B 26-0460 — Juvenile Curfew Second Temporary Amendment Act of 2025

ENGROSSEDENROLLED ORIGINAL AAN BILLACT 26-460________________ IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ________________ To amend, on a temporary basis, the Juvenile Curfew Act of 1995 to authorize the Mayor to extend the juvenile curfew hours in the District when appropriate to protect public safety or public or private property, to authorize the Chief of Police to establish extended juvenile curfew hour zones in specified circumstances, to start the juvenile curfew hours at 11 p.m.

and to amend the Volunteer Services Clarification Temporary Amendment Act of 2025 to make conforming changes.

9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the “Juvenile Curfew Second Temporary Amendment Act of 2025”.

on every dayuntilday until 6:00 a.m.

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(B) Extended curfew hours established by the Mayor pursuant to section 3a;

“(6A) “Notice of violation of curfew” means a verbal warning, authorized by an official that informs a groups of juveniles that they are violating the terms of a curfew, that they ENROLLED ORIGINAL may be arrested if they continue to violate the curfew, and identifies reasonable steps that they can take to leave the area to avoid arrest.”.

“(a) The Mayor may, by issuance of an administrative order pursuant to section 422(12)422(11) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, effective December 24, 1973 (87 Stat.

890;790;

Official Code § 1-204.22(12),1-204.22(11)), extend the juvenile curfew hours in the District, or any part of the District, beyond the hours established in section 3(1A)(A), (B), and (C), if the Mayor determines that such an extension is appropriate to protect public safety or public or private property.

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(1) State the basis for the extension of the juvenile curfew hours;

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(e) The Mayor may extend the timeduration periodof duringthe whichdesignation of an extended juvenile curfew hours imposedzone byto this30 sectiondays shall remain in effect by issuing a subsequent Mayor’sorder orders extending the timeduration period;of the designation.

provided, that each such extension of the time period shall not exceed 30 days.

“(e) The Chief of Police may extend the duration of the designation of an extended juvenile curfew hours zone to 30 days by issuing a subsequent order extending the duration of the designation.

“(A) Is not an imminent danger of bodily injury of significant damage to property, issue at lestleast 2 clearly audible and understandable notices of violation of curfew;

or ENROLLED ORIGINAL “(B) Is imminent danger of bodily injury or significant damage to property, issue at least one clearly audible and understandable notice of violation of curfew;

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(a) The Chief of Police may designate any area of the District as an extended juvenile curfew hours zone, in which extended juvenile curfew hours determined by the Chief of Police shall apply, if the Chief of Police determines that the designation of the extended juvenile curfew hours zone is appropriate to protect public safety or public or private property in the extended juvenile curfew hours zone.

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(A) Juvenile curfew violations in the proposed extended juvenile curfew hours zone;

“(B) Police reports of disturbances of the public peace described in section 1 of An Act To confer concurrent jurisdiction on the police court of the District of Columbia in certain cases, approved July 16, 1912 (37 Stat.

Official Code§Code § 22-1301), sections 6, 3,9, or 16of16 of An act for the preservation of the public peace and the protection of property within the District of Columbia, approved July 29, 1892 (27 Stat.

Official Code §§§ 22-1307, § 22-1309, § 22-1312, or § 22-1318), section 211 of the District of Columbia Law Enforcement Act of 1953, approved June 29, 1953 (67 Stat.

Official Code § 22-1321), or section 901 of An Act relating to crime and criminal procedure in the District of Columbia, approved December 27, 1967 (81 Stat.

ENROLLED ORIGINAL “(C) Police reports of dangerous crimes, as that term is defined in D.C.

“(2) Intelligence or verifiable information indicative of an intent of 9 or more juveniles to gather in the proposed extended juvenile curfew hours zone in such a manner that is ENGROSSED ORIGINAL likely to result in substantial harm to the public safety, or the safety of those gathering, or substantial damage to public or private property;

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(2) Provide juveniles a reasonable and adequate time to disperse;

ENROLLED ORIGINAL “(A) The proposed boundaries of the extended juvenile curfew hours zone;

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(3) Consideration of a petition submitted under this section, and the determination of whether to designate an extended juvenile curfew hours zone in response to the petition, shall be at the sole discretion of the Chief of Police.”.

AmendedThe section 3(1A) within subsection (a)(2) of the Volunteer Services Temporary Amendment Act of 2025, enacted on October 24, 2025 (D.C.

XX__ DCR XXX),___), is amended to read as follows:

(a) Section 3 is amended as follows:

(1) Amendatory section 3(1A) within subsection (a)(2) is amended to read as follows:

on every dayuntilday until 6:00 a.m.

(2) Amendatory section 3a(e) within subsection (b) is amended to read as follows:

“(e) The Mayor may extend the duration of the designation of an extended juvenile curfew hours zone to 30 days by issuing a subsequent order extending the duration of the designation.”.

(b) A new section 3a is added to read as follows:

“Sec.

3a.

Sunset.

“This act shall expire as of April 15, 2026.”.

Sunset.

Section 2 shall expire as of April 15, 2026.