ENROLLED ORIGINAL
A RESOLUTION
25-265
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 Office of Unified Communications Establishment Act of 2004 to require the
Office of Unified Communications to collect and post publicly on the Office’s website
the number of calls eligible to be diverted to alternative responses, the number of those
calls diverted, and data on daily call-taking and dispatching operations; and to amend
section 16-1053 of the District of Columbia Official Code to add a representative of the
Office of Unified Communications as a member of the Domestic Violence Fatality
Review Board.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Office of Unified Communications Transparency and Accuracy
Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2023”.
Sec. 2. (a) On July 11, 2023, the Council passed the Office of Unified Communications
Transparency and Accuracy Emergency Amendment Act of 2023, effective July 27, 2023 (D.C.
Act 25-198; 70 DCR 10746) (“emergency act”), which expires on October 25, 2023.
(b) On September 19, 2023, the Council passed the Office of Unified Communications
Transparency and Accuracy Temporary Amendment Act of 2023, passed on 2nd reading on
September 19, 2023 (Enrolled version of Bill 25-375) (“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.
Sec. 3 The Council determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute
emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Office of Unified Communications
Transparency and Accuracy Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2023 be
adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.