5865704 Resolution 21-369, Foster Care Extended Eligibility Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-369

 

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 Day Care Policy Act of 1979 to address the growing needs for foster parents and support the foster care community by extending eligibility for subsidized child care to foster parents who may no longer be working but have some form of verifiable income, teen parents under 21 years of age who themselves are in foster care or wards of the District, and foster parents who are not working but who are enrolled in a verified job training or education program.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Foster Care Extended Eligibility Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) The Foster Care Extended Eligibility Emergency Amendment Act of 2015, effective November 23, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-199; 62 DCR 15268), will expire on February 21, 2016. 

(b) The Foster Care Extended Eligibility Temporary Amendment Act of 2015, enacted on December 17, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-235; 62 DCR 16270), is pending congressional review with a projected law date of March 5, 2016.

(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 Foster Care Extended Eligibility Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.