B-285725: Sep 29, 2000

Your request was prompted by published news reports that the PBC had drawn $60 million in unbudgeted cash from the District of Columbia General Fund. Such amounts are unlikely to be repaid. The "advances" to PBC are in addition to the line item amount of the transfer to PBC from the District's General Fund pursuant to the District's appropriation act. What the District has characterized as "loans"...

B-285725: Published: Sep 29, 2000. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2000.

GAO provided information on possible violations of the Antideficiency Act by the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) or the District of Columbia government, focusing on if the PBC: (1) violated the Anitdeficiency Act in fiscal years 1997 through 2000 by obligating more than Congress appropriated for those fiscal years; and (2) along with the District of Colum...