{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-4922","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 4922","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025","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":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","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":"D. 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Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"DC CRIMES Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"DC Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-08-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-09-16","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h270","question":"On Passage","title":"DC CRIMES Act","result":"Passed","yea":240,"nay":179,"present":0,"not_voting":13,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll270.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate.","date":"2025-09-17"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-08-08","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"DC Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act or the DC CRIMES Act"},{"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 (1) reduces the maximum age of a youth offender from 24 years to 18 years, and (2) repeals a provision that allows a DC criminal court to issue a sentence to a youth offender that is less than the mandatory minimum term otherwise required by law. 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":185},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Changes the District of Columbia's Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985 so that youth offender status covers only individuals under 18 years of age, and requires the District's Attorney General to operate a public website of juvenile crime statistics.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#H0FA03F6A11F84872AAC2E8CEEF551B52"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#HCCAA4A60955641FCAA900CEFC9D2E443"}]},"core_areas":["Youth offender age definition under the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985","Youth offender sentencing provisions in the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985","Public website of juvenile crime statistics in the District of Columbia","Provision of juvenile records to the Attorney General of the District of Columbia"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Amends the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985 to replace \"24 years of age or younger\" with \"under 18 years of age\" in the definition of youth offender.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#H0FA03F6A11F84872AAC2E8CEEF551B52"}},{"text":"Amends section 4(b) of the Youth Rehabilitation Act of 1985 by striking its paragraph (2), under a heading titled \"Prohibiting issuance of sentence less than mandatory-minimum term.\"","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#H0FA03F6A11F84872AAC2E8CEEF551B52"}},{"text":"Requires the Attorney General of the District of Columbia to establish and operate a public website with juvenile crime data, including arrests by age, race and sex, arrests for petty crime and crimes of violence, and prosecution and sentencing figures.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#HCCAA4A60955641FCAA900CEFC9D2E443"}},{"text":"Requires the Attorney General to update the website monthly, archive its data for indefinite public access, offer it in a machine-readable format for bulk download, and keep any juvenile's personally identifiable information off it.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#HCCAA4A60955641FCAA900CEFC9D2E443"}},{"text":"Requires a person, notwithstanding existing limits, to provide juvenile case records, juvenile social records, and law enforcement records concerning a child to the Attorney General for purposes of the website.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#HCCAA4A60955641FCAA900CEFC9D2E443"}},{"text":"Requires the Attorney General to establish the website not later than 180 days after the date of enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh#HCCAA4A60955641FCAA900CEFC9D2E443"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-09-16","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4922/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-4922.png","v":"dd04d7e7171c","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 4922, 119th Congress: D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025. House: 240 Yea, 179 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 16 Sep 2025."}}