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PR26-0182 • 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Approval Resolution of 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Approval 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 what happens if the Mayor misses the new deadline or how the Council can set a different date later.

Emergency Change to Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission

This resolution changes the deadline for the Mayor of Washington, D.C., to submit the fiscal year 2026 budget to the Council from April 2, 2025, to May 15, 2025.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the date by which the Mayor must send the Fiscal Year 2026 budget to the Council of Washington, D.C., from April 2, 2025, to May 15, 2025.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Mayor of Washington, D.C., who must submit the budget on time.
  • The Council of Washington, D.C., which receives and reviews the budget.

Terms To Know

PeopleSoft
A software system used to manage financial data.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what happens if the Mayor misses the new deadline.
  • The Council can set a different date later, but this resolution does not say when or how that might happen.

Bill History

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

    Resolution R26-0099, Effective from Apr 29, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 005682

  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 R26-0099

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

    PR26-0182 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Emergency Approval Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

A RESOLUTION

26-99

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

April 29, 2025

To amend, on an emergency basis, 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
Amendment Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. The Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Submission Requirements Resolution of 2024,
effective December 3, 2024 (Res. 25-740; 71 DCR 15826), is amended as follows:
(a) Section 2 is amended by striking the phrase “not later than April 2, 2025,” and
inserting the phrase “not later than May 15, 2025, unless another date is set by subsequent
resolution of the Council,” in its place.
(b) Section 3(3) is amended as follows:
(1) The lead-in language is amended by striking the phrase “April 2, 2025:” and
inserting the phrase “May 15, 2025:” in its place.
(2) Subparagraph (D) is amended by striking the phrase “produced from
PeopleSoft on April 2, 2025,” and inserting the phrase “produced from PeopleSoft on May 15,
2025,” in its place.

Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately.