US Congress Senate Bill 631 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-1)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Provides for admission into the United States of the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of the territory of the District of Columbia. The commonwealth shall be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other states. The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two Senators and one Representative of the commonwealth. The bill applies current District laws to the commonwealth and continues pending judicial proceedings. The commonwealth (1) shall consist of all District territory, with specified exclusions for federal buildings and monuments, including the principal federal monuments, the White House, the Capitol Building, the U.S. Supreme Court Building, and the federal executive, legislative, and judicial office buildings located adjacent to the Mall and the Capitol Building; and (2) may not impose taxes on federal property except as Congress permits. The bill maintains (1) the District as the seat of the federal government, and (2) the federal government's authority over military lands and specified other property. The bill provides for expedited consideration of a joint resolution repealing the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution, which provides for the appointment of electors of the President and Vice President.

Washington, D.C. Admission Act

Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-28	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB51 (Same As) 2020-09-08 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 522.
HB5803 (Related) 2020-06-18 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 347.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/631/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s631/BILLS-116s631is.pdf