Please see attached the filed versions of the organizational meeting resolutions.

 

With respect to the rules, the following substantive revisions have been made from what I circulated last Wednesday:

 

• An orphan reference to the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability is struck from Rule 234 because the agency is moved to Rule 233.
• The Kennedy Street St NE Development and Small Business Revitalization Advisory Committee is struck from Rule 232 because the committee was sunset in 2022.
• Department of Buildings is under the joint jurisdiction of the Committee of the Whole and Committee on Facilities and Family Services (Rule 234) for oversight purposes only.
• Rules 282 and 401(b)(3) are clarified to allow filing in electronic or hard copy.
• Rule 372 is clarified to indicate that Council meetings are deemed open if the meeting is virtual and the public or news media are invited to attend.
• Rule 430(a)(2) is added to require that during the last two months of a Council Period, a committee markup containing more than three bills must be publicly noticed at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting, and drafts of the bills must also be circulated.
• Rule 504(c) is added to require the Secretary to develop an electronic hearing and roundtable signup template for committees to use to register public witnesses.
• Rule 802(b) is reverted to the Council Period 24 requirements for cosponsorship requests.
• Rule 803 is clarified to require a committee’s response to a Racial Equity Impact Analysis in a committee report.

 

With respect to Committee Assignments, two Councilmembers are proposed to switch committees between the Committee on Health and the Committee on Hospital and Health Equity.