I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 387 
To assign the responsibility for conducting prosecutions for violations of 
the laws of the District of Columbia to the head of a local prosecutor’s 
office designated under local law of the District of Columbia. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 17, 2023 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To assign the responsibility for conducting prosecutions for 
violations of the laws of the District of Columbia to 
the head of a local prosecutor’s office designated under 
local law of the District of Columbia. 
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 
Prosecutor Home Rule Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. RESPONSIBILITY OF LOCAL PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE 
FOR CONDUCT OF ALL DISTRICT OF COLUM-
BIA PROSECUTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 23–101, D.C. Official 
Code, is amended by striking subsections (a) through (f) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) Prosecutions for violations of all police or munic-
ipal ordinances or regulations of the District of Columbia 
and for violations of all penal statutes of the District of 
Columbia in the nature of police or municipal regulations 
shall be conducted in the name of the District of Columbia 
by the head of the local prosecutor’s office or the assist-
ants of the head of such office, except as may otherwise 
be provided in any such ordinance, regulation, or statute 
of the District of Columbia. 
‘‘(b) In this section, the ‘local prosecutor’s office’ is 
the office designated under local law of the District of Co-
lumbia as the office responsible for conducting prosecu-
tions under this section. 
‘‘(c) Nothing in this section shall affect the authority 
of the Attorney General of the United States or the United 
States Attorney for the District of Columbia to exercise 
jurisdiction concerning violations of the laws of the United 
States.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to violations of Dis-
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trict of Columbia ordinances, regulations, and statutes 
which occur after the expiration of the 1-year period which 
begins on the date on which a local law of the District 
of Columbia which designates the local prosecutor’s office 
for purposes of section 23–101(b), D.C. Official Code (as 
amended by subsection (a)), takes effect. 
(c) RETENTION OF FEDERAL BENEFITS BY CON-
TINUING EMPLOYEES.—With respect to any individual 
who is an employee of the United States Attorney for the 
District of Columbia as of the day before the date de-
scribed in subsection (b) and continues to be employed by 
the local prosecutor’s office designated for purposes of sec-
tion 23–101(b), D.C. Official Code (as amended by sub-
section (a))— 
(1) such individual shall continue to be treated 
as an employee of the Federal Government for pur-
poses of receiving benefits under any chapter of sub-
part G of part III of title 5, United States Code; 
and 
(2) such designated local prosecutor’s office 
shall be treated as the employing agency of the indi-
vidual with respect to such benefits. 
Æ 
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