Bill restores police union power over punishment in DC
H.R. 2096 — Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act of 2025 · Filed by Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill undoes two parts of a 2022 DC police reform law. It lets police officers use their union to negotiate about punishment again. It also removes a time limit for bringing old punishment cases against officers. Now cases can be brought for older incidents.
Who it affects
DC residents and police officers are affected. The 2022 law had made it easier to hold police responsible. This bill makes that harder by giving unions more power in punishment cases.
One thing to notice
The bill's title says it protects DC, but it protects police union rights instead.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.
- Mar 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 14, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform”
- May 21, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- May 21, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 18”
- Jun 10, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 178, 1 Present (Roll no. 162).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $10,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 4 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Andrew Garbarino, who sponsored the bill, received $1,912,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Dc Police Union — $10,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- union — A group of workers who join together to negotiate pay and working conditions.
- punishment — Consequences given to an employee for breaking rules.
- time limit — A deadline for bringing a case against someone for something they did.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,091 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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