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Calendar of D. &. Legislation

Calendar of D.
More than 100 bills affecting
the District are pending before
Congress. Some are almost ready
for final action: some probably
will not be acted on at all in
this session.
This calendar shows the status
OF the major bills and te,U
miscellaneous bills:
Appropriations
District supply bill awaiting
House-Senate conference COM
mittee action.
Suffrage
National representation: Senate
measure for District representa-
tives and electors and Senate
measure for District electors only.
both before Senate judiciary Com
mittee. House measure for Dis
trict representatives in House
Judiciary Committee. No hearings
scheduled.
Home rule: Passed by Senate
and tabled by House District Sub
committee.
House delegate: House bill for
non-voting District delegate in
House tabled by House District
Committee. Senate bill approved
by Senate District Committee.
Reorganization
Presidential reorganization plan
for District. Senate Committee on
Government Operations held hear
lngs; filed favorable report with
Senate; becomes law Tuesday.
Crime
House bill to improve crime pre-
vention. detection and punish
ment, held up in Senate District
Committee.
Tuxution
Amendments to District tax laws
reducing penalty interest for de-
llnquent tax payments In several
categories; passed by Senate. re-
ported by House District Com
mittee.
Senate District Committee re-
ports Hunt bill to restrain tax
exemption.
Public Works
Washington Baltimore mark
way; Interior Department ap-
preparation bill carries $6.75O O00
for parkway construction: an
proved by both House and Senate.
measure now in House-Senate
conference.
Primaries
Senate bill for primaries for
election of District delegates to-
national political conventions: on
Senate calendar.
Metropolitan Area
House bill for commission to
determine need for co-ordinated
regional planning and action:
pending in House District subcom-
mittee.
House bill to reorganize Ma
tlonal Capital Parks and Planning
Commission passed by House:
Senate action awaited.
Senate bills on Capital area
transit facilities; hearings held by
Senate Commerce Committee:
new bill for Metropolitan Area
transit commission approved by
Commerce Committee awaits SEN
ate action; identical House bill
before House Commerce subcom-
mittee.
Capital Transit Co.: House Dis
trict subcommittee urges Public
Utilities Commission to put Lands
Report suggestions into effect.
Senate unanimously confirmed
James H. Flanagan as chairman
of P. U. c.
Police
Senate bill removing 133-mem-
ber limitation on White House
police: Passed by Congress, awaits
Presidents signature.
Senate bill allowing Commits
sioners to appoint special police;
in House District Committee.
Courts
Senate bill for suspension of
sentence in certain cases in Mu-
inicipal and Juvenile Courts:
passed Senate.
House bill reducing from 20 to
Is years permission period for re-
tirement of judges of Municipal
Court. Municipal Court of Ap-
|peals and Juvenile Court, reported
favorably by House District Com
mittee: similar Senate bill pend
ing before the Senate District sub
committee.
Welfare
Senate bill giving Commis-
sioners discretion in making re-
lief rolls public: pending in House
District Committee.
Miscellaneous
HolIse hill tn revise District