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VerDate 14-DEC-2004

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PUBLIC LAW 109–115—NOV. 30, 2005

year 2005 unexpended general fund surplus. The District may obligate and expend these amounts only in accordance with the following conditions: (1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall certify that the use of any such amounts is not anticipated to have a negative impact on the District’s long-term financial, fiscal, and economic vitality. (2) The District of Columbia may only use these funds for the following expenditures: (A) One-time expenditures. (B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending. (C) Debt Reduction. (D) Program needs. (E) Expenditures to avoid revenue shortfalls. (3) The amounts shall be obligated and expended in accordance with laws enacted by the Council in support of each such obligation or expenditure. (4) The amounts may not be used to fund the agencies of the District of Columbia government under court ordered receivership. (5) The amounts may not be obligated or expended unless the Mayor notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate not fewer than 30 days in advance of the obligation or expenditure. SEC. 125. (a) The fourth proviso in the item relating to ‘‘Federal Payment for School Improvement’’ in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–335; 118 Stat. 1327) is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘$4,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,000,000, to remain available until expended,’’; and (2) by striking ‘‘$2,000,000 shall be for a new incentive fund’’ and inserting ‘‘$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for a new incentive fund’’. (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005. SEC. 126. (a) To account for an unanticipated growth of revenue collections, the amount appropriated as District of Columbia Funds pursuant to this Act may be increased— (1) by an aggregate amount of not more than 25 percent, in the case of amounts proposed to be allocated as ‘‘OtherType Funds’’ in the Fiscal Year 2006 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District of Columbia on June 6, 2005; and (2) by an aggregate amount of not more than 6 percent, in the case of any other amounts proposed to be allocated in such Proposed Budget and Financial Plan. (b) The District of Columbia may obligate and expend any increase in the amount of funds authorized under this section only in accordance with the following conditions: (1) The Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia shall certify— (A) the increase in revenue; and (B) that the use of the amounts is not anticipated to have a negative impact on the long-term financial, fiscal, or economic health of the District.

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