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PR26-0181 • 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Budget
Enacted

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

Sponsor
Mendelson
Last action
2025-05-09
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on how the resolution affects residents or businesses directly, nor does it specify consequences for missing the new deadline.

Emergency Change to Mayor's Budget Deadline for 2026

This resolution changes the deadline for the mayor of Washington D.C. to submit the Fiscal Year 2026 budget to the council due to an emergency situation.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the date when the Mayor must send the Fiscal Year 2026 budget to the Council from April 2, 2025, to May 15, 2025.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Mayor of Washington D.C.
  • The Council of the District of Columbia

Terms To Know

Emergency Declaration Resolution
A resolution that allows for quick changes to laws or deadlines due to urgent situations.
Fiscal Year
The financial year used by governments and businesses, typically starting in October and ending the following September.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what happens if the Mayor misses the new deadline.
  • Does not explain how the budget changes will affect residents or businesses directly.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-09 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0098, Effective from Apr 29, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 005680

  2. 2025-05-06 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council

  3. 2025-04-29 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  4. 2025-04-29 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0098

  5. 2025-04-28 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0181 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

1

A RESOLUTION

26-98

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

April 29, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Fiscal Year 2026
Budget Submission Requirements Resolution of 2024 to provide for a new date for
transmission of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget by the Mayor to the Council.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency
Declaration Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. (a) The Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Resolution of 2024,
effective December 3, 2024 (Res. 25-740; 71 DCR 15826), pursuant to the Home Rule Act, set
April 2, 2025 as the date for the transmission of the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget to the Council.
However, the Mayor did not meet that date.
(b) The February 28, 2025, revenue estimate upon which the Mayor’s proposed budget is
to be based included significant slowing of revenue growth, requiring reductions in recurring
programs as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget. In addition, Congress has excluded a standard
appropriations provision when adopting the Federal Fiscal Year 2025 continuing appropriations
resolution that has forced the District to revise its Fiscal Year 2025 spending to levels
appropriated for Fiscal Year 2024, a cut of over $1 billion from the current year budget.
(c) The proposed May 15, 2025, date of transmission is based on:
(1) More certainty from the Mayor as to when there will be “pencils down” on the
Fiscal Year 2025 supplemental budget that the Mayor has chosen to pursue; and
(2) A better understanding from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer as to
how long they will need to process the supplemental budget and how flexible they will be as to
when they will issue newly revised revenue estimates, which ordinarily would issue after the
Council completes its work on the budget, but, because of the Mayor’s delay, this year will issue
during Council consideration.
(d) Approval on an emergency basis of the change in the date of the budget transmission
is necessary to provide the Council and the public certainty as to the schedule for the Council to
complete action on the revised Fiscal Year 2025 budget and the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, and
will allow the Council to move forward with setting a revised schedule of committee meetings,
markup, and adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
ENROLLED ORIGINAL

2

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia finds that the circumstances enumerated
in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Fiscal Year 2026
Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Amendment Resolution of 2025 be adopted after a
single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.