5186607 Resolution 20-643, "Small and Certified Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014"
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A RESOLUTION
20-643
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
October 28, 2014
To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to provide for the removal of industrial revenue bonds as a government-assisted project as it pertains to small, local, and disadvantaged business development.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Small and Certified Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.
Sec. 2. (a) Congressional review emergency legislation is necessary to prevent a gap in the legal removal of industrial revenue bonds from the definition of government-assisted projects in the Small, Local, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Act of 2005, between the expiration of the Small and Certified Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2014, effective July 15, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-379; 61 DCR 7793) (“emergency act”) and the effective date of the Small and Certified Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Clarification Temporary Amendment Act of 2014, enacted on July 31, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-419; 61 DCR 8318) (“temporary act”).
(b) The emergency act expires on October 13, 2014, and the temporary act is not projected to become law until November 26, 2014.
(c) It is important that the provisions of the emergency act continue in effect, without interruption, until the temporary act is in effect.
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
Small and Certified Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Amendment of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
