District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1985 - Appropriates specified sums to the District of Columbia for FY 1985 for: (1) the Federal payment to the District of Columbia, provided there are a specified number of Metropolitan police officers; (2) a Federal contribution for the operating cost of Saint Elizabeths Hospital; (3) presidential inauguration activities; and (4) a Federal contribution for a criminal justice initiative.
Appropriates specified sums out of the District of Columbia general fund for the current fiscal year for: (1) governmental directions and support; (2) economic development and regulation; (3) public safety and justice; (4) public education; (5) human support services, with limitations on reimbursement of operating costs of Saint Elizabeths Hospital; (6) public works; (7) the Washington Convention Center Fund; (8) repayments of specified loans and interest; (9) repayment of the general fund deficit; (10) short-term borrowing; (11) inaugural expenses; (12) capital outlay; (13) the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund and water construction projects; (14) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; and (15) the Cable Television Enterprise Fund.
Sets forth restrictions on the expenditure of appropriations made by this Act.
Makes funds available for: (1) transportation allowances for official duties; (2) travel expenses and the payment of dues for organizations concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government; (3) refunds and the payment of judgments entered against the District of Columbia government; (4) the payment of public assistance; (5) the cost of overtime or temporary positions; (6) payments authorized by the District of Columbia Revenue Recovery Act of 1977; and (7) the implementation of a program for issuing bonds, notes, and other obligations.
Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) the implementation of Public Service Commission regulations requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs; (2) the compensation of a permanent employee of the District of Columbia government appointed during any month in which the number of employees exceeds the number of positions authorized by this Act; (3) activities which permit or encourage partisan political activities; (4) the salary of any District of Columbia government employee whose work and salary history are not available for inspection by specified congressional committees; (5) publicity or propaganda purposes; (6) abortions except where the life of the mother is endangered or in cases of rape or incest; (7) the implementation of a personnel lottery for the hiring of firefighters or police officers; (8) the provision of personal servants for any District of Columbia employee; (9) the purchase of passenger automobiles with an estimated miles per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon; or (10) the transportation of municipal waste of the District of Columbia for disposal at landfills other than currently utilized landfills in Maryland and Virginia until the appropriate permits have been issued.
Requires that the annual budget for the District of Columbia government for FY 1986 be transmitted to Congress by April 15, 1985.
Requires the Mayor to develop an annual plan for capital outlay borrowing from the Treasury. Prohibits the Mayor from: (1) borrowing funds for capital projects without the prior approval of the District of Columbia Council; or (2) using money borrowed for capital projects for operating expenses of the District of Columbia government.
Sets forth requirements with respect to the compensation of the City Administrator, the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency, and District of Columbia employees generally.
Exempts Federal employees assigned to operate the Washington Aqueduct and funded from the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund from Federal personnel ceilings.
Authorizes the director of the Department of Administrative Services to pay for rentals, repairs, alterations, and improvements to rental premises without regard to the requirements of the Economy Act of 1932 if such payments are economically advantageous to the District.
Directs the Mayor to reduce appropriations and expenditures for professional and related services.
Designates square numbered 197, lot 841, in the District of Columbia as Andrei Sakharov Plaza.
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Specter with amendments. With written report No. 98-568.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1078.
Considered by Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Specter; Hatfield; Mattingly; Domenici; Leahy; Stennis; Bumpers.
Senate Subcommittee on District of Columbia. Hearings held.
Senate Subcommittee on District of Columbia. Hearings held.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Dixon, Natcher, Stokes, Wilson, Lehman (FL), Sabo, Whitten, Coughlin, Green, Rogers, Conte.
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Conference committee actions: Conference held.
Conference held.
Senate Subcommittee on District of Columbia. Hearings held.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference report filed: Conference Report 98-1088 Filed in House.
Conference Report 98-1088 Filed in House.
Senate Subcommittee on District of Columbia. Hearings held.
Senate Subcommittee on District of Columbia. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-1280.