II 119THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION S. 1077 To approve local funds for the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2025, in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Budget Act of 2024, and to establish provisions for the use of such funds. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MARCH14, 2025 Ms. C OLLINS(for herself, Mr. VANHOLLEN, Ms. ALSOBROOKS, Mrs. MUR- RAY, Mr. WARNER, Mr. KAINE, and Mr. KIM) introduced the following bill; which was considered, read the third time, and passed A BILL To approve local funds for the District of Columbia for fiscal year 2025, in accordance with the Fiscal Year 2025 Local Budget Act of 2024, and to establish provi- sions for the use of such funds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 4 Local Funds Act, 2025’’. 5 SEC. 2. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LOCAL FUNDS. 6 Local funds are appropriated for the District of Co-7 lumbia for the current fiscal year out of the General Fund 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:48 Mar 15, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1077.CPS S1077 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 •S 1077 CPS of the District of Columbia (‘‘General Fund’’) for pro-1 grams and activities set forth in the Fiscal Year 2025 2 Local Budget Act of 2024 (D.C. Law 25–218) and at 3 rates set forth under such Act, as amended as of the date 4 of enactment of this Act: Provided, That notwithstanding 5 any other provision of law, except as provided in section 6 450A of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (section 7 1–204.50a, D.C. Official Code), sections 816 and 817 of 8 the Financial Services and General Government Appro-9 priations Act, 2009 (secs. 47–369.01 and 47–369.02, D.C. 10 Official Code), and provisions of this Act, the total amount 11 appropriated in this Act for operating expenses for the 12 District of Columbia for fiscal year 2025 by this section 13 shall not exceed the estimates included in the Fiscal Year 14 2025 Local Budget Act of 2024, as amended as of the 15 date of enactment of this Act or the sum of the total reve-16 nues of the District of Columbia for such fiscal year: Pro-17 vided further, That the amount appropriated may be in-18 creased by proceeds of one-time transactions, which are 19 expended for emergency or unanticipated operating or 20 capital needs: Provided further, That such increases shall 21 be approved by enactment of local District law and shall 22 comply with all reserve requirements contained in the Dis-23 trict of Columbia Home Rule Act: Provided further, That 24 the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:48 Mar 15, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1077.CPS S1077 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 3 •S 1077 CPS shall take such steps as are necessary to assure that the 1 District of Columbia meets these requirements, including 2 the apportioning by the Chief Financial Officer of the ap-3 propriations and funds made available to the District dur-4 ing fiscal year 2025, except that the Chief Financial Offi-5 cer may not reprogram for operating expenses any funds 6 derived from bonds, notes, or other obligations issued for 7 capital projects. 8 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:48 Mar 15, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S1077.CPS S1077 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS