[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1408 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1408

To amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to eliminate the 
         applicability of such Act to the District of Columbia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2019

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to eliminate the 
         applicability of such Act to the District of Columbia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Non-
Discrimination Home Rule Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF APPLICABILITY OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION 
              ACT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

    Paragraph (2) of section 5 of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act 
of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb-2(2)) is amended by striking ``the District 
of Columbia,'' and the comma after ``Puerto Rico''.
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