HR 2159
Count the Crimes to Cut Act
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Bill overview
This bill, the Count the Crimes to Cut Act of 2025, requires the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to create and publish public databases detailing federal criminal offenses. Specifically, it mandates the Attorney General to report on criminal statutory offenses, including penalties, prosecution numbers, and mental state requirements, and requires agencies to report on criminal regulatory offenses, also including penalties, prosecution referrals, and mental state requirements. Finally, it directs the Justice Department to create a public index of these offenses.
Key provisions
- Requires the Attorney General to submit a report on criminal statutory offenses.
- Requires federal agencies to submit reports on criminal regulatory offenses.
- Specifies the information to be included in the reports, such as penalties, prosecution numbers, and mental state requirements.
- Directs the Department of Justice to establish a public index of criminal statutory offenses.
- Directs federal agencies to establish a public index of criminal regulatory offenses.
- The reports are to cover the 15-year period preceding the bill's enactment.
- The reports and indices must be freely accessible on government websites.
- The bill does not require any appropriations.
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- Department of Justice
- Federal Agencies (listed in the bill)
- The Public
- Criminal Defendants
- Legal Professionals
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 2159
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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.
This Act may be cited as the Count the Crimes to Cut Act of 2025
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In this section—
the term criminal regulatory offense means a Federal regulation that is enforceable by a criminal penalty; and
the term criminal statutory offense means a criminal offense under a Federal statute.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report, which shall include—
a list of all criminal statutory offenses, including a list of the elements for each criminal statutory offense; and
for each criminal statutory offense listed under paragraph (1)—
the potential criminal penalty for the criminal statutory offense;
the number of prosecutions for the criminal statutory offense brought by the Department of Justice each year for the 15-year period preceding the date of enactment of this Act; and
the mens rea requirement for the criminal statutory offense.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of each Federal agency described in paragraph (2) shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report, which shall include—
a list of all criminal regulatory offenses enforceable by the agency; and
for each criminal regulatory offense listed under subparagraph (A)—
the potential criminal penalty for a violation of the criminal regulatory offense;
the number of violations of the criminal regulatory offense referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution in each of the years during the 15-year period preceding the date of enactment of this Act; and
the mens rea requirement for the criminal regulatory offense.
The Federal agencies described in this paragraph are the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Labor, the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Election Commission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Federal Maritime Commission, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the National Transportation Safety Board, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, the Office of Compliance, the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and the Office of Government Ethics.
Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act—
the Attorney General shall establish a publically accessible index of each criminal statutory offense listed in the report required under subsection (b) and make the index available and freely accessible on the website of the Department of Justice; and
the head of each agency described in subsection (c)(2) shall establish a publically accessible index of each criminal regulatory offense listed in the report required under subsection (c)(1) and make the index available and freely accessible on the website of the agency.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to require or authorize appropriations.