Pub. L. 108-335, tit. III, sec. 331

Sec. 331. The amount appropriated by this Act may be increased by no more than $15,000,000 from funds identified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the District’s fiscal year 2004 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) Unanticipated one-time expenditures.(B) Expenditures to avoid deficit spending.(C) Debt Reduction.(D) Unanticipated 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 be obligated and expended only if approved by the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate in advance of any obligation or expenditure.