To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to extend the emergency period during which the President may exercise control over the Metropolitan Police Department.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5015 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5015

To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to extend the emergency 
    period during which the President may exercise control over the 
                    Metropolitan Police Department.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 22, 2025

Mr. Biggs of Arizona (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Nehls, 
 and Mr. Harris of Maryland) introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to extend the emergency 
    period during which the President may exercise control over the 
                    Metropolitan Police Department.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY PERIOD.

    (a) In General.--Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule 
Act (sec. 1-207.40, D.C. Official Code) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``thirty days'' and inserting ``180 days'' 
        each place it appears; and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``thirty-day'' and 
        inserting ``180-day''.
    (b) Applicability to Previously Declared Emergency.--This Act, and 
the amendments made by this Act, shall apply with respect to an 
emergency declared by the President under section 740 of the District 
of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1-207.40, D.C. Official Code) before 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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