 6 months or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship. (In effect lengthens by one year the period of the temporary judgeship in that district.)
(Sec. 308) Directs the President to appoint two additional permanent district judges for the district of Arizona, four for the eastern district of California, one for the district of Delaware, one for the district of Minnesota, one for the district of New Mexico, one for the southern district of Texas, and two for the western district of Texas. Converts existing temporary district judgeships to permanent for the district of Arizona, the central district of California, and the district of New Mexico.
Increases district court filing fees from $350 to $362. Continues the mandatory $5 fee on an application for a writ of habeas corpus.
Requires incremental amounts collected because of enactment of this Act to be deposited as offsetting receipts in the "Judiciary Filing Fee" special fund in the Treasury. Makes such amounts available solely for facilitating the processing of civil cases, but only to the extent specifically appropriated by an Act of Congress after enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 309) Amends the federal judicial code to prohibit the exclusion of citizens from service as a grand or petit juror in U.S. district courts or the Court of International Trade on account of sexual orientation or gender identity (thereby expanding the current prohibition against exclusion on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status).
Title IV: District of Columbia - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2014 - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY2014, including amounts for the federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support, (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District, (3) to District of Columbia Courts, (4) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts, (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, (6) to the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, (7) to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, (8) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, (9) to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure and the Judicial Nomination Commission, (10) for school improvement, (11) for the DC National Guard, (12) for redevelopment of the St. Elizabeths Hospital campus, and (13) for testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Requires certain funds appropriated for operating expenses to be subject to specified proposals of the Fiscal Year 2014 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District of Columbia.
Title V: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation; (3) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); (5) the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), including election reform activities; (6) the Federal Communication Commission (FCC); (7) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), for its Office of Inspector General; (8) the Federal Election Commission (FEC); (9) the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA); (10) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (11) the General Services Administration (GSA); (12) government-wide policy activities and operating expenses; (13) the GSA Office of Inspector General; (14) the electronic government fund; (15) allowances and office staff for former presidents; (16) the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, including the Federal Citizen Services Fund; (17) the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation; (18) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (19) Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation; (20) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (21) the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), including the Office of Inspector General; (22) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission grants program; (23) the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA); (24) the credit union Community Development Revolving Loan Fund; (25) the Office of Government Ethics; (26) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), including the Office of Inspector General; (27) the government payment for annuitants, employee health benefits, employee life insurance, and the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (28) the Office of Special Counsel; (29) the Postal Regulatory Commission; (30) the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; (31) the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board; (32) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (33) the Selective Service System; (34) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including entrepreneurial development programs and the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Advocacy; (35) the U.S. Postal Service, including the Office of Inspector General; and (36) the U.S. Tax Court.
Sets forth certain transfers of funds.
(Sec. 501) Amends the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act to revise eligibility requirements for the state swimming pool safety grant program to include swimming pools constructed in the state after the date the state submits a grant application to the CPSC.
(Currently, such requirements include swimming pools constructed after the date that is six months after enactment of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012.)
Extends the state swimming pool safety grant program through FY2015.
Revises minimum state law requirements for such grants to repeal requirements that:
(Sec. 502) Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to:
(Sec. 503) Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to authorize the CPSC to permit a foreign government agency to share, subject to specified requirements and limitations, information obtained from the CPSC with its other foreign agencies and political subdivisions located within its same territory or administrative area, as well as disclose the information to legislative and judicial bodies with jurisdiction over the foreign government agency.
States that nothing in such Act may be construed to prohibit the CPSC from providing any information received, which is related to an immediate health or safety threat to the public or to a potential violation of a criminal law, to the Attorney General or to other appropriate federal, state, or local agencies.
(Sec. 510) Amends the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act to extend through December 31, 2015, the waiver of certain limitations on: (1) expending, obligating, or apportioning appropriations with respect to the collection or receipt of federal universal service contributions under the Communications Act of 1934; and (2) expending or obligating funds attributable to such contributions for universal service support programs.
(Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of FCC funds to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on universal service support payments.
(Sec. 526) Authorizes the use of funds made available to GSA to implement or use a green building certification system for new construction, major renovations, and existing buildings, if the system was developed as a voluntary consensus standard, as defined by the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1996 and OMB Circular A-119, that was either designated as an American National Standard or was developed by an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited Standards Developing Organization.
(Sec. 531) Amends the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to rescind the September 27, 2012, repeal of the SBA Administrator's authority under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to provide refinancing, under the local development business loan program, for previous business debts meeting specified criteria involved in certain projects that do not involve small business expansions.
Reinstates such authority as it was in effect on September 25, 2012.
Title VI: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds under this Act.
(Sec. 606) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act by an entity unless it agrees that such expenditure will comply with the Buy American Act.
(Sec. 607) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.
(Sec. 610) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for use by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) any official background investigation report on any individual, except when: (1) such individual has given his or her express written consent for such request within six months before the date of such request and during the same presidential administration, or (2) such request is required due to extraordinary circumstances involving national security.
(Sec. 611) Makes certain cost accounting standards promulgated under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act inapplicable to a federal employees health benefits program contract.
(Sec. 612) Authorizes OPM to accept and utilize (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel expenses) funds made available to OPM pursuant to court approval for resolving litigation and implementing any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program.
(Sec. 613) Makes the restriction on purchasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set forth in the Buy American Act inapplicable to the acquisition by the federal government of commercial information technology.
(Sec. 614) Prohibits an officer or employee of any regulatory agency or commission funded by this Act from accepting, on behalf of that agency, or such agency or commission from accepting, payment or reimbursement from a nonfederal entity for travel-related expenses to enable an officer or employee to attend and participate in any meeting or similar function relating to official duties, when the entity offering payment or reimbursement is subject to regulation by such agency or commission, or represents such person or entity, unless the person or entity is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization.
(Sec. 615) Authorizes the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to obligate funds for the scholarship program established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in an aggregate amount not exceeding the amount of funds collected by the Board as of December 31, 2013, including accrued interest, resulting from the assessment of monetary penalties. Requires funds available for obligation in FY2014 to remain available until expended.
(Sec. 616) Permits the use of funds made available to the CFTC and the SEC for the interagency funding and sponsorship of a joint advisory committee to advise on emerging regulatory issues.
(Sec. 617) Requires each of the Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, the Judiciary, FCC, FTC, GSA, NARA, SEC, and SBA to provide a quarterly accounting to congressional appropriations committees of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds that were received by the agency during any previous fiscal year.
(Sec. 618) Requires any executive agency covered by this Act, except GSA and the U.S. Postal Service, which is otherwise authorized to enter into contracts for either leases or the construction or alteration of real property for office, meeting, storage, or other space, to consult with GSA before issuing a solicitation for offers of new leases or construction contracts (and in the case of succeeding leases, before entering into negotiations with the current lessor). Authorizes such an agency with authority to enter into an emergency lease to do so during any period declared by the President to require emergency leasing authority.
(Sec. 619) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any corporation for which any unpaid federal tax liability has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner, where the awarding agency is aware of this unpaid tax liability. Waives this prohibition if the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that such an action is not necessary to protect the interests of the government.
(Sec. 620) Prohibits the use of such funds to enter into the transactions cited in Sec. 619 with a corporation that was convicted or had one of its officers or agents acting on the corporation's behalf convicted of a felony criminal violation under any federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction. Waives this prohibition if the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and determined that such an action is not necessary to protect the interests of the government.
(Sec. 621) Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require all designations, statements, and reports that must be filed by political committees in Senate elections to be filed with the Federal Election Commission (currently, with the Secretary of the Senate).
(Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of FCC funds to remove the conditions imposed on commercial terrestrial operations in the FCC Order and Authorization adopted on January 26, 2011 (DA 11-133), or otherwise permit such operations, until the FCC has resolved concerns of potential widespread harmful interference by such commercial terrestrial operations to commercially available Global Positioning System (GPS) devices.
(Sec. 623) Repeals the requirement that the President's budget submission include a detailed, separate analysis, by budget function, by agency, and by initiative area for the prior, the current, the pending, and the ensuing fiscal years identifying the appropriations or obligational authority and outlays that contribute to homeland security.
(Sec. 624) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 to increase FTC premerger notification filing fees paid by persons acquiring voting securities or assets for merger purposes:
Increases the filing fees to $500,000 if the aggregate total amount of voting securities or assets acquired is at least $1 billion.
Requires FTC, for FY2016 and each ensuing fiscal year, to publish in the Federal Register and increase the amount of each filing fee in the same manner and on the same dates provided under the Clayton Act to reflect the percentage change in the GNP for the fiscal year of filing as compared to the GNP for FY2013, except that FTC shall round any increase in a filing fee to the nearest $5,000, but not:
(Sec. 625) Amends the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) with respect to the requirement that the chief executive of a recipient governmental entity certify that: (1) federal funds received for infrastructure investment have received full review and vetting, and (2) the chief executive accepts responsibility that such investment is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
Amends the Jobs Accountability Act (within the ARRA) to repeal certain reporting requirements by recipients on the use of ARRA funds.
Requires each agency that made recovery funds available to any recipient to make available to the public, beginning FY2014, detailed spending data as prescribed by OMB and pursuant to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. (Currently, within 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, each such agency must make the information submitted in the reports publicly available by posting the information on a website.)
Repeals the requirement that the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board establish a user-friendly, public-facing website to foster accountability and transparency in the use of covered funds.
Repeals requirements that:
Extends the Board from FY2013 through FY2015.
(Sec. 626) Requires each executive agency covered by this Act to include, in its FY2015 budget justification materials, a separate table briefly describing the top management challenges for FY2014 as identified by the agency inspector general, together with an explanation of how the FY2015 request addresses each such challenge.
(Sec. 627) Requires FTC and CFTC jointly to establish a working group to coordinate FTC responsibilities under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and similar CFTC responsibilities under the Commodity Exchange Act to protect against manipulation in petroleum markets.
Requires the working group to submit to congressional appropriations committees and the relevant committees of jurisdiction a report that describes:
(Sec. 628) Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2002 to require the Secretary to promulgate regulations authorizing by general license:
Title VII: General Provisions Government-Wide - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies, and corporations.
(Sec. 701) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations by any federal department, agency, or instrumentality unless it has in place, and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances by the officers and employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality.
(Sec. 725) Prohibits the use of funds by federal agencies, directly or through third parties, except in specified circumstances, to collect, review, create or contract for any aggregation of data by any means of any personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of any federal government or nongovernmental Internet site.
(Sec. 726) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into or renew a contract for a federal employee health plan which includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also includes a provision for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans from such prohibition. Prohibits a federal employee health plan, however, from discriminating against an individual on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for contraceptives because such activities would be contrary to his or her religious beliefs or moral convictions.
(Sec. 727) Declares that the United States is committed to ensuring the health of its Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic athletes, and supports strict adherence to anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication, education, and research as performed by nationally recognized oversight authorities.
(Sec. 728) Allows the use of funds appropriated for official travel by federal departments and agencies, if consistent with OMB Circular A-126 regarding official travel for government personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft ownership pilot program.
(Sec. 729) Bars the use of funds to: (1) implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or (2) implement proposed OPM regulations relating to the detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch.
(Sec. 730) Prohibits an executive branch agency from purchasing, constructing, and/or leasing any additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to conduct federal law enforcement training without advance approval of congressional appropriations committees. Authorizes the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities.
(Sec. 731) Prohibits the use of funds to begin or announce a study or public-private competition regarding the conversion to contractor performance of any function performed by federal employees pursuant to OMB Circular A-76 or any other administrative regulation, directive, or policy.
(Sec. 732) Bars the use of funds by an executive branch agency, unless otherwise authorized by existing law, to produce any prepackaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless the story includes a clear notification within its text or audio that it was prepared or funded by that agency.
(Sec. 733) Bars the use of funds in contravention of the Privacy Act or regulations concerning protection of privacy and freedom of information.
(Sec. 734) Requires OMB, in coordination with the governor of each Great Lakes state and the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, to submit to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating congressional committees an interagency budget crosscut report displaying the budget proposed, including any planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each of the federal agencies that carries out Great Lakes restoration activities.
(Sec. 735) Prohibits the use of funds for any federal government contract with any foreign incorporated entity which is treated as an inverted domestic corporation under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, or any subsidiary of such an entity.
Requires any Secretary to waive such prohibition if so required in the interest of national security.
Exempts contracts entered into before the enactment of this Act or task orders issued pursuant to such contracts.
(Sec. 736) Bars the use of funds to implement, administer, enforce, or apply the rule entitled "Competitive Area" published by OPM in the Federal Register on April 15, 2008.
(Sec. 737) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 to revise requirements for service contract inventories by executive agencies to require each agency head (or designee) to ensure that, to the maximum extent practicable, the agency is not using contractor employees to perform any functions closely associated with inherently governmental functions.
(Sec. 738) Requires OMB to issue guidance to prohibit the use of direct conversions to contract out, in whole or in part, activities or functions last performed by any number of federal employees by an executive agency without first conducting a public-private competition.
(Sec. 739) Requires for each employee, during FY2014, who retires under voluntary early retirement authority of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) or under any other CSRS or FERS requirement and receives a voluntary separation incentive payment, that the separating agency remit to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount equal to OPM's average unit cost of processing a retirement claim for the preceding year.
(Sec. 740) Requires federal employees in each executive agency, except the Department of Defense (DOD), to be managed each fiscal year solely on the basis of and consistent with: (1) the workload required to carry out the functions and activities of that agency, and (2) the funds made available to that agency for that fiscal year.
Declares that the management of federal employees in any fiscal year shall not be subject to any limitation in terms of work years, full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, or maximum number of federal employees.
Prohibits an agency from being required to make a reduction in the number of FTE positions unless that reduction is: (1) necessary due to a reduction in funds available to the agency, or (2) required under a statute enacted after enactment of this Act which specifically refers to this requirement.
(Sec. 741) Prohibits the use of FY2014 funds to pay any prevailing rate employee in a federal agency in an amount exceeding specified limits related to an applicable wage survey adjustment.
Limits the statutory adjustment in rates of basic pay granted, pursuant to such survey, to certain federal prevailing rate employees and officers and crew members of vessels that takes place in FY2014 to at least the percentage received by employees in the same location whose basic pay rates are adjusted annually under statutory pay systems that include locality-based comparability payments.
Considers the following prevailing rate employees to be located in the pay locality designated as "Rest of the United States" for purposes of locality-based comparability payments:
(Sec. 742) Bars the following from receiving a pay rate increase in calendar year 2014:
Excludes from this prohibition: (1) employees in the General Schedule pay system or the Foreign Service pay system, and (2) employees appointed under federal law or in another pay system whose position would be classified at GS-15 or below if federal classification of position requirements applied to them.
States that nothing shall prevent employees who do not serve at the pleasure of the appointing official from receiving pay increases.
Excludes from the pay rate increase prohibition: (1) a career SES appointee who receives a presidential appointment and elects to retain SES basic pay entitlements, and (2) a member of Senior Foreign Service who receives a presidential appointment to any position in the executive branch and elects to retain Senior Foreign Service pay entitlements.
(Sec. 743) Revises specifications for certain disallowable costs under federal procurement contracts, including DOD procurement contracts, for an amount exceeding $500,000 entered into by an executive agency (excluding fixed-price contracts without cost incentives or any firm fixed-price contracts for the purchase of commercial items).
Disallows in federal procurement contracts the cost of compensation of any contractor employees for a fiscal year (currently, only senior executives of contractors) to the extent that such compensation exceeds the annual amount paid to the President (currently, to the extent it exceeds the benchmark compensation amount determined by the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy). Allows agency heads to establish one or more narrowly targeted exceptions for scientists, engineers, and other specialists.
Terminates requirements for determining benchmark compensation amounts.
(Sec. 744) Requires the head of any executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded by this Act to report annually to the Inspector General (IG) (or senior ethics official for the entity without an IG) regarding the costs and contracting procedures related to each conference held by the entity during FY2014 for which the federal government cost exceeded $100,000.
Requires the head, within 15 days of a conference held by the entity during FY2014 for which such cost exceeded $20,000, to notify the IG or the senior ethics official of the date, location, and number of employees attending the conference.
Prohibits the use of a grant or contract funded by amounts appropriated by this Act to defray the costs of such a conference that is not directly and programmatically related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project funded by the grant or contract.
Title VIII: General Provisions (District of Columbia) - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2013.
(Sec. 802) Prohibits the use of federal funds provided in this Act 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. 806) Prohibits the use of federal funds contained in this Act by the District of Columbia Attorney General 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.
Declares that nothing in this section bars the Counsel from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private lawsuits, or from consulting with officials of the District government regarding such lawsuits.
(Sec. 807) Bars the use of federal funds contained in this Act to distribute any needle or syringe to prevent the spread of blood borne pathogens in any location that has been determined by the local public health or local law enforcement authorities to be inappropriate for such distribution.
(Sec. 808) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses 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. 809) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act 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 or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative.
(Sec. 810) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in cases of rape or incest.
(Sec. 813) Allows the transfer of amounts appropriated in this Act as operating funds to the District's enterprise and capital funds. Requires such transferred amounts to retain appropriation authority consistent with this Act.
Authorizes the District government to reprogram or transfer for operating expenses any local funds transferred or reprogrammed from operating expenses to capital funds in this or in the four prior fiscal years.
Requires such reprogrammed or transferred amounts to retain appropriation authority consistent with this Act.
Prohibits the District government from transferring or reprogramming for operating expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for capital projects.
(Sec. 814) Declares that none of the federal funds appropriated in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided in this Act.
(Sec. 815) Limits to 50% the availability through FY2014 of any unobligated balances of FY2013 appropriations made available for accounts funded under title IV (District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2014) of this Act in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013) for salaries and expenses remaining available at the end of FY2013. Requires a request for approval to congressional appropriations committees before such funds are spent.
Limits to 50%, under similar conditions, the availability through FY2015 of any unobligated balances of FY2014 appropriations for such salaries and expenses remaining available at the end of FY2014.
(Sec. 816) Amends the District of Columbia Code to revise requirements for enactment of District government appropriations by Congress.
Requires the Mayor to:
Requires the Mayor in a control year (a fiscal year for which a financial plan and budget approved by the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority is in effect) to submit to the President for transmission to Congress the budget adopted by the Council.
Prohibits the Mayor, for a fiscal year which is not a control year, from notifying the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate regarding any annual budget, amendments, or supplements until the completion of specified budget procedures.
(Sec. 817) Authorizes the officers and employees of the District government, upon enactment by the District of its annual budget for a fiscal year (except a control year), or any amendments or supplements to it, to obligate and expend District funds and hire employees in accordance with that budget.
Declares that the District government and its entities' fiscal year shall commence and end on such dates established by the District, except for any fiscal year that is not a control year.
(Sec. 818) Amends the Home Rule Act for FY2014 and succeeding fiscal years, during a period when there is no federal appropriations Act authorizing the expenditure of District local funds, to authorize the District to obligate and expend local funds for programs and activities at the rate set forth in the Budget Request Act adopted by the Council, or a reprogramming adopted pursuant to the Home Rule Act.
(Sec. 819) Declares that, if the Attorney General of the District enters into a contract containing a contingent fee arrangement with private counsel for the provision of legal services in claims and other legal matters affecting the District's interests, the District may make payments pursuant to such arrangement without regard to whether the funds used for the payments are deposited in District accounts or are provided in an appropriation.
Subjects such contracts to the requirements of the Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010. Limits the amount of the contingent fee payable to the fee that counsel engaged in the private practice of law in the District typically charges clients for furnishing similar legal services.
Prohibits the District from entering into a contingency fee arrangement in a claim or other legal matter seeking the recovery of federal funds.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1371 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]
Calendar No. 149
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1371
[Report No. 113-80]
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 25, 2013
Mr. Udall of New Mexico, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported
the following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the
calendar
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A BILL
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for financial services and general government for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Departmental Offices
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and improvements of,
and purchase of commercial insurance policies for, real properties
leased or owned overseas, when necessary for the performance of
official business, including for terrorism and financial intelligence
activities; executive direction program activities; international
affairs and economic policy activities; domestic finance and tax policy
activities; and Treasury-wide management policies and programs
activities, $302,450,000: Provided, That of the amount appropriated
under this heading, not to exceed $3,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015, is for information technology modernization
requirements; not to exceed $350,000 is for official reception and
representation expenses; and not to exceed $258,000 is for unforeseen
emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended
under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be
accounted for solely on his certificate: Provided further, That of the
amount appropriated under this heading, $8,287,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2015, is for the Treasury-wide Financial Statement
Audit and Internal Control Program: Provided further, That of the
amount appropriated under this heading, $500,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2015, is for secure space requirements: Provided
further, That of the amount appropriated under this heading, up to
$3,400,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016, is to develop
and implement programs within the Office of Critical Infrastructure
Protection and Compliance Policy, including entering into cooperative
agreements: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, of the amount appropriated under this heading, up to $1,000,000
may be contributed to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development for the Department's participation in programs related to
global tax administration: Provided further, That, for necessary
expenses for carrying out subtitle F of title I of division A of Public
Law 112-141, $7,400,000, to be derived from the trust fund established
under section 1602 of such Public Law, without altering the percentages
of funds made available for other purposes from the remaining balance
of the trust fund.
department-wide systems and capital investments programs
(including transfer of funds)
For development and acquisition of automatic data processing
equipment, software, and services for the Department of the Treasury,
$2,725,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016: Provided,
That these funds shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as
necessary to satisfy the requirements of the Department's offices,
bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further, That this transfer
authority shall be in addition to any other transfer authority provided
in this Act: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated
under this heading shall be used to support or supplement ``Internal
Revenue Service, Operations Support'' or ``Internal Revenue Service,
Business Systems Modernization''.
office of inspector general
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$32,000,000, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; of which not
to exceed $100,000 shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of a
confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under the direction
of the Inspector General of the Treasury; and of which not to exceed
$2,500 shall be available for official reception and representation
expenses: Provided, That, for audits and investigations conducted
pursuant to section 1608 of subtitle F of title I of division A of
Public Law 112-141, $2,800,000, to be derived from the trust fund
established under section 1602 of such Public Law, without altering the
percentages of funds made available for other purposes from the
remaining balance of the trust fund.
treasury inspector general for tax administration
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax
Administration in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as
amended, including purchase (not to exceed 150 for replacement only for
police-type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C.
1343(b)); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be
determined by the Inspector General for Tax Administration;
$156,375,000, of which not to exceed $6,000,000 shall be available for
official travel expenses; of which not to exceed $500,000 shall be
available for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be
allocated and expended under the direction of the Inspector General for
Tax Administration.
special inspector general for the troubled asset relief program
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Special Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-343), $34,923,000.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and training
expenses of non-Federal and foreign government personnel to attend
meetings and training concerned with domestic and foreign financial
intelligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regulation; not
to exceed $14,000 for official reception and representation expenses;
and for assistance to Federal law enforcement agencies, with or without
reimbursement, $112,000,000, of which not to exceed $34,335,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2016: Provided, That funds
appropriated in this account may be used to procure personal services
contracts.
Treasury Forfeiture Fund
(rescission)
Of the unobligated balances available under this heading,
$1,200,000,000 are rescinded.
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of carrying out section 1111 of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002, including hire of passenger motor vehicles,
$100,678,000; of which not to exceed $6,000 for official reception and
representation expenses; not to exceed $50,000 for cooperative research
and development programs for laboratory services; and provision of
laboratory assistance to State and local agencies with or without
reimbursement: Provided, That of the amount appropriated under this
heading, $2,000,000 shall be for the costs of criminal enforcement
activities and special law enforcement agents for targeting tobacco
smuggling and other criminal diversion activities.
United States Mint
united states mint public enterprise fund
Pursuant to section 5136 of title 31, United States Code, the
United States Mint is provided funding through the United States Mint
Public Enterprise Fund for costs associated with the production of
circulating coins, numismatic coins, and protective services, including
both operating expenses and capital investments. The aggregate amount
of new liabilities and obligations incurred during fiscal year 2014
under such section 5136 for circulating coinage and protective service
capital investments of the United States Mint shall not exceed
$19,000,000.
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of operations of the Bureau of the Fiscal
Service, $360,165,000; of which not to exceed $4,210,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2016, is for information systems
modernization initiatives; of which $8,740,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2016 for expenses related to the consolidation of
the Financial Management Service and the Bureau of the Public Debt; and
of which $5,000 shall be available for official reception and
representation expenses. In addition, $165,000, to be derived from the
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse administrative and
personnel expenses for financial management of the Fund, as authorized
by section 1012 of Public Law 101-380.
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account
To carry out the Community Development Banking and Financial
Institutions Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-325), including services
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for EX-3, notwithstanding
section 4707(e) of title 12, United States Code with regard to Small
and/or Emerging Community Development Financial Institutions Assistance
awards, $230,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2015; of
which $15,000,000 shall be for financial assistance, technical
assistance, training and outreach programs, designed to benefit Native
American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native communities and provided
primarily through qualified community development lender organizations
with experience and expertise in community development banking and
lending in Indian country, Native American organizations, tribes and
tribal organizations and other suitable providers; of which,
notwithstanding sections 4707(d) and 4707(e) of title 12, United States
Code, up to $25,000,000 shall be for a Healthy Food Financing
Initiative to provide financial assistance, technical assistance,
training, and outreach to community development financial institutions
for the purpose of offering affordable financing and technical
assistance to expand the availability of healthy food options in
distressed communities; of which $18,000,000 shall be for the Bank
Enterprise Award program; of which up to $25,636,000 may be used for
administrative expenses, including administration of the New Markets
Tax Credit Program and the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program, $2,000,000 for
capacity building to expand CDFI investments in underserved areas, and
up to $300,000 for the direct loan program; and of which up to
$2,222,500 may be used for the cost of direct loans: Provided, That
the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the cost of
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount
of direct loans not to exceed $25,000,000: Provided further, That
during fiscal year 2014, commitments to guarantee bonds and notes under
section 114A of the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory
Improvement Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4701 et seq.) shall not exceed
$1,000,000,000: Provided further, That no funds shall be available for
the cost, if any, of bonds and notes guaranteed under such section, as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
Internal Revenue Service
taxpayer services
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service to provide
taxpayer services, including pre-filing assistance and education,
filing and account services, taxpayer advocacy services, and other
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be
determined by the Commissioner, $2,316,246,000, of which not less than
$5,600,000 shall be for the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, of
which not less than $10,000,000 shall be available for low-income
taxpayer clinic grants, of which not less than $18,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2015, shall be available for a Community
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance matching grants program for tax return
preparation assistance, of which not less than $210,000,000 shall be
available for operating expenses of the Taxpayer Advocate Service:
Provided, That of the amounts made available for the Taxpayer Advocate
Service, $5,000,000 shall be for identity theft casework.
enforcement
For necessary expenses for tax enforcement activities of the
Internal Revenue Service to determine and collect owed taxes, to
provide legal and litigation support, to conduct criminal
investigations, to enforce criminal statutes related to violations of
internal revenue laws and other financial crimes, to purchase (for
police-type use, not to exceed 850) and hire passenger motor vehicles
(31 U.S.C. 1343(b)), and to provide other services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner,
$5,342,980,000, of which not less than $60,257,000 shall be for the
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement program.
operations support
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service to support
taxpayer services and enforcement programs, including rent payments;
facilities services; printing; postage; physical security; headquarters
and other IRS-wide administration activities; research and statistics
of income; telecommunications; information technology development,
enhancement, operations, maintenance, and security; the hire of
passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and other services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the
Commissioner; $4,109,506,000, of which up to $250,000,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 2015, for information technology support;
of which up to $65,000,000 shall remain available until expended for
acquisition of real property, equipment, construction and renovation of
facilities; of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2016, for research; of which not less than
$2,000,000 shall be for the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board;
of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be for official reception and
representation expenses: Provided, That not later than 30 days after
the end of each quarter, the Internal Revenue Service shall submit a
report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the
Comptroller General of the United States detailing the cost and
schedule performance for its major information technology investments,
including the purpose and life-cycle stages of the investments; the
reasons for any cost and schedule variances; the risks of such
investments and strategies the Internal Revenue Service is using to
mitigate such risks; and the expected developmental milestones to be
achieved and costs to be incurred in the next quarter: Provided
further, That the Internal Revenue Service shall include, in its budget
justification for fiscal year 2015, a summary of cost and schedule
performance information for its major information technology systems.
business systems modernization
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service's business
systems modernization program, $300,827,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2016, for the capital asset acquisition of information
technology systems, including management and related contractual costs
of said acquisitions, including related Internal Revenue Service labor
costs, and contractual costs associated with operations authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That not later than 30 days after the end of
each quarter, the Internal Revenue Service shall submit a report to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Comptroller
General of the United States detailing the cost and schedule
performance for CADE2 and Modernized e-File information technology
investments, including the purposes and life-cycle stages of the
investments; the reasons for any cost and schedule variances; the risks
of such investments and the strategies the Internal Revenue Service is
using to mitigate such risks; and the expected developmental milestones
to be achieved and costs to be incurred in the next quarter.
administrative provisions--internal revenue service
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made
available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service or not to exceed
3 percent of appropriations under the heading ``Enforcement'' may be
transferred to any other Internal Revenue Service appropriation upon
the advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
Sec. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall maintain a training
program to ensure that Internal Revenue Service employees are trained
in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with taxpayers, and in
cross-cultural relations.
Sec. 103. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and enforce
policies and procedures that will safeguard the confidentiality of
taxpayer information and protect taxpayers against identity theft.
Sec. 104. Funds made available by this or any other Act to the
Internal Revenue Service shall be available for improved facilities and
increased staffing to provide sufficient and effective 1-800 help line
service for taxpayers. The Commissioner shall continue to make
improvements to the Internal Revenue Service 1-800 help line service a
priority and allocate resources necessary to enhance the response time
to taxpayer communications, particularly with regard to victims of tax-
related crimes.
Sec. 105. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
to enter into, renew, extend, administer, implement, enforce, or
provide oversight of any qualified tax collection contract (as defined
in section 6306 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).
Sec. 106. Section 9503(a) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by striking ``Before September 30, 2013'' and inserting
``before September 30, 2015''.
Sec. 107. Section 9503(a)(5) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: ``renewable
for an additional two years, based on a critical organizational need''.
Sec. 108. The Internal Revenue Service shall issue a notice of
confirmation of any address change relating to an employer making
employment tax payments, and such notice shall be sent to both the
employer's former and new address and an officer or employee of the
Internal Revenue Service shall give special consideration to an offer-
in-compromise from a taxpayer who has been the victim of fraud by a
third party payroll tax preparer.
Sec. 109. The Internal Revenue Service shall develop, institute,
and publicize on the Internal Revenue Service website clear guidance
for processing requests for tax-exempt status involving potentially
significant political campaign intervention to provide transparency to
organizations on the application process.
Sec. 110. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute internal
controls and management oversight to ensure that applications for tax-
exempt status are approved or denied expeditiously, using objective
criteria.
Sec. 111. The Internal Revenue Service shall conduct staff
training before each federal election cycle including, at a minimum,
instruction on what activities by tax-exempt organizations constitute
political campaign intervention rather than general advocacy.
Sec. 112. None of the funds made available under this Act may be
used by the Internal Revenue Service to target citizens of the United
States for exercising any right guaranteed under the First Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
Administrative Provisions--Department of the Treasury
(including transfers of funds)
Sec. 113. Appropriations to the Department of the Treasury in this
Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, repairs, and
cleaning; purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated in
foreign countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the
general purchase price limitations for vehicles purchased and used
overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into contracts with the
Department of State for the furnishing of health and medical services
to employees and their dependents serving in foreign countries; and
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
Sec. 114. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriations in this
Act made available to the Departmental Offices--Salaries and Expenses,
Office of Inspector General, Special Inspector General for the Troubled
Asset Relief Program, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Alcohol and Tobacco
Tax and Trade Bureau, and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, may be
transferred between such appropriations upon the advance approval of
the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That no transfer may
increase or decrease any such appropriation by more than 2 percent.
Sec. 115. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriation made
available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service may be
transferred to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's
appropriation upon the advance approval of the Committees on
Appropriations: Provided, That no transfer may increase or decrease
any such appropriation by more than 2 percent.
Sec. 116. Of the funds available for the purchase of law
enforcement vehicles, no funds may be obligated until the Secretary of
the Treasury certifies that the purchase by the respective Treasury
bureau is consistent with departmental vehicle management principles:
Provided, That the Secretary may delegate this authority to the
Assistant Secretary for Management.
Sec. 117. None of the funds appropriated in this Act or otherwise
available to the Department of the Treasury or the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing may be used to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.
Sec. 118. The Secretary of the Treasury may transfer funds from
the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Salaries and Expenses to the Debt
Collection Fund as necessary to cover the costs of debt collection:
Provided, That such amounts shall be reimbursed to such salaries and
expenses account from debt collections received in the Debt Collection
Fund.
Sec. 119. Section 122(g)(1) of Public Law 105-119 (5 U.S.C. 3104
note), is further amended by striking ``14 years'' and inserting ``17
years''.
Sec. 120. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this or any other Act may be used by the United States
Mint to construct or operate any museum without the explicit approval
of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate, the House Committee on Financial Services, and the Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
Sec. 121. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this or any other Act or source to the Department of the
Treasury, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the United States
Mint, individually or collectively, may be used to consolidate any or
all functions of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United
States Mint without the explicit approval of the House Committee on
Financial Services; the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs; the House Committee on Appropriations; and the Senate
Committee on Appropriations.
Sec. 122. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the
transfer of funds in this Act, for the Department of the Treasury's
intelligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year
2014 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2014.
Sec. 123. Not to exceed $5,000 shall be made available from the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Industrial Revolving Fund for
necessary official reception and representation expenses.
Sec. 124. The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a Capital
Investment Plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and
the House of Representatives not later than 30 days following the
submission of the annual budget for the Administration submitted by the
President: Provided, That such Capital Investment Plan shall include
capital investment spending from all accounts within the Department of
the Treasury, including but not limited to the Department-wide Systems
and Capital Investment Programs account, the Working Capital Fund
account, and the Treasury Forfeiture Fund account: Provided further,
That such Capital Investment Plan shall include expenditures occurring
in previous fiscal years for each capital investment project that has
not been fully completed.
Sec. 125. Section 1324 of title 31, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
``(c) Amounts appropriated under subsection (a) of this section
shall be administered, as appropriate, as if they were made available
through separate appropriations to the Secretary of the Treasury, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General. Funds so
appropriated shall be available to the Secretary of the Treasury for
refunds by the Internal Revenue Service of taxes collected pursuant to
the Internal Revenue Code and related interest; separately to the
Secretary of the Treasury for refunds and drawbacks of alcohol,
tobacco, firearms and ammunition taxes and refunds of other taxes which
may arise and any interest on such refunds, including payment of claims
for prior fiscal years; to the Secretary of Homeland Security for
refunds and drawbacks of receipts collected pursuant to the customs
revenue functions administered by the Department of Homeland Security
pursuant to delegation by the Secretary of the Treasury and any
interest on such refunds, including payment of claims for prior fiscal
years; and to the Attorney General for refunds of firearms taxes and
refunds of other taxes which may arise and any interest on such
refunds, including payment of claims for prior fiscal years.''.
Sec. 126. Section 3711 of title 31, United States Code, is amended
by adding a new subsection (j) to read as follows:
``(j)(1) The Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this
subsection as the `Secretary') may locate and recover assets of the
United States Government on behalf of any executive, judicial, or
legislative agency in accordance with such procedures as the Secretary
considers appropriate.
``(2) Notwithstanding any other law concerning the depositing and
collection of Federal payments, including section 3302(b) of this
title, the Secretary may retain a portion of the amounts recovered
pursuant to this subsection to cover the Secretary's administrative and
operational costs associated with locating and recovering assets of the
United States. The amounts retained shall be deposited into an account
established in the Treasury to be known as the `Unclaimed Assets
Recovery Account' (referred to in this paragraph as the `Account').
Amounts deposited in the Account shall be available until expended to
cover costs associated with implementation and operation of the
Secretary's asset recovery program established under this subsection.
``(3) To carry out the purposes of this subsection, the Secretary
may:
``(A) Transfer to the Account from funds appropriated to
the Department of Treasury such amounts as may be necessary to
meet liabilities and obligations incurred prior to the receipt
of recovered assets; and
``(B) Reimburse any appropriation from which funds were
transferred under this paragraph from the amounts retained from
recovered assets. Any reimbursement under this paragraph shall
occur during the period of availability of the funds originally
transferred from an appropriation and shall be available for
the same time period and purposes as originally
appropriated.''.
Sec. 127. Section 114A of the Riegle Community Development and
Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4713a) is amended as
follows:
(1) by amending subsection (h) to read as follows:
``(h) Federal Credit Reform Act.--The provisions of this section
satisfy the requirements of subsections (b) and (e) of section 504 of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.''; and
(2) by striking subsection (k).
This title may be cited as the ``Department of the Treasury
Appropriations Act, 2014''.
TITLE II
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE
PRESIDENT
Compensation of the President
For compensation of the President, including an expense allowance
at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 102,
$450,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available for official
expenses shall be expended for any other purpose and any unused amount
shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1552.
The White House
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the White House as authorized by law,
including not to exceed $3,850,000 for services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; subsistence expenses as authorized by 3
U.S.C. 105, which shall be expended and accounted for as provided in
that section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, newspapers,
periodicals, teletype news service, and travel (not to exceed $100,000
to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 103); and not
to exceed $19,000 for official entertainment expenses, to be available
for allocation within the Executive Office of the President; and for
necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Development, including
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, $55,110,000.
Executive Residence at the White House
operating expenses
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing,
improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and
fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official
entertainment expenses of the President, $12,768,000, to be expended
and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 112-114.
reimbursable expenses
For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Residence at the
White House, such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That all
reimbursable operating expenses of the Executive Residence shall be
made in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such amount
for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the exclusive authority of
the Executive Residence to incur obligations and to receive offsetting
collections, for such expenses: Provided further, That the Executive
Residence shall require each person sponsoring a reimbursable political
event to pay in advance an amount equal to the estimated cost of the
event, and all such advance payments shall be credited to this account
and remain available until expended: Provided further, That the
Executive Residence shall require the national committee of the
political party of the President to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be
separately accounted for and available for expenses relating to
reimbursable political events sponsored by such committee during such
fiscal year: Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall
ensure that a written notice of any amount owed for a reimbursable
operating expense under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing
such amount within 60 days after such expense is incurred, and that
such amount is collected within 30 days after the submission of such
notice: Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall charge
interest and assess penalties and other charges on any such amount that
is not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with the interest
and penalty provisions applicable to an outstanding debt on a United
States Government claim under 31 U.S.C. 3717: Provided further, That
each such amount that is reimbursed, and any accompanying interest and
charges, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts:
Provided further, That the Executive Residence shall prepare and submit
to the Committees on Appropriations, by not later than 90 days after
the end of the fiscal year covered by this Act, a report setting forth
the reimbursable operating expenses of the Executive Residence during
the preceding fiscal year, including the total amount of such expenses,
the amount of such total that consists of reimbursable official and
ceremonial events, the amount of such total that consists of
reimbursable political events, and the portion of each such amount that
has been reimbursed as of the date of the report: Provided further,
That the Executive Residence shall maintain a system for the tracking
of expenses related to reimbursable events within the Executive
Residence that includes a standard for the classification of any such
expense as political or nonpolitical: Provided further, That no
provision of this paragraph may be construed to exempt the Executive
Residence from any other applicable requirement of subchapter I or II
of chapter 37 of title 31, United States Code.
White House Repair and Restoration
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Executive
Residence at the White House, $750,000, to remain available until
expended, for required maintenance, resolution of safety and health
issues, and continued preventative maintenance.
Council of Economic Advisers
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic Advisers in
carrying out its functions under the Employment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C.
1021 et seq.), $4,192,000.
National Security Council and Homeland Security Council
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the National Security Council and the
Homeland Security Council, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, $12,621,000.
Office of Administration
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration, including
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of
passenger motor vehicles, $113,135,000, of which $12,006,000 shall
remain available until expended for continued modernization of the
information technology infrastructure within the Executive Office of
the President.
Office of Management and Budget
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management and Budget,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and to carry out the provisions of chapter 35 of title
44, United States Code, $93,397,000, of which not to exceed $3,000
shall be available for official representation expenses: Provided,
That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Office of
Management and Budget may be used for the purpose of reviewing any
agricultural marketing orders or any activities or regulations under
the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7
U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided further, That none of the funds made
available for the Office of Management and Budget by this Act may be
expended for the altering of the transcript of actual testimony of
witnesses, except for testimony of officials of the Office of
Management and Budget, before the Committees on Appropriations or their
subcommittees: Provided further, That none of the funds provided in
this or prior Acts shall be used, directly or indirectly, by the Office
of Management and Budget, for evaluating or determining if water
resource project or study reports submitted by the Chief of Engineers
acting through the Secretary of the Army are in compliance with all
applicable laws, regulations, and requirements relevant to the Civil
Works water resource planning process: Provided further, That the
Office of Management and Budget shall have not more than 60 days in
which to perform budgetary policy reviews of water resource matters on
which the Chief of Engineers has reported: Provided further, That the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall notify the
appropriate authorizing and appropriating committees when the 60-day
review is initiated: Provided further, That if water resource reports
have not been transmitted to the appropriate authorizing and
appropriating committees within 15 days after the end of the Office of
Management and Budget review period based on the notification from the
Director, Congress shall assume Office of Management and Budget
concurrence with the report and act accordingly.
Office of National Drug Control Policy
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy; for research activities pursuant to the Office of National Drug
Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-469); not to
exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation expenses; and
for participation in joint projects or in the provision of services on
matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, research, or public
organizations or agencies, with or without reimbursement, $23,000,000:
Provided, That the Office is authorized to accept, hold, administer,
and utilize gifts, both real and personal, public and private, without
fiscal year limitation, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the
work of the Office.
federal drug control programs
high intensity drug trafficking areas program
(including transfers of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, $238,522,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2015, for drug control
activities consistent with the approved strategy for each of the
designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (``HIDTAs''), of which
not less than 51 percent shall be transferred to State and local
entities for drug control activities and shall be obligated not later
than 120 days after enactment of this Act: Provided, That up to 49
percent may be transferred to Federal agencies and departments in
amounts determined by the Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, of which up to $2,700,000 may be used for auditing
services and associated activities: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding the requirements of Public Law 106-58, any unexpended
funds obligated prior to fiscal year 2012 may be used for any other
approved activities of that HIDTA, subject to reprogramming
requirements: Provided further, That each HIDTA designated as of
September 30, 2013, shall be funded at not less than the fiscal year
2013 base level, unless the Director submits to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
justification for changes to those levels based on clearly articulated
priorities and published Office of National Drug Control Policy
performance measures of effectiveness: Provided further, That the
Director shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the initial
allocation of fiscal year 2014 funding among HIDTAs not later than 45
days after enactment of this Act, and shall notify the Committees of
planned uses of discretionary HIDTA funding, as determined in
consultation with the HIDTA Directors, not later than 90 days after
enactment of this Act.
other federal drug control programs
(including transfers of funds)
For other drug control activities authorized by the Office of
National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 (Public Law
109-469), $105,550,000, to remain available until expended, which shall
be available as follows: $92,000,000 for the Drug-Free Communities
Program, of which $2,000,000 shall be made available as directed by
section 4 of Public Law 107-82, as amended by Public Law 109-469 (21
U.S.C. 1521 note); $1,400,000 for drug court training and technical
assistance; $9,000,000 for anti-doping activities; $1,900,000 for the
United States membership dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency; and
$1,250,000 shall be made available as directed by section 1105 of
Public Law 109-469.
Unanticipated Needs
For expenses necessary to enable the President to meet
unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national interest, security,
or defense which may arise at home or abroad during the current fiscal
year, as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 108, $1,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2015.
Data-Driven Innovation
(including transfers of funds)
For necessary expenses to improve the use of data and evidence to
improve government effectiveness and efficiency, $6,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for projects that enable Federal agencies to
increase the use of evidence and innovation in order to improve program
results and cost-effectiveness by utilizing rigorous evaluation and
other evidence-based tools: Provided, That the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget shall transfer these funds to one or more
other agencies to carry out projects to meet these purposes and to
conduct or provide for evaluation of such projects: Provided further,
That the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a progress report
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate and the Government Accountability Office not later than
March 31, 2014 and semiannually thereafter until the program is
completed, including detailed information on goals, objectives,
performance measures, and evaluations of the program in general and of
each specific project.
Integrated, Efficient and Effective Uses of Information Technology
(including transfers of funds)
For necessary expenses for the furtherance of integrated, efficient
and effective uses of information technology in the Federal Government,
$8,000,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget may transfer these
funds to one or more other agencies to carry out projects to meet these
purposes: Provided further, That the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall submit quarterly reports to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House and the Senate and the Government
Accountability Office identifying the savings achieved by the Office of
Management and Budget's government-wide information technology reform
efforts: Provided further, That such report shall include savings
identified by fiscal year, agency and appropriation.
Special Assistance to the President
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President to provide
assistance to the President in connection with specially assigned
functions; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106,
including subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that section; and
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $4,328,000.
Official Residence of the Vice President
operating expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, and to the
extent not otherwise provided for, heating and lighting, including
electric power and fixtures, of the official residence of the Vice
President; the hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed
$90,000 for official entertainment expenses of the Vice President, to
be accounted for solely on his certificate, $307,000: Provided, That
advances or repayments or transfers from this appropriation may be made
to any department or agency for expenses of carrying out such
activities.
Administrative Provisions--Executive Office of the President and Funds
Appropriated to the President
(including transfers of funds)
Sec. 201. From funds made available in this Act under the headings
``The White House'', ``Executive Residence at the White House'',
``White House Repair and Restoration'', ``Council of Economic
Advisers'', ``National Security Council and Homeland Security
Council'', ``Office of Administration'', ``Special Assistance to the
President'', and ``Official Residence of the Vice President'', the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (or such other officer
as the President may designate in writing), may, 15 days after giving
notice to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate, transfer not to exceed 10 percent of
any such appropriation to any other such appropriation, to be merged
with and available for the same time and for the same purposes as the
appropriation to which transferred: Provided, That the amount of an
appropriation shall not be increased by more than 50 percent by such
transfers: Provided further, That no amount shall be transferred from
``Special Assistance to the President'' or ``Official Residence of the
Vice President'' without the approval of the Vice President.
Sec. 202. The Director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate not later than 60 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, and prior to the initial obligation of more than
20 percent of the funds appropriated in any account under the heading
``Office of National Drug Control Policy'', a detailed narrative and
financial plan on the proposed uses of all funds under the account by
program, project, and activity: Provided, That the reports required by
this section shall be updated and submitted to the Committees on
Appropriations every 6 months and shall include information detailing
how the estimates and assumptions contained in previous reports have
changed: Provided further, That any new projects and changes in
funding of ongoing projects shall be subject to the prior approval of
the Committees on Appropriations.
Sec. 203. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriations in this
Act made available to the Office of National Drug Control Policy may be
transferred between appropriated programs upon the advance approval of
the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That no transfer may
increase or decrease any such appropriation by more than 3 percent.
Sec. 204. Not to exceed $1,000,000 of any appropriations in this
Act made available to the Office of National Drug Control Policy may be
reprogrammed within a program, project, or activity upon the advance
approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
This title may be cited as the ``Executive Office of the President
Appropriations Act, 2014''.
TITLE III
THE JUDICIARY
Supreme Court of the United States
salaries and expenses
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Supreme Court, as
required by law, excluding care of the building and grounds, including
hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and
1344; not to exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation
expenses; and for miscellaneous expenses, to be expended as the Chief
Justice may approve, $74,838,000, of which $1,500,000 shall remain
available until expended.
care of the building and grounds
For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect
of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon the Architect by 40
U.S.C. 6111 and 6112, $11,158,000, to remain available until expended.
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
salaries and expenses
For salaries of the chief judge, judges, and other officers and
employees, and for necessary expenses of the court, as authorized by
law, $33,355,000.
United States Court of International Trade
salaries and expenses
For salaries of the chief judge and eight judges, salaries of the
officers and employees of the court, services, and necessary expenses
of the court, as authorized by law, $21,378,000.
Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services
salaries and expenses
For the salaries of circuit and district judges (including judges
of the territorial courts of the United States), justices and judges
retired from office or from regular active service, judges of the
United States Court of Federal Claims, bankruptcy judges, magistrate
judges, and all other officers and employees of the Federal Judiciary
not otherwise specifically provided for, necessary expenses of the
courts, and the purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for
Probation and Pretrial Services Office staff, as authorized by law,
$5,089,169,000 (including the purchase of firearms and ammunition); of
which not to exceed $27,817,000 shall remain available until expended
for space alteration projects and for furniture and furnishings related
to new space alteration and construction projects.
In addition, for expenses of the United States Court of Federal
Claims associated with processing cases under the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660), not to exceed
$5,327,000, to be appropriated from the Vaccine Injury Compensation
Trust Fund.
defender services
For the operation of Federal Defender organizations; the
compensation and reimbursement of expenses of attorneys appointed to
represent persons under 18 U.S.C. 3006A and 3599, and for the
compensation and reimbursement of expenses of persons furnishing
investigative, expert, and other services for such representations as
authorized by law; the compensation (in accordance with the maximums
under 18 U.S.C. 3006A) and reimbursement of expenses of attorneys
appointed to assist the court in criminal cases where the defendant has
waived representation by counsel; the compensation and reimbursement of
expenses of attorneys appointed to represent jurors in civil actions
for the protection of their employment, as authorized by 28 U.S.C.
1875(d)(1); the compensation and reimbursement of expenses of attorneys
appointed under 18 U.S.C. 983(b)(1) in connection with certain judicial
civil forfeiture proceedings; the compensation and reimbursement of
travel expenses of guardians ad litem appointed under 18 U.S.C.
4100(b); and for necessary training and general administrative
expenses, $1,098,446,000, to remain available until expended.
fees of jurors and commissioners
For fees and expenses of jurors as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1871 and
1876; compensation of jury commissioners as authorized by 28 U.S.C.
1863; and compensation of commissioners appointed in condemnation cases
pursuant to rule 71.1(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (28
U.S.C. Appendix Rule 71.1(h)), $54,891,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That the compensation of land commissioners shall
not exceed the daily equivalent of the highest rate payable under 5
U.S.C. 5332.
court security
(including transfers of funds)
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, incident to the
provision of protective guard services for United States courthouses
and other facilities housing Federal court operations, and the
procurement, installation, and maintenance of security systems and
equipment for United States courthouses and other facilities housing
Federal court operations, including building ingress-egress control,
inspection of mail and packages, directed security patrols, perimeter
security, basic security services provided by the Federal Protective
Service, and other similar activities as authorized by section 1010 of
the Judicial Improvement and Access to Justice Act (Public Law 100-
702), $520,278,000, of which not to exceed $15,000,000 shall remain
available until expended, to be expended directly or transferred to the
United States Marshals Service, which shall be responsible for
administering the Judicial Facility Security Program consistent with
standards or guidelines agreed to by the Director of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts and the Attorney General.
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts as authorized by law, including travel as authorized by
31 U.S.C. 1345, hire of a passenger motor vehicle as authorized by 31
U.S.C. 1343(b), advertising and rent in the District of Columbia and
elsewhere, $83,601,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 is authorized for
official reception and representation expenses.
Federal Judicial Center
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Federal Judicial Center, as
authorized by Public Law 90-219, $26,400,000; of which $1,800,000 shall
remain available through September 30, 2015, to provide education and
training to Federal court personnel; and of which not to exceed $1,500
is authorized for official reception and representation expenses.
Judicial Retirement Funds
payment to judiciary trust funds
For payment to the Judicial Officers' Retirement Fund, as
authorized by 28 U.S.C. 377(o), $105,231,000; to the Judicial
Survivors' Annuities Fund, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 376(c),
$16,200,000; and to the United States Court of Federal Claims Judges'
Retirement Fund, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 178(l), $5,500,000.
United States Sentencing Commission
salaries and expenses
For the salaries and expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of chapter 58 of title 28, United States Code, $16,637,000, of which
not to exceed $1,000 is authorized for official reception and
representation expenses.
Administrative Provisions--The Judiciary
(including transfers of funds)
Sec. 301. Appropriations and authorizations made in this title
which are available for salaries and expenses shall be available for
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
Sec. 302. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made
available for the current fiscal year for the Judiciary in this Act may
be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation,
except ``Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial
Services, Defender Services'' and ``Courts of Appeals, District Courts,
and Other Judicial Services, Fees of Jurors and Commissioners'', shall
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided,
That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a
reprogramming of funds under sections 604 and 608 of this Act and shall
not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance
with the procedures set forth in section 608.
Sec. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the salaries
and expenses appropriation for ``Courts of Appeals, District Courts,
and Other Judicial Services'' shall be available for official reception
and representation expenses of the Judicial Conference of the United
States: Provided, That such available funds shall not exceed $11,000
and shall be administered by the Director of the Administrative Office
of the United States Courts in the capacity as Secretary of the
Judicial Conference.
Sec. 304. Section 3314(a) of title 40, United States Code, shall
be applied by substituting ``Federal'' for ``executive'' each place it
appears.
Sec. 305. In accordance with 28 U.S.C. 561-569, and
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States Marshals
Service shall provide, for such courthouses as its Director may
designate in consultation with the Director of the Administrative
Office of the United States Courts, for purposes of a pilot program,
the security services that 40 U.S.C. 1315 authorizes the Department of
Homeland Security to provide, except for the services specified in 40
U.S.C. 1315(b)(2)(E). For building-specific security services at these
courthouses, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts shall reimburse the United States Marshals Service rather
than the Department of Homeland Security.
Sec. 306. The Supreme Court of the United States, the Federal
Judicial Center, and the United States Sentencing Commission are hereby
authorized, now and hereafter, to enter into contracts for the
acquisition of severable services for a period that begins in one
fiscal year and ends in the next fiscal year and to enter into
contracts for multiple years for the acquisition of property and
services, to the same extent as executive agencies under the authority
of 41 U.S.C. sections 3902 and 3903, respectively.
Sec. 307. (a) Section 203(c) of the Judicial Improvements Act of
1990 (Public Law 101-650; 28 U.S.C. 133 note), is amended in the matter
following paragraph (2)--
(1) in the second sentence (relating to the District of
Kansas), by striking ``22 years and six months'' and inserting
``23 years and six months''; and
(2) in the sixth sentence (relating to the District of
Hawaii), by striking ``19 years and six months'' and inserting
``20 years and six months''.
(b) Section 406 of the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban
Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-115; 119 Stat. 2470;
28 U.S.C. 133 note) is amended in the second sentence (relating to the
eastern District of Missouri) by striking ``20 years and 6 months'' and
inserting ``21 years and 6 months''.
(c) Section 312(c)(2) of the 21st Century Department of Justice
Appropriations Authorization Act (Public Law 107-273; 28 U.S.C. 133
note), is amended--
(1) in the first sentence by striking ``11 years'' and
inserting ``12 years''; and
(2) in the second sentence (relating to the central
District of California), by striking ``10 years and 6 months''
and inserting ``11 years and 6 months''.
federal district judgeships
Sec. 308. (a) Additional Permanent District Judgeships.--The
President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate--
(1) 2 additional district judges for the district of
Arizona;
(2) 4 additional district judges for the eastern district
of California;
(3) 1 additional district judge for the district of
Delaware;
(4) 1 additional district judge for the district of
Minnesota;
(5) 1 additional district judge for the district of New
Mexico;
(6) 1 additional district judge for the southern district
of Texas; and
(7) 2 additional district judges for the western district
of Texas.
(b) Conversion of Temporary Judgeships.--The existing judgeships
for the district of Arizona, the central district of California, and
the district of New Mexico authorized by section 312(c) of the 21st
Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (28
U.S.C. 133 note; Public Law 107-273; 116 Stat. 1788), as of the
effective date of this Act, shall be authorized under section 133 of
title 28, United States Code, and the incumbents in those offices shall
hold the office under section 133 of title 28, United States Code, as
amended by this Act.
(c) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--The table contained in
section 133(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking the item relating to the district of
Arizona and inserting the following:
``Arizona.................................................. 15'';
(2) by striking the items relating to California and
inserting the following:
``California:
Northern................................................ 14
Eastern.................................................. 10
Central.................................................. 28
Southern................................................. 13'';
(3) by striking the item relating to the district of
Delaware and inserting the following:
``Delaware................................................. 5'';
(4) by striking the item relating to the district of
Minnesota and inserting the following:
``Minnesota................................................ 8'';
(5) by striking the item relating to the district of New
Mexico and inserting the following:
``New Mexico............................................... 8'';
and
(6) by striking the items relating to Texas and inserting
the following:
``Texas:
Northern................................................. 12
Southern................................................. 20
Eastern.................................................. 7
Western.................................................. 15''.
(d) Increase in Filing Fees.--
(1) In general.--Section 1914(a) of title 28, United States
Code, is amended by striking ``$350'' and inserting ``$362''.
(2) Expenditure limitation.--Incremental amounts collected
by reason of the enactment of this subsection shall be
deposited as offsetting receipts in the ``Judiciary Filing
Fee'' special fund in the Treasury that was established
pursuant to section 1931 of title 28, United States Code. Such
amounts shall be available solely for the purpose of
facilitating the processing of civil cases, but only to the
extent specifically appropriated by an Act of Congress enacted
after the date of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 309. Section 1862 of title 28, United States Code, is amended
by inserting ``sexual orientation, gender identity,'' after ``sex,''.
This title may be cited as the ``Judiciary Appropriations Act,
2014''.
TITLE IV
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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,
$35,000,000, 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 the Senate for these
funds showing, by object class, the expenditures made and the purpose
therefor.
federal payment for emergency planning and security costs in the
district of columbia
For a Federal payment of 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,
$14,900,000, to remain available until expended and in addition any
funds that remain available from prior year appropriations under this
heading for the District of Columbia Government, for the costs of
providing public safety at events related to the presence of the
national capital in the District of Columbia, including support
requested by the Director of the United States Secret Service Division
in carrying out protective duties under the direction of the Secretary
of Homeland Security, 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.
federal payment to the district of columbia courts
For salaries and expenses for the District of Columbia Courts,
$232,137,316 to be allocated as follows: for the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals, $13,374,726, of which not to exceed $2,500 is for
official reception and representation expenses; for the District of
Columbia Superior Court, $114,921,340, of which not to exceed $2,500 is
for official reception and representation expenses; for the District of
Columbia Court System, $69,213,250, of which not to exceed $2,500 is
for official reception and representation expenses; and $34,628,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2015, for capital improvements for
District of Columbia courthouse facilities: Provided, That funds made
available for capital improvements shall be expended consistent with
the District of Columbia Courts master plan study and building
evaluation report: 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 30 days
after providing written notice to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate, the District of Columbia
Courts may reallocate not more than $3,000,000 of the funds provided
under this heading among the items and entities funded under this
heading, but no such allocation shall be increased by more than 10
percent: Provided further, That the Joint Committee on Judicial
Administration in the District of Columbia may, by regulation,
establish a program substantially similar to the program set forth in
subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 5, United States Code, for
individuals serving the District of Columbia Courts.
federal payment for 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 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. Official Code, and payments
authorized under section 21-2060, D.C. Official Code (relating to
services provided under the District of Columbia Guardianship,
Protective Proceedings, and Durable Power of Attorney Act of 1986),
$49,890,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 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.
federal payment to the court services and offender supervision agency
for the district of columbia
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and hire of motor
vehicles, of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the
District of Columbia, as authorized by the National Capital
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997,
$227,968,000, 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 $168,449,000 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 $59,519,000 shall be available to the Pretrial Services Agency:
Provided, 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 not less than $1,000,000 shall be available for
re-entrant housing in the District of Columbia: 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, supplies, and vocational training
services necessary to sustain, educate, and train offenders and
defendants, including their dependent children: 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
District of Columbia Government for space and services provided on a
cost reimbursable basis.
federal payment to the district of columbia public defender service
For salaries and expenses, including the transfer and hire of motor
vehicles, of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, as
authorized by the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government
Improvement Act of 1997, $40,607,000: Provided, 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 Federal agencies: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, United States Code, and in
addition to the authority provided by the District of Columbia Code
Section 2-1607(b), upon approval of the Board of Trustees, the District
of Columbia Public Defender Service may accept and use voluntary and
uncompensated services for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the
work of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service.
federal payment to the district of columbia water and sewer authority
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia Water and Sewer
Authority, $14,500,000, 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 to the criminal justice coordinating council
For a Federal payment to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council,
$1,800,000, 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 judicial commissions
For a Federal payment, to remain available until September 30,
2015, to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure, $295,000,
and for the Judicial Nomination Commission, $205,000.
federal payment for school improvement
For a Federal payment for a school improvement program in the
District of Columbia, $42,200,000, to remain available until expended,
for payments authorized under the Scholarships for Opportunity and
Results Act (division C of Public Law 112-10), to be allocated as
follows: for the District of Columbia Public Schools, $20,000,000 to
improve public school education in the District of Columbia; for the
State Education Office, $20,000,000 to expand quality public charter
schools in the District of Columbia; and for the Secretary of
Education, $2,200,000 for the activities specified in sections 3007(b)-
3007(d) and 3009 of the Act.
federal payment for the district of columbia national guard
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia National Guard,
$500,000, to remain available until expended for the Major General
David F. Wherley, Jr. District of Columbia National Guard Retention and
College Access Program.
federal payment for redevelopment of the st. elizabeths hospital campus
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia, $9,800,000, to
remain available until expended, for activities to support development
of a center for innovation and entrepreneurship at the site of the
former St. Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia.
federal payment for testing and treatment of hiv/aids
For a Federal payment to the District of Columbia for the testing
of individuals for, and the treatment of individuals with, human
immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the
District of Columbia, $5,000,000.
District of Columbia Funds
Local funds are appropriated for the District of Columbia for the
current fiscal year out of the General Fund of the District of Columbia
(``General Fund'') for programs and activities set forth under the
heading ``District of Columbia Funds Division of Expenses'' and at the
rate set forth under such heading, as included in the Fiscal Year 2014
Budget Request Act of 2013 submitted to the Congress by the District of
Columbia as amended as the date of enactment of this Act: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in
section 450A of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (section 1-
204.50a, D.C. Official Code), sections 816 and 817 of the Financial
Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009 (secs. 47-
369.01 and 47-369.02, D.C. Official Code), and provisions of this Act,
the total amount appropriated in this Act for operating expenses for
the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2014 under this heading shall
not exceed the estimates included in the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget
Request Act of 2013 submitted to Congress by District of Columbia as
amended as of the date of enactment of this Act or the sum of the total
revenues of the District of Columbia for such fiscal year: Provided
further, That the amount appropriated 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: 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 2014, 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.
This title may be cited as the ``District of Columbia
Appropriations Act, 2014''.
TITLE V
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Administrative Conference of the United States
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Conference of the
United States, authorized by 5 U.S.C. 591 et seq., $3,200,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2015, of which not to exceed
$1,000 is for official reception and representation expenses.
Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
salaries and expenses
For payment to the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation,
established by section 423 of Public Law 102-281, $150,000, to remain
available until expended.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Commodity
Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the purchase and hire of
passenger motor vehicles, and the rental of space (to include multiple
year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $315,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2015, including not to exceed
$3,000 for official reception and representation expenses, and not to
exceed $25,000 for the expenses for consultations and meetings hosted
by the Commission with foreign governmental and other regulatory
officials.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem
rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376,
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal officials'
contributions to Commission activities, and not to exceed $4,000 for
official reception and representation expenses, $117,000,000.
administrative provisions--consumer product safety commission
Sec. 501. The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (15
U.S.C. 8001 et seq.) is amended--
(1) in section 1405 (15 U.S.C. 8004)--
(A) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by striking ``all
swimming pools constructed after the date that is 6
months after the date of enactment of the Financial
Services and General Government Appropriations Act,
2012 in the State'' and inserting ``all swimming pools
constructed in the State after the date the State
submits an application to the Commission for a grant
under this section''; and
(B) in subsection (e)--
(i) by striking the first sentence and
inserting the following: ``There is authorized
to be appropriated to the Commission such sums
as may be necessary to carry out this section
through fiscal year 2015.''; and
(ii) in the second sentence, by striking
``fiscal year 2012'' and inserting ``fiscal
year 2015''; and
(2) in section 1406(a) (15 U.S.C. 8005(a))--
(A) in paragraph (1)(A)--
(i) in clause (i), by inserting ``and''
after the semicolon;
(ii) by striking clauses (ii), (iv), and
(v) and redesignating clause (iii) as clause
(ii); and
(iii) in clause (ii)(III) (as so
redesignated), by inserting ``and'' after the
semicolon;
(B) by striking subsection (2) and redesignating
subsections (3) and (4) as subsections (2) and (3),
respectively; and
(C) in subsection (3) (as so redesignated), by
striking ``paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph
(1)(B)''.
Sec. 502. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall--
(1) conduct a study of the ability of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission to respond quickly to emerging consumer
product safety hazards using authorities under sections 7, 8,
and 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056, 2057,
and 2058), section 3 of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act
(15 U.S.C. 1262), and section 4 of the Flammable Fabrics Act
(15 U.S.C. 1193); and
(2) submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate a report on the results of
the study that includes an assessment of whether--
(A) the Commission requires any additional
authorities to respond to new and emerging consumer
product safety hazards in a timely manner; and
(B) any resources would be required to implement
such additional authorities and to achieve appropriate
remedies for new and emerging consumer product safety
hazards.
authorization for foreign governments to share information obtained
from the consumer product safety commission with other agencies of the
foreign government
Sec. 503. Section 29(f) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15
U.S.C. 2078(f)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (5) as
paragraphs (3) through (6), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
``(2) Additional provisions for foreign government
agencies.--
``(A) Executive agencies.--The Commission may
authorize a foreign government agency to share
information obtained pursuant to paragraph (1) with
other agencies of such foreign government, including
political subdivisions of such foreign government that
are located within the same territory or administrative
area of the foreign government agency, subject to the
requirements and limitations set forth in subparagraphs
(A) and (B) of paragraph (1).
``(B) Legislative and judicial bodies.--A foreign
government agency may disclose information obtained
pursuant to paragraph (1) to legislative and judicial
bodies with jurisdiction over the foreign government
agency, subject to the requirements and limitations
imposed on the Commission under this subsection.''; and
(3) in paragraph (5), as redesignated--
(A) by striking ``Limitation.--Nothing in this
subsection authorizes'' and inserting the following:
``Rules of construction.--Nothing in this subsection
may be construed--
``(A) to authorize''; and
(B) by striking the period at the end and inserting
the following: ``; or
``(B) to prohibit the Commission from providing any
information received under this subsection, which is
related to an immediate health or safety threat to the
public or to a potential violation of a criminal law,
to the Attorney General or to other appropriate
Federal, State, or local agencies.''.
Election Assistance Commission
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Help America Vote Act of
2002 (Public Law 107-252), $11,062,500, of which $2,750,000 shall be
transferred to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for
election reform activities authorized under the Help America Vote Act
of 2002.
Federal Communications Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Federal Communications Commission, as
authorized by law, including uniforms and allowances therefor, as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; not to exceed $4,000 for official
reception and representation expenses; purchase and hire of motor
vehicles; special counsel fees; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, $359,299,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
of which not less than $300,000 shall be available for consultation
with federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, and
entities related to Hawaiian Home Lands: Provided further, That
$359,299,000 of offsetting collections shall be assessed and collected
pursuant to section 9 of title I of the Communications Act of 1934,
shall be retained and used for necessary expenses and shall remain
available until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein
appropriated shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are
received during fiscal year 2014 so as to result in a final fiscal year
2014 appropriation estimated at $0: Provided further, That any
offsetting collections received in excess of $359,299,000 in fiscal
year 2014 shall not be available for obligation: Provided further,
That remaining offsetting collections from prior years collected in
excess of the amount specified for collection in each such year and
otherwise becoming available on October 1, 2013, shall not be available
for obligation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 47 U.S.C.
309(j)(8)(B), proceeds from the use of a competitive bidding system
that may be retained and made available for obligation shall not exceed
$89,400,000 for fiscal year 2014: Provided further, That of the amount
appropriated under this heading, not less than $11,089,340 shall be for
the salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General.
administrative provisions--federal communications commission
Sec. 510. Section 302 of the Universal Service Antideficiency
Temporary Suspension Act is amended by striking ``December 31, 2013'',
each place it appears and inserting ``December 31, 2015''.
Sec. 511. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used
by the Federal Communications Commission to modify, amend, or change
its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to
implement the February 27, 2004 recommendations of the Federal-State
Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary
line restrictions on universal service support payments.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
office of the inspector general
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$34,568,000, to be derived from the Deposit Insurance Fund or, only
when appropriate, the FSLIC Resolution Fund.
Federal Election Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Federal
Election Campaign Act of 1971, $66,395,000, of which not to exceed
$5,000 shall be available for reception and representation expenses.
Federal Labor Relations Authority
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Federal Labor
Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of
1978, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and including hire of experts and
consultants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $25,490,000:
Provided, That public members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel may
be paid travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons employed intermittently
in the Government service, and compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109: Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds
received from fees charged to non-Federal participants at labor-
management relations conferences shall be credited to and merged with
this account, to be available without further appropriation for the
costs of carrying out these conferences.
Federal Trade Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Commission, including
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902;
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and
representation expenses, $301,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be available for
use to contract with a person or persons for collection services in
accordance with the terms of 31 U.S.C. 3718: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed $197,000,000
of offsetting collections derived from fees collected for premerger
notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements
Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of the year of collection,
shall be retained and used for necessary expenses in this
appropriation: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, not to exceed $15,000,000 in offsetting collections
derived from fees sufficient to implement and enforce the Telemarketing
Sales Rule, promulgated under the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and
Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), shall be credited to
this account, and be retained and used for necessary expenses in this
appropriation: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from
the general fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are
received during fiscal year 2014, so as to result in a final fiscal
year 2014 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more
than $89,000,000: Provided further, That none of the funds made
available to the Federal Trade Commission may be used to implement
subsection (e)(2)(B) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act
(12 U.S.C. 1831t).
General Services Administration
real property activities
federal buildings fund
limitations on availability of revenue
Amounts in the Fund, including revenues and collections deposited
into the Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of real
property management and related activities not otherwise provided for,
including operation, maintenance, and protection of federally owned and
leased buildings; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia;
restoration of leased premises; moving governmental agencies (including
space adjustments and telecommunications relocation expenses) in
connection with the assignment, allocation and transfer of space;
contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing buildings, and
moving; repair and alteration of federally owned buildings including
grounds, approaches and appurtenances; care and safeguarding of sites;
maintenance, preservation, demolition, and equipment; acquisition of
buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, or as otherwise
authorized by law; acquisition of options to purchase buildings and
sites; conversion and extension of federally owned buildings;
preliminary planning and design of projects by contract or otherwise;
construction of new buildings (including equipment for such buildings);
and payment of principal, interest, and any other obligations for
public buildings acquired by installment purchase and purchase
contract; in the aggregate amount of $9,950,560,000, of which: (1)
$816,167,000 shall remain available until expended for construction and
acquisition (including funds for sites and expenses, associated design
and construction services, and purchase of currently leased facilities)
of additional projects at the following locations:
New Construction:
California:
San Ysidro, United States Land Port of
Entry, $226,000,000
Colorado:
Lakewood, Denver Federal Center,
$13,938,000.
District of Columbia:
Washington, DHS Consolidation at St.
Elizabeths, $261,531,000.
Michigan:
Detroit, FBI Tactical Operations Support
Facility, $18,507,000.
New Jersey:
Newark, Frank R. Lautenberg United States
Post Office and Courthouse, $31,000,000.
Puerto Rico:
San Juan, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
$94,779,000.
Texas:
Laredo, United States Land Port of Entry,
$61,686,000.
Virginia:
Winchester, FBI Central Records Complex,
$108,726,000:
Provided, That each of the foregoing limits of costs on new
construction and acquisition projects may be exceeded to the extent
that savings are effected in other such projects, but not to exceed 10
percent of the amounts included in a transmitted prospectus, if
required, unless advance approval is obtained from the Committees on
Appropriations of a greater amount: Provided further, That all funds
for direct construction projects shall expire on September 30, 2015,
and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund, except for funds for projects
as to which funds for design or other funds have been obligated in
whole or in part prior to such date; (2) $1,302,382,000 shall remain
available until expended for repairs and alterations, which includes
associated design and construction services:
Repairs and Alterations:
Alaska:
Fairbanks, Fairbanks Federal Building and
United States Courthouse, $12,357,000.
Arkansas:
Little Rock, Federal Building, $9,249,000.
California:
Los Angeles, Edward R. Roybal Federal
Building and United States Courthouse,
$19,383,000.
San Diego, Edward J. Schwartz Federal
Building and United States Courthouse,
$61,136,000.
San Francisco, Phillip Burton Federal
Building and United States Courthouse,
$32,125,000.
Colorado:
Denver, Byron White United States
Courthouse, $15,000,000.
Connecticut:
New Haven, Richard C. Lee United States
Courthouse, $4,799,000.
District of Columbia:
Washington, Harry S Truman Building,
$58,908,000.
Washington, Herbert C. Hoover Building,
$77,356,000.
Washington, Lafayette Building,
$54,330,000.
Washington, Stuart Lee Udall Department of
the Interior Building, $60,110,000.
Illinois:
Chicago, Chicago Federal Center,
$15,000,000.
Indiana:
Indianapolis, Major General Emmett J. Bean
Federal Center, $19,074,000.
Maryland:
Baltimore, Edward A. Garmatz United States
Courthouse, $7,921,000.
Baltimore, George H. Fallon Federal
Building, $5,381,000.
Michigan:
Detroit, Theodore Levin United States
Courthouse, $31,000,000.
Missouri:
Overland, Charles F. Prevedel Federal
Building, $27,161,000.
St. Louis, Robert A. Young Federal
Building, $70,272,000.
New York:
New York, James L. Watson Court of
International Trade, $25,611,000.
New York, Jacob K. Javits Federal Office
Building, $6,520,000.
Pennsylvania:
Philadelphia, Robert N.C. Nix Federal
Building and United States Courthouse,
$3,416,000.
Philadelphia, William J. Green Jr. Federal
Building, $6,500,000.
Texas:
Austin, J.J. Pickle Federal Building,
$40,261,000.
Utah:
Salt Lake City, Frank E. Moss United States
Courthouse, $15,000,000.
Virginia:
Richmond, Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States
Courthouse and Annex, $3,907,000.
Washington:
Auburn, Building 7 Auburn Federal Complex,
$17,000,000.
Richland, Federal Building and United
States Post Office and Courthouse $14,070,000.
Special Emphasis Programs:
Judiciary Capital Security Program,
$20,000,000.
Energy and Water Retrofit and Conservation
Measures, $35,000,000.
Fire and Life Safety Program, $35,000,000.
Consolidation Activities, $80,000,000.
Basic Repairs and Alterations,
$378,535,000:
Provided further, That $41,000,000 shall be available for
construction and repair to meet the housing requirements of the
Judiciary's Southern District in Mobile, Alabama; Provided further,
That funds made available in this or any previous Act in the Federal
Buildings Fund for Repairs and Alterations shall, for prospectus
projects, be limited to the amount identified for each project, except
each project in this or any previous Act may be increased by an amount
not to exceed 10 percent unless advance approval is obtained from the
Committees on Appropriations of a greater amount: Provided further,
That additional projects for which prospectuses have been fully
approved may be funded under this category only if advance approval is
obtained from the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That
the amounts provided in this or any prior Act for ``Repairs and
Alterations'' may be used to fund costs associated with implementing
security improvements to buildings necessary to meet the minimum
standards for security in accordance with current law and in compliance
with the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate Committees of the
House and Senate: Provided further, That the difference between the
funds appropriated and expended on any projects in this or any prior
Act, under the heading ``Repairs and Alterations'', may be transferred
to Basic Repairs and Alterations or used to fund authorized increases
in prospectus projects: Provided further, That all funds for repairs
and alterations prospectus projects shall expire on September 30, 2015
and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund except funds for projects as
to which funds for design or other funds have been obligated in whole
or in part prior to such date: Provided further, That the amount
provided in this or any prior Act for Basic Repairs and Alterations may
be used to pay claims against the Government arising from any projects
under the heading ``Repairs and Alterations'' or used to fund
authorized increases in prospectus projects; (3) $113,470,000 for
installment acquisition payments including payments on purchase
contracts which shall remain available until expended; (4)
$5,387,109,000 for rental of space which shall remain available until
expended; and (5) $2,331,432,000 for building operations which shall
remain available until expended: Provided further, That funds
available to the General Services Administration shall not be available
for expenses of any construction, repair, alteration and acquisition
project for which a prospectus, if required by 40 U.S.C. 3307(a), has
not been approved, except that necessary funds may be expended for each
project for required expenses for the development of a proposed
prospectus: Provided further, That funds available in the Federal
Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency repairs when advance
approval is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations: Provided
further, That amounts necessary to provide reimbursable special
services to other agencies under 40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2) and amounts to
provide such reimbursable fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other
facilities on private or other property not in Government ownership or
control as may be appropriate to enable the United States Secret
Service to perform its protective functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056,
shall be available from such revenues and collections: Provided
further, That revenues and collections and any other sums accruing to
this Fund during fiscal year 2014, excluding reimbursements under 40
U.S.C. 592(b)(2) in excess of the aggregate new obligational authority
authorized for Real Property Activities of the Federal Buildings Fund
in this Act shall remain in the Fund and shall not be available for
expenditure except as authorized in appropriations Acts.
general activities
government-wide policy
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, for
Government-wide policy and evaluation activities associated with the
management of real and personal property assets and certain
administrative services; Government-wide policy support
responsibilities relating to acquisition, telecommunications,
information technology management, and related technology activities;
the collection and evaluation of data from departments and agencies
relating to activities described herein; and services as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109; $62,548,000.
operating expenses
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, for
Government-wide activities associated with utilization and donation of
surplus personal property; disposal of real property; agency-wide
policy direction, management, and communications; the Civilian Board of
Contract Appeals; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to
exceed $7,500 for official reception and representation expenses;
$64,453,000.
office of inspector general
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General and
service authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $62,908,000: Provided, That not
to exceed $50,000 shall be available for payment for information and
detection of fraud against the Government, including payment for
recovery of stolen Government property: Provided further, That not to
exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards to employees of other
Federal agencies and private citizens in recognition of efforts and
initiatives resulting in enhanced Office of Inspector General
effectiveness.
electronic government fund
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses in support of interagency projects that
enable the Federal Government to expand its ability to conduct
activities electronically, through the development and implementation
of innovative uses of the Internet and other electronic methods,
$20,150,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That these
funds may be transferred to Federal agencies to carry out the purpose
of the Fund: Provided further, That this transfer authority shall be
in addition to any other transfer authority provided in this Act:
Provided further, That such transfers may not be made until 10 days
after a proposed spending plan and explanation for each project to be
undertaken has been submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate.
allowances and office staff for former presidents
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958 (3
U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138, $3,550,000.
federal citizen services fund
For necessary expenses of the Office of Citizen Services and
Innovative Technologies, including services authorized by 40 U.S.C.
323, $34,804,000, to be deposited into the Federal Citizen Services
Fund: Provided, That the appropriations, revenues, and collections
deposited into the Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of
Federal Citizen Services activities in the aggregate amount not to
exceed $90,000,000. Appropriations, revenues, and collections accruing
to this Fund during fiscal year 2014 in excess of such amount shall
remain in the Fund and shall not be available for expenditure except as
authorized in appropriations Acts.
administrative provisions--general services administration
(including transfers of funds)
Sec. 520. Funds available to the General Services Administration
shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.
Sec. 521. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available for
fiscal year 2014 for Federal Buildings Fund activities may be
transferred between such activities only to the extent necessary to
meet program requirements: Provided, That any proposed transfers shall
be approved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate.
Sec. 522. Except as otherwise provided in this title, funds made
available by this Act shall be used to transmit a fiscal year 2015
request for United States Courthouse construction only if the request:
(1) meets the design guide standards for construction as established
and approved by the General Services Administration, the Judicial
Conference of the United States, and the Office of Management and
Budget; (2) reflects the priorities of the Judicial Conference of the
United States as set out in its approved 5-year construction plan; and
(3) includes a standardized courtroom utilization study of each
facility to be constructed, replaced, or expanded.
Sec. 523. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to
increase the amount of occupiable square feet, provide cleaning
services, security enhancements, or any other service usually provided
through the Federal Buildings Fund, to any agency that does not pay the
rate per square foot assessment for space and services as determined by
the General Services Administration in compliance with the Public
Buildings Amendments Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-313).
Sec. 524. From funds made available under the heading ``Federal
Buildings Fund, Limitations on Availability of Revenue'', claims
against the Government of less than $250,000 arising from direct
construction projects and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated
from savings effected in other construction projects with prior
notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.
Sec. 525. In any case in which the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Environment and Public Works of the Senate adopt a resolution granting
lease authority pursuant to a prospectus transmitted to Congress by the
Administrator of the General Services Administration under 40 U.S.C.
3307, the Administrator shall ensure that the delineated area of
procurement is identical to the delineated area included in the
prospectus for all lease agreements, except that, if the Administrator
determines that the delineated area of the procurement should not be
identical to the delineated area included in the prospectus, the
Administrator shall provide an explanatory statement to each of such
committees and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate prior to exercising any lease authority
provided in the resolution.
Sec. 526. Funds made available to the General Services
Administration may be used to implement or use green building
certification systems for new construction, major renovations, and
existing buildings if the system was developed as a voluntary consensus
standard as defined by the National Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-113) and OMB Circular A-119 that was either
designated as an American National Standard or was developed by an ANSI
accredited Standards Developing Organization.
Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation
salaries and expenses
For payment to the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation Trust
Fund, established by section 10 of Public Law 93-642, $750,000, to
remain available until expended.
Merit Systems Protection Board
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit Systems
Protection Board pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978,
the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, and the Whistleblower Protection
Act of 1989 (5 U.S.C. 5509 note), including services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and
elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, direct procurement of
survey printing, and not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and
representation expenses, $42,740,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2015, together with not to exceed $2,345,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2015, for administrative expenses to
adjudicate retirement appeals to be transferred from the Civil Service
Retirement and Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit
Systems Protection Board.
Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
morris k. udall and stewart l. udall trust fund
For payment to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund,
pursuant to the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Act (20
U.S.C. 5601 et seq.), $2,100,000, to remain available until expended,
of which, notwithstanding sections 8 and 9 of such Act: (1) up to
$50,000 shall be used to conduct financial audits pursuant to the
Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-289); and (2)
up to $1,000,000 shall be available to carry out the activities
authorized by section 6(7) of Public Law 102-259 and section 817(a) of
Public Law 106-568 (20 U.S.C. 5604(7)): Provided, That $200,000 shall
be transferred to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of
the Interior, to remain available until expended, for audits and
investigations of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation,
consistent with the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).
environmental dispute resolution fund
For payment to the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund to carry
out activities authorized in the Environmental Policy and Conflict
Resolution Act of 1998, $3,600,000, to remain available until expended.
National Archives and Records Administration
operating expenses
For necessary expenses in connection with the administration of the
National Archives and Records Administration and archived Federal
records and related activities, as provided by law, and for expenses
necessary for the review and declassification of documents, the
activities of the Public Interest Declassification Board, the
operations and maintenance of the electronic records archives, the hire
of passenger motor vehicles, and for uniforms or allowances therefor,
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 et seq.), including maintenance,
repairs, and cleaning, $370,706,000.
office of inspector general
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Reform Act of
2008, Public Law 110-409, 122 Stat. 4302-16 (2008), and the Inspector
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), and for the hire of passenger
motor vehicles, $4,130,000.
repairs and restoration
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of archives facilities,
and to provide adequate storage for holdings, $8,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
national historical publications and records commission
grants program
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for historical
publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, $5,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
National Credit Union Administration
central liquidity facility
During fiscal year 2014, gross obligations of the Central Liquidity
Facility for the principal amount of new direct loans to member credit
unions, as authorized by 12 U.S.C. 1795 et seq., shall be the amount
authorized by section 307(a)(4)(A) of the Federal Credit Union Act (12
U.S.C. 1795f(a)(4)(A)): Provided, That administrative expenses of the
Central Liquidity Facility in fiscal year 2014 shall not exceed
$1,250,000.
community development revolving loan fund
For the Community Development Revolving Loan Fund program as
authorized by 42 U.S.C. 9812, 9822 and 9910, $1,128,000 shall be
available until September 30, 2015 for technical assistance to low-
income designated credit unions.
Office of Government Ethics
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of
Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, and
the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, including services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and
elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,500
for official reception and representation expenses, $15,325,000.
Office of Personnel Management
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of trust funds)
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2
of 1978 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations performed for
veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and
representation expenses; advances for reimbursements to applicable
funds of OPM and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses
incurred under Executive Order No. 10422 of January 9, 1953, as
amended; and payment of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to
employees where Voting Rights Act activities require an employee to
remain overnight at his or her post of duty, $95,757,000, of which
$5,704,000 shall remain available until expended for the Enterprise
Human Resources Integration project, of which $642,000 may be for
strengthening the capacity and capabilities of the acquisition
workforce (as defined by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act,
as amended (41 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.)), including the recruitment,
hiring, training, and retention of such workforce and information
technology in support of acquisition workforce effectiveness or for
management solutions to improve acquisition management, and of which
$1,345,000 shall remain available until expended for the Human
Resources Line of Business project; and in addition $118,578,000 for
administrative expenses, to be transferred from the appropriate trust
funds of OPM without regard to other statutes, including direct
procurement of printed materials, for the retirement and insurance
programs of which $2,600,000 shall remain available until expended for
a retirement case management system: Provided, That the provisions of
this appropriation shall not affect the authority to use applicable
trust funds as provided by sections 8348(a)(1)(B), and 9004(f)(2)(A) of
title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That no part of this
appropriation shall be available for salaries and expenses of the Legal
Examining Unit of OPM established pursuant to Executive Order No. 9358
of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit of like purpose: Provided
further, That the President's Commission on White House Fellows,
established by Executive Order No. 11183 of October 3, 1964, may,
during fiscal year 2014, accept donations of money, property, and
personal services: Provided further, That such donations, including
those from prior years, may be used for the development of publicity
materials to provide information about the White House Fellows, except
that no such donations shall be accepted for travel or reimbursement of
travel expenses, or for the salaries of employees of such Commission.
office of inspector general
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of trust funds)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger
motor vehicles, $4,684,000, and in addition, not to exceed $21,340,000
for administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and provide other
oversight of the Office of Personnel Management's retirement and
insurance programs, to be transferred from the appropriate trust funds
of the Office of Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector
General and in addition, not to exceed $6,600,000 as determined by the
Inspector General, for administrative expenses to audit, investigate,
and provide other oversight of the activities of the revolving fund
established under section 1304(e) of title 5, United States Code, and
the programs and activities of the Office of Personnel Management
carried out using amounts made available from such revolving fund, to
be transferred from such revolving fund: Provided, That the Inspector
General is authorized to rent conference rooms in the District of
Columbia and elsewhere.
government payment for annuitants, employees health benefits
For payment of Government contributions with respect to retired
employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code,
and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849),
such sums as may be necessary.
government payment for annuitants, employee life insurance
For payment of Government contributions with respect to employees
retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter 87 of title 5,
United States Code, such sums as may be necessary.
payment to civil service retirement and disability fund
For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased annuity
benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969, as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under special Acts to be credited to
the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, such sums as may be
necessary: Provided, That annuities authorized by the Act of May 29,
1944, and the Act of August 19, 1950 (33 U.S.C. 771-775), may hereafter
be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
Office of Special Counsel
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of
Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-454), the Whistleblower
Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-12), Public Law 107-304, and the
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994
(Public Law 103-353), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, payment of fees and expenses for witnesses, rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger
motor vehicles; $20,639,000.
Postal Regulatory Commission
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Postal Regulatory Commission in
carrying out the provisions of the Postal Accountability and
Enhancement Act (Public Law 109-435), $14,304,000, to be derived by
transfer from the Postal Service Fund and expended as authorized by
section 603(a) of such Act.
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board, as authorized by section 1061 of the Intelligence Reform and
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 2000ee), $4,100,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2015.
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Recovery Accountability and
Transparency Board to carry out the provisions of title XV of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and
to develop and test information technology resources and oversight
mechanisms to enhance transparency of and detect and remediate waste,
fraud, and abuse in Federal spending, and to develop and use
information technology resources and oversight mechanisms to detect and
remediate waste, fraud, and abuse in obligation and expenditure of
funds as described in section 904(d) of the Disaster Relief
Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 113-2), which shall be
administered under the terms and conditions of the accountability
authorities of title XV of Public Law 111-5, $20,000,000.
Securities and Exchange Commission
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses for the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, the rental of space
(to include multiple year leases) in the District of Columbia and
elsewhere, and not to exceed $3,500 for official reception and
representation expenses, $1,674,000,000, to remain available until
expended; of which not less than $7,092,381 shall be for the Office of
Inspector General; of which not to exceed $50,000 shall be available
for a permanent secretariat for the International Organization of
Securities Commissions; and of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be
available for expenses for consultations and meetings hosted by the
Commission with foreign governmental and other regulatory officials,
members of their delegations and staffs to exchange views concerning
securities matters, such expenses to include necessary logistic and
administrative expenses and the expenses of Commission staff and
foreign invitees in attendance including: (1) incidental expenses such
as meals; (2) travel and transportation; and (3) related lodging or
subsistence; Provided, That fees and charges authorized by section 31
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee) shall be
credited to this account as offsetting collections: Provided further,
That not to exceed $1,674,000,000 of such offsetting collections shall
be available until expended for necessary expenses of this account:
Provided further, That the total amount appropriated under this heading
from the general fund for fiscal year 2014 shall be reduced as such
offsetting fees are received so as to result in a final total fiscal
year 2014 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more
than $0.
Selective Service System
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, including
expenses of attendance at meetings and of training for uniformed
personnel assigned to the Selective Service System, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 4101-4118 for civilian employees; hire of passenger motor
vehicles; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed
$750 for official reception and representation expenses; $22,900,000:
Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the President may exempt
this appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever the
President deems such action to be necessary in the interest of national
defense: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this
Act may be expended for or in connection with the induction of any
person into the Armed Forces of the United States.
Small Business Administration
entrepreneurial development programs
For necessary expenses of programs supporting entrepreneurial and
small business development as authorized by Public Law 108-447,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C.
1343 and 1344, and not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and
representation expenses, $211,490,000: Provided, That $114,750,000
shall be available to fund grants for performance in fiscal year 2014
or fiscal year 2015 as authorized by section 21 of the Small Business
Act, to remain available until September 30, 2015, of which,
notwithstanding the limitation under section 21(a)(4)(C)(v)(I)(aa) of
the Small Business Act, $200,000 shall be for the accreditation program
authorized by section 21(k)(2) of such Act, $50,000 shall be for the
expenses of the advisory board established by section 21(i)(1) of such
Act, and $500,000 shall be for the information sharing network
authorized under section 21(c)(8) of such Act: Provided further, That
$20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2015 for
marketing, management, and technical assistance under section 7(m) of
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(m)(4)) by intermediaries that
make microloans under the microloan program: Provided further, That
$25,000,000 shall be available to make grants to or cooperative
agreements with organizations to provide technical assistance to small
businesses; Provided further, That $20,000,000 shall be available for
grants to States for fiscal year 2014 to carry out export programs that
assist small business concerns authorized under section 1207 of Public
Law 111-240.
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Small
Business Administration as authorized by Public Law 108-447, including
hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and
1344, and not to exceed $3,500 for official reception and
representation expenses, $254,833,000, of which not less than
$12,000,000 shall be available for examinations, reviews, and other
lender oversight activities: Provided, That the Administrator is
authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of publications developed
by the Small Business Administration, and certain loan program
activities, including fees authorized by section 5(b) of the Small
Business Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302,
revenues received from all such activities shall be credited to this
account, to remain available until expended, for carrying out these
purposes without further appropriations: Provided further, That the
Small Business Administration may accept gifts in an amount not to
exceed $4,000,000 and may co-sponsor activities, each in accordance
with section 132(a) of division K of Public Law 108-447, during fiscal
year 2014: Provided further, That $6,100,000 shall be available for
the Loan Modernization and Accounting System, to be available until
September 30, 2015: Provided further, That $2,000,000 shall be for the
Federal and State Technology Partnership Program under section 34 of
the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657d).
office of inspector general
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$19,400,000.
office of advocacy
For necessary expenses of the Office of Advocacy in carrying out
the provisions of title II of Public Law 94-305 (15 U.S.C. 634a et
seq.) and the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (5 U.S.C. 601 et
seq.), $8,455,000, to remain available until expended.
business loans program account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct loans, $4,600,000, to remain available until
expended, and for the cost of guaranteed loans as authorized by section
503 of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, $107,000,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That such costs, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That subject
to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during fiscal
year 2014 commitments to guarantee loans under section 503 of the Small
Business Investment Act of 1958 shall not exceed $7,500,000,000:
Provided further, That during fiscal year 2014 commitments for general
business loans authorized under section 7(a) of the Small Business Act
shall not exceed $17,500,000,000 for a combination of amortizing term
loans and the aggregated maximum line of credit provided by revolving
loans: Provided further, That during fiscal year 2014 commitments to
guarantee loans for debentures under section 303(b) of the Small
Business Investment Act of 1958 shall not exceed $7,500,000,000:
Provided further, That during fiscal year 2014, guarantees of trust
certificates authorized by section 5(g) of the Small Business Act shall
not exceed a principal amount of $12,000,000,000. In addition, for
administrative expenses to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan
programs, $151,560,000, which may be transferred to and merged with the
appropriations for Salaries and Expenses.
disaster loans program account
(including transfers of funds)
For the administrative costs of direct loans authorized by section
7(b) of the Small Business Act, $191,900,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $1,000,000 is for the Office of Inspector General of
the Small Business Administration for audits and reviews of disaster
loans and the disaster loan programs and shall be transferred to and
merged with the appropriations for the Office of Inspector General; of
which $181,900,000 is for direct administrative expense of loan making
and servicing to carry out the direct loan program, which may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriations for Salaries and
Expenses; of which $9,000,000 is for indirect administrative expenses
for the direct loan program, which may be transferred to and merged
with the appropriations for Salaries and Expenses: Provided, That of
the funds provided herein, $158,650,000 shall be for major disasters
declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), of which $800,000 is
for the Office of the Inspector General of the Small Business
Administration, $150,650,000 is for direct administrative expenses of
loan making and servicing to carry out the direct loan program, and
$7,200,000 is for indirect administrative expenses for the direct loan
program: Provided further, That the amount provided for major
disasters under this heading is designated by the Congress as being for
disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
administrative provisions--small business administration
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 530. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made
available for the current fiscal year for the Small Business
Administration in this Act may be transferred between such
appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more
than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer
pursuant to this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds
under section 608 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in
that section.
Sec. 531. (a) Section 1122(b) of the Small Business Jobs Act of
2010 (15 U.S.C. 696 note) is repealed.
(b) Subparagraph (C) of section 502(7) of the Small Business
Investment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 696(7)), as in effect on September
25, 2012, shall be in effect during fiscal year 2014.
United States Postal Service
payment to the postal service fund
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone on free
and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of section
2401 of title 39, United States Code, $70,751,000, which shall not be
available for obligation until October 1, 2014: Provided, That mail
for overseas voting and mail for the blind shall continue to be free:
Provided further, That 6-day delivery and rural delivery of mail shall
continue at not less than the 1983 level: Provided further, That none
of the funds made available to the Postal Service by this Act shall be
used to implement any rule, regulation, or policy of charging any
officer or employee of any State or local child support enforcement
agency, or any individual participating in a State or local program of
child support enforcement, a fee for information requested or provided
concerning an address of a postal customer: Provided further, That
none of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or
close small rural and other small post offices in fiscal year 2014.
office of inspector general
salaries and expenses
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$241,468,000, to be derived by transfer from the Postal Service Fund
and expended as authorized by section 603(b)(3) of the Postal
Accountability and Enhancement Act (Public Law 109-435).
United States Tax Court
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $52,653,294: Provided, That
travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written
certificate of the judge: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Tax Court may exercise, for purposes of
management, administration, and expenditure of funds of the Court, the
authorities provided for such purposes by any provision of law
(including any limitation with respect to such provision of law)
applicable to a court of the United States (as that term is defined in
section 451 of title 28, United States Code), except to the extent that
such provision of law is inconsistent with subchapter C of chapter 76
of title 26, United States Code.
TITLE VI
GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT
Sec. 601. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
Sec. 602. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be
transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided
herein.
Sec. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for
any consulting service through procurement contract pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such
expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public
inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or
under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
Sec. 604. None of the funds made available in this Act may be
transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United
States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer
authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
Sec. 605. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
available for any activity or for paying the salary of any Government
employee where funding an activity or paying a salary to a Government
employee would result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation,
or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).
Sec. 606. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be
expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the
assistance the entity will comply with chapter 83 of title 41, United
States Code.
Sec. 607. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under
this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that has been
convicted of violating chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code.
Sec. 608. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of the
funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts to
the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain available for
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2014, or provided from any
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1)
creates a new program; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress; (4)
proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity by the Committee
on Appropriations of either the House of Representatives or the Senate
for a different purpose; (5) augments existing programs, projects, or
activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less;
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by $5,000,000 or
10 percent, whichever is less; or (7) creates or reorganizes offices,
programs, or activities unless prior approval is received from the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate: Provided, That prior to any significant reorganization or
restructuring of offices, programs, or activities, each agency or
entity funded in this Act shall consult with the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate:
Provided further, That not later than 60 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a
report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate to establish the baseline for
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current
fiscal year: Provided further, That at a minimum, the report shall
include: (1) a table for each appropriation with a separate column to
display the President's budget request, adjustments made by Congress,
adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal
year enacted level; (2) a delineation in the table for each
appropriation both by object class and program, project, and activity
as detailed in the budget appendix for the respective appropriation;
and (3) an identification of items of special congressional interest:
Provided further, That the amount appropriated or limited for salaries
and expenses for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for
each day after the required date that the report has not been submitted
to the Congress.
Sec. 609. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the
end of fiscal year 2014 from appropriations made available for salaries
and expenses for fiscal year 2014 in this Act, shall remain available
through September 30, 2015, for each such account for the purposes
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance with
reprogramming guidelines.
Sec. 610. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation any official background investigation report on
any individual, except when--
(1) such individual has given his or her express written
consent for such request not more than 6 months prior to the
date of such request and during the same presidential
administration; or
(2) such request is required due to extraordinary
circumstances involving national security.
Sec. 611. The cost accounting standards promulgated under chapter
15 of title 41, United States Code shall not apply with respect to a
contract under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
established under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code.
Sec. 612. For the purpose of resolving litigation and implementing
any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living
allowance program, the Office of Personnel Management may accept and
utilize (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made available to the
Office of Personnel Management pursuant to court approval.
Sec. 613. In order to promote Government access to commercial
information technology, the restriction on purchasing nondomestic
articles, materials, and supplies set forth in chapter 83 of title 41,
United States Code (popularly known as the Buy American Act), shall not
apply to the acquisition by the Federal Government of information
technology (as defined in section 11101 of title 40, United States
Code), that is a commercial item (as defined in section 103 of title
41, United States Code).
Sec. 614. Notwithstanding section 1353 of title 31, United States
Code, no officer or employee of any regulatory agency or commission
funded by this Act may accept on behalf of that agency, nor may such
agency or commission accept, payment or reimbursement from a non-
Federal entity for travel, subsistence, or related expenses for the
purpose of enabling an officer or employee to attend and participate in
any meeting or similar function relating to the official duties of the
officer or employee when the entity offering payment or reimbursement
is a person or entity subject to regulation by such agency or
commission, or represents a person or entity subject to regulation by
such agency or commission, unless the person or entity is an
organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.
Sec. 615. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board shall have
authority to obligate funds for the scholarship program established by
section 109(c)(2) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-
204) in an aggregate amount not exceeding the amount of funds collected
by the Board as of December 31, 2013, including accrued interest, as a
result of the assessment of monetary penalties. Funds available for
obligation in fiscal year 2014 shall remain available until expended.
Sec. 616. Notwithstanding section 708 of this Act, funds made
available to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the
Securities and Exchange Commission by this or any other Act may be used
for the interagency funding and sponsorship of a joint advisory
committee to advise on emerging regulatory issues.
Sec. 617. The Department of the Treasury, the Executive Office of
the President, the Judiciary, the Federal Communications Commission,
the Federal Trade Commission, the General Services Administration, the
National Archives and Records Administration, the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and the Small Business Administration shall
provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House and the Senate a
quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated
funds that were received by such agency during any previous fiscal
year.
Sec. 618. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
Executive agency covered by this Act otherwise authorized to enter into
contracts for either leases or the construction or alteration of real
property for office, meeting, storage, or other space must consult with
the General Services Administration before issuing a solicitation for
offers of new leases or construction contracts, and in the case of
succeeding leases, before entering into negotiations with the current
lessor.
(2) Any such agency with authority to enter into an emergency lease
may do so during any period declared by the President to require
emergency leasing authority with respect to such agency.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ``Executive agency
covered by this Act'' means any Executive agency provided funds by this
Act, but does not include the General Services Administration or the
United States Postal Service.
Sec. 619. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative
agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee
to, any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has
been assessed for which all judicial and administrative remedies have
been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely
manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for
collecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the
unpaid tax liability, unless the Federal agency has considered
suspension or debarment of the corporation and made a determination
that this further action is not necessary to protect the interests of
the Government.
Sec. 620. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative
agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee
to, any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation
under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the
awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless a Federal agency has
considered suspension or debarment of the corporation, or such officer
or agent and made a determination that this further action is not
necessary to protect the interests of the Government.
Sec. 621. The title of subsection (g) of section 302 of the
Federal Election Commission Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 432) is amended to
read as follows: ``(g) Filing of Designations, Statements, and Reports
With the Commission''. The text of such subsection (g) is amended to
read as follows: ``All designations, statements, and reports required
to be filed under this Act shall be filed with the Commission.''.
Sec. 622. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
by the Federal Communications Commission to remove the conditions
imposed on commercial terrestrial operations in the Order and
Authorization adopted by the Commission on January 26, 2011 (DA 11-
133), or otherwise permit such operations, until the Commission has
resolved concerns of potential widespread harmful interference by such
commercial terrestrial operations to commercially available Global
Positioning System devices.
Sec. 623. Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by striking paragraph (35) and renumbering the following
paragraphs accordingly.
Sec. 624. (a) Section 605 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice,
and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990
(15 U.S.C. 18a note) is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking ``The filing fees'' and inserting ``Subject to
subsection (c), the filing fees'';
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``$45,000'' and
inserting ``$60,000'';
(C) in paragraph (2)--
(i) by striking ``$125,000'' and inserting
``$170,000''; and
(ii) by striking ``and'' at the end;
(D) in paragraph (3)--
(i) by striking ``$280,000'' and inserting
``$375,000''; and
(ii) by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``but less than $1,000,000,000 (as so
adjusted and published); and''; and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
``(4) $500,000 if the aggregate total amount determined
under section 7A(a)(2) of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 18a(a)(2))
is not less than $1,000,000,000 (as so adjusted and
published)''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(c) For fiscal year 2016, and each fiscal year thereafter, the
Federal Trade Commission shall publish in the Federal Register and
increase the amount of each filing fee under subsection (b) in the same
manner and on the same dates as provided under section 8(a)(5) of the
Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 19(a)(5)) to reflect the percentage change in
the gross national product for the fiscal year as compared to the gross
national product for fiscal year 2013 except that the Federal Trade
Commission--
``(1) shall round any increase in a filing fee under this
subsection to the nearest $5,000;
``(2) shall not increase filing fees under this subsection
if the increase in the gross national product is less than 1
percent; and
``(3) shall not decrease filing fees under this
subsection.''.
(b) This section shall take effect on October 1, 2013.
Sec. 625. (a) Section 1511 of title XV of division A of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)
(``Act'') is amended by striking, ``and linked to the website
established by section 1526''.
(b)(1) Subsection (c) and subsections (e) through (h) of section
1512 of the Act are repealed.
(2) Subsection (d) of section 1512 of the Act is amended to read as
follows:
``(d) Agency Reports.--Starting October 1, 2013, each agency that
made recovery funds available to any recipient shall make available to
the public detailed spending data as prescribed by the Office of
Management and Budget and pursuant to the Federal Funding
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282).''.
(c) Subsection (a) of section 1514 of the Act is amended by
striking ``and linked to the website established by section 1526''.
(d) Subparagraph (A) of section 1523(b)(4) of the Act is amended by
striking ``the website established by section 1526'' and inserting ``a
public website''.
(e) Sections 1526 and 1554 of the Act are repealed.
(f) Section 1530 of the Act is amended by striking ``2013'' and
inserting ``2015''.
Sec. 626. Each executive agency covered by this Act shall include,
in its fiscal year 2015 budget justification materials submitted to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate, a separate table briefly describing the top management
challenges for fiscal year 2014 as identified by the agency inspector
general, together with an explanation of how the fiscal year 2015
budget request addresses each such management challenge.
Sec. 627. (a) The Federal Trade Commission and the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission shall jointly establish a working group to
coordinate the responsibilities of the Federal Trade Commission under
subtitle B of title VII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007 (42 U.S.C. 17301 et seq.) and the responsibilities of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission under sections 6(c) and 9(a)(2) of
the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 9 and 13(a)(2)) to protect against
manipulation in petroleum markets.
(b) The working group established under subsection (a) shall
facilitate cooperation between the Federal Trade Commission and the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission with respect to any
responsibilities of those Commissions to monitor activity in, and
analyze data (including data from public sources, such as the Energy
Information Administration, and private sources) related to, petroleum
markets--
(1) to detect acts, practices, or courses of business in
those markets that are manipulative, fraudulent, or deceptive;
and
(2) to identify potential violations of the prohibitions on
petroleum market manipulation or the prohibitions on false
reporting established under subtitle B of title VII of the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17301
et seq.) and sections 6(c) and 9(a) of the Commodity Exchange
Act (7 U.S.C. 9 and 13(a)).
(c) Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the working group established under subsection (a) shall submit to
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of
Representatives and the relevant committees of jurisdiction a report
that describes--
(1) the responsibilities of the Federal Trade Commission
and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with respect to
any oversight of crude oil, gasoline, and petroleum distillate
wholesale markets;
(2) the number of full-time equivalent personnel at each
Commission dedicated to monitoring of markets;
(3) the types of data being collected on oil and petroleum
product wholesale cash markets; and
(4) the types of analysis being conducted with respect to
that data.
Sec. 628. Section 910 of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export
Enhancement Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 7209) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
``(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations
authorizing by general license the travel related and other
transactions ordinarily incident to professional research by full-time
professionals and their staff; attendance at professional meetings or
conferences in Cuba if the sponsoring organization is a United States
professional organization; and the organization and management of
professional meetings and conferences in Cuba if the sponsoring
organization is a United States professional organization, if such
travel is related to disaster prevention, emergency preparedness, and
natural resource protection, including for fisheries, coral reefs, and
migratory species.''.
TITLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS--GOVERNMENT-WIDE
Departments, Agencies, and Corporations
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 701. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the United
States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other Act for
fiscal year 2014 shall obligate or expend any such funds, unless such
department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue
to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that
all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, or
distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) by the officers and employees of such
department, agency, or instrumentality.
Sec. 702. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with
subsection 1343(c) of title 31, United States Code, for the purchase of
any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law
enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at
$13,197 except station wagons for which the maximum shall be $13,631:
Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for
police-type vehicles, and by not to exceed $4,000 for special heavy-
duty vehicles: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this
section may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for electric or
hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under the provisions of the
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration
Act of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this
section may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alternative
fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101-549 over the cost of
comparable conventionally fueled vehicles: Provided further, That the
limits set forth in this section shall not apply to any vehicle that is
a commercial item and which operates on emerging motor vehicle
technology, including but not limited to electric, plug-in hybrid
electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Sec. 703. Appropriations of the executive departments and
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available for
expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the activity concerned, are
hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-living
allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922-5924.
Sec. 704. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal
year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act
shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the
Government of the United States (including any agency the majority of
the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States)
whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such
person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) is a person who is
lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as
outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B); (3) is a person who is admitted as
a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158
and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent
resident and then a citizen when eligible; or (4) is a person who owes
allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for purposes of this
section, affidavits signed by any such person shall be considered prima
facie evidence that the requirements of this section with respect to
his or her status are being complied with: Provided further, That for
purposes of subsections (2) and (3) such affidavits shall be submitted
prior to employment and updated thereafter as necessary: Provided
further, That any person making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a
felony, and upon conviction, shall be fined no more than $4,000 or
imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both: Provided further, That
the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution
for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided further, That any
payment made to any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of
this section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government:
Provided further, That this section shall not apply to any person who
is an officer or employee of the Government of the United States on the
date of enactment of this Act, or to international broadcasters
employed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, or to temporary
employment of translators, or to temporary employment in the field
service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emergencies: Provided
further, That this section does not apply to the employment as Wildland
firefighters for not more than 120 days of nonresident aliens employed
by the Department of the Interior or the USDA Forest Service pursuant
to an agreement with another country.
Sec. 705. Appropriations available to any department or agency
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for payment
to the General Services Administration for charges for space and
services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings
and facilities which constitute public improvements performed in
accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 479), the
Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (86 Stat. 216), or other applicable
law.
Sec. 706. In addition to funds provided in this or any other Act,
all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds resulting
from the sale of materials, including Federal records disposed of
pursuant to a records schedule recovered through recycling or waste
prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until expended for
the following purposes:
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, and
recycling programs as described in Executive Order No. 13423
(January 24, 2007), including any such programs adopted prior
to the effective date of the Executive order.
(2) Other Federal agency environmental management programs,
including, but not limited to, the development and
implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution
prevention programs.
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as
deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency.
Sec. 707. Funds made available by this or any other Act for
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corporations
and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States Code,
shall be available, in addition to objects for which such funds are
otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; services in
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the Act by
which they are made available: Provided, That in the event any
functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subsequently
transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations on
administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced.
Sec. 708. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any
other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards
(except Federal Executive Boards), commissions, councils, committees,
or similar groups (whether or not they are interagency entities) which
do not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive
financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality.
Sec. 709. None of the funds made available pursuant to the
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to a joint
resolution duly adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the
United States.
Sec. 710. During the period in which the head of any department or
agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the Federal
Government appointed by the President of the United States, holds
office, no funds may be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to
furnish or redecorate the office of such department head, agency head,
officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for
any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing or
redecoration is transmitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate. For the purposes of this
section, the term ``office'' shall include the entire suite of offices
assigned to the individual, as well as any other space used primarily
by the individual or the use of which is directly controlled by the
individual.
Sec. 711. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or section 708 of this
Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by this or any
other Act shall be available for the interagency funding of national
security and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives
which benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or entities, as
provided by Executive Order No. 13618 (July 6, 2012).
Sec. 712. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other
Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, agency, or
other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of any employee
appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-determining
character excepted from the competitive service pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
3302, without a certification to the Office of Personnel Management
from the head of the Federal department, agency, or other
instrumentality employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C
position was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the
employee to the White House.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal
employees or members of the armed forces detailed to or from--
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
(2) the National Security Agency;
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
(4) the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency;
(5) the offices within the Department of Defense for the
collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through
reconnaissance programs;
(6) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the
Department of State;
(7) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air
Force, or Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Drug Enforcement
Administration of the Department of Justice, the Department of
Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, or the
Department of Energy performing intelligence functions; or
(8) the Director of National Intelligence or the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence.
Sec. 713. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any
other Act shall be available for the payment of the salary of any
officer or employee of the Federal Government, who--
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to
prohibit or prevent, any other officer or employee of the
Federal Government from having any direct oral or written
communication or contact with any Member, committee, or
subcommittee of the Congress in connection with any matter
pertaining to the employment of such other officer or employee
or pertaining to the department or agency of such other officer
or employee in any way, irrespective of whether such
communication or contact is at the initiative of such other
officer or employee or in response to the request or inquiry of
such Member, committee, or subcommittee; or
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes,
reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance or
efficiency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns,
transfers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any
employment right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or
condition of employment of, any other officer or employee of
the Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to commit any
of the foregoing actions with respect to such other officer or
employee, by reason of any communication or contact of such
other officer or employee with any Member, committee, or
subcommittee of the Congress as described in paragraph (1).
Sec. 714. (a) None of the funds made available in this or any other
Act may be obligated or expended for any employee training that--
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills,
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official
duties;
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of
emotional response or psychological stress in some
participants;
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the
content and methods to be used in the training and written end
of course evaluation;
(4) contains any methods or content associated with
religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age''
belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants'
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the
performance of official duties.
Sec. 715. No part of any funds appropriated in this or any other
Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, other than for
normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for
publicity or propaganda purposes, and for the preparation, distribution
or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television,
or film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending
before the Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself.
Sec. 716. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act
may be used by an agency to provide a Federal employee's home address
to any labor organization except when the employee has authorized such
disclosure or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 717. None of the funds made available in this Act or any
other Act may be used to provide any non-public information such as
mailing or telephone lists to any person or any organization outside of
the Federal Government without the approval of the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Sec. 718. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any
other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including by private
contractor, for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United
States not heretofore authorized by the Congress.
Sec. 719. (a) In this section, the term ``agency''--
(1) means an Executive agency, as defined under 5 U.S.C.
105; and
(2) includes a military department, as defined under
section 102 of such title, the Postal Service, and the Postal
Regulatory Commission.
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regulations to use
such time for other purposes, an employee of an agency shall use
official time in an honest effort to perform official duties. An
employee not under a leave system, including a Presidential appointee
exempted under 5 U.S.C. 6301(2), has an obligation to expend an honest
effort and a reasonable proportion of such employee's time in the
performance of official duties.
Sec. 720. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and section 708 of this
Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by this or any
other Act to any department or agency, which is a member of the Federal
Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), shall be available to
finance an appropriate share of FASAB administrative costs.
Sec. 721. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and section 708 of this
Act, the head of each Executive department and agency is hereby
authorized to transfer to or reimburse ``General Services
Administration, Government-wide Policy'' with the approval of the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, funds made available
for the current fiscal year by this or any other Act, including rebates
from charge card and other contracts: Provided, That these funds shall
be administered by the Administrator of General Services to support
Government-wide and other multi-agency financial, information
technology, procurement, and other management innovations, initiatives,
and activities, as approved by the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget, in consultation with the appropriate interagency and multi-
agency groups designated by the Director (including the President's
Management Council for overall management improvement initiatives, the
Chief Financial Officers Council for financial management initiatives,
the Chief Information Officers Council for information technology
initiatives, the Chief Human Capital Officers Council for human capital
initiatives, the Chief Acquisition Officers Council for procurement
initiatives, and the Performance Improvement Council for performance
improvement initiatives): Provided further, That the total funds
transferred or reimbursed shall not exceed $17,000,000 for Government-
Wide innovations, initiatives, and activities: Provided further, That
the funds transferred to or for reimbursement of ``General Services
Administration, Government-wide Policy'' during fiscal year 2014 shall
remain available for obligation through September 30, 2015: Provided
further, That such transfers or reimbursements may only be made after
15 days following notification of the Committees on Appropriations by
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sec. 722. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a woman may
breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building or on
Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise authorized
to be present at the location.
Sec. 723. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346, or section 708 of this
Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by this or any
other Act shall be available for the interagency funding of specific
projects, workshops, studies, and similar efforts to carry out the
purposes of the National Science and Technology Council (authorized by
Executive Order No. 12881), which benefit multiple Federal departments,
agencies, or entities: Provided, That the Office of Management and
Budget shall provide a report describing the budget of and resources
connected with the National Science and Technology Council to the
Committees on Appropriations, the House Committee on Science and
Technology, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation 90 days after enactment of this Act.
Sec. 724. Any request for proposals, solicitation, grant
application, form, notification, press release, or other publications
involving the distribution of Federal funds shall indicate the agency
providing the funds, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number,
as applicable, and the amount provided: Provided, That this provision
shall apply to direct payments, formula funds, and grants received by a
State receiving Federal funds.
Sec. 725. (a) Prohibition of Federal Agency Monitoring of
Individuals' Internet Use.--None of the funds made available in this or
any other Act may be used by any Federal agency--
(1) to collect, review, or create any aggregation of data,
derived from any means, that includes any personally
identifiable information relating to an individual's access to
or use of any Federal Government Internet site of the agency;
or
(2) to enter into any agreement with a third party
(including another government agency) to collect, review, or
obtain any aggregation of data, derived from any means, that
includes any personally identifiable information relating to an
individual's access to or use of any nongovernmental Internet
site.
(b) Exceptions.--The limitations established in subsection (a)
shall not apply to--
(1) any record of aggregate data that does not identify
particular persons;
(2) any voluntary submission of personally identifiable
information;
(3) any action taken for law enforcement, regulatory, or
supervisory purposes, in accordance with applicable law; or
(4) any action described in subsection (a)(1) that is a
system security action taken by the operator of an Internet
site and is necessarily incident to providing the Internet site
services or to protecting the rights or property of the
provider of the Internet site.
(c) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section:
(1) The term ``regulatory'' means agency actions to
implement, interpret or enforce authorities provided in law.
(2) The term ``supervisory'' means examinations of the
agency's supervised institutions, including assessing safety
and soundness, overall financial condition, management
practices and policies and compliance with applicable standards
as provided in law.
Sec. 726. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be
used to enter into or renew a contract which includes a provision
providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also
includes a provision for contraceptive coverage.
(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract with--
(1) any of the following religious plans:
(A) Personal Care's HMO; and
(B) OSF HealthPlans, Inc.; and
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier for the
plan objects to such coverage on the basis of religious
beliefs.
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters into or
renews a contract under this section may not subject any individual to
discrimination on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe or
otherwise provide for contraceptives because such activities would be
contrary to the individual's religious beliefs or moral convictions.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require coverage
of abortion or abortion-related services.
Sec. 727. The United States is committed to ensuring the health of
its Olympic, Pan American, and Paralympic athletes, and supports the
strict adherence to anti-doping in sport through testing, adjudication,
education, and research as performed by nationally recognized oversight
authorities.
Sec. 728. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds
appropriated for official travel by Federal departments and agencies
may be used by such departments and agencies, if consistent with Office
of Management and Budget Circular A-126 regarding official travel for
Government personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft
ownership pilot program.
Sec. 729. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the
funds appropriated or made available under this Act or any other
appropriations Act may be used to implement or enforce restrictions or
limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to
implement the proposed regulations of the Office of Personnel
Management to add sections 300.311 through 300.316 to part 300 of title
5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, published in the Federal
Register, volume 68, number 174, on September 9, 2003 (relating to the
detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch).
Sec. 730. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no executive
branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any additional
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to be
used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement training
without the advance approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate, except that the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center is authorized to obtain the temporary use
of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement for
training which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities.
Sec. 731. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this or any other Act may be used to begin or announce a
study or public-private competition regarding the conversion to
contractor performance of any function performed by Federal employees
pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 or any other
administrative regulation, directive, or policy.
Sec. 732. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none of the
funds provided in this Act or any other Act may be used by an executive
branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story intended for
broadcast or distribution in the United States, unless the story
includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the
prepackaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or
funded by that executive branch agency.
Sec. 733. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used
in contravention of section 552a of title 5, United States Code
(popularly known as the Privacy Act) and regulations implementing that
section.
Sec. 734. (a) For purposes of this section the following
definitions apply:
(1) The terms ``Great Lakes'' and ``Great Lakes State''
have the same meanings as such terms have in section 506 of the
Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 1962d-22).
(2) The term ``Great Lakes restoration activities'' means
any Federal or State activity primarily or entirely within the
Great Lakes watershed that seeks to improve the overall health
of the Great Lakes ecosystem.
(b) Hereafter, not later than 45 days after submission of the
budget of the President to Congress, the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget, in coordination with the Governor of each Great
Lakes State and the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, shall submit to
the appropriate authorizing and appropriating committees of the Senate
and the House of Representatives a financial report, certified by the
Secretary of each agency that has budget authority for Great Lakes
restoration activities, containing--
(1) an interagency budget crosscut report that--
(A) displays the budget proposed, including any
planned interagency or intra-agency transfer, for each
of the Federal agencies that carries out Great Lakes
restoration activities in the upcoming fiscal year,
separately reporting the amount of funding to be
provided under existing laws pertaining to the Great
Lakes ecosystem; and
(B) identifies all expenditures in each of the 5
prior fiscal years by the Federal Government and State
governments for Great Lakes restoration activities;
(2) a detailed accounting of all funds received and
obligated by all Federal agencies and, to the extent available,
State agencies using Federal funds, for Great Lakes restoration
activities during the current and previous fiscal years;
(3) a budget for the proposed projects (including a
description of the project, authorization level, and project
status) to be carried out in the upcoming fiscal year with the
Federal portion of funds for activities; and
(4) a listing of all projects to be undertaken in the
upcoming fiscal year with the Federal portion of funds for
activities.
Sec. 735. (a) In General.--None of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this or any other Act may be used for any
Federal Government contract with any foreign incorporated entity which
is treated as an inverted domestic corporation under section 835(b) of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 395(b)) or any subsidiary
of such an entity.
(b) Waivers.--
(1) In general.--Any Secretary shall waive subsection (a)
with respect to any Federal Government contract under the
authority of such Secretary if the Secretary determines that
the waiver is required in the interest of national security.
(2) Report to congress.--Any Secretary issuing a waiver
under paragraph (1) shall report such issuance to Congress.
(c) Exception.--This section shall not apply to any Federal
Government contract entered into before the date of the enactment of
this Act, or to any task order issued pursuant to such contract.
Sec. 736. None of the funds made available by this or any other
Act may be used to implement, administer, enforce, or apply the rule
entitled ``Competitive Area'' published by the Office of Personnel
Management in the Federal Register on April 15, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg.
20180 et seq.).
Sec. 737. Section 743 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010
(Public Law 111-117; 31 U.S.C. 501 note) is amended in subsection
(e)(2)(B), by striking the text and inserting the following: ``to the
maximum extent practicable, the agency is not using contractor
employees to perform any functions closely associated with inherently
governmental functions;''.
Sec. 738. The Office of Management and Budget shall issue
guidance, consistent with section 735 of division D of the Omnibus
Appropriations Act, 2009, Public Law 111-8, and section 739(a)(1) of
division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law
110-161), and section 327 of the 2008 National Defense Authorization
Act (Public Law 110-181), to prohibit the use of direct conversions to
contract out, in whole or in part, activities or functions last
performed by any number of Federal employees by an executive agency
without first conducting a public-private competition. Such guidance
shall ensure that--
(1) activities or functions performed by an executive
agency and are reengineered, reorganized, modernized, upgraded,
expanded, or changed to become more efficient, but still
essentially providing the same service, shall not be contracted
out without first conducting a public-private competition;
(2) activities or functions performed by Federal employees
for an executive agency may not be modified, reorganized,
divided, or in any way changed for the purpose of exempting the
conversion of the activities or functions from the prohibition
against the use of direct conversions; and
(3) activities or functions performed by Federal employees
for an executive agency who have retired or been reassigned to
perform other activities may not be converted to contractor
performance without first conducting a public-private
competition.
Sec. 739. During fiscal year 2014, for each employee who--
(1) retires under section 8336(d)(2) or 8414(b)(1)(B) of
title 5, United States Code, or
(2) retires under any other provision of subchapter III of
chapter 83 or chapter 84 of such title 5 and receives a payment
as an incentive to separate, the separating agency shall remit
to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount
equal to the Office of Personnel Management's average unit cost
of processing a retirement claim for the preceding fiscal year.
Such amounts shall be available until expended to the Office of
Personnel Management and shall be deemed to be an
administrative expense under section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 5,
United States Code.
Sec. 740. (a) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``agency''--
(A) means an Executive agency as defined under
section 105 of title 5, United States Code; and
(B) does not apply to the Department of Defense;
and
(2) the term ``Federal employee'' means an employee as
defined under section 2105 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) Prohibition of Certain Personnel Management Limitations.--
(1) In general.--Federal employees in each agency shall be
managed each fiscal year solely on the basis of, and consistent
with--
(A) the workload required to carry out the
functions and activities of that agency; and
(B) the funds made available to that agency for
that fiscal year.
(2) Prohibition on limitations.--Notwithstanding any other
provision of law--
(A) the management of Federal employees in any
fiscal year shall not be subject to any limitation in
terms of work years, full-time equivalent positions, or
maximum number of Federal employees; and
(B) an agency may not be required to make a
reduction in the number of full-time equivalent
positions, unless that reduction is--
(i) necessary due to a reduction in funds
available to the agency; or
(ii) required under a statute that--
(I) is enacted after the date of
enactment of this Act; and
(II) specifically refers to this
section.
Sec. 741. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and
except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any of the
funds appropriated for fiscal year 2014, by this or any other Act, may
be used to pay any prevailing rate employee described in section
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code--
(A) during the period from the date of expiration of the
limitation imposed by the comparable section for previous
fiscal years until the normal effective date of the applicable
wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal year
2014, in an amount that exceeds the rate payable for the
applicable grade and step of the applicable wage schedule in
accordance with such section; and
(B) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal
year 2014, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage
survey adjustment, the rate payable under subparagraph (A) by
more than the sum of--
(i) the percentage adjustment taking effect in
fiscal year 2014 under section 5303 of title 5, United
States Code, in the rates of pay under the General
Schedule; and
(ii) the difference between the overall average
percentage of the locality-based comparability payments
taking effect in fiscal year 2014 under section 5304 of
such title (whether by adjustment or otherwise), and
the overall average percentage of such payments which
was effective in the previous fiscal year under such
section.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing rate
employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 5342(a)(2) of
title 5, United States Code, and no employee covered by section 5348 of
such title, may be paid during the periods for which paragraph (1) is
in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under
paragraph (1) were paragraph (1) applicable to such employee.
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the rates payable to an
employee who is covered by this subsection and who is paid from a
schedule not in existence on September 30, 2013, shall be determined
under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of premium
pay for employees subject to this subsection may not be changed from
the rates in effect on September 30, 2013, except to the extent
determined by the Office of Personnel Management to be consistent with
the purpose of this subsection.
(5) This subsection shall apply with respect to pay for service
performed after September 30, 2013.
(6) For the purpose of administering any provision of law
(including any rule or regulation that provides premium pay,
retirement, life insurance, or any other employee benefit) that
requires any deduction or contribution, or that imposes any requirement
or limitation on the basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate
of salary or basic pay payable after the application of this subsection
shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to permit or
require the payment to any employee covered by this subsection at a
rate in excess of the rate that would be payable were this subsection
not in effect.
(8) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for exceptions
to the limitations imposed by this subsection if the Office determines
that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment or
retention of qualified employees.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the adjustment in rates of
basic pay for the statutory pay systems that take place in fiscal year
2014 under sections 5344 and 5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall
be--
(1) not less than the percentage received by employees in
the same location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted
pursuant to the statutory pay systems under sections 5303 and
5304 of title 5, United States Code, Provided, That prevailing
rate employees at locations where there are no employees whose
pay is increased pursuant to sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5,
United States Code, and prevailing rate employees described in
section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, United States Code, shall be
considered to be located in the pay locality designated as
``Rest of United States'' pursuant to section 5304 of title 5,
United States Code, for purposes of this subsection; and
(2) effective as of the first day of the first applicable
pay period beginning after December 31, 2013.
Sec. 742. (a) The Vice President may not receive a pay raise in
calendar year 2014, notwithstanding section 104 of title 3, United
States Code, or any other provision of law.
(b) An individual serving in an Executive Schedule position, or in
a position for which the rate of pay is fixed by statute at an
Executive Schedule rate, may not receive a pay rate increase in
calendar year 2014, notwithstanding schedule adjustments made under
section 5318 of title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of
law, except as provided in subsection (g) or (h). The preceding
sentence applies only to individuals who are holding a position in
which they serve at the pleasure of the President or other appointing
official.
(c) A chief of mission or ambassador at large may not receive a pay
rate increase in calendar year 2014, notwithstanding section 401 of the
Foreign Service Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-465) or any other provision
of law, except as provided in subsection (g) or (h).
(d) A noncareer appointee in the Senior Executive Service may not
receive a pay rate increase in calendar year 2014, notwithstanding
sections 5382 and 5383 of title 5, United States Code.
(e) Any employee paid a rate of basic pay (including locality-based
payments under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, or similar
authority) at or above level IV of the Executive Schedule who serves at
the pleasure of the appointing official may not receive a pay rate
increase in calendar year 2014, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, except as provided in subsection (g) or (h). This subsection does
not apply to employees in the General Schedule pay system or the
Foreign Service pay system, or to employees appointed under 5 U.S.C.
3161, or to employees in another pay system whose position would be
classified at GS-15 or below if chapter 51 of title 5, United States
Code, applied to them.
(f) Nothing in this section shall prevent employees who do not
serve at the pleasure of the appointing official from receiving pay
increases as otherwise provided under applicable law.
(g) A career appointee in the Senior Executive Service who receives
a Presidential appointment and who makes an election to retain Senior
Executive Service basic pay entitlements under section 3392 of title 5,
United States Code, is not subject to this section.
(h) A member of Senior Foreign Service who receives a Presidential
appointment to any position in the executive branch and who makes an
election to retain Senior Foreign Service pay entitlements under
section 302(b)of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-465) is
not subject to this section.
Sec. 743. (a)(1) Paragraph (16) of section 4304(a) of title 41,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``(16) Costs of compensation of any contractor employee for
a fiscal year, regardless of the contract funding source, to
the extent that such compensation exceeds the annual amount
paid to the President in accordance with section 102 of title
3, except that the head of an executive agency may establish
one or more narrowly targeted exceptions for scientists,
engineers, or other specialists upon a determination that such
exceptions are needed to ensure that the executive agency has
continued access to needed skills and capabilities.''.
(2) Subparagraph (P) of section 2324(e)(1) of title 10, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``(P) Costs of compensation of any contractor employees for
a fiscal year, regardless of the contract funding source, to
the extent that such compensation exceeds the annual amount
paid to the President in accordance with section 102 of title
3, except that the head of the agency may establish one or more
narrowly targeted exceptions for scientists, engineers, or
other specialists upon a determination that such exceptions are
needed to ensure that the agency has continued access to needed
skills and capabilities.''.
(3) Section 4301 of title 41, United States Code, is amended by
striking paragraph (4).
(4) The amendments made by this subsection shall apply with respect
to costs of compensation incurred under contracts entered into on or
after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
Act.
(b) Section 1127 of title 41, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(c) Applicability.--This section shall apply only with respect to
costs of compensation incurred under contracts entered into before the
date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
subsection.''.
Sec. 744. (a) The head of any Executive branch department, agency,
board, commission, or office funded by this Act shall submit annual
reports to the Inspector General or senior ethics official for any
entity without an Inspector General, regarding the costs and
contracting procedures related to each conference held by any such
department, agency, board, commission, or office during fiscal year
2014 for which the cost to the United States Government was more than
$100,000.
(b) Each report submitted shall include, for each conference
described in subsection (a) held during the applicable period--
(1) a description of its purpose;
(2) the number of participants attending;
(3) a detailed statement of the costs to the United States
Government, including--
(A) the cost of any food or beverages;
(B) the cost of any audio-visual services;
(C) the cost of employee or contractor travel to
and from the conference; and
(D) a discussion of the methodology used to
determine which costs relate to the conference; and
(4) a description of the contracting procedures used
including--
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a competitive
basis; and
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison conducted
by the departmental component or office in evaluating
potential contractors for the conference.
(c) Within 15 days of the date of a conference held by any
Executive branch department, agency, board, commission, or office
funded by this Act during fiscal year 2014 for which the cost to the
United States Government was more than $20,000, the head of any such
department, agency, board, commission, or office shall notify the
Inspector General or senior ethics official for any entity without an
Inspector General, of the date, location, and number of employees
attending such conference.
(d) A grant or contract funded by amounts appropriated by this Act
may not be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of a conference
described in subsection (c) that is not directly and programmatically
related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded,
such as a conference held in connection with planning, training,
assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to a project
funded by the grant or contract.
(e) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for
travel and conference activities that are not in compliance with Office
of Management and Budget Memorandum M-12-12 dated May 11, 2012.
Sec. 745. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to
``this Act'' contained in any title other than title IV or VIII shall
not apply to such title IV or VIII.
TITLE VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 801. 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. 802. None of the Federal funds provided in this Act shall 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. 803. (a) None of the Federal 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 2014, 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) re-establishes 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 $3,000,000 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 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate are notified in writing 15 days in advance of the
reprogramming.
(b) The District of Columbia government is authorized to approve
and execute reprogramming and transfer requests of local funds under
this title through November 7, 2014.
Sec. 804. 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. 805. 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 section, 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 a
District of Columbia government employee as may otherwise be
designated by the Chief of the Department;
(2) at the discretion of the Fire Chief, 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) at the discretion of the Director of the Department of
Corrections, an officer or employee of the District of Columbia
Department of Corrections who resides in the District of
Columbia and is on call 24 hours a day or is otherwise
designated by the Director;
(4) the Mayor of the District of Columbia; and
(5) the Chairman of the Council of the District of
Columbia.
Sec. 806. (a) None of the Federal funds contained in this Act may
be used by the District of Columbia Attorney General 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 Attorney
General from reviewing or commenting on briefs in private lawsuits, or
from consulting with officials of the District government regarding
such lawsuits.
Sec. 807. None of the Federal funds contained in this Act may be
used to distribute any needle or syringe for the purpose of preventing
the spread of blood borne pathogens in any location that has been
determined by the local public health or local law enforcement
authorities to be inappropriate for such distribution.
Sec. 808. 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. 809. None of the Federal 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. 801 et seq.) or any tetrahydrocannabinols
derivative.
Sec. 810. None of the Federal 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. 811. (a) No later than 30 calendar days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Officer for 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 2014 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) This section shall apply only to an agency for which the Chief
Financial Officer for the District of Columbia certifies that a
reallocation is required to address unanticipated changes in program
requirements.
Sec. 812. No later than 30 calendar days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Chief Financial Officer for the District of
Columbia shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress, the
Mayor, and the Council for the District of Columbia, a revised
appropriated funds operating budget for the District of Columbia Public
Schools that aligns schools budgets to actual enrollment. The revised
appropriated funds budget shall be 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).
Sec. 813. (a) Amounts appropriated in this Act as operating funds
may be transferred to the District of Columbia's enterprise and capital
funds and such amounts, once transferred, shall retain appropriation
authority consistent with the provisions of this Act.
(b) The District of Columbia government may reprogram or transfer
for operating expenses any local funds transferred or reprogrammed from
operating expenses to capital funds in this or in the 4 prior fiscal
years, and such amounts, once transferred or reprogrammed, shall retain
appropriation authority consistent with the provisions of this Act.
(c) The District of Columbia government may not transfer or
reprogram for operating expenses any funds derived from bonds, notes,
or other obligations issued for capital projects.
Sec. 814. None of the Federal funds appropriated in this Act shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may
any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so
provided herein.
Sec. 815. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law or
under this Act, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2013 from appropriations
of Federal funds made available for salaries and expenses for fiscal
year 2013 for accounts funded under title IV of this Act in division F
of Public Law 113-6, shall remain available through September 30, 2014,
for each such account for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a
request shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate for approval prior to the
expenditure of such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall
be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines outlined in section
803 of this Act.
(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law or under this
Act, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining
available at the end of fiscal year 2014 from appropriations of Federal
funds made available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2014 in
this Act, shall remain available through September 30, 2015, for each
such account for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request
shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate for approval prior to the expenditure of
such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made in
compliance with reprogramming guidelines outlined in section 803 of
this Act.
Sec. 816. Section 446 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204.46), is
amended--
(1) in the third sentence, to read as follows: ``The Mayor
shall submit to the President of the United States for
transmission to Congress the portion of the budget so adopted
with respect to Federal funds and the Mayor shall notify the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of
the Senate, as to the portion of the budget so adopted with
respect to local funds; provided, that in a control year (as
defined in section 305(4) of the District of Columbia Financial
Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995 (D.C.
Official Code, sec. 47-393(4)), the Mayor shall submit to the
President of the United States for transmission to Congress the
budget so adopted.''; and
(2) in fifth sentence, by striking ``the Mayor shall not
transmit any annual budget or amendments or supplements
thereto, to the President of the United States'' and inserting
in lieu thereof, ``the Mayor shall not submit to the President
of the United States, or, for a fiscal year which is not a
control year, notify the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President of the Senate regarding, any
annual budget or amendments or supplements thereto''.
Sec. 817. (a) Subpart 1 of part D of title IV of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204.41 et seq.) is
amended by inserting after section 446B the following new section:
``budget and fiscal year autonomy
``SEC. 446C.(A) BUDGET AUTONOMY.--NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOURTH SENTENCE
OF SECTION 446 OF THE HOME RULE ACT (D.C. OFFICIAL CODE,
SEC. 1-204.46), THE SECOND AND THIRD SENTENCES OF SECTION
447 OF THE HOME RULE ACT (D.C. OFFICIAL CODE, SEC. 1-
204.47), SECTION 602(C) OF THE HOME RULE ACT (D.C.
OFFICIAL CODE, SEC. 1-206.02(C)), OR SECTIONS 816 AND 817
OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009 (D.C. OFFICIAL CODE, SECS. 47-
369.01 AND 47-369.02), UPON THE ENACTMENT BY THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET, OR ANY AMENDMENTS OR
SUPPLEMENTS THERETO, FOR A FISCAL YEAR, OFFICERS AND
EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT MAY
OBLIGATE AND EXPEND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS AND HIRE
EMPLOYEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT BUDGET.
``(b) Fiscal Year Autonomy.--Notwithstanding section 441 of the
Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 1-204.41), the fiscal year of
the District government and any entity of the District government shall
commence and end on such dates as may be established by the District of
Columbia.
``(c) Exception for Control Year.--Subsection (a) shall not apply
in the case of any fiscal year that is a control year, as defined in
section 305(4) of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and
Management Assistance Act of 1995 (D.C. Official Code, sec. 47-393(4)).
``(d) Effective Date.--This section shall apply with respect to
fiscal year 2014 and each succeeding fiscal year.''.
(b) The table of contents of such Act is amended by inserting after
the item relating to section 446B the following new item:
``Sec. 446C. Budget and fiscal year autonomy.''.
Sec. 818. Section 446 of the Home Rule Act (D.C. Official Code
sec. 1-204.46) is amended by adding the following at the end of its
fourth sentence, before the period ``: Provided, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, effective for fiscal year 2014, and
for each succeeding fiscal year, during a period in which there is an
absence of a Federal appropriations Act authorizing the expenditure of
District of Columbia local funds, the District of Columbia may obligate
and expend local funds for programs and activities at the rate set
forth in the Budget Request Act adopted by the Council, or a
reprogramming adopted pursuant to this section.''.
Sec. 819. (a) If the Attorney General of the District of Columbia
enters into a contract with private counsel for the provision of legal
services in claims and other legal matters affecting the interests of
the District of Columbia and the contract includes a contingency fee
arrangement, the District of Columbia may make payments pursuant to
such arrangement without regard to whether the funds used for the
payments are deposited in accounts of the District of Columbia or
provided in an appropriation, notwithstanding any provision of title
31, United States Code, the fourth sentence of section 446 of the
District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1-204.46, D.C. Official Code),
or any other District of Columbia law.
(b) Any contract described in subsection (a) shall be subject to
the requirements of the Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010 (sec.
2-351.01 et seq., D.C. Official Code). The amount of the fee payable
for legal services furnished under any such contract may not exceed the
fee that counsel engaged in the private practice of law in the District
of Columbia typically charges clients for furnishing similar legal
services, as determined by the Attorney General of the District of
Columbia.
(c) The District of Columbia may not enter into a contingency fee
arrangement in a claim or other legal matter seeking the recovery of
Federal funds.
(d) In this section, a ``contingency fee arrangement'' means a
provision in a contract described in subsection (a) under which the
costs, expenses, and fees the private counsel charges for legal
services are payable from the amount recovered.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2014 and
each succeeding fiscal year.
Sec. 820. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to
``this Act'' contained in this title or in title IV shall be treated as
referring only to the provisions of this title or of title IV.
This Act may be cited as the ``Financial Services and General
Government Appropriations Act, 2014''.
Calendar No. 149
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1371
[Report No. 113-80]
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A BILL
Making appropriations for financial services and general government for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes.
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July 25, 2013
Read twice and placed on the calendar
Committee on Appropriations Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-417.
Committee on Appropriations Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-417.
Introduced in Senate
Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Udall NM. With written report No. 113-80.
Committee on Appropriations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Udall NM. With written report No. 113-80.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 149.
Committee on Appropriations Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. Hearings held prior to introduction and/or referral. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-417.
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