US state regulation
District of Columbia
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for District of Columbia - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 34/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 3 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 3
- Categories regulated
- 1/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 3 enacted · 1/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
District of Columbia sits in the lower tracker-score band - 3 enacted regulations across 1 of 5 tracked policy areas, with a portal tracker score of 34/100, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 34/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 3
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 3
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
District of Columbia legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from District of Columbia's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 3 Tracked rows in archive
- 3 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 34/100 Portal tracker score
- #17 Of 51 by volume
- #20 Of 51 by tracker score
- Hawaii Nearest volume peer 3 rows
- 1 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
District of Columbia's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: District of Columbia is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
District of Columbia enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 2 in 2017
Policy coverage
District of Columbia enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from District of Columbia's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
District of Columbia regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining District of Columbia's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive District of Columbia's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
62/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 3 tracked
69th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- C 34/100
65th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- D 1 categories
45th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
DC Minimum Wage Revision Act
D.C. Code 32-1003 Effective: 2025-07-01DC minimum wage $17.50/hr (2025). Tipped workers moving to full minimum wage by 2027 (Initiative 82 eliminates tip credit).
DC Paid Family Leave + ESSTA
DC Code 32-531 Effective: 2020-07-01DC universal paid family leave: 12 weeks bonding, 12 weeks medical, 12 weeks family care. Employer-funded. Sick leave separate.
DC Salary History Non-Disclosure Act
B22-0159 Effective: 2017-10-23DC prohibits employers from screening applicants based on wage history.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with District of Columbia
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for District of Columbia (LIGHT · LOWER · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT LOWER QUIET WORKER-LED
Hawaii · LIGHT
Hawaii tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than District of Columbia); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Tennessee · LIGHT
Tennessee tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than District of Columbia); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Florida · LIGHT
Florida tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than District of Columbia); tracker stamp MID vs LOWER.
Maryland · LIGHT
Maryland tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than District of Columbia); tracker stamp MID vs LOWER.
Texas (MID score pole)
Texas sits near District of Columbia on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps LOWER.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
District of Columbia's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (3 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) District of Columbia state-rule registry · 2023 District of Columbia: 3 tracked · 3 enacted · tracker 34/100 (LIGHT/LOWER). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are District of Columbia's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.