ENROLLED ORIGINAL
A RESOLUTION
25-267
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
October 3, 2023
To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need
to amend the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Amendment Act of 2016 to
enhance the Private Security Camera System Incentive Program by removing the
program rebate cap; to amend the Anti-Sexual Abuse Act of 1994 to clarify the definition
of significant relationship in sexual abuse cases; to amend the Criminal Justice
Coordinating Council for the District of Columbia Establishment Act of 2011 to require
that all participating entities in the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council report
aggregate programmatic data on process and outcomes of programs, and to require the
Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to publish data related to arrests for violent
crimes, gun violence, and homicide counts and rates; to amend An Act To control the
possession, sale, transfer and use of pistols and other dangerous weapons in the District
of Columbia, to provide penalties, to prescribe rules of evidence, and for other purposes
to establish an offense of endangerment with a firearm; to amend section 16-2310 of the
District of Columbia Official Code to establish a rebuttable presumption that pre-hearing
detention is necessary where there is a substantial probability that the youth committed
certain serious violent crimes or committed a dangerous crime or crime of violence while
armed with a knife; to amend Title 23 of the District of Columbia Official Code to
establish a rebuttable presumption in favor of detaining a person pretrial where there is
probable cause that the person committed a violent crime, to change the standard of proof
necessary to trigger a rebuttable presumption for certain serious crimes, to provide courts
with discretion to make a misdemeanor arrest warrant extraditable, to clarify that GPS
records from the Pretrial Services Agency are admissible in court on the issue of guilt,
and to direct the Court to expedite cases involving a child victim; to amend An Act To
establish a code of law for the District of Columbia to create a new standalone offense of
strangulation; to require the Metropolitan Police Department to publish closure
information for all violent crimes and non-fatal shootings; to revive the Extreme Risk
Protection Order Implementation Working Group and to require the Metropolitan Police
Department and the Office of the Attorney General to assist publicizing information
about extreme risk protection orders; to require the Metropolitan Police Department to
review every shooting to inform immediate interventions, and to require the Deputy
Mayor for Public Safety and Justice to review each shooting from a services and response
perspective; and to require the Mayor to submit to the Council and post on its website a
firearm tracing date and accountability report.
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 ENROLLED ORIGINAL
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Prioritizing Public Safety Congressional Review Emergency
Declaration Resolution of 2023”.
Sec. 2. (a) On July 11, 2023, the Council passed the Prioritizing Public Safety Emergency
Amendment Act of 2023, effective July 20, 2023 (D.C. Act 25-175; 70 DCR 10358)
(“emergency act”), which expires on October 18, 2023.
(b) On September 19, 2023, the Council passed the Prioritizing Public Safety Temporary
Amendment Act of 2023, passed on 2nd reading on September 19, 2023 (Enrolled version of Bill
25-396) (“temporary act”), which does not yet have a projected law date.
(c) This emergency legislation is necessary to prevent a gap in the law between the
expiration of the emergency act and the effective date of the temporary act.
(d) This emergency legislation differs from the emergency act and the temporary act in
one way: it does not include language directing the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to
post aggregate data on outcomes of programs in the criminal justice system (formerly section 5
of the emergency act and temporary act). This language is being replaced through separate
legislation.
Sec. 3. The Council determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute
emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Prioritizing Public Safety Congressional
Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2023 be adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
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