# 119-s-2686: DC CRIMES Act

119-s-2686, DC CRIMES Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN); status introduced (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2686
- Congress: 119
- Title: DC CRIMES Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-09-02
- Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN)
- Cosponsors: 7
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Limits youth offender status to people 18 or younger.** It would also require the D.C. Attorney General to publish a public, machine-readable website of juvenile crime statistics and would prohibit the D.C. Council from changing mandatory minimums or sentencing guidelines that exist on the date of enactment. - Families and young adults: People aged 19 to 24 would lose youth-offender status and related protections and could face adult sentencing. - Public and researchers: The Attorney General would publish monthly, downloadable juvenile crime data with an indefinite archive and no personally identifiable information. The site must be live within 180 days and include arrests by age, race, and sex, offense type, prior arrests, prosecution decisions, and sentencing ranges. - Local government and sentencing: The D.C. Council would be barred from enacting any change to mandatory minimum sentences or criminal sentencing guidelines that are in effect on the date of enactment.

## Cosponsors (7)

- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] (R-AR), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] (R-LA), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] (R-NC), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] (R-TN), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (R-TX), 2025-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO] (R-MO), 2025-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Fewer young adults as youth offenders: cost, high. If enacted, the bill would change the "youth offender" age from 24 to 18. People aged 19 through 24 would no longer count as youth offenders. The bill would remove planning rules that covered ages 18–24. It would also strike a rule that allowed judges to give youth offenders sentences below mandato…
- Stop D.C. Council changing sentences: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would bar the D.C. Council from passing any act, resolution, or rule that changes a mandatory minimum sentence or sentencing guideline that exists on the bill's enactment date. This is a restriction on future local lawmaking and does not itself change current individual sentenc…
- Public juvenile crime data website: mixed, low. If enacted, the bill would require the D.C. Attorney General to build a public website with detailed juvenile crime statistics. The site must show monthly counts and percentages by age, race, and sex; petty crimes; violent crimes; first-time and repeat arrests; declination rates; adult sentencing c…

## Related bills

- 119-s-1071: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
- 119-s-292: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025
- 119-s-3752: SAVE America Act
- 119-s-401: Fair Access to Banking Act
- 119-s-186: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025
- 119-s-6: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

## Sources
- [119-s-2686 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2686)

## Related
- [119-s-1071: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1071)
- [119-s-292: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-292)
- [119-s-3752: SAVE America Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3752)
- [119-s-401: Fair Access to Banking Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-401)
- [119-s-186: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-186)
- [119-s-6: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-6)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2686 (as of 2026-04-21).