Authorizes the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to carry out the following programs and activities of the Government of the District of Columbia: (1) payment of funeral and burial services of indigent residents of the District; (2) cash payments to needy patients in hospitals operated by or under contract with the District; (3) payment for the care of indigent persons in hospitals under sectarian and nonsectarian control; (4) payment of benefits to workers in District facilities; (5) payment for fire prevention and fire protection services to District Government institutions located outside the District; (6) expenditure of funds for the prevention and detection of crime by the Chief of Police; (7) payment of expenses of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police Department for attending pistol matches; (8) payment of rewards for information leading to the apprehension of criminal fugitives; (9) payment of a modest sum to prisoners released from a penal or correctional institution; (10) establishment of a Construction Services Working Fund; (11) payment of expenses related to snow and ice removal; (12) funding of grade-cross elimination projects; (13) matching funds for purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies; (14) payment for acquisition of land for the Washington aqueduct; (15) payment of administrative expenses of workmen's compensation law; (16) driver education programs; (17) furnishing of subsistence supplies and transportation for handicapped children attending special education classes; (18) compensation of personnel employed in the summer school program of the public school system; and (19) study of adequacy of service and of the need for regulation of the taxicab industry in the District.
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on District of Columbia.
Reported to House from the Committee on the District of Columbia with amendment, H. Rept. 93-256.
Reported to House from the Committee on the District of Columbia with amendment, H. Rept. 93-256.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #205 (268-84).
Roll Call #205 (House)Measure passed House, amended, roll call #205 (268-84).
Roll Call #205 (House)Referred to Senate Committee on the District of Columbia.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on the District of Columbiawith amendment, S. Rept. 93-372.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on the District of Columbiawith amendment, S. Rept. 93-372.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended.
Enacted as Public Law 93-140
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Measure passed Senate, amended.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendments.
House agreed to Senate amendments.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public law 93-140.
Public law 93-140.