Source: https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/acts/22-163.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 00:19:41+00:00

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D.C. Law Library - D.C. Act 22-163. Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2017.
D.C. Act 22-163. Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2017.
↪ D.C. Act 22-163. Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2017.
To amend, on an emergency basis, the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Act of 2017, the Clean and Affordable Energy Act of 2008, Title 47 of the District of Columbia Official Code, the Homeland Security Risk Reduction and Preparedness Amendment Act of 2006, and the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Expansion Amendment Act of 2016 to clarify provisions supporting the Fiscal Year 2018 budget; to provide funding for the collective bargaining agreement between the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Washington Teachers' Union and additional funding to District of Columbia public charter schools; and to authorize certain one-time payments to District of Columbia public charter schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the "Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Support Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2017".
(1) Subsection (d)(3)(B) is amended by striking the phrase "examiner at set forth" and inserting the phrase "examiner as set forth" in its place.
(2) Subsection (e) is amended by striking the phrase "a determination of an independent hearing examiner" and inserting the phrase "a final decision of the Director" in its place.
""(6) To increase physical activity in schools, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education shall make grants available, subject to the availability of funds in the Fund, through a competitive process or a formula grants process to public schools, public charter schools, or organizations that provide technical assistance to public schools and public charter schools to increase the amount of physical activity in schools; provided, that a school receiving a grant award shall seek to meet the requirements of section 402 of the Healthy Schools Act of 2010, effective July 27, 2010 (D.C. Law 18-209; D.C. Official Code § 38-824.02), and seek to increase the amount of physical activity in which its students engage.".
"(1) Paragraph (16) is amended by striking the phrase "an individual who has never owned eligible property" and inserting the phrase "an individual purchaser who has never owned improved residential real property or an economic interest in a cooperative unit that qualified for the homestead deduction provided pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 47-850 or § 47-850.01" in its place.".
""(17) The phrase "eligible property" means improved residential real property, including an economic interest in a cooperative unit, purchased at an amount not to exceed the purchase ceiling of $625,000 (adjusted annually beginning with real property tax year 2019 by the addition to the prior purchase ceiling of an amount equal to the percentage increase in the Washington, D.C., Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the preceding calendar year in which the real property tax year begins, rounded to the next lowest multiple of $500), that qualifies for the homestead deduction provided pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 47-850 or § 47-850.01; and the phrase also includes within the purchase ceiling all other real property conveyed on the same deed.".
""(ii) To 2.175% when consideration allocable to the real property is $400,000 or greater.".
""(D) Submit a copy of the homestead deduction application for the eligible property, signed by the applicant."
""(3) The Mayor or the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia may require the applicant to provide such documentation as may be necessary or appropriate to substantiate entitlement to the reduced rate of tax provided under this subsection.".
""(g) Notwithstanding subsection (c) of this section and D.C. Official Code § 47-4421, any subsequent deficiency of recordation tax determined to be owed on a deed taxed at the rate provided under subsection (e) of this section when the deed was accepted for recordation shall be the liability of the grantee or grantees solely and shall not create a lien on the real property that was transferred under such deed.".
"(a) A tax, separate from, and in addition to, the taxes imposed pursuant to §§ 47-2202 and 47-2202.01, is imposed at the rate of 0.3% on the use, storage, or consumption of any room or rooms, lodgings, or accommodations furnished to a transient by any hotel, inn, tourist camp, tourist cabin, or any other place in which rooms, lodgings, or accommodations are regularly furnished to transients.
Sec. 105. Section 3 of the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Expansion Amendment Act of 2016, effective May 12, 2016 (D.C. Law 21-112; 63 DCR 4326), is repealed.
(1) Subsection (a) is amended by striking the phrase "$9,972 per student for Fiscal Year 2018" and inserting the phrase "$10,257 per student for Fiscal Year 2018" in its place.
Sec. 203. Payments to public charter schools.
This act shall apply as of October 1, 2017.
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 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. Official Code § 1-301.47a).

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