ENROLLED ORIGINAL
AN ACT IN THE COUNCIL
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
D.C. ACT 13-454
To amend, on an emergency basis, the Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation
Act of 1996 to ensure that changes that would eliminate or decrease the services formally
provided by the District of Columbia General Hospital and the components of the Commission
on Public Health at the time of the transfer of management and control of the hospital and
those components to the District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit
Corporation be submitted to the Council for a 45-day period of review; and to amend An Act
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities
chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes to repeal a provision that gives the Mayor
supervision of the D.C. General Hospital to resolve a potential conflict in statutory
authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as
the "District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation Emergency
Amendment Act of 2000".
Sec. 2. The Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation Act of 1996 is amended by
adding a new section 207a to read as follows:
"Sec. 207a. Council approval."
Notwithstanding any other law, any proposed action by the Public Benefit Corporation to
(I) transition D.C. General Hospital from a full-service, acute-care hospital to a
community-access hospital; or (2) remove or terminate the operation of the Level-1 trauma
center currently located at D.C. General Hospital, shall be submitted to the Council for a
45-day period of review, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays, and days of Council
recess. If the Council does not approve or disapprove the proposed action, in whole or in
part, by resolution within this 45-day review period, the proposed action shall be deemed
approved.".
Sec. 3. Section 1 of An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of
Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such
District year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes is amended by striking the
states the following:
"For the following hospital and sanatoria, which, on or after July 1, 1937, shall
be under n and control of the Health Department of the District of Columbia and subject to
the a of the Board of Commissioners:".
Sec. 4. Fiscal impact statement.
This act shall have no fiscal impact because it is only a technical amendment
clarifying the existing law.
Sec. 5. Effective date.
This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by
the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto) and approval by the Financial
Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority as provided in section 203(a) of the
District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995,
approved April 17, 1995 (109 Stat. 116; D.C. Code § 47-392.3(a)), and shall remain in
effect for no longer than 90 days, as provided for emergency acts of the Council of the
District of Columbia in section 412(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved
December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 788; D.C. Code § 1-229(a)).
Linda W. Cropp
Council of the District of Columbia
Anthony A. Williams
Mayor
District of Columbia
APPROVED: October 24, 2000