HR 2096referred119th Congress

Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act

Introduced Mar 14, 2025House billPolicy area: Crime and Law EnforcementLast action Jun 11, 2025Sponsor: Andrew R. Garbarino(R-NY)

legalCrime and Law Enforcement

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeOversight and Government Reform Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Jun 11, 2025

What the bill does

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.

Latest official action

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$980.0K

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Mar 14, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 15, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by DC POLICE UNION

Apr 24, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

Jun 10, 2025vote

Suzanne Bonamici voted nay

Jun 10, 2025vote

Joyce Beatty voted not_voting

Jun 10, 2025vote

Andy Barr voted yea

Official Congressional Actions

Jun 11, 2025IntroReferral

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

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Jun 10, 2025Floor

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

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Jun 10, 2025Floor

POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 2096, the Chair put the question on passage of the bill and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Comer demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.

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Jun 10, 2025Floor

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 178, 1 Present (Roll no. 162). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H2589-2590)

Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION	AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION	$640.0K	Jul 18, 2025	2025Q2	CIV
NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE	NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE	$100.0K	Aug 11, 2025	2025Q2	LAWRETTAX
NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE	NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
Suzanne Bonamici	D	nay	Jun 10, 2025
Joyce Beatty	D	not_voting	Jun 10, 2025
Andy Barr	R	yea	Jun 10, 2025
Julia Brownley	D	nay	Jun 10, 2025

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.