5123169 Resolution 20-595, "Fiscal Year 2014 Revised Budget Request Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014"

ENROLLED ORIGINAL

 

 

 

 

A RESOLUTION 20-595

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

September 23, 2014

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to adjust certain allocations requested in the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request Act pursuant to the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

resolution may be cited as the " Fiscal Year 2014 Revised Budget Request Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014".

 

Sec. 2.  (a)  Act 20-368, the Fiscal Year 2014 Revised Budget Request Emergency Adjustment Act of 2014, was enacted on June 27, 2014, and expires on September 25, 2014. The act includes important adjustments to the Fiscal Year 2014 budget as well as provisions that are necessary to balance the approved Fiscal Year 2015 budget.

(b)  A temporary version of the legislation, Act 20-376, was transmitted to Congress on July 29, 2014, and is currently undergoing congressional review. The temporary legislation is projected to become law on October 7, 2014.

(c)  A congressional review emergency is necessary to prevent a gap in the law and to ensure that the Fiscal Year 2014 and 2015 budgets remain balanced.

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Fiscal Year 2014 Revised Budget Request Congressional Review Emergency Adjustment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.