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HR 4922 · 119th Congress · HouseOther

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

In plain language: This bill removes young adults ages 18 through 24 from the District of Columbia’s youth rehabilitation system, subjecting them to standard adult criminal penalties and ending their eligibility for youth-focused treatment programs and record expungement. It also eliminates the power of judges to hand down sentences below mandatory minimum prison terms for youth offenders. Additionally, the D.C. Attorney General must launch a public website that publishes monthly, anonymized statistics on juvenile arrests, prosecution rates, and sentencing outcomes.

Provisional: our plain-language summary, pending review.

Provisionalunreviewed: impact, provisions, stakeholders, summary
People affected—Not determinable from the text provided; the bill alters sentencing eligibility criteria for individuals aged 18 to 24 and juvenile reporting mandates in the District of Columbia, but specifies no population or caseload counts.
Fiscal magnitude—Not determinable from the text provided; the bill does not authorize or appropriate specific dollar amounts for website development, administration, or correctional impacts.
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Issues

What this bill touches.

Sentencing & corrections−50Federal vs. state/local+35Ethics & oversight+40

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

Who it helps

  • The public and criminal justice researchersGains access to a monthly updated, permanently archived, and machine-readable public database of juvenile crime, arrest demographics, prosecution declinations, and sentencing metrics.provisional

Who it burdens

  • Criminal offenders in D.C. ages 18 through 24Loses eligibility for specialized youth sentencing alternatives, record-sealing protections, and youth rehabilitation facility and treatment programming under the Youth Rehabilitation Act.provisional
  • Youth offenders in D.C. facing mandatory-minimum sentencesCan no longer receive a sentence below the statutory mandatory-minimum prison term for their offenses under the Youth Rehabilitation Act.provisional
  • Office of the Attorney General for the District of ColumbiaMust build, operate, monthly update, and permanently archive a public, downloadable statistical website tracking juvenile arrests, charges, declination rates, and sentencing data within 180 days.provisional
  • Custodians of D.C. Family Court and law enforcement juvenile recordsMust provide juvenile case records, social records, and law enforcement files to the D.C. Attorney General to populate the public juvenile crime website.provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

  1. Lowers the maximum age of eligibility under D.C.'s Youth Rehabilitation Act from 24 to under 18, ending specialized youth sentencing options and criminal record-sealing protections for offenders ages 18 through 24.

    Sec. 2(a)(1)provisional

  2. Bars judges from giving youth offenders sentences that are shorter than the mandatory-minimum prison term required for their crime.

    Sec. 2(b)provisional

  3. Requires the D.C. Attorney General to launch within 180 days, update monthly, and permanently archive a public website tracking juvenile crime, arrest demographics, repeat offenses, prosecution decisions, and sentencing lengths in a downloadable format without personal identifying details.

    Sec. 3(a)provisional

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Timeline

How it moved.

  1. Sep 17, 2025Received in the Senate.
  2. Sep 16, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Sep 16, 2025On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 179 (Roll no. 270). (text: CR H4333)
  4. Sep 16, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 240 - 179 (Roll no. 270). (text: CR H4333)
  5. Sep 15, 2025Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 707 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4922, H.R. 5143, H.R. 5140, H.R. 5125, H.R. 1047, H.R. 3015 and H.R. 3062. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4922, H.R. 5143, H.R. 5140, H.R. 5125, H.R. 1047, H.R. 3015, and H.R. 3062 under a closed rule, and provides for a motion to recommit on each measure.
  6. Sep 10, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 19.
  7. Aug 8, 2025Introduced in House
  8. Aug 8, 2025Introduced in House

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