PR 23-1017 — Racial Equity Achieves Results (REACH) Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2020

2ENROLLED 4ORIGINAL 6 8 A PROPOSED RESOLUTION 23-591 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA November 10, 2020 To declare the existence of an emergency, with respect to establishingthe need to establish an Office of Racial Equity to coordinate theistrict'sthe District’s efforts to achievingachieve racial equity;equity and to require the Office to establish a Racial Equity Advisory Board to advise it and to serve as a liaison to the public, to establish a Commission on Racial Equity, Social Justice, and Economic Inclusion to advise the Council, to state the sense of the Council that it should include in its rules for Council Period 24 the establishment of a Racial Equity Program;

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toRESOLVED, statingBY theTHE senseCOUNCIL ofOF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the Council“Racial thatEquity itAchieves shouldResults establish(REACH) anEmergency OfficeDeclaration Resolution of Racial2020”. Equity;

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RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolutionay be cited as the "Racial Equity Achieves Results (REACH) Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2020." Sec.

(a) There exists an immediate need to enact the provisions of the Racial Equity Achieves Results (REACH) Amendment Act of 2020, passed on 2nd reading on November 10, (Enrolled version of Bill 23-38) (“REACH Act”), given that funding for the legislation has been appropriated through the Fiscal Year 2021 budget that started on October 1, 2020.

(b) BillThe 22-38,REACH the "Racial Equity Achieves Results (REACH) Amendment Act of2020" is currently under review by the Council.

TheIt measure was adoptedpassed by the Council on first reading on October 20, 2020 and is scheduled for second reading on November 10, 2020.

ENROLLED ORIGINAL (c) To ensure that the positions necessary to support the REACH Act can be created at the Office oftheof the City Administrator and in the Council, it is necessary to enacttheenact newthe lawprovisions of the REACH Act sooner than thethey permanentotherwise measure will become effective.

The Council oftheof the District ofColumbiaof Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances, making it necessary that the Racial Equity Achieves Results (REACH) Emergency Amendment Act of2020of 2020 be adopted after a single reading.