HR 2096
Passed a chamber
Restores collective bargaining rights over discipline for District of Columbia police officers and restores the deadline for bringing disciplinary cases against Metropolitan Police Department members and civilian employees.
Official title: Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
14-MAR-2025
Referred
14-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
21-MAY-2025
Reported
04-JUN-2025
On the calendar
04-JUN-2025
Passed
10-JUN-2025
Senate
Received
11-JUN-2025
- Strikes subsection (c) of Section 1708 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act, restoring the right to negotiate discipline matters through collective bargaining
- Repeals Subtitle M of title I of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 and restores or revives any provisions that subtitle amended or repealed
- Restores the statute of limitations for disciplinary cases against Metropolitan Police Department members and civilian employees
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (14-MAR-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 10-JUN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Crime and Law Enforcement
■ 3 R
3 Republicans