D.C. Act 23-379. Student Activity Fund Theatrical and Music Performance Expenditures Emergency Act of 2020.

AN ACT

To provide, on an emergency basis, that expenditures on school-administered theatrical and music performances, including stipends for non-District of Columbia Public Schools employees, shall be allowable expenditures from a school's Student Activity Fund.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the "Student Activity Fund Theatrical and Music Performance Expenditures Emergency Act of 2020".

Sec. 2. Use of Student Activity Funds for theatrical and music performances.

(a) Expenditures on school-administered theatrical and music performances, including stipends for non-District of Columbia Public Schools ("DCPS") employees, but excluding stipends for DCPS employees, shall be an allowable expenditure from a DCPS school's Student Activity Fund.

(b) For the purposes of this act, the term "theatrical and music performances" means the planning, rehearsal, or presentation of a musical, staged play, choral production, orchestral or band concert, variety show, improvised or sketch comedy performance, or other live performance.

Sec. 3. Fiscal impact statement.

The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement of the Budget Director as the fiscal impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code § 1-301.47a).

Sec. 4. Effective date.

This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), and shall remain in effect for no longer than 90 days, as provided for emergency acts of the Council of the District of Columbia in section 412(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 788; D.C. Official Code § 1-204.12(a)).