{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-2096","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 2096","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To restore the right to negotiate matters pertaining to the discipline of law enforcement officers of the District of Columbia through collective bargaining, to restore the statute of limitations for bringing disciplinary cases against members or civilian employees of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To restore the right to negotiate matters pertaining to the discipline of law enforcement officers of the District of Columbia through collective bargaining, to restore the statute of limitations for bringing disciplinary cases against members or civilian employees of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To restore the right to negotiate matters pertaining to the discipline of law enforcement officers of the District of Columbia through collective bargaining, to restore the statute of limitations for bringing disciplinary cases against members or civilian employees of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act of 2025"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-03-14","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-06-10","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h162","question":"On Passage","title":"Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act","result":"Passed","yea":235,"nay":178,"present":1,"not_voting":18,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll162.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","date":"2025-06-11"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-03-14","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Protecting Our Nation's Capital Emergency Act of 2025"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill rescinds certain changes that were made in 2023 to District of Columbia (DC) law governing discipline of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers."},{"k":"p","t":"First, the bill reinstates a 90-day statute of limitations (i.e., time limit) for initiating a corrective or adverse action against any MPD officer or civilian employee. The bill also allows officer disciplinary matters to be negotiated as part of a collective bargaining agreement."},{"k":"p","t":"Next, the bill eliminates the MPD police chief's authority to increase the police trial board's recommended penalty for officer misconduct."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the bill eliminates a requirement that MPD publish a schedule online of disciplinary hearings for which the proposed action is termination, including the date, time, and underlying allegations."}],"words":124},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Repeals parts of a 2022 District of Columbia law on police discipline, by removing a subsection of the D.C. merit personnel law and repealing a subtitle of that 2022 law, so that the provisions it changed are restored.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text/eh#HB190CBFE5E794BCFB0A787276A166080"}]},"core_areas":["Collective bargaining over discipline of District of Columbia law enforcement officers","Time limits for disciplinary cases against Metropolitan Police Department employees"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Amends Section 1708 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 by striking subsection (c), which had been added by section 116(b) of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text/eh#HB190CBFE5E794BCFB0A787276A166080"}},{"text":"Repeals Subtitle M of title I of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24–345).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text/eh#HB190CBFE5E794BCFB0A787276A166080"}},{"text":"Restores or revives any provision of law that Subtitle M amended or repealed, as if the subtitle had not been enacted.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text/eh#HB190CBFE5E794BCFB0A787276A166080"}},{"text":"Provides that the Act may be cited as the \"Protecting Our Nation's Capital Emergency Act\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text/eh#H88A804E1EB4B41218C9A76533219C374"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-06-10","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2096/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-2096.png","v":"9d262dd0e62d","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 2096, 119th Congress: Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act. House: 235 Yea, 178 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 10 Jun 2025."}}