5149359 Resolution 20-625, "Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014"

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-625

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

October 7, 2014         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to make minor, technical, and clarifying amendments to various budget-related provisions of law.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

            Sec. 2. (a) On June 24, 2014, the Council passed Bill 20-750, the Fiscal Year 2015

Budget Support Act of 2014.  The legislation was returned unsigned by the Mayor and is currently undergoing the 30-day congressional review. The Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Act of 2014, enacted on September 23, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-424; 61 DCR 9990), is likely to go into effect at some point in the fall of 2014.

            (b) Following the passage of the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Act of 2014, staff at the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the Office of Tax and Revenue, executive agencies, and the Council identified certain provisions in the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Act of 2014, and provisions of law that were amended by the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Act of 2014, as well as related provisions, that need to be clarified or amended to effectuate their intent.

            (c) The proposed modifications include conforming amendments, clarifying provisions, and other minor amendments that must go into effect immediately to clarify the law and implement the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget and Financial Plan as approved by the District.

 

            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 2015 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.        

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.