6033999 Resolution 21-470, Crime Scene Investigator Hiring Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-470

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

May 3, 2016        

 

           

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the Retired Police Officer Redeployment Amendment Act of 1992 to allow for the rehiring of retired Metropolitan Department officers by the Department of Forensic Sciences without jeopardy to the retirement benefits of the employee.  

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Crime Scene Investigator Hiring Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to allow for the rehiring of retired Metropolitan Police Department officers by the Department of Forensic Sciences.

(b) On February 16, 2016, the Council of the District of Columbia passed the Crime Scene Investigator Hiring Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2016, effective March 3, 2016 (D.C. Act 21-327; 63 DCR 3665). This emergency legislation will expire on June 1, 2016.

(c) Permanent legislation, which is substantively identical to the emergency legislation – the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Amendment Act of 2016 – was enacted on March 26, 2016 (D.C. Act 21-0356; 63 DCR 4659). The bill is undergoing congressional review and is not expected to become law until September 8, 2016.

(d) In order to prevent a gap in the law, it is now necessary to move this congressional review emergency legislation.  

 

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 Crime Scene Investigator Hiring Clarification Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.