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This bill would undo parts of a 2022 District of Columbia policing law and bring back two older rules for the Metropolitan Police Department. First, it would let police officers and their union negotiate over discipline issues through collective bargaining again. Second, it would restore the time limit for filing disciplinary cases against MPD officers and certain civilian employees. In simple terms, the bill is aimed at giving police personnel more protection and bringing back prior rules for handling discipline.
- It restores the right of District of Columbia law enforcement officers to bargain over discipline matters in union negotiations.
- It brings back the statute of limitations for discipline cases involving Metropolitan Police Department members and civilian employees.
- It repeals a section of the 2022 District policing law and revives the older rules that had been changed or removed.
Official Summaries
Protecting Our Nation's Capital Emergency Act of 2025
This bill rescinds certain changes that were made in 2023 to District of Columbia (DC) law governing discipline of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers.
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.
Next, the bill eliminates the MPD police chief's authority to increase the police trial board's recommended penalty for officer misconduct.
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.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2096 Referred in Senate (RFS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2096
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 11, 2025
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs
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AN ACT
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Our Nation's Capital
Emergency Act''.
SEC. 2. RESTORATION OF EQUITABLE AND FAIR TREATMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
PERSONNEL OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
(a) Restoration of Right to Negotiate Matters Pertaining to
Discipline of District of Columbia Law Enforcement Officers Through
Collective Bargaining.--Section 1708 of the District of Columbia
Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (sec. 1-617.08,
D.C. Official Code), as amended by section 116(b) of the Comprehensive
Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-345), is
amended by striking subsection (c).
(b) Restoration of Statute of Limitations for Claims Against
Members or Civilian Employees of Metropolitan Police Department.--
Subtitle M of title I of the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform
Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-345) is repealed, and any provision
of law amended or repealed by such sub-
title is restored or revived as if such subtitle had not been enacted
into law.
Passed the House of Representatives June 10, 2025.
Attest:
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
Clerk.