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PR26-0018 • 2025

Residential Tranquility Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Residential Tranquility Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Enacted

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

Sponsor
Pinto
Last action
2025-01-17
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on what happens after February 2, 2025 or the enforcement mechanisms for the new rules.

Emergency Rules for Residential Peace

This resolution declares an emergency to update rules about noise and projectiles near homes during certain hours, and sets deadlines for council appointments.

What This Bill Does

  • Declares that there is an emergency situation due to congressional review.
  • Updates the Residential Tranquility Act to stop people from using loudspeakers near houses between 7 PM and 9 AM if targeting a residence for purposes of a demonstration.
  • Adds rules to prevent throwing objects at homes with the intent to cause fear, intimidate, or retaliate against any person living or working there.
  • Sets December 7th as the term expiration date for Council appointments to the Corrections Information Council.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who live in residential areas of Washington D.C.
  • Anyone planning demonstrations near houses
  • Council members and their appointees

Terms To Know

Emergency Act
A law passed quickly to deal with urgent situations.
Congressional Review
The process where Congress looks at laws made by the District of Columbia and decides if they should be changed or kept.

Limits and Unknowns

  • It does not specify what happens after February 2, 2025.
  • Does not explain how enforcement will work for new rules.

Bill History

  1. 2025-01-17 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0008, Effective from Jan 07, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 000383

  2. 2025-01-07 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  3. 2025-01-07 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  4. 2025-01-07 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0008

  5. 2025-01-06 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0018 Introduced by Councilmember Pinto at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Residential Tranquility Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

A RESOLUTION

26-8

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

January 7, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need
to amend the Residential Tranquility Act of 2010 to prohibit persons targeting a residence
for purposes of a demonstration from using sound amplifying devices in a residential
zone between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., and to prohibit a person from launching or
throwing a projectile onto the residential property of another with the intent to cause fear,
intimidate, or retaliate against any person living or working at that residence; and to
amend the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of
1997 to provide that the term expiration date for a Council appointment to the
Corrections Information Council shall be December 7th of the year in which the term
expires.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Residential Tranquility Congressional Review Emergency
Declaration Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. (a) On October 29, 2024, the Council adopted the Residential Tranquility
Emergency Amendment Act of 2024, effective November 4, 2024 (D.C. Act 25-622; 71 DCR
13558) (“emergency act”), which expires on February 2, 2025.
(b) On November 12, 2024, the Council adopted the Residential Tranquility Temporary
Amendment Act of 2024, enacted on November 22, 2024 (D.C. Act 25-640, 71 DCR 14480)
(“temporary act”), which has not yet completed congressional review.
(c) This congressional review 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 of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances
enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the
Residential Tranquility Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 be adopted
after a single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.