The commissioners were required "to revise, simplify, digest, and codify the laws of said District, and also the rules and principles of practice, pleadings, of evidence, and conveyancing."
638), the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives is authorized to print bills to codify, revise, and reenact the general and permanent laws relating to the District of Columbia and cumulative supplements thereto, similar in style, respectively, to the Code of Laws of the United States, and supplements thereto, and to so continue until final enactment thereof in both Houses of the Congress of the United States.
[6] The Council adopted many of the commission's recommendations in the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, overriding the veto of Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had expressed concerns about reducing some mandatory sentencing guidelines during a time of increasing crime rates in the city.
A Republican-led United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability introduced a bill to overturn the law before it would have taken effect.
It was signed by President Joe Biden in March 2023, marking the first time a D.C. law had been completely overturned since 1991, when Congress prevented the district from relaxing building height restrictions.