HR 4922
D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025
Summary
DC Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act or the DC CRIMES Act This bill limits the authority of the District of Columbia (DC) government over its criminal sentencing laws. 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. 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.) 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.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Byron Donalds [R-FL-19]
- Cosponsors
- 8
- Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Introduced
- 2025-08-08
- Latest action
- 2025-09-17: Received in the Senate.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-09-17: Received in the Senate.
- 2025-09-16: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-09-16: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 179 (Roll no. 270). (text: CR H4333)
- 2025-09-16: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 179 (Roll no. 270). (text: CR H4333)
- 2025-09-16: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4345)