PR 23-0472 — Wells School Designation and Master Facilities Plan Disapproval Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2019

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66 DCR _____) (“Permanent Act”), which has not yet been transmitted to Congress for the mandatory 30-day review period.

(c) The Emergency Act will expire on October 28, 2019, prior to the Permanent Act becoming law.

Therefore, a congressional review emergency act is necessary to prevent a gap in the law.

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3.

The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Wells School Designation and Master Facilities Plan Disapproval Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2019 be adopted after a single reading.

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This resolution shall take effectimmediately.effect immediately.