District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-09-04 — Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act: cross-connection with keep-violent-criminals-off-streets-act: Parallel congressional efforts to reshape pretrial cash bail: the DC bill directly restructures DC’s system, while this bill uses federal grant conditions to pressure states and localities. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-05-18 — Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025: cross-connection with charitable-bail-funds-regulation: Related federal responses to cash-bail policy: the DC bill re-establishes cash bail in DC, while this measure would burden charitable bail funds that finance pretrial release. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-05-18 — Cashless Bail Reporting Act: cross-connection with cashless-bail-reporting-act: Both address cashless/pretrial release policy: the federal reporting bill would list jurisdictions using non-monetary release for serious offenses, while the DC bill directly restructures cash bail in the District. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-11-20 — District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025: HR5214 (119th Congress) as introduced would mandate pretrial and post-conviction detention for crimes of violence and dangerous crimes, and require a secured appearance bond for public safety or order crimes in DC — replacing current judicial release discretion and rebuttable presumptions with statutory mandatory detention and secured cash bail; received in Senate 2025-11-20. (novelty: 3)