II 118THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION S. 51 To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JANUARY24 (legislative day, JANUARY3), 2023 Mr. C ARPER(for himself, Mr. VANHOLLEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BENNET, Mr. B LUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. C ASEY, Mr. COONS, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. D URBIN, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. FETTERMAN, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. H ICKENLOOPER, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. KAINE, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. LUJA´N, Mr. M ARKEY, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. MUR- RAY, Mr. OSSOFF, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. PETERS, Mr. REED, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. S CHATZ, Mr. SCHUMER, Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. WARNER, Mr. W ARNOCK, Ms. WARREN, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. W YDEN, Mr. HEINRICH, and Mrs. SHAHEEN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3 (a) S HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4 ‘‘Washington, D.C. Admission Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 2 •S 51 IS (b) TABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents of 1 this Act is as follows: 2 Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—STATE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. Subtitle A—Procedures for Admission Sec. 101. Admission into the Union. Sec. 102. Election of Senators and Representative. Sec. 103. Issuance of Presidential proclamation. Subtitle B—Seat of Government of the United States Sec. 111. Territory and boundaries. Sec. 112. Description of Capital. Sec. 113. Retention of title to property. Sec. 114. Effect of admission on current laws of seat of Government of United States. Sec. 115. Capital National Guard. Sec. 116. Termination of legal status of seat of Government of United States as municipal corporation. Subtitle C—General Provisions Relating to Laws of State Sec. 121. Effect of admission on current laws. Sec. 122. Pending actions and proceedings. Sec. 123. Limitation on authority to tax Federal property. Sec. 124. United States nationality. TITLE II—INTERESTS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Subtitle A—Federal Property Sec. 201. Treatment of military lands. Sec. 202. Waiver of claims to Federal property. Subtitle B—Federal Courts Sec. 211. Residency requirements for certain Federal officials. Sec. 212. Renaming of Federal courts. Sec. 213. Conforming amendments relating to Department of Justice. Sec. 214. Treatment of pretrial services in United States District Court. Subtitle C—Federal Elections Sec. 221. Permitting individuals residing in Capital to vote in Federal elections in State of most recent domicile. Sec. 222. Repeal of Office of District of Columbia Delegate. Sec. 223. Repeal of law providing for participation of seat of Government in election of President and Vice President. Sec. 224. Expedited procedures for consideration of constitutional amendment repealing 23rd Amendment. TITLE III—CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6211 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 3 •S 51 IS Subtitle A—Employee Benefits Sec. 301. Federal benefit payments under certain retirement programs. Sec. 302. Continuation of Federal civil service benefits for employees first em- ployed prior to establishment of District of Columbia merit personnel system. Sec. 303. Obligations of Federal Government under judges’ retirement pro- gram. Subtitle B—Agencies Sec. 311. Public Defender Service. Sec. 312. Prosecutions. Sec. 313. Service of United States Marshals. Sec. 314. Designation of felons to facilities of Bureau of Prisons. Sec. 315. Parole and supervision. Sec. 316. Courts. Subtitle C—Other Programs and Authorities Sec. 321. Application of the College Access Act. Sec. 322. Application of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. Sec. 323. Medicaid Federal medical assistance percentage. Sec. 324. Federal planning commissions. Sec. 325. Role of Army Corps of Engineers in supplying water. Sec. 326. Requirements to be located in District of Columbia. TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 401. General definitions. Sec. 402. Statehood Transition Commission. Sec. 403. Certification of enactment by President. Sec. 404. Severability. TITLE I—STATE OF 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. 2 Subtitle A—Procedures for 3 Admission 4 SEC. 101. ADMISSION INTO THE UNION. 5 (a) I NGENERAL.—Subject to the provisions of this 6 Act, upon the issuance of the proclamation required by 7 section 103(a), the State of Washington, Douglass Com-8 monwealth is declared to be a State of the United States 9 of America, and is declared admitted into the Union on 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 4 •S 51 IS an equal footing with the other States in all respects what-1 ever. 2 (b) C ONSTITUTION OFSTATE.—The State Constitu-3 tion shall always be republican in form and shall not be 4 repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the 5 principles of the Declaration of Independence. 6 (c) N ONSEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this sec-7 tion, or the application thereof to any person or cir-8 cumstance, is held to be invalid, the remaining provisions 9 of this Act and any amendments made by this Act shall 10 be treated as invalid. 11 SEC. 102. ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE. 12 (a) I SSUANCE OFPROCLAMATION.— 13 (1) I N GENERAL.—Not more than 30 days after 14 receiving certification of the enactment of this Act 15 from the President pursuant to section 403, the 16 Mayor shall issue a proclamation for the first elec-17 tions for 2 Senators and one Representative in Con-18 gress from the State, subject to the provisions of 19 this section. 20 (2) S PECIAL RULE FOR ELECTIONS OF SEN -21 ATORS.—In the elections of Senators from the State 22 pursuant to paragraph (1), the 2 Senate offices shall 23 be separately identified and designated, and no per-24 son may be a candidate for both offices. No such 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 5 •S 51 IS identification or designation of either of the offices 1 shall refer to or be taken to refer to the terms of 2 such offices, or in any way impair the privilege of 3 the Senate to determine the class to which each of 4 the Senators shall be assigned. 5 (b) R ULES FORCONDUCTINGELECTIONS.— 6 (1) I N GENERAL.—The proclamation of the 7 Mayor issued under subsection (a) shall provide for 8 the holding of a primary election and a general elec-9 tion, and at such elections the officers required to be 10 elected as provided in subsection (a) shall be chosen 11 by the qualified voters of the District of Columbia 12 in the manner required by the laws of the District 13 of Columbia. 14 (2) C ERTIFICATION OF RESULTS .—Election re-15 sults shall be certified in the manner required by the 16 laws of the District of Columbia, except that the 17 Mayor shall also provide written certification of the 18 results of such elections to the President. 19 (c) A SSUMPTION OFDUTIES.—Upon the admission 20 of the State into the Union, the Senators and Representa-21 tive elected at the elections described in subsection (a) 22 shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress and 23 to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Represent-24 atives of the other States in Congress. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 6 •S 51 IS (d) EFFECT OFADMISSION ONHOUSE OFREP-1 RESENTATIVESMEMBERSHIP.— 2 (1) P ERMANENT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF 3 MEMBERS.—Effective with respect to the Congress 4 during which the State is admitted into the Union 5 and each succeeding Congress, the House of Rep-6 resentatives shall be composed of 436 Members, in-7 cluding any Members representing the State. 8 (2) I NITIAL NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES 9 FOR STATE.—Until the taking effect of the first ap-10 portionment of Members occurring after the admis-11 sion of the State into the Union, the State shall be 12 entitled to one Representative in the House of Rep-13 resentatives upon its admission into the Union. 14 (3) A PPORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS RESULTING 15 FROM ADMISSION OF STATE .— 16 (A) A PPORTIONMENT.—Section 22(a) of 17 the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fif-18 teenth and subsequent decennial censuses and 19 to provide for apportionment of Representatives 20 in Congress’’, approved June 18, 1929 (2 21 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking ‘‘the then 22 existing number of Representatives’’ and insert-23 ing ‘‘436 Representatives’’. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 7 •S 51 IS (B) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment 1 made by subparagraph (A) shall apply with re-2 spect to the first regular decennial census con-3 ducted after the admission of the State into the 4 Union and each subsequent regular decennial 5 census. 6 SEC. 103. ISSUANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION. 7 (a) I NGENERAL.—The President, upon the certifi-8 cation of the results of the elections of the officers re-9 quired to be elected as provided in section 102(a), shall, 10 not later than 90 days after receiving such certification 11 pursuant to section 102(b)(2), issue a proclamation an-12 nouncing the results of such elections as so ascertained. 13 (b) A DMISSION OFSTATEUPONISSUANCE OFPROC-14 LAMATION.—Upon the issuance of the proclamation by the 15 President under subsection (a), the State shall be declared 16 admitted into the Union as provided in section 101(a). 17 Subtitle B—Seat of Government of 18 the United States 19 SEC. 111. TERRITORY AND BOUNDARIES. 20 (a) I NGENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 21 (b), the State shall consist of all of the territory of the 22 District of Columbia as of the date of the enactment of 23 this Act, subject to the results of the metes and bounds 24 survey conducted under subsection (c). 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 8 •S 51 IS (b) EXCLUSION OFPORTIONREMAINING ASSEAT OF 1 G OVERNMENT OF UNITEDSTATES.—The territory of the 2 State shall not include the area described in section 112, 3 which shall be known as the ‘‘Capital’’ and shall serve as 4 the seat of the Government of the United States, as pro-5 vided in clause 17 of section 8 of article I of the Constitu-6 tion of the United States. 7 (c) M ETES ANDBOUNDSSURVEY.—Not later than 8 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 9 President (in consultation with the Chair of the National 10 Capital Planning Commission) shall conduct a metes and 11 bounds survey of the Capital, as described in section 12 112(b). 13 SEC. 112. DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL. 14 (a) I NGENERAL.—Subject to subsection (c), upon 15 the admission of the State into the Union, the Capital 16 shall consist of the property described in subsection (b) 17 and shall include the principal Federal monuments, the 18 White House, the Capitol Building, the United States Su-19 preme Court Building, and the Federal executive, legisla-20 tive, and judicial office buildings located adjacent to the 21 Mall and the Capitol Building (as such terms are used 22 in section 8501(a) of title 40, United States Code). 23 (b) G ENERALDESCRIPTION.—Upon the admission of 24 the State into the Union, the boundaries of the Capital 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 9 •S 51 IS shall be as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the 1 southern right-of-way of F Street NE and the eastern 2 right-of-way of 2nd Street NE; 3 (1) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 4 of 2nd Street NE to its intersection with the north-5 eastern right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE; 6 (2) thence southwest along said northeastern 7 right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE to its intersec-8 tion with the northern right-of-way of Constitution 9 Avenue NE; 10 (3) thence west along said northern right-of- 11 way of Constitution Avenue NE to its intersection 12 with the eastern right-of-way of 1st Street NE; 13 (4) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 14 of 1st Street NE to its intersection with the south-15 eastern right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE; 16 (5) thence northeast along said southeastern 17 right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE to its intersec-18 tion with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd Street SE; 19 (6) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 20 of 2nd Street SE to the eastern right-of-way of 2nd 21 Street SE; 22 (7) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 23 of 2nd Street SE to its intersection with the north-24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 10 •S 51 IS ern property boundary of the property designated as 1 Square 760 Lot 803; 2 (8) thence east along said northern property 3 boundary of Square 760 Lot 803 to its intersection 4 with the western right-of-way of 3rd Street SE; 5 (9) thence south along said western right-of- 6 way of 3rd Street SE to its intersection with the 7 northern right-of-way of Independence Avenue SE; 8 (10) thence west along said northern right-of- 9 way of Independence Avenue SE to its intersection 10 with the northwestern right-of-way of Pennsylvania 11 Avenue SE; 12 (11) thence northwest along said northwestern 13 right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue SE to its inter-14 section with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd Street 15 SE; 16 (12) thence south along said eastern right-of- 17 way of 2nd Street SE to its intersection with the 18 southern right-of-way of C Street SE; 19 (13) thence west along said southern right-of- 20 way of C Street SE to its intersection with the east-21 ern right-of-way of 1st Street SE; 22 (14) thence south along said eastern right-of- 23 way of 1st Street SE to its intersection with the 24 southern right-of-way of D Street SE; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 11 •S 51 IS (15) thence west along said southern right-of- 1 way of D Street SE to its intersection with the east-2 ern right-of-way of South Capitol Street; 3 (16) thence south along said eastern right-of- 4 way of South Capitol Street to its intersection with 5 the northwestern right-of-way of Canal Street SE; 6 (17) thence southeast along said northwestern 7 right-of-way of Canal Street SE to its intersection 8 with the southern right-of-way of E Street SE; 9 (18) thence east along said southern right-of- 10 way of said E Street SE to its intersection with the 11 western right-of-way of 1st Street SE; 12 (19) thence south along said western right-of- 13 way of 1st Street SE to its intersection with the 14 southernmost corner of the property designated as 15 Square 736S Lot 801; 16 (20) thence west along a line extended due west 17 from said corner of said property designated as 18 Square 736S Lot 801 to its intersection with the 19 southwestern right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue 20 SE; 21 (21) thence southeast along said southwestern 22 right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue SE to its inter-23 section with the northwestern right-of-way of Vir-24 ginia Avenue SE; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 12 •S 51 IS (22) thence northwest along said northwestern 1 right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SE to its intersec-2 tion with the western right-of-way of South Capitol 3 Street; 4 (23) thence north along said western right-of- 5 way of South Capitol Street to its intersection with 6 the southern right-of-way of E Street SW; 7 (24) thence west along said southern right-of- 8 way of E Street SW to its end; 9 (25) thence west along a line extending said 10 southern right-of-way of E Street SW westward to 11 its intersection with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd 12 Street SW; 13 (26) thence north along said eastern right-of- 14 way of 2nd Street SW to its intersection with the 15 southwestern right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SW; 16 (27) thence northwest along said southwestern 17 right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SW to its intersec-18 tion with the western right-of-way of 3rd Street SW; 19 (28) thence north along said western right-of- 20 way of 3rd Street SW to its intersection with the 21 northern right-of-way of D Street SW; 22 (29) thence west along said northern right-of- 23 way of D Street SW to its intersection with the east-24 ern right-of-way of 4th Street SW; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 13 •S 51 IS (30) thence north along said eastern right-of- 1 way of 4th Street SW to its intersection with the 2 northern right-of-way of C Street SW; 3 (31) thence west along said northern right-of- 4 way of C Street SW to its intersection with the east-5 ern right-of-way of 6th Street SW; 6 (32) thence north along said eastern right-of- 7 way of 6th Street SW to its intersection with the 8 northern right-of-way of Independence Avenue SW; 9 (33) thence west along said northern right-of- 10 way of Independence Avenue SW to its intersection 11 with the western right-of-way of 12th Street SW; 12 (34) thence south along said western right-of- 13 way of 12th Street SW to its intersection with the 14 northern right-of-way of D Street SW; 15 (35) thence west along said northern right-of- 16 way of D Street SW to its intersection with the east-17 ern right-of-way of 14th Street SW; 18 (36) thence south along said eastern right-of- 19 way of 14th Street SW to its intersection with the 20 northeastern boundary of the Consolidated Rail Cor-21 poration railroad easement; 22 (37) thence southwest along said northeastern 23 boundary of the Consolidated Rail Corporation rail-24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 14 •S 51 IS road easement to its intersection with the eastern 1 shore of the Potomac River; 2 (38) thence generally northwest along said east-3 ern shore of the Potomac River to its intersection 4 with a line extending westward the northern bound-5 ary of the property designated as Square 12 Lot 6 806; 7 (39) thence east along said line extending west-8 ward the northern boundary of the property des-9 ignated as Square 12 Lot 806 to the northern prop-10 erty boundary of the property designated as Square 11 12 Lot 806, and continuing east along said northern 12 boundary of said property designated as Square 12 13 Lot 806 to its northeast corner; 14 (40) thence east along a line extending east 15 from said northeast corner of the property des-16 ignated as Square 12 Lot 806 to its intersection 17 with the western boundary of the property des-18 ignated as Square 33 Lot 87; 19 (41) thence south along said western boundary 20 of the property designated as Square 33 Lot 87 to 21 its intersection with the northwest corner of the 22 property designated as Square 33 Lot 88; 23 (42) thence counter-clockwise around the 24 boundary of said property designated as Square 33 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 15 •S 51 IS Lot 88 to its southeast corner, which is along the 1 northern right-of-way of E Street NW; 2 (43) thence east along said northern right-of- 3 way of E Street NW to its intersection with the 4 western right-of-way of 18th Street NW; 5 (44) thence south along said western right-of- 6 way of 18th Street NW to its intersection with the 7 southwestern right-of-way of Virginia Avenue NW; 8 (45) thence southeast along said southwestern 9 right-of-way of Virginia Avenue NW to its intersec-10 tion with the northern right-of-way of Constitution 11 Avenue NW; 12 (46) thence east along said northern right-of- 13 way of Constitution Avenue NW to its intersection 14 with the eastern right-of-way of 17th Street NW; 15 (47) thence north along said eastern right-of- 16 way of 17th Street NW to its intersection with the 17 southern right-of-way of H Street NW; 18 (48) thence east along said southern right-of- 19 way of H Street NW to its intersection with the 20 northwest corner of the property designated as 21 Square 221 Lot 35; 22 (49) thence counter-clockwise around the 23 boundary of said property designated as Square 221 24 Lot 35 to its southeast corner, which is along the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 16 •S 51 IS boundary of the property designated as Square 221 1 Lot 37; 2 (50) thence counter-clockwise around the 3 boundary of said property designated as Square 221 4 Lot 37 to its southwest corner, which it shares with 5 the property designated as Square 221 Lot 818; 6 (51) thence south along the boundary of said 7 property designated as Square 221 Lot 818 to its 8 southwest corner, which it shares with the property 9 designated as Square 221 Lot 40; 10 (52) thence south along the boundary of said 11 property designated as Square 221 Lot 40 to its 12 southwest corner; 13 (53) thence east along the southern border of 14 said property designated as Square 221 Lot 40 to 15 its intersection with the northwest corner of the 16 property designated as Square 221 Lot 820; 17 (54) thence south along the western boundary 18 of said property designated as Square 221 Lot 820 19 to its southwest corner, which it shares with the 20 property designated as Square 221 Lot 39; 21 (55) thence south along the western boundary 22 of said property designated as Square 221 Lot 39 23 to its southwest corner, which is along the northern 24 right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 17 •S 51 IS (56) thence east along said northern right-of- 1 way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW to its intersection 2 with the western right-of-way of 15th Street NW; 3 (57) thence south along said western right-of- 4 way of 15th Street NW to its intersection with a line 5 extending northwest from the southern right-of-way 6 of the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue NW north of 7 Pershing Square; 8 (58) thence southeast along said line extending 9 the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue 10 NW to the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania 11 Avenue NW, and continuing southeast along said 12 southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW 13 to its intersection with the western right-of-way of 14 14th Street NW; 15 (59) thence south along said western right-of- 16 way of 14th Street NW to its intersection with a line 17 extending west from the southern right-of-way of D 18 Street NW; 19 (60) thence east along said line extending west 20 from the southern right-of-way of D Street NW to 21 the southern right-of-way of D Street NW, and con-22 tinuing east along said southern right-of-way of D 23 Street NW to its intersection with the eastern right- 24 of-way of 13 1 ∕2Street NW; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 18 •S 51 IS (61) thence north along said eastern right-of- 1 way of 13 1 ∕2Street NW to its intersection with the 2 southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 3 (62) thence east and southeast along said 4 southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW 5 to its intersection with the western right-of-way of 6 12th Street NW; 7 (63) thence south along said western right-of- 8 way of 12th Street NW to its intersection with a line 9 extending to the west the southern boundary of the 10 property designated as Square 324 Lot 809; 11 (64) thence east along said line to the south-12 west corner of said property designated as Square 13 324 Lot 809, and continuing northeast along the 14 southern boundary of said property designated as 15 Square 324 Lot 809 to its eastern corner, which it 16 shares with the property designated as Square 323 17 Lot 802; 18 (65) thence east along the southern boundary 19 of said property designated as Square 323 Lot 802 20 to its southeast corner, which it shares with the 21 property designated as Square 324 Lot 808; 22 (66) thence counter-clockwise around the 23 boundary of said property designated as Square 324 24 Lot 808 to its northeastern corner, which is along 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 19 •S 51 IS the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue 1 NW; 2 (67) thence southeast along said southern right- 3 of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW to its intersec-4 tion with the eastern right-of-way of 4th Street NW; 5 (68) thence north along a line extending north 6 from said eastern right-of-way of 4th Street NW to 7 its intersection with the southern right-of-way of C 8 Street NW; 9 (69) thence east along said southern right-of- 10 way of C Street NW to its intersection with the east-11 ern right-of-way of 3rd Street NW; 12 (70) thence north along said eastern right-of- 13 way of 3rd Street NW to its intersection with the 14 southern right-of-way of D Street NW; 15 (71) thence east along said southern right-of- 16 way of D Street NW to its intersection with the 17 western right-of-way of 1st Street NW; 18 (72) thence south along said western right-of- 19 way of 1st Street NW to its intersection with the 20 northern right-of-way of C Street NW; 21 (73) thence west along said northern right-of- 22 way of C Street NW to its intersection with the 23 western right-of-way of 2nd Street NW; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 20 •S 51 IS (74) thence south along said western right-of- 1 way of 2nd Street NW to its intersection with the 2 northern right-of-way of Constitution Avenue NW; 3 (75) thence east along said northern right-of- 4 way of Constitution Avenue NW to its intersection 5 with the northeastern right-of-way of Louisiana Ave-6 nue NW; 7 (76) thence northeast along said northeastern 8 right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW to its inter-9 section with the southwestern right-of-way of New 10 Jersey Avenue NW; 11 (77) thence northwest along said southwestern 12 right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue NW to its inter-13 section with the northern right-of-way of D Street 14 NW; 15 (78) thence east along said northern right-of- 16 way of D Street NW to its intersection with the 17 northeastern right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW; 18 (79) thence northeast along said northwestern 19 right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW to its inter-20 section with the western right-of-way of North Cap-21 itol Street; 22 (80) thence north along said western right-of- 23 way of North Capitol Street to its intersection with 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 21 •S 51 IS the southwestern right-of-way of Massachusetts Ave-1 nue NW; 2 (81) thence southeast along said southwestern 3 right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue NW to the 4 southwestern right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue 5 NE; 6 (82) thence southeast along said southwestern 7 right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue NE to the 8 southern right-of-way of Columbus Circle NE; 9 (83) thence counter-clockwise along said south-10 ern right-of-way of Columbus Circle NE to its inter-11 section with the southern right-of-way of F Street 12 NE; and 13 (84) thence east along said southern right-of- 14 way of F Street NE to the point of beginning. 15 (c) E XCLUSION OFBUILDINGSERVING ASSTATE 16 C APITOL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this 17 section, after the admission of the State into the Union, 18 the Capital shall not be considered to include the building 19 known as the ‘‘John A. Wilson Building’’, as described 20 and designated under section 601(a) of the Omnibus 21 Spending Reduction Act of 1993 (sec. 10–1301(a), D.C. 22 Official Code). 23 (d) C LARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF FRANCES 24 P ERKINSBUILDING.—The entirety of the Frances Per-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 22 •S 51 IS kins Building, including any portion of the Building which 1 is north of D Street Northwest, shall be included in the 2 Capital. 3 SEC. 113. RETENTION OF TITLE TO PROPERTY. 4 (a) R ETENTION OFFEDERALTITLE.—The United 5 States shall have and retain title to, or jurisdiction over, 6 for purposes of administration and maintenance, all real 7 and personal property with respect to which the United 8 States holds title or jurisdiction for such purposes on the 9 day before the date of the admission of the State into the 10 Union. 11 (b) R ETENTION OFSTATETITLE.—The State shall 12 have and retain title to, or jurisdiction over, for purposes 13 of administration and maintenance, all real and personal 14 property with respect to which the District of Columbia 15 holds title or jurisdiction for such purposes on the day 16 before the date of the admission of the State into the 17 Union. 18 SEC. 114. EFFECT OF ADMISSION ON CURRENT LAWS OF 19 SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES. 20 Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the laws 21 of the District of Columbia which are in effect on the day 22 before the date of the admission of the State into the 23 Union (without regard to whether such laws were enacted 24 by Congress or by the District of Columbia) shall apply 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 23 •S 51 IS in the Capital in the same manner and to the same extent 1 beginning on the date of the admission of the State into 2 the Union, and shall be deemed laws of the United States 3 which are applicable only in or to the Capital. 4 SEC. 115. CAPITAL NATIONAL GUARD. 5 (a) E STABLISHMENT.—Title 32, United States Code, 6 is amended as follows: 7 (1) D EFINITIONS.—In paragraphs (4), (6), and 8 (19) of section 101, by striking ‘‘District of Colum-9 bia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 10 (2) B RANCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS .—In sec-11 tion 103, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and in-12 serting ‘‘Capital’’. 13 (3) U NITS: LOCATION; ORGANIZATION; COM-14 MAND.—In subsections (c) and (d) of section 104, 15 by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ both places it ap-16 pears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 17 (4) A VAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS .—In 18 section 107(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 19 and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 20 (5) M AINTENANCE OF OTHER TROOPS .—In 21 subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 109, by strik-22 ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it appears and 23 inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 24 •S 51 IS (6) DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER -DRUG 1 ACTIVITIES.—In section 112(h)— 2 (A) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 3 both places it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; 4 and 5 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Na-6 tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 7 inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 8 (7) E NLISTMENT OATH .—In section 304, by 9 striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-10 ital’’. 11 (8) A DJUTANTS GENERAL .—In section 314, by 12 striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it ap-13 pears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 14 (9) D ETAIL OF REGULAR MEMBERS OF ARMY 15 AND AIR FORCE TO DUTY WITH NATIONAL GUARD .— 16 In section 315, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 17 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 18 (10) D ISCHARGE OF OFFICERS ; TERMINATION 19 OF APPOINTMENT.—In section 324(b), by striking 20 ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 21 (11) R ELIEF FROM NATIONAL GUARD DUTY 22 WHEN ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY .—In subsections 23 (a) and (b) of section 325, by striking ‘‘District of 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 25 •S 51 IS Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-1 ital’’. 2 (12) C OURTS-MARTIAL OF NATIONAL GUARD 3 NOT IN FEDERAL SERVICE : COMPOSITION, JURISDIC-4 TION, AND PROCEDURES; CONVENING AUTHORITY .— 5 In sections 326 and 327, by striking ‘‘District of Co-6 lumbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-7 ital’’. 8 (13) A CTIVE GUARD AND RESERVE DUTY : GOV-9 ERNOR’S AUTHORITY.—In section 328(a), by strik-10 ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 11 (14) T RAINING GENERALLY .—In section 12 501(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and in-13 serting ‘‘Capital’’. 14 (15) P ARTICIPATION IN FIELD EXERCISES .—In 15 section 503(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 16 and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 17 (16) N ATIONAL GUARD SCHOOLS AND SMALL 18 ARMS COMPETITIONS .—In section 504(b), by strik-19 ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 20 (17) A RMY AND AIR FORCE SCHOOLS AND 21 FIELD EXERCISES.—In section 505, by striking 22 ‘‘National Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 23 inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 26 •S 51 IS (18) NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE 1 PROGRAM.—In subsections (c)(1), (g)(2), (j), (k), 2 and (l)(1) of section 509, by striking ‘‘District of 3 Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-4 ital’’. 5 (19) I SSUE OF SUPPLIES.—In section 702— 6 (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Na-7 tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 8 inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’; and 9 (B) in subsections (b), (c), and (d), by 10 striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it 11 appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 12 (20) P URCHASES OF SUPPLIES FROM ARMY OR 13 AIR FORCE.—In subsections (a) and (b) of section 14 703, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ both places 15 it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 16 (21) A CCOUNTABILITY: RELIEF FROM UPON 17 ORDER TO ACTIVE DUTY .—In section 704, by strik-18 ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 19 (22) P ROPERTY AND FISCAL OFFICERS .—In 20 section 708— 21 (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Na-22 tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 23 inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 27 •S 51 IS (B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘District 1 of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 2 (23) A CCOUNTABILITY FOR PROPERTY ISSUED 3 TO THE NATIONAL GUARD .—In subsections (c), (d), 4 (e), and (f) of section 710, by striking ‘‘District of 5 Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-6 ital’’. 7 (24) D ISPOSITION OF OBSOLETE OR CON -8 DEMNED PROPERTY .—In section 711, by striking 9 ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 10 (25) D ISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS OF CON -11 DEMNED STORES ISSUED TO NATIONAL GUARD .—In 12 paragraph (1) of section 712, by striking ‘‘District 13 of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 14 (26) P ROPERTY LOSS; PERSONAL INJURY OR 15 DEATH.—In section 715(c), by striking ‘‘District of 16 Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 17 (b) C ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 18 (1) C APITAL DEFINED.— 19 (A) I N GENERAL.—Section 101 of title 32, 20 United States Code, is amended by adding at 21 the end the following new paragraph: 22 ‘‘(20) ‘Capital’ means the area serving as the 23 seat of the Government of the United States, as de-24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 28 •S 51 IS scribed in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Ad-1 mission Act.’’. 2 (B) W ITH REGARDS TO HOMELAND DE -3 FENSE ACTIVITIES.—Section 901 of title 32, 4 United States Code, is amended— 5 (i) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Dis-6 trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; 7 and 8 (ii) by adding at the end the following 9 new paragraph: 10 ‘‘(3) The term ‘Governor’ means, with respect 11 to the Capital, the commanding general of the Cap-12 ital National Guard.’’. 13 (2) T ITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE.—Title 10, 14 United States Code, is amended as follows: 15 (A) D EFINITIONS.—In section 101— 16 (i) in subsection (a), by adding at the 17 end the following new paragraph: 18 ‘‘(21) The term ‘Capital’ means the area serv-19 ing as the seat of the Government of the United 20 States, as described in section 112 of the Wash-21 ington, D.C. Admission Act.’’; 22 (ii) in paragraphs (2) and (4) of sub-23 section (c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 29 •S 51 IS bia’’ both places it appears and inserting 1 ‘‘Capital’’; and 2 (iii) in subsection (d)(5), by striking 3 ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting 4 ‘‘Capital’’. 5 (B) D ISPOSITION ON DISCHARGE .—In sec-6 tion 771a(c), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 7 and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 8 (C) TRICARE COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN 9 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND DE -10 PENDENTS DURING CERTAIN DISASTER RE -11 SPONSE DUTY.—In section 1076f— 12 (i) in subsections (a) and (c)(1), by 13 striking ‘‘with respect to the District of 14 Columbia, the mayor of the District of Co-15 lumbia’’ both places it appears and insert-16 ing ‘‘with respect to the Capital, the com-17 manding general of the Capital National 18 Guard’’; and 19 (ii) in subsection (c)(2), by striking 20 ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting 21 ‘‘Capital’’. 22 (D) P AYMENT OF CLAIMS : AVAILABILITY 23 OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In paragraph (2)(B) of 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 30 •S 51 IS section 2732, by striking ‘‘District of Colum-1 bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 2 (E) M EMBERS OF ARMY NATIONAL GUARD : 3 DETAIL AS STUDENTS, OBSERVERS, AND INVES-4 TIGATORS AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS , IN-5 DUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND HOSPITALS.—In sec-6 tion 7401(c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-7 bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 8 (F) M EMBERS OF AIR NATIONAL GUARD : 9 DETAIL AS STUDENTS, OBSERVERS, AND INVES-10 TIGATORS AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS , IN-11 DUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND HOSPITALS.—In sec-12 tion 9401(c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-13 bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 14 (G) R EADY RESERVE: FAILURE TO SATIS-15 FACTORILY PERFORM PRESCRIBED TRAINING .— 16 In section 10148(b)— 17 (i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 18 and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 19 (ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 20 National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 21 National Guard’’. 22 (H) C HIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD BU -23 REAU.—In section 10502(a)(1)— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 31 •S 51 IS (i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 1 and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 2 (ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 3 National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 4 National Guard’’. 5 (I) V ICE CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD 6 BUREAU.—In section 10505(a)(1)(A)— 7 (i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 8 and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 9 (ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 10 National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 11 National Guard’’. 12 (J) O THER SENIOR NATIONAL GUARD BU -13 REAU OFFICERS.—In subparagraphs (A) and 14 (B) of section 10506(a)(1)— 15 (i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 16 both places it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-17 ital,’’; and 18 (ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 19 National Guard’’ both places it appears 20 and inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 21 (K) N ATIONAL GUARD BUREAU : GENERAL 22 PROVISIONS.—In section 10508(b)(1), by strik-23 ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-24 ital’’. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 32 •S 51 IS (L) COMMISSIONED OFFICERS : ORIGINAL 1 APPOINTMENT; LIMITATION.—In section 2 12204(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 3 and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 4 (M) R ESERVE COMPONENTS GEN -5 ERALLY.—In section 12301(b), by striking 6 ‘‘District of Columbia National Guard’’ both 7 places it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital Na-8 tional Guard’’. 9 (N) N ATIONAL GUARD IN FEDERAL SERV -10 ICE: CALL.—In section 12406— 11 (i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 12 and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 13 (ii) by striking ‘‘National Guard of 14 the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 15 ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 16 (O) R ESULT OF FAILURE TO COMPLY 17 WITH STANDARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS .—In 18 section 12642(c), by striking ‘‘District of Co-19 lumbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 20 (P) L IMITATION ON RELOCATION OF NA -21 TIONAL GUARD UNITS.—In section 18238— 22 (i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 23 and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 33 •S 51 IS (ii) by striking ‘‘National Guard of 1 the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 3 SEC. 116. TERMINATION OF LEGAL STATUS OF SEAT OF 4 GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES AS MUNIC-5 IPAL CORPORATION. 6 Notwithstanding section 2 of the Revised Statutes re-7 lating to the District of Columbia (sec. 1–102, D.C. Offi-8 cial Code) or any other provision of law codified in sub-9 chapter I of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Official 10 Code, effective upon the date of the admission of the State 11 into the Union, the Capital (or any portion thereof) shall 12 not serve as a government and shall not be a body cor-13 porate for municipal purposes. 14 Subtitle C—General Provisions 15 Relating to Laws of State 16 SEC. 121. EFFECT OF ADMISSION ON CURRENT LAWS. 17 (a) L EGISLATIVEPOWER.—The legislative power of 18 the State shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation 19 in the State, consistent with the Constitution of the 20 United States (including the restrictions and limitations 21 imposed upon the States by article I, section 10) and sub-22 ject to the provisions of this Act. 23 (b) C ONTINUATION OF AUTHORITY ANDDUTIES OF 24 M EMBERS OFEXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, ANDJUDICIAL 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 34 •S 51 IS OFFICES.—Upon the admission of the State into the 1 Union, members of executive, legislative, and judicial of-2 fices of the District of Columbia shall be deemed members 3 of the respective executive, legislative, and judicial offices 4 of the State, as provided by the State Constitution and 5 the laws of the State. 6 (c) T REATMENT OFFEDERALLAWS.—To the extent 7 that any law of the United States applies to the States 8 generally, the law shall have the same force and effect in 9 the State as elsewhere in the United States, except as such 10 law may otherwise provide. 11 (d) N OEFFECT ONEXISTINGCONTRACTS.—Nothing 12 in the admission of the State into the Union shall affect 13 any obligation under any contract or agreement under 14 which the District of Columbia or the United States is 15 a party, as in effect on the day before the date of the 16 admission of the State into the Union. 17 (e) S UCCESSION ININTERSTATECOMPACTS.—The 18 State shall be deemed to be the successor to the District 19 of Columbia for purposes of any interstate compact which 20 is in effect on the day before the date of the admission 21 of the State into the Union. 22 (f) C ONTINUATION OF SERVICE OFFEDERALMEM-23 BERS ONBOARDS ANDCOMMISSIONS.—Nothing in the ad-24 mission of the State into the Union shall affect the author-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 35 •S 51 IS ity of a representative of the Federal Government who, 1 as of the day before the date of the admission of the State 2 into the Union, is a member of a board or commission 3 of the District of Columbia to serve as a member of such 4 board or commission or as a member of a successor to 5 such board or commission after the admission of the State 6 into the Union, as may be provided by the State Constitu-7 tion and the laws of the State. 8 (g) S PECIALRULEREGARDINGENFORCEMENT AU-9 THORITY OFUNITEDSTATESCAPITOLPOLICE, UNITED 10 S TATESPARKPOLICE, ANDUNITEDSTATESSECRET 11 S ERVICEUNIFORMEDDIVISION.—The United States 12 Capitol Police, the United States Park Police, and the 13 United States Secret Service Uniformed Division may not 14 enforce any law of the State in the State, except to the 15 extent authorized by the State. Nothing in this subsection 16 may be construed to affect the authority of the United 17 States Capitol Police, the United States Park Police, and 18 the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to 19 enforce any law in the Capital. 20 SEC. 122. PENDING ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS. 21 (a) S TATE ASLEGALSUCCESSOR TODISTRICT OF 22 C OLUMBIA.—The State shall be the legal successor to the 23 District of Columbia in all matters. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 36 •S 51 IS (b) NOEFFECT ONPENDINGPROCEEDINGS.—All 1 existing writs, actions, suits, judicial and administrative 2 proceedings, civil or criminal liabilities, prosecutions, judg-3 ments, sentences, orders, decrees, appeals, causes of ac-4 tion, claims, demands, titles, and rights shall continue un-5 affected by the admission of the State into the Union with 6 respect to the State or the United States, except as may 7 be provided under this Act, as may be modified in accord-8 ance with the provisions of the State Constitution, and 9 as may be modified by the laws of the State or the United 10 States, as the case may be. 11 SEC. 123. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO TAX FEDERAL 12 PROPERTY. 13 The State may not impose any tax on any real or 14 personal property owned or acquired by the United States, 15 except to the extent that Congress may permit. 16 SEC. 124. UNITED STATES NATIONALITY. 17 No provision of this Act shall operate to confer 18 United States nationality, to terminate nationality lawfully 19 acquired, or to restore nationality terminated or lost under 20 any law of the United States or under any treaty to which 21 the United States is or was a party. 22 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 37 •S 51 IS TITLE II—INTERESTS OF 1 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 2 Subtitle A—Federal Property 3 SEC. 201. TREATMENT OF MILITARY LANDS. 4 (a) R ESERVATION OFFEDERALAUTHORITY.— 5 (1) I N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2) 6 and subsection (b) and notwithstanding the admis-7 sion of the State into the Union, authority is re-8 served in the United States for the exercise by Con-9 gress of the power of exclusive legislation in all cases 10 whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land lo-11 cated in the State that, on the day before the date 12 of the admission of the State into the Union, are 13 controlled or owned by the United States and held 14 for defense or Coast Guard purposes. 15 (2) L IMITATION ON AUTHORITY .—The power of 16 exclusive legislation described in paragraph (1) shall 17 vest and remain in the United States only so long 18 as the particular tract or parcel of land involved is 19 controlled or owned by the United States and held 20 for defense or Coast Guard purposes. 21 (b) A UTHORITY OFSTATE.— 22 (1) I N GENERAL.—The reservation of authority 23 in the United States under subsection (a) shall not 24 operate to prevent such tracts or parcels of land 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 38 •S 51 IS from being a part of the State, or to prevent the 1 State from exercising over or upon such lands, con-2 currently with the United States, any jurisdiction 3 which it would have in the absence of such reserva-4 tion of authority and which is consistent with the 5 laws hereafter enacted by Congress pursuant to such 6 reservation of authority. 7 (2) S ERVICE OF PROCESS .—The State shall 8 have the right to serve civil or criminal process in 9 such tracts or parcels of land in which the authority 10 of the United States is reserved under subsection (a) 11 in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights 12 acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed 13 in the State but outside of such lands. 14 SEC. 202. WAIVER OF CLAIMS TO FEDERAL PROPERTY. 15 (a) I NGENERAL.—As a compact with the United 16 States, the State and its people disclaim all right and title 17 to any real or personal property not granted or confirmed 18 to the State by or under the authority of this Act, the 19 right or title to which is held by the United States or sub-20 ject to disposition by the United States. 21 (b) E FFECT ONCLAIMSAGAINSTUNITEDSTATES.— 22 (1) I N GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act shall 23 recognize, deny, enlarge, impair, or otherwise affect 24 any claim against the United States, and any such 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 39 •S 51 IS claim shall be governed by applicable laws of the 1 United States. 2 (2) R ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 3 Act is intended or shall be construed as a finding, 4 interpretation, or construction by Congress that any 5 applicable law authorizes, establishes, recognizes, or 6 confirms the validity or invalidity of any claim re-7 ferred to in paragraph (1), and the determination of 8 the applicability to or the effect of any law on any 9 such claim shall be unaffected by anything in this 10 Act. 11 Subtitle B—Federal Courts 12 SEC. 211. RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN FED-13 ERAL OFFICIALS. 14 (a) C IRCUITJUDGES.—Section 44(c) of title 28, 15 United States Code, is amended— 16 (1) by striking ‘‘Except in the District of Co-17 lumbia, each’’ and inserting ‘‘Each’’; and 18 (2) by striking ‘‘within fifty miles of the Dis-19 trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘within fifty miles 20 of the Capital’’. 21 (b) D ISTRICTJUDGES.—Section 134(b) of such title 22 is amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘the District 23 of Columbia, the Southern District of New York, and’’ and 24 inserting ‘‘the Southern District of New York and’’. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 40 •S 51 IS (c) UNITEDSTATESATTORNEYS.—Section 545(a) of 1 such title is amended by striking the first sentence and 2 inserting ‘‘Each United States attorney shall reside in the 3 district for which he or she is appointed, except that those 4 officers of the Southern District of New York and the 5 Eastern District of New York may reside within 20 miles 6 thereof.’’. 7 (d) U NITEDSTATESMARSHALS.—Section 561(e)(1) 8 of such title is amended to read as follows: 9 ‘‘(1) the marshal for the Southern District of 10 New York may reside within 20 miles of the district; 11 and’’. 12 (e) C LERKS OFDISTRICTCOURTS.—Section 751(c) 13 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Co-14 lumbia and’’. 15 (f) E FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 16 this section shall apply only to individuals appointed after 17 the date of the admission of the State into the Union. 18 SEC. 212. RENAMING OF FEDERAL COURTS. 19 (a) R ENAMING.— 20 (1) C IRCUIT COURT.—Section 41 of title 28, 21 United States Code, is amended— 22 (A) in the first column, by striking ‘‘Dis-23 trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 41 •S 51 IS (B) in the second column, by striking 1 ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital; 2 Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’’. 3 (2) D ISTRICT COURT.—Section 88 of such title 4 is amended— 5 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘District 6 of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 7 Douglass Commonwealth and the 8 Capital’’; 9 (B) by amending the first paragraph to 10 read as follows: 11 ‘‘The State of Washington, Douglass Common-12 wealth and the Capital comprise one judicial dis-13 trict.’’; and 14 (C) in the second paragraph, by striking 15 ‘‘Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 16 (3) C LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The item relating 17 to section 88 in the table of sections for chapter 5 18 of such title is amended to read as follows: 19 ‘‘88. Washington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital.’’. (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 20 C OURT OFAPPEALS.—Title 28, United States Code, is 21 amended as follows: 22 (1) A PPOINTMENT OF JUDGES .—Section 44(a) 23 of such title is amended in the first column by strik-24 ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 42 •S 51 IS (2) TERMS OF COURT.—Section 48(a) of such 1 title is amended— 2 (A) in the first column, by striking ‘‘Dis-3 trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; 4 (B) in the second column, by striking 5 ‘‘Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; and 6 (C) in the second column, by striking 7 ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 8 (3) A PPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT COUNSELS 9 BY CHIEF JUDGE OF CIRCUIT .—Section 49 of such 10 title is amended by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 11 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 12 (4) C IRCUIT COURT JURISDICTION OVER CER -13 TIFICATION OF DEATH PENALTY COUNSELS .—Sec-14 tion 2265(c)(2) of such title is amended by striking 15 ‘‘the District of Columbia Circuit’’ and inserting 16 ‘‘the Capital Circuit’’. 17 (5) C IRCUIT COURT JURISDICTION OVER RE -18 VIEW OF FEDERAL AGENCY ORDERS .—Section 2343 19 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of 20 Columbia Circuit’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital Cir-21 cuit’’. 22 (c) C ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS RELATING TODIS-23 TRICTCOURT.—Title 28, United States Code, is amended 24 as follows: 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 43 •S 51 IS (1) APPOINTMENT AND NUMBER OF DISTRICT 1 COURT JUDGES.—Section 133(a) of such title is 2 amended in the first column by striking ‘‘District of 3 Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass 4 Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 5 (2) D ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OF TAX 6 CASES BROUGHT AGAINST UNITED STATES .—Section 7 1346(e) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 8 District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 9 Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 10 (3) D ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER PRO -11 CEEDINGS FOR FORFEITURE OF FOREIGN PROP -12 ERTY.—Section 1355(b)(2) of such title is amended 13 by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 14 ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth and the 15 Capital’’. 16 (4) D ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER CIVIL 17 ACTIONS BROUGHT AGAINST A FOREIGN STATE .— 18 Section 1391(f)(4) of such title is amended by strik-19 ing ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Wash-20 ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 21 (5) D ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER AC -22 TIONS BROUGHT BY CORPORATIONS AGAINST 23 UNITED STATES.—Section 1402(a)(2) of such title is 24 amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 44 •S 51 IS inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth 1 and the Capital’’. 2 (6) V ENUE IN DISTRICT COURT OF CERTAIN AC -3 TIONS BROUGHT BY EMPLOYEES OF EXECUTIVE OF -4 FICE OF THE PRESIDENT .—Section 1413 of such 5 title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Colum-6 bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Common-7 wealth and the Capital’’. 8 (7) V ENUE IN DISTRICT COURT OF ACTION EN -9 FORCING FOREIGN JUDGMENT .—Section 10 2467(c)(2)(B) of such title is amended by striking 11 ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Wash-12 ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 13 (d) C ONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 14 O THERCOURTS.—Title 28, United States Code, is 15 amended as follows: 16 (1) A PPOINTMENT OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES .— 17 Section 152(a)(2) of such title is amended in the 18 first column by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and 19 inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth 20 and the Capital’’. 21 (2) L OCATION OF COURT OF FEDERAL 22 CLAIMS.—Section 173 of such title is amended by 23 striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 24 ‘‘the Capital’’. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 45 •S 51 IS (3) DUTY STATION OF JUDGES OF COURT OF 1 FEDERAL CLAIMS.—Section 175 of such title is 2 amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 3 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 4 (4) D UTY STATION OF JUDGES FOR PURPOSES 5 OF TRAVELING EXPENSES .—Section 456(b) of such 6 title is amended to read as follows: 7 ‘‘(b) The official duty station of the Chief Justice of 8 the United States, the Justices of the Supreme Court of 9 the United States, and the judges of the United States 10 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall be the Cap-11 ital.’’. 12 (5) C OURT ACCOMMODATIONS FOR FEDERAL 13 CIRCUIT AND COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS .—Section 14 462(d) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the Dis-15 trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 16 (6) P LACES OF HOLDING COURT OF COURT OF 17 FEDERAL CLAIMS.—Section 798(a) of such title is 18 amended— 19 (A) by striking ‘‘Washington, District of 20 Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’; and 21 (B) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 22 and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 23 (e) O THERCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 46 •S 51 IS (1) SERVICE OF PROCESS ON FOREIGN PARTIES 1 AT STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICE .—Section 2 1608(a)(4) of such title is amended by striking 3 ‘‘Washington, District of Columbia’’ and inserting 4 ‘‘the Capital’’. 5 (2) S ERVICE OF PROCESS IN PROPERTY CASES 6 AT ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE .—Section 2410(b) 7 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘Washington, 8 District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 9 (f) D EFINITION.—Section 451 of title 28, United 10 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-11 lowing new undesignated paragraph: 12 ‘‘The term ‘Capital’ means the area serving as the 13 seat of the Government of the United States, as described 14 in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 15 (g) R EFERENCES INOTHERLAWS.—Any reference 16 in any Federal law (other than a law amended by this 17 section), rule, or regulation— 18 (1) to the United States Court of Appeals for 19 the District of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to 20 the United States Court of Appeals for the Capital; 21 (2) to the District of Columbia Circuit shall be 22 deemed to refer to the Capital Circuit; and 23 (3) to the United States District Court for the 24 District of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 47 •S 51 IS United States District Court for Washington, Doug-1 lass Commonwealth and the Capital. 2 (h) E FFECTIVEDATE.—This section and the amend-3 ments made by this section shall take effect upon the ad-4 mission of the State into the Union. 5 SEC. 213. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DE-6 PARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 7 (a) A PPOINTMENT OFUNITEDSTATESTRUSTEES.— 8 Section 581(a)(4) of title 28, United States Code, is 9 amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and in-10 serting ‘‘the Capital and Washington, Douglass Common-11 wealth’’. 12 (b) I NDEPENDENTCOUNSELS.— 13 (1) A PPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL PER -14 SONNEL.—Section 594(c) of such title is amended— 15 (A) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 16 the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘Wash-17 ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Cap-18 ital’’; and 19 (B) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 20 the second place it appears and inserting 21 ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’’. 22 (2) J UDICIAL REVIEW OF REMOVAL .—Section 23 596(a)(3) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 48 •S 51 IS District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 1 Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 2 (c) E FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 3 this section shall take effect upon the admission of the 4 State into the Union. 5 SEC. 214. TREATMENT OF PRETRIAL SERVICES IN UNITED 6 STATES DISTRICT COURT. 7 Section 3152 of title 18, United States Code, is 8 amended— 9 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(other than 10 the District of Columbia)’’ and inserting ‘‘(subject to 11 subsection (d), other than the District of Colum-12 bia)’’; and 13 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub-14 section: 15 ‘‘(d) In the case of the judicial district of Washington, 16 Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital— 17 ‘‘(1) upon the admission of the State of Wash-18 ington, Douglass Commonwealth into the Union, the 19 Washington, Douglass Commonwealth Pretrial Serv-20 ices Agency shall continue to provide pretrial serv-21 ices in the judicial district in the same manner and 22 to the same extent as the District of Columbia Pre-23 trial Services Agency provided such services in the 24 judicial district of the District of Columbia as of the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 49 •S 51 IS day before the date of the admission of the State 1 into the Union; and 2 ‘‘(2) upon the receipt by the President of the 3 certification from the State of Washington, Douglass 4 Commonwealth under section 315(b)(4) of the 5 Washington, D.C. Admission Act that the State has 6 in effect laws providing for the State to provide pre- 7 trial services, paragraph (1) shall no longer apply, 8 and the Director shall provide for the establishment 9 of pretrial services in the judicial district under this 10 section.’’. 11 Subtitle C—Federal Elections 12 SEC. 221. PERMITTING INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN CAPITAL 13 TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN STATE 14 OF MOST RECENT DOMICILE. 15 (a) R EQUIREMENT FOR STATESTOPERMITINDIVID-16 UALSTOVOTE BYABSENTEEBALLOT.— 17 (1) I N GENERAL.—Each State shall— 18 (A) permit absent Capital voters to use ab-19 sentee registration procedures and to vote by 20 absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and 21 runoff elections for Federal office; and 22 (B) accept and process, with respect to any 23 general, special, primary, or runoff election for 24 Federal office, any otherwise valid voter reg-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 50 •S 51 IS istration application from an absent Capital 1 voter, if the application is received by the ap-2 propriate State election official not less than 30 3 days before the election. 4 (2) A BSENT CAPITAL VOTER DEFINED .—In this 5 section, the term ‘‘absent Capital voter’’ means, with 6 respect to a State, a person who resides in the Cap-7 ital and is qualified to vote in the State (or who 8 would be qualified to vote in the State but for resid-9 ing in the Capital), but only if the State is the last 10 place in which the person was domiciled before resid-11 ing in the Capital. 12 (3) S TATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 13 ‘‘State’’ means each of the several States, including 14 the State. 15 (b) R ECOMMENDATIONS TO STATESTOMAXIMIZE 16 A CCESS TOPOLLS BYABSENTCAPITALVOTERS.—To af-17 ford maximum access to the polls by absent Capital voters, 18 it is the sense of Congress that the States should— 19 (1) waive registration requirements for absent 20 Capital voters who, by reason of residence in the 21 Capital, do not have an opportunity to register; 22 (2) expedite processing of balloting materials 23 with respect to such individuals; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 51 •S 51 IS (3) assure that absentee ballots are mailed to 1 such individuals at the earliest opportunity. 2 (c) E NFORCEMENT.—The Attorney General may 3 bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the 4 United States for such declaratory or injunctive relief as 5 may be necessary to carry out this section. 6 (d) E FFECT ONCERTAINOTHERLAWS.—The exer-7 cise of any right under this section shall not affect, for 8 purposes of a Federal tax, a State tax, or a local tax, the 9 residence or domicile of a person exercising such right. 10 (e) E FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall take effect 11 upon the date of the admission of the State into the 12 Union, and shall apply with respect to elections for Fed-13 eral office taking place on or after such date. 14 SEC. 222. REPEAL OF OFFICE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 15 DELEGATE. 16 (a) I NGENERAL.—Sections 202 and 204 of the Dis-17 trict of Columbia Delegate Act (Public Law 91–405; sec-18 tions 1–401 and 1–402, D.C. Official Code) are repealed, 19 and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such 20 sections are restored or revived as if such sections had 21 not been enacted. 22 (b) C ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS TO DISTRICT OFCO-23 LUMBIAELECTIONSCODE OF1955.—The District of Co-24 lumbia Elections Code of 1955 is amended— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 52 •S 51 IS (1) in section 1 (sec. 1–1001.01, D.C. Official 1 Code), by striking ‘‘the Delegate to the House of 2 Representatives,’’; 3 (2) in section 2 (sec. 1–1001.02, D.C. Official 4 Code)— 5 (A) by striking paragraph (6), 6 (B) in paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘(except 7 the Delegate to Congress for the District of Co-8 lumbia)’’, and 9 (C) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘the 10 Delegate to Congress for the District of Colum-11 bia,’’; 12 (3) in section 8 (sec. 1–1001.08, D.C. Official 13 Code)— 14 (A) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ in the heading, 15 and 16 (B) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ each place it 17 appears in subsections (d), (h)(1)(A), (h)(2), 18 (i)(1), (j)(1), (j)(3), and (k)(3); 19 (4) in section 10 (sec. 1–1001.10, D.C. Official 20 Code)— 21 (A) by striking subparagraph (A) of sub-22 section (a)(3), and 23 (B) in subsection (d)— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 53 •S 51 IS (i) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ each place 1 it appears in paragraph (1), and 2 (ii) by striking paragraph (2) and re-3 designating paragraph (3) as paragraph 4 (2); 5 (5) in section 11(a)(2) (sec. 1–1001.11(a)(2), 6 D.C. Official Code), by striking ‘‘Delegate to the 7 House of Representatives,’’; 8 (6) in section 15(b) (sec. 1–1001.15(b), D.C. 9 Official Code), by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’; and 10 (7) in section 17(a) (sec. 1–1001.17(a), D.C. 11 Official Code), by striking ‘‘except the Delegate to 12 the Congress from the District of Columbia’’. 13 (c) E FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 14 this section shall take effect upon the admission of the 15 State into the Union. 16 SEC. 223. REPEAL OF LAW PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATION 17 OF SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN ELECTION OF 18 PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. 19 (a) I NGENERAL.—Chapter 1 of title 3, United 20 States Code, is amended— 21 (1) by striking section 21; and 22 (2) in the table of sections, by striking the item 23 relating to section 21. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 54 •S 51 IS (b) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 1 subsection (a) shall take effect upon the date of the admis-2 sion of the State into the Union, and shall apply to any 3 election of the President and Vice President taking place 4 on or after such date. 5 SEC. 224. EXPEDITED PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION 6 OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REPEAL-7 ING 23RD AMENDMENT. 8 (a) J OINTRESOLUTIONDESCRIBED.—In this sec-9 tion, the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means a joint resolu-10 tion— 11 (1) entitled ‘‘A joint resolution proposing an 12 amendment to the Constitution of the United States 13 to repeal the 23rd article of amendment’’; and 14 (2) the matter after the resolving clause of 15 which consists solely of text to amend the Constitu-16 tion of the United States to repeal the 23rd article 17 of amendment to the Constitution. 18 (b) E XPEDITEDCONSIDERATION INHOUSE OFREP-19 RESENTATIVES.— 20 (1) P LACEMENT ON CALENDAR .—Upon intro-21 duction in the House of Representatives, the joint 22 resolution shall be placed immediately on the appro-23 priate calendar. 24 (2) P ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 55 •S 51 IS (A) IN GENERAL.—It shall be in order, not 1 later than 30 legislative days after the date the 2 joint resolution is introduced in the House of 3 Representatives, to move to proceed to consider 4 the joint resolution in the House of Representa-5 tives. 6 (B) P ROCEDURE.—For a motion to pro-7 ceed to consider the joint resolution— 8 (i) all points of order against the mo-9 tion are waived; 10 (ii) such a motion shall not be in 11 order after the House of Representatives 12 has disposed of a motion to proceed on the 13 joint resolution; 14 (iii) the previous question shall be 15 considered as ordered on the motion to its 16 adoption without intervening motion; 17 (iv) the motion shall not be debatable; 18 and 19 (v) a motion to reconsider the vote by 20 which the motion is disposed of shall not 21 be in order. 22 (3) C ONSIDERATION.—When the House of Rep-23 resentatives proceeds to consideration of the joint 24 resolution— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 56 •S 51 IS (A) the joint resolution shall be considered 1 as read; 2 (B) all points of order against the joint 3 resolution and against its consideration are 4 waived; 5 (C) the previous question shall be consid-6 ered as ordered on the joint resolution to its 7 passage without intervening motion except 10 8 hours of debate equally divided and controlled 9 by the proponent and an opponent; 10 (D) an amendment to the joint resolution 11 shall not be in order; and 12 (E) a motion to reconsider the vote on pas-13 sage of the joint resolution shall not be in 14 order. 15 (c) E XPEDITEDCONSIDERATION INSENATE.— 16 (1) P LACEMENT ON CALENDAR .—Upon intro-17 duction in the Senate, the joint resolution shall be 18 placed immediately on the calendar. 19 (2) P ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .— 20 (A) I N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding rule 21 XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, it is 22 in order, not later than 30 legislative days after 23 the date the joint resolution is introduced in the 24 Senate (even though a previous motion to the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 57 •S 51 IS same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 1 proceed to the consideration of the joint resolu-2 tion. 3 (B) P ROCEDURE.—For a motion to pro-4 ceed to the consideration of the joint resolu-5 tion— 6 (i) all points of order against the mo-7 tion are waived; 8 (ii) the motion is not debatable; 9 (iii) the motion is not subject to a mo-10 tion to postpone; 11 (iv) a motion to reconsider the vote by 12 which the motion is agreed to or disagreed 13 to shall not be in order; and 14 (v) if the motion is agreed to, the 15 joint resolution shall remain the unfinished 16 business until disposed of. 17 (3) F LOOR CONSIDERATION.— 18 (A) I N GENERAL.—If the Senate proceeds 19 to consideration of the joint resolution— 20 (i) all points of order against the joint 21 resolution (and against consideration of 22 the joint resolution) are waived; 23 (ii) consideration of the joint resolu-24 tion, and all debatable motions and appeals 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 58 •S 51 IS in connection therewith, shall be limited to 1 not more than 30 hours, which shall be di-2 vided equally between the majority and mi-3 nority leaders or their designees; 4 (iii) a motion further to limit debate 5 is in order and not debatable; 6 (iv) an amendment to, a motion to 7 postpone, or a motion to commit the joint 8 resolution is not in order; and 9 (v) a motion to proceed to the consid-10 eration of other business is not in order. 11 (B) V OTE ON PASSAGE.—In the Senate the 12 vote on passage shall occur immediately fol-13 lowing the conclusion of the consideration of the 14 joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the 15 conclusion of the debate if requested in accord-16 ance with the rules of the Senate. 17 (C) R ULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCE -18 DURE.—Appeals from the decisions of the Chair 19 relating to the application of this subsection or 20 the rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to 21 the procedure relating to the joint resolution 22 shall be decided without debate. 23 (d) R ULESRELATING TOSENATE ANDHOUSE OF 24 R EPRESENTATIVES.— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 59 •S 51 IS (1) COORDINATION WITH ACTION BY OTHER 1 HOUSE.—If, before the passage by one House of the 2 joint resolution of that House, that House receives 3 from the other House the joint resolution— 4 (A) the joint resolution of the other House 5 shall not be referred to a committee; and 6 (B) with respect to the joint resolution of 7 the House receiving the resolution— 8 (i) the procedure in that House shall 9 be the same as if no joint resolution had 10 been received from the other House; and 11 (ii) the vote on passage shall be on 12 the joint resolution of the other House. 13 (2) T REATMENT OF JOINT RESOLUTION OF 14 OTHER HOUSE.—If one House fails to introduce or 15 consider the joint resolution under this section, the 16 joint resolution of the other House shall be entitled 17 to expedited floor procedures under this section. 18 (3) T REATMENT OF COMPANION MEASURES .— 19 If, following passage of the joint resolution in the 20 Senate, the Senate receives the companion measure 21 from the House of Representatives, the companion 22 measure shall not be debatable. 23 (e) R ULES OFHOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES AND 24 S ENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 60 •S 51 IS (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 1 the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-2 tively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules of 3 each House, respectively, but applicable only with re-4 spect to the procedure to be followed in that House 5 in the case of the joint resolution, and supersede 6 other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 7 with such rules; and 8 (2) with full recognition of the constitutional 9 right of either House to change the rules (so far as 10 relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 11 in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 12 the case of any other rule of that House. 13 TITLE III—CONTINUATION OF 14 CERTAIN AUTHORITIES AND 15 RESPONSIBILITIES 16 Subtitle A—Employee Benefits 17 SEC. 301. FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENTS UNDER CERTAIN 18 RETIREMENT PROGRAMS. 19 (a) C ONTINUATION OF ENTITLEMENT TO PAY-20 MENTS.—Any individual who, as of the day before the date 21 of the admission of the State into the Union, is entitled 22 to a Federal benefit payment under the District of Colum-23 bia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 (subtitle A of title 24 XI of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Govern-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 61 •S 51 IS ment Improvement Act of 1997; sec. 1–801.01 et seq., 1 D.C. Official Code) shall continue to be entitled to such 2 a payment after the admission of the State into the Union, 3 in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to 4 the same terms and conditions applicable under such Act. 5 (b) O BLIGATIONS OFFEDERALGOVERNMENT.— 6 (1) I N GENERAL.—Any obligation of the Fed-7 eral Government under the District of Columbia Re-8 tirement Protection Act of 1997 which exists with 9 respect to any individual or with respect to the Dis-10 trict of Columbia as of the day before the date of 11 the admission of the State into the Union shall re-12 main in effect with respect to such an individual and 13 with respect to the State after the admission of the 14 State into the Union, in the same manner, to the 15 same extent, and subject to the same terms and con-16 ditions applicable under such Act. 17 (2) D.C. FEDERAL PENSION FUND .—Any obli-18 gation of the Federal Government under chapter 9 19 of the District of Columbia Retirement Protection 20 Act of 1997 (sec. 1–817.01 et seq., D.C. Official 21 Code) with respect to the D.C. Federal Pension 22 Fund which exists as of the day before the date of 23 the admission of the State into the Union shall re-24 main in effect with respect to such Fund after the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 62 •S 51 IS admission of the State into the Union, in the same 1 manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same 2 terms and conditions applicable under such chapter. 3 (c) O BLIGATIONS OFSTATE.—Any obligation of the 4 District of Columbia under the District of Columbia Re-5 tirement Protection Act of 1997 which exists with respect 6 to any individual or with respect to the Federal Govern-7 ment as of the day before the date of the admission of 8 the State into the Union shall become an obligation of the 9 State with respect to such an individual and with respect 10 to the Federal Government after the admission of the 11 State into the Union, in the same manner, to the same 12 extent, and subject to the same terms and conditions ap-13 plicable under such Act. 14 SEC. 302. CONTINUATION OF FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE BEN-15 EFITS FOR EMPLOYEES FIRST EMPLOYED 16 PRIOR TO ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT OF 17 COLUMBIA MERIT PERSONNEL SYSTEM. 18 (a) O BLIGATIONS OFFEDERALGOVERNMENT.—Any 19 obligation of the Federal Government under title 5, United 20 States Code, which exists with respect to an individual de-21 scribed in subsection (c) or with respect to the District 22 of Columbia as of the day before the date of the admission 23 of the State into the Union shall remain in effect with 24 respect to such individual and with respect to the State 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 63 •S 51 IS after the admission of the State into the Union, in the 1 same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same 2 terms and conditions applicable under such title. 3 (b) O BLIGATIONS OFSTATE.—Any obligation of the 4 District of Columbia under title 5, United States Code, 5 which exists with respect to an individual described in sub-6 section (c) or with respect to the Federal Government as 7 of the day before the date of the admission of the State 8 into the Union shall become an obligation of the State with 9 respect to such individual and with respect to the Federal 10 Government after the admission of the State into the 11 Union, in the same manner, to the same extent, and sub-12 ject to the same terms and conditions applicable under 13 such title. 14 (c) I NDIVIDUALSDESCRIBED.—An individual de-15 scribed in this subsection is an individual who was first 16 employed by the government of the District of Columbia 17 before October 1, 1987. 18 SEC. 303. OBLIGATIONS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER 19 JUDGES’ RETIREMENT PROGRAM. 20 (a) C ONTINUATION OFOBLIGATIONS.— 21 (1) I N GENERAL.—Any obligation of the Fed-22 eral Government under subchapter III of chapter 15 23 of title 11, District of Columbia Official Code— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 64 •S 51 IS (A) which exists with respect to any indi-1 vidual and the District of Columbia as the re-2 sult of service accrued prior to the date of the 3 admission of the State into the Union shall re-4 main in effect with respect to such an indi-5 vidual and with respect to the State after the 6 admission of the State into the Union, in the 7 same manner, to the same extent, and subject 8 to the same terms and conditions applicable 9 under such subchapter; and 10 (B) subject to paragraph (2), shall exist 11 with respect to any individual and the State as 12 the result of service accrued after the date of 13 the admission of the State into the Union in the 14 same manner, to the same extent, and subject 15 to the same terms and conditions applicable 16 under such subchapter as such obligation ex-17 isted with respect to individuals and the Dis-18 trict of Columbia as of the date of the admis-19 sion of the State into the Union. 20 (2) T REATMENT OF SERVICE ACCRUED AFTER 21 TAKING EFFECT OF STATE RETIREMENT PRO -22 GRAM.—Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) does 23 not apply to service accrued on or after the termi-24 nation date described in subsection (b). 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 65 •S 51 IS (b) TERMINATIONDATE.—The termination date de-1 scribed in this subsection is the date on which the State 2 provides written certification to the President that the 3 State has in effect laws requiring the State to appropriate 4 and make available funds for the retirement of judges of 5 the State. 6 Subtitle B—Agencies 7 SEC. 311. PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE. 8 (a) C ONTINUATION OF OPERATIONS AND FUND-9 ING.— 10 (1) I N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-11 graph (2) and subsection (b), title III of the District 12 of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure 13 Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1601 et seq., D.C. Official 14 Code) shall apply with respect to the State and to 15 the public defender service of the State after the 16 date of the admission of the State into the Union in 17 the same manner and to the same extent as such 18 title applied with respect to the District of Columbia 19 and the District of Columbia Public Defender Serv-20 ice as of the day before the date of the admission 21 of the State into the Union. 22 (2) R ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -23 TRIBUTION.—For purposes of paragraph (2) of sec-24 tion 305(c) of such Act (sec. 2–1605(c)(2), D.C. Of-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 66 •S 51 IS ficial Code), the Federal Government shall be treat-1 ed as the employing agency with respect to the bene-2 fits provided under such section to an individual who 3 is an employee of the public defender service of the 4 State and who, pursuant to section 305(c) of such 5 Act (sec. 2–1605(c), D.C. Official Code), is treated 6 as an employee of the Federal Government for pur-7 poses of receiving benefits under any chapter of sub-8 part G of part III of title 5, United States Code. 9 (b) R ENAMING OFSERVICE.—Effective upon the date 10 of the admission of the State into the Union, the State 11 may rename the public defender service of the State. 12 (c) C ONTINUATION OFFEDERALBENEFITS FOREM-13 PLOYEES.— 14 (1) I N GENERAL.—Any individual who is an 15 employee of the public defender service of the State 16 as of the day before the date described in subsection 17 (d) and who, pursuant to section 305(c) of the Dis-18 trict of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Proce-19 dure Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1605(c), D.C. Official 20 Code), is treated as an employee of the Federal Gov-21 ernment for purposes of receiving benefits under any 22 chapter of subpart G of part III of title 5, United 23 States Code, shall continue to be treated as an em-24 ployee of the Federal Government for such purposes, 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 67 •S 51 IS notwithstanding the termination of the provisions of 1 subsection (a) under subsection (d). 2 (2) R ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -3 TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described in 4 subsection (d), the State shall be treated as the em-5 ploying agency with respect to the benefits described 6 in paragraph (1) which are provided to an individual 7 who, for purposes of receiving such benefits, is con-8 tinued to be treated as an employee of the Federal 9 Government under such paragraph. 10 (d) T ERMINATION.—Subsection (a) shall terminate 11 upon the date on which the State provides written certifi-12 cation to the President that the State has in effect laws 13 requiring the State to appropriate and make available 14 funds for the operation of the office of the State which 15 provides the services described in title III of the District 16 of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act 17 of 1970 (sec. 2–1601 et seq., D.C. Official Code). 18 SEC. 312. PROSECUTIONS. 19 (a) A SSIGNMENT OFASSISTANTUNITEDSTATESAT-20 TORNEYS.— 21 (1) I N GENERAL.—In accordance with sub-22 chapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, United States 23 Code, the Attorney General, with the concurrence of 24 the District of Columbia or the State (as the case 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 68 •S 51 IS may be), shall provide for the assignment of assist-1 ant United States attorneys to the State to carry 2 out the functions described in subsection (b). 3 (2) A SSIGNMENTS MADE ON DETAIL WITHOUT 4 REIMBURSEMENT BY STATE .—In accordance with 5 section 3373 of title 5, United States Code— 6 (A) an assistant United States attorney 7 who is assigned to the State under this section 8 shall be deemed under subsection (a) of such 9 section to be on detail to a regular work assign-10 ment in the Department of Justice; and 11 (B) the assignment of an assistant United 12 States attorney to the State under this section 13 shall be made without reimbursement by the 14 State of the pay of the attorney or any related 15 expenses. 16 (b) F UNCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The functions de-17 scribed in this subsection are criminal prosecutions con-18 ducted in the name of the State which would have been 19 conducted in the name of the United States by the United 20 States attorney for the District of Columbia or his or her 21 assistants, as provided under section 23–101(c), District 22 of Columbia Official Code, but for the admission of the 23 State into the Union. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 69 •S 51 IS (c) MINIMUMNUMBERASSIGNED.—The number of 1 assistant United States attorneys who are assigned under 2 this section may not be less than the number of assistant 3 United States attorneys whose principal duties as of the 4 day before the date of the admission of the State into the 5 Union were to conduct criminal prosecutions in the name 6 of the United States under section 23–101(c), District of 7 Columbia Official Code. 8 (d) T ERMINATION.—The obligation of the Attorney 9 General to provide for the assignment of assistant United 10 States attorneys under this section shall terminate upon 11 written certification by the State to the President that the 12 State has appointed attorneys of the State to carry out 13 the functions described in subsection (b). 14 (e) C LARIFICATIONREGARDINGCLEMENCYAU-15 THORITY.— 16 (1) I N GENERAL.—Effective upon the admission 17 of the State into the Union, the authority to grant 18 clemency for offenses against the District of Colum-19 bia or the State shall be exercised by such person or 20 persons, and under such terms and conditions, as 21 provided by the State Constitution and the laws of 22 the State, without regard to whether the prosecution 23 for the offense was conducted by the District of Co-24 lumbia, the State, or the United States. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 70 •S 51 IS (2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 1 ‘‘clemency’’ means a pardon, reprieve, or commuta-2 tion of sentence, or a remission of a fine or other 3 financial penalty. 4 SEC. 313. SERVICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHALS. 5 (a) P ROVISION OF SERVICES FOR COURTS OF 6 S TATE.—The United States Marshals Service shall pro-7 vide services with respect to the courts and court system 8 of the State in the same manner and to the same extent 9 as the Service provided services with respect to the courts 10 and court system of the District of Columbia as of the 11 day before the date of the admission of the State into the 12 Union, except that the President shall not appoint a 13 United States Marshal under section 561 of title 28, 14 United States Code, for any court of the State. 15 (b) T ERMINATION.—The obligation of the United 16 States Marshals Service to provide services under this sec-17 tion shall terminate upon written certification by the State 18 to the President that the State has appointed personnel 19 of the State to provide such services. 20 SEC. 314. DESIGNATION OF FELONS TO FACILITIES OF BU-21 REAU OF PRISONS. 22 (a) C ONTINUATION OFDESIGNATION.—Chapter 1 of 23 subtitle C of title XI of the National Capital Revitalization 24 and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 (sec. 24– 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 71 •S 51 IS 101 et seq., D.C. Official Code) and the amendments 1 made by such chapter— 2 (1) shall continue to apply with respect to indi-3 viduals convicted of offenses under the laws of the 4 District of Columbia prior to the date of the admis-5 sion of the State into the Union; and 6 (2) shall apply with respect to individuals con-7 victed of offenses under the laws of the State after 8 the date of the admission of the State into the 9 Union in the same manner and to the same extent 10 as such chapter and amendments applied with re-11 spect to individuals convicted of offenses under the 12 laws of the District of Columbia prior to the date of 13 the admission of the State into the Union. 14 (b) T ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section 15 shall terminate upon written certification by the State to 16 the President that the State has in effect laws for the 17 housing of individuals described in subsection (a) in cor-18 rectional facilities. 19 SEC. 315. PAROLE AND SUPERVISION. 20 (a) U NITEDSTATESPAROLECOMMISSION.— 21 (1) P AROLE.—The United States Parole Com-22 mission— 23 (A) shall continue to exercise the authority 24 to grant, deny, and revoke parole, and to im-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 72 •S 51 IS pose conditions upon an order of parole, in the 1 case of any individual who is an imprisoned 2 felon who is eligible for parole or reparole under 3 the laws of the District of Columbia as of the 4 day before the date of the admission of the 5 State into the Union, as provided under section 6 11231 of the National Capital Revitalization 7 and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 8 (sec. 24–131, D.C. Official Code); and 9 (B) shall exercise the authority to grant, 10 deny, and revoke parole, and to impose condi-11 tions upon an order of parole, in the case of 12 any individual who is an imprisoned felon who 13 is eligible for parole or reparole under the laws 14 of the State in the same manner and to the 15 same extent as the Commission exercised in the 16 case of any individual described in subpara-17 graph (A). 18 (2) S UPERVISION OF RELEASED OFFENDERS .— 19 The United States Parole Commission— 20 (A) shall continue to exercise the authority 21 over individuals who are released offenders of 22 the District of Columbia as of the day before 23 the date of the admission of the State into the 24 Union, as provided under section 11233(c)(2) 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 73 •S 51 IS of the National Capital Revitalization and Self- 1 Government Improvement Act of 1997 (sec. 2 24–133(c)(2), D.C. Official Code); and 3 (B) shall exercise authority over individ-4 uals who are released offenders of the State in 5 the same manner and to the same extent as the 6 Commission exercised authority over individuals 7 described in subparagraph (A). 8 (3) C ONTINUATION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS FOR 9 EMPLOYEES.— 10 (A) C ONTINUATION.—Any individual who 11 is an employee of the United States Parole 12 Commission as of the later of the day before 13 the date described in subparagraph (A) of para-14 graph (4) or the day before the date described 15 in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (4) and who, 16 on or after such date, is an employee of the of-17 fice of the State which exercises the authority 18 described in either such subparagraph, shall 19 continue to be treated as an employee of the 20 Federal Government for purposes of receiving 21 benefits under any chapter of subpart G of part 22 III of title 5, United States Code, notwith-23 standing the termination of the provisions of 24 this subsection under paragraph (4). 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 74 •S 51 IS (B) RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -1 TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the later of the date 2 described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (4) 3 or the date described in subparagraph (B) of 4 paragraph (4), the State shall be treated as the 5 employing agency with respect to the benefits 6 described in subparagraph (A) which are pro-7 vided to an individual who, for purposes of re-8 ceiving such benefits, is continued to be treated 9 as an employee of the Federal Government 10 under such subparagraph. 11 (4) T ERMINATION.—The provisions of this sub-12 section shall terminate— 13 (A) in the case of paragraph (1), on the 14 date on which the State provides written certifi-15 cation to the President that the State has in ef-16 fect laws providing for the State to exercise the 17 authority to grant, deny, and revoke parole, and 18 to impose conditions upon an order of parole, in 19 the case of any individual who is an imprisoned 20 felon who is eligible for parole or reparole under 21 the laws of the State; and 22 (B) in the case of paragraph (2), on the 23 date on which the State provides written certifi-24 cation to the President that the State has in ef-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 75 •S 51 IS fect laws providing for the State to exercise au-1 thority over individuals who are released offend-2 ers of the State. 3 (b) C OURTSERVICES ANDOFFENDERSUPERVISION 4 A GENCY.— 5 (1) R ENAMING.—Effective upon the date of the 6 admission of the State into the Union— 7 (A) the Court Services and Offender Su-8 pervision Agency for the District of Columbia 9 shall be known and designated as the Court 10 Services and Offender Supervision Agency for 11 Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, and any 12 reference in any law, rule, or regulation to the 13 Court Services and Offender Supervision Agen-14 cy for the District of Columbia shall be deemed 15 to refer to the Court Services and Offender Su-16 pervision Agency for Washington, Douglass 17 Commonwealth; and 18 (B) the District of Columbia Pretrial Serv-19 ices Agency shall be known and designated as 20 the Washington, Douglass Commonwealth Pre-21 trial Services Agency, and any reference in any 22 law, rule or regulation to the District of Colum-23 bia Pretrial Services Agency shall be deemed to 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00075 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 76 •S 51 IS refer to the Washington, Douglass Common-1 wealth Pretrial Services Agency. 2 (2) I N GENERAL.—The Court Services and Of-3 fender Supervision Agency for Washington, Doug-4 lass Commonwealth, including the Washington, 5 Douglass Commonwealth Pretrial Services Agency 6 (as renamed under paragraph (1))— 7 (A) shall continue to provide pretrial serv-8 ices with respect to individuals who are charged 9 with an offense in the District of Columbia, 10 provide supervision for individuals who are of-11 fenders on probation, parole, and supervised re-12 lease pursuant to the laws of the District of Co-13 lumbia, and carry out sex offender registration 14 functions with respect to individuals who are 15 sex offenders in the District of Columbia, as of 16 the day before the date of the admission of the 17 State into the Union, as provided under section 18 11233 of the National Capital Revitalization 19 and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 20 (sec. 24–133, D.C. Official Code); and 21 (B) shall provide pretrial services with re-22 spect to individuals who are charged with an of-23 fense in the State, provide supervision for of-24 fenders on probation, parole, and supervised re-25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00076 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 77 •S 51 IS lease pursuant to the laws of the State, and 1 carry out sex offender registration functions in 2 the State, in the same manner and to the same 3 extent as the Agency provided such services and 4 supervision and carried out such functions for 5 individuals described in subparagraph (A). 6 (3) C ONTINUATION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS FOR 7 EMPLOYEES.— 8 (A) C ONTINUATION.—Any individual who 9 is an employee of the Court Services and Of-10 fender Supervision Agency for Washington, 11 Douglass Commonwealth as of the day before 12 the date described in paragraph (4), and who, 13 on or after such date, is an employee of the of-14 fice of the State which provides the services and 15 carries out the functions described in paragraph 16 (4), shall continue to be treated as an employee 17 of the Federal Government for purposes of re-18 ceiving benefits under any chapter of subpart G 19 of part III of title 5, United States Code, not-20 withstanding the termination of the provisions 21 of paragraph (2) under paragraph (4). 22 (B) R ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -23 TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described 24 in paragraph (4), the State shall be treated as 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00077 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 78 •S 51 IS the employing agency with respect to the bene-1 fits described in subparagraph (A) which are 2 provided to an individual who, for purposes of 3 receiving such benefits, is continued to be treat-4 ed as an employee of the Federal Government 5 under such subparagraph. 6 (4) T ERMINATION.—Paragraph (2) shall termi-7 nate on the date on which the State provides written 8 certification to the President that the State has in 9 effect laws providing for the State to provide pretrial 10 services, supervise offenders on probation, parole, 11 and supervised release, and carry out sex offender 12 registration functions in the State. 13 SEC. 316. COURTS. 14 (a) C ONTINUATION OFOPERATIONS.— 15 (1) I N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-16 graphs (2) and (3) and subsection (b), title 11, Dis-17 trict of Columbia Official Code, as in effect on the 18 date before the date of the admission of the State 19 into the Union, shall apply with respect to the State 20 and the courts and court system of the State after 21 the date of the admission of the State into the 22 Union in the same manner and to the same extent 23 as such title applied with respect to the District of 24 Columbia and the courts and court system of the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 79 •S 51 IS District of Columbia as of the day before the date 1 of the admission of the State into the Union. 2 (2) R ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -3 TRIBUTION.—For purposes of paragraph (2) of sec-4 tion 11–1726(b) and paragraph (2) of section 11– 5 1726(c), District of Columbia Official Code, the 6 Federal Government shall be treated as the employ-7 ing agency with respect to the benefits provided 8 under such section to an individual who is an em-9 ployee of the courts and court system of the State 10 and who, pursuant to either such paragraph, is 11 treated as an employee of the Federal Government 12 for purposes of receiving benefits under any chapter 13 of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States 14 Code. 15 (3) O THER EXCEPTIONS.— 16 (A) S ELECTION OF JUDGES .—Effective 17 upon the date of the admission of the State into 18 the Union, the State shall select judges for any 19 vacancy on the courts of the State. 20 (B) R ENAMING OF COURTS AND OTHER 21 OFFICES.—Effective upon the date of the ad-22 mission of the State into the Union, the State 23 may rename any of its courts and any of the 24 other offices of its court system. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00079 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 80 •S 51 IS (C) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing 1 in this paragraph shall be construed— 2 (i) to affect the service of any judge 3 serving on a court of the District of Co-4 lumbia on the day before the date of the 5 admission of the State into the Union, or 6 to require the State to select such a judge 7 for a vacancy on a court of the State; or 8 (ii) to waive any of the requirements 9 of chapter 15 of title 11, District of Co-10 lumbia Official Code (other than section 11 11–1501(a) of such Code), including sub-12 chapter II of such chapter (relating to the 13 District of Columbia Commission on Judi-14 cial Disabilities and Tenure), with respect 15 to the appointment and service of judges of 16 the courts of the State. 17 (b) C ONTINUATION OFFEDERALBENEFITS FOREM-18 PLOYEES.— 19 (1) I N GENERAL.—Any individual who is an 20 employee of the courts or court system of the State 21 as of the day before the date described in subsection 22 (e) and who, pursuant to section 11–1726(b) or sec-23 tion 11–1726(c), District of Columbia Official Code, 24 is treated as an employee of the Federal Government 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 81 •S 51 IS for purposes of receiving benefits under any chapter 1 of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States 2 Code, shall continue to be treated as an employee of 3 the Federal Government for such purposes, notwith-4 standing the termination of the provisions of this 5 section under subsection (e). 6 (2) R ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -7 TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described in 8 subsection (e), the State shall be treated as the em-9 ploying agency with respect to the benefits described 10 in paragraph (1) which are provided to an individual 11 who, for purposes of receiving such benefits, is con-12 tinued to be treated as an employee of the Federal 13 Government under such paragraph. 14 (c) C ONTINUATION OFFUNDING.—Section 11241 of 15 the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government 16 Improvement Act of 1997 (section 11–1743 note, District 17 of Columbia Official Code) shall apply with respect to the 18 State and the courts and court system of the State after 19 the date of the admission of the State into the Union in 20 the same manner and to the same extent as such section 21 applied with respect to the Joint Committee on Judicial 22 Administration in the District of Columbia and the courts 23 and court system of the District of Columbia as of the 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 82 •S 51 IS day before the date of the admission of the State into the 1 Union. 2 (d) T REATMENT OFCOURTRECEIPTS.— 3 (1) D EPOSIT OF RECEIPTS INTO TREASURY .— 4 Except as provided in paragraph (2), all money re-5 ceived by the courts and court system of the State 6 shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United 7 States. 8 (2) C RIME VICTIMS COMPENSATION FUND .— 9 Section 16 of the Victims of Violent Crime Com-10 pensation Act of 1996 (sec. 4–515, D.C. Official 11 Code), relating to the Crime Victims Compensation 12 Fund, shall apply with respect to the courts and 13 court system of the State in the same manner and 14 to the same extent as such section applied to the 15 courts and court system of the District of Columbia 16 as of the day before the date of the admission of the 17 State into the Union. 18 (e) T ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section, 19 other than paragraph (3) of subsection (a) and except as 20 provided under subsection (b), shall terminate on the date 21 on which the State provides written certification to the 22 President that the State has in effect laws requiring the 23 State to appropriate and make available funds for the op-24 eration of the courts and court system of the State. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 83 •S 51 IS Subtitle C—Other Programs and 1 Authorities 2 SEC. 321. APPLICATION OF THE COLLEGE ACCESS ACT. 3 (a) C ONTINUATION.—The District of Columbia Col-4 lege Access Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–98; sec. 38– 5 2701 et seq., D.C. Official Code) shall apply with respect 6 to the State, and to the public institution of higher edu-7 cation designated by the State as the successor to the Uni-8 versity of the District of Columbia, after the date of the 9 admission of the State into the Union in the same manner 10 and to the same extent as such Act applied with respect 11 to the District of Columbia and the University of the Dis-12 trict of Columbia as of the day before the date of the ad-13 mission of the State into the Union. 14 (b) T ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section, 15 other than with respect to the public institution of higher 16 education designated by the State as the successor to the 17 University of the District of Columbia, shall terminate 18 upon written certification by the State to the President 19 that the State has in effect laws requiring the State to 20 provide tuition assistance substantially similar to the as-21 sistance provided under the District of Columbia College 22 Access Act of 1999. 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00083 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 84 •S 51 IS SEC. 322. APPLICATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR OP-1 PORTUNITY AND RESULTS ACT. 2 (a) C ONTINUATION.—The Scholarships for Oppor-3 tunity and Results Act (division C of Public Law 112– 4 10; sec. 38–1853.01 et seq., D.C. Official Code) shall 5 apply with respect to the State after the date of the admis-6 sion of the State into the Union in the same manner and 7 to the same extent as such Act applied with respect to 8 the District of Columbia as of the day before the date of 9 the admission of the State into the Union. 10 (b) T ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section 11 shall terminate upon written certification by the State to 12 the President that the State has in effect laws requiring 13 the State— 14 (1) to provide tuition assistance substantially 15 similar to the assistance provided under the Scholar-16 ships for Opportunity and Results Act; and 17 (2) to provide supplemental funds to the public 18 schools and public charter schools of the State in the 19 amounts provided in the most recent fiscal year for 20 public schools and public charter schools of the State 21 or the District of Columbia (as the case may be) 22 under such Act. 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00084 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 85 •S 51 IS SEC. 323. MEDICAID FEDERAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PER-1 CENTAGE. 2 (a) C ONTINUATION.—Notwithstanding section 3 1905(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(b)), 4 during the period beginning on the date of the admission 5 of the State into the Union and ending on September 30 6 of the fiscal year during which the State submits the cer-7 tification described in subsection (b), the Federal medical 8 assistance percentage for the State under title XIX of 9 such Act shall be the Federal medical assistance percent-10 age for the District of Columbia under such title as of 11 the day before the date of the admission of the State into 12 the Union. 13 (b) T ERMINATION.—The certification described in 14 this subsection is a written certification by the State to 15 the President that, during each of the first 5 fiscal years 16 beginning after the date of the certification, the estimated 17 revenues of the State will be sufficient to cover any reduc-18 tion in revenues which may result from the termination 19 of the provisions of this section. 20 SEC. 324. FEDERAL PLANNING COMMISSIONS. 21 (a) N ATIONALCAPITALPLANNINGCOMMISSION.— 22 (1) C ONTINUING APPLICATION .—Subject to the 23 amendments made by paragraphs (2) and (3), upon 24 the admission of the State into the Union, chapter 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00085 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 86 •S 51 IS 87 of title 40, United States Code, shall apply as 1 follows: 2 (A) Such chapter shall apply with respect 3 to the Capital in the same manner and to the 4 same extent as such chapter applied with re-5 spect to the District of Columbia as of the day 6 before the date of the admission of the State 7 into the Union. 8 (B) Such chapter shall apply with respect 9 to the State in the same manner and to the 10 same extent as such chapter applied with re-11 spect to the State of Maryland and the Com-12 monwealth of Virginia as of the day before the 13 date of the admission of the State into the 14 Union. 15 (2) C OMPOSITION OF NATIONAL CAPITAL PLAN -16 NING COMMISSION.—Section 8711(b) of title 40, 17 United States Code, is amended— 18 (A) by amending subparagraph (B) of 19 paragraph (1) to read as follows: 20 ‘‘(B) four citizens with experience in city 21 or regional planning, who shall be appointed by 22 the President.’’; and 23 (B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 24 follows: 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 87 •S 51 IS ‘‘(2) RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT .—Of the four 1 citizen members, one shall be a resident of Virginia, 2 one shall be a resident of Maryland, and one shall 3 be a resident of Washington, Douglass Common-4 wealth.’’. 5 (3) C ONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO DEFINI -6 TIONS OF TERMS.— 7 (A) E NVIRONS.—Paragraph (1) of section 8 8702 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 9 territory surrounding the District of Columbia’’ 10 and inserting ‘‘the territory surrounding the 11 National Capital’’. 12 (B) N ATIONAL CAPITAL.—Paragraph (2) 13 of section 8702 of such title is amended to read 14 as follows: 15 ‘‘(2) N ATIONAL CAPITAL.—The term ‘National 16 Capital’ means the area serving as the seat of the 17 Government of the United States, as described in 18 section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, 19 and the territory the Federal Government owns in 20 the environs.’’. 21 (C) N ATIONAL CAPITAL REGION .—Sub-22 paragraph (A) of paragraph (3) of section 8702 23 of such title is amended to read as follows: 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00087 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 88 •S 51 IS ‘‘(A) the National Capital and the State of 1 Washington, Douglass Commonwealth;’’. 2 (b) C OMMISSION OFFINEARTS.— 3 (1) L IMITING APPLICATION TO THE CAPITAL .— 4 Section 9102(a)(1) of title 40, United States Code, 5 is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 6 and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 7 (2) D EFINITION.—Section 9102 of such title is 8 amended by adding at the end the following new 9 subsection: 10 ‘‘(d) D EFINITION.—In this chapter, the term ‘Cap-11 ital’ means the area serving as the seat of the Government 12 of the United States, as described in section 112 of the 13 Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 14 (3) C ONFORMING AMENDMENT .—Section 15 9101(d) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 16 District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 17 (c) C OMMEMORATIVE WORKSACT.— 18 (1) L IMITING APPLICATION TO CAPITAL .—Sec-19 tion 8902 of title 40, United States Code, is amend-20 ed by adding at the end the following new sub-21 section: 22 ‘‘(c) L IMITINGAPPLICATION TO CAPITAL.—This 23 chapter applies only with respect to commemorative works 24 in the Capital and its environs.’’. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 89 •S 51 IS (2) DEFINITION.—Paragraph (2) of section 1 8902(a) of such title is amended to read as follows: 2 ‘‘(2) C APITAL AND ITS ENVIRONS .—The term 3 ‘Capital and its environs’ means— 4 ‘‘(A) the area serving as the seat of the 5 Government of the United States, as described 6 in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admis-7 sion Act; and 8 ‘‘(B) those lands and properties adminis-9 tered by the National Park Service and the 10 General Services Administration located in the 11 Reserve, Area I, and Area II as depicted on the 12 map entitled ‘Commemorative Areas Wash-13 ington, DC and Environs’, numbered 869/ 14 86501 B, and dated June 24, 2003, that are lo-15 cated outside of the State of Washington, 16 Douglass Commonwealth.’’. 17 (3) T EMPORARY SITE DESIGNATION .—Section 18 8907(a) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 19 District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital 20 and its environs’’. 21 (4) G ENERAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 22 Chapter 89 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 23 District of Columbia and its environs’’ each place it 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 90 •S 51 IS appears in the following sections and inserting ‘‘the 1 Capital and its environs’’: 2 (A) Section 8901(2) and 8901(4). 3 (B) Section 8902(a)(4). 4 (C) Section 8903(d). 5 (D) Section 8904(c). 6 (E) Section 8905(a). 7 (F) Section 8906(a). 8 (G) Section 8909(a) and 8909(b). 9 (5) A DDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENT .— 10 Section 8901(2) of such title is amended by striking 11 ‘‘the urban fabric of the District of Columbia’’ and 12 inserting ‘‘the urban fabric of the area serving as 13 the seat of the Government of the United States, as 14 described in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. 15 Admission Act’’. 16 (d) E FFECTIVEDATE.—This section and the amend-17 ments made by this section shall take effect on the date 18 of the admission of the State into the Union. 19 SEC. 325. ROLE OF ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IN SUP-20 PLYING WATER. 21 (a) C ONTINUATION OF ROLE.—Chapter 95 of title 22 40, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 23 the following new section: 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 91 •S 51 IS ‘‘§ 9508. Applicability to Capital and State of Wash-1 ington, Douglass Commonwealth 2 ‘‘(a) I NGENERAL.—Effective upon the admission of 3 the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth into 4 the Union, any reference in this chapter to the District 5 of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to the Capital or 6 the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, as the 7 case may be. 8 ‘‘(b) D EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘Capital’ 9 means the area serving as the seat of the Government of 10 the United States, as described in section 112 of the 11 Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 12 (b) C LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 13 of chapter 95 of such title is amended by adding at the 14 end the following: 15 ‘‘9508. Applicability to Capital and State of Washington, Douglass Common- wealth.’’. SEC. 326. REQUIREMENTS TO BE LOCATED IN DISTRICT OF 16 COLUMBIA. 17 The location of any person in the Capital or Wash-18 ington, Douglass Commonwealth on the day after the date 19 of the admission of the State into the Union shall be 20 deemed to satisfy any requirement under any law in effect 21 as of the day before the date of the admission of the State 22 into the Union that the person be located in the District 23 of Columbia, including the requirements of section 72 of 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00091 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 92 •S 51 IS title 4, United States Code (relating to offices of the seat 1 of the Government of the United States), and title 36, 2 United States Code (relating to patriotic and national or-3 ganizations). 4 TITLE IV—GENERAL 5 PROVISIONS 6 SEC. 401. GENERAL DEFINITIONS. 7 In this Act, the following definitions shall apply: 8 (1) The term ‘‘Capital’’ means the area serving 9 as the seat of the Government of the United States, 10 as described in section 112. 11 (2) The term ‘‘Council’’ means the Council of 12 the District of Columbia. 13 (3) The term ‘‘Mayor’’ means the Mayor of the 14 District of Columbia. 15 (4) Except as otherwise provided, the term 16 ‘‘State’’ means the State of Washington, Douglass 17 Commonwealth. 18 (5) The term ‘‘State Constitution’’ means the 19 proposed Constitution of the State of Washington, 20 D.C., as approved by the Council on October 18, 21 2016, pursuant to the Constitution and Boundaries 22 for the State of Washington, D.C. Approval Resolu-23 tion of 2016 (D.C. Resolution R21–621), ratified by 24 District of Columbia voters in Advisory Referendum 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 93 •S 51 IS B approved on November 8, 2016, and certified by 1 the District of Columbia Board of Elections on No-2 vember 18, 2016. 3 SEC. 402. STATEHOOD TRANSITION COMMISSION. 4 (a) E STABLISHMENT.—There is established the 5 Statehood Transition Commission (hereafter in this sec-6 tion referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’). 7 (b) C OMPOSITION.— 8 (1) I N GENERAL.—The Commission shall be 9 composed of 18 members as follows: 10 (A) 3 members appointed by the President. 11 (B) 2 members appointed by the Speaker 12 of the House of Representatives. 13 (C) 2 members appointed by the minority 14 leader of the House of Representatives. 15 (D) 2 members appointed by the majority 16 leader of the Senate. 17 (E) 2 members appointed by the minority 18 leader of the Senate. 19 (F) 3 members appointed by the Mayor. 20 (G) 3 members appointed by the Council. 21 (H) The Chief Financial Officer of the 22 District of Columbia. 23 (2) A PPOINTMENT DATE.— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 94 •S 51 IS (A) IN GENERAL.—The appointments of 1 the members of the Commission shall be made 2 not later than 90 days after the date of the en-3 actment of this Act. 4 (B) E FFECT OF LACK OF APPOINTMENT 5 BY APPOINTMENT DATE .—If one or more ap-6 pointments under any of the subparagraphs of 7 paragraph (1) is not made by the appointment 8 date specified in subparagraph (A), the author-9 ity to make such appointment or appointments 10 shall expire, and the number of members of the 11 Commission shall be reduced by the number 12 equal to the number of appointments so not 13 made. 14 (3) T ERM OF SERVICE.—Each member shall be 15 appointed for the life of the Commission. 16 (4) V ACANCY.—A vacancy in the Commission 17 shall be filled in the manner in which the original 18 appointment was made. 19 (5) N O COMPENSATION.—Members shall serve 20 without pay, but shall receive travel expenses, in-21 cluding per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accord-22 ance with applicable provisions under subchapter I 23 of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 95 •S 51 IS (6) CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR .—The Chair and 1 Vice Chair of the Commission shall be elected by the 2 members of the Commission— 3 (A) with respect to the Chair, from among 4 the members described in subparagraphs (A) 5 through (E) of paragraph (1); and 6 (B) with respect to the Vice Chair, from 7 among the members described in subparagraphs 8 (F) and (G) of paragraph (1). 9 (c) S TAFF.— 10 (1) D IRECTOR.—The Commission shall have a 11 Director, who shall be appointed by the Chair. 12 (2) O THER STAFF.—The Director may appoint 13 and fix the pay of such additional personnel as the 14 Director considers appropriate. 15 (3) N ON-APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN CIVIL 16 SERVICE LAWS.—The Director and staff of the Com-17 mission may be appointed without regard to the pro-18 visions of title 5, United States Code, governing ap-19 pointments in the competitive service, and may be 20 paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 21 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of that title relat-22 ing to classification and General Schedule pay rates, 23 except that an individual so appointed may not re-24 ceive pay in excess of the rate payable for level V 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 96 •S 51 IS of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 1 such title. 2 (4) E XPERTS AND CONSULTANTS .—The Com-3 mission may procure temporary and intermittent 4 services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United 5 States Code, at rates for individuals not to exceed 6 the daily equivalent of the rate payable for level V 7 of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 8 such title. 9 (d) D UTIES.—The Commission shall advise the Presi-10 dent, Congress, the Mayor (or, upon the admission of the 11 State into the Union, the chief executive officer of the 12 State), and the Council (or, upon the admission of the 13 State into the Union, the legislature of the State) con-14 cerning an orderly transition to statehood for the District 15 of Columbia or the State (as the case may be) and to a 16 reduced geographical size of the seat of the Government 17 of the United States, including with respect to property, 18 funding, programs, projects, and activities. 19 (e) P OWERS.— 20 (1) H EARINGS AND SESSIONS .—The Commis-21 sion may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, 22 hold hearings, sit and act at times and places, take 23 testimony, and receive evidence as the Commission 24 considers appropriate. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 97 •S 51 IS (2) OBTAINING OFFICIAL DATA.—The Commis-1 sion may secure directly from any department or 2 agency of the United States information necessary 3 to enable it to carry out this Act. Upon request of 4 the Chair of the Commission, the head of that de-5 partment or agency shall furnish that information to 6 the Commission. 7 (3) M AILS.—The Commission may use the 8 United States mails in the same manner and under 9 the same conditions as other departments and agen-10 cies of the United States. 11 (4) A DMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES .— 12 Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-13 trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-14 mission the administrative support services nec-15 essary for the Commission to carry out its respon-16 sibilities under this Act. 17 (f) M EETINGS.— 18 (1) I N GENERAL.—The Commission shall meet 19 at the call of the Chair. 20 (2) I NITIAL MEETING.—The Commission shall 21 hold its first meeting not later than the earlier of— 22 (A) 30 days after the date on which all 23 members of the Commission have been ap-24 pointed; or 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 98 •S 51 IS (B) if the number of members of the Com-1 mission is reduced under subsection (b)(2)(B), 2 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 3 Act. 4 (3) Q UORUM.—A majority of the members of 5 the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a 6 lesser number of members may hold hearings. 7 (g) R EPORTS.—The Commission shall submit such 8 reports as the Commission considers appropriate or as 9 may be requested by the President, Congress, or the Dis-10 trict of Columbia (or, upon the admission of the State into 11 the Union, the State). 12 (h) T ERMINATION.—The Commission shall cease to 13 exist 2 years after the date of the admission of the State 14 into the Union. 15 SEC. 403. CERTIFICATION OF ENACTMENT BY PRESIDENT. 16 Not more than 60 days after the date of the enact-17 ment of this Act, the President shall provide written cer-18 tification of such enactment to the Mayor. 19 SEC. 404. SEVERABILITY. 20 Except as provided in section 101(c), if any provision 21 of this Act or amendment made by this Act, or the applica-22 tion thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be 23 invalid, the remaining provisions of this Act and any 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00098 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB 99 •S 51 IS amendments made by this Act shall not be affected by the 1 holding. 2 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:11 Jan 25, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00099 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S51.IS S51 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with $$_JOB