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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 27 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to direct district 
attorney and prosecutors offices to report to the Attorney General, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2023 
Ms. MALLIOTAKIS (for herself, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Ms. STEFANIK, Ms. 
VAN DUYNE, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana, Mr. FITZ-
GERALD, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. ISSA, Mr. STAUBER, Mr. 
CALVERT, Mrs. LESKO, Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania, Mrs. SPARTZ, Mr. 
WEBSTER of Florida, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mrs. GREENE 
of Georgia, and Mr. MOYLAN) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act to direct district attorney and prosecutors offices 
to report to the Attorney General, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Prosecutors Need to 
Prosecute Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DISTRICT ATTORNEY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 
FOR BYRNE GRANTS. 
Section 501 of subpart 1 of part E of title I of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10151) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as 
subsections (h) and (i), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) DISTRICT ATTORNEY REPORTING REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On an annual basis, each 
chief executive of a district attorney or prosecutor’s 
office that serves a jurisdiction of 380,000 or more 
persons, which jurisdiction receives funds under this 
part, shall submit to the Attorney General a report 
that contains, for the previous fiscal year, the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) The total number of cases referred to 
the office for prosecution of a covered offense. 
‘‘(B) The number of cases such office de-
clined to prosecute involving a covered offense. 
‘‘(C) For cases involving a covered offense 
that resulted in a plea agreement reached with 
the defendant— 
‘‘(i) the total number of such cases; 
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‘‘(ii) the number of such cases by each 
initial charge; and 
‘‘(iii) the number of such cases by 
each charge of conviction. 
‘‘(D) The number of cases involving cov-
ered offenses initiated against a defendant— 
‘‘(i) previously arrested for a covered 
offense arising out of separate conduct; 
‘‘(ii) previously convicted for a covered 
offense arising out of separate conduct; 
‘‘(iii) with an open case involving a 
covered offense arising out of separate con-
duct; 
‘‘(iv) serving a term of probation for 
a conviction for a covered offense arising 
out of separate conduct; and 
‘‘(v) released on parole for a convic-
tion for a covered offense arising out of 
separate conduct. 
‘‘(E) The number of defendants charged 
with a covered offense— 
‘‘(i) who were released on their own 
recognizance; 
‘‘(ii) who were eligible for bail; and 
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‘‘(iii) for whom the prosecutor re-
quested bail. 
‘‘(2) UNIFORM
STANDARDS.—The Attorney 
General shall define uniform standards for the re-
porting of the information required under this sub-
section, including the form such reports shall take 
and the process by which such reports shall be 
shared with the Attorney General. 
‘‘(3) SUBMISSION
TO
JUDICIARY
COMMIT-
TEES.—The Attorney General shall submit the infor-
mation received under this subsection to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representa-
tives and shall publish such information on a pub-
licly viewable website. 
‘‘(4) COVERED
OFFENSE
DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘covered offense’ means any of 
the following: 
‘‘(A) 
Murder 
or 
non-negligent 
man-
slaughter. 
‘‘(B) Forcible rape. 
‘‘(C) Robbery. 
‘‘(D) Aggravated assault. 
‘‘(E) Burglary. 
‘‘(F) Larceny. 
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‘‘(G) Motor vehicle theft. 
‘‘(H) Arson. 
‘‘(I) Any offense involving the illegal use of 
a firearm. 
‘‘(J) Any offense involving the illegal pos-
session of a firearm.’’. 
Æ 
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