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Committee reviews brief bill to require 49-day special election if D.C. delegate seat is vacant during mass House vacancies
Summary
The D.C. Council's Committee on Executive Administration and Labor held a public hearing May 14 on Bill 26-136, which would require the Board of Elections to hold a special election within 49 days to fill the District's delegate seat if a federal law declaration creates mass vacancies in the U.S. House.
The Committee on Executive Administration and Labor on May 14 heard public testimony on Bill 26-136, the Special Election in the Office of Delegate Amendment Act of 2025, a short bill that would require the Board of Elections to hold a special election within 49 days when federal law conditions trigger mass vacancies in the U.S. House and a vacancy exists in the District's office of delegate.
Council Chairperson Anita Bonds, chair of the Committee on Executive Administration and Labor, opened the hearing by listing the bill among four measures scheduled for consideration and said the legislation was…
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