Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act of 2024

HR 5798, the Protecting Our Nation’s Capital Emergency Act of 2023, aims to address rising crime in Washington, D.C., by reversing two specific policies affecting the city’s police force. It restores collective bargaining rights for police discipline (by removing a 2022 restriction) and reinstates a longer statute of limitations for claims against Metropolitan Police Department members (repealing a 2022 law that shortened it). These changes target D.C. law enforcement officers directly, seeking to improve recruitment and retention by ensuring fairer treatment. The bill focuses solely on modifying these two legal provisions, without introducing new funding or crime-fighting measures.