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The bill restores pre-2022 disciplinary and statute-of-limitations rules to strengthen union bargaining rights and administrative predictability for officers, but in doing so it risks slowing accountability, reducing oversight, and limiting management's ability to discipline quickly—affecting victims, taxpayers, and public-safety perceptions.
Law enforcement officers and their unions regain the ability to negotiate disciplinary procedures through collective bargaining, restoring union input and reversing 2022 limits on bargaining.
Local police departments, HR offices, and officers experience greater administrative continuity and predictability because earlier disciplinary and statute-of-limitations rules are restored, which may also reduce litigation risk for officers and departments.
All residents and taxpayers may face reduced oversight and slower misconduct resolution because the bill repeals 2022 reforms intended to expedite claims and increase transparency.
Victims and claimants may have longer or restored statute-of-limitations windows that could delay timely accountability and make pursuing remedies harder.
Local governments and the public may see reduced management flexibility to impose swift discipline because restored collective bargaining over discipline can limit how quickly officials can act, potentially affecting public safety perceptions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Reverts D.C. law to its pre-2022 state by removing a restriction on bargaining over police discipline and reinstating prior statutes and claim timelines.
Strips out recent 2022 changes to the District of Columbia’s police and personnel laws and restores the prior legal rules that governed collective bargaining and certain civil-claim time limits. In practice, the bill removes a provision that limited collective bargaining over disciplinary matters for D.C. law enforcement officers and reverses a subtitle of the 2022 policing reform law, reviving any statutes that subtitle had changed or repealed.
Introduced March 14, 2025 by Andrew R. Garbarino · Last progress June 11, 2025