5746103 Resolution 21-249, Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-249

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

November 3, 2015         

                                                                                                                                             

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to allow the Grandparent Caregivers Program subsidy to be transferred to a relative caregiver when a grandparent is no longer able to care for the child.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) The Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Temporary Amendment Act of 2014, effective March 7, 2015 (D.C. Law 20-177; 62 DCR 21), expired on October 18, 2015. 

(b) The Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Amendment Act of 2015, enacted on October 16, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-168; 62 DCR 13746), is pending congressional review.

(c) The congressional review emergency is necessary to prevent a gap in the law.   

           

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 Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.