D.C. Agenda

This is the meeting schedule for the D.C. Council and its committees for the coming week. All meetings are in the Council Chamber of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, unless otherwise noted.

Today

No public hearings are scheduled.

Tomorrow

Public safety and the judiciary public roundtable, noon. Agenda: Omnibus Anti-Crime Amendment Act of 2008, Bill 17-0951. To make the discharging of a weapon without a permit from the chief of police a felony offense. To repeal the Anti-Stalking Amendment Act of 1993 and to enact an anti-stalking law that more clearly defines stalking, more broadly encompasses modern forms of stalking, assigns commensurate penalties and establishes jurisdiction to prosecute. To amend an act to provide for the more effective prevention, detection and punishment of crime in stalking, domestic violence, threats and other crimes from the requirement that police reports be made publicly available. To amend the act codifying the District of Columbia Code, 56th Congress, Session II, Chapter 854, Subchapter 25, to suspend the marital privilege under certain circumstances, including those in which a spouse or domestic partner is accused of intra-family offenses or committing a crime before the marriage, or is testifying in a civil proceeding involving child abuse and neglect. To amend an act to enact Part II of the D.C. Code, titled Judiciary and Judicial Procedures, effective Dec. 23, 1963, to suspend the physician-patient privilege in certain proceedings in which a person is suspected or charged with causing the death of, or injuring a human being, or with attempting or threatening to kill or injure a human being, or proceedings in which a person is suspected of defrauding a health-care benefit program. To amend an act to establish a code of law for the District, approved March 3, 1901, to revise the elements of the crime for assault with intent, to make unlawful entry a non-jury demandable offense and to increase the penalty for criminal conspiracies to commit violent crimes from five years for all conspiracies to the maximum punishment prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy. To amend the Anti-Sexual Abuse Act of 1994 so that the defendant is not required to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the alleged victim of sexual abuse consented. To amend the D.C. Theft and White Collar Crimes Act of 1982 to expand the definition of the terms "property," "person" and "value," and to make related conforming amendments so that the terms more broadly encompass conduct associated with theft and identity theft; to permit a person to be convicted of any combination of theft, fraud and other property offenses arising out of the same course of conduct; to expand the jurisdiction of the District to prosecute fraud and insurance fraud; and to include in the definition of the crime of identity theft the use of personal identifying information belonging to or pertaining to another person to identify him/herself at the time of an arrest or to facilitate or conceal the commission of a crime; to provide for increased penalties if a person uses a stolen motor vehicle to commit a crime of violence; and to add threats to injure to the obstruction of justice statute. To amend the DNA Sample Collection Act of 2001 to expand the qualifying offenses for the purposes DNA collection under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to include to include all felonies. To amend an act to control the possession, sale, transfer and use of pistols and other dangerous weapons in the District; to provide penalties, to prescribe rules of evidence and for other purposes so that offenses committed in other jurisdictions that would constitute a crime of violence or dangerous crime if committed in the District are considered prior offenses for the purpose of sentencing for committing a crime of violence or dangerous crime while armed; and to increase the penalty for the crime of felon in possession of a firearm to imprisonment for not more than 10 years and a mandatory-minimum term of two years, or if the prior felony is a crime of violence to imprisonment for not more than 15 years and a mandatory-minimum of five years. To amend D.C. Code Section 23-110(b) to allow a motion for post-conviction relief to be dismissed if the government has been prejudiced in its ability to respond to the motion by the delay in its filing. To amend D.C. Code Section 23-523(b) to define daylight as the hours between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. To amend D.C. Official Code Section 23-1322(c) so that probable cause for the arrest of certain dangerous and violent offenses will support a finding of dangerousness for pretrial detention; and to add possession of a firearm during a crime of violence and felon-in-possession of a firearm to the list of offenses in which there is a rebuttable presumption of dangerousness. To amend the D.C. Implied Consent Act, approved Oct. 21, 1972, to require medical personnel to collect blood or urine at the direction of a police officer for the purpose of determining alcohol or drug content and to protect such medical personnel from liability for doing so. To amend the Protection of Children from Exposure to Drug-Related Activity Amendment Act of 1989 to provide penalties for the crime of making a false report of child abuse or neglect. To amend D.C. Official Code Section 16-2312 to allow postponement of detention hearings on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas; to amend the HIV Testing of Certain Criminal Offenders Act of 2005 to require the court to order the defendant to furnish a blood sample to be tested for the presence of HIV, upon the request of HIV, upon request of the victim or an eyewitness to the offense who may be at risk of contracting the HIV-AIDS virus at any time after a preliminary hearing. To amend the Omnibus Public Safety Amendment Act of 2006 to change the definition of a gang.

Tuesday

Committee of the whole, 3 p.m. Agenda: Closing of Public Alleys in Square 4488, S.O. 07-7333, Act of 2008, Bill 17-1010.

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