5786940 Resolution 21-334, Employees’ Compensation Fund Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-334

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

December 1, 2015         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to provide that all costs associated with the payment of compensation, benefits, and other expenses to injured District government employees may be paid from the Employees’ Compensation Fund.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Employees’ Compensation Fund Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

Sec. 2. Section 2342 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code § 1-623.42), currently prohibits the use of funds from the Employees’ Compensation Fund for all costs associated with the payment of compensation, benefits, and other expenses to injured District government employees. It is necessary to amend section 2342 immediately to permit payment of all such costs from the Employees’ Compensation Fund so that injured District government employees can continue to receive the compensation, benefits, and other expenses that they are entitled to receive.

 

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 Employees’ Compensation Fund Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.