Legislation

would amend Title 12-G of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations to revise dates during which owners and operators of rental housing must provide heat and air conditioning. Current regulations require landlords who offer air conditioning as a service to make air conditioning available from May 15 to September 15 and require landlords to provide heat from October 1 to May 1. However, recent temperature trends in the District require revisiting this schedule. This bill is a reintroduction of the Climatizing Our Overheated Living Spaces Regulating Amendment Act of 2023, revised with input from the Department of Buildings. The bill was co-introduced by Councilmembers Brianne K. Nadeau, Janeese Lewis George, Matthew Frumin, and Anita Bonds.

This legislation would exempt District government procurements of vehicles and technology from certified business enterprise (CBE) requirements in the Small and Certified Business Enterprise Development and Assistance Act of 2005. The legislation addresses key operational and logistical issues related to CBE mandated procurement. The bill was co-introduced by Councilmember Matthew Frumin.

This legislation proposes an amendment to the Charter for the District of Columbia to prohibit any expelled Councilmember from serving as Councilmember for a period of five years following the expulsion. Should the bill be approved by the Council, it will then be placed on the ballot for District voters to ratify. The bill was co-introduced by Councilmembers Brooke Pinto, Charles Allen, and Brianne K. Nadeau.

This legislation would reform reporting requirements for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) and District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) by identifying duplicative requirements, redundant reports, and alternative data sources. The bill was co-introduced by Councilmembers Matthew Frumin, Janeese Lewis George, Anita Bonds, and Brianne K. Nadeau.

The legislation would reduce cost burdens on qualifying developments at Metro stations by waiving property taxes for 20 years, encouraging the development of incorporated housing and new or rehabilitated structures. This legislation is also a re-introduction.

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.