5389434 Resolution 21-24, Grandparent Caregivers Program Relative Subsidy Transfer Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-24

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

March 3, 2015         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to allow a subsidy to be transferred to a relative caregiver when a grandparent is no longer able to care for the child.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Grandparent Caregivers Program Relative Subsidy Transfer Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) The Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Emergency Amendment Act of 2014, effective December 8, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-508; 61 DCR 12717) (“Emergency Act”), allows the Grandparent Caregivers Program (“GPC”) subsidy, established by the Grandparent Caregivers Pilot Program Establishment Act of 2005, effective March 8, 2006 (D.C. Law 16-69; D.C. Official Code § 4-251.01 et seq.), to be transferred to another relative who is related to the child by blood, marriage, domestic partnership, or adoption or is a godparent of the child. The Emergency Act expires on March 8, 2015.

(b) The Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Temporary Amendment Act of 2014, enacted on December 19, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-536; 62 DCR 21), is pending congressional review.

(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 Grandparent Caregivers Program Subsidy Transfer Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.