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PR26-0155 • 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
2025-04-11
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The resolution does not provide details on what happens after May 1, 2025.

Emergency Rules for Residential Peace

This resolution extends emergency rules to maintain residential peace and sets deadlines for council appointments.

What This Bill Does

  • Makes it illegal for people to use loudspeakers near homes between 7:00 PM and 9:00 AM in residential zones during an emergency period.
  • Bans throwing things at houses or trying to scare the people living there during an emergency period.
  • Extends rules from previous emergency acts until May 1, 2025, when a new law takes effect.
  • Sets December 7th as the end date for council appointments to the Corrections Information Council.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who live in residential areas of Washington D.C.
  • Council members and those appointed by them

Terms To Know

Emergency Act
A temporary law made to deal with urgent situations.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution only applies in the District of Columbia.
  • It does not specify what happens after May 1, 2025, when the current emergency act expires.
  • Rules about loudspeakers and throwing things are meant to last until a new law is made on May 8, 2025.

Bill History

  1. 2025-04-11 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0060, Effective from Apr 01, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 004077

  2. 2025-04-01 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  3. 2025-04-01 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  4. 2025-04-01 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0060

  5. 2025-03-27 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0155 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

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A RESOLUTION

26-60

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

April 1, 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 Second 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 expired 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 a projected law date of May 8, 2025.
(c) On January 7, 2025, the Council adopted the Residential Tranquility Congressional
Emergency Amendment Act of 2025, effective January 31, 2025 (D.C. Act 26-2; 72 DCR 1130)
(“congressional review emergency act”), which expires on May 1, 2025.
(d) This second congressional review emergency legislation is necessary to prevent a gap
in the law between the expiration of the congressional review emergency act and the projected
law 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 Second Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 be
adopted after a single reading.
ENROLLED ORIGINAL

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Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.