Govoptes

HR 4922 · D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025

Received in the Senate.

Introduced
Aug 8, 2025
Latest action
Sep 17, 2025
Sponsor
Rep. Byron Donalds [R-FL-19]
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cosponsors
8

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.

Recent actions

  1. Sep 17, 2025 Received in the Senate.
  2. Sep 16, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Sep 16, 2025 On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 179 (Roll no. 270). (text: CR H4333)
  4. Sep 16, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 179 (Roll no. 270). (text: CR H4333)
  5. Sep 16, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4345)
  6. Sep 16, 2025 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate of H.R. 4922, the Chair put the question on passage of the bill and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Garcia (CA) demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
  7. Sep 16, 2025 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
  8. Sep 16, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4922.

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