PUBLIC LAW 104-8—APR. 17, 1995
109 STAT. 99
(1) To eliminate budget deficits and cash shortages of the
District of Columbia through visionary financial planning,
sound budgeting, accurate revenue forecasts, and careful spending.
(2) To ensure the most efficient and effective delivery of
services, including public safety services, by the District government during a period of fiscal emergency.
(3) To conduct necessary investigations and studies to
determine the fiscal status and operational efficiency of the
District government.
(4) To assist the District government in—
(A) restructuring its organization and workforce to
ensure that the residents of the District of Columbia are
served by a local government that is efficient and effective;
(B) achieving an appropriate relationship with the Federal Government;
(C) ensuring the appropriate and efficient delivery of
services; and
(D) modernizing its budget, accounting, personnel,
procurement, information technology, and management
systems to ensure the maximum financial and performance
accountability of the District government and its officers
and employees.
(5) To enhance the District government's access to the
capital markets and to ensure the continued orderly payment
of its debt service obligations.
(6) To ensure the long-term financial, fiscal, and economic
vitality and operational efficiency of the District of Columbia.
(7) To examine the programmatic and structural relationship between the District government and the Federal Government.
(8) To provide for the review of the financial impact of
activities of the District government before such activities are
implemented or submitted for Congressional review.
(c) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. —Nothing in this Act may be
construed—
(1) to relieve any obligations existing as of the date of
the enactment of this Act of the District government to repay
any individual or entity from whom the District has borrowed
funds, whether through the issuance of bonds or otherwise;
(2) to limit the authority of Congress to exercise ultimate
legislative authority over the District of Columbia pursuant
to Article I, section 8, clause 17 of the Constitution of the
United States;
(3) to amend, supersede, or alter the provisions of title
11 of the District of Columbia Code, or sections 431 through
434, 445, and 602(a)(4) of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act (pertaining to the
organization, powers, and jurisdiction of the District of Columbia courts); or
(4) to authorize the application of section 103(e) or 303(b)(3)
of this Act (relating to issuance of subpoenas) to judicial officers
or employees of the District of Columbia courts.
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