A resolution amending the Senate amendments to the District of Columbia Self-Governmental Reorganization Act.
Latest action. Measure passed House, roll call #715 (319-26).
Provides for adoption of an amendment to the Senate amendments to the District of Columbia Self-Governmental Reorganization Act (H.R. 6186). States that in order to provide continuity in the Government of the District of Columbia during the transition from the appointed Government to the elected Government provided for under the Act, no person employed by the United States or by the government of the District of Columbia shall be prohibited by reason of such employment: (1) from being a candidate in the first election held under the Act for, or (2) if such a candidate, from taking an active part in political management or political campaigns in such election which relate to, the office of Mayor or Chairman or member of the Council of the District of Columbia provided for under Title IV of the Act. Provides for the amending of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1947 regarding taxability of dividends received by a corporation from insurance companies, banks, and other savings institutions, with Senate amendments thereto, and agree to the Senate amendments numbered l and 2 and agree to Senate amendment numbered 3, with an amendment.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on December 20, 1973. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
A simple resolution is the business of a single chamber. The House can adopt it on its own, and it is never sent to the other chamber or to the President.
The record's latest action, on December 20, 1973: Measure passed House, roll call #715 (319-26).
What is a simple resolution, exactly?
A simple resolution concerns one chamber only, such as its own rules or an expression of its opinion. The other chamber and the President play no part, and it does not carry the force of law.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
CHARLES DIGGS (D-MI) introduced it on December 20, 1973. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on December 20, 1973, 19257 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 19257 days ago, on December 20, 1973.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 93rd Congress has not finished by January 3, 1975 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
That deadline applies to this measure too, even though it was never headed for the President's desk.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HousePassed
- SenateAwaiting Senate vote
- PresidentAwaits both chambers