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PR26-0044 • 2025

The Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight Plan Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

The Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight Plan Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

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Enacted

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

Sponsor
Parker
Last action
2025-02-14
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate explanation included claims about new laws having already passed and the resolution taking immediate effect, which are not supported by the official source material. The effective date of the resolution is February 4, 2025, but it does not specify when exactly it takes effect.

Emergency Declaration to Remove Reporting Requirement for Juvenile Justice Oversight

This resolution removes the requirement for the Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight to report a plan by March 1, 2025.

What This Bill Does

  • Removes the need for the Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight to create and submit a plan for their future work by March 1, 2025.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight

Terms To Know

Emergency Declaration
A decision made by a government to address urgent situations that require immediate action.
Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight
An office responsible for overseeing facilities where young people who break the law are held and helped.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution only removes a reporting requirement but does not change how the Office operates.
  • It is unclear what will happen if the new laws mentioned in the bill do not pass or get funding.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-14 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0035, Effective from Feb 04, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 001464

  2. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  3. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  4. 2025-02-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0035

  5. 2025-01-30 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0044 Introduced by Councilmember Parker at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

The Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight Plan Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

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A RESOLUTION

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IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

February 4, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to repeal a requirement that
the Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight prepare and report on a
plan for the continuance of its operations that has been rendered moot by subsequent
Council legislation.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Office of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight Plan
Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025.”

Sec. 2. (a) In the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget, the Council restored funding to the Office of
Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight (“Office”) after its budget had been zeroed out
in the Mayor’s proposed budget. To prevent future cuts to the Office’s budget, the Council
enacted the Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight Act of 2024, a subtitle in the Fiscal Year 2025
Budget Support Act of 2024, effective September 18, 2024 (D.C. Law 25-217; 71 DCR 9990)
(“BSA”) establishing the Office as a program within the Office of the District of Columbia
Auditor (“Auditor”). At the time, this placement was considered to be temporary. As such, the
subtitle directed the Office to develop a plan for the continuation of its activities through Fiscal
Year 2027 and “present that plan to the Council of the District of Columbia no later than March
1, 2025.”
(b) On December 17, 2024, the Council passed on second reading the Recidivism
Reduction at DYRS Amendment Act of 2024, enacted on February 7, 2025 (D.C. Act 25-720; __
DCR __) (“Recidivism Reduction Act”), which permanently transfers the functions of the Office
to the Auditor and creates new oversight and compliance responsibilities for the Auditor. While
this legislation is still pending mayoral and congressional approval (as well as funding), the
report mandated by the BSA is moot. The Auditor is already making preparations for the new
scope of work that will be required when the Recidivism Reduction Act is implemented.
(c) This emergency legislation would strike the requirement that the Office report to the
Council by March 1, 2025, to avoid the unnecessary and wasteful expenditure of staff resources
on a plan and report that is no longer required. This action is required now.

ENROLLED ORIGINAL

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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 Office
of Independent Juvenile Justice Facilities Oversight Plan Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 be
adopted after a single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.