5426876 Resolution 21-50, Fiscal Year 2015 Revised Budget Request Congressional Review Emergency Adjustment Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

 

21-50  

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

March 17, 2015

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to increase certain appropriations in the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request Act pursuant to the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2015.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Fiscal Year 2015 Revised Budget Request Congressional Review Emergency Adjustment Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

            Sec. 2. (a) The Council passed the Fiscal Year 2015 Revised Budget Request Emergency Adjustment Act of 2014, effective December 23, 2014 (D.C. Act 20-545;  62 DCR 247) (“emergency legislation”), and the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request Temporary Adjustment Act of 2015, enacted on February 5, 2015 (D.C. Act 20-627; 62 DCR 22665) (“temporary legislation”), which provide important funding necessary for the development of the soccer stadium authorized by the District of Columbia Soccer Stadium Development Act of 2014, effective March 11,2015 (D.C. Law 20-233; 62 DCR 438) (“soccer stadium legislation”), as well as carryover budget authority for the District of Columbia Auditor.

            (b)  The emergency legislation will expire on March 24, 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, for the proper implementation of the soccer stadium legislation, and the balancing of the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget and Financial Plan.

 

            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 2015 Revised Budget Request Congressional Review Emergency Adjustment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.   

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.