5799065 Resolution 21-340, Office of the Attorney General Personnel and Procurement Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-340

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

December 15, 2015         

 

           

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to grant the Attorney General for the District of Columbia personnel and procurement rulemaking authority consistent with authority previously approved by the Council.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Office of the Attorney General Personnel and Procurement Clarification Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

Sec. 2. (a)  There exists a need to give the Attorney General independent personnel and procurement rulemaking authority.

(b)  In 2010, the Council of the District of Columbia approved the Attorney General for the District of Columbia Clarification and Elected Term Amendment Act of 2010, effective May 27, 2010 (D.C. Law 18-160; codified in scattered cites throughout the D.C. Official Code). Section 201(b) of this act authorized the election by the District electorate of an independent Attorney General.  The committee report for this act stated that the “legislation codifies the institutional independence” of the Attorney General.

(c)  Section 1032(b) of the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Act of 2015, effective October 22, 2015 (D.C. Law 21-36; 62 DCR 10905) (“BSA”), provides that the Attorney General shall be the personnel authority for employees of that office, and that the Attorney General shall carry out procurement independently of the Office of Contracting and Procurement. 

(d) Independent rulemaking authority is necessary to fully implement these provisions consistent with the authority approved by the Council and Mayor in this year’s BSA.    

 

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 Office of the Attorney General Personnel and Procurement Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.