| B23-0393 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires a safe passage route for students traveling to and from LEA's via a designated route that is monitored by safe passage personnel from 7:00 am to 9:30 am and from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Monday to Friday during the school year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-25
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0544 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-544 requires the District to impound motor vehicles in the District with five or more speeding or red light tickets, or three or more tickets for driving 26 miles per hour over the speed limit, unless the owners take a Reckless ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-22
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0544 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0550 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-550 establishes a Community Land Trust Program to support entities that work towards protecting permanent affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-22
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0550 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0549 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-549 creates a local business ombudsman within the Department of Small and Local Business Development, and designates agency-wide Officers for Small and Local Business Inclusion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-22
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0549 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0180 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it establishes an On-Site Services Program to provide funding to qualifying housing providers. The on-site services include mental health services, food and nutrition services, childcare services and after-school programs among other th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
Committee Report Filed |
| B23-0541 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-541 prohibits Councilmembers from engaging in outside employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Council Committee of the Whole |
| B23-0407 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-407 reduces the amount of acceptable levels of lead exposure and requires an owner to provide a clearance report before receiving any license, registration, or permit for the use of a rental unit. Among other things, it establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-18
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0536 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-536 requires the Department of Employment Services to conduct a comprehensive study of veterans' employment in the District of Columbia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0536 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0539 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-539 establishes a Commission on Recreation to address health and public safety through recreational activities. Among other things, it establishes sports leagues and other recreational activities such as lecture series.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0539 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0540 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-540 establishes a program to improve coordination of mental health care for system-involved youth. The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services shall establish a program designed to improve the coordination and continuity of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0540 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0360 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires continuing education for certain health occupations on the subject of nutrition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0433 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-433 extends the sunset provision of rent control to December 31, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0042 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires Construction Code violators who damage adjoining property be ordered to repair the damage or pay restitution to the owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-07
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0333 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires repair and mitigation when an abutting property owner has demonstrated damage by construction and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Services has issued a stop work order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-07
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0439 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-439 creates a Longtime Resident Business Preservation Program to provide grants and low-interest loans for longtime resident businesses at risk of displacement. It establishes a Longtime Resident Business Protection Registry lis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0438 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-438 provides qualified small local businesses with a tax credit for a portion of rent or property taxes paid and to reduce the taxable value of commercial property if it is rented or owned by a qualifying small local business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0049 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, it establishes a classroom innovation grant program to provide funding to District of Columbia public and public charter elementary schools to allow classroom teachers to utilize technology to enhance students' learning experience.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0244 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it establishes a financial literacy education program. It requires that the Office of the State Superintendent of Education develop a financial literacy course to be piloted in all DC public high schools no later than the 2020-2021 scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0094 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires that District of Columbia Public Schools and Public Charter Schools provide education on the process of making an anatomical gift. Schools must provide information about the life-saving and life-enhancing effects of organ, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0196 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires the Mayor to convene a steering committee to develop and publish a Comprehensive Student Technology Equity Plan for DC Public Schools every two years. The plan must achieve a one-to-one device-to-student ratio for grades 3-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-06
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0520 | Intro
Sine Die | Ignition Interlock Program Emergency Amendment Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-05
Retained by the Council |
| B23-0511 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-511 requires victims eligible for claims of compensation from the District's Uninsured Motorist Fund to be residents of the District, unless the victims are residents of other states or foreign countries that afford reciprocal b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-05
To Council Business and Economic Development Committee |
| B23-0521 | Intro
Sine Die | Ignition Interlock Program Temporary Amendment Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-05
Retained by the Council |
| B23-0391 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it establishes a Public Housing Rehabilitation Oversight Task Force to review the rehabilitation of District public housing properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0044 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it authorizes that upon a judicial finding of an intrafamily offense, the parties may obtain a divorce within 3 months of filing a complaint provided that they have lived separate and apart since the date of the offense. Among other thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0413 | Intro
Sine Die | Ignition Interlock Program Emergency Amendment Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Withdrawn |
| B23-0414 | Intro
Sine Die | Ignition Interlock Program Temporary Amendment Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Withdrawn |
| B23-0121 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it revises the qualifications for nominees to the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners by requiring certain expertise in housing including: experience in public housing, subsidized housing, social services, or real estate finance an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0319 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires that the Board of Election mail all registered qualified electors a ballot for primary, general, special elections, recall initiatives and referendums. Qualified electors will have a three-week window in which to mail in bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0226 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it adopts an updated definition of the term "unfair trade practices" that incorporates actions committed in conscious disregard of the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0346 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires insurers to disclose the last known physical address of an owner or operator of a motor vehicle that was involved in an accident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-405 increases the mandatory minimum motor vehicle insurance requirements for property damage liability and third-party liability coverage. It also increases the mandatory minimum motor vehicle insurance requirements for property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0508 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-508 designates the Douglass Community Center, located at 1922 Frederick Douglass Court, S.E. in Ward 8, as the Elaine M. Carter Community Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-25
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0508 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0505 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-505 requires hospitals to serve healthy foods and beverages to patients, staff, and visitors. The foods shall include a variety of healthy foods, including vegetarian and 100% plant-based meals, and meals that are low in saturat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-25
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0505 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0510 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-510 requires the Interagency Council on Homelessness to obtain consent of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission and Councilmember of a proposed site for a hypothermia shelter in developing the annual plan to shelter clients in se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-25
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0510 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0257 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires the Department of Transportation (DDOT) to construct a protected bicycle lane or cycle track on road segments included in the Recommended Bicycle Network in the District of Columbia's Multimodal Long-Range Transportation pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-24
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0293 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it specifies the questions relating to bicyclists that the Department of Motor Vehicles is required to quiz driver license applicants about on the driver's license examination; it also establishes a public outreach campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-24
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0292 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it requires the installation of curb extensions to reduce pedestrian crossing distances when the District performs reconstructions and repavings of roadways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-24
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0415 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-415 repeals the provision that exempts a violation of the Distracted Driving Safety Act of 2004 from the assessment of points unless the violation contributes to an accident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-24
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0412 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-412 clarifies the requirements for the ignition interlock program including establishing sanctions for noncompliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-24
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0242 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it includes a representative from the Department of Public Works on the District of Columbia Bicycle Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-24
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0435 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-435 requires an anti-bias instruction in criminal trials regarding defenses that seek to excuse crimes such as murder or assault on the grounds of the victims sexual orientation or gender identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-23
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0491 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-491 requires candidates for public office be elected using ranked choice voting, which is a method of casting and tabulating votes where the voters rank candidates according to the order of their choice and vote counting proceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-18
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0491 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0492 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-492 expands the definition of the term "qualified elector" to include permanent residents for the purpose of local elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-18
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0492 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0493 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-493 reforms the structure of the Council from unicameral to bicameral, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. It also increases the number of the election wards from 8 to 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-18
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0493 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0495 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-495 implements a tax of 1.5 cents per ounce tax on the distribution of sugary drinks in the District. It establishes the Healthy People, Healthy Places Open Space Grant Program to provide financial assistance in the form of annu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-18
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0495 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0490 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced Bill 23-490 requires the Chief Financial Officer to approve or deny an application for pre-approval of certain homestead deduction, senior and disabled tax relief deductions, or exemptions for qualifying lower income homeownership house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-18
Notice of Intent to Act on B23-0490 Published in the DC Register |
| B23-0239 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it establishes an electronic reporting system for all Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and public school budget expenditures to collect comparable data from schools and LEAs. It creates a line-item for at-risk funding for each school and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-17
Committee Report Filed |
| B23-0318 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it decriminalizes prostitution if those involved are 18 years of age and older. It requires the establishment of a task force to study and make recommendations regarding: the effects and unintended consequences of the Reducing Criminali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-17
Public Hearing Held |
| B23-0308 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced it establishes a Department of Zoning, Planning, and Development in the Office of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions to assist Commissioners in Planned Unit Development negotiations and residential housing development and also maximize t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-16
Public Hearing Held |
