District of Columbia Home Rule Improvement Act of 2026

This bill would change how Congress reviews laws passed by the District of Columbia. It would set a single 60-day review period for all D.C. laws, replacing the current 30-day period and the separate 60-day period for criminal laws, and would let Congress disapprove individual provisions of a D.C. law instead of only the whole law. It would require the Mayor to send D.C. executive orders and regulations to Congress, where they would wait 60 days before taking effect and could be disapproved. It would bar the D.C. Council from withdrawing a law once sent to Congress or from sending a law substantially the same as one Congress disapproved, unless a later federal law allows it. It would also require the Council Chair and Mayor to present a yearly report on the state of the District at Senate and House committee hearings.

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Sponsors

• Rick Scott Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors