Sponsors (28)
The bill returns D.C. to its pre-2022 legal baseline—clarifying rules and restoring prior protections for residents and businesses—but creates disruption for those who relied on the 2022 changes and imposes administrative costs on local agencies.
District of Columbia residents and local governments: prior D.C. laws and resident protections are restored to their pre-2022 form, reversing the 2022 changes and reinstating the earlier legal baseline.
Residents, local governments, and small businesses: restoring the prior legal text reduces uncertainty about which local rules apply, making compliance, permitting, and enforcement clearer and simpler.
Residents and entities that relied on the 2022 law: people or organizations that adjusted practices or relied on benefits created by the 2022 changes may lose those benefits or face legal uncertainty as the prior rules are reinstated.
D.C. government agencies and officials: agencies must reverse or revise guidance, regulations, and administrative actions to align with the restored law, imposing administrative costs and staff time to reissue materials and update procedures.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes a 2022 D.C. sanctuary-style law and restores the District's statutes to their prior wording and legal effect.
Official title: To repeal the Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Clyde · Last progress December 3, 2025
Repeals a District of Columbia local law that created sanctuary-like limits on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and restores the city's statutes to the form they had before that local law took effect. It does not create new programs, appropriate funds, or set implementation deadlines.