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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 356 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To assign the responsibility for conducting prosecutions for violations of |
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| 6 | 6 | | the laws of the District of Columbia to the head of a local prosecutor’s |
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| 7 | 7 | | office designated under local law of the District of Columbia. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY13, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. N |
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| 11 | 11 | | ORTONintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To assign the responsibility for conducting prosecutions for |
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| 15 | 15 | | violations of the laws of the District of Columbia to |
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| 16 | 16 | | the head of a local prosecutor’s office designated under |
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| 17 | 17 | | local law of the District of Columbia. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Prosecutor Home Rule Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •HR 356 IH |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. RESPONSIBILITY OF LOCAL PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | FOR CONDUCT OF ALL DISTRICT OF COLUM-2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | BIA PROSECUTIONS. 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (a) I |
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| 30 | 30 | | NGENERAL.—Section 23–101, D.C. Official 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Code, is amended by striking subsections (a) through (f) 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | and inserting the following: 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(a) Prosecutions for violations of all police or munic-7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ipal ordinances or regulations of the District of Columbia 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | and for violations of all penal statutes of the District of 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Columbia in the nature of police or municipal regulations 10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | shall be conducted in the name of the District of Columbia 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | by the head of the local prosecutor’s office or the assist-12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ants of the head of such office, except as may otherwise 13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | be provided in any such ordinance, regulation, or statute 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of the District of Columbia. 15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(b) In this section, the ‘local prosecutor’s office’ is 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | the office designated under local law of the District of Co-17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | lumbia as the office responsible for conducting prosecu-18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | tions under this section. 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(c) Nothing in this section shall affect the authority 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | of the Attorney General of the United States or the United 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | States Attorney for the District of Columbia to exercise 22 |
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| 49 | 49 | | jurisdiction concerning violations of the laws of the United 23 |
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| 50 | 50 | | States.’’. 24 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (b) E |
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| 52 | 52 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 25 |
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| 53 | 53 | | this section shall apply with respect to violations of Dis-26 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 356 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | trict of Columbia ordinances, regulations, and statutes 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | which occur after the expiration of the 1-year period which 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | begins on the date on which a local law of the District 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | of Columbia which designates the local prosecutor’s office 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | for purposes of section 23–101(b), D.C. Official Code (as 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | amended by subsection (a)), takes effect. 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (c) R |
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| 64 | 64 | | ETENTION OF FEDERALBENEFITS BYCON-7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | TINUINGEMPLOYEES.—With respect to any individual 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | who is an employee of the United States Attorney for the 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | District of Columbia as of the day before the date de-10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | scribed in subsection (b) and continues to be employed by 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | the local prosecutor’s office designated for purposes of sec-12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | tion 23–101(b), D.C. Official Code (as amended by sub-13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | section (a))— 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (1) such individual shall continue to be treated 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | as an employee of the Federal Government for pur-16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | poses of receiving benefits under any chapter of sub-17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | part G of part III of title 5, United States Code; 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | and 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (2) such designated local prosecutor’s office 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | shall be treated as the employing agency of the indi-21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | vidual with respect to such benefits. 22 |
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