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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1205
To provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to the State
of Maryland, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 3, 1993
Mr. REGULA introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on the Judiciary and the District of Columbia
A BILL
To provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia
to the State of Maryland, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia
Retrocession Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. RETROCESSION OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO
MARYLAND.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Upon the issuance of a proclama-
tion by the President under section 7 and except as pro-
vided in subsection (b), the territory ceded to Congress
by the State of Maryland to serve as the District constitut-
ing the permanent seat of the Government of the United
States is ceded and relinquished to the State of Maryland.
(b) CONTINUATION OF FEDERAL CONTROL OVER
NATIONAL CAPITAL SERVICE AREA.—Notwithstanding
subsection (a), Congress shall continue to exercise exclu-
sive legislative authority and control over the District of
Columbia, which shall consist of the National Capital
Service Area described in section 4.
SEC. 3. EFFECT ON JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA.
(a) CONTINUATION OF SUITS.—No writ, action, in-
dictment, cause, or proceeding pending in any court of the
District of Columbia on the effective date of this Act shall
abate as a result of the enactment of this Act, but shall
be transferred and shall proceed within such appropriate
court of the State of Maryland as established under the
laws or constitution of the State of Maryland.
(b) APPEALS.—An order or decision of any court of
the District of Columbia for which no appeal has been filed
as of the effective date of this Act shall be considered an
order or decision of a court of the State of Maryland for
purposes of appeal from and appellate review of such order
or decision in an appropriate court of the State of Mary-
land.
SEC. 4. NATIONAL CAPITAL SERVICE AREA.
(a) DESCRIPTION.—The National Capital Service
Area referred to in section 2(b) is comprised of the prin-
cipal Federal monuments, the White House, the Capitol
Building, the United States Supreme Court Building, and
the Federal executive, legislative, and judicial office build-
ings located adjacent to the Mall and the Capitol Building
(but shall not include the District Building), and is more
particularly described as the territory located within the
following boundaries:
Beginning at the point on the present Virginia-
District of Columbia boundary due west of the
northernmost point of Theodore Roosevelt Island
and running due east of the eastern shore of the Po-
tomac River;
thence generally south along the shore at the
mean high water mark to the northwest corner of
the Kennedy Center;
thence east along the north side of the Kennedy
Center to a point where it reaches the E Street
Expressway;
thence east on the expressway to E Street
Northwest and thence east on E Street Northwest to
Nineteenth Street Northwest;
thence north on Nineteenth Street Northwest to
F Street Northwest;