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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2159
To direct the Attorney General of the United States to submit to the Congress
a report on Federal criminal offenses, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH14, 2025
Mr. R
OY(for himself, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. BIGGSof Arizona, and Mr. COHEN)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary
A BILL
To direct the Attorney General of the United States to
submit to the Congress a report on Federal criminal
offenses, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Count the Crimes to 4
Cut Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. REPORT ON FEDERAL CRIMINAL OFFENSES. 6
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 7
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(1) the term ‘‘criminal regulatory offense’’ 1
means a Federal regulation that is enforceable by a 2
criminal penalty; and 3
(2) the term ‘‘criminal statutory offense’’ 4
means a criminal offense under a Federal statute. 5
(b) R
EPORT ONCRIMINALSTATUTORYOFFENSES.— 6
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this 7
Act, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee 8
on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the 9
Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report, which 10
shall include— 11
(1) a list of all criminal statutory offenses, in-12
cluding a list of the elements for each criminal stat-13
utory offense; and 14
(2) for each criminal statutory offense listed 15
under paragraph (1)— 16
(A) the potential criminal penalty for the 17
criminal statutory offense; 18
(B) the number of prosecutions for the 19
criminal statutory offense brought by the De-20
partment of Justice each year for the 15-year 21
period preceding the date of enactment of this 22
Act; and 23
(C) the mens rea requirement for the 24
criminal statutory offense. 25
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(c) REPORT ON CRIMINALREGULATORY OF-1
FENSES.— 2
(1) R
EPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the 3
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each Fed-4
eral agency described in paragraph (2) shall submit 5
to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and 6
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 7
Representatives a report, which shall include— 8
(A) a list of all criminal regulatory of-9
fenses enforceable by the agency; and 10
(B) for each criminal regulatory offense 11
listed under subparagraph (A)— 12
(i) the potential criminal penalty for a 13
violation of the criminal regulatory offense; 14
(ii) the number of violations of the 15
criminal regulatory offense referred to the 16
Department of Justice for prosecution in 17
each of the years during the 15-year period 18
preceding the date of enactment of this 19
Act; and 20
(iii) the mens rea requirement for the 21
criminal regulatory offense. 22
(2) A
GENCIES DESCRIBED.—The Federal agen-23
cies described in this paragraph are the Department 24
of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the 25
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Department of Education, the Department of En-1
ergy, the Department of Health and Human Serv-2
ices, the Department of Homeland Security, the De-3
partment of Housing and Urban Development, the 4
Department of the Interior, the Department of 5
Labor, the Department of Transportation, the De-6
partment of the Treasury, the Commodity Futures 7
Trading Commission, the Consumer Product Safety 8
Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity 9
Commission, the Export-Import Bank of the United 10
States, the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal 11
Communications Commission, the Federal Deposit 12
Insurance Corporation, the Federal Election Com-13
mission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the 14
Federal Maritime Commission, the Federal Mine 15
Safety and Health Review Commission, the Federal 16
Trade Commission, the National Labor Relations 17
Board, the National Transportation Safety Board, 18
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Occupa-19
tional Safety and Health Review Commission, the 20
Office of Compliance, the Postal Regulatory Com-21
mission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, 22
the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, the 23
Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Busi-24
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ness Administration, the Federal Housing Finance 1
Agency, and the Office of Government Ethics. 2
(d) I
NDEX.—Not later than 2 years after the date 3
of enactment of this Act— 4
(1) the Attorney General shall establish a pub-5
lically accessible index of each criminal statutory of-6
fense listed in the report required under subsection 7
(b) and make the index available and freely acces-8
sible on the website of the Department of Justice; 9
and 10
(2) the head of each agency described in sub-11
section (c)(2) shall establish a publically accessible 12
index of each criminal regulatory offense listed in 13
the report required under subsection (c)(1) and 14
make the index available and freely accessible on the 15
website of the agency. 16
(e) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-17
tion shall be construed to require or authorize appropria-18
tions. 19
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