(B) potential revenues lost because of the pres-
ence of the Federal Government within or adjacent
to the State, including Federally-imposed height or
other restrictions on buildings located within the
State and revenues not obtainable because of a lack
of taxable property and business income within the
State; and
(C) potential revenues gained because of the
presence of the Federal Government within or adja-
cent to the State.
(3) At the time the Governor submits the report de-
scribed in paragraph (2) to Congress, the Governor shall
submit copies of the report to the Directors of the Con-
gressional Budget Office and the Office of Management
and Budget, who shall submit reports to Congress analyz-
ing the Governor’s report not later than 30 days after re-
ceiving copies of the report.
(e) The State may not change any provision of its
Constitution concerning height limitations on buildings
without the consent of Congress.
(f) Nothing in this Act or the Constitution or laws
of the State may be construed to permit the State to
refuse to allow an individual to serve as a qualified reg-
istered elector of the State solely because the individual
resides in the National Capital Service Area.
SEC. 6. STATE TITLE TO LANDS AND PROPERTY.
(a) The State of New Columbia and its political sub-
divisions shall have and retain title or jurisdiction for pur-
poses of administration and maintenance to all property,
real and personal, with respect to which title or jurisdic-
tion for purposes of administration and maintenance is
held by the territory of the District of Columbia as of the
date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) All laws of the United States reserving to the
United States the free use or enjoyment of property which
vests in or is conveyed to the State of New Columbia or
its political subdivisions pursuant to this section or reserv-
ing the right to alter, amend, or repeal laws relating there-
to shall cease to be effective upon the admission of the
State of New Columbia into the Union.
SEC. 7. ELECTIONS.
(a)(1) Not more than sixty days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the President of the United States
shall certify such enactment to the Mayor of the District
of Columbia. Not more than thirty days after such certifi-
cation the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall issue
a proclamation for the elections, subject to the provisions
of this Act, for officers of all State elective offices provided
for by the constitution of the proposed State of New Co-
lumbia and for two Senators and one Representative in
Congress.
(2) In the first election of Senators from the State
(pursuant to paragraph (1)) the two senatorial offices
shall be separately identified and designated, and no per-
son may be a candidate for both offices. No such identi-
fication or designation of either of the two senatorial of-
fices shall refer to or be taken to refer to the terms of
such offices, or in any way impair the privilege of the Sen-
ate to determine the class to which each of the Senators
elected shall be assigned.
(b) The proclamation of the Mayor of the District of
Columbia required by subsection (a) shall provide for the
holding of a primary election and a general election and
at such elections the officers required to be elected as pro-
vided in subsection (a) shall be chosen by the people. Such
elections shall be held, and the qualifications of voters
shall be, as prescribed by the constitution of the proposed
State of New Columbia for the election of members of the
proposed State legislature. Election returns shall be made
and certified in such manner as the constitution of the
proposed State of New Columbia may prescribe. The
Mayor of the District of Columbia shall certify the results
of such elections to the President of the United States.
(c)(1) At an election designated by proclamation of
the Mayor of the District of Columbia, which may be the
primary or the general election held pursuant to sub-
section (b), a territorial general election, or a special elec-
tion, there shall be submitted to the electors qualified to
vote in such election, for adoption or rejection, the follow-
ing propositions:
(A) New Columbia shall immediately be admit-
ted into the Union as a State.
(B) The boundaries of the State of New Colum-
bia shall be as prescribed in the New Columbia Ad-
mission Act and all claims of the State to any areas
of land or sea outside the boundaries so prescribed
are hereby irrevocably relinquished to the United
States.
(C) All provisions of the New Columbia Admis-
sion Act, including provisions reserving rights or
powers to the United States and provisions prescrib-
ing the terms or conditions of the grants of lands or
other property made to the State of New Columbia,
are consented to fully by the State and its people.
(2) In the event the propositions under paragraph (1)
are adopted in such election by a majority of the legal
votes cast on such submission, the proposed constitution
of the proposed State of New Columbia, adopted by the
Council of the District of Columbia in the Constitution
for the State of New Columbia Approval Act of 1987
(D.C. Law 7–8), shall be deemed amended accordingly.
(3) In the event any one of the propositions under
paragraph (1) is not adopted at such election by a major-
ity of the legal votes cast on such submission, the provi-
sions of this Act shall cease to be effective.
(4) The Mayor of the District of Columbia is author-
ized and directed to take such action as may be necessary
or appropriate to ensure the submission of such propo-
sitions to the people. The return of the votes cast on such
propositions shall be made by the election officers directly
to the Board of Elections of the District of Columbia,
which shall certify the results of the submission to the
Mayor. The Mayor shall certify the results of such submis-
sion to the President of the United States.
(d)(1) If the President finds that the propositions set
forth in subsection (c)(1) have been duly adopted by the
people of New Columbia, the President, upon certification
of the returns of the election of the officers required to
be elected as provided in subsection (a), shall issue a proc-
lamation announcing the results of such election as so
ascertained. Upon the issuance of such proclamation by
the President, the State of New Columbia shall be deemed
admitted into the Union as provided in section 2 of this
Act.
(2) Until the State of New Columbia is admitted into
the Union, individuals holding legislative, executive, and
judicial offices of the District of Columbia, including the
Delegate in Congress from the District of Columbia, shall
continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices.
Upon the issuance of such proclamation by the President
of the United States and the admission of the State of
New Columbia into the Union, the officers elected at such
election, and qualified under the provisions of the constitu-
tion and laws of such State, shall proceed to exercise all
the functions pertaining to their offices in, under, or by
authority of the government of such State, and offices not
required to be elected at such initial election shall be se-
lected or continued in office as provided by the constitu-
tion and laws of such State. The Governor of such State
shall certify the election of the Senators and Representa-
tive in the manner required by law, and the Senators and
Representative shall be entitled to be admitted to seats
in Congress and to all the rights and privileges of Senators
and Representatives of other States in the Congress of the
United States.
SEC. 8. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERSHIP.
The State of New Columbia upon its admission into
the Union shall be entitled to one Representative until the
taking effect of the next reapportionment, and such Rep-
resentative shall be in addition to the membership of the
House of Representatives as now prescribed by law, except
that such temporary increase in the membership shall not
operate to either increase or decrease the permanent mem-
bership of the House of Representatives or affect the basis
of apportionment for the Congress.
SEC. 9. LAWS IN EFFECT.
Upon admission of the State of New Columbia into
the Union, all of the territorial laws then in force in the
Territory of the District of Columbia shall be and continue
in force and effect throughout the State, except as modi-
fied or changed by this Act, or by the Constitution of the
State, or as thereafter modified or changed by the legisla-
ture of the State. All of the laws of the United States
shall have the same force and effect within the State as
elsewhere in the United States.
SEC. 10. CONTINUATION OF SUITS.
(a) No writ, action, indictment, cause, or proceeding
pending in any court of the District of Columbia or in
the United States District Court for the District of Colum-
bia shall abate by reason of the admission of the State
of New Columbia into the Union, but shall be transferred
and shall proceed within such appropriate State courts as
shall be established under the constitution of the State,
or shall continue in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia, as the nature of the case may
require. And no writ, action, indictment, cause, or pro-