ENROLLED ORIGINAL
A RESOLUTION
24-156
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
June 29, 2021
To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to provide that expenditures
on school-administered theatrical and music performances, including stipends for non-
District of Columbia Public Schools employees, shall be an allowable expenditures from
a schools Student Activity Fund.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the Student Activity Fund Theatrical and Music Performance
Expenditures Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2021.
Sec. 2. (a) On January 25, 2021, Councilmember Mary M. Cheh introduced the Student
Activity Fund Theatrical and Music Performance Expenditures Act of 2021, as introduced on
January 25, 2021 (Bill 24-41). The Committee on Education and the Committee of the Whole
previously held a joint hearing on substantively identical permanent legislation on March 10,
2020, during Council Period 23.
(b) On July 21, 2020, the Council passed the Student Activity Fund Theatrical and Music
Performance Expenditures Emergency Act of 2020, effective August 13, 2020 (D.C. Act 23-379;
67 DCR 9859) (emergency act), which expired on November 10, 2020.
(c) On October 6, 2020, the Council passed the Student Activity Fund Theatrical and
Music Performance Expenditures Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2020, effective
October 26, 2020 (D.C. Act 23-429; 67 DCR 12973), which expired January 23, 2021.
(d) On September 22, 2020, the Council passed the Student Activity Fund Theatrical and
Music Performance Expenditures Temporary Act of 2020, effective December 23, 2020 (D.C.
Law 23-165; 67 DCR 13234) (temporary act), which will expire on August 4, 2021.
(e) This emergency legislation is substantively identical to the permanent legislation and
prior emergency and the temporary acts.
(f) Immediate legislative action is necessary to prevent a gap in the law between the
expiration of the temporary act and the passage of permanent legislation by the Committee of the
Whole.
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 ENROLLED ORIGINAL
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 Student
Activity Fund Theatrical and Music Performance Expenditures Emergency Act of 2021 be
adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
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