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Union Calendar No. 397
118THCONGRESS
2
DSESSION H. R. 7530
[Report No. 118–479]
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 Colum-
bia, 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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH5, 2024
Mr. D
ONALDS(for himself, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. TIMMONS, and Mr. PALMER) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Accountability
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Additional sponsor: Mr. C
LYDE
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Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 5, 2024]
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A BILL
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 con-
taining updated statistics on juvenile crime in the Dis-
trict 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.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘D. C. Criminal Reforms 4
to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2024’’ or the 5
‘‘DC CRIMES Act of 2024’’. 6
SEC. 2. YOUTH OFFENDERS. 7
(a) L
IMITINGYOUTHOFFENDERSTATUS INDISTRICT 8
OFCOLUMBIA TOINDIVIDUALS18 YEARS OFAGE OR 9
Y
OUNGER.—Section 2(6) of the Youth Rehabilitation Act 10
of 1985 (sec. 24–901(6), D.C. Official Code) is amended by 11
striking ‘‘24 years of age or younger’’ and inserting ‘‘18 12
years of age or younger’’. 13
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 14
(1) R
EPEAL CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUALS 18 15
THROUGH 24 YEARS OF AGE IN STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 16
FACILITIES, TREATMENT, AND SERVICES.—Section 17
3(a–1) of such Act (sec. 24–902(a–1), D.C. Official 18
Code) is amended by striking paragraph (3). 19
(2) C
OMMUNITY SERVICE FOR INDIVIDUALS 20
UNDER ORDER OF PROBATION .—Section 4(a)(2) of 21
such Act (sec. 24–903(a)(2), D.C. Official Code) is 22
amended by striking ‘‘15 to 24 years of age’’ and in-23
serting ‘‘15 to 18 years of age15 to 18 years of age’’. 24
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SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF WEBSITE ON 1
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JUVENILE CRIME 2
STATISTICS. 3
(a) E
STABLISHMENT AND OPERATION.—Subchapter I 4
of chapter 23 of title 16, District of Columbia Official Code, 5
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 6
‘‘§ 16–2340a. Website of updated statistics on juvenile 7
crime 8
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF 9
W
EBSITE.—The Attorney General of the District of Colum-10
bia shall establish and operate a publicly accessible website 11
which contains data on juvenile crime in the District of 12
Columbia, including each of the following statistical meas-13
ures: 14
‘‘(1) The total number of juveniles arrested each 15
year. 16
‘‘(2) The total number and percentage of juve-17
niles arrested each year, broken down by age, race, 18
and sex. 19
‘‘(3) Of the total number of juveniles arrested 20
each year, the total number and percentage arrested 21
for petty crime, including the following crimes: 22
‘‘(A) Vandalism. 23
‘‘(B) Theft. 24
‘‘(C) Shoplifting. 25
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‘‘(4) Of the total number of juveniles arrested 1
each year, the total number and percentage arrested 2
for crime of violence (as defined in section 23– 3
1331(4)). 4
‘‘(5) Of the total number of juveniles arrested 5
each year, the total number and percentage who were 6
arrested for their first offense. 7
‘‘(6) Of the total number of juveniles arrested 8
each year, the total number and percentage who had 9
been arrested previously. 10
‘‘(7) Of the total number of juveniles arrested 11
each year who had been arrested previously, the total 12
number and percentage of the number of arrests. 13
‘‘(8) Of the total number of juveniles arrested 14
each year, the declination rate for prosecutions by the 15
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Co-16
lumbia. 17
‘‘(9) Of the total number of juveniles sentenced 18
each year, the number and percentage who were tried 19
as adults. 20
‘‘(10) Of the total number of juveniles prosecuted 21
each year, the number and percentage who were not 22
sentenced, who were sentenced to a misdemeanor, and 23
who were sentenced to a felony. 24
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‘‘(11) Of the total number of juveniles sentenced 1
each year, the number and percentage of the length of 2
time that will be served in a correctional facility as 3
provided by the sentence. 4
‘‘(b) U
PDATES.—The Attorney General shall update 5
the information contained on the website on a monthly 6
basis. 7
‘‘(c) M
AINTAININGARCHIVE OFINFORMATION.—The 8
Attorney General shall ensure that the information con-9
tained on the website is archived appropriately to provide 10
indefinite public access to historical data of juvenile arrests 11
and prosecutions. 12
‘‘(d) F
ORMAT.—The Attorney General shall ensure that 13
the information contained in the website, including histor-14
ical data described in subsection (c), is available in a ma-15
chine-readable format available for bulk download. 16
‘‘(e) P
ROHIBITINGDISCLOSURE OF PERSONALLY 17
I
DENTIFIABLEINFORMATION.—In carrying out this section, 18
the Attorney General shall ensure that the website does not 19
include any juvenile’s personally identifiable information. 20
‘‘(f) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 21
‘‘(1) the term ‘crime’ has the meaning given the 22
term ‘offense’ in section 23–1331(2); and 23
‘‘(2) the term ‘juvenile’ has the meaning given 24
the term ‘youth offender’ in section 2(6) of the Youth 25
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Rehabilitation Act of 1985 (sec. 24–901(6), D.C. Offi-1
cial Code).’’. 2
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS RELATING TOAU-3
THORIZEDRELEASE OFINFORMATION.— 4
(1) J
UVENILE CASE RECORDS OF FAMILY 5
COURT.—Section 16–2331, District of Columbia Offi-6
cial Code, is amended— 7
(A) by redesignating subsection (i) as sub-8
section (j); and 9
(B) by inserting after subsection (h) the fol-10
lowing new subsection: 11
‘‘(i) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a 12
person shall provide information contained in juvenile case 13
records to the Attorney General for purposes of the website 14
established and operated under section 16–2340a.’’. 15
(2) J
UVENILE SOCIAL RECORDS OF FAMILY 16
COURT.—Section 16–2332, District of Columbia Offi-17
cial Code, is amended— 18
(A) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-19
section (i); and 20
(B) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol-21
lowing new subsection: 22
‘‘(h) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a 23
person shall provide information contained in juvenile so-24
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cial records to the Attorney General for purposes of the 1
website established and operated under section 16–2340a.’’. 2
(3) P
OLICE AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT 3
RECORDS.—Section 16–2333, District of Columbia 4
Official Code, is amended— 5
(A) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-6
section (h); and 7
(B) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-8
lowing new subsection: 9
‘‘(g) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a 10
person shall provide information contained in law enforce-11
ment records and files concerning a child to the Attorney 12
General for purposes of the website established and operated 13
under section 16–2340a.’’. 14
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The Attorney General of the 15
District of Columbia shall establish the website under sec-16
tion 16–2341, District of Columbia Official Code, as added 17
by subsection (a), not later than 180 days after the date 18
of the enactment of this Act. 19
SEC. 4. PROHIBITING COUNCIL FROM ENACTING CHANGES 20
TO EXISTING CRIMINAL LIABILITY SEN-21
TENCES. 22
Section 602(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule 23
Act (sec. 1–206.02(a), D.C. Official Code) is amended— 24
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph (9); 25
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(2) by striking the period at the end of para-1
graph (10) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 2
(3) by adding at the end the following new para-3
graph: 4
‘‘(11) enact any act, resolution, or rule to change 5
any criminal liability sentence in effect on the date 6
of the enactment of the DC CRIMES Act of 2024.’’. 7
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118
TH
CONGRESS
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D
S
ESSION
H. R. 7530
[Report No. 118–479]
A BILL
To limit youth offender status in the District of Co-
lumbia to individuals 18 years of age or younger,
to direct the Attorney General of the District of
Columbia to establish and operate a publicly ac-
cessible 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 Colum-
bia from enacting changes to existing criminal li-
ability sentences, and for other purposes.
A
PRIL
30, 2024
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed
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