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PR26-0210 • 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Budget
Enacted

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

Sponsor
at the request of the Mayor
Last action
2025-09-19
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Emergency Declaration for District's 2026 Budget

This resolution declares an emergency to allow the Mayor of Washington D.C. to adopt the local budget for fiscal year 2026 before October 1, 2025.

What This Bill Does

  • Declares that there is an emergency situation regarding the need to pass the District's budget for fiscal year 2026.
  • Allows the Mayor to submit a special emergency budget act that does not require congressional review but has limited effectiveness duration.
  • Requires this resolution to take effect immediately after passing.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Mayor of Washington D.C.
  • District residents, visitors, businesses, and others who rely on District services

Terms To Know

Emergency circumstances
A situation that requires immediate action to prevent harm or disruption.
Congressional review period
The time required for Congress to examine and potentially approve a bill before it becomes law.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This resolution only allows the emergency budget act to be effective until the regular budget is approved.
  • It does not specify what happens if the regular budget cannot be passed in time.

Bill History

  1. 2025-09-19 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0185, Effective from Jul 28, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 010167

  2. 2025-07-28 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  3. 2025-07-28 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0185

  4. 2025-06-03 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council with comments from the Committee of the Whole

  5. 2025-05-27 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0210 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

1

A RESOLUTION

26-185

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

July 28, 2025

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to adopt the local portion of
the budget of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.

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

Sec. 2. (a) The Mayor transmitted the Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget Act of 2025, passed
on 2nd reading on July 28, 2025 (Enrolled version of Bill 26-260) (“Fiscal Year 2026 Local
Budget Act of 2025”), to the Council on May 27, 2025; that measure is scheduled for its second
and final reading on July 28, 2025.
(b) In order for the District government to operate fully and provide necessary services to
District residents, visitors, businesses, and others in Fiscal Year 2026, the Fiscal Year 2026
Budget and Financial Plan must be effective prior to October 1, 2025, which is the start of Fiscal
Year 2026.
(c) Due to the timing of the submission and adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget and
the congressional recess schedule, the Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget Act of 2025 is not
expected to complete its congressional review period before October 1, 2025.
(d) Accordingly, the Mayor transmitted to the Council the Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget
Emergency Act of 2025, which is not subject to a congressional review period but is limited in
the duration of its effectiveness, so that an approved budget and financial plan for Fiscal Year
2026 may be effective before the start of the fiscal year while the Fiscal Year 2026 Local Budget
Act of 2025 completes congressional review.

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 Fiscal
Year 2026 Local Budget Emergency Act of 2025 be adopted after a single reading.

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.