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                                            AN ACT

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                   IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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To amend, on an emergency basis, due to congressional review, Title III of the CleanEnergy DC

      Omnibus Amendment Act of 2018 to revise the timeline for phase-in of smaller buildings

      into the Building Energy Performance Standards Program implemented by the

      Department of Energy and Environment, to require the Department of Energy and

      Environment to establish new building energy performance standards every 6 years

      instead of every 5 years, to clarify language requiring buildings to comply with the

      building energy performance standards, and to provide that the strategic energy

      management plan for District buildings shall be delivered by January 1, 2021; to amend

      the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925 to provide that the rules revising the

      calculation of the vehicle excise tax shall be issued by January 1, 2021, and to provide

      that changes to the vehicle excise tax shall be revenue neutral or revenue positive; and to

      make this act apply as of February 14, 2021.

       BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

act may be cited as the CleanEnergy DC Omnibus Technical Amendment Second

Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2021.

        Sec. 2. Title III of the CleanEnergy DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2018, effective

March 22, 2019 (D.C. Law 22-257; D.C. Official Code  8-1772.21 et seq.), is amended as

follows:

        (a) Section 301 (D.C. Official Code  8-1772.21) is amended as follows:

                (1) Subsection (a) is amended as follow:

                         (A) Paragraph (2) is amended by striking the phrase January 1, 2023 and

inserting the phrase January 1, 2027 in its place.

                         (B) Paragraph (3) is amended by striking the phrase January 1, 2026 and

inserting the phrase January 1, 2033 in its place.

                (2) Subsection (b)(1)(A) is amended to read as follows:

        (b)(1)(A) No later than January 1, 2021, and every 6 years thereafter, DOEE shall, by

rulemaking or publication on the DOEE website, establish property types and building energy

performance standards for each property type, or an equivalent metric for buildings that do not

receive an ENERGY STAR score..

                (3) Subsection (c) is amended to read as follows:

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        (c) All buildings below the energy performance standard for their property type,

established pursuant to subsection (b)(1) and (2) of this section, shall have 5 years from the date

the performance standards are established to meet the building energy performance requirements

established by DOEE..

        (b) The lead-in language in section 303 (D.C. Official Code  8-1772.22) is amended by

striking the phrase January 1, 2020 and inserting the phrase January 1, 2021" in its place.

        Sec. 3. Section 6(j)(1A) of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, approved March 3,

1925 (43 Stat. 1121; D.C. Official Code  50-2201.03(j)(1A)), is amended as follows:

        (a) Subparagraph (A) is amended by striking the phrase January 1, 2020 and inserting

the phrase January 1, 2021 in its place.

        (b) Subparagraph (E) is amended to read as follows:

                       (E) Changes to the vehicle excise tax made pursuant to this paragraph

shall be revenue neutral or revenue positive..

       Sec. 4. Applicability.

       This act shall apply as of February 14, 2021.

       Sec. 5. Fiscal impact statement.

       The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement of the Budget Director as the fiscal impact

statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, approved

October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code  1-301.47a).

       Sec. 6. Effective date.

       This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the

Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), and shall remain in effect for no longer than

90 days, as provided for emergency acts of the Council of the District of Columbia in section

412(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 788;

D.C. Official Code  1-204.12(a)).

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               Chairman

               Council of the District of Columbia

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Mayor

District of Columbia

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