Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 51 (Introduced in House) — To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. · Sec. 122

Sec. 122. Effect of admission of State on current laws

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The legislative power of the State shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation within the State, consistent with the Constitution of the United States (including the restrictions and limitations imposed upon the States by article I, section 10) and subject to the provisions of this Act. To the extent that any law of the United States applies to the States generally, the law shall have the same force and effect within the State as elsewhere in the United States, except as such law may otherwise provide.