GENERAL PROVISIONS

GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 1101. No part, of the funds appropriated in tills Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles, except for emergency assistance, and cleaning as may be provided under regulations relating to parking facilities for the. House, of Representatives issued by the Committee on House Administration. Sec. 1102. Whenever any office or position not specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act, of 1929 is appropriated for herein or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appropriated for herein is different, from that specifically established for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided89 STAT. 299 herein, shall be the permanent law with respect therein: Provided, That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire for Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. Sec. 1103. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Services Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard level user charge established pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for space and services. Sec. 1104. Section 105(b) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1961 (22 U.S.C. 276c–1), as amended, relating to reporting of expenditures by members of groups or delegations to interparliamentary groups, is amended by striking out the entire section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Each chairman or senior member of the House of Representatives and Senate group or delegation of the United States group or delegation to the Interparliamentary Union, the North Atlantic Assembly, the Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group, the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group, or any similar interparliamentary group of which the United States is a member or participates, by whom or on whose behalf local currencies owned by the United States are made available and extended and/or expenditures are made from funds appropriated for the expenses of such group or delegation, shall file with the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in the case of the group or delegation of the Senate, or with the chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives in the case of the group or delegation of the House, an itemized report showing all such expenditures made by or on behalf of each Member or employee of the group or delegation together with the purposes of the expenditure, including per firm (lodging and meals), transportation, and other purposes. Within sixty days after the beginning of each regular session of Congress, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the chairman of the Committee on International Relations shall prepare consolidated reports showing with respect to each such group or delegation the total amount, expended, the purposes of the expenditures the amount expended for each such purpose, the names of the Members or employees by or on behalf of whom the expenditures were made and the amount expended by or on behalf of each Member or employee for each such purpose. The consolidated reports prepared by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate, and the consolidated reports prepared by the chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the House shall be filed with the Committee on House Administration of the House and shall be open to public inspection.”. Sec. 1105. Section 502 (b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 1754(b)), relating to the use of foreign currency, is amended by striking out the last, two sentences and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Within the first sixty days that Congress is in session in each calendar year, the chairman of such committee shall prepare a consolidated report itemizing the amounts and dollar equivalent values of each such foreign currency expended and the amounts of dollar expenditures from appropriated funds in connection with travel outside the United States, together with the purposes of the expenditure,89 STAT. 300 including per diem (lodging and meals), transportation and other purposes, and showing the total itemized expenditures during the preceding calendar year of the committee, and of each member or employee of such committee, and shall forward such consolidated report to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives (if the committee be a committee of the House, of Representatives or a joint committee whose funds are disbursed by the Clerk of the House) or to the Secretary of the Senate (if the committee be a Senate committee or joint committee whose funds are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate), and shall be open to public inspection.”. Sec. 1106. Section 106 of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1975 is repealed. Sec. 1108. Section 638a of title 31 of the United States Code shall hereafter not be construed as applying to the purchase, maintenance, and repair of passenger motor vehicles by the United States Capitol Police. Sec. 1109. No part of any appropriation contained in tills Act still remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein, except as provided in section 204 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1975 (Public Law 93–554). Sec. 1110. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds in this Act shall be used to pay Pages of the Senate and House of Representatives at a gross annual maximum rate of compensation in excess of that in effect on June 30, 1975. Sec. 1111. The Architect of the Capitol shall study and submit his recommendations to the Congress within 3 months, a plan to reduce by at least 50 percent the number of persons operating automatic elevators within the Capitol complex. This Act may be cited as the “Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1976”.