Legislation

This legislation would exempt select businesses from being required to accept cash in an effort to reduce potential crime and safety concerns. The DC Council passed emergency legislation on this bill in early January that will be in effect until April 2025. This permanent version of the bill was co-introduced by Councilmember Brooke Pinto and Councilmember Matthew Frumin.

This legislation would provide greater stability for special education students, increase communication between DC Public Schools (DCPS) and families, and ensure special education students are receiving quality care by codifying staff-to-student ratios for self-contained special education classrooms.

This legislation would improve the oversight of public charter schools by requiring newly elected and appointed board members of a public charter school’s Board of Trustees to complete annual trainings on issues related to non-profit Board governance including financial management.

This legislation would improve and expand health care services for District residents by removing unnecessary obstacles for health care facilities to operate in the District.

This legislation would allow private insurers and Medicaid managed care organizations to include expenditures for certain social determinants of health services in their medical loss ratio.

The bill would raise the current personal property tax exemption for businesses in the District from $225,000 to $325,000, tie prospective annual increases to the Consumer Prince Index, and remove the requirement for filers under the threshold to file the personal property (FP-31) tax return form.

To amend the Special Education Procedural Protections Expansion Act of 2014 to give a child with a disability with an individualized education program the right to remain in their initial placement feeder pattern unless there is no program available in their feeder pattern, to require that an LEA consult with the IEP team of a child with a disability prior to any change in the child’s service location, to require that an LEA provide a written explanation to the parent of a child with a disability before any change in service location for the child is made and explain why the special education services in the current feeder pattern cannot meet the child’s needs if the action removes the child from their current placement’s feeder pattern, and to require that an LEA provide a written explanation to the special education teacher in an affected self-contained special education program classroom, the parents of students in an affected self-contained special education classroom, and school administrators, describing the additional resources and personnel that will be allocated to a classroom when the student-to-staff ratio exceeds those ratios set by regulation.

This legislation would symbolically designate 15th St. NW between Church St. NW and Q St. NW in Ward 2 as Alma Thomas Way, in honor of the trailblazing artist, dedicated educator, and Logan Circle resident of more than 70 years

The bill would require private health insurance plans, Medicaid, and the DC Healthcare Alliance to cover vasectomy services with no copayments, deductibles, or other cost sharing requirements.

As introduced Bill 25-692 would broaden the pool of qualified healthcare professionals authorized to initiate involuntary commitment processes, incorporating Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners with expertise in mental health assessments. It extends the detention time for emergency observation. It extends time frames for initiation of probable cause hearings and prioritizes virtual hearings. It clarifies the right to voluntarily agree to remain in inpatient status until an appropriate discharge plan is implemented. It would allow doctors to make involuntary admissions, provided their financial arrangements comply with federal law. It allows the court, when appropriate to order for treatment for up to 30 days but not less than 15 days. It would also require the Department of Behavioral Health to develop online training modules for both healthcare professionals and laypersons.

This legislation would give the District tools to recapture public funds that are awarded to a non-governmental entity that violates the terms of a contract, grant, incentive, subsidy, or tax relief agreement with the District.

To amend, on an emergency basis, the Retired Police Officer Redeployment Amendment Act of 1992 to allow retired Metropolitan Police Department officers and retired firefighters from the Fire and Emergency Services Department to be eligible for rehire at the discretion of the Director of the Office of Unified Communication as temporary full-time or temporary part-time 911 call takers or 911 dispatchers without jeopardy to the retirement benefits of the employee.