Bill > S2302

This bill makes appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. * **Joint Economic Committee:** $4,283,000 for salaries and expenses. * **Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies of 2025:** $3,675,000 for salaries and expenses related to the 2025 Presidential inauguration, available until September 30, 2025. * **Joint Committee on Taxation:** $14,125,000 for salaries and expenses. * **Office of the Attending Physician:** $6,000,000 for medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses, including allowances for the Attending Physician and medical officers, and reimbursement to the Department of the Navy. * **Office of Congressional Accessibility Services:** $1,766,000 for salaries and expenses. * **Capitol Police:** * Salaries: $588,627,000 for salaries, overtime, hazardous duty pay, and benefits. * General Expenses: $203,846,000 for necessary expenses including equipment, uniforms, training, and services. * **Office of Congressional Workplace Rights:** $8,300,000 for salaries and expenses, with $2,500,000 remaining available until September 30, 2025. * **Congressional Budget Office:** $70,125,000 for salaries and expenses, with at least $500,000 dedicated to improving technical systems for budgetary transparency and data availability. * **Architect of the Capitol:** * Capital Construction and Operations: $161,833,000 for surveys, studies, construction, operation, and administrative support, with $8,600,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028. * Capitol Building: $108,174,000 for maintenance, care, and operation, with $52,500,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028, and $21,300,000 remaining available until expended. * Capitol Grounds: $16,600,000 for care and improvement, with $2,000,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028. * Senate Office Buildings: $147,501,000 for maintenance, care, and operation, with $60,700,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028, and $1,000,000 remaining available until expended. * Capitol Power Plant: $149,650,000 for maintenance, care, and operation, with $44,400,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028. * Library Buildings and Grounds: $78,578,000 for mechanical and structural maintenance, care, and operation, with $41,400,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028. * Capitol Police Buildings, Grounds and Security: $86,757,000 for maintenance, care, and operation, with $27,719,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028. * Botanic Garden: $20,606,000 for maintenance, care, and operation, with $5,000,000 remaining available until September 30, 2028. * Capitol Visitor Center: $28,000,000 for operation. * **Library of Congress:** * Salaries and Expenses: $596,101,000 for general operations, including specific allocations for the Teaching with Primary Sources program, the Lewis- Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative, the Legislative Branch Financial Management System upgrade, the Surplus Books Program, the Veterans History Project, the COVID-19 American History Project, and a pilot data storage initiative. * Copyright Office Salaries and Expenses: $103,128,000, with a significant portion derived from collections, including funds for modernization initiatives. * **Congressional Research Service:** $136,080,000 for salaries and expenses. * **National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled:** $66,130,000 for salaries and expenses, including funds for contracting to provide newspapers. * **Government Publishing Office:** * Congressional Publishing: $83,000,000 for authorized publishing and distribution of congressional information. * Public Information Programs of the Superintendent of Documents: $36,476,000 for cataloging, indexing, and distributing government publications. * Business Operations Revolving Fund: $12,090,000 for information technology development and facilities repair. * **Government Accountability Office:** $813,968,000 for necessary expenses, with $5,000,000 remaining available until expended, and an additional $71,902,000 from payments received. * **Congressional Office for International Leadership Fund:** $6,000,000 for financing activities, with specific restrictions on funds for Russian participants. * **John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development:** $430,000 for payment to the Trust Fund. The bill also includes general provisions regarding the maintenance of private vehicles, fiscal year limitations on appropriations, rates of compensation, consulting services, costs of the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council, limitations on transfers, guided tours of the Capitol, limitations on telecommunications equipment procurement, prohibition on certain operational expenses (including blocking pornography on networks), plastic waste reduction, and a limitation on cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress. It also extends certain protections to congressional staff.