[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7530 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7530

     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 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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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2024

   Mr. Donalds (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Timmons, and Mr. Palmer) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Oversight and Accountability

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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 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 Columbia from enacting 
    changes to existing criminal liability sentences, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``D. C. Criminal Reforms to 
Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act'' or the ``DC CRIMES Act''.

SEC. 2. YOUTH OFFENDERS.

    (a) Limiting Youth Offender Status in District of Columbia to 
Individuals 18 Years of Age or Younger.--
            (1) Limitation.--Section 2(6) of the Youth Rehabilitation 
        Act of 1985 (sec. 24-901(6), D.C. Official Code) is amended by 
        striking ``24 years of age or younger'' and inserting ``18 
        years of age or younger''.
            (2) Conforming amendments.--
                    (A) Repeal consideration of individuals 18 through 
                24 years of age in strategic plan for facilities, 
                treatment, and services.--Section 3(a-1) of such Act 
                (sec. 24-902(a-1), D.C. Official Code) is amended by 
                striking paragraph (3).
                    (B) Community service for individuals under order 
                of probation.--Section 4(a)(2) of such Act (sec. 24-
                903(a)(2), D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking 
                ``15 to 24 years of age'' and inserting ``15 to 18 
                years of age''.
    (b) Prohibiting Issuance of Sentence Less Than Mandatory-Minimum 
Term.--Section 4(b) of such Act (sec. 24-903(b), D.C. Official Code) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``(b)(1)'' and inserting ``(b)''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (2).

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF WEBSITE ON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
              JUVENILE CRIME STATISTICS.

    (a) Establishment and Operation.--Subchapter I of chapter 23 of 
title 16, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section:
``Sec. 16-2340a. Website of updated statistics on juvenile crime
    ``(a) Establishment and Operation of Website.--The Attorney General 
of the District of Columbia shall establish and operate a publicly 
accessible website which contains data on juvenile crime in the 
District of Columbia, including each of the following statistical 
measures:
            ``(1) The total number of juveniles arrested each year.
            ``(2) The total number and percentage of juveniles arrested 
        each year, broken down by age, race, and sex.
            ``(3) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, 
        the total number and percentage arrested for petty crime, 
        including the following crimes:
                    ``(A) Vandalism.
                    ``(B) Theft.
                    ``(C) Shoplifting.
            ``(4) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, 
        the total number and percentage arrested for crime of violence 
        (as defined in section 23-1331(4)).
            ``(5) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, 
        the total number and percentage who were arrested for their 
        first offense.
            ``(6) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, 
        the total number and percentage who had been arrested 
        previously.
            ``(7) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year 
        who had been arrested previously, the total number and 
        percentage of the number of arrests.
            ``(8) Of the total number of juveniles arrested each year, 
        the declination rate for prosecutions by the Office of the 
        Attorney General for the District of Columbia.
            ``(9) Of the total number of juveniles sentenced each year, 
        the number and percentage who were tried as adults.
            ``(10) Of the total number of juveniles prosecuted each 
        year, the number and percentage who were not sentenced, who 
        were sentenced to a misdemeanor, and who were sentenced to a 
        felony.
            ``(11) Of the total number of juveniles sentenced each 
        year, the number and percentage of the length of time that will 
        be served in a correctional facility as provided by the 
        sentence.
    ``(b) Updates.--The Attorney General shall update the information 
contained on the website on a monthly basis.
    ``(c) Maintaining Archive of Information.--The Attorney General 
shall ensure that the information contained on the website is archived 
appropriately to provide indefinite public access to historical data of 
juvenile arrests and prosecutions.
    ``(d) Format.--The Attorney General shall ensure that the 
information contained in the website, including historical data 
described in subsection (c), is available in a machine-readable format 
available for bulk download.
    ``(e) Prohibiting Disclosure of Personally Identifiable 
Information.--In carrying out this section, the Attorney General shall 
ensure that the website does not include any juvenile's personally 
identifiable information.
    ``(f) Definitions.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `crime' has the meaning given the term 
        `offense' in section 23-1331(2); and
            ``(2) the term `juvenile' has the meaning given the term 
        `youth offender' in section 2(6) of the Youth Rehabilitation 
        Act of 1985 (sec. 24-901(6), D.C. Official Code).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments Relating to Authorized Release of 
Information.--
            (1) Juvenile case records of family court.--Section 16-
        2331, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection 
                (j); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (h) the following 
                new subsection:
    ``(i) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a person 
shall provide information contained in juvenile case records to the 
Attorney General for purposes of the website established and operated 
under section 16-2340a.''.
            (2) Juvenile social records of family court.--Section 16-
        2332, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection 
                (i); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (g) the following 
                new subsection:
    ``(h) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a person 
shall provide information contained in juvenile social records to the 
Attorney General for purposes of the website established and operated 
under section 16-2340a.''.
            (3) Police and other law enforcement records.--Section 16-
        2333, District of Columbia Official Code, is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection 
                (h); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (f) the following 
                new subsection:
    ``(g) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person 
shall provide information contained in law enforcement records and 
files concerning a child to the Attorney General for purposes of the 
website established and operated under section 16-2340a.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The Attorney General of the District of 
Columbia shall establish the website under section 16-2341, District of 
Columbia Official Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITING COUNCIL FROM ENACTING CHANGES TO EXISTING CRIMINAL 
              LIABILITY SENTENCES.

    Section 602(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1-
206.02(a), D.C. Official Code) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (9);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (10) and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(11) enact any act, resolution, or rule to change any 
        criminal liability sentence in effect on the date of the 
        enactment of the DC CRIMES Act.''.
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