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Issue Position: Norton Gets House Passage of Bill Taking D.C. Out of Federal Hatch Act and Permitting City to Pass Its Own Law

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Federal, State and Local Relations

A Norton bill permitting the District, the only local jurisdiction where local government employees are under the federal Hatch Act to enact its own Hatch Act, passed the House, a Senate committee passed the bill too. Mayor-elect Vincent Gray introduced a local Hatch Act, which would have taken effect after the Norton bill became law. Norton will reintroduce the bill in the 112th Congress.


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