H.R. 5140 · 119th Congress · Crime and law enforcement
Trying DC Minors as Adults at Age 14
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Sep 16, 2025
Roll call ↗225
203
Passed the House.
Passed the House on September 16, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate
- IntroducedSep 4, 2025
- CommitteeSep 4, 2025
- Passed HouseSep 16, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 6
- all Republicans
- House committee
- Oversight and Government Reform
- Lobbying
- At least 8
- organizations named it2025 Q3 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Lowers, for the District of Columbia, the age at which a minor charged with certain offenses can be moved into the adult criminal system.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, September 16, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
To lower the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult for certain criminal offenses in the District of Columbia to 14 years of age.
Lowers, for the District of Columbia, the age at which a minor charged with certain offenses can be moved into the adult criminal system. Section (a) amends DC Official Code 16-2301 to drop from sixteen to fourteen the age at which such a minor is excluded from Family Court jurisdiction. Section (b) amends DC Official Code 16-2307(a) to lower the ages at which a minor may be transferred to an adult criminal proceeding, changing fifteen to fourteen in one paragraph and sixteen to fourteen in another. The changes apply to offenses committed on or after the date of enactment.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 8 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 23 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 8 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL); The Sentencing Project; Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; American Civil Liberties Union; Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 3 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.