119-hr2159

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 Union Calendar No. 298
119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2159

 [Report No. 119-346]

 To direct the Attorney General of the United States to submit to the 
Congress a report on Federal criminal offenses, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 14, 2025

Mr. Roy (for himself, Mrs. McBath, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, and Mr. Cohen) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 the Judiciary

 October 17, 2025

 Additional sponsor: Mr. Self

 October 17, 2025

 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
 House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
 in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
 14, 2025]

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 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.

 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 ``Count the Crimes to Cut Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON FEDERAL CRIMINAL OFFENSES.

    (a) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section--

    (1) the term ``criminal regulatory offense'' means a 
 Federal regulation that is enforceable by a criminal penalty; 
 and

    (2) the term ``criminal statutory offense'' means a 
 criminal offense under a Federal statute.

    (b) Report on Criminal Statutory Offenses.--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--

    (1) a list of all criminal statutory offenses, including a 
 list of the elements for each criminal statutory offense; and

    (2) for each criminal statutory offense listed under 
 paragraph

    (1) --
        (A) the potential criminal penalty for the criminal 
 statutory offense;
        (B) 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
            (C) the mens rea requirement for the criminal 
 statutory offense.
            (c) Report on Criminal Regulatory Offenses.--

    (1) Reports.--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) a list of all criminal regulatory offenses 
 enforceable by the agency; and
        (B) for each criminal regulatory offense listed 
 under subparagraph
        (A) --
            (i) the potential criminal penalty for a 
 violation of the criminal regulatory offense;
            (ii) 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
            (iii) the mens rea requirement for the 
 criminal regulatory offense.

    (2) Agencies described.--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.
            (d) Index.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
this Act--

    (1) 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

    (2) 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.

    (e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to require or authorize appropriations.
 Union Calendar No. 298

119th CONGRESS

 1st Session

 H. R. 2159

 [Report No. 119-346]

_______________________________________________________________________

 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

 October 17, 2025

 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
 House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed