Chapter 14A. Human Rights Sanctuary - Right to Bodily Autonomy.

§ 2–1461.01. District government nonparticipation in interstate investigations and proceedings interfering with certain rights.

(a) The District and its officers and employees acting in their official capacities shall not provide any information or expend or use time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources in furtherance of any interstate investigation or proceeding seeking to impose civil or criminal liability upon any person for the following conduct, or for attempting, aiding, abetting, advising, facilitating, or intending or conspiring to achieve the following conduct, except to the extent that such conduct would be prohibited under District law:

(1) Receiving or seeking an abortion or contraception;

(2) Performing or inducing an abortion with the voluntary consent of the pregnant person;

(3) Engaging in sexual conduct;

(4) Providing contraception to an entity or to an individual with that individual's voluntary consent;

(5) Using contraception;

(6) Entering into or remaining in a living arrangement, marriage, domestic partnership, or civil union; or

(7) Providing, consenting to, receiving, or facilitating gender-affirming care.

(b) A person claiming to be aggrieved by a violation of this section shall have a cause of action in any court of competent jurisdiction for damages and such other remedies as may be appropriate. An action pursuant to this subsection shall be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction within 2 years of the violation, or the discovery of the violation.

(1) "Contraception" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1401.02(4A).

(2) "Domestic partnership" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1401.02(7B).

(3) "Gender-affirming care" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1401.02(12A).

(4) "Living arrangement" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1401.02(15A).

(5) "Person" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1401.02(21).

§ 2–1461.02. Private right of action for use of courts to interfere with exercise in the District of certain rights.

(a) A person who has had a judgment entered against him or her, in any jurisdiction, where liability is based in whole or in part on the person's alleged conduct of a type identified in § 2-1461.01(a), including under any theory of vicarious, joint, several or conspiracy liability, shall have a cause of action and may recover damages from any party that brought the action leading to that judgment or that has sought to enforce that judgment.

(b) Recoverable damages under this section shall include:

(1) Just damages created by the action that led to that judgment, including money damages in the amount of the judgment and costs, expenses, and reasonable attorney's fees spent in defending the action that resulted in the entry of a judgment in another jurisdiction; and

(2) Costs, expenses, and reasonable attorney's fees incurred in bringing an action under this section, as may be allowed by the court.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to enable a court to vacate, render invalid, or otherwise disturb a judgment giving rise to an action under this section.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not create a cause of action based on a judgment entered in another jurisdiction that resulted from:

(1) An action founded in tort, contract, or statute for which a similar claim would exist under the laws of the District; or

(2) An action where no part of the acts that formed the basis for liability occurred in the District, the person subject to the earlier judgement does not reside or have its primary place of business in the District, and the injury caused by the judgement did not occur in the District.

(e) For the purposes of this section, the term "person" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1401.02(21).