Us Congress House Bill HB51 Latest Draft

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119THCONGRESS 
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STSESSION H. R. 51 
To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the 
Union. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY3, 2025 
Ms. N
ORTON(for herself, Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. CLARKof Massachusetts, Mr. 
A
GUILAR, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. AMO, Ms. BALINT, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mrs. 
B
EATTY, Mr. BERA, Mr. BEYER, Mr. BISHOP, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. 
B
OYLEof Pennsylvania, Ms. BROWN, Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. BUDZINSKI, 
Mr. C
ARBAJAL, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CARTERof Louisiana, Mr. CASAR, Mr. 
C
ASE, Mr. CASTEN, Ms. CASTORof Florida, Mr. CASTROof Texas, Mrs. 
C
HERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. CHU, Ms. CLARKEof New York, Mr. 
C
LEAVER, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. COSTA, Ms. 
C
RAIG, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. CROW, Ms. DAVIDSof Kansas, Mr. DAVIS 
of Illinois, Ms. D
EANof Pennsylvania, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. DELAURO, 
Ms. D
ELBENE, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. 
D
OGGETT, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, 
Mr. F
OSTER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms. LOISFRANKELof Florida, Mr. FROST, 
Mr. G
ARAMENDI, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois, Mr. GARCIAof California, Ms. 
G
ARCIAof Texas, Mr. GOLDMANof New York, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. GREEN 
of Texas, Mr. G
RIJALVA, Mr. HIMES, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. HOULAHAN, 
Mr. H
OYER, Ms. HOYLEof Oregon, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. IVEY, Mr. JACK-
SONof Illinois, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms. 
K
AMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. KEATING, Ms. KELLYof Illinois, Mr. KENNEDY 
of New York, Mr. K
HANNA, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. 
L
ARSENof Washington, Mr. LARSONof Connecticut, Ms. LEEof Penn-
sylvania, Ms. L
EGERFERNANDEZ, Mr. LIEU, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LYNCH, 
Mr. M
AGAZINER, Ms. MATSUI, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. 
M
CCOLLUM, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. 
M
EEKS, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MENG, Mr. MFUME, Ms. MOOREof Wis-
consin, Mr. M
ORELLE, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. MRVAN, Mr. 
M
ULLIN, Mr. NADLER, Mr. NEAL, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. NORCROSS, Ms. 
O
CASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PETERS, 
Ms. P
ETTERSEN, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. POCAN, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. 
Q
UIGLEY, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. ROSS, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. RYAN, 
Ms. S
ALINAS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
S
CHRIER, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms. SCHOLTEN, Mr. DAVIDSCOTTof Geor-
gia, Mr. S
COTTof Virginia, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITHof 
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Washington, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. SOTO, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. STANTON, 
Ms. S
TEVENS, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. SWALWELL, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. 
T
AKANO, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. THOMPSONof Mississippi, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. 
T
OKUDA, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. TORRESof California, Mr. TORRESof New 
York, Mrs. T
RAHAN, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. 
V
ELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. WASSERMANSCHULTZ, Mrs. WATSONCOLEMAN, Ms. 
W
ILLIAMSof Georgia, and Ms. WILSONof Florida) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Armed 
Services, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
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
(b) T
ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents of 6
this Act is as follows: 7
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—STATE OF WASHINGTON, DC 
Subtitle A—Procedures for Admission 
Sec. 101. Admission into the Union. 
Sec. 102. Elections 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. 
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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 
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. 
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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
an equal footing with the other States in all respects what-11
ever. 12
(b) C
ONSTITUTION OFSTATE.—The State Constitu-13
tion shall always be republican in form and shall not be 14
repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the 15
principles of the Declaration of Independence. 16
(c) N
ONSEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this sec-17
tion, or the application thereof to any person or cir-18
cumstance, is held to be invalid, the remaining provisions 19
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of this Act and any amendments made by this Act shall 1
be treated as invalid. 2
SEC. 102. ELECTIONS OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTA-3
TIVE. 4
(a) I
SSUANCE OFPROCLAMATION.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not more than 30 days after 6
receiving certification of the enactment of this Act 7
from the President pursuant to section 403, the 8
Mayor shall issue a proclamation for the first elec-9
tions for 2 Senators and one Representative in Con-10
gress from the State, subject to the provisions of 11
this section. 12
(2) S
PECIAL RULE FOR ELECTIONS OF SEN -13
ATORS.—In the elections of Senators from the State 14
pursuant to paragraph (1), the 2 Senate offices shall 15
be separately identified and designated, and no per-16
son may be a candidate for both offices. No such 17
identification or designation of either of the offices 18
shall refer to or be taken to refer to the terms of 19
such offices, or in any way impair the privilege of 20
the Senate to determine the class to which each of 21
the Senators shall be assigned. 22
(b) R
ULES FORCONDUCTINGELECTIONS.— 23
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The proclamation of the 24
Mayor issued under subsection (a) shall provide for 25
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the holding of a primary election and a general elec-1
tion, and in such elections the officers required to be 2
elected as provided in subsection (a) shall be chosen 3
by the qualified voters of the District of Columbia 4
in the manner required by the laws of the District 5
of Columbia. 6
(2) C
ERTIFICATION OF RESULTS .—Election re-7
sults shall be certified in the manner required by the 8
laws of the District of Columbia, except that the 9
Mayor shall also provide written certification of the 10
results of such elections to the President. 11
(c) A
SSUMPTION OFDUTIES.—Upon the admission 12
of the State into the Union, the Senators and Representa-13
tive elected in the elections described in subsection (a) 14
shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress and 15
to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Represent-16
atives of the other States in Congress. 17
(d) E
FFECT OFADMISSION ONHOUSE OFREP-18
RESENTATIVESMEMBERSHIP.— 19
(1) P
ERMANENT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF 20
MEMBERS.—Effective with respect to the Congress 21
during which the State is admitted into the Union 22
and each succeeding Congress, the House of Rep-23
resentatives shall be composed of 436 Members, in-24
cluding any Members representing the State. 25
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(2) INITIAL NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES 1
FOR STATE.—Until the taking effect of the first ap-2
portionment of Members occurring after the admis-3
sion of the State into the Union, the State shall be 4
entitled to one Representative in the House of Rep-5
resentatives upon its admission into the Union. 6
(3) A
PPORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS RESULTING 7
FROM ADMISSION OF STATE .— 8
(A) A
PPORTIONMENT.—Section 22(a) of 9
the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fif-10
teenth and subsequent decennial censuses and 11
to provide for apportionment of Representatives 12
in Congress’’, approved June 18, 1929 (2 13
U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking ‘‘the then 14
existing number of Representatives’’ and insert-15
ing ‘‘436 Representatives’’. 16
(B) E
FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment 17
made by subparagraph (A) shall apply with re-18
spect to the first regular decennial census con-19
ducted after the admission of the State into the 20
Union and each subsequent regular decennial 21
census. 22
SEC. 103. ISSUANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION. 23
The President, upon the certification of the results 24
of the elections of the officers required to be elected as 25
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provided in section 102(a), shall, not later than 90 days 1
after receiving such certification pursuant to section 2
102(b)(2), issue a proclamation announcing the results of 3
such elections as so ascertained. 4
Subtitle B—Seat of Government of 5
the United States 6
SEC. 111. TERRITORY AND BOUNDARIES. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 8
(b), the State shall consist of all of the territory of the 9
District of Columbia as of the date of the enactment of 10
this Act, subject to the results of the metes and bounds 11
survey conducted under subsection (c). 12
(b) E
XCLUSION OFPORTIONREMAINING ASSEAT OF 13
G
OVERNMENT OF UNITEDSTATES.—The territory of the 14
State shall not include the area described in section 112, 15
which shall be known as the ‘‘Capital’’ and shall serve as 16
the seat of the Government of the United States, as pro-17
vided in clause 17 of section 8 of article I of the Constitu-18
tion of the United States. 19
(c) M
ETES ANDBOUNDSSURVEY.—Not later than 20
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 21
President (in consultation with the Chair of the National 22
Capital Planning Commission) shall conduct a metes and 23
bounds survey of the Capital, as described in section 24
112(b). 25
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SEC. 112. DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subject to subsections (c) and (d), 2
upon the admission of the State into the Union, the Cap-3
ital shall consist of the property described in subsection 4
(b) and shall include the principal Federal monuments, 5
the White House, the Capitol Building, the United States 6
Supreme Court Building, and the Federal executive, legis-7
lative, and judicial office buildings located adjacent to the 8
Mall and the Capitol Building (as such terms are used 9
in section 8501(a) of title 40, United States Code). 10
(b) G
ENERALDESCRIPTION.—Upon the admission of 11
the State into the Union, the boundaries of the Capital 12
shall be as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the 13
southern right-of-way of F Street NE and the eastern 14
right-of-way of 2nd Street NE; 15
(1) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 16
of 2nd Street NE to its intersection with the north-17
eastern right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE; 18
(2) thence southwest along said northeastern 19
right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE to its intersec-20
tion with the northern right-of-way of Constitution 21
Avenue NE; 22
(3) thence west along said northern right-of- 23
way of Constitution Avenue NE to its intersection 24
with the eastern right-of-way of 1st Street NE; 25
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(4) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 1
of 1st Street NE to its intersection with the south-2
eastern right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE; 3
(5) thence northeast along said southeastern 4
right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE to its intersec-5
tion with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd Street NE; 6
(6) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 7
of 2nd Street NE to the eastern right-of-way of 2nd 8
Street SE; 9
(7) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 10
of 2nd Street SE to its intersection with the north-11
ern property boundary of the property designated as 12
Square 760 Lot 803; 13
(8) thence east along said northern property 14
boundary of Square 760 Lot 803 to its intersection 15
with the western right-of-way of 3rd Street SE; 16
(9) thence south along said western right-of- 17
way of 3rd Street SE to its intersection with the 18
northern right-of-way of Independence Avenue SE; 19
(10) thence west along said northern right-of- 20
way of Independence Avenue SE to its intersection 21
with the northeastern right-of-way of Pennsylvania 22
Avenue SE; 23
(11) thence northwest along said northeastern 24
right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue SE to its inter-25
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section with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd Street 1
SE; 2
(12) thence south along said eastern right-of- 3
way of 2nd Street SE to its intersection with the 4
southern right-of-way of C Street SE; 5
(13) thence west along said southern right-of- 6
way of C Street SE to its intersection with the east-7
ern right-of-way of 1st Street SE; 8
(14) thence south along said eastern right-of- 9
way of 1st Street SE to its intersection with the 10
southern right-of-way of D Street SE; 11
(15) thence west along said southern right-of- 12
way of D Street SE to its intersection with the east-13
ern right-of-way of South Capitol Street; 14
(16) thence south along said eastern right-of- 15
way of South Capitol Street to its intersection with 16
the northeastern right-of-way of Canal Street SE; 17
(17) thence southeast along said northeastern 18
right-of-way of Canal Street SE to its intersection 19
with the southern right-of-way of E Street SE; 20
(18) thence east along said southern right-of- 21
way of E Street SE to its intersection with the west-22
ern right-of-way of 1st Street SE; 23
(19) thence south along said western right-of- 24
way of 1st Street SE to its intersection with the 25
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southernmost corner of the property designated as 1
Square 736S Lot 801; 2
(20) thence west along a line extended due west 3
from said corner of said property designated as 4
Square 736S Lot 801 to its intersection with the 5
southwestern right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue 6
SE; 7
(21) thence southeast along said southwestern 8
right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue SE to its inter-9
section with the northeastern right-of-way of Vir-10
ginia Avenue SE; 11
(22) thence northwest along said northeastern 12
right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SE to its intersec-13
tion with the western right-of-way of South Capitol 14
Street; 15
(23) thence north along said western right-of- 16
way of South Capitol Street to its intersection with 17
the southern right-of-way of E Street SW; 18
(24) thence west along said southern right-of- 19
way of E Street SW to its end; 20
(25) thence west along a line extending said 21
southern right-of-way of E Street SW westward to 22
its intersection with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd 23
Street SW; 24
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(26) thence north along said eastern right-of- 1
way of 2nd Street SW to its intersection with the 2
southwestern right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SW; 3
(27) thence northwest along said southwestern 4
right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SW to its intersec-5
tion with the western right-of-way of 3rd Street SW; 6
(28) thence north along said western right-of- 7
way of 3rd Street SW to its intersection with the 8
northern right-of-way of D Street SW; 9
(29) thence west along said northern right-of- 10
way of D Street SW to its intersection with the east-11
ern right-of-way of 4th Street SW; 12
(30) thence north along said eastern right-of- 13
way of 4th Street SW to its intersection with the 14
northern right-of-way of C Street SW; 15
(31) thence west along said northern right-of- 16
way of C Street SW to its intersection with the east-17
ern right-of-way of 6th Street SW; 18
(32) thence north along said eastern right-of- 19
way of 6th Street SW to its intersection with the 20
northern right-of-way of Independence Avenue SW; 21
(33) thence west along said northern right-of- 22
way of Independence Avenue SW to its intersection 23
with the western right-of-way of 12th Street SW; 24
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(34) thence south along said western right-of- 1
way of 12th Street SW to its intersection with the 2
northern right-of-way of D Street SW; 3
(35) thence west along said northern right-of- 4
way of D Street SW to its intersection with the east-5
ern right-of-way of 14th Street SW; 6
(36) thence south along said eastern right-of- 7
way of 14th Street SW to its intersection with the 8
northwestern boundary of the Consolidated Rail Cor-9
poration railroad easement; 10
(37) thence southwest along said northwestern 11
boundary of the Consolidated Rail Corporation rail-12
road easement to its intersection with the eastern 13
shore of the Potomac River; 14
(38) thence generally northwest along said east-15
ern shore of the Potomac River to its intersection 16
with a line extending westward from the northern 17
boundary of the property designated as Square 12 18
Lot 806; 19
(39) thence east along said line extending west-20
ward from the northern boundary of the property 21
designated as Square 12 Lot 806 to the northern 22
boundary of the property designated as Square 12 23
Lot 806, and continuing east along the northern 24
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boundary of the property designated as Square 12 1
Lot 806 to its northeast corner; 2
(40) thence east along a line extending east 3
from said northeast corner of the property des-4
ignated as Square 12 Lot 806 to its intersection 5
with the western boundary of the property des-6
ignated as Square 33 Lot 87; 7
(41) thence south along said western boundary 8
of the property designated as Square 33 Lot 87 to 9
its intersection with the northwest corner of the 10
property designated as Square 33 Lot 88; 11
(42) thence counter-clockwise around the 12
boundary of said property designated as Square 33 13
Lot 88 to its southeast corner, which is along the 14
northern right-of-way of E Street NW; 15
(43) thence east along said northern right-of- 16
way of E Street NW to its intersection with the 17
western right-of-way of 18th Street NW; 18
(44) thence south along said western right-of- 19
way of 18th Street NW to its intersection with the 20
southwestern right-of-way of Virginia Avenue NW; 21
(45) thence southeast along said southwestern 22
right-of-way of Virginia Avenue NW to its intersec-23
tion with the northern right-of-way of Constitution 24
Avenue NW; 25
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(46) thence east along said northern right-of- 1
way of Constitution Avenue NW to its intersection 2
with the eastern right-of-way of 17th Street NW; 3
(47) thence north along said eastern right-of- 4
way of 17th Street NW to its intersection with the 5
southern right-of-way of H Street NW; 6
(48) thence east along said southern right-of- 7
way of H Street NW to its intersection with the 8
northwest corner of the property designated as 9
Square 221 Lot 35; 10
(49) thence counter-clockwise around the 11
boundary of said property designated as Square 221 12
Lot 35 to its southeast corner, which is along the 13
boundary of the property designated as Square 221 14
Lot 37; 15
(50) thence counter-clockwise around the 16
boundary of said property designated as Square 221 17
Lot 37 to its southwest corner, which it shares with 18
the property designated as Square 221 Lot 42; 19
(51) thence south along the boundary of said 20
property designated as Square 221 Lot 42 to its 21
southwest corner; 22
(52) thence east along the southern border of 23
said property designated as Square 221 Lot 42 to 24
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its intersection with the northwest corner of the 1
property designated as Square 221 Lot 41; 2
(53) thence south along the western boundary 3
of said property designated as Square 221 Lot 41 4
to its southwest corner, which is along the northern 5
right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 6
(54) thence east along said northern right-of- 7
way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW to its intersection 8
with the western right-of-way of 15th Street NW; 9
(55) thence south along said western right-of- 10
way of 15th Street NW to its intersection with a line 11
extending northwest from the southern right-of-way 12
of the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue NW north of 13
Pershing Square; 14
(56) thence southeast along said line extending 15
the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue 16
NW to the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania 17
Avenue NW, and continuing southeast along said 18
southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW 19
to its intersection with the western right-of-way of 20
14th Street NW; 21
(57) thence south along said western right-of- 22
way of 14th Street NW to its intersection with a line 23
extending west from the southern right-of-way of D 24
Street NW; 25
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(58) thence east along said line extending west 1
from the southern right-of-way of D Street NW to 2
the southern right-of-way of D Street NW, and con-3
tinuing east along said southern right-of-way of D 4
Street NW to its intersection with the eastern right- 5
of-way of 13
1
⁄2Street NW; 6
(59) thence north along said eastern right-of- 7
way of 13
1
⁄2Street NW to its intersection with the 8
southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 9
(60) thence east and southeast along said 10
southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW 11
to its intersection with the western right-of-way of 12
12th Street NW; 13
(61) thence south along said western right-of- 14
way of 12th Street NW to its intersection with a line 15
extending to the west from the southern boundary of 16
the property designated as Square 324 Lot 809; 17
(62) thence east along said line to the south-18
west corner of said property designated as Square 19
324 Lot 809, and continuing northeast along the 20
southern boundary of said property designated as 21
Square 324 Lot 809 to its eastern corner, which it 22
shares with the property designated as Square 323 23
Lot 802; 24
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(63) thence east along the southern boundary 1
of said property designated as Square 323 Lot 802 2
to its southeast corner, which it shares with the 3
property designated as Square 324 Lot 808; 4
(64) thence counter-clockwise around the 5
boundary of said property designated as Square 324 6
Lot 808 to its northeastern corner, which is along 7
the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue 8
NW; 9
(65) thence southeast along said southern right- 10
of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW to its intersec-11
tion with the eastern right-of-way of 4th Street NW; 12
(66) thence north along a line extending north 13
from said eastern right-of-way of 4th Street NW to 14
its intersection with the southern right-of-way of C 15
Street NW; 16
(67) thence east along said southern right-of- 17
way of C Street NW to its intersection with the east-18
ern right-of-way of 3rd Street NW; 19
(68) thence north along said eastern right-of- 20
way of 3rd Street NW to its intersection with the 21
southern right-of-way of D Street NW; 22
(69) thence east along said southern right-of- 23
way of D Street NW to its intersection with the 24
western right-of-way of 1st Street NW; 25
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(70) thence south along said western right-of- 1
way of 1st Street NW to its intersection with the 2
northern right-of-way of C Street NW; 3
(71) thence west along said northern right-of- 4
way of C Street NW to its intersection with the 5
western right-of-way of 2nd Street NW; 6
(72) thence south along said western right-of- 7
way of 2nd Street NW to its intersection with the 8
northern right-of-way of Constitution Avenue NW; 9
(73) thence east along said northern right-of- 10
way of Constitution Avenue NW to its intersection 11
with the northwestern right-of-way of Louisiana Av-12
enue NW; 13
(74) thence northeast along said northwestern 14
right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW to its inter-15
section with the southwestern right-of-way of New 16
Jersey Avenue NW; 17
(75) thence northwest along said southwestern 18
right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue NW to its inter-19
section with the northern right-of-way of D Street 20
NW; 21
(76) thence east along said northern right-of- 22
way of D Street NW to its intersection with the 23
northwestern right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW; 24
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(77) thence northeast along said northwestern 1
right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW to its inter-2
section with the western right-of-way of North Cap-3
itol Street; 4
(78) thence north along said western right-of- 5
way of North Capitol Street to its intersection with 6
the southwestern right-of-way of Massachusetts Ave-7
nue NW; 8
(79) thence southeast along said southwestern 9
right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue NW to the 10
southwestern right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue 11
NE; 12
(80) thence southeast along said southwestern 13
right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue NE to the 14
southern right-of-way of Columbus Circle NE; 15
(81) thence counter-clockwise along said south-16
ern right-of-way of Columbus Circle NE to its inter-17
section with the southern right-of-way of F Street 18
NE; and 19
(82) thence east along said southern right-of- 20
way of F Street NE to the point of beginning. 21
(c) E
XCLUSION OFBUILDINGSERVING ASSTATE 22
C
APITOL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this 23
section, after the admission of the State into the Union, 24
the Capital shall not be considered to include the building 25
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known as the ‘‘John A. Wilson Building’’, as described 1
and designated under section 601(a) of the Omnibus 2
Spending Reduction Act of 1993 (sec. 10–1301(a), D.C. 3
Official Code). 4
(d) C
LARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF FRANCES 5
P
ERKINSBUILDING.—The entirety of the Frances Per-6
kins Building, including any portion of the Building which 7
is north of D Street NW, shall be considered to be in-8
cluded in the Capital. 9
SEC. 113. RETENTION OF TITLE TO PROPERTY. 10
(a) R
ETENTION OFFEDERALTITLE.—The United 11
States shall have and retain title to, or jurisdiction over, 12
for purposes of administration and maintenance, all real 13
and personal property with respect to which the United 14
States holds title or jurisdiction for such purposes on the 15
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 16
Union. 17
(b) R
ETENTION OFSTATETITLE.—The State shall 18
have and retain title to, or jurisdiction over, for purposes 19
of administration and maintenance, all real and personal 20
property with respect to which the District of Columbia 21
holds title or jurisdiction for such purposes on the day 22
before the date of the admission of the State into the 23
Union. 24
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SEC. 114. EFFECT OF ADMISSION ON CURRENT LAWS OF 1
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES. 2
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the laws 3
of the District of Columbia which are in effect on the day 4
before the date of the admission of the State into the 5
Union (without regard to whether such laws were enacted 6
by Congress or by the District of Columbia) shall apply 7
in the Capital in the same manner and to the same extent 8
beginning on the date of the admission of the State into 9
the Union, and shall be deemed laws of the United States 10
which are applicable only in or to the Capital. 11
SEC. 115. CAPITAL NATIONAL GUARD. 12
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—Title 32, United States Code, 13
is amended as follows: 14
(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In paragraphs (4), (6), and 15
(19) of section 101, by striking ‘‘District of Colum-16
bia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 17
(2) B
RANCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS .—In sec-18
tion 103, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and in-19
serting ‘‘Capital’’. 20
(3) U
NITS: LOCATION; ORGANIZATION; COM-21
MAND.—In subsections (c) and (d) of section 104, 22
by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ both places it ap-23
pears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 24
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(4) AVAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS .—In 1
section 107(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 2
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 3
(5) M
AINTENANCE OF OTHER TROOPS .—In 4
subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 109, by strik-5
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it appears and 6
inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 7
(6) D
RUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER -DRUG 8
ACTIVITIES.—In section 112(h)— 9
(A) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 10
both places it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; 11
and 12
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Na-13
tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 14
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 15
(7) E
NLISTMENT OATH .—In section 304, by 16
striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-17
ital’’. 18
(8) A
DJUTANTS GENERAL .—In section 314, by 19
striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it ap-20
pears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 21
(9) D
ETAIL OF REGULAR MEMBERS OF ARMY 22
AND AIR FORCE TO DUTY WITH NATIONAL GUARD .— 23
In section 315, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 24
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 25
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(10) DISCHARGE OF OFFICERS ; TERMINATION 1
OF APPOINTMENT.—In section 324(b), by striking 2
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 3
(11) R
ELIEF FROM NATIONAL GUARD DUTY 4
WHEN ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY .—In subsections 5
(a) and (b) of section 325, by striking ‘‘District of 6
Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-7
ital’’. 8
(12) C
OURTS-MARTIAL OF NATIONAL GUARD 9
NOT IN FEDERAL SERVICE : COMPOSITION, JURISDIC-10
TION, AND PROCEDURES; CONVENING AUTHORITY .— 11
In sections 326 and 327, by striking ‘‘District of Co-12
lumbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-13
ital’’. 14
(13) A
CTIVE GUARD AND RESERVE DUTY : GOV-15
ERNOR’S AUTHORITY.—In section 328(a), by strik-16
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 17
(14) T
RAINING GENERALLY .—In section 18
501(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and in-19
serting ‘‘Capital’’. 20
(15) P
ARTICIPATION IN FIELD EXERCISES .—In 21
section 503(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 22
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 23
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(16) NATIONAL GUARD SCHOOLS AND SMALL 1
ARMS COMPETITIONS .—In section 504(b), by strik-2
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 3
(17) A
RMY AND AIR FORCE SCHOOLS AND 4
FIELD EXERCISES.—In section 505, by striking 5
‘‘National Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 6
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 7
(18) N
ATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE 8
PROGRAM.—In subsections (c)(1), (g)(2), (j), (k), 9
and (l)(1) of section 509, by striking ‘‘District of 10
Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-11
ital’’. 12
(19) I
SSUE OF SUPPLIES.—In section 702— 13
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Na-14
tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 15
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’; and 16
(B) in subsections (b), (c), and (d), by 17
striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it 18
appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 19
(20) P
URCHASES OF SUPPLIES FROM ARMY OR 20
AIR FORCE.—In subsections (a) and (b) of section 21
703, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ both places 22
it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 23
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(21) ACCOUNTABILITY: RELIEF FROM UPON 1
ORDER TO ACTIVE DUTY .—In section 704, by strik-2
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 3
(22) P
ROPERTY AND FISCAL OFFICERS .—In 4
section 708— 5
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Na-6
tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 7
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’; and 8
(B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘District 9
of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 10
(23) A
CCOUNTABILITY FOR PROPERTY ISSUED 11
TO THE NATIONAL GUARD .—In subsections (c), (d), 12
(e), and (f) of section 710, by striking ‘‘District of 13
Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-14
ital’’. 15
(24) D
ISPOSITION OF OBSOLETE OR CON -16
DEMNED PROPERTY .—In section 711, by striking 17
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 18
(25) D
ISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS OF CON -19
DEMNED STORES ISSUED TO NATIONAL GUARD .—In 20
paragraph (1) of section 712, by striking ‘‘District 21
of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 22
(26) P
ROPERTY LOSS; PERSONAL INJURY OR 23
DEATH.—In section 715(c), by striking ‘‘District of 24
Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 25
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(b) CONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 1
(1) C
APITAL DEFINED.— 2
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Section 101 of title 32, 3
United States Code, is amended by adding at 4
the end the following new paragraph: 5
‘‘(20) ‘Capital’ means the area serving as the 6
seat of the Government of the United States, as de-7
scribed in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Ad-8
mission Act.’’. 9
(B) W
ITH REGARDS TO HOMELAND DE -10
FENSE ACTIVITIES.—Section 901 of title 32, 11
United States Code, is amended— 12
(i) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Dis-13
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; 14
and 15
(ii) by adding at the end the following 16
new paragraph: 17
‘‘(3) The term ‘Governor’ means, with respect 18
to the Capital, the commanding general of the Cap-19
ital National Guard.’’. 20
(2) T
ITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE.—Title 10, 21
United States Code, is amended as follows: 22
(A) D
EFINITIONS.—In section 101— 23
(i) in subsection (a), by adding at the 24
end the following new paragraph: 25
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‘‘(21) The term ‘Capital’ means the area serv-1
ing as the seat of the Government of the United 2
States, as described in section 112 of the Wash-3
ington, D.C. Admission Act.’’; 4
(ii) in paragraphs (2) and (4) of sub-5
section (c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-6
bia’’ both places it appears and inserting 7
‘‘Capital’’; and 8
(iii) in subsection (d)(5), by striking 9
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting 10
‘‘Capital’’. 11
(B) D
ISPOSITION ON DISCHARGE .—In sec-12
tion 771a(c), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 13
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 14
(C) TRICARE 
COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN 15
MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND DE -16
PENDENTS DURING CERTAIN DISASTER RE -17
SPONSE DUTY.—In section 1076f— 18
(i) in subsections (a) and (c)(1), by 19
striking ‘‘with respect to the District of 20
Columbia, the mayor of the District of Co-21
lumbia’’ both places it appears and insert-22
ing ‘‘with respect to the Capital, the com-23
manding general of the Capital National 24
Guard’’; and 25
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(ii) in subsection (c)(2), by striking 1
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting 2
‘‘Capital’’. 3
(D) P
AYMENT OF CLAIMS : AVAILABILITY 4
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In paragraph (2)(B) of 5
section 2732, by striking ‘‘District of Colum-6
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 7
(E) M
EMBERS OF ARMY NATIONAL GUARD : 8
DETAIL AS STUDENTS, OBSERVERS, AND INVES-9
TIGATORS AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS , IN-10
DUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND HOSPITALS.—In sec-11
tion 7401(c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-12
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 13
(F) M
EMBERS OF AIR NATIONAL GUARD : 14
DETAIL AS STUDENTS, OBSERVERS, AND INVES-15
TIGATORS AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS , IN-16
DUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND HOSPITALS.—In sec-17
tion 9401(c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-18
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 19
(G) R
EADY RESERVE: FAILURE TO SATIS-20
FACTORILY PERFORM PRESCRIBED TRAINING .— 21
In section 10148(b)— 22
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 23
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 24
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(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 1
National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 2
National Guard’’. 3
(H) C
HIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD BU -4
REAU.—In section 10502(a)(1)— 5
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 6
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 7
(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 8
National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 9
National Guard’’. 10
(I) V
ICE CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD 11
BUREAU.—In section 10505(a)(1)(A)— 12
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 13
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 14
(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 15
National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 16
National Guard’’. 17
(J) O
THER SENIOR NATIONAL GUARD BU -18
REAU OFFICERS.—In subparagraphs (A) and 19
(B) of section 10506(a)(1)— 20
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 21
both places it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-22
ital,’’; and 23
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(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 1
National Guard’’ both places it appears 2
and inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 3
(K) N
ATIONAL GUARD BUREAU : GENERAL 4
PROVISIONS.—In section 10508(b)(1), by strik-5
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-6
ital’’. 7
(L) C
OMMISSIONED OFFICERS : ORIGINAL 8
APPOINTMENT; LIMITATION.—In section 9
12204(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 10
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 11
(M) R
ESERVE COMPONENTS GEN -12
ERALLY.—In section 12301(b), by striking 13
‘‘District of Columbia National Guard’’ both 14
places it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital Na-15
tional Guard’’. 16
(N) N
ATIONAL GUARD IN FEDERAL SERV -17
ICE: CALL.—In section 12406— 18
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 19
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 20
(ii) by striking ‘‘National Guard of 21
the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 22
‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 23
(O) R
ESULT OF FAILURE TO COMPLY 24
WITH STANDARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS .—In 25
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section 12642(c), by striking ‘‘District of Co-1
lumbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 2
(P) L
IMITATION ON RELOCATION OF NA -3
TIONAL GUARD UNITS.—In section 18238— 4
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 5
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 6
(ii) by striking ‘‘National Guard of 7
the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 8
‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 9
SEC. 116. TERMINATION OF LEGAL STATUS OF SEAT OF 10
GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES AS MUNIC-11
IPAL CORPORATION. 12
Notwithstanding section 2 of the Revised Statutes re-13
lating to the District of Columbia (sec. 1–102, D.C. Offi-14
cial Code) or any other provision of law codified in sub-15
chapter I of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Official 16
Code, effective upon the date of the admission of the State 17
into the Union, the Capital (or any portion thereof) shall 18
not serve as a government and shall not be a body cor-19
porate for municipal purposes. 20
Subtitle C—General Provisions 21
Relating to Laws of State 22
SEC. 121. EFFECT OF ADMISSION ON CURRENT LAWS. 23
(a) L
EGISLATIVEPOWER.—The legislative power of 24
the State shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation 25
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in the State, consistent with the Constitution of the 1
United States (including the restrictions and limitations 2
imposed upon the States by article I, section 10) and sub-3
ject to the provisions of this Act. 4
(b) C
ONTINUATION OF AUTHORITY ANDDUTIES OF 5
M
EMBERS OFEXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, ANDJUDICIAL 6
O
FFICES.—Upon the admission of the State into the 7
Union, members of executive, legislative, and judicial of-8
fices of the District of Columbia shall be deemed members 9
of the respective executive, legislative, and judicial offices 10
of the State, as provided by the State Constitution and 11
the laws of the State. 12
(c) T
REATMENT OFFEDERALLAWS.—To the extent 13
that any law of the United States applies to the States 14
generally, the law shall have the same force and effect in 15
the State as elsewhere in the United States, except as such 16
law may otherwise provide. 17
(d) N
OEFFECT ONEXISTINGCONTRACTS.—Nothing 18
in the admission of the State into the Union shall affect 19
any obligation under any contract or agreement under 20
which the District of Columbia or the United States is 21
a party, as in effect on the day before the date of the 22
admission of the State into the Union. 23
(e) S
UCCESSION ININTERSTATECOMPACTS.—The 24
State shall be deemed to be the successor to the District 25
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of Columbia for purposes of any interstate compact which 1
is in effect on the day before the date of the admission 2
of the State into the Union. 3
(f) C
ONTINUATION OF SERVICE OFFEDERALMEM-4
BERS ONBOARDS ANDCOMMISSIONS.—Nothing in the ad-5
mission of the State into the Union shall affect the author-6
ity of a representative of the Federal Government who, 7
as of the day before the date of the admission of the State 8
into the Union, is a member of a board or commission 9
of the District of Columbia to serve as a member of such 10
board or commission or as a member of a successor to 11
such board or commission after the admission of the State 12
into the Union, as may be provided by the State Constitu-13
tion and the laws of the State. 14
(g) S
PECIALRULEREGARDINGENFORCEMENT AU-15
THORITY OFUNITEDSTATESCAPITOLPOLICE, UNITED 16
S
TATESPARKPOLICE, ANDUNITEDSTATESSECRET 17
S
ERVICEUNIFORMEDDIVISION.—The United States 18
Capitol Police, the United States Park Police, and the 19
United States Secret Service Uniformed Division may not 20
enforce any law of the State in the State, except to the 21
extent authorized by the State. Nothing in this subsection 22
may be construed to affect the authority of the United 23
States Capitol Police, the United States Park Police, and 24
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the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to 1
enforce any law in the Capital. 2
SEC. 122. PENDING ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS. 3
(a) S
TATE ASLEGALSUCCESSOR TODISTRICT OF 4
C
OLUMBIA.—The State shall be the legal successor to the 5
District of Columbia in all matters. 6
(b) N
OEFFECT ONPENDINGPROCEEDINGS.—All 7
existing writs, actions, suits, judicial and administrative 8
proceedings, civil or criminal liabilities, prosecutions, judg-9
ments, sentences, orders, decrees, appeals, causes of ac-10
tion, claims, demands, titles, and rights shall continue un-11
affected by the admission of the State into the Union with 12
respect to the State or the United States, except as may 13
be provided under this Act, as may be modified in accord-14
ance with the provisions of the State Constitution, and 15
as may be modified by the laws of the State or the United 16
States, as the case may be. 17
SEC. 123. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO TAX FEDERAL 18
PROPERTY. 19
The State may not impose any tax on any real or 20
personal property owned or acquired by the United States, 21
except to the extent that Congress may permit. 22
SEC. 124. UNITED STATES NATIONALITY. 23
No provision of this Act shall operate to confer 24
United States nationality, to terminate nationality lawfully 25
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acquired, or to restore nationality terminated or lost under 1
any law of the United States or under any treaty to which 2
the United States is or was a party. 3
TITLE II—INTERESTS OF 4
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 5
Subtitle A—Federal Property 6
SEC. 201. TREATMENT OF MILITARY LANDS. 7
(a) R
ESERVATION OFFEDERALAUTHORITY.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2) 9
and subsection (b) and notwithstanding the admis-10
sion of the State into the Union, authority is re-11
served in the United States for the exercise by Con-12
gress of the power of exclusive legislation in all cases 13
whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land lo-14
cated in the State that, on the day before the date 15
of the admission of the State into the Union, are 16
controlled or owned by the United States and held 17
for defense or Coast Guard purposes. 18
(2) L
IMITATION ON AUTHORITY .—The power of 19
exclusive legislation described in paragraph (1) shall 20
vest and remain in the United States only so long 21
as the particular tract or parcel of land involved is 22
controlled or owned by the United States and held 23
for defense or Coast Guard purposes. 24
(b) A
UTHORITY OFSTATE.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The reservation of authority 1
in the United States under subsection (a) shall not 2
operate to prevent such tracts or parcels of land 3
from being a part of the State, or to prevent the 4
State from exercising over or upon such lands, con-5
currently with the United States, any jurisdiction 6
which it would have in the absence of such reserva-7
tion of authority and which is consistent with the 8
laws hereafter enacted by Congress pursuant to such 9
reservation of authority. 10
(2) S
ERVICE OF PROCESS .—The State shall 11
have the right to serve civil or criminal process in 12
such tracts or parcels of land in which the authority 13
of the United States is reserved under subsection (a) 14
in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights 15
acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed 16
in the State but outside of such lands. 17
SEC. 202. WAIVER OF CLAIMS TO FEDERAL PROPERTY. 18
(a) I
NGENERAL.—As a compact with the United 19
States, the State and its people disclaim all right and title 20
to any real or personal property not granted or confirmed 21
to the State by or under the authority of this Act, the 22
right or title to which is held by the United States or sub-23
ject to disposition by the United States. 24
(b) E
FFECT ONCLAIMSAGAINSTUNITEDSTATES.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act shall 1
recognize, deny, enlarge, impair, or otherwise affect 2
any claim against the United States, and any such 3
claim shall be governed by applicable laws of the 4
United States. 5
(2) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 6
Act is intended or shall be construed as a finding, 7
interpretation, or construction by Congress that any 8
applicable law authorizes, establishes, recognizes, or 9
confirms the validity or invalidity of any claim re-10
ferred to in paragraph (1), and the determination of 11
the applicability to or the effect of any law on any 12
such claim shall be unaffected by anything in this 13
Act. 14
Subtitle B—Federal Courts 15
SEC. 211. RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN FED-16
ERAL OFFICIALS. 17
(a) C
IRCUITJUDGES.—Section 44(c) of title 28, 18
United States Code, is amended— 19
(1) by striking ‘‘Except in the District of Co-20
lumbia, each’’ and inserting ‘‘Each’’; and 21
(2) by striking ‘‘within fifty miles of the Dis-22
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘within fifty miles 23
of the Capital’’. 24
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(b) DISTRICTJUDGES.—Section 134(b) of such title 1
is amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘the District 2
of Columbia, the Southern District of New York, and’’ and 3
inserting ‘‘the Southern District of New York and’’. 4
(c) U
NITEDSTATESATTORNEYS.—Section 545(a) of 5
such title is amended by striking the first sentence and 6
inserting ‘‘Each United States attorney shall reside in the 7
district for which he or she is appointed, except that those 8
officers of the Southern District of New York and the 9
Eastern District of New York may reside within 20 miles 10
thereof.’’. 11
(d) U
NITEDSTATESMARSHALS.—Section 561(e)(1) 12
of such title is amended to read as follows: 13
‘‘(1) the marshal for the Southern District of 14
New York may reside within 20 miles of the district; 15
and’’. 16
(e) C
LERKS OFDISTRICTCOURTS.—Section 751(c) 17
of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Co-18
lumbia and’’. 19
(f) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 20
this section shall apply only to individuals appointed after 21
the date of the admission of the State into the Union. 22
SEC. 212. RENAMING OF FEDERAL COURTS. 23
(a) R
ENAMING.— 24
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(1) CIRCUIT COURT.—Section 41 of title 28, 1
United States Code, is amended— 2
(A) in the first column, by striking ‘‘Dis-3
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; and 4
(B) in the second column, by striking 5
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital; 6
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’’. 7
(2) D
ISTRICT COURT.—Section 88 of such title 8
is amended— 9
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘District 10
of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 11
Douglass Commonwealth and the 12
Capital’’; 13
(B) by amending the first paragraph to 14
read as follows: 15
‘‘The State of Washington, Douglass Common-16
wealth and the Capital comprise one judicial dis-17
trict.’’; and 18
(C) in the second paragraph, by striking 19
‘‘Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 20
(3) C
LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The item relating 21
to section 88 in the table of sections for chapter 5 22
of such title is amended to read as follows: 23
‘‘88. Washington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital.’’. 
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 1
C
OURT OFAPPEALS.—Title 28, United States Code, is 2
amended as follows: 3
(1) A
PPOINTMENT OF JUDGES .—Section 44(a) 4
of such title is amended in the first column by strik-5
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 6
(2) T
ERMS OF COURT.—Section 48(a) of such 7
title is amended— 8
(A) in the first column, by striking ‘‘Dis-9
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; 10
(B) in the second column, by striking 11
‘‘Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; and 12
(C) in the second column, by striking 13
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 14
(3) A
PPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT COUNSELS 15
BY CHIEF JUDGE OF CIRCUIT .—Section 49 of such 16
title is amended by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 17
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 18
(4) C
IRCUIT COURT JURISDICTION OVER CER -19
TIFICATION OF DEATH PENALTY COUNSELS .—Sec-20
tion 2265(c)(2) of such title is amended by striking 21
‘‘the District of Columbia Circuit’’ and inserting 22
‘‘the Capital Circuit’’. 23
(5) C
IRCUIT COURT JURISDICTION OVER RE -24
VIEW OF FEDERAL AGENCY ORDERS .—Section 2343 25
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of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of 1
Columbia Circuit’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital Cir-2
cuit’’. 3
(c) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS RELATING TODIS-4
TRICTCOURT.—Title 28, United States Code, is amended 5
as follows: 6
(1) A
PPOINTMENT AND NUMBER OF DISTRICT 7
COURT JUDGES.—Section 133(a) of such title is 8
amended in the first column by striking ‘‘District of 9
Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass 10
Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 11
(2) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OF TAX 12
CASES BROUGHT AGAINST UNITED STATES .—Section 13
1346(e) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 14
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 15
Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 16
(3) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER PRO -17
CEEDINGS FOR FORFEITURE OF FOREIGN PROP -18
ERTY.—Section 1355(b)(2) of such title is amended 19
by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 20
‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth and the 21
Capital’’. 22
(4) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER CIVIL 23
ACTIONS BROUGHT AGAINST A FOREIGN STATE .— 24
Section 1391(f)(4) of such title is amended by strik-25
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ing ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Wash-1
ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 2
(5) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER AC -3
TIONS BROUGHT BY CORPORATIONS AGAINST 4
UNITED STATES.—Section 1402(a)(2) of such title is 5
amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and 6
inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth 7
and the Capital’’. 8
(6) V
ENUE IN DISTRICT COURT OF CERTAIN AC -9
TIONS BROUGHT BY EMPLOYEES OF EXECUTIVE OF -10
FICE OF THE PRESIDENT .—Section 1413 of such 11
title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Colum-12
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Common-13
wealth and the Capital’’. 14
(7) V
ENUE IN DISTRICT COURT OF ACTION EN -15
FORCING FOREIGN JUDGMENT	.—Section 16
2467(c)(2)(B) of such title is amended by striking 17
‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Wash-18
ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 19
(d) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 20
O
THERCOURTS.—Title 28, United States Code, is 21
amended as follows: 22
(1) A
PPOINTMENT OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES .— 23
Section 152(a)(2) of such title is amended in the 24
first column by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and 25
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inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth 1
and the Capital’’. 2
(2) L
OCATION OF COURT OF FEDERAL 3
CLAIMS.—Section 173 of such title is amended by 4
striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 5
‘‘the Capital’’. 6
(3) D
UTY STATION OF JUDGES OF COURT OF 7
FEDERAL CLAIMS.—Section 175 of such title is 8
amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 9
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 10
(4) D
UTY STATION OF JUDGES FOR PURPOSES 11
OF TRAVELING EXPENSES .—Section 456(b) of such 12
title is amended to read as follows: 13
‘‘(b) The official duty station of the Chief Justice of 14
the United States, the Justices of the Supreme Court of 15
the United States, and the judges of the United States 16
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall be the Cap-17
ital.’’. 18
(5) C
OURT ACCOMMODATIONS FOR FEDERAL 19
CIRCUIT AND COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS .—Section 20
462(d) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the Dis-21
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 22
(6) P
LACES OF HOLDING COURT OF COURT OF 23
FEDERAL CLAIMS.—Section 798(a) of such title is 24
amended— 25
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(A) by striking ‘‘Washington, District of 1
Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’; and 2
(B) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 3
and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 4
(e) O
THERCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 5
(1) S
ERVICE OF PROCESS ON FOREIGN PARTIES 6
AT STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICE	.—Section 7
1608(a)(4) of such title is amended by striking 8
‘‘Washington, District of Columbia’’ and inserting 9
‘‘the Capital’’. 10
(2) S
ERVICE OF PROCESS IN PROPERTY CASES 11
AT ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE .—Section 2410(b) 12
of such title is amended by striking ‘‘Washington, 13
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 14
(f) D
EFINITION.—Section 451 of title 28, United 15
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-16
lowing new undesignated paragraph: 17
‘‘The term ‘Capital’ means the area serving as the 18
seat of the Government of the United States, as described 19
in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 20
(g) R
EFERENCES INOTHERLAWS.—Any reference 21
in any Federal law (other than a law amended by this 22
section), rule, or regulation— 23
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(1) to the United States Court of Appeals for 1
the District of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to 2
the United States Court of Appeals for the Capital; 3
(2) to the District of Columbia Circuit shall be 4
deemed to refer to the Capital Circuit; and 5
(3) to the United States District Court for the 6
District of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to the 7
United States District Court for Washington, Doug-8
lass Commonwealth and the Capital. 9
(h) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section and the amend-10
ments made by this section shall take effect upon the ad-11
mission of the State into the Union. 12
SEC. 213. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DE-13
PARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 14
(a) A
PPOINTMENT OFUNITEDSTATESTRUSTEES.— 15
Section 581(a)(4) of title 28, United States Code, is 16
amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and in-17
serting ‘‘the Capital and Washington, Douglass Common-18
wealth’’. 19
(b) I
NDEPENDENTCOUNSELS.— 20
(1) A
PPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL PER -21
SONNEL.—Section 594(c) of such title is amended— 22
(A) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 23
the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘Wash-24
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ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Cap-1
ital’’; and 2
(B) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 3
the second place it appears and inserting 4
‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’’. 5
(2) J
UDICIAL REVIEW OF REMOVAL .—Section 6
596(a)(3) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 7
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 8
Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 9
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 10
this section shall take effect upon the admission of the 11
State into the Union. 12
SEC. 214. TREATMENT OF PRETRIAL SERVICES IN UNITED 13
STATES DISTRICT COURT. 14
Section 3152 of title 18, United States Code, is 15
amended— 16
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(other than 17
the District of Columbia)’’ and inserting ‘‘(subject to 18
subsection (d), other than the District of Colum-19
bia)’’; and 20
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-21
section: 22
‘‘(d) In the case of the judicial district of Washington, 23
Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital— 24
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‘‘(1) upon the admission of the State of Wash-1
ington, Douglass Commonwealth into the Union, the 2
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth Pretrial Serv-3
ices Agency shall continue to provide pretrial serv-4
ices in the judicial district in the same manner and 5
to the same extent as the District of Columbia Pre-6
trial Services Agency provided such services in the 7
judicial district of the District of Columbia as of the 8
day before the date of the admission of the State 9
into the Union; and 10
‘‘(2) upon the receipt by the President of the 11
certification from the State of Washington, Douglass 12
Commonwealth under section 315(b)(4) of the 13
Washington, D.C. Admission Act that the State has 14
in effect laws providing for the State to provide pre- 15
trial services, paragraph (1) shall no longer apply, 16
and the Director shall provide for the establishment 17
of pretrial services in the judicial district under this 18
section.’’. 19
Subtitle C—Federal Elections 20
SEC. 221. PERMITTING INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN CAPITAL 21
TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN STATE 22
OF MOST RECENT DOMICILE. 23
(a) R
EQUIREMENT FOR STATESTOPERMITINDIVID-24
UALSTOVOTE BYABSENTEEBALLOT.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall— 1
(A) permit absent Capital voters to use ab-2
sentee registration procedures and to vote by 3
absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and 4
runoff elections for Federal office; and 5
(B) accept and process, with respect to any 6
general, special, primary, or runoff election for 7
Federal office, any otherwise valid voter reg-8
istration application from an absent Capital 9
voter, if the application is received by the ap-10
propriate State election official not less than 30 11
days before the election. 12
(2) A
BSENT CAPITAL VOTER DEFINED .—In this 13
section, the term ‘‘absent Capital voter’’ means, with 14
respect to a State, a person who resides in the Cap-15
ital and is qualified to vote in the State (or who 16
would be qualified to vote in the State but for resid-17
ing in the Capital), but only if the State is the last 18
place in which the person was domiciled before resid-19
ing in the Capital. 20
(3) S
TATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 21
‘‘State’’ means each of the several States, including 22
the State. 23
(b) R
ECOMMENDATIONS TO STATESTOMAXIMIZE 24
A
CCESS TOPOLLS BYABSENTCAPITALVOTERS.—To af-25
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ford maximum access to the polls by absent Capital voters, 1
it is the sense of Congress that the States should— 2
(1) waive registration requirements for absent 3
Capital voters who, by reason of residence in the 4
Capital, do not have an opportunity to register; 5
(2) expedite processing of balloting materials 6
with respect to such individuals; and 7
(3) assure that absentee ballots are mailed to 8
such individuals at the earliest opportunity. 9
(c) E
NFORCEMENT.—The Attorney General may 10
bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the 11
United States for such declaratory or injunctive relief as 12
may be necessary to carry out this section. 13
(d) E
FFECT ONCERTAINOTHERLAWS.—The exer-14
cise of any right under this section shall not affect, for 15
purposes of a Federal tax, a State tax, or a local tax, the 16
residence or domicile of a person exercising such right. 17
(e) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall take effect 18
upon the date of the admission of the State into the 19
Union, and shall apply with respect to elections for Fed-20
eral office taking place on or after such date. 21
SEC. 222. REPEAL OF OFFICE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 22
DELEGATE. 23
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Sections 202 and 204 of the Dis-24
trict of Columbia Delegate Act (Public Law 91–405; sec-25
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tions 1–401 and 1–402, D.C. Official Code) are repealed, 1
and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such 2
sections are restored or revived as if such sections had 3
not been enacted. 4
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS TO DISTRICT OFCO-5
LUMBIAELECTIONSCODE OF1955.—The District of Co-6
lumbia Elections Code of 1955 is amended— 7
(1) in section 1 (sec. 1–1001.01, D.C. Official 8
Code), by striking ‘‘the Delegate to the House of 9
Representatives,’’; 10
(2) in section 2 (sec. 1–1001.02, D.C. Official 11
Code)— 12
(A) by striking paragraph (6); 13
(B) in paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘(except 14
the Delegate to Congress for the District of Co-15
lumbia)’’; and 16
(C) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘the 17
Delegate to Congress for the District of Colum-18
bia,’’; 19
(3) in section 8 (sec. 1–1001.08, D.C. Official 20
Code)— 21
(A) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ in the heading; 22
and 23
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(B) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ each place it 1
appears in subsections (d), (h)(1)(A), (h)(2), 2
(i)(1), (j)(1), (j)(3), and (k)(3); 3
(4) in section 10 (sec. 1–1001.10, D.C. Official 4
Code)— 5
(A) by striking subparagraph (A) of sub-6
section (a)(3); and 7
(B) in subsection (d)— 8
(i) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ each place 9
it appears in paragraph (1); and 10
(ii) by striking paragraph (2) and re-11
designating paragraph (3) as paragraph 12
(2); 13
(5) in section 11(a)(2) (sec. 1–1001.11(a)(2), 14
D.C. Official Code), by striking ‘‘Delegate to the 15
House of Representatives,’’; 16
(6) in section 15(b) (sec. 1–1001.15(b), D.C. 17
Official Code), by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’; and 18
(7) in section 17(a) (sec. 1–1001.17(a), D.C. 19
Official Code), by striking ‘‘except the Delegate to 20
the Congress from the District of Columbia’’. 21
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 22
this section shall take effect upon the admission of the 23
State into the Union. 24
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SEC. 223. REPEAL OF LAW PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATION 1
OF SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN ELECTION OF 2
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 21 of title 3, United 4
States Code, is amended— 5
(1) by striking paragraph (2); 6
(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-7
graph (2); and 8
(3) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated, by 9
striking ‘‘(or, in the case of the District of Colum-10
bia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia)’’. 11
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 12
subsection (a) shall take effect upon the date of the admis-13
sion of the State into the Union, and shall apply to any 14
election of the President and Vice President taking place 15
on or after such date. 16
SEC. 224. EXPEDITED PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION 17
OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REPEAL-18
ING 23RD AMENDMENT. 19
(a) J
OINTRESOLUTIONDESCRIBED.—In this sec-20
tion, the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means a joint resolu-21
tion— 22
(1) entitled ‘‘A joint resolution proposing an 23
amendment to the Constitution of the United States 24
to repeal the 23rd article of amendment’’; and 25
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(2) the matter after the resolving clause of 1
which consists solely of text to amend the Constitu-2
tion of the United States to repeal the 23rd article 3
of amendment to the Constitution. 4
(b) E
XPEDITEDCONSIDERATION INHOUSE OFREP-5
RESENTATIVES.— 6
(1) P
LACEMENT ON CALENDAR .—Upon intro-7
duction in the House of Representatives, the joint 8
resolution shall be placed immediately on the appro-9
priate calendar. 10
(2) P
ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .— 11
(A) I
N GENERAL.—It shall be in order, not 12
later than 30 legislative days after the date the 13
joint resolution is introduced in the House of 14
Representatives, to move to proceed to consider 15
the joint resolution in the House of Representa-16
tives. 17
(B) P
ROCEDURE.—For a motion to pro-18
ceed to consider the joint resolution— 19
(i) all points of order against the mo-20
tion are waived; 21
(ii) such a motion shall not be in 22
order after the House of Representatives 23
has disposed of a motion to proceed on the 24
joint resolution; 25
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(iii) the previous question shall be 1
considered as ordered on the motion to its 2
adoption without intervening motion; 3
(iv) the motion shall not be debatable; 4
and 5
(v) a motion to reconsider the vote by 6
which the motion is disposed of shall not 7
be in order. 8
(3) C
ONSIDERATION.—When the House of Rep-9
resentatives proceeds to consideration of the joint 10
resolution— 11
(A) the joint resolution shall be considered 12
as read; 13
(B) all points of order against the joint 14
resolution and against its consideration are 15
waived; 16
(C) the previous question shall be consid-17
ered as ordered on the joint resolution to its 18
passage without intervening motion except 10 19
hours of debate equally divided and controlled 20
by the proponent and an opponent; 21
(D) an amendment to the joint resolution 22
shall not be in order; and 23
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(E) a motion to reconsider the vote on pas-1
sage of the joint resolution shall not be in 2
order. 3
(c) E
XPEDITEDCONSIDERATION INSENATE.— 4
(1) P
LACEMENT ON CALENDAR .—Upon intro-5
duction in the Senate, the joint resolution shall be 6
placed immediately on the calendar. 7
(2) P
ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .— 8
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding rule 9
XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, it is 10
in order, not later than 30 legislative days after 11
the date the joint resolution is introduced in the 12
Senate (even though a previous motion to the 13
same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 14
proceed to the consideration of the joint resolu-15
tion. 16
(B) P
ROCEDURE.—For a motion to pro-17
ceed to the consideration of the joint resolu-18
tion— 19
(i) all points of order against the mo-20
tion are waived; 21
(ii) the motion is not debatable; 22
(iii) the motion is not subject to a mo-23
tion to postpone; 24
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(iv) a motion to reconsider the vote by 1
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed 2
to shall not be in order; and 3
(v) if the motion is agreed to, the 4
joint resolution shall remain the unfinished 5
business until disposed of. 6
(3) F
LOOR CONSIDERATION.— 7
(A) I
N GENERAL.—If the Senate proceeds 8
to consideration of the joint resolution— 9
(i) all points of order against the joint 10
resolution (and against consideration of 11
the joint resolution) are waived; 12
(ii) consideration of the joint resolu-13
tion, and all debatable motions and appeals 14
in connection therewith, shall be limited to 15
not more than 30 hours, which shall be di-16
vided equally between the majority and mi-17
nority leaders or their designees; 18
(iii) a motion further to limit debate 19
is in order and not debatable; 20
(iv) an amendment to, a motion to 21
postpone, or a motion to commit the joint 22
resolution is not in order; and 23
(v) a motion to proceed to the consid-24
eration of other business is not in order. 25
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(B) VOTE ON PASSAGE.—In the Senate the 1
vote on passage shall occur immediately fol-2
lowing the conclusion of the consideration of the 3
joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the 4
conclusion of the debate if requested in accord-5
ance with the rules of the Senate. 6
(C) R
ULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCE -7
DURE.—Appeals from the decisions of the Chair 8
relating to the application of this subsection or 9
the rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to 10
the procedure relating to the joint resolution 11
shall be decided without debate. 12
(d) R
ULESRELATING TOSENATE ANDHOUSE OF 13
R
EPRESENTATIVES.— 14
(1) C
OORDINATION WITH ACTION BY OTHER 15
HOUSE.—If, before the passage by one House of the 16
joint resolution of that House, that House receives 17
from the other House the joint resolution— 18
(A) the joint resolution of the other House 19
shall not be referred to a committee; and 20
(B) with respect to the joint resolution of 21
the House receiving the resolution— 22
(i) the procedure in that House shall 23
be the same as if no joint resolution had 24
been received from the other House; and 25
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(ii) the vote on passage shall be on 1
the joint resolution of the other House. 2
(2) T
REATMENT OF JOINT RESOLUTION OF 3
OTHER HOUSE.—If one House fails to introduce or 4
consider the joint resolution under this section, the 5
joint resolution of the other House shall be entitled 6
to expedited floor procedures under this section. 7
(3) T
REATMENT OF COMPANION MEASURES .— 8
If, following passage of the joint resolution in the 9
Senate, the Senate receives the companion measure 10
from the House of Representatives, the companion 11
measure shall not be debatable. 12
(e) R
ULES OFHOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES AND 13
S
ENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 14
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 15
the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-16
tively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules of 17
each House, respectively, but applicable only with re-18
spect to the procedure to be followed in that House 19
in the case of the joint resolution, and supersede 20
other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 21
with such rules; and 22
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 23
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 24
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 25
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in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 1
the case of any other rule of that House. 2
TITLE III—CONTINUATION OF 3
CERTAIN AUTHORITIES AND 4
RESPONSIBILITIES 5
Subtitle A—Employee Benefits 6
SEC. 301. FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENTS UNDER CERTAIN 7
RETIREMENT PROGRAMS. 8
(a) C
ONTINUATION OF ENTITLEMENT TO PAY-9
MENTS.—Any individual who, as of the day before the date 10
of the admission of the State into the Union, is entitled 11
to a Federal benefit payment under the District of Colum-12
bia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 (subtitle A of title 13
XI of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Govern-14
ment Improvement Act of 1997; sec. 1–801.01 et seq., 15
D.C. Official Code) shall continue to be entitled to such 16
a payment after the admission of the State into the Union, 17
in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to 18
the same terms and conditions applicable under such Act. 19
(b) O
BLIGATIONS OFFEDERALGOVERNMENT.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any obligation of the Fed-21
eral Government under the District of Columbia Re-22
tirement Protection Act of 1997 which exists with 23
respect to any individual or with respect to the Dis-24
trict of Columbia as of the day before the date of 25
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the admission of the State into the Union shall re-1
main in effect with respect to such an individual and 2
with respect to the State after the admission of the 3
State into the Union, in the same manner, to the 4
same extent, and subject to the same terms and con-5
ditions applicable under such Act. 6
(2) D.C. 
FEDERAL PENSION FUND .—Any obli-7
gation of the Federal Government under chapter 9 8
of the District of Columbia Retirement Protection 9
Act of 1997 (sec. 1–817.01 et seq., D.C. Official 10
Code) with respect to the D.C. Federal Pension 11
Fund which exists as of the day before the date of 12
the admission of the State into the Union shall re-13
main in effect with respect to such Fund after the 14
admission of the State into the Union, in the same 15
manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same 16
terms and conditions applicable under such chapter. 17
(c) O
BLIGATIONS OFSTATE.—Any obligation of the 18
District of Columbia under the District of Columbia Re-19
tirement Protection Act of 1997 which exists with respect 20
to any individual or with respect to the Federal Govern-21
ment as of the day before the date of the admission of 22
the State into the Union shall become an obligation of the 23
State with respect to such an individual and with respect 24
to the Federal Government after the admission of the 25
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State into the Union, in the same manner, to the same 1
extent, and subject to the same terms and conditions ap-2
plicable under such Act. 3
SEC. 302. CONTINUATION OF FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE BEN-4
EFITS FOR EMPLOYEES FIRST EMPLOYED 5
PRIOR TO ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT OF 6
COLUMBIA MERIT PERSONNEL SYSTEM. 7
(a) O
BLIGATIONS OFFEDERALGOVERNMENT.—Any 8
obligation of the Federal Government under title 5, United 9
States Code, which exists with respect to an individual de-10
scribed in subsection (c) or with respect to the District 11
of Columbia as of the day before the date of the admission 12
of the State into the Union shall remain in effect with 13
respect to such individual and with respect to the State 14
after the admission of the State into the Union, in the 15
same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same 16
terms and conditions applicable under such title. 17
(b) O
BLIGATIONS OFSTATE.—Any obligation of the 18
District of Columbia under title 5, United States Code, 19
which exists with respect to an individual described in sub-20
section (c) or with respect to the Federal Government as 21
of the day before the date of the admission of the State 22
into the Union shall become an obligation of the State with 23
respect to such individual and with respect to the Federal 24
Government after the admission of the State into the 25
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Union, in the same manner, to the same extent, and sub-1
ject to the same terms and conditions applicable under 2
such title. 3
(c) I
NDIVIDUALSDESCRIBED.—An individual de-4
scribed in this subsection is an individual who was first 5
employed by the government of the District of Columbia 6
before October 1, 1987. 7
SEC. 303. OBLIGATIONS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER 8
JUDGES’ RETIREMENT PROGRAM. 9
(a) C
ONTINUATION OFOBLIGATIONS.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any obligation of the Fed-11
eral Government under subchapter III of chapter 15 12
of title 11, District of Columbia Official Code— 13
(A) which exists with respect to any indi-14
vidual and the District of Columbia as the re-15
sult of service accrued prior to the date of the 16
admission of the State into the Union shall re-17
main in effect with respect to such an indi-18
vidual and with respect to the State after the 19
admission of the State into the Union, in the 20
same manner, to the same extent, and subject 21
to the same terms and conditions applicable 22
under such subchapter; and 23
(B) subject to paragraph (2), shall exist 24
with respect to any individual and the State as 25
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the result of service accrued after the date of 1
the admission of the State into the Union in the 2
same manner, to the same extent, and subject 3
to the same terms and conditions applicable 4
under such subchapter as such obligation ex-5
isted with respect to individuals and the Dis-6
trict of Columbia as of the date of the admis-7
sion of the State into the Union. 8
(2) T
REATMENT OF SERVICE ACCRUED AFTER 9
TAKING EFFECT OF STATE RETIREMENT PRO -10
GRAM.—Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) does 11
not apply to service accrued on or after the termi-12
nation date described in subsection (b). 13
(b) T
ERMINATIONDATE.—The termination date de-14
scribed in this subsection is the date on which the State 15
provides written certification to the President that the 16
State has in effect laws requiring the State to appropriate 17
and make available funds for the retirement of judges of 18
the State. 19
Subtitle B—Agencies 20
SEC. 311. PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE. 21
(a) C
ONTINUATION OF OPERATIONS AND FUND-22
ING.— 23
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-24
graph (2) and subsection (b), title III of the District 25
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of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure 1
Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1601 et seq., D.C. Official 2
Code) shall apply with respect to the State and to 3
the public defender service of the State after the 4
date of the admission of the State into the Union in 5
the same manner and to the same extent as such 6
title applied with respect to the District of Columbia 7
and the District of Columbia Public Defender Serv-8
ice as of the day before the date of the admission 9
of the State into the Union. 10
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -11
TRIBUTION.—For purposes of paragraph (2) of sec-12
tion 305(c) of such Act (sec. 2–1605(c)(2), D.C. Of-13
ficial Code), the Federal Government shall be treat-14
ed as the employing agency with respect to the bene-15
fits provided under such section to an individual who 16
is an employee of the public defender service of the 17
State and who, pursuant to section 305(c) of such 18
Act (sec. 2–1605(c), D.C. Official Code), is treated 19
as an employee of the Federal Government for pur-20
poses of receiving benefits under any chapter of sub-21
part G of part III of title 5, United States Code. 22
(b) R
ENAMING OFSERVICE.—Effective upon the date 23
of the admission of the State into the Union, the State 24
may rename the public defender service of the State. 25
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(c) CONTINUATION OFFEDERALBENEFITS FOREM-1
PLOYEES.— 2
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any individual who is an 3
employee of the public defender service of the State 4
as of the day before the date described in subsection 5
(d) and who, pursuant to section 305(c) of the Dis-6
trict of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Proce-7
dure Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1605(c), D.C. Official 8
Code), is treated as an employee of the Federal Gov-9
ernment for purposes of receiving benefits under any 10
chapter of subpart G of part III of title 5, United 11
States Code, shall continue to be treated as an em-12
ployee of the Federal Government for such purposes, 13
notwithstanding the termination of the provisions of 14
subsection (a) under subsection (d). 15
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -16
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described in 17
subsection (d), the State shall be treated as the em-18
ploying agency with respect to the benefits described 19
in paragraph (1) which are provided to an individual 20
who, for purposes of receiving such benefits, is con-21
tinued to be treated as an employee of the Federal 22
Government under such paragraph. 23
(d) T
ERMINATION.—Subsection (a) shall terminate 24
upon the date on which the State provides written certifi-25
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cation to the President that the State has in effect laws 1
requiring the State to appropriate and make available 2
funds for the operation of the office of the State which 3
provides the services described in title III of the District 4
of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act 5
of 1970 (sec. 2–1601 et seq., D.C. Official Code). 6
SEC. 312. PROSECUTIONS. 7
(a) A
SSIGNMENT OFASSISTANTUNITEDSTATESAT-8
TORNEYS.— 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—In accordance with sub-10
chapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, United States 11
Code, the Attorney General, with the concurrence of 12
the District of Columbia or the State (as the case 13
may be), shall provide for the assignment of assist-14
ant United States attorneys to the State to carry 15
out the functions described in subsection (b). 16
(2) A
SSIGNMENTS MADE ON DETAIL WITHOUT 17
REIMBURSEMENT BY STATE .—In accordance with 18
section 3373 of title 5, United States Code— 19
(A) an assistant United States attorney 20
who is assigned to the State under this section 21
shall be deemed under subsection (a) of such 22
section to be on detail to a regular work assign-23
ment in the Department of Justice; and 24
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(B) the assignment of an assistant United 1
States attorney to the State under this section 2
shall be made without reimbursement by the 3
State of the pay of the attorney or any related 4
expenses. 5
(b) F
UNCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The functions de-6
scribed in this subsection are criminal prosecutions con-7
ducted in the name of the State which would have been 8
conducted in the name of the United States by the United 9
States attorney for the District of Columbia or his or her 10
assistants, as provided under section 23–101(c), District 11
of Columbia Official Code, but for the admission of the 12
State into the Union. 13
(c) M
INIMUMNUMBERASSIGNED.—The number of 14
assistant United States attorneys who are assigned under 15
this section may not be less than the number of assistant 16
United States attorneys whose principal duties as of the 17
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 18
Union were to conduct criminal prosecutions in the name 19
of the United States under section 23–101(c), District of 20
Columbia Official Code. 21
(d) T
ERMINATION.—The obligation of the Attorney 22
General to provide for the assignment of assistant United 23
States attorneys under this section shall terminate upon 24
written certification by the State to the President that the 25
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State has appointed attorneys of the State to carry out 1
the functions described in subsection (b). 2
(e) C
LARIFICATIONREGARDINGCLEMENCYAU-3
THORITY.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Effective upon the admission 5
of the State into the Union, the authority to grant 6
clemency for offenses against the District of Colum-7
bia or the State shall be exercised by such person or 8
persons, and under such terms and conditions, as 9
provided by the State Constitution and the laws of 10
the State, without regard to whether the prosecution 11
for the offense was conducted by the District of Co-12
lumbia, the State, or the United States. 13
(2) D
EFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 14
‘‘clemency’’ means a pardon, reprieve, or commuta-15
tion of sentence, or a remission of a fine or other 16
financial penalty. 17
SEC. 313. SERVICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHALS. 18
(a) P
ROVISION OF SERVICES FOR COURTS OF 19
S
TATE.—The United States Marshals Service shall pro-20
vide services with respect to the courts and court system 21
of the State in the same manner and to the same extent 22
as the Service provided services with respect to the courts 23
and court system of the District of Columbia as of the 24
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 25
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Union, except that the President shall not appoint a 1
United States Marshal under section 561 of title 28, 2
United States Code, for any court of the State. 3
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The obligation of the United 4
States Marshals Service to provide services under this sec-5
tion shall terminate upon written certification by the State 6
to the President that the State has appointed personnel 7
of the State to provide such services. 8
SEC. 314. DESIGNATION OF FELONS TO FACILITIES OF BU-9
REAU OF PRISONS. 10
(a) C
ONTINUATION OFDESIGNATION.—Chapter 1 of 11
subtitle C of title XI of the National Capital Revitalization 12
and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 (sec. 24– 13
101 et seq., D.C. Official Code) and the amendments 14
made by such chapter— 15
(1) shall continue to apply with respect to indi-16
viduals convicted of offenses under the laws of the 17
District of Columbia prior to the date of the admis-18
sion of the State into the Union; and 19
(2) shall apply with respect to individuals con-20
victed of offenses under the laws 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 chapter and amendments applied with re-24
spect to individuals convicted of offenses under the 25
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laws of the District of Columbia prior to the date of 1
the admission of the State into the Union. 2
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section 3
shall terminate upon written certification by the State to 4
the President that the State has in effect laws for the 5
housing of individuals described in subsection (a) in cor-6
rectional facilities. 7
SEC. 315. PAROLE AND SUPERVISION. 8
(a) U
NITEDSTATESPAROLECOMMISSION.— 9
(1) P
AROLE.—The United States Parole Com-10
mission— 11
(A) shall continue to exercise the authority 12
to grant, deny, and revoke parole, and to im-13
pose conditions upon an order of parole, in the 14
case of any individual who is an imprisoned 15
felon who is eligible for parole or reparole under 16
the laws of the District of Columbia as of the 17
day before the date of the admission of the 18
State into the Union, as provided under section 19
11231 of the National Capital Revitalization 20
and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 21
(sec. 24–131, D.C. Official Code); and 22
(B) shall exercise the authority to grant, 23
deny, and revoke parole, and to impose condi-24
tions upon an order of parole, in the case of 25
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any individual who is an imprisoned felon who 1
is eligible for parole or reparole under the laws 2
of the State in the same manner and to the 3
same extent as the Commission exercised in the 4
case of any individual described in subpara-5
graph (A). 6
(2) S
UPERVISION OF RELEASED OFFENDERS .— 7
The United States Parole Commission— 8
(A) shall continue to exercise the authority 9
over individuals who are released offenders of 10
the District of Columbia as of the day before 11
the date of the admission of the State into the 12
Union, as provided under section 11233(c)(2) 13
of the National Capital Revitalization and Self- 14
Government Improvement Act of 1997 (sec. 15
24–133(c)(2), D.C. Official Code); and 16
(B) shall exercise authority over individ-17
uals who are released offenders of the State in 18
the same manner and to the same extent as the 19
Commission exercised authority over individuals 20
described in subparagraph (A). 21
(3) C
ONTINUATION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS FOR 22
EMPLOYEES.— 23
(A) C
ONTINUATION.—Any individual who 24
is an employee of the United States Parole 25
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Commission as of the later of the day before 1
the date described in subparagraph (A) of para-2
graph (4) or the day before the date described 3
in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (4) and who, 4
on or after such date, is an employee of the of-5
fice of the State which exercises the authority 6
described in either such subparagraph, shall 7
continue to be treated as an employee of the 8
Federal Government for purposes of receiving 9
benefits under any chapter of subpart G of part 10
III of title 5, United States Code, notwith-11
standing the termination of the provisions of 12
this subsection under paragraph (4). 13
(B) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -14
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the later of the date 15
described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (4) 16
or the date described in subparagraph (B) of 17
paragraph (4), the State shall be treated as the 18
employing agency with respect to the benefits 19
described in subparagraph (A) which are pro-20
vided to an individual who, for purposes of re-21
ceiving such benefits, is continued to be treated 22
as an employee of the Federal Government 23
under such subparagraph. 24
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(4) TERMINATION.—The provisions of this sub-1
section shall terminate— 2
(A) in the case of paragraph (1), on the 3
date on which the State provides written certifi-4
cation to the President that the State has in ef-5
fect laws providing for the State to exercise the 6
authority to grant, deny, and revoke parole, and 7
to impose conditions upon an order of parole, in 8
the case of any individual who is an imprisoned 9
felon who is eligible for parole or reparole under 10
the laws of the State; and 11
(B) in the case of paragraph (2), on the 12
date on which the State provides written certifi-13
cation to the President that the State has in ef-14
fect laws providing for the State to exercise au-15
thority over individuals who are released offend-16
ers of the State. 17
(b) C
OURTSERVICES ANDOFFENDERSUPERVISION 18
A
GENCY.— 19
(1) R
ENAMING.—Effective upon the date of the 20
admission of the State into the Union— 21
(A) the Court Services and Offender Su-22
pervision Agency for the District of Columbia 23
shall be known and designated as the Court 24
Services and Offender Supervision Agency for 25
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Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, and any 1
reference in any law, rule, or regulation to the 2
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agen-3
cy for the District of Columbia shall be deemed 4
to refer to the Court Services and Offender Su-5
pervision Agency for Washington, Douglass 6
Commonwealth; and 7
(B) the District of Columbia Pretrial Serv-8
ices Agency shall be known and designated as 9
the Washington, Douglass Commonwealth Pre-10
trial Services Agency, and any reference in any 11
law, rule or regulation to the District of Colum-12
bia Pretrial Services Agency shall be deemed to 13
refer to the Washington, Douglass Common-14
wealth Pretrial Services Agency. 15
(2) I
N GENERAL.—The Court Services and Of-16
fender Supervision Agency for Washington, Doug-17
lass Commonwealth, including the Washington, 18
Douglass Commonwealth Pretrial Services Agency 19
(as renamed under paragraph (1))— 20
(A) shall continue to provide pretrial serv-21
ices with respect to individuals who are charged 22
with an offense in the District of Columbia, 23
provide supervision for individuals who are of-24
fenders on probation, parole, and supervised re-25
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lease pursuant to the laws of the District of Co-1
lumbia, and carry out sex offender registration 2
functions with respect to individuals who are 3
sex offenders in the District of Columbia, as of 4
the day before the date of the admission of the 5
State into the Union, as provided under section 6
11233 of the National Capital Revitalization 7
and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 8
(sec. 24–133, D.C. Official Code); and 9
(B) shall provide pretrial services with re-10
spect to individuals who are charged with an of-11
fense in the State, provide supervision for of-12
fenders on probation, parole, and supervised re-13
lease pursuant to the laws of the State, and 14
carry out sex offender registration functions in 15
the State, in the same manner and to the same 16
extent as the Agency provided such services and 17
supervision and carried out such functions for 18
individuals described in subparagraph (A). 19
(3) C
ONTINUATION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS FOR 20
EMPLOYEES.— 21
(A) C
ONTINUATION.—Any individual who 22
is an employee of the Court Services and Of-23
fender Supervision Agency for Washington, 24
Douglass Commonwealth as of the day before 25
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the date described in paragraph (4), and who, 1
on or after such date, is an employee of the of-2
fice of the State which provides the services and 3
carries out the functions described in paragraph 4
(4), shall continue to be treated as an employee 5
of the Federal Government for purposes of re-6
ceiving benefits under any chapter of subpart G 7
of part III of title 5, United States Code, not-8
withstanding the termination of the provisions 9
of paragraph (2) under paragraph (4). 10
(B) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -11
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described 12
in paragraph (4), the State shall be treated as 13
the employing agency with respect to the bene-14
fits described in subparagraph (A) which are 15
provided to an individual who, for purposes of 16
receiving such benefits, is continued to be treat-17
ed as an employee of the Federal Government 18
under such subparagraph. 19
(4) T
ERMINATION.—Paragraph (2) shall termi-20
nate on the date on which the State provides written 21
certification to the President that the State has in 22
effect laws providing for the State to provide pretrial 23
services, supervise offenders on probation, parole, 24
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and supervised release, and carry out sex offender 1
registration functions in the State. 2
SEC. 316. COURTS. 3
(a) C
ONTINUATION OFOPERATIONS.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-5
graphs (2) and (3) and subsection (b), title 11, Dis-6
trict of Columbia Official Code, as in effect on the 7
day before the date of the admission of the State 8
into the Union, shall apply with respect to the State 9
and the courts and court system of the State after 10
the date of the admission of the State into the 11
Union in the same manner and to the same extent 12
as such title applied with respect to the District of 13
Columbia and the courts and court system of the 14
District of Columbia as of the day before the date 15
of the admission of the State into the Union. 16
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -17
TRIBUTION.—For purposes of paragraph (2) of sec-18
tion 11–1726(b) and paragraph (2) of section 11– 19
1726(c), District of Columbia Official Code, the 20
Federal Government shall be treated as the employ-21
ing agency with respect to the benefits provided 22
under such section to an individual who is an em-23
ployee of the courts and court system of the State 24
and who, pursuant to either such paragraph, is 25
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treated as an employee of the Federal Government 1
for purposes of receiving benefits under any chapter 2
of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States 3
Code. 4
(3) O
THER EXCEPTIONS.— 5
(A) S
ELECTION OF JUDGES .—Effective 6
upon the date of the admission of the State into 7
the Union, the State shall select judges for any 8
vacancy on the courts of the State. 9
(B) R
ENAMING OF COURTS AND OTHER 10
OFFICES.—Effective upon the date of the ad-11
mission of the State into the Union, the State 12
may rename any of its courts and any of the 13
other offices of its court system. 14
(C) R
ULES OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing 15
in this paragraph shall be construed— 16
(i) to affect the service of any judge 17
serving on a court of the District of Co-18
lumbia on the day before the date of the 19
admission of the State into the Union, or 20
to require the State to select such a judge 21
for a vacancy on a court of the State; or 22
(ii) to waive any of the requirements 23
of chapter 15 of title 11, District of Co-24
lumbia Official Code (other than section 25
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11–1501(a) of such Code), including sub-1
chapter II of such chapter (relating to the 2
District of Columbia Commission on Judi-3
cial Disabilities and Tenure), with respect 4
to the appointment and service of judges of 5
the courts of the State. 6
(b) C
ONTINUATION OFFEDERALBENEFITS FOREM-7
PLOYEES.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any individual who is an 9
employee of the courts or court system of the State 10
as of the day before the date described in subsection 11
(e) and who, pursuant to section 11–1726(b) or sec-12
tion 11–1726(c), District of Columbia Official Code, 13
is treated as an employee of the Federal Government 14
for purposes of receiving benefits under any chapter 15
of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States 16
Code, shall continue to be treated as an employee of 17
the Federal Government for such purposes, notwith-18
standing the termination of the provisions of this 19
section under subsection (e). 20
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -21
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described in 22
subsection (e), the State shall be treated as the em-23
ploying agency with respect to the benefits described 24
in paragraph (1) which are provided to an individual 25
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who, for purposes of receiving such benefits, is con-1
tinued to be treated as an employee of the Federal 2
Government under such paragraph. 3
(c) C
ONTINUATION OFFUNDING.—Section 11241 of 4
the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government 5
Improvement Act of 1997 (section 11–1743 note, District 6
of Columbia Official Code) shall apply with respect to the 7
State and the courts and court system of the State after 8
the date of the admission of the State into the Union in 9
the same manner and to the same extent as such section 10
applied with respect to the Joint Committee on Judicial 11
Administration in the District of Columbia and the courts 12
and court system of the District of Columbia as of the 13
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 14
Union. 15
(d) T
REATMENT OFCOURTRECEIPTS.— 16
(1) D
EPOSIT OF RECEIPTS INTO TREASURY .— 17
Except as provided in paragraph (2), all money re-18
ceived by the courts and court system of the State 19
shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United 20
States. 21
(2) C
RIME VICTIMS COMPENSATION FUND .— 22
Section 16 of the Victims of Violent Crime Com-23
pensation Act of 1996 (sec. 4–515, D.C. Official 24
Code), relating to the Crime Victims Compensation 25
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Fund, shall apply with respect to the courts and 1
court system of the State in the same manner and 2
to the same extent as such section applied to the 3
courts and court system of the District of Columbia 4
as of the day before the date of the admission of the 5
State into the Union. 6
(e) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section, 7
other than paragraph (3) of subsection (a) and except as 8
provided under subsection (b), shall terminate on the date 9
on which the State provides written certification to the 10
President that the State has in effect laws requiring the 11
State to appropriate and make available funds for the op-12
eration of the courts and court system of the State. 13
Subtitle C—Other Programs and 14
Authorities 15
SEC. 321. APPLICATION OF THE COLLEGE ACCESS ACT. 16
(a) C
ONTINUATION.—The District of Columbia Col-17
lege Access Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–98; sec. 38– 18
2701 et seq., D.C. Official Code) shall apply with respect 19
to the State, and to the public institution of higher edu-20
cation designated by the State as the successor to the Uni-21
versity of the District of Columbia, after the date of the 22
admission of the State into the Union in the same manner 23
and to the same extent as such Act applied with respect 24
to the District of Columbia and the University of the Dis-25
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trict of Columbia as of the day before the date of the ad-1
mission of the State into the Union. 2
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section, 3
other than with respect to the public institution of higher 4
education designated by the State as the successor to the 5
University of the District of Columbia, shall terminate 6
upon written certification by the State to the President 7
that the State has in effect laws requiring the State to 8
provide tuition assistance substantially similar to the as-9
sistance provided under the District of Columbia College 10
Access Act of 1999. 11
SEC. 322. APPLICATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR OP-12
PORTUNITY AND RESULTS ACT. 13
(a) C
ONTINUATION.—The Scholarships for Oppor-14
tunity and Results Act (division C of Public Law 112– 15
10; sec. 38–1853.01 et seq., D.C. Official Code) shall 16
apply with respect to the State after the date of the admis-17
sion of the State into the Union in the same manner and 18
to the same extent as such Act applied with respect to 19
the District of Columbia as of the day before the date of 20
the admission of the State into the Union. 21
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section 22
shall terminate upon written certification by the State to 23
the President that the State has in effect laws requiring 24
the State— 25
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(1) to provide tuition assistance substantially 1
similar to the assistance provided under the Scholar-2
ships for Opportunity and Results Act; and 3
(2) to provide supplemental funds to the public 4
schools and public charter schools of the State in the 5
amounts provided in the most recent fiscal year for 6
public schools and public charter schools of the State 7
or the District of Columbia (as the case may be) 8
under such Act. 9
SEC. 323. MEDICAID FEDERAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PER-10
CENTAGE. 11
(a) C
ONTINUATION.—Notwithstanding section 12
1905(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(b)), 13
during the period beginning on the date of the admission 14
of the State into the Union and ending on September 30 15
of the fiscal year during which the State submits the cer-16
tification described in subsection (b), the Federal medical 17
assistance percentage for the State under title XIX of 18
such Act shall be the Federal medical assistance percent-19
age for the District of Columbia under such title as of 20
the day before the date of the admission of the State into 21
the Union. 22
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The certification described in 23
this subsection is a written certification by the State to 24
the President that, during each of the first 5 fiscal years 25
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beginning after the date of the certification, the estimated 1
revenues of the State will be sufficient to cover any reduc-2
tion in revenues which may result from the termination 3
of the provisions of this section. 4
SEC. 324. FEDERAL PLANNING COMMISSIONS. 5
(a) N
ATIONALCAPITALPLANNINGCOMMISSION.— 6
(1) C
ONTINUING APPLICATION .—Subject to the 7
amendments made by paragraphs (2) and (3), upon 8
the admission of the State into the Union, chapter 9
87 of title 40, United States Code, shall apply as 10
follows: 11
(A) Such chapter shall apply with respect 12
to the Capital in the same manner and to the 13
same extent as such chapter applied with re-14
spect to the District of Columbia as of the day 15
before the date of the admission of the State 16
into the Union. 17
(B) Such chapter shall apply with respect 18
to the State in the same manner and to the 19
same extent as such chapter applied with re-20
spect to the State of Maryland and the Com-21
monwealth of Virginia as of the day before the 22
date of the admission of the State into the 23
Union. 24
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(2) COMPOSITION OF NATIONAL CAPITAL PLAN -1
NING COMMISSION.—Section 8711(b) of title 40, 2
United States Code, is amended— 3
(A) by amending subparagraph (B) of 4
paragraph (1) to read as follows: 5
‘‘(B) four citizens with experience in city 6
or regional planning, who shall be appointed by 7
the President.’’; and 8
(B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 9
follows: 10
‘‘(2) R
ESIDENCY REQUIREMENT .—Of the four 11
citizen members, one shall be a resident of Virginia, 12
one shall be a resident of Maryland, and one shall 13
be a resident of Washington, Douglass Common-14
wealth.’’. 15
(3) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO DEFINI -16
TIONS OF TERMS.— 17
(A) E
NVIRONS.—Paragraph (1) of section 18
8702 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 19
territory surrounding the District of Columbia’’ 20
and inserting ‘‘the territory surrounding the 21
National Capital’’. 22
(B) N
ATIONAL CAPITAL.—Paragraph (2) 23
of section 8702 of such title is amended to read 24
as follows: 25
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‘‘(2) NATIONAL CAPITAL.—The term ‘National 1
Capital’ means the area serving as the seat of the 2
Government of the United States, as described in 3
section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, 4
and the territory the Federal Government owns in 5
the environs.’’. 6
(C) N
ATIONAL CAPITAL REGION .—Sub-7
paragraph (A) of paragraph (3) of section 8702 8
of such title is amended to read as follows: 9
‘‘(A) the National Capital and the State of 10
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth;’’. 11
(b) C
OMMISSION OFFINEARTS.— 12
(1) L
IMITING APPLICATION TO THE CAPITAL .— 13
Section 9102(a)(1) of title 40, United States Code, 14
is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 15
and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 16
(2) D
EFINITION.—Section 9102 of such title is 17
amended by adding at the end the following new 18
subsection: 19
‘‘(d) D
EFINITION.—In this chapter, the term ‘Cap-20
ital’ means the area serving as the seat of the Government 21
of the United States, as described in section 112 of the 22
Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 23
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(3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT .—Section 1
9101(d) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 2
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 3
(c) C
OMMEMORATIVE WORKSACT.— 4
(1) L
IMITING APPLICATION TO CAPITAL .—Sec-5
tion 8902 of title 40, United States Code, is amend-6
ed by adding at the end the following new sub-7
section: 8
‘‘(c) L
IMITINGAPPLICATION TO CAPITAL.—This 9
chapter applies only with respect to commemorative works 10
in the Capital and its environs.’’. 11
(2) D
EFINITION.—Paragraph (2) of section 12
8902(a) of such title is amended to read as follows: 13
‘‘(2) C
APITAL AND ITS ENVIRONS .—The term 14
‘Capital and its environs’ means— 15
‘‘(A) the area serving as the seat of the 16
Government of the United States, as described 17
in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admis-18
sion Act; and 19
‘‘(B) those lands and properties adminis-20
tered by the National Park Service and the 21
General Services Administration located in the 22
Reserve, Area I, and Area II as depicted on the 23
map entitled ‘Commemorative Areas Wash-24
ington, DC and Environs’, numbered 869/ 25
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86501 B, and dated June 24, 2003, that are lo-1
cated outside of the State of Washington, 2
Douglass Commonwealth.’’. 3
(3) T
EMPORARY SITE DESIGNATION .—Section 4
8907(a) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 5
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital 6
and its environs’’. 7
(4) G
ENERAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 8
Chapter 89 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 9
District of Columbia and its environs’’ each place it 10
appears in the following sections and inserting ‘‘the 11
Capital and its environs’’: 12
(A) Section 8901(2) and 8901(4). 13
(B) Section 8902(a)(4). 14
(C) Section 8903(d). 15
(D) Section 8904(c). 16
(E) Section 8905(a). 17
(F) Section 8906(a). 18
(G) Section 8909(a) and 8909(b). 19
(5) A
DDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENT .— 20
Section 8901(2) of such title is amended by striking 21
‘‘the urban fabric of the District of Columbia’’ and 22
inserting ‘‘the urban fabric of the area serving as 23
the seat of the Government of the United States, as 24
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described in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. 1
Admission Act’’. 2
(d) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section and the amend-3
ments made by this section shall take effect on the date 4
of the admission of the State into the Union. 5
SEC. 325. ROLE OF ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IN SUP-6
PLYING WATER. 7
(a) C
ONTINUATION OF ROLE.—Chapter 95 of title 8
40, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 9
the following new section: 10
‘‘§ 9508. Applicability to Capital and State of Wash-11
ington, Douglass Commonwealth 12
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—Effective upon the admission of 13
the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth into 14
the Union, any reference in this chapter to the District 15
of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to the Capital or 16
the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, as the 17
case may be. 18
‘‘(b) D
EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘Capital’ 19
means the area serving as the seat of the Government of 20
the United States, as described in section 112 of the 21
Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 22
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 23
of chapter 95 of such title is amended by adding at the 24
end the following: 25
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‘‘9508. Applicability to Capital and State of Washington, Douglass Common-
wealth.’’. 
SEC. 326. REQUIREMENTS TO BE LOCATED IN DISTRICT OF 
1
COLUMBIA. 2
The location of any person in the Capital or Wash-3
ington, Douglass Commonwealth on the day after the date 4
of the admission of the State into the Union shall be 5
deemed to satisfy any requirement under any law in effect 6
as of the day before the date of the admission of the State 7
into the Union that the person be located in the District 8
of Columbia, including the requirements of section 72 of 9
title 4, United States Code (relating to offices of the seat 10
of the Government of the United States), and title 36, 11
United States Code (relating to patriotic and national or-12
ganizations). 13
TITLE IV—GENERAL 14
PROVISIONS 15
SEC. 401. GENERAL DEFINITIONS. 16
In this Act, the following definitions shall apply: 17
(1) The term ‘‘Capital’’ means the area serving 18
as the seat of the Government of the United States, 19
as described in section 112. 20
(2) The term ‘‘Council’’ means the Council of 21
the District of Columbia. 22
(3) The term ‘‘Mayor’’ means the Mayor of the 23
District of Columbia. 24
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(4) Except as otherwise provided, the term 1
‘‘State’’ means the State of Washington, Douglass 2
Commonwealth. 3
(5) The term ‘‘State Constitution’’ means the 4
proposed Constitution of the State of Washington, 5
DC, as approved by the Council on October 18, 6
2016, pursuant to the Constitution and Boundaries 7
for the State of Washington, D.C. Approval Resolu-8
tion of 2016 (D.C. Resolution R21–621), ratified by 9
District of Columbia voters in Advisory Referendum 10
B approved on November 8, 2016, and certified by 11
the District of Columbia Board of Elections on No-12
vember 18, 2016. 13
SEC. 402. STATEHOOD TRANSITION COMMISSION. 14
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established the 15
Statehood Transition Commission (hereafter in this sec-16
tion referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’). 17
(b) C
OMPOSITION.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall be 19
composed of 18 members as follows: 20
(A) Three members appointed by the 21
President. 22
(B) Two members appointed by the Speak-23
er of the House of Representatives. 24
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(C) Two members appointed by the Minor-1
ity Leader of the House of Representatives. 2
(D) Two members appointed by the Major-3
ity Leader of the Senate. 4
(E) Two members appointed by the Minor-5
ity Leader of the Senate. 6
(F) Three members appointed by the 7
Mayor. 8
(G) Three members appointed by the 9
Council. 10
(H) The Chief Financial Officer of the 11
District of Columbia. 12
(2) A
PPOINTMENT DATE.— 13
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The appointments of 14
the members of the Commission shall be made 15
not later than 90 days after the date of the en-16
actment of this Act. 17
(B) E
FFECT OF LACK OF APPOINTMENT 18
BY APPOINTMENT DATE .—If one or more ap-19
pointments under any of the subparagraphs of 20
paragraph (1) is not made by the appointment 21
date specified in subparagraph (A), the author-22
ity to make such appointment or appointments 23
shall expire, and the number of members of the 24
Commission shall be reduced by the number 25
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equal to the number of appointments so not 1
made. 2
(3) T
ERM OF SERVICE.—Each member shall be 3
appointed for the life of the Commission. 4
(4) V
ACANCY.—A vacancy in the Commission 5
shall be filled in the manner in which the original 6
appointment was made. 7
(5) N
O COMPENSATION.—Members shall serve 8
without pay, but shall receive travel expenses, in-9
cluding per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accord-10
ance with applicable provisions under subchapter I 11
of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code. 12
(6) C
HAIR AND VICE CHAIR .—The Chair and 13
Vice Chair of the Commission shall be elected by the 14
members of the Commission— 15
(A) with respect to the Chair, from among 16
the members described in subparagraphs (A) 17
through (E) of paragraph (1); and 18
(B) with respect to the Vice Chair, from 19
among the members described in subparagraphs 20
(F) and (G) of paragraph (1). 21
(c) S
TAFF.— 22
(1) D
IRECTOR.—The Commission shall have a 23
Director, who shall be appointed by the Chair. 24
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(2) OTHER STAFF.—The Director may appoint 1
and fix the pay of such additional personnel as the 2
Director considers appropriate. 3
(3) N
ON-APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN CIVIL 4
SERVICE LAWS.—The Director and staff of the Com-5
mission may be appointed without regard to the pro-6
visions of title 5, United States Code, governing ap-7
pointments in the competitive service, and may be 8
paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 9
and subchapter III of chapter 53 of that title relat-10
ing to classification and General Schedule pay rates, 11
except that an individual so appointed may not re-12
ceive pay in excess of the rate payable for level V 13
of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 14
such title. 15
(4) E
XPERTS AND CONSULTANTS .—The Com-16
mission may procure temporary and intermittent 17
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United 18
States Code, at rates for individuals not to exceed 19
the daily equivalent of the rate payable for level V 20
of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 21
such title. 22
(d) D
UTIES.—The Commission shall advise the Presi-23
dent, Congress, the Mayor (or, upon the admission of the 24
State into the Union, the chief executive officer of the 25
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State), and the Council (or, upon the admission of the 1
State into the Union, the legislature of the State) con-2
cerning an orderly transition to statehood for the District 3
of Columbia or the State (as the case may be) and to a 4
reduced geographical size of the seat of the Government 5
of the United States, including with respect to property, 6
funding, programs, projects, and activities. 7
(e) P
OWERS.— 8
(1) H
EARINGS AND SESSIONS .—The Commis-9
sion may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, 10
hold hearings, sit and act at times and places, take 11
testimony, and receive evidence as the Commission 12
considers appropriate. 13
(2) O
BTAINING OFFICIAL DATA.—The Commis-14
sion may secure directly from any department or 15
agency of the United States information necessary 16
to enable it to carry out this Act. Upon request of 17
the Chair of the Commission, the head of that de-18
partment or agency shall furnish that information to 19
the Commission. 20
(3) M
AILS.—The Commission may use the 21
United States mails in the same manner and under 22
the same conditions as other departments and agen-23
cies of the United States. 24
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(4) ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES .— 1
Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-2
trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-3
mission the administrative support services nec-4
essary for the Commission to carry out its respon-5
sibilities under this Act. 6
(f) M
EETINGS.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall meet 8
at the call of the Chair. 9
(2) I
NITIAL MEETING.—The Commission shall 10
hold its first meeting not later than the earlier of— 11
(A) 30 days after the date on which all 12
members of the Commission have been ap-13
pointed; or 14
(B) if the number of members of the Com-15
mission is reduced under subsection (b)(2)(B), 16
90 days after the date of the enactment of this 17
Act. 18
(3) Q
UORUM.—A majority of the members of 19
the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a 20
lesser number of members may hold hearings. 21
(g) R
EPORTS.—The Commission shall submit such 22
reports as the Commission considers appropriate or as 23
may be requested by the President, Congress, or the Dis-24
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trict of Columbia (or, upon the admission of the State into 1
the Union, the State). 2
(h) T
ERMINATION.—The Commission shall cease to 3
exist 2 years after the date of the admission of the State 4
into the Union. 5
SEC. 403. CERTIFICATION OF ENACTMENT BY PRESIDENT. 6
Not more than 60 days after the date of the enact-7
ment of this Act, the President shall provide written cer-8
tification of such enactment to the Mayor. 9
SEC. 404. SEVERABILITY. 10
Except as provided in section 101(c), if any provision 11
of this Act or amendment made by this Act, or the applica-12
tion thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be 13
invalid, the remaining provisions of this Act and any 14
amendments made by this Act shall not be affected by the 15
holding. 16
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