Bill restores police union power over discipline in DC
H.R. 2096 — Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act · Filed by Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes two rules for DC police officers. It lets officers negotiate their discipline through their union again. It also adds a time limit for bringing discipline cases against officers. These rules were removed by a 2022 police reform law. This bill undoes parts of that 2022 law.
Who it affects
DC police officers and their unions gain power over discipline decisions. Citizens lose some tools to hold police accountable for misconduct.
One thing to notice
The bill adds a time limit for discipline cases. Some old misconduct cases may no longer be allowed.
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 $2,007,500 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
- discipline — Punishment or consequences for breaking rules, like suspension or firing.
- negotiate — To talk and make a deal between two sides about how something works.
- union — A group of workers who join together to bargain for better work rules.
- time limit — A deadline after which something can no longer be done or allowed.
- 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.
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 16,938 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 2026-11-05.
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