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119-s-3868119th Congress

Count the Crimes to Cut Act

Sponsored By: Senator Lee, Mike [R-UT]

Introduced

Summary

Create a public inventory of federal criminal offenses. This bill would require the Attorney General and many federal agencies to compile reports listing statutory crimes and criminal regulatory offenses, with penalties, prosecution or referral counts for the prior 15 years, and the mens rea or mental-state requirement for each.

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  • Congress and oversight: House and Senate Judiciary Committees would get a DOJ report within 1 year listing every federal statutory crime, its elements, potential penalties, and DOJ prosecution counts for the previous 15 years.
  • Federal agencies named in the bill, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and Department of Health and Human Services, would each submit within 1 year a list of the criminal regulatory offenses they enforce, with penalties, the number of referrals to DOJ over the prior 15 years, and the mens rea for each offense.
  • Public, researchers, and businesses: The Attorney General and each listed agency must publish free, searchable online indexes of the statutory and regulatory criminal offenses on their websites within 2 years.

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Public online index of federal crimes

This bill would require the Attorney General to report every federal criminal statute to Congress, including each offense's elements, potential penalties, DOJ prosecutions over the prior 15 years, and mens rea rules. It would require many federal agencies to report agency rules that carry criminal penalties and the same details, and then publish free, public online indexes of the offenses named in those reports. The indexes would be posted within 2 years of enactment and would not change penalties or authorize new funding.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Lee, Mike [R-UT]

UT • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]

    DE • D

    Sponsored 2/12/2026

  • Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 2/12/2026

  • Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 2/12/2026

  • Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]

    MS • R

    Sponsored 2/12/2026

  • Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]

    VT • D

    Sponsored 2/12/2026

  • Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 3/19/2026

  • Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 3/26/2026

  • Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]

    SC • R

    Sponsored 3/26/2026

  • Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]

    CT • D

    Sponsored 3/26/2026

  • Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 3/26/2026

  • Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 3/26/2026

  • Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]

    FL • R

    Sponsored 4/20/2026

  • Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]

    KY • R

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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