Us Congress Senate Bill SB51 Latest Draft

                            II 
119THCONGRESS 
1
STSESSION S. 51 
To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the 
Union. 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JANUARY9, 2025 
Mr. V
ANHOLLEN(for himself, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. PETERS, Ms. 
A
LSOBROOKS, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. 
B
OOKER, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. COONS, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, Ms. 
D
UCKWORTH, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. HEIN-
RICH, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. KAINE, Mr. KIM, Ms. KLO-
BUCHAR, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. 
P
ADILLA, Mr. REED, Ms. ROSEN, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. 
S
CHIFF, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. SMITH, Mr. WARNER, Mr. WARNOCK, Ms. 
W
ARREN, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WYDEN, Ms. SLOTKIN, 
and Mr. L
UJA´N) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs 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
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(b) TABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents of 1
this Act is as follows: 2
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—STATE OF WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Subtitle A—Procedures for Admission 
Sec. 101. Admission into the Union. 
Sec. 102. 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. 
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 
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Subtitle A—Employee Benefits 
Sec. 301. Federal benefit payments under certain retirement programs. 
Sec. 302. Continuation of Federal civil service benefits for employees first em-
ployed prior to establishment of District of Columbia merit 
personnel system. 
Sec. 303. Obligations of Federal Government under judges’ retirement pro-
gram. 
Subtitle B—Agencies 
Sec. 311. Public Defender Service. 
Sec. 312. Prosecutions. 
Sec. 313. Service of United States Marshals. 
Sec. 314. Designation of felons to facilities of Bureau of Prisons. 
Sec. 315. Parole and supervision. 
Sec. 316. Courts. 
Subtitle C—Other Programs and Authorities 
Sec. 321. Application of the College Access Act. 
Sec. 322. Application of the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. 
Sec. 323. Medicaid Federal medical assistance percentage. 
Sec. 324. Federal planning commissions. 
Sec. 325. Role of Army Corps of Engineers in supplying water. 
Sec. 326. Requirements to be located in District of Columbia. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 401. General definitions. 
Sec. 402. Statehood Transition Commission. 
Sec. 403. Certification of enactment by President. 
Sec. 404. Severability. 
TITLE I—STATE OF 1
WASHINGTON, D.C. 2
Subtitle A—Procedures for 3
Admission 4
SEC. 101. ADMISSION INTO THE UNION. 5
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subject to the provisions of this 6
Act, upon the issuance of the proclamation required by 7
section 103(a), the State of Washington, Douglass Com-8
monwealth is declared to be a State of the United States 9
of America, and is declared admitted into the Union on 10
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an equal footing with the other States in all respects what-1
ever. 2
(b) C
ONSTITUTION OFSTATE.—The State Constitu-3
tion shall always be republican in form and shall not be 4
repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or the 5
principles of the Declaration of Independence. 6
(c) N
ONSEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this sec-7
tion, or the application thereof to any person or cir-8
cumstance, is held to be invalid, the remaining provisions 9
of this Act and any amendments made by this Act shall 10
be treated as invalid. 11
SEC. 102. ELECTIONS OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTA-12
TIVE. 13
(a) I
SSUANCE OFPROCLAMATION.— 14
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not more than 30 days after 15
receiving certification of the enactment of this Act 16
from the President pursuant to section 403, the 17
Mayor shall issue a proclamation for the first elec-18
tions for 2 Senators and one Representative in Con-19
gress from the State, subject to the provisions of 20
this section. 21
(2) S
PECIAL RULE FOR ELECTIONS OF SEN -22
ATORS.—In the elections of Senators from the State 23
pursuant to paragraph (1), the 2 Senate offices shall 24
be separately identified and designated, and no per-25
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son may be a candidate for both offices. No such 1
identification or designation of either of the offices 2
shall refer to or be taken to refer to the terms of 3
such offices, or in any way impair the privilege of 4
the Senate to determine the class to which each of 5
the Senators shall be assigned. 6
(b) R
ULES FORCONDUCTINGELECTIONS.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The proclamation of the 8
Mayor issued under subsection (a) shall provide for 9
the holding of a primary election and a general elec-10
tion, and in such elections the officers required to be 11
elected as provided in subsection (a) shall be chosen 12
by the qualified voters of the District of Columbia 13
in the manner required by the laws of the District 14
of Columbia. 15
(2) C
ERTIFICATION OF RESULTS .—Election re-16
sults shall be certified in the manner required by the 17
laws of the District of Columbia, except that the 18
Mayor shall also provide written certification of the 19
results of such elections to the President. 20
(c) A
SSUMPTION OFDUTIES.—Upon the admission 21
of the State into the Union, the Senators and Representa-22
tive elected in the elections described in subsection (a) 23
shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in Congress and 24
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to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Represent-1
atives of the other States in Congress. 2
(d) E
FFECT OFADMISSION ONHOUSE OFREP-3
RESENTATIVESMEMBERSHIP.— 4
(1) P
ERMANENT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF 5
MEMBERS.—Effective with respect to the Congress 6
during which the State is admitted into the Union 7
and each succeeding Congress, the House of Rep-8
resentatives shall be composed of 436 Members, in-9
cluding any Members representing the State. 10
(2) I
NITIAL NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES 11
FOR STATE.—Until the taking effect of the first ap-12
portionment of Members occurring after the admis-13
sion of the State into the Union, the State shall be 14
entitled to one Representative in the House of Rep-15
resentatives upon its admission into the Union. 16
(3) A
PPORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS RESULTING 17
FROM ADMISSION OF STATE .— 18
(A) A
PPORTIONMENT.—Section 22(a) of 19
the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fif-20
teenth and subsequent decennial censuses and 21
to provide for apportionment of Representatives 22
in Congress’’, approved June 18, 1929 (2 23
U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking ‘‘the then 24
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existing number of Representatives’’ and insert-1
ing ‘‘436 Representatives’’. 2
(B) E
FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment 3
made by subparagraph (A) shall apply with re-4
spect to the first regular decennial census con-5
ducted after the admission of the State into the 6
Union and each subsequent regular decennial 7
census. 8
SEC. 103. ISSUANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION. 9
The President, upon the certification of the results 10
of the elections of the officers required to be elected as 11
provided in section 102(a), shall, not later than 90 days 12
after receiving such certification pursuant to section 13
102(b)(2), issue a proclamation announcing the results of 14
such elections as so ascertained. 15
Subtitle B—Seat of Government of 16
the United States 17
SEC. 111. TERRITORY AND BOUNDARIES. 18
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 19
(b), the State shall consist of all of the territory of the 20
District of Columbia as of the date of the enactment of 21
this Act, subject to the results of the metes and bounds 22
survey conducted under subsection (c). 23
(b) E
XCLUSION OFPORTIONREMAINING ASSEAT OF 24
G
OVERNMENT OF UNITEDSTATES.—The territory of the 25
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State shall not include the area described in section 112, 1
which shall be known as the ‘‘Capital’’ and shall serve as 2
the seat of the Government of the United States, as pro-3
vided in clause 17 of section 8 of article I of the Constitu-4
tion of the United States. 5
(c) M
ETES ANDBOUNDSSURVEY.—Not later than 6
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 7
President (in consultation with the Chair of the National 8
Capital Planning Commission) shall conduct a metes and 9
bounds survey of the Capital, as described in section 10
112(b). 11
SEC. 112. DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL. 12
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subject to subsections (c) and (d), 13
upon the admission of the State into the Union, the Cap-14
ital shall consist of the property described in subsection 15
(b) and shall include the principal Federal monuments, 16
the White House, the Capitol Building, the United States 17
Supreme Court Building, and the Federal executive, legis-18
lative, and judicial office buildings located adjacent to the 19
Mall and the Capitol Building (as such terms are used 20
in section 8501(a) of title 40, United States Code). 21
(b) G
ENERALDESCRIPTION.—Upon the admission of 22
the State into the Union, the boundaries of the Capital 23
shall be as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the 24
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southern right-of-way of F Street NE and the eastern 1
right-of-way of 2nd Street NE; 2
(1) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 3
of 2nd Street NE to its intersection with the north-4
eastern right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE; 5
(2) thence southwest along said northeastern 6
right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE to its intersec-7
tion with the northern right-of-way of Constitution 8
Avenue NE; 9
(3) thence west along said northern right-of- 10
way of Constitution Avenue NE to its intersection 11
with the eastern right-of-way of 1st Street NE; 12
(4) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 13
of 1st Street NE to its intersection with the south-14
eastern right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE; 15
(5) thence northeast along said southeastern 16
right-of-way of Maryland Avenue NE to its intersec-17
tion with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd Street NE; 18
(6) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 19
of 2nd Street NE to the eastern right-of-way of 2nd 20
Street SE; 21
(7) thence south along said eastern right-of-way 22
of 2nd Street SE to its intersection with the north-23
ern property boundary of the property designated as 24
Square 760 Lot 803; 25
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(8) thence east along said northern property 1
boundary of Square 760 Lot 803 to its intersection 2
with the western right-of-way of 3rd Street SE; 3
(9) thence south along said western right-of- 4
way of 3rd Street SE to its intersection with the 5
northern right-of-way of Independence Avenue SE; 6
(10) thence west along said northern right-of- 7
way of Independence Avenue SE to its intersection 8
with the northeastern right-of-way of Pennsylvania 9
Avenue SE; 10
(11) thence northwest along said northeastern 11
right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue SE to its inter-12
section with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd Street 13
SE; 14
(12) thence south along said eastern right-of- 15
way of 2nd Street SE to its intersection with the 16
southern right-of-way of C Street SE; 17
(13) thence west along said southern right-of- 18
way of C Street SE to its intersection with the east-19
ern right-of-way of 1st Street SE; 20
(14) thence south along said eastern right-of- 21
way of 1st Street SE to its intersection with the 22
southern right-of-way of D Street SE; 23
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(15) thence west along said southern right-of- 1
way of D Street SE to its intersection with the east-2
ern right-of-way of South Capitol Street; 3
(16) thence south along said eastern right-of- 4
way of South Capitol Street to its intersection with 5
the northeastern right-of-way of Canal Street SE; 6
(17) thence southeast along said northeastern 7
right-of-way of Canal Street SE to its intersection 8
with the southern right-of-way of E Street SE; 9
(18) thence east along said southern right-of- 10
way of E Street SE to its intersection with the west-11
ern right-of-way of 1st Street SE; 12
(19) thence south along said western right-of- 13
way of 1st Street SE to its intersection with the 14
southernmost corner of the property designated as 15
Square 736S Lot 801; 16
(20) thence west along a line extended due west 17
from said corner of said property designated as 18
Square 736S Lot 801 to its intersection with the 19
southwestern right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue 20
SE; 21
(21) thence southeast along said southwestern 22
right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue SE to its inter-23
section with the northeastern right-of-way of Vir-24
ginia Avenue SE; 25
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(22) thence northwest along said northeastern 1
right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SE to its intersec-2
tion with the western right-of-way of South Capitol 3
Street; 4
(23) thence north along said western right-of- 5
way of South Capitol Street to its intersection with 6
the southern right-of-way of E Street SW; 7
(24) thence west along said southern right-of- 8
way of E Street SW to its end; 9
(25) thence west along a line extending said 10
southern right-of-way of E Street SW westward to 11
its intersection with the eastern right-of-way of 2nd 12
Street SW; 13
(26) thence north along said eastern right-of- 14
way of 2nd Street SW to its intersection with the 15
southwestern right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SW; 16
(27) thence northwest along said southwestern 17
right-of-way of Virginia Avenue SW to its intersec-18
tion with the western right-of-way of 3rd Street SW; 19
(28) thence north along said western right-of- 20
way of 3rd Street SW to its intersection with the 21
northern right-of-way of D Street SW; 22
(29) thence west along said northern right-of- 23
way of D Street SW to its intersection with the east-24
ern right-of-way of 4th Street SW; 25
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(30) thence north along said eastern right-of- 1
way of 4th Street SW to its intersection with the 2
northern right-of-way of C Street SW; 3
(31) thence west along said northern right-of- 4
way of C Street SW to its intersection with the east-5
ern right-of-way of 6th Street SW; 6
(32) thence north along said eastern right-of- 7
way of 6th Street SW to its intersection with the 8
northern right-of-way of Independence Avenue SW; 9
(33) thence west along said northern right-of- 10
way of Independence Avenue SW to its intersection 11
with the western right-of-way of 12th Street SW; 12
(34) thence south along said western right-of- 13
way of 12th Street SW to its intersection with the 14
northern right-of-way of D Street SW; 15
(35) thence west along said northern right-of- 16
way of D Street SW to its intersection with the east-17
ern right-of-way of 14th Street SW; 18
(36) thence south along said eastern right-of- 19
way of 14th Street SW to its intersection with the 20
northwestern boundary of the Consolidated Rail Cor-21
poration railroad easement; 22
(37) thence southwest along said northwestern 23
boundary of the Consolidated Rail Corporation rail-24
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road easement to its intersection with the eastern 1
shore of the Potomac River; 2
(38) thence generally northwest along said east-3
ern shore of the Potomac River to its intersection 4
with a line extending westward from the northern 5
boundary of the property designated as Square 12 6
Lot 806; 7
(39) thence east along said line extending west-8
ward from the northern boundary of the property 9
designated as Square 12 Lot 806 to the northern 10
boundary of the property designated as Square 12 11
Lot 806, and continuing east along the northern 12
boundary of the property designated as Square 12 13
Lot 806 to its northeast corner; 14
(40) thence east along a line extending east 15
from said northeast corner of the property des-16
ignated as Square 12 Lot 806 to its intersection 17
with the western boundary of the property des-18
ignated as Square 33 Lot 87; 19
(41) thence south along said western boundary 20
of the property designated as Square 33 Lot 87 to 21
its intersection with the northwest corner of the 22
property designated as Square 33 Lot 88; 23
(42) thence counter-clockwise around the 24
boundary of said property designated as Square 33 25
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Lot 88 to its southeast corner, which is along the 1
northern right-of-way of E Street NW; 2
(43) thence east along said northern right-of- 3
way of E Street NW to its intersection with the 4
western right-of-way of 18th Street NW; 5
(44) thence south along said western right-of- 6
way of 18th Street NW to its intersection with the 7
southwestern right-of-way of Virginia Avenue NW; 8
(45) thence southeast along said southwestern 9
right-of-way of Virginia Avenue NW to its intersec-10
tion with the northern right-of-way of Constitution 11
Avenue NW; 12
(46) thence east along said northern right-of- 13
way of Constitution Avenue NW to its intersection 14
with the eastern right-of-way of 17th Street NW; 15
(47) thence north along said eastern right-of- 16
way of 17th Street NW to its intersection with the 17
southern right-of-way of H Street NW; 18
(48) thence east along said southern right-of- 19
way of H Street NW to its intersection with the 20
northwest corner of the property designated as 21
Square 221 Lot 35; 22
(49) thence counter-clockwise around the 23
boundary of said property designated as Square 221 24
Lot 35 to its southeast corner, which is along the 25
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boundary of the property designated as Square 221 1
Lot 37; 2
(50) thence counter-clockwise around the 3
boundary of said property designated as Square 221 4
Lot 37 to its southwest corner, which it shares with 5
the property designated as Square 221 Lot 42; 6
(51) thence south along the boundary of said 7
property designated as Square 221 Lot 42 to its 8
southwest corner; 9
(52) thence east along the southern border of 10
said property designated as Square 221 Lot 42 to 11
its intersection with the northwest corner of the 12
property designated as Square 221 Lot 41; 13
(53) thence south along the western boundary 14
of said property designated as Square 221 Lot 41 15
to its southwest corner, which is along the northern 16
right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 17
(54) thence east along said northern right-of- 18
way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW to its intersection 19
with the western right-of-way of 15th Street NW; 20
(55) thence south along said western right-of- 21
way of 15th Street NW to its intersection with a line 22
extending northwest from the southern right-of-way 23
of the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue NW north of 24
Pershing Square; 25
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(56) thence southeast along said line extending 1
the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue 2
NW to the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania 3
Avenue NW, and continuing southeast along said 4
southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW 5
to its intersection with the western right-of-way of 6
14th Street NW; 7
(57) thence south along said western right-of- 8
way of 14th Street NW to its intersection with a line 9
extending west from the southern right-of-way of D 10
Street NW; 11
(58) thence east along said line extending west 12
from the southern right-of-way of D Street NW to 13
the southern right-of-way of D Street NW, and con-14
tinuing east along said southern right-of-way of D 15
Street NW to its intersection with the eastern right- 16
of-way of 13
1
⁄2Street NW; 17
(59) thence north along said eastern right-of- 18
way of 13
1
⁄2Street NW to its intersection with the 19
southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 20
(60) thence east and southeast along said 21
southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW 22
to its intersection with the western right-of-way of 23
12th Street NW; 24
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(61) thence south along said western right-of- 1
way of 12th Street NW to its intersection with a line 2
extending to the west from the southern boundary of 3
the property designated as Square 324 Lot 809; 4
(62) thence east along said line to the south-5
west corner of said property designated as Square 6
324 Lot 809, and continuing northeast along the 7
southern boundary of said property designated as 8
Square 324 Lot 809 to its eastern corner, which it 9
shares with the property designated as Square 323 10
Lot 802; 11
(63) thence east along the southern boundary 12
of said property designated as Square 323 Lot 802 13
to its southeast corner, which it shares with the 14
property designated as Square 324 Lot 808; 15
(64) thence counter-clockwise around the 16
boundary of said property designated as Square 324 17
Lot 808 to its northeastern corner, which is along 18
the southern right-of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue 19
NW; 20
(65) thence southeast along said southern right- 21
of-way of Pennsylvania Avenue NW to its intersec-22
tion with the eastern right-of-way of 4th Street NW; 23
(66) thence north along a line extending north 24
from said eastern right-of-way of 4th Street NW to 25
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its intersection with the southern right-of-way of C 1
Street NW; 2
(67) thence east along said southern right-of- 3
way of C Street NW to its intersection with the east-4
ern right-of-way of 3rd Street NW; 5
(68) thence north along said eastern right-of- 6
way of 3rd Street NW to its intersection with the 7
southern right-of-way of D Street NW; 8
(69) thence east along said southern right-of- 9
way of D Street NW to its intersection with the 10
western right-of-way of 1st Street NW; 11
(70) thence south along said western right-of- 12
way of 1st Street NW to its intersection with the 13
northern right-of-way of C Street NW; 14
(71) thence west along said northern right-of- 15
way of C Street NW to its intersection with the 16
western right-of-way of 2nd Street NW; 17
(72) thence south along said western right-of- 18
way of 2nd Street NW to its intersection with the 19
northern right-of-way of Constitution Avenue NW; 20
(73) thence east along said northern right-of- 21
way of Constitution Avenue NW to its intersection 22
with the northwestern right-of-way of Louisiana Av-23
enue NW; 24
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(74) thence northeast along said northwestern 1
right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW to its inter-2
section with the southwestern right-of-way of New 3
Jersey Avenue NW; 4
(75) thence northwest along said southwestern 5
right-of-way of New Jersey Avenue NW to its inter-6
section with the northern right-of-way of D Street 7
NW; 8
(76) thence east along said northern right-of- 9
way of D Street NW to its intersection with the 10
northwestern right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW; 11
(77) thence northeast along said northwestern 12
right-of-way of Louisiana Avenue NW to its inter-13
section with the western right-of-way of North Cap-14
itol Street; 15
(78) thence north along said western right-of- 16
way of North Capitol Street to its intersection with 17
the southwestern right-of-way of Massachusetts Ave-18
nue NW; 19
(79) thence southeast along said southwestern 20
right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue NW to the 21
southwestern right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue 22
NE; 23
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(80) thence southeast along said southwestern 1
right-of-way of Massachusetts Avenue NE to the 2
southern right-of-way of Columbus Circle NE; 3
(81) thence counter-clockwise along said south-4
ern right-of-way of Columbus Circle NE to its inter-5
section with the southern right-of-way of F Street 6
NE; and 7
(82) thence east along said southern right-of- 8
way of F Street NE to the point of beginning. 9
(c) E
XCLUSION OFBUILDINGSERVING ASSTATE 10
C
APITOL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this 11
section, after the admission of the State into the Union, 12
the Capital shall not be considered to include the building 13
known as the ‘‘John A. Wilson Building’’, as described 14
and designated under section 601(a) of the Omnibus 15
Spending Reduction Act of 1993 (sec. 10–1301(a), D.C. 16
Official Code). 17
(d) C
LARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF FRANCES 18
P
ERKINSBUILDING.—The entirety of the Frances Per-19
kins Building, including any portion of the Building which 20
is north of D Street NW, shall be considered to be in-21
cluded in the Capital. 22
SEC. 113. RETENTION OF TITLE TO PROPERTY. 23
(a) R
ETENTION OFFEDERALTITLE.—The United 24
States shall have and retain title to, or jurisdiction over, 25
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for purposes of administration and maintenance, all real 1
and personal property with respect to which the United 2
States holds title or jurisdiction for such purposes on the 3
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 4
Union. 5
(b) R
ETENTION OFSTATETITLE.—The State shall 6
have and retain title to, or jurisdiction over, for purposes 7
of administration and maintenance, all real and personal 8
property with respect to which the District of Columbia 9
holds title or jurisdiction for such purposes on the day 10
before the date of the admission of the State into the 11
Union. 12
SEC. 114. EFFECT OF ADMISSION ON CURRENT LAWS OF 13
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES. 14
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the laws 15
of the District of Columbia which are in effect on the day 16
before the date of the admission of the State into the 17
Union (without regard to whether such laws were enacted 18
by Congress or by the District of Columbia) shall apply 19
in the Capital in the same manner and to the same extent 20
beginning on the date of the admission of the State into 21
the Union, and shall be deemed laws of the United States 22
which are applicable only in or to the Capital. 23
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SEC. 115. CAPITAL NATIONAL GUARD. 1
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—Title 32, United States Code, 2
is amended as follows: 3
(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In paragraphs (4), (6), and 4
(19) of section 101, by striking ‘‘District of Colum-5
bia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 6
(2) B
RANCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS .—In sec-7
tion 103, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and in-8
serting ‘‘Capital’’. 9
(3) U
NITS: LOCATION; ORGANIZATION; COM-10
MAND.—In subsections (c) and (d) of section 104, 11
by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ both places it ap-12
pears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 13
(4) A
VAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS .—In 14
section 107(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 15
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 16
(5) M
AINTENANCE OF OTHER TROOPS .—In 17
subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 109, by strik-18
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it appears and 19
inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 20
(6) D
RUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER -DRUG 21
ACTIVITIES.—In section 112(h)— 22
(A) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 23
both places it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; 24
and 25
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(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Na-1
tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 2
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 3
(7) E
NLISTMENT OATH .—In section 304, by 4
striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-5
ital’’. 6
(8) A
DJUTANTS GENERAL .—In section 314, by 7
striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it ap-8
pears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 9
(9) D
ETAIL OF REGULAR MEMBERS OF ARMY 10
AND AIR FORCE TO DUTY WITH NATIONAL GUARD .— 11
In section 315, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 12
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 13
(10) D
ISCHARGE OF OFFICERS ; TERMINATION 14
OF APPOINTMENT.—In section 324(b), by striking 15
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 16
(11) R
ELIEF FROM NATIONAL GUARD DUTY 17
WHEN ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY .—In subsections 18
(a) and (b) of section 325, by striking ‘‘District of 19
Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-20
ital’’. 21
(12) C
OURTS-MARTIAL OF NATIONAL GUARD 22
NOT IN FEDERAL SERVICE : COMPOSITION, JURISDIC-23
TION, AND PROCEDURES; CONVENING AUTHORITY .— 24
In sections 326 and 327, by striking ‘‘District of Co-25
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lumbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-1
ital’’. 2
(13) A
CTIVE GUARD AND RESERVE DUTY : GOV-3
ERNOR’S AUTHORITY.—In section 328(a), by strik-4
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 5
(14) T
RAINING GENERALLY .—In section 6
501(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and in-7
serting ‘‘Capital’’. 8
(15) P
ARTICIPATION IN FIELD EXERCISES .—In 9
section 503(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 10
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 11
(16) N
ATIONAL GUARD SCHOOLS AND SMALL 12
ARMS COMPETITIONS .—In section 504(b), by strik-13
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 14
(17) A
RMY AND AIR FORCE SCHOOLS AND 15
FIELD EXERCISES.—In section 505, by striking 16
‘‘National Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 17
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 18
(18) N
ATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE 19
PROGRAM.—In subsections (c)(1), (g)(2), (j), (k), 20
and (l)(1) of section 509, by striking ‘‘District of 21
Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-22
ital’’. 23
(19) I
SSUE OF SUPPLIES.—In section 702— 24
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(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Na-1
tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 2
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’; and 3
(B) in subsections (b), (c), and (d), by 4
striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ each place it 5
appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 6
(20) P
URCHASES OF SUPPLIES FROM ARMY OR 7
AIR FORCE.—In subsections (a) and (b) of section 8
703, by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ both places 9
it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 10
(21) A
CCOUNTABILITY: RELIEF FROM UPON 11
ORDER TO ACTIVE DUTY .—In section 704, by strik-12
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 13
(22) P
ROPERTY AND FISCAL OFFICERS .—In 14
section 708— 15
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Na-16
tional Guard of the District of Columbia’’ and 17
inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’; and 18
(B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘District 19
of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 20
(23) A
CCOUNTABILITY FOR PROPERTY ISSUED 21
TO THE NATIONAL GUARD .—In subsections (c), (d), 22
(e), and (f) of section 710, by striking ‘‘District of 23
Columbia’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-24
ital’’. 25
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(24) DISPOSITION OF OBSOLETE OR CON -1
DEMNED PROPERTY .—In section 711, by striking 2
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 3
(25) D
ISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS OF CON -4
DEMNED STORES ISSUED TO NATIONAL GUARD .—In 5
paragraph (1) of section 712, by striking ‘‘District 6
of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 7
(26) P
ROPERTY LOSS; PERSONAL INJURY OR 8
DEATH.—In section 715(c), by striking ‘‘District of 9
Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 10
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 11
(1) C
APITAL DEFINED.— 12
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Section 101 of title 32, 13
United States Code, is amended by adding at 14
the end the following new paragraph: 15
‘‘(20) ‘Capital’ means the area serving as the 16
seat of the Government of the United States, as de-17
scribed in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Ad-18
mission Act.’’. 19
(B) W
ITH REGARDS TO HOMELAND DE -20
FENSE ACTIVITIES.—Section 901 of title 32, 21
United States Code, is amended— 22
(i) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Dis-23
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; 24
and 25
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(ii) by adding at the end the following 1
new paragraph: 2
‘‘(3) The term ‘Governor’ means, with respect 3
to the Capital, the commanding general of the Cap-4
ital National Guard.’’. 5
(2) T
ITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE.—Title 10, 6
United States Code, is amended as follows: 7
(A) D
EFINITIONS.—In section 101— 8
(i) in subsection (a), by adding at the 9
end the following new paragraph: 10
‘‘(21) The term ‘Capital’ means the area serv-11
ing as the seat of the Government of the United 12
States, as described in section 112 of the Wash-13
ington, D.C. Admission Act.’’; 14
(ii) in paragraphs (2) and (4) of sub-15
section (c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-16
bia’’ both places it appears and inserting 17
‘‘Capital’’; and 18
(iii) in subsection (d)(5), by striking 19
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting 20
‘‘Capital’’. 21
(B) D
ISPOSITION ON DISCHARGE .—In sec-22
tion 771a(c), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 23
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 24
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(C) TRICARE COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN 1
MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD AND DE -2
PENDENTS DURING CERTAIN DISASTER RE -3
SPONSE DUTY.—In section 1076f— 4
(i) in subsections (a) and (c)(1), by 5
striking ‘‘with respect to the District of 6
Columbia, the mayor of the District of Co-7
lumbia’’ both places it appears and insert-8
ing ‘‘with respect to the Capital, the com-9
manding general of the Capital National 10
Guard’’; and 11
(ii) in subsection (c)(2), by striking 12
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting 13
‘‘Capital’’. 14
(D) P
AYMENT OF CLAIMS : AVAILABILITY 15
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In paragraph (2)(B) of 16
section 2732, by striking ‘‘District of Colum-17
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 18
(E) M
EMBERS OF ARMY NATIONAL GUARD : 19
DETAIL AS STUDENTS, OBSERVERS, AND INVES-20
TIGATORS AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS , IN-21
DUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND HOSPITALS.—In sec-22
tion 7401(c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-23
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 24
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(F) MEMBERS OF AIR NATIONAL GUARD : 1
DETAIL AS STUDENTS, OBSERVERS, AND INVES-2
TIGATORS AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS , IN-3
DUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND HOSPITALS.—In sec-4
tion 9401(c), by striking ‘‘District of Colum-5
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 6
(G) R
EADY RESERVE: FAILURE TO SATIS-7
FACTORILY PERFORM PRESCRIBED TRAINING .— 8
In section 10148(b)— 9
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 10
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 11
(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 12
National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 13
National Guard’’. 14
(H) C
HIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD BU -15
REAU.—In section 10502(a)(1)— 16
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 17
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 18
(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 19
National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 20
National Guard’’. 21
(I) V
ICE CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD 22
BUREAU.—In section 10505(a)(1)(A)— 23
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 24
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 25
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(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 1
National Guard’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital 2
National Guard’’. 3
(J) O
THER SENIOR NATIONAL GUARD BU -4
REAU OFFICERS.—In subparagraphs (A) and 5
(B) of section 10506(a)(1)— 6
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 7
both places it appears and inserting ‘‘Cap-8
ital,’’; and 9
(ii) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia 10
National Guard’’ both places it appears 11
and inserting ‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 12
(K) N
ATIONAL GUARD BUREAU : GENERAL 13
PROVISIONS.—In section 10508(b)(1), by strik-14
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-15
ital’’. 16
(L) C
OMMISSIONED OFFICERS : ORIGINAL 17
APPOINTMENT; LIMITATION.—In section 18
12204(b), by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 19
and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 20
(M) R
ESERVE COMPONENTS GEN -21
ERALLY.—In section 12301(b), by striking 22
‘‘District of Columbia National Guard’’ both 23
places it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital Na-24
tional Guard’’. 25
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(N) NATIONAL GUARD IN FEDERAL SERV -1
ICE: CALL.—In section 12406— 2
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 3
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 4
(ii) by striking ‘‘National Guard of 5
the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 6
‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 7
(O) R
ESULT OF FAILURE TO COMPLY 8
WITH STANDARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS .—In 9
section 12642(c), by striking ‘‘District of Co-10
lumbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 11
(P) L
IMITATION ON RELOCATION OF NA -12
TIONAL GUARD UNITS.—In section 18238— 13
(i) by striking ‘‘District of Columbia,’’ 14
and inserting ‘‘Capital,’’; and 15
(ii) by striking ‘‘National Guard of 16
the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 17
‘‘Capital National Guard’’. 18
SEC. 116. TERMINATION OF LEGAL STATUS OF SEAT OF 19
GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES AS MUNIC-20
IPAL CORPORATION. 21
Notwithstanding section 2 of the Revised Statutes re-22
lating to the District of Columbia (sec. 1–102, D.C. Offi-23
cial Code) or any other provision of law codified in sub-24
chapter I of chapter 1 of the District of Columbia Official 25
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Code, effective upon the date of the admission of the State 1
into the Union, the Capital (or any portion thereof) shall 2
not serve as a government and shall not be a body cor-3
porate for municipal purposes. 4
Subtitle C—General Provisions 5
Relating to Laws of State 6
SEC. 121. EFFECT OF ADMISSION ON CURRENT LAWS. 7
(a) L
EGISLATIVEPOWER.—The legislative power of 8
the State shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation 9
in the State, consistent with the Constitution of the 10
United States (including the restrictions and limitations 11
imposed upon the States by article I, section 10) and sub-12
ject to the provisions of this Act. 13
(b) C
ONTINUATION OF AUTHORITY ANDDUTIES OF 14
M
EMBERS OFEXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, ANDJUDICIAL 15
O
FFICES.—Upon the admission of the State into the 16
Union, members of executive, legislative, and judicial of-17
fices of the District of Columbia shall be deemed members 18
of the respective executive, legislative, and judicial offices 19
of the State, as provided by the State Constitution and 20
the laws of the State. 21
(c) T
REATMENT OFFEDERALLAWS.—To the extent 22
that any law of the United States applies to the States 23
generally, the law shall have the same force and effect in 24
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the State as elsewhere in the United States, except as such 1
law may otherwise provide. 2
(d) N
OEFFECT ONEXISTINGCONTRACTS.—Nothing 3
in the admission of the State into the Union shall affect 4
any obligation under any contract or agreement under 5
which the District of Columbia or the United States is 6
a party, as in effect on the day before the date of the 7
admission of the State into the Union. 8
(e) S
UCCESSION ININTERSTATECOMPACTS.—The 9
State shall be deemed to be the successor to the District 10
of Columbia for purposes of any interstate compact which 11
is in effect on the day before the date of the admission 12
of the State into the Union. 13
(f) C
ONTINUATION OF SERVICE OFFEDERALMEM-14
BERS ONBOARDS ANDCOMMISSIONS.—Nothing in the ad-15
mission of the State into the Union shall affect the author-16
ity of a representative of the Federal Government who, 17
as of the day before the date of the admission of the State 18
into the Union, is a member of a board or commission 19
of the District of Columbia to serve as a member of such 20
board or commission or as a member of a successor to 21
such board or commission after the admission of the State 22
into the Union, as may be provided by the State Constitu-23
tion and the laws of the State. 24
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(g) SPECIALRULEREGARDINGENFORCEMENT AU-1
THORITY OFUNITEDSTATESCAPITOLPOLICE, UNITED 2
S
TATESPARKPOLICE, ANDUNITEDSTATESSECRET 3
S
ERVICEUNIFORMEDDIVISION.—The United States 4
Capitol Police, the United States Park Police, and the 5
United States Secret Service Uniformed Division may not 6
enforce any law of the State in the State, except to the 7
extent authorized by the State. Nothing in this subsection 8
may be construed to affect the authority of the United 9
States Capitol Police, the United States Park Police, and 10
the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division to 11
enforce any law in the Capital. 12
SEC. 122. PENDING ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS. 13
(a) S
TATE ASLEGALSUCCESSOR TODISTRICT OF 14
C
OLUMBIA.—The State shall be the legal successor to the 15
District of Columbia in all matters. 16
(b) N
OEFFECT ONPENDINGPROCEEDINGS.—All 17
existing writs, actions, suits, judicial and administrative 18
proceedings, civil or criminal liabilities, prosecutions, judg-19
ments, sentences, orders, decrees, appeals, causes of ac-20
tion, claims, demands, titles, and rights shall continue un-21
affected by the admission of the State into the Union with 22
respect to the State or the United States, except as may 23
be provided under this Act, as may be modified in accord-24
ance with the provisions of the State Constitution, and 25
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as may be modified by the laws of the State or the United 1
States, as the case may be. 2
SEC. 123. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO TAX FEDERAL 3
PROPERTY. 4
The State may not impose any tax on any real or 5
personal property owned or acquired by the United States, 6
except to the extent that Congress may permit. 7
SEC. 124. UNITED STATES NATIONALITY. 8
No provision of this Act shall operate to confer 9
United States nationality, to terminate nationality lawfully 10
acquired, or to restore nationality terminated or lost under 11
any law of the United States or under any treaty to which 12
the United States is or was a party. 13
TITLE II—INTERESTS OF 14
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 15
Subtitle A—Federal Property 16
SEC. 201. TREATMENT OF MILITARY LANDS. 17
(a) R
ESERVATION OFFEDERALAUTHORITY.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2) 19
and subsection (b) and notwithstanding the admis-20
sion of the State into the Union, authority is re-21
served in the United States for the exercise by Con-22
gress of the power of exclusive legislation in all cases 23
whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land lo-24
cated in the State that, on the day before the date 25
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of the admission of the State into the Union, are 1
controlled or owned by the United States and held 2
for defense or Coast Guard purposes. 3
(2) L
IMITATION ON AUTHORITY .—The power of 4
exclusive legislation described in paragraph (1) shall 5
vest and remain in the United States only so long 6
as the particular tract or parcel of land involved is 7
controlled or owned by the United States and held 8
for defense or Coast Guard purposes. 9
(b) A
UTHORITY OFSTATE.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The reservation of authority 11
in the United States under subsection (a) shall not 12
operate to prevent such tracts or parcels of land 13
from being a part of the State, or to prevent the 14
State from exercising over or upon such lands, con-15
currently with the United States, any jurisdiction 16
which it would have in the absence of such reserva-17
tion of authority and which is consistent with the 18
laws hereafter enacted by Congress pursuant to such 19
reservation of authority. 20
(2) S
ERVICE OF PROCESS .—The State shall 21
have the right to serve civil or criminal process in 22
such tracts or parcels of land in which the authority 23
of the United States is reserved under subsection (a) 24
in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights 25
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acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed 1
in the State but outside of such lands. 2
SEC. 202. WAIVER OF CLAIMS TO FEDERAL PROPERTY. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—As a compact with the United 4
States, the State and its people disclaim all right and title 5
to any real or personal property not granted or confirmed 6
to the State by or under the authority of this Act, the 7
right or title to which is held by the United States or sub-8
ject to disposition by the United States. 9
(b) E
FFECT ONCLAIMSAGAINSTUNITEDSTATES.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act shall 11
recognize, deny, enlarge, impair, or otherwise affect 12
any claim against the United States, and any such 13
claim shall be governed by applicable laws of the 14
United States. 15
(2) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 16
Act is intended or shall be construed as a finding, 17
interpretation, or construction by Congress that any 18
applicable law authorizes, establishes, recognizes, or 19
confirms the validity or invalidity of any claim re-20
ferred to in paragraph (1), and the determination of 21
the applicability to or the effect of any law on any 22
such claim shall be unaffected by anything in this 23
Act. 24
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Subtitle B—Federal Courts 1
SEC. 211. RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN FED-2
ERAL OFFICIALS. 3
(a) C
IRCUITJUDGES.—Section 44(c) of title 28, 4
United States Code, is amended— 5
(1) by striking ‘‘Except in the District of Co-6
lumbia, each’’ and inserting ‘‘Each’’; and 7
(2) by striking ‘‘within fifty miles of the Dis-8
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘within fifty miles 9
of the Capital’’. 10
(b) D
ISTRICTJUDGES.—Section 134(b) of such title 11
is amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘the District 12
of Columbia, the Southern District of New York, and’’ and 13
inserting ‘‘the Southern District of New York and’’. 14
(c) U
NITEDSTATESATTORNEYS.—Section 545(a) of 15
such title is amended by striking the first sentence and 16
inserting ‘‘Each United States attorney shall reside in the 17
district for which he or she is appointed, except that those 18
officers of the Southern District of New York and the 19
Eastern District of New York may reside within 20 miles 20
thereof.’’. 21
(d) U
NITEDSTATESMARSHALS.—Section 561(e)(1) 22
of such title is amended to read as follows: 23
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‘‘(1) the marshal for the Southern District of 1
New York may reside within 20 miles of the district; 2
and’’. 3
(e) C
LERKS OFDISTRICTCOURTS.—Section 751(c) 4
of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Co-5
lumbia and’’. 6
(f) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 7
this section shall apply only to individuals appointed after 8
the date of the admission of the State into the Union. 9
SEC. 212. RENAMING OF FEDERAL COURTS. 10
(a) R
ENAMING.— 11
(1) C
IRCUIT COURT.—Section 41 of title 28, 12
United States Code, is amended— 13
(A) in the first column, by striking ‘‘Dis-14
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; and 15
(B) in the second column, by striking 16
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital; 17
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’’. 18
(2) D
ISTRICT COURT.—Section 88 of such title 19
is amended— 20
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘District 21
of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 22
Douglass Commonwealth and the 23
Capital’’; 24
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(B) by amending the first paragraph to 1
read as follows: 2
‘‘The State of Washington, Douglass Common-3
wealth and the Capital comprise one judicial dis-4
trict.’’; and 5
(C) in the second paragraph, by striking 6
‘‘Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 7
(3) C
LERICAL AMENDMENT .—The item relating 8
to section 88 in the table of sections for chapter 5 9
of such title is amended to read as follows: 10
‘‘88. Washington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 11
C
OURT OFAPPEALS.—Title 28, United States Code, is 12
amended as follows: 13
(1) A
PPOINTMENT OF JUDGES .—Section 44(a) 14
of such title is amended in the first column by strik-15
ing ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 16
(2) T
ERMS OF COURT.—Section 48(a) of such 17
title is amended— 18
(A) in the first column, by striking ‘‘Dis-19
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; 20
(B) in the second column, by striking 21
‘‘Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’; and 22
(C) in the second column, by striking 23
‘‘District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 24
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(3) APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT COUNSELS 1
BY CHIEF JUDGE OF CIRCUIT .—Section 49 of such 2
title is amended by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ 3
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Capital’’. 4
(4) C
IRCUIT COURT JURISDICTION OVER CER -5
TIFICATION OF DEATH PENALTY COUNSELS .—Sec-6
tion 2265(c)(2) of such title is amended by striking 7
‘‘the District of Columbia Circuit’’ and inserting 8
‘‘the Capital Circuit’’. 9
(5) C
IRCUIT COURT JURISDICTION OVER RE -10
VIEW OF FEDERAL AGENCY ORDERS .—Section 2343 11
of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of 12
Columbia Circuit’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital Cir-13
cuit’’. 14
(c) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS RELATING TODIS-15
TRICTCOURT.—Title 28, United States Code, is amended 16
as follows: 17
(1) A
PPOINTMENT AND NUMBER OF DISTRICT 18
COURT JUDGES.—Section 133(a) of such title is 19
amended in the first column by striking ‘‘District of 20
Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass 21
Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 22
(2) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OF TAX 23
CASES BROUGHT AGAINST UNITED STATES .—Section 24
1346(e) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 25
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District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 1
Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 2
(3) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER PRO -3
CEEDINGS FOR FORFEITURE OF FOREIGN PROP -4
ERTY.—Section 1355(b)(2) of such title is amended 5
by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 6
‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth and the 7
Capital’’. 8
(4) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER CIVIL 9
ACTIONS BROUGHT AGAINST A FOREIGN STATE .— 10
Section 1391(f)(4) of such title is amended by strik-11
ing ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Wash-12
ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 13
(5) D
ISTRICT COURT JURISDICTION OVER AC -14
TIONS BROUGHT BY CORPORATIONS AGAINST 15
UNITED STATES.—Section 1402(a)(2) of such title is 16
amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and 17
inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth 18
and the Capital’’. 19
(6) V
ENUE IN DISTRICT COURT OF CERTAIN AC -20
TIONS BROUGHT BY EMPLOYEES OF EXECUTIVE OF -21
FICE OF THE PRESIDENT .—Section 1413 of such 22
title is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Colum-23
bia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Common-24
wealth and the Capital’’. 25
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(7) VENUE IN DISTRICT COURT OF ACTION EN -1
FORCING FOREIGN JUDGMENT	.—Section 2
2467(c)(2)(B) of such title is amended by striking 3
‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Wash-4
ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 5
(d) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 6
O
THERCOURTS.—Title 28, United States Code, is 7
amended as follows: 8
(1) A
PPOINTMENT OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES .— 9
Section 152(a)(2) of such title is amended in the 10
first column by striking ‘‘District of Columbia’’ and 11
inserting ‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth 12
and the Capital’’. 13
(2) L
OCATION OF COURT OF FEDERAL 14
CLAIMS.—Section 173 of such title is amended by 15
striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and inserting 16
‘‘the Capital’’. 17
(3) D
UTY STATION OF JUDGES OF COURT OF 18
FEDERAL CLAIMS.—Section 175 of such title is 19
amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 20
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 21
(4) D
UTY STATION OF JUDGES FOR PURPOSES 22
OF TRAVELING EXPENSES .—Section 456(b) of such 23
title is amended to read as follows: 24
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‘‘(b) The official duty station of the Chief Justice of 1
the United States, the Justices of the Supreme Court of 2
the United States, and the judges of the United States 3
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall be the Cap-4
ital.’’. 5
(5) C
OURT ACCOMMODATIONS FOR FEDERAL 6
CIRCUIT AND COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS .—Section 7
462(d) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the Dis-8
trict of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 9
(6) P
LACES OF HOLDING COURT OF COURT OF 10
FEDERAL CLAIMS.—Section 798(a) of such title is 11
amended— 12
(A) by striking ‘‘Washington, District of 13
Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’; and 14
(B) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 15
and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 16
(e) O
THERCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 17
(1) S
ERVICE OF PROCESS ON FOREIGN PARTIES 18
AT STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICE	.—Section 19
1608(a)(4) of such title is amended by striking 20
‘‘Washington, District of Columbia’’ and inserting 21
‘‘the Capital’’. 22
(2) S
ERVICE OF PROCESS IN PROPERTY CASES 23
AT ATTORNEY GENERAL OFFICE .—Section 2410(b) 24
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of such title is amended by striking ‘‘Washington, 1
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 2
(f) D
EFINITION.—Section 451 of title 28, United 3
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-4
lowing new undesignated paragraph: 5
‘‘The term ‘Capital’ means the area serving as the 6
seat of the Government of the United States, as described 7
in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 8
(g) R
EFERENCES INOTHERLAWS.—Any reference 9
in any Federal law (other than a law amended by this 10
section), rule, or regulation— 11
(1) to the United States Court of Appeals for 12
the District of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to 13
the United States Court of Appeals for the Capital; 14
(2) to the District of Columbia Circuit shall be 15
deemed to refer to the Capital Circuit; and 16
(3) to the United States District Court for the 17
District of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to the 18
United States District Court for Washington, Doug-19
lass Commonwealth and the Capital. 20
(h) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section and the amend-21
ments made by this section shall take effect upon the ad-22
mission of the State into the Union. 23
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SEC. 213. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DE-1
PARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 2
(a) A
PPOINTMENT OFUNITEDSTATESTRUSTEES.— 3
Section 581(a)(4) of title 28, United States Code, is 4
amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ and in-5
serting ‘‘the Capital and Washington, Douglass Common-6
wealth’’. 7
(b) I
NDEPENDENTCOUNSELS.— 8
(1) A
PPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL PER -9
SONNEL.—Section 594(c) of such title is amended— 10
(A) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 11
the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘Wash-12
ington, Douglass Commonwealth and the Cap-13
ital’’; and 14
(B) by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 15
the second place it appears and inserting 16
‘‘Washington, Douglass Commonwealth’’. 17
(2) J
UDICIAL REVIEW OF REMOVAL .—Section 18
596(a)(3) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 19
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘Washington, 20
Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital’’. 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. 214. TREATMENT OF PRETRIAL SERVICES IN UNITED 1
STATES DISTRICT COURT. 2
Section 3152 of title 18, United States Code, is 3
amended— 4
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(other than 5
the District of Columbia)’’ and inserting ‘‘(subject to 6
subsection (d), other than the District of Colum-7
bia)’’; and 8
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-9
section: 10
‘‘(d) In the case of the judicial district of Washington, 11
Douglass Commonwealth and the Capital— 12
‘‘(1) upon the admission of the State of Wash-13
ington, Douglass Commonwealth into the Union, the 14
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth Pretrial Serv-15
ices Agency shall continue to provide pretrial serv-16
ices in the judicial district in the same manner and 17
to the same extent as the District of Columbia Pre-18
trial Services Agency provided such services in the 19
judicial district of the District of Columbia as of the 20
day before the date of the admission of the State 21
into the Union; and 22
‘‘(2) upon the receipt by the President of the 23
certification from the State of Washington, Douglass 24
Commonwealth under section 315(b)(4) of the 25
Washington, D.C. Admission Act that the State has 26
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in effect laws providing for the State to provide pre- 1
trial services, paragraph (1) shall no longer apply, 2
and the Director shall provide for the establishment 3
of pretrial services in the judicial district under this 4
section.’’. 5
Subtitle C—Federal Elections 6
SEC. 221. PERMITTING INDIVIDUALS RESIDING IN CAPITAL 7
TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN STATE 8
OF MOST RECENT DOMICILE. 9
(a) R
EQUIREMENT FOR STATESTOPERMITINDIVID-10
UALSTOVOTE BYABSENTEEBALLOT.— 11
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Each State shall— 12
(A) permit absent Capital voters to use ab-13
sentee registration procedures and to vote by 14
absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and 15
runoff elections for Federal office; and 16
(B) accept and process, with respect to any 17
general, special, primary, or runoff election for 18
Federal office, any otherwise valid voter reg-19
istration application from an absent Capital 20
voter, if the application is received by the ap-21
propriate State election official not less than 30 22
days before the election. 23
(2) A
BSENT CAPITAL VOTER DEFINED .—In this 24
section, the term ‘‘absent Capital voter’’ means, with 25
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respect to a State, a person who resides in the Cap-1
ital and is qualified to vote in the State (or who 2
would be qualified to vote in the State but for resid-3
ing in the Capital), but only if the State is the last 4
place in which the person was domiciled before resid-5
ing in the Capital. 6
(3) S
TATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 7
‘‘State’’ means each of the several States, including 8
the State. 9
(b) R
ECOMMENDATIONS TO STATESTOMAXIMIZE 10
A
CCESS TOPOLLS BYABSENTCAPITALVOTERS.—To af-11
ford maximum access to the polls by absent Capital voters, 12
it is the sense of Congress that the States should— 13
(1) waive registration requirements for absent 14
Capital voters who, by reason of residence in the 15
Capital, do not have an opportunity to register; 16
(2) expedite processing of balloting materials 17
with respect to such individuals; and 18
(3) assure that absentee ballots are mailed to 19
such individuals at the earliest opportunity. 20
(c) E
NFORCEMENT.—The Attorney General may 21
bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the 22
United States for such declaratory or injunctive relief as 23
may be necessary to carry out this section. 24
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(d) EFFECT ONCERTAINOTHERLAWS.—The exer-1
cise of any right under this section shall not affect, for 2
purposes of a Federal tax, a State tax, or a local tax, the 3
residence or domicile of a person exercising such right. 4
(e) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall take effect 5
upon the date of the admission of the State into the 6
Union, and shall apply with respect to elections for Fed-7
eral office taking place on or after such date. 8
SEC. 222. REPEAL OF OFFICE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 9
DELEGATE. 10
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Sections 202 and 204 of the Dis-11
trict of Columbia Delegate Act (Public Law 91–405; sec-12
tions 1–401 and 1–402, D.C. Official Code) are repealed, 13
and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such 14
sections are restored or revived as if such sections had 15
not been enacted. 16
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS TO DISTRICT OFCO-17
LUMBIAELECTIONSCODE OF1955.—The District of Co-18
lumbia Elections Code of 1955 is amended— 19
(1) in section 1 (sec. 1–1001.01, D.C. Official 20
Code), by striking ‘‘the Delegate to the House of 21
Representatives,’’; 22
(2) in section 2 (sec. 1–1001.02, D.C. Official 23
Code)— 24
(A) by striking paragraph (6); 25
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(B) in paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘(except 1
the Delegate to Congress for the District of Co-2
lumbia)’’; and 3
(C) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘the 4
Delegate to Congress for the District of Colum-5
bia,’’; 6
(3) in section 8 (sec. 1–1001.08, D.C. Official 7
Code)— 8
(A) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ in the heading; 9
and 10
(B) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ each place it 11
appears in subsections (d), (h)(1)(A), (h)(2), 12
(i)(1), (j)(1), (j)(3), and (k)(3); 13
(4) in section 10 (sec. 1–1001.10, D.C. Official 14
Code)— 15
(A) by striking subparagraph (A) of sub-16
section (a)(3); and 17
(B) in subsection (d)— 18
(i) by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’ each place 19
it appears in paragraph (1); and 20
(ii) by striking paragraph (2) and re-21
designating paragraph (3) as paragraph 22
(2); 23
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(5) in section 11(a)(2) (sec. 1–1001.11(a)(2), 1
D.C. Official Code), by striking ‘‘Delegate to the 2
House of Representatives,’’; 3
(6) in section 15(b) (sec. 1–1001.15(b), D.C. 4
Official Code), by striking ‘‘Delegate,’’; and 5
(7) in section 17(a) (sec. 1–1001.17(a), D.C. 6
Official Code), by striking ‘‘except the Delegate to 7
the Congress from the District of Columbia’’. 8
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 9
this section shall take effect upon the admission of the 10
State into the Union. 11
SEC. 223. REPEAL OF LAW PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATION 12
OF SEAT OF GOVERNMENT IN ELECTION OF 13
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. 14
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 21 of title 3, United 15
States Code, is amended— 16
(1) by striking paragraph (2); 17
(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-18
graph (2); and 19
(3) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated, by 20
striking ‘‘(or, in the case of the District of Colum-21
bia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia)’’. 22
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 23
subsection (a) shall take effect upon the date of the admis-24
sion of the State into the Union, and shall apply to any 25
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election of the President and Vice President taking place 1
on or after such date. 2
SEC. 224. EXPEDITED PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION 3
OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REPEAL-4
ING 23RD AMENDMENT. 5
(a) J
OINTRESOLUTIONDESCRIBED.—In this sec-6
tion, the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means a joint resolu-7
tion— 8
(1) entitled ‘‘A joint resolution proposing an 9
amendment to the Constitution of the United States 10
to repeal the 23rd article of amendment’’; and 11
(2) the matter after the resolving clause of 12
which consists solely of text to amend the Constitu-13
tion of the United States to repeal the 23rd article 14
of amendment to the Constitution. 15
(b) E
XPEDITEDCONSIDERATION INHOUSE OFREP-16
RESENTATIVES.— 17
(1) P
LACEMENT ON CALENDAR .—Upon intro-18
duction in the House of Representatives, the joint 19
resolution shall be placed immediately on the appro-20
priate calendar. 21
(2) P
ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .— 22
(A) I
N GENERAL.—It shall be in order, not 23
later than 30 legislative days after the date the 24
joint resolution is introduced in the House of 25
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Representatives, to move to proceed to consider 1
the joint resolution in the House of Representa-2
tives. 3
(B) P
ROCEDURE.—For a motion to pro-4
ceed to consider the joint resolution— 5
(i) all points of order against the mo-6
tion are waived; 7
(ii) such a motion shall not be in 8
order after the House of Representatives 9
has disposed of a motion to proceed on the 10
joint resolution; 11
(iii) the previous question shall be 12
considered as ordered on the motion to its 13
adoption without intervening motion; 14
(iv) the motion shall not be debatable; 15
and 16
(v) a motion to reconsider the vote by 17
which the motion is disposed of shall not 18
be in order. 19
(3) C
ONSIDERATION.—When the House of Rep-20
resentatives proceeds to consideration of the joint 21
resolution— 22
(A) the joint resolution shall be considered 23
as read; 24
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(B) all points of order against the joint 1
resolution and against its consideration are 2
waived; 3
(C) the previous question shall be consid-4
ered as ordered on the joint resolution to its 5
passage without intervening motion except 10 6
hours of debate equally divided and controlled 7
by the proponent and an opponent; 8
(D) an amendment to the joint resolution 9
shall not be in order; and 10
(E) a motion to reconsider the vote on pas-11
sage of the joint resolution shall not be in 12
order. 13
(c) E
XPEDITEDCONSIDERATION INSENATE.— 14
(1) P
LACEMENT ON CALENDAR .—Upon intro-15
duction in the Senate, the joint resolution shall be 16
placed immediately on the calendar. 17
(2) P
ROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION .— 18
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding rule 19
XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, it is 20
in order, not later than 30 legislative days after 21
the date the joint resolution is introduced in the 22
Senate (even though a previous motion to the 23
same effect has been disagreed to) to move to 24
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proceed to the consideration of the joint resolu-1
tion. 2
(B) P
ROCEDURE.—For a motion to pro-3
ceed to the consideration of the joint resolu-4
tion— 5
(i) all points of order against the mo-6
tion are waived; 7
(ii) the motion is not debatable; 8
(iii) the motion is not subject to a mo-9
tion to postpone; 10
(iv) a motion to reconsider the vote by 11
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed 12
to shall not be in order; and 13
(v) if the motion is agreed to, the 14
joint resolution shall remain the unfinished 15
business until disposed of. 16
(3) F
LOOR CONSIDERATION.— 17
(A) I
N GENERAL.—If the Senate proceeds 18
to consideration of the joint resolution— 19
(i) all points of order against the joint 20
resolution (and against consideration of 21
the joint resolution) are waived; 22
(ii) consideration of the joint resolu-23
tion, and all debatable motions and appeals 24
in connection therewith, shall be limited to 25
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not more than 30 hours, which shall be di-1
vided equally between the majority and mi-2
nority leaders or their designees; 3
(iii) a motion further to limit debate 4
is in order and not debatable; 5
(iv) an amendment to, a motion to 6
postpone, or a motion to commit the joint 7
resolution is not in order; and 8
(v) a motion to proceed to the consid-9
eration of other business is not in order. 10
(B) V
OTE ON PASSAGE.—In the Senate the 11
vote on passage shall occur immediately fol-12
lowing the conclusion of the consideration of the 13
joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the 14
conclusion of the debate if requested in accord-15
ance with the rules of the Senate. 16
(C) R
ULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCE -17
DURE.—Appeals from the decisions of the Chair 18
relating to the application of this subsection or 19
the rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to 20
the procedure relating to the joint resolution 21
shall be decided without debate. 22
(d) R
ULESRELATING TOSENATE ANDHOUSE OF 23
R
EPRESENTATIVES.— 24
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(1) COORDINATION WITH ACTION BY OTHER 1
HOUSE.—If, before the passage by one House of the 2
joint resolution of that House, that House receives 3
from the other House the joint resolution— 4
(A) the joint resolution of the other House 5
shall not be referred to a committee; and 6
(B) with respect to the joint resolution of 7
the House receiving the resolution— 8
(i) the procedure in that House shall 9
be the same as if no joint resolution had 10
been received from the other House; and 11
(ii) the vote on passage shall be on 12
the joint resolution of the other House. 13
(2) T
REATMENT OF JOINT RESOLUTION OF 14
OTHER HOUSE.—If one House fails to introduce or 15
consider the joint resolution under this section, the 16
joint resolution of the other House shall be entitled 17
to expedited floor procedures under this section. 18
(3) T
REATMENT OF COMPANION MEASURES .— 19
If, following passage of the joint resolution in the 20
Senate, the Senate receives the companion measure 21
from the House of Representatives, the companion 22
measure shall not be debatable. 23
(e) R
ULES OFHOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES AND 24
S
ENATE.—This section is enacted by Congress— 25
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(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 1
the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-2
tively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules of 3
each House, respectively, but applicable only with re-4
spect to the procedure to be followed in that House 5
in the case of the joint resolution, and supersede 6
other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent 7
with such rules; and 8
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 9
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 10
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 11
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 12
the case of any other rule of that House. 13
TITLE III—CONTINUATION OF 14
CERTAIN AUTHORITIES AND 15
RESPONSIBILITIES 16
Subtitle A—Employee Benefits 17
SEC. 301. FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENTS UNDER CERTAIN 18
RETIREMENT PROGRAMS. 19
(a) C
ONTINUATION OF ENTITLEMENT TO PAY-20
MENTS.—Any individual who, as of the day before the date 21
of the admission of the State into the Union, is entitled 22
to a Federal benefit payment under the District of Colum-23
bia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 (subtitle A of title 24
XI of the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Govern-25
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ment Improvement Act of 1997; sec. 1–801.01 et seq., 1
D.C. Official Code) shall continue to be entitled to such 2
a payment after the admission of the State into the Union, 3
in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to 4
the same terms and conditions applicable under such Act. 5
(b) O
BLIGATIONS OFFEDERALGOVERNMENT.— 6
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any obligation of the Fed-7
eral Government under the District of Columbia Re-8
tirement Protection Act of 1997 which exists with 9
respect to any individual or with respect to the Dis-10
trict of Columbia as of the day before the date of 11
the admission of the State into the Union shall re-12
main in effect with respect to such an individual and 13
with respect to the State after the admission of the 14
State into the Union, in the same manner, to the 15
same extent, and subject to the same terms and con-16
ditions applicable under such Act. 17
(2) D.C. 
FEDERAL PENSION FUND .—Any obli-18
gation of the Federal Government under chapter 9 19
of the District of Columbia Retirement Protection 20
Act of 1997 (sec. 1–817.01 et seq., D.C. Official 21
Code) with respect to the D.C. Federal Pension 22
Fund which exists as of the day before the date of 23
the admission of the State into the Union shall re-24
main in effect with respect to such Fund after the 25
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admission of the State into the Union, in the same 1
manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same 2
terms and conditions applicable under such chapter. 3
(c) O
BLIGATIONS OFSTATE.—Any obligation of the 4
District of Columbia under the District of Columbia Re-5
tirement Protection Act of 1997 which exists with respect 6
to any individual or with respect to the Federal Govern-7
ment as of the day before the date of the admission of 8
the State into the Union shall become an obligation of the 9
State with respect to such an individual and with respect 10
to the Federal Government after the admission of the 11
State into the Union, in the same manner, to the same 12
extent, and subject to the same terms and conditions ap-13
plicable under such Act. 14
SEC. 302. CONTINUATION OF FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE BEN-15
EFITS FOR EMPLOYEES FIRST EMPLOYED 16
PRIOR TO ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICT OF 17
COLUMBIA MERIT PERSONNEL SYSTEM. 18
(a) O
BLIGATIONS OFFEDERALGOVERNMENT.—Any 19
obligation of the Federal Government under title 5, United 20
States Code, which exists with respect to an individual de-21
scribed in subsection (c) or with respect to the District 22
of Columbia as of the day before the date of the admission 23
of the State into the Union shall remain in effect with 24
respect to such individual and with respect to the State 25
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after the admission of the State into the Union, in the 1
same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same 2
terms and conditions applicable under such title. 3
(b) O
BLIGATIONS OFSTATE.—Any obligation of the 4
District of Columbia under title 5, United States Code, 5
which exists with respect to an individual described in sub-6
section (c) or with respect to the Federal Government as 7
of the day before the date of the admission of the State 8
into the Union shall become an obligation of the State with 9
respect to such individual and with respect to the Federal 10
Government after the admission of the State into the 11
Union, in the same manner, to the same extent, and sub-12
ject to the same terms and conditions applicable under 13
such title. 14
(c) I
NDIVIDUALSDESCRIBED.—An individual de-15
scribed in this subsection is an individual who was first 16
employed by the government of the District of Columbia 17
before October 1, 1987. 18
SEC. 303. OBLIGATIONS OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER 19
JUDGES’ RETIREMENT PROGRAM. 20
(a) C
ONTINUATION OFOBLIGATIONS.— 21
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any obligation of the Fed-22
eral Government under subchapter III of chapter 15 23
of title 11, District of Columbia Official Code— 24
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(A) which exists with respect to any indi-1
vidual and the District of Columbia as the re-2
sult of service accrued prior to the date of the 3
admission of the State into the Union shall re-4
main in effect with respect to such an indi-5
vidual and with respect to the State after the 6
admission of the State into the Union, in the 7
same manner, to the same extent, and subject 8
to the same terms and conditions applicable 9
under such subchapter; and 10
(B) subject to paragraph (2), shall exist 11
with respect to any individual and the State as 12
the result of service accrued after the date of 13
the admission of the State into the Union in the 14
same manner, to the same extent, and subject 15
to the same terms and conditions applicable 16
under such subchapter as such obligation ex-17
isted with respect to individuals and the Dis-18
trict of Columbia as of the date of the admis-19
sion of the State into the Union. 20
(2) T
REATMENT OF SERVICE ACCRUED AFTER 21
TAKING EFFECT OF STATE RETIREMENT PRO -22
GRAM.—Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) does 23
not apply to service accrued on or after the termi-24
nation date described in subsection (b). 25
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(b) TERMINATIONDATE.—The termination date de-1
scribed in this subsection is the date on which the State 2
provides written certification to the President that the 3
State has in effect laws requiring the State to appropriate 4
and make available funds for the retirement of judges of 5
the State. 6
Subtitle B—Agencies 7
SEC. 311. PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE. 8
(a) C
ONTINUATION OF OPERATIONS AND FUND-9
ING.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-11
graph (2) and subsection (b), title III of the District 12
of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure 13
Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1601 et seq., D.C. Official 14
Code) shall apply with respect to the State and to 15
the public defender service of the State after the 16
date of the admission of the State into the Union in 17
the same manner and to the same extent as such 18
title applied with respect to the District of Columbia 19
and the District of Columbia Public Defender Serv-20
ice as of the day before the date of the admission 21
of the State into the Union. 22
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -23
TRIBUTION.—For purposes of paragraph (2) of sec-24
tion 305(c) of such Act (sec. 2–1605(c)(2), D.C. Of-25
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ficial Code), the Federal Government shall be treat-1
ed as the employing agency with respect to the bene-2
fits provided under such section to an individual who 3
is an employee of the public defender service of the 4
State and who, pursuant to section 305(c) of such 5
Act (sec. 2–1605(c), D.C. Official Code), is treated 6
as an employee of the Federal Government for pur-7
poses of receiving benefits under any chapter of sub-8
part G of part III of title 5, United States Code. 9
(b) R
ENAMING OFSERVICE.—Effective upon the date 10
of the admission of the State into the Union, the State 11
may rename the public defender service of the State. 12
(c) C
ONTINUATION OFFEDERALBENEFITS FOREM-13
PLOYEES.— 14
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any individual who is an 15
employee of the public defender service of the State 16
as of the day before the date described in subsection 17
(d) and who, pursuant to section 305(c) of the Dis-18
trict of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Proce-19
dure Act of 1970 (sec. 2–1605(c), D.C. Official 20
Code), is treated as an employee of the Federal Gov-21
ernment for purposes of receiving benefits under any 22
chapter of subpart G of part III of title 5, United 23
States Code, shall continue to be treated as an em-24
ployee of the Federal Government for such purposes, 25
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notwithstanding the termination of the provisions of 1
subsection (a) under subsection (d). 2
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -3
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described in 4
subsection (d), the State shall be treated as the em-5
ploying agency with respect to the benefits described 6
in paragraph (1) which are provided to an individual 7
who, for purposes of receiving such benefits, is con-8
tinued to be treated as an employee of the Federal 9
Government under such paragraph. 10
(d) T
ERMINATION.—Subsection (a) shall terminate 11
upon the date on which the State provides written certifi-12
cation to the President that the State has in effect laws 13
requiring the State to appropriate and make available 14
funds for the operation of the office of the State which 15
provides the services described in title III of the District 16
of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act 17
of 1970 (sec. 2–1601 et seq., D.C. Official Code). 18
SEC. 312. PROSECUTIONS. 19
(a) A
SSIGNMENT OFASSISTANTUNITEDSTATESAT-20
TORNEYS.— 21
(1) I
N GENERAL.—In accordance with sub-22
chapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, United States 23
Code, the Attorney General, with the concurrence of 24
the District of Columbia or the State (as the case 25
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may be), shall provide for the assignment of assist-1
ant United States attorneys to the State to carry 2
out the functions described in subsection (b). 3
(2) A
SSIGNMENTS MADE ON DETAIL WITHOUT 4
REIMBURSEMENT BY STATE .—In accordance with 5
section 3373 of title 5, United States Code— 6
(A) an assistant United States attorney 7
who is assigned to the State under this section 8
shall be deemed under subsection (a) of such 9
section to be on detail to a regular work assign-10
ment in the Department of Justice; and 11
(B) the assignment of an assistant United 12
States attorney to the State under this section 13
shall be made without reimbursement by the 14
State of the pay of the attorney or any related 15
expenses. 16
(b) F
UNCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The functions de-17
scribed in this subsection are criminal prosecutions con-18
ducted in the name of the State which would have been 19
conducted in the name of the United States by the United 20
States attorney for the District of Columbia or his or her 21
assistants, as provided under section 23–101(c), District 22
of Columbia Official Code, but for the admission of the 23
State into the Union. 24
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(c) MINIMUMNUMBERASSIGNED.—The number of 1
assistant United States attorneys who are assigned under 2
this section may not be less than the number of assistant 3
United States attorneys whose principal duties as of the 4
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 5
Union were to conduct criminal prosecutions in the name 6
of the United States under section 23–101(c), District of 7
Columbia Official Code. 8
(d) T
ERMINATION.—The obligation of the Attorney 9
General to provide for the assignment of assistant United 10
States attorneys under this section shall terminate upon 11
written certification by the State to the President that the 12
State has appointed attorneys of the State to carry out 13
the functions described in subsection (b). 14
(e) C
LARIFICATIONREGARDINGCLEMENCYAU-15
THORITY.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Effective upon the admission 17
of the State into the Union, the authority to grant 18
clemency for offenses against the District of Colum-19
bia or the State shall be exercised by such person or 20
persons, and under such terms and conditions, as 21
provided by the State Constitution and the laws of 22
the State, without regard to whether the prosecution 23
for the offense was conducted by the District of Co-24
lumbia, the State, or the United States. 25
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(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 1
‘‘clemency’’ means a pardon, reprieve, or commuta-2
tion of sentence, or a remission of a fine or other 3
financial penalty. 4
SEC. 313. SERVICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHALS. 5
(a) P
ROVISION OF SERVICES FOR COURTS OF 6
S
TATE.—The United States Marshals Service shall pro-7
vide services with respect to the courts and court system 8
of the State in the same manner and to the same extent 9
as the Service provided services with respect to the courts 10
and court system of the District of Columbia as of the 11
day before the date of the admission of the State into the 12
Union, except that the President shall not appoint a 13
United States Marshal under section 561 of title 28, 14
United States Code, for any court of the State. 15
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The obligation of the United 16
States Marshals Service to provide services under this sec-17
tion shall terminate upon written certification by the State 18
to the President that the State has appointed personnel 19
of the State to provide such services. 20
SEC. 314. DESIGNATION OF FELONS TO FACILITIES OF BU-21
REAU OF PRISONS. 22
(a) C
ONTINUATION OFDESIGNATION.—Chapter 1 of 23
subtitle C of title XI of the National Capital Revitalization 24
and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 (sec. 24– 25
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101 et seq., D.C. Official Code) and the amendments 1
made by such chapter— 2
(1) shall continue to apply with respect to indi-3
viduals convicted of offenses under the laws of the 4
District of Columbia prior to the date of the admis-5
sion of the State into the Union; and 6
(2) shall apply with respect to individuals con-7
victed of offenses under the laws of the State after 8
the date of the admission of the State into the 9
Union in the same manner and to the same extent 10
as such chapter and amendments applied with re-11
spect to individuals convicted of offenses under the 12
laws of the District of Columbia prior to the date of 13
the admission of the State into the Union. 14
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section 15
shall terminate upon written certification by the State to 16
the President that the State has in effect laws for the 17
housing of individuals described in subsection (a) in cor-18
rectional facilities. 19
SEC. 315. PAROLE AND SUPERVISION. 20
(a) U
NITEDSTATESPAROLECOMMISSION.— 21
(1) P
AROLE.—The United States Parole Com-22
mission— 23
(A) shall continue to exercise the authority 24
to grant, deny, and revoke parole, and to im-25
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pose conditions upon an order of parole, in the 1
case of any individual who is an imprisoned 2
felon who is eligible for parole or reparole under 3
the laws of the District of Columbia as of the 4
day before the date of the admission of the 5
State into the Union, as provided under section 6
11231 of the National Capital Revitalization 7
and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 8
(sec. 24–131, D.C. Official Code); and 9
(B) shall exercise the authority to grant, 10
deny, and revoke parole, and to impose condi-11
tions upon an order of parole, in the case of 12
any individual who is an imprisoned felon who 13
is eligible for parole or reparole under the laws 14
of the State in the same manner and to the 15
same extent as the Commission exercised in the 16
case of any individual described in subpara-17
graph (A). 18
(2) S
UPERVISION OF RELEASED OFFENDERS .— 19
The United States Parole Commission— 20
(A) shall continue to exercise the authority 21
over individuals who are released offenders of 22
the District of Columbia as of the day before 23
the date of the admission of the State into the 24
Union, as provided under section 11233(c)(2) 25
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of the National Capital Revitalization and Self- 1
Government Improvement Act of 1997 (sec. 2
24–133(c)(2), D.C. Official Code); and 3
(B) shall exercise authority over individ-4
uals who are released offenders of the State in 5
the same manner and to the same extent as the 6
Commission exercised authority over individuals 7
described in subparagraph (A). 8
(3) C
ONTINUATION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS FOR 9
EMPLOYEES.— 10
(A) C
ONTINUATION.—Any individual who 11
is an employee of the United States Parole 12
Commission as of the later of the day before 13
the date described in subparagraph (A) of para-14
graph (4) or the day before the date described 15
in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (4) and who, 16
on or after such date, is an employee of the of-17
fice of the State which exercises the authority 18
described in either such subparagraph, shall 19
continue to be treated as an employee of the 20
Federal Government for purposes of receiving 21
benefits under any chapter of subpart G of part 22
III of title 5, United States Code, notwith-23
standing the termination of the provisions of 24
this subsection under paragraph (4). 25
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(B) RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -1
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the later of the date 2
described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (4) 3
or the date described in subparagraph (B) of 4
paragraph (4), the State shall be treated as the 5
employing agency with respect to the benefits 6
described in subparagraph (A) which are pro-7
vided to an individual who, for purposes of re-8
ceiving such benefits, is continued to be treated 9
as an employee of the Federal Government 10
under such subparagraph. 11
(4) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this sub-12
section shall terminate— 13
(A) in the case of paragraph (1), on the 14
date on which the State provides written certifi-15
cation to the President that the State has in ef-16
fect laws providing for the State to exercise the 17
authority to grant, deny, and revoke parole, and 18
to impose conditions upon an order of parole, in 19
the case of any individual who is an imprisoned 20
felon who is eligible for parole or reparole under 21
the laws of the State; and 22
(B) in the case of paragraph (2), on the 23
date on which the State provides written certifi-24
cation to the President that the State has in ef-25
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fect laws providing for the State to exercise au-1
thority over individuals who are released offend-2
ers of the State. 3
(b) C
OURTSERVICES ANDOFFENDERSUPERVISION 4
A
GENCY.— 5
(1) R
ENAMING.—Effective upon the date of the 6
admission of the State into the Union— 7
(A) the Court Services and Offender Su-8
pervision Agency for the District of Columbia 9
shall be known and designated as the Court 10
Services and Offender Supervision Agency for 11
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, and any 12
reference in any law, rule, or regulation to the 13
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agen-14
cy for the District of Columbia shall be deemed 15
to refer to the Court Services and Offender Su-16
pervision Agency for Washington, Douglass 17
Commonwealth; and 18
(B) the District of Columbia Pretrial Serv-19
ices Agency shall be known and designated as 20
the Washington, Douglass Commonwealth Pre-21
trial Services Agency, and any reference in any 22
law, rule or regulation to the District of Colum-23
bia Pretrial Services Agency shall be deemed to 24
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refer to the Washington, Douglass Common-1
wealth Pretrial Services Agency. 2
(2) I
N GENERAL.—The Court Services and Of-3
fender Supervision Agency for Washington, Doug-4
lass Commonwealth, including the Washington, 5
Douglass Commonwealth Pretrial Services Agency 6
(as renamed under paragraph (1))— 7
(A) shall continue to provide pretrial serv-8
ices with respect to individuals who are charged 9
with an offense in the District of Columbia, 10
provide supervision for individuals who are of-11
fenders on probation, parole, and supervised re-12
lease pursuant to the laws of the District of Co-13
lumbia, and carry out sex offender registration 14
functions with respect to individuals who are 15
sex offenders in the District of Columbia, as of 16
the day before the date of the admission of the 17
State into the Union, as provided under section 18
11233 of the National Capital Revitalization 19
and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 20
(sec. 24–133, D.C. Official Code); and 21
(B) shall provide pretrial services with re-22
spect to individuals who are charged with an of-23
fense in the State, provide supervision for of-24
fenders on probation, parole, and supervised re-25
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lease pursuant to the laws of the State, and 1
carry out sex offender registration functions in 2
the State, in the same manner and to the same 3
extent as the Agency provided such services and 4
supervision and carried out such functions for 5
individuals described in subparagraph (A). 6
(3) C
ONTINUATION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS FOR 7
EMPLOYEES.— 8
(A) C
ONTINUATION.—Any individual who 9
is an employee of the Court Services and Of-10
fender Supervision Agency for Washington, 11
Douglass Commonwealth as of the day before 12
the date described in paragraph (4), and who, 13
on or after such date, is an employee of the of-14
fice of the State which provides the services and 15
carries out the functions described in paragraph 16
(4), shall continue to be treated as an employee 17
of the Federal Government for purposes of re-18
ceiving benefits under any chapter of subpart G 19
of part III of title 5, United States Code, not-20
withstanding the termination of the provisions 21
of paragraph (2) under paragraph (4). 22
(B) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -23
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described 24
in paragraph (4), the State shall be treated as 25
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the employing agency with respect to the bene-1
fits described in subparagraph (A) which are 2
provided to an individual who, for purposes of 3
receiving such benefits, is continued to be treat-4
ed as an employee of the Federal Government 5
under such subparagraph. 6
(4) T
ERMINATION.—Paragraph (2) shall termi-7
nate on the date on which the State provides written 8
certification to the President that the State has in 9
effect laws providing for the State to provide pretrial 10
services, supervise offenders on probation, parole, 11
and supervised release, and carry out sex offender 12
registration functions in the State. 13
SEC. 316. COURTS. 14
(a) C
ONTINUATION OFOPERATIONS.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-16
graphs (2) and (3) and subsection (b), title 11, Dis-17
trict of Columbia Official Code, as in effect on the 18
day before the date of the admission of the State 19
into the Union, shall apply with respect to the State 20
and the courts and court system of the State after 21
the date of the admission of the State into the 22
Union in the same manner and to the same extent 23
as such title applied with respect to the District of 24
Columbia and the courts and court system of the 25
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District of Columbia as of the day before the date 1
of the admission of the State into the Union. 2
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -3
TRIBUTION.—For purposes of paragraph (2) of sec-4
tion 11–1726(b) and paragraph (2) of section 11– 5
1726(c), District of Columbia Official Code, the 6
Federal Government shall be treated as the employ-7
ing agency with respect to the benefits provided 8
under such section to an individual who is an em-9
ployee of the courts and court system of the State 10
and who, pursuant to either such paragraph, is 11
treated as an employee of the Federal Government 12
for purposes of receiving benefits under any chapter 13
of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States 14
Code. 15
(3) O
THER EXCEPTIONS.— 16
(A) S
ELECTION OF JUDGES .—Effective 17
upon the date of the admission of the State into 18
the Union, the State shall select judges for any 19
vacancy on the courts of the State. 20
(B) R
ENAMING OF COURTS AND OTHER 21
OFFICES.—Effective upon the date of the ad-22
mission of the State into the Union, the State 23
may rename any of its courts and any of the 24
other offices of its court system. 25
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(C) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing 1
in this paragraph shall be construed— 2
(i) to affect the service of any judge 3
serving on a court of the District of Co-4
lumbia on the day before the date of the 5
admission of the State into the Union, or 6
to require the State to select such a judge 7
for a vacancy on a court of the State; or 8
(ii) to waive any of the requirements 9
of chapter 15 of title 11, District of Co-10
lumbia Official Code (other than section 11
11–1501(a) of such Code), including sub-12
chapter II of such chapter (relating to the 13
District of Columbia Commission on Judi-14
cial Disabilities and Tenure), with respect 15
to the appointment and service of judges of 16
the courts of the State. 17
(b) C
ONTINUATION OFFEDERALBENEFITS FOREM-18
PLOYEES.— 19
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Any individual who is an 20
employee of the courts or court system of the State 21
as of the day before the date described in subsection 22
(e) and who, pursuant to section 11–1726(b) or sec-23
tion 11–1726(c), District of Columbia Official Code, 24
is treated as an employee of the Federal Government 25
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for purposes of receiving benefits under any chapter 1
of subpart G of part III of title 5, United States 2
Code, shall continue to be treated as an employee of 3
the Federal Government for such purposes, notwith-4
standing the termination of the provisions of this 5
section under subsection (e). 6
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER CON -7
TRIBUTION.—Beginning on the date described in 8
subsection (e), the State shall be treated as the em-9
ploying agency with respect to the benefits described 10
in paragraph (1) which are provided to an individual 11
who, for purposes of receiving such benefits, is con-12
tinued to be treated as an employee of the Federal 13
Government under such paragraph. 14
(c) C
ONTINUATION OFFUNDING.—Section 11241 of 15
the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government 16
Improvement Act of 1997 (section 11–1743 note, District 17
of Columbia Official Code) shall apply with respect to the 18
State and the courts and court system of the State after 19
the date of the admission of the State into the Union in 20
the same manner and to the same extent as such section 21
applied with respect to the Joint Committee on Judicial 22
Administration in the District of Columbia and the courts 23
and court system of the District of Columbia as of the 24
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day before the date of the admission of the State into the 1
Union. 2
(d) T
REATMENT OFCOURTRECEIPTS.— 3
(1) D
EPOSIT OF RECEIPTS INTO TREASURY .— 4
Except as provided in paragraph (2), all money re-5
ceived by the courts and court system of the State 6
shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United 7
States. 8
(2) C
RIME VICTIMS COMPENSATION FUND .— 9
Section 16 of the Victims of Violent Crime Com-10
pensation Act of 1996 (sec. 4–515, D.C. Official 11
Code), relating to the Crime Victims Compensation 12
Fund, shall apply with respect to the courts and 13
court system of the State in the same manner and 14
to the same extent as such section applied to the 15
courts and court system of the District of Columbia 16
as of the day before the date of the admission of the 17
State into the Union. 18
(e) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section, 19
other than paragraph (3) of subsection (a) and except as 20
provided under subsection (b), shall terminate on the date 21
on which the State provides written certification to the 22
President that the State has in effect laws requiring the 23
State to appropriate and make available funds for the op-24
eration of the courts and court system of the State. 25
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Subtitle C—Other Programs and 1
Authorities 2
SEC. 321. APPLICATION OF THE COLLEGE ACCESS ACT. 3
(a) C
ONTINUATION.—The District of Columbia Col-4
lege Access Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–98; sec. 38– 5
2701 et seq., D.C. Official Code) shall apply with respect 6
to the State, and to the public institution of higher edu-7
cation designated by the State as the successor to the Uni-8
versity of the District of Columbia, after the date of the 9
admission of the State into the Union in the same manner 10
and to the same extent as such Act applied with respect 11
to the District of Columbia and the University of the Dis-12
trict of Columbia as of the day before the date of the ad-13
mission of the State into the Union. 14
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section, 15
other than with respect to the public institution of higher 16
education designated by the State as the successor to the 17
University of the District of Columbia, shall terminate 18
upon written certification by the State to the President 19
that the State has in effect laws requiring the State to 20
provide tuition assistance substantially similar to the as-21
sistance provided under the District of Columbia College 22
Access Act of 1999. 23
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SEC. 322. APPLICATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR OP-1
PORTUNITY AND RESULTS ACT. 2
(a) C
ONTINUATION.—The Scholarships for Oppor-3
tunity and Results Act (division C of Public Law 112– 4
10; sec. 38–1853.01 et seq., D.C. Official Code) shall 5
apply with respect to the State after the date of the admis-6
sion of the State into the Union in the same manner and 7
to the same extent as such Act applied with respect to 8
the District of Columbia as of the day before the date of 9
the admission of the State into the Union. 10
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The provisions of this section 11
shall terminate upon written certification by the State to 12
the President that the State has in effect laws requiring 13
the State— 14
(1) to provide tuition assistance substantially 15
similar to the assistance provided under the Scholar-16
ships for Opportunity and Results Act; and 17
(2) to provide supplemental funds to the public 18
schools and public charter schools of the State in the 19
amounts provided in the most recent fiscal year for 20
public schools and public charter schools of the State 21
or the District of Columbia (as the case may be) 22
under such Act. 23
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SEC. 323. MEDICAID FEDERAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PER-1
CENTAGE. 2
(a) C
ONTINUATION.—Notwithstanding section 3
1905(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(b)), 4
during the period beginning on the date of the admission 5
of the State into the Union and ending on September 30 6
of the fiscal year during which the State submits the cer-7
tification described in subsection (b), the Federal medical 8
assistance percentage for the State under title XIX of 9
such Act shall be the Federal medical assistance percent-10
age for the District of Columbia under such title as of 11
the day before the date of the admission of the State into 12
the Union. 13
(b) T
ERMINATION.—The certification described in 14
this subsection is a written certification by the State to 15
the President that, during each of the first 5 fiscal years 16
beginning after the date of the certification, the estimated 17
revenues of the State will be sufficient to cover any reduc-18
tion in revenues which may result from the termination 19
of the provisions of this section. 20
SEC. 324. FEDERAL PLANNING COMMISSIONS. 21
(a) N
ATIONALCAPITALPLANNINGCOMMISSION.— 22
(1) C
ONTINUING APPLICATION .—Subject to the 23
amendments made by paragraphs (2) and (3), upon 24
the admission of the State into the Union, chapter 25
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87 of title 40, United States Code, shall apply as 1
follows: 2
(A) Such chapter shall apply with respect 3
to the Capital in the same manner and to the 4
same extent as such chapter applied with re-5
spect to the District of Columbia as of the day 6
before the date of the admission of the State 7
into the Union. 8
(B) Such chapter shall apply with respect 9
to the State in the same manner and to the 10
same extent as such chapter applied with re-11
spect to the State of Maryland and the Com-12
monwealth of Virginia as of the day before the 13
date of the admission of the State into the 14
Union. 15
(2) C
OMPOSITION OF NATIONAL CAPITAL PLAN -16
NING COMMISSION.—Section 8711(b) of title 40, 17
United States Code, is amended— 18
(A) by amending subparagraph (B) of 19
paragraph (1) to read as follows: 20
‘‘(B) four citizens with experience in city 21
or regional planning, who shall be appointed by 22
the President.’’; and 23
(B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as 24
follows: 25
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‘‘(2) RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT .—Of the four 1
citizen members, one shall be a resident of Virginia, 2
one shall be a resident of Maryland, and one shall 3
be a resident of Washington, Douglass Common-4
wealth.’’. 5
(3) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO DEFINI -6
TIONS OF TERMS.— 7
(A) E
NVIRONS.—Paragraph (1) of section 8
8702 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 9
territory surrounding the District of Columbia’’ 10
and inserting ‘‘the territory surrounding the 11
National Capital’’. 12
(B) N
ATIONAL CAPITAL.—Paragraph (2) 13
of section 8702 of such title is amended to read 14
as follows: 15
‘‘(2) N
ATIONAL CAPITAL.—The term ‘National 16
Capital’ means the area serving as the seat of the 17
Government of the United States, as described in 18
section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, 19
and the territory the Federal Government owns in 20
the environs.’’. 21
(C) N
ATIONAL CAPITAL REGION .—Sub-22
paragraph (A) of paragraph (3) of section 8702 23
of such title is amended to read as follows: 24
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‘‘(A) the National Capital and the State of 1
Washington, Douglass Commonwealth;’’. 2
(b) C
OMMISSION OFFINEARTS.— 3
(1) L
IMITING APPLICATION TO THE CAPITAL .— 4
Section 9102(a)(1) of title 40, United States Code, 5
is amended by striking ‘‘the District of Columbia’’ 6
and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 7
(2) D
EFINITION.—Section 9102 of such title is 8
amended by adding at the end the following new 9
subsection: 10
‘‘(d) D
EFINITION.—In this chapter, the term ‘Cap-11
ital’ means the area serving as the seat of the Government 12
of the United States, as described in section 112 of the 13
Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 14
(3) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENT .—Section 15
9101(d) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 16
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital’’. 17
(c) C
OMMEMORATIVE WORKSACT.— 18
(1) L
IMITING APPLICATION TO CAPITAL .—Sec-19
tion 8902 of title 40, United States Code, is amend-20
ed by adding at the end the following new sub-21
section: 22
‘‘(c) L
IMITINGAPPLICATION TO CAPITAL.—This 23
chapter applies only with respect to commemorative works 24
in the Capital and its environs.’’. 25
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(2) DEFINITION.—Paragraph (2) of section 1
8902(a) of such title is amended to read as follows: 2
‘‘(2) C
APITAL AND ITS ENVIRONS .—The term 3
‘Capital and its environs’ means— 4
‘‘(A) the area serving as the seat of the 5
Government of the United States, as described 6
in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. Admis-7
sion Act; and 8
‘‘(B) those lands and properties adminis-9
tered by the National Park Service and the 10
General Services Administration located in the 11
Reserve, Area I, and Area II as depicted on the 12
map entitled ‘Commemorative Areas Wash-13
ington, DC and Environs’, numbered 869/ 14
86501 B, and dated June 24, 2003, that are lo-15
cated outside of the State of Washington, 16
Douglass Commonwealth.’’. 17
(3) T
EMPORARY SITE DESIGNATION .—Section 18
8907(a) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 19
District of Columbia’’ and inserting ‘‘the Capital 20
and its environs’’. 21
(4) G
ENERAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 22
Chapter 89 of such title is amended by striking ‘‘the 23
District of Columbia and its environs’’ each place it 24
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appears in the following sections and inserting ‘‘the 1
Capital and its environs’’: 2
(A) Section 8901(2) and 8901(4). 3
(B) Section 8902(a)(4). 4
(C) Section 8903(d). 5
(D) Section 8904(c). 6
(E) Section 8905(a). 7
(F) Section 8906(a). 8
(G) Section 8909(a) and 8909(b). 9
(5) A
DDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENT .— 10
Section 8901(2) of such title is amended by striking 11
‘‘the urban fabric of the District of Columbia’’ and 12
inserting ‘‘the urban fabric of the area serving as 13
the seat of the Government of the United States, as 14
described in section 112 of the Washington, D.C. 15
Admission Act’’. 16
(d) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section and the amend-17
ments made by this section shall take effect on the date 18
of the admission of the State into the Union. 19
SEC. 325. ROLE OF ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS IN SUP-20
PLYING WATER. 21
(a) C
ONTINUATION OF ROLE.—Chapter 95 of title 22
40, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 23
the following new section: 24
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‘‘§ 9508. Applicability to Capital and State of Wash-1
ington, Douglass Commonwealth 2
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—Effective upon the admission of 3
the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth into 4
the Union, any reference in this chapter to the District 5
of Columbia shall be deemed to refer to the Capital or 6
the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, as the 7
case may be. 8
‘‘(b) D
EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘Capital’ 9
means the area serving as the seat of the Government of 10
the United States, as described in section 112 of the 11
Washington, D.C. Admission Act.’’. 12
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 13
of chapter 95 of such title is amended by adding at the 14
end the following: 15
‘‘9508. Applicability to Capital and State of Washington, Douglass Common-
wealth.’’. 
SEC. 326. REQUIREMENTS TO BE LOCATED IN DISTRICT OF 
16
COLUMBIA. 17
The location of any person in the Capital or Wash-18
ington, Douglass Commonwealth on the day after the date 19
of the admission of the State into the Union shall be 20
deemed to satisfy any requirement under any law in effect 21
as of the day before the date of the admission of the State 22
into the Union that the person be located in the District 23
of Columbia, including the requirements of section 72 of 24
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title 4, United States Code (relating to offices of the seat 1
of the Government of the United States), and title 36, 2
United States Code (relating to patriotic and national or-3
ganizations). 4
TITLE IV—GENERAL 5
PROVISIONS 6
SEC. 401. GENERAL DEFINITIONS. 7
In this Act, the following definitions shall apply: 8
(1) The term ‘‘Capital’’ means the area serving 9
as the seat of the Government of the United States, 10
as described in section 112. 11
(2) The term ‘‘Council’’ means the Council of 12
the District of Columbia. 13
(3) The term ‘‘Mayor’’ means the Mayor of the 14
District of Columbia. 15
(4) Except as otherwise provided, the term 16
‘‘State’’ means the State of Washington, Douglass 17
Commonwealth. 18
(5) The term ‘‘State Constitution’’ means the 19
proposed Constitution of the State of Washington, 20
D.C., as approved by the Council on October 18, 21
2016, pursuant to the Constitution and Boundaries 22
for the State of Washington, D.C. Approval Resolu-23
tion of 2016 (D.C. Resolution R21–621), ratified by 24
District of Columbia voters in Advisory Referendum 25
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B approved on November 8, 2016, and certified by 1
the District of Columbia Board of Elections on No-2
vember 18, 2016. 3
SEC. 402. STATEHOOD TRANSITION COMMISSION. 4
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established the 5
Statehood Transition Commission (hereafter in this sec-6
tion referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’). 7
(b) C
OMPOSITION.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall be 9
composed of 18 members as follows: 10
(A) Three members appointed by the 11
President. 12
(B) Two members appointed by the Speak-13
er of the House of Representatives. 14
(C) Two members appointed by the Minor-15
ity Leader of the House of Representatives. 16
(D) Two members appointed by the Major-17
ity Leader of the Senate. 18
(E) Two members appointed by the Minor-19
ity Leader of the Senate. 20
(F) Three members appointed by the 21
Mayor. 22
(G) Three members appointed by the 23
Council. 24
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(H) The Chief Financial Officer of the 1
District of Columbia. 2
(2) A
PPOINTMENT DATE.— 3
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The appointments of 4
the members of the Commission shall be made 5
not later than 90 days after the date of the en-6
actment of this Act. 7
(B) E
FFECT OF LACK OF APPOINTMENT 8
BY APPOINTMENT DATE .—If one or more ap-9
pointments under any of the subparagraphs of 10
paragraph (1) is not made by the appointment 11
date specified in subparagraph (A), the author-12
ity to make such appointment or appointments 13
shall expire, and the number of members of the 14
Commission shall be reduced by the number 15
equal to the number of appointments so not 16
made. 17
(3) T
ERM OF SERVICE.—Each member shall be 18
appointed for the life of the Commission. 19
(4) V
ACANCY.—A vacancy in the Commission 20
shall be filled in the manner in which the original 21
appointment was made. 22
(5) N
O COMPENSATION.—Members shall serve 23
without pay, but shall receive travel expenses, in-24
cluding per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accord-25
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ance with applicable provisions under subchapter I 1
of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code. 2
(6) C
HAIR AND VICE CHAIR .—The Chair and 3
Vice Chair of the Commission shall be elected by the 4
members of the Commission— 5
(A) with respect to the Chair, from among 6
the members described in subparagraphs (A) 7
through (E) of paragraph (1); and 8
(B) with respect to the Vice Chair, from 9
among the members described in subparagraphs 10
(F) and (G) of paragraph (1). 11
(c) S
TAFF.— 12
(1) D
IRECTOR.—The Commission shall have a 13
Director, who shall be appointed by the Chair. 14
(2) O
THER STAFF.—The Director may appoint 15
and fix the pay of such additional personnel as the 16
Director considers appropriate. 17
(3) N
ON-APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN CIVIL 18
SERVICE LAWS.—The Director and staff of the Com-19
mission may be appointed without regard to the pro-20
visions of title 5, United States Code, governing ap-21
pointments in the competitive service, and may be 22
paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 23
and subchapter III of chapter 53 of that title relat-24
ing to classification and General Schedule pay rates, 25
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except that an individual so appointed may not re-1
ceive pay in excess of the rate payable for level V 2
of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 3
such title. 4
(4) E
XPERTS AND CONSULTANTS .—The Com-5
mission may procure temporary and intermittent 6
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United 7
States Code, at rates for individuals not to exceed 8
the daily equivalent of the rate payable for level V 9
of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 10
such title. 11
(d) D
UTIES.—The Commission shall advise the Presi-12
dent, Congress, the Mayor (or, upon the admission of the 13
State into the Union, the chief executive officer of the 14
State), and the Council (or, upon the admission of the 15
State into the Union, the legislature of the State) con-16
cerning an orderly transition to statehood for the District 17
of Columbia or the State (as the case may be) and to a 18
reduced geographical size of the seat of the Government 19
of the United States, including with respect to property, 20
funding, programs, projects, and activities. 21
(e) P
OWERS.— 22
(1) H
EARINGS AND SESSIONS .—The Commis-23
sion may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, 24
hold hearings, sit and act at times and places, take 25
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testimony, and receive evidence as the Commission 1
considers appropriate. 2
(2) O
BTAINING OFFICIAL DATA.—The Commis-3
sion may secure directly from any department or 4
agency of the United States information necessary 5
to enable it to carry out this Act. Upon request of 6
the Chair of the Commission, the head of that de-7
partment or agency shall furnish that information to 8
the Commission. 9
(3) M
AILS.—The Commission may use the 10
United States mails in the same manner and under 11
the same conditions as other departments and agen-12
cies of the United States. 13
(4) A
DMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES .— 14
Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-15
trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-16
mission the administrative support services nec-17
essary for the Commission to carry out its respon-18
sibilities under this Act. 19
(f) M
EETINGS.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commission shall meet 21
at the call of the Chair. 22
(2) I
NITIAL MEETING.—The Commission shall 23
hold its first meeting not later than the earlier of— 24
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(A) 30 days after the date on which all 1
members of the Commission have been ap-2
pointed; or 3
(B) if the number of members of the Com-4
mission is reduced under subsection (b)(2)(B), 5
90 days after the date of the enactment of this 6
Act. 7
(3) Q
UORUM.—A majority of the members of 8
the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a 9
lesser number of members may hold hearings. 10
(g) R
EPORTS.—The Commission shall submit such 11
reports as the Commission considers appropriate or as 12
may be requested by the President, Congress, or the Dis-13
trict of Columbia (or, upon the admission of the State into 14
the Union, the State). 15
(h) T
ERMINATION.—The Commission shall cease to 16
exist 2 years after the date of the admission of the State 17
into the Union. 18
SEC. 403. CERTIFICATION OF ENACTMENT BY PRESIDENT. 19
Not more than 60 days after the date of the enact-20
ment of this Act, the President shall provide written cer-21
tification of such enactment to the Mayor. 22
SEC. 404. SEVERABILITY. 23
Except as provided in section 101(c), if any provision 24
of this Act or amendment made by this Act, or the applica-25
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tion thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be 1
invalid, the remaining provisions of this Act and any 2
amendments made by this Act shall not be affected by the 3
holding. 4
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