5978127 Resolution 21-442, Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Salary Approval Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-442

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

April 5, 2016        

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to approve the salary of the Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Salary Approval Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.          

           

            Sec. 2.  (a) There is an immediate need to pass the Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Salary Approval Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 to approve a salary increase for Christopher Geldart to correspond with his skills, experience, and accomplishments as the director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.  

            (b) This bill is necessary to prevent a gap in the law as the emergency legislation, the Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Salary Approval Emergency Amendment Act of 2016, effective March 23, 2016 (D.C. Act 21-353; 63 DCR 4641), expires on April 1, 2016.

            (c) The Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Salary Approval Temporary Amendment Act of 2016, passed on 1st reading on March 1, 2016 (Engrossed version of Bill 21-0637) will be on the agenda for the April 5, 2016, legislative meeting for final reading, but it will not become law until after the expiration of the emergency legislation. This congressional review emergency legislation is therefore 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 Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Salary Approval Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.