{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-7530","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 7530","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"DC CRIMES Act of 2024","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To limit youth offender status in the District of Columbia to individuals 18 years of age or younger, to direct the Attorney General of the District of Columbia to establish and operate a publicly accessible website containing updated statistics on juvenile crime in the District of Columbia, to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to prohibit the Council of the District of Columbia from enacting changes to existing criminal liability sentences, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To limit youth offender status in the District of Columbia to individuals 18 years of age or younger, to direct the Attorney General of the District of Columbia to establish and operate a publicly accessible website containing updated statistics on juvenile crime in the District of Columbia, to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to prohibit the Council of the District of Columbia from enacting changes to existing criminal liability sentences, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"DC CRIMES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"DC CRIMES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"DC CRIMES Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"DC CRIMES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"DC CRIMES Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2024"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2024-03-05","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-05-15","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h201","question":"On Passage","title":"DC CRIMES Act","result":"Passed","yea":225,"nay":181,"present":0,"not_voting":24,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll201.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","date":"2024-05-16"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-04-30","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"D.C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2024 or the DC CRIMES Act of 2024"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill limits the authority of the District of Columbia (DC) government over its criminal sentencing laws."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill eliminates the DC government’s authority to enact any act, resolution, or rule to change any criminal liability sentence in effect on the date of the bill's enactment."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also reduces the maximum age of a youth offender from 24 years to 18 years. A DC criminal court currently has the discretion to reduce or modify certain criminal sentences for a youth offender under specified circumstances. For example, a DC court may sentence a youth offender to probation in lieu of confinement. (However, this discretion does not apply to several specified violent crimes.)"},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the bill directs the Office of the Attorney General for DC to publish, and update monthly, certain youth offender crime data on a publicly accessible website."}],"words":157},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Changes the age limit for youth offender status in the District of Columbia, requires a public website of juvenile crime statistics, and bars the Council of the District of Columbia from changing existing criminal liability sentences.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#H941E7641E02E4515808209D8EB87CB59"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#HB4D90D0BD3494C58AD16F48726D4C9D0"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#H5065B44C97D1410E8D577A27E4A71B35"}]},"core_areas":["Youth offender age under the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985","District of Columbia juvenile crime statistics website","Limits on Council of the District of Columbia authority over criminal liability sentences"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Amends the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985 to change the definition of youth offender from 24 years of age or younger to 18 years of age or younger.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#H941E7641E02E4515808209D8EB87CB59"}},{"text":"Requires the Attorney General of the District of Columbia to establish and operate a publicly accessible website with data on juvenile crime, to be established not later than 180 days after enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#HB4D90D0BD3494C58AD16F48726D4C9D0"}},{"text":"Lists statistics the website must include, such as juveniles arrested each year by age, race and sex, arrests for petty crime and for crime of violence, first-time and repeat arrests, and the declination rate for prosecutions.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#HB4D90D0BD3494C58AD16F48726D4C9D0"}},{"text":"Requires monthly updates to the website, an archive giving indefinite public access to historical data, machine-readable format for bulk download, and no personally identifiable information about any juvenile.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#HB4D90D0BD3494C58AD16F48726D4C9D0"}},{"text":"Requires a person to give the Attorney General information from juvenile case records, juvenile social records, and law enforcement records concerning a child, for purposes of the website.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#HB4D90D0BD3494C58AD16F48726D4C9D0"}},{"text":"Amends section 602(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to bar the Council from enacting any act, resolution, or rule that changes any criminal liability sentence in effect on the date the DC CRIMES Act of 2024 is enacted.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh#H5065B44C97D1410E8D577A27E4A71B35"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-05-15","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-30","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7530/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-7530.png","v":"c4d41166845b","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 7530, 118th Congress: DC CRIMES Act of 2024. House: 225 Yea, 181 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 15 May 2024."}}