District of Columbia Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation Emergency Amendment Act of 2000
DC Act 13-454

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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