A bill to repeal the Open Meetings Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 enacted by the District of Columbia Council.
This bill (S. 1450) would repeal the Open Meetings Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 enacted by the District of Columbia Council (DC Act 26-41). In effect, the federal measure would undo that DC emergency amendment and restore the District’s open meetings framework to how it existed before the 2025 Act. If enacted, it would treat the provisions changed or repealed by the 2025 Act as if that Act had never been enacted, effectively reviving the prior law and interpretations. The bill is a Senate measure introduced by Senator Lee (April 10, 2025) and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. It does not propose new federal rules or standards; rather, it cancels a single local DC law and reinstates the previous DC framework governing open meetings.
Key Points
- 1Repeals the District of Columbia’s Open Meetings Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 (D.C. Act 26-41).
- 2Restores all provisions of law that were amended or repealed by the 2025 Act as if the Act had not been enacted.
- 3Introduced in the U.S. Senate (S. 1450) by Senator Lee on April 10, 2025; referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- 4The repeal is limited to that specific DC local act; no broader changes to federal or DC open meetings law beyond restoring prior law are stated.
- 5Status: introduced and not yet enacted; would require passage by both houses of Congress and presidential action to become law.