The Act appropriates FY2000funds for the District of Columbia; the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary;Foreign Operations; the Department of Interior; and the Departments of Labor, Health and HumanServices, and Education Appropriations. As originally forwarded to the conference committee onNovember 18, 1999, H.R. 3194 provided FY2000 appropriations solely for the Districtof Columbia. 3194 was the third attempt to appropriate funds for the District of Columbia for FY2000. 106-113 appropriates $436 million in special federal payments to the District of Columbia. b. The conference committee bill would prohibit the use of federal and Districtrevenues to fund, finance, administer, or undertake:
abortions except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest;
the Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992, which wouldprovide health care coverage and other benefits to unmarried couples not related byblood; and 
civil court challenges or petition drives seeking to provide theDistrict of Columbia with congressional voting representation. 2587

On September 28, 1999, with the support of the District's elected leadership, President Clinton vetoed H.R. Included among the provisions that the Presidentwanted eliminated from the bill were provisions:
prohibiting the funding of a needle exchange program;
prohibiting the use of federal and District funds for abortionsexcept for in cases where the mother's life is endangered or in situations involvingrape or incest;
prohibiting the implementation of the Domestic Partners Actof 1992;
prohibiting the use of federal and District funds in any effortintended to win voting representation in the Congress for District residents;
limiting fees paid to attorneys representing student seekingspecial education assistance; and 
decriminalizing the use of marijuana for medicalpurposes. 2587 , the House passed H.R. 3064 . 3064. The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act for FY2000, formerly H.R. On November 3, 1999, President Clinton, vetoed H.R. 3194, Consolidated Appropriations for FY2000; P.L. 3194 , four other appropriations. 3194 , on November 18, 1999.The Senate approved the measure on November 19, 1999 by a vote of 74 to 24. OnNovember 29, 1999, the President signed the measure into law as P.L. The Act also includes many of the same social riders in H.R. P.L. 3064 . P.L.106-113 includes a provision that allows the city's corporation counsel to reviewprivate lawsuits and brief elected city leaders on their impact, but would continue toprohibit the city from participating in or working on a private law suit seeking votingrepresentation in Congress. 2587 and H.R. 106-113 , and H.R. 2587 , the first version of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act for FY2000, included aprovision that would have prohibited the use of federal funds to tally the results ofthe ballot initiative, but would have allowed the city to use local funds to determinethe outcome of the initiative. Reserve Fund and Future General Fund Surpluses

During House and Senate hearings on the District of Columbia Appropriations Act for FY2000, District officials unsuccessfully sought the removal of a provisioncontained in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act for FY1999. 106-113 and the vetoed H.R.
On November 29, 1999, President Clinton signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY2000, formerly H.R. 3194 , into law as P.L. 106-113 . The Act appropriates funds forthe District of Columbia, Division A of the act, and four other appropriation measures, Division Bof the act, including: Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary; Foreign Operation Appropriations; InteriorAppropriations; and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations for FY2000.Division B of P.L. 106-113 , also includes a section governing Miscellaneous Appropriations, andprovisions amending the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, State Department authorization, milksupports, and intellectual properties. As originally forwarded to the conference committee, H.R. 3194 provided appropriations for FY2000 solely for the District of Columbia. TheHouse approved the conference measure on November 18, 1999, and the Senate approved themeasure on November 19, 1999.
Division A of P.L. 106-113 is the third District of Columbia Appropriations Act for FY2000 considered by Congress. The Act includes $436 million in special federal payments to the Districtof Columbia. This is slightly higher than the amount included in the vetoed version of H.R. 3064 ($429 million) and H.R. 2587 ($430 million). The differenceis $6.7 million in federal funds for the environmental cleanup of the Lorton Correctional Facility.
On November 3, 1999, President Clinton vetoed H.R. 3064 , which included funds for the District of Columbia and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, andEducation for FY2000. On September 28, 1999, the President vetoed H.R. 2587 ,Congress' first attempt to appropriate funds for the District of Columbia for FY2000. Districtofficials urged the President to veto H.R. 2587 , because of the inclusion of several socalled "social rider" provisions. They characterized the provisions as assaults on the city's limitedhome rule. P.L. 106-113 includes many of the social riders contained in H.R. 2587 and H.R. 3064 . The Act includes provisions that prohibit:
the use of federal or local funds to establish and maintain a needle exchange program, but would allow the private financing of needle exchange programs;
the District from decriminalizing the use of marijuana and implementingInitiative 59 governing medical marijuana;
the use of federal or District funds to finance a court challenge aimed atsecuring congressional voting representation in the House and Senate for District residents, but would allow the city's corporation counsel to review and comment on private lawsuits filed onbehalf of citizens of the District of Columbia;
the use of federal or District funds for abortions except in cases or rape, incest,or the mother's health is endangered; and
the implementation of a domestic partners act passed in 1992 that would extendhealth, employment, and other benefits and protections to unmarried, cohabiting, heterosexual orhomosexual couples.
Key Policy Staff
DSP= Domestic Social Policy Division, G&F=Government and Finance Division