5865607 Resolution 21-368, Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-368

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

February 2, 2016        

 

                                                                                                                                             

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Act of 2015, various other acts, and Title 47 of the District of Columbia Official Code to clarify provisions supporting the Fiscal Year 2016 budget; and to amend the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 to clarify the descriptions of the boundaries around the White House and the U.S. Naval Observatory within which a concealed pistol licensee is prohibited from carrying a pistol.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2.  (a)  On June 30, 2015, the Council passed the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Act of 2015, effective October 22, 2015 (D.C. Law 21-36; 62 DCR 10905) (the “Act”), and an emergency version of the Act, the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2015, effective July 27, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-127; 62 DCR 10201).

            (b)  Subsequently, it was discovered that several provisions within those measures were in need of technical corrections or further clarification. 

            (c)  On September 22, 2015, the Council passed the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act, effective October 1, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-164; 62 DCR 13734) (the “first emergency act”), which made several clarifications to the Act.

            (d)  On November 3, 2015, the Council passed the Fiscal Year 2016 Second Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2015, effective November 23, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-202; 62 DCR 15276) (the “second emergency act”), which made other necessary clarifications to the Act.

            (e)  On December 1, 2015, the Council passed the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Clarification Temporary Amendment Act of 2015, enacted December 29, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-252; 63 DCR 264) (the “temporary act”), corresponding temporary legislation that combines the provisions of the first emergency act and the second emergency act.

            (f)  The provisions contained in the first emergency act were set to expire on January 14, 2015, but were continued by a third emergency measure, the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2016, effective January 27, 2016 (D.C. Act 21-292; 63 DCR _____) (the “third emergency act”).  In addition to the provisions originally contained in the first emergency act, the third emergency act contained a technical clarification to Title 47 of the D.C. Official Code.  Due to this additional clarification, the third emergency act was approved as standard emergency legislation and not as a congressional review emergency.  

            (g)  The provisions contained in the second emergency act are set to expire on February 21, 2016.  As the temporary act is not projected to become law until March 15, 2016, this 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 Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Support Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.           

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.