HR 2159
Advanced toward a vote
Requires the Attorney General and 35 named federal agencies to report on and publish public indexes of federal criminal statutes and criminal regulations, including their penalties, prosecution or referral counts, and intent requirements.
Official title: Count the Crimes to Cut Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
14-MAR-2025
Referred
14-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
10-JUN-2025
Reported
17-OCT-2025
On the calendar
17-OCT-2025
Passed
01-DEC-2025
Senate
Received
02-DEC-2025
Approved by committee
26-MAR-2026
Reported
14-APR-2026
On the calendar
14-APR-2026
- Requires the Attorney General to report to the Judiciary Committees within one year on every federal criminal statute, its elements, its potential penalty, its prosecutions over the prior 15 years, and its mens rea requirement.
- Requires listed agencies, including the EPA, SEC, and FTC, to report within one year on each criminal regulatory offense they enforce, with its penalty, the number of violations referred to the Justice Department over the prior 15 years, and its mens rea requirement.
- Requires the Attorney General and those agencies to establish free, publicly accessible online indexes of these offenses within two years.
- States that nothing in the section requires or authorizes appropriations.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (14-MAR-2025); the text has changed since (Reported to Senate, 14-APR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
- Judiciary Committee (Senate)
Crime and Law Enforcement
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2 Republicans
2 Democrats