5865995 Resolution 21-372, Uniform Interstate Family Support Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-372

 

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 enact the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, as revised with amendments officially adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. and to ensure that the act will remain in effect without a gap in the law.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Uniform Interstate Family Support Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.        

           

            Sec. 2.  (a) There is an immediate need to implement the 2008 Amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, approved September 9, 2014 (Pub. L. No. 113-183; 128 Stat. 1919), requires that the 2008 Amendments be in effect in the District by January 1, 2016, as a prerequisite for continued federal financial support for child support enforcement and TANF. 

            (b) This congressional review emergency is necessary to prevent a gap in the law as the earlier emergency legislation, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Emergency Act of 2015, effective November 30, 2015 (D.C. Act 21-215; 62 DCR 15616), expires on February 28, 2016. The permanent legislation, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2015, enacted December 29, 2015 (D.C Act 21-249; 63 DCR 222), was transmitted to Congress on January 8, 2016, for the 30-day review period required by section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)), and is not projected to become law until March 15, 2016. 

            (c) It is important that the provisions of the emergency legislation continue in effect, without interruption, until the permanent legislation is in effect.

 

            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 Uniform Interstate Family Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.