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B26-0272 • 2025

Rental Housing Registration Extension Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

Rental Housing Registration Extension Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

Housing
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
R. White
Last action
2025-07-04
Official status
Enacted
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effective date is listed as following approval by the Mayor or a veto override, but no specific calendar date for enactment was provided in the source text.

Rental Housing Registration Extension Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

This law extends the deadline for rental housing providers to file new registration statements and requires owners of units exempt from rent stabilization to report current and past rent amounts.

What This Bill Does

  • Extends the time limit from 90 days to 180 days for filing a new registration statement after the public rent control database is finished.
  • Updates related deadlines in the law by changing numbers from 90 or 91 to 180 or 181.
  • Requires owners of rental units that are exempt from rent stabilization to report current monthly rent at the time of registration.
  • Requires those same owners to report the monthly rent charged for each unit during the two prior calendar years.
  • States that this new reporting requirement applies only once at registration and does not create ongoing annual reports.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Housing providers who must file a new rental housing registration statement in Washington, D.C.
  • Owners of rental accommodations that are exempt from rent stabilization rules.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This act is an emergency measure that remains in effect for no longer than 90 days after it takes full legal force.
  • The text does not specify which types of housing are exempt from rent stabilization, only that owners of such units must report past rents.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Act A26-0090 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 007552, Expires on Sep 23, 2025

  2. 2025-06-26 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Returned from Mayor

  3. 2025-06-25 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Enacted without Mayor's Signature with Act Number A26-0090, Expires on Sep 23, 2025

  4. 2025-06-10 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Transmitted to Mayor, Response Due on Jun 25, 2025

  5. 2025-06-03 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  6. 2025-06-03 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  7. 2025-05-29 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    B26-0272 Introduced by Councilmember R. White at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Rental Housing Registration Extension Emergency Amendment Act of 2025

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
ENROLLED ORIGINAL
AN ACT
D.C. ACT 26-90
INTHE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICTOF COLUMBIA
JUNE 25, 2025
Toamend,onanemergencybasis,section205(f)oftheRentalHousingActof1985toextendthedeadlinefrom90daysto180daysforhousingproviderstofileanewregistrationstatementafterthecompletionofthepubliclyaccessiblerentcontrolhousingdatabase,andtorequireownersofrentalaccommodationsthatareexemptfromrentstabilizationtoreportcurrentandpriorrentamountsfortheprevious2calendaryearsatthetimeofregistration.
BE ITENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICTOF COLUMBIA, Thatthis
actmay be citedas the“RentalHousingRegistrationExtensionEmergency Amendment Act of
2025”.
Sec.2.Section205(f)oftheRentalHousingActof1985,effectiveJuly17,1985(D.C.Law6-10;D.C.OfficialCode§42-3502.05(f),isamendedasfollows:(a)Paragraph(1)isamendedbystrikingthenumber“90”andinsertingthenumber“180”initsplace.
(b)Paragraph(2)isamendedbystrikingthenumber“90”andinsertingthenumber“180”initsplace.(©)Paragraph(4)isamendedasfollows:(1)Subparagraph(A)isamendedbystrikingthenumber“90”andinsertingthenumber“180”initsplace.
(2)Subparagraph (B)(i)isamended by strikingthenumber “91” and insertingthe
number“181”initsplace.
(@)A newparagraph(5)isaddedtoreadasfollows:“(S5)(A)The ownerof a rentalaccommodation thatisexempt from rent
stabilizationpursuanttosubsection(a)ofthissectionshall,atthetimeofregistration,providethefollowinginformationforeachrentalunit:“()Thecurrentmonthlyrentamount;and“Gi)Themonthlyrentamountchargedforthesameunitduringeachofthe2priorcalendaryears.
ENROLLED ORIGINAL
“(B)Theinformationrequiredundersubparagraph(A)ofthisparagraphshallbesubmittedonlyatthetimeofregistrationandshallnotbesubjecttoanyongoingorannualreportingrequirements.”.
Sec,3.Fiscalimpactstatement.
The Counciladoptsthefiscalimpact statementoftheBudget Directorasthefiscalimpact
statementrequiredbysection4aoftheGeneralLegislativeProceduresActof1975,approved
October 16,2006 (120 Stat.2038; D.C. OfficialCode § 1-301.47a).
Sec.4.Effectivedate.ThisactshalltakeeffectfollowingapprovalbytheMayor(orintheeventofvetobytheMayor,actionbytheCounciltooverridetheveto),andshallremainineffectfornolongerthan90days,asprovidedforemergencyactsoftheCounciloftheDistrictofColumbiainsection
412(a)oftheDistrictofColumbiaHomeRuleAct,approvedDecember24,1973(87Stat.788;D.C.OfficialCode§ 1-204.12(a)).
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APPROVEDJUNE 25, 2025

COUNCILOF THEDISTRICTOF COLUMBIA
WASHINGTON,DC,20004

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(DC1ACTION FinalReading
{X]VOTE DATE June3, 2025,
(X]VOICEVOTE ‘Approved
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