Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits the authority of the District of Columbia (DC) government over its criminal sentencing laws.

Highlights:

• Limits the authority of the District of Columbia (DC) government over its criminal sentencing laws (Sec. 2-4).

• Repeals and 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 (Sec. 2-4).

• Reduces the maximum age of a youth offender from 24 years to 18 years (Sec. 2-4).

• 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 (Sec. 2-4).

• Specifies that 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.) (Sec. 2-4).

• Requires the Office of the Attorney General for DC to publish, and update monthly, certain youth offender crime data on a publicly accessible website (Sec. 2-4).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text