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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for DC Home Rule Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill repeals the Local Budget Autonomy Amendment Act of 2012 (D.C. Law 19-321) and restores previous law as though the Act had never been enacted.
(Sec. 3) The District of Columbia Home Rule Act is amended to declare that nothing in it shall be construed as creating a continuing appropriation of the General Fund of the District.
All funds provided for the District of Columbia shall be appropriated on an annual fiscal year basis through the federal appropriations process.
The District of Columbia Code is amended to declare that nothing in it shall be construed as authorizing the District of Columbia to make any change in law, regulation, or basic procedure and practice relating to the respective roles of Congress, the President, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Government Accountability Office in the preparation, review, submission, examination, authorization, and appropriation of the total budget of the District of Columbia government.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5233 as passed House without amendment on May 25, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
May 25, 2016Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 25, 2016
House May 25, 2016 · the primary vote
Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for DC Home Rule Act of 2016
Passed
240 Yea 179 Nay 14 not voting
Party-line vote 2 of 419 voting members broke with their own party: 2 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5233 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5233 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
19 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.