Home Purchase Assistance for Transit Workers Amendment Act of 2025
This bill amends the 1999 Government Employer-Assisted Housing Program to explicitly include public transit employees as eligible participants. It adds a definition clarifying that "public transit employee" covers workers for Metrobus, Metrorail, MetroAccess, and DC Streetcar. The key change updates eligibility language in the law to list "public transit employee" alongside government workers, first-responders, and educators. This expands access to the existing home purchase assistance program for District transit workers without creating new funding or benefits. The bill does not alter the program's structure or costs, only its eligibility criteria.
Bill status
signed
all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Dec 2025
Council Passage
Feb 2026
Signed into Law
May 2026
Introduced Jan 30, 2025
Signed May 1, 2026
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MODERATE
The bill was finalized as an enrolled act, changing the citation year from 2025 to 2026 to reflect the official enactment date. The core policy remains the same: it adds public transit employees to the list of people eligible for government-assisted home purchases. This change expands the program's eligibility to include workers for publicly-owned or subsidized transit systems.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded to include public transit employees as eligible recipients for the Home Purchase Assistance Program, alongside existing eligible groups like government employees, first responders, and educators.
TIMELINE
The citation year in the act's title was updated from 2025 to 2026 to align with the final enrollment date.
ELIGIBILITY
Public transit employees were added as a new eligible group for the housing assistance program.
DEFINITION
A new definition was created for 'public transit employee,' defining them as workers employed by a publicly-owned mass transit system owned or subsidized by the District.
REQUIREMENT
The list of eligible workers in the statute was updated to include the new public transit employee category in two separate subsections.
Floor votes · Council Feb 3, 2026
How they voted
11–2
Passed
Total votes 13
Feb 3, 2026
D
Democratic11
81% Yea
I
Independent2
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Feb 3, 2026
Council · Passed
Council Vote: pass (11-2)
council
Dec 17, 2025
Legislature · Passed
Committee Mark-up of B26-0098 by the Housing Committee
legislature
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Housing with comments from the Committee on Transportation and the Environment
legislature
Jan 30, 2025
Introduced
B26-0098 Introduced by Councilmember Nadeau at Office of the Secretary
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Brianne Nadeau
DDemocratic
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