5389531 Resolution 21-25, Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

 

21-25

 

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 amend the Health Services Planning Program Re-establishment Act of 1996 to exempt the Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation from the certificate-of-need requirements for a period of one year for the establishment of an ambulatory care clinic in Ward 8, provided that it establishes 2 mobile health clinics to operate in Wards 7 and 8.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

resolution may be cited as the “Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015.”

 

            Sec. 2. (a) The Council passed the Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Emergency Amendment Act of 2014, effective January 6, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-563; 62 DCR 491) (“emergency legislation”), and  the Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Temporary Amendment Act of 2014, enacted on February 5, 2015 (D.C. Act 20-623; 62 DCR 1960) (“temporary legislation”), which amended the Health Services Planning Program Re-establishment Act of 1996 to exempt the Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation from the certificate-of-need requirements for a period of one year for the establishment of an ambulatory care clinic in Ward 8; provided, that it establishes 2 mobile health clinics to operate in Wards 7 and 8.

            (b) The emergency legislation will expire on April 6, 2015, before the temporary legislation is projected to become law.

            (c) It is important that the provisions of the emergency legislation continue in effect, without interruption, until the temporary legislation becomes 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 Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation Certificate of Need Exemption Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.