[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2706 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2706

         To prohibit cashless bail in the District of Columbia.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 4, 2025

 Mrs. Blackburn (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
         To prohibit cashless bail in the District of Columbia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ending Cashless Bail in Our Nation's 
Capital Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CASHLESS BAIL IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

    The District of Columbia shall not have in effect a policy or 
practice that--
            (1) fails to allow for cash bail at the highest level 
        necessary to ensure public safety, as appropriate, as a 
        condition of pretrial release for a defendant that poses a 
        clear threat to public safety and order, including--
                    (A) a defendant charged with an offense involving--
                            (i) a failure to appear;
                            (ii) obstruction of justice;
                            (iii) fleeing from a law enforcement 
                        officer;
                            (iv) rioting or inciting to riot;
                            (v) sexual abuse;
                            (vi) destruction of another's property;
                            (vii) stalking; or
                            (viii) aggravated assault; and
                    (B) a defendant charged with such an offense on 
                multiple occasions; or
            (2) fails to mandate or impose an automatic presumption of 
        pretrial detention for all defendants charged with violent 
        offenses, such as murder, rape, carjacking, sexual abuse of a 
        minor, robbery, or burglary.
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