Volume 1 - Executive Summary - Office of the Chief Financial Officer

“(a)(1) The Attorney General may make contracts retaining private counsel to furnish legal
services, including representation in negotiation, compromise, settlement, and litigation, in claims
and other legal matters affecting the interests of the District of Columbia.
“(2) Each contract shall include such terms and conditions as the Attorney General
considers necessary or appropriate, including a provision specifying the amount of any fee to be
paid to the private counsel under the contract or the method for calculating that fee. The amount of
the fee payable for legal services furnished under any such contract shall not exceed the fee that
counsel engaged in the private practice of law in the District typically charges clients for
furnishing similar legal services, as determined by the Attorney General.
“(b) Notwithstanding any provision of federal or District of Columbia law, a contract
entered into by the District of Columbia pursuant to this section may provide that costs, expenses,
and fees that the private counsel charges for legal services are payable from the amount recovered.
In such circumstances, the costs, expenses, and fees need not be included in an amount provided in
an appropriations law.”.
SEC. 202. Section 11201 of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government
Improvement Act of 1997, approved August 5, 1997 (111 Stat. 734; D.C. Official Code § 24-101),
is amended by adding a new subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
“(a-1) Reimbursement to District of Columbia Department of Corrections.– The United
States Government shall reimburse the District of Columbia Department of Corrections its costs of
providing custody and care for:
“(1) Felons committed by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from the
date of sentencing until transfer to a penal or correctional facility operated or contracted for by the
Bureau of Prisons;
“(2) Previously sentenced felons committed to the Department of Corrections as
violators of parole, supervised release, or probation from the date of commitment until transfer to a
penal or correctional facility operated or contracted for by the Bureau of Prisons; and
“(3) Previously sentenced felons held by or committed to the Department of
Corrections on writs from the date of commitment until transfer to a penal or correctional facility
operated or contracted for by the Bureau of Prisons.”.
SEC. 203. The following proviso under the heading “Lottery and Charitable Games
Enterprise Fund” in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1982, approved December 4,
1981 (Pub. L. No. 97-91; 95 Stat. 1174;), is repealed:
“Provided further, that the advertising, sale, operation, or playing of the lotteries, raffles,
bingos, or other games authorized by D.C. Law 3-172 is prohibited on the Federal enclave, and in
adjacent public buildings and land controlled by the Shipstead-Luce Act as amended by 53 Stat.
1144, as well as in the Old Georgetown Historic District:”.
SEC. 204. Notwithstanding any other law, the following sales shall be subject to the sales
and use taxes of the District of Columbia:
(1) Sales at gift shops, souvenir shops, kiosks, convenience stores, food shops,
cafeterias, restaurants, and similar establishments in federal buildings, including, but not limited
to, memorials and museums, in the District of Columbia that make sales to:
(A) The general public, whether operated by the federal government, an
agent of the federal government, or a contractor; and
(B) Other than the general public, if operated by an agent of the federal
government or a contractor; and
(2) Sales of goods and services by government-sponsored enterprises and
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