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

Received in the Senate.

Sep 17, 2025

This bill restricts the District of Columbia government's authority to modify criminal sentencing laws, freezing criminal liability sentences at their current levels as of the bill's enactment date. It changes the definition of a youth offender by reducing the maximum age from 24 to 18 years old. It eliminates a provision that allowed DC criminal courts to sentence youth offenders below mandatory minimum terms in certain cases, though courts retain discretion in some non-violent contexts such as probation alternatives. The bill requires DC's Office of the Attorney General to publish and monthly update youth offender crime data on a publicly accessible website.

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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.