# H.R. 5625 (119th): Cashless Bail Reporting Act

Cashless Bail Reporting Act This bill requires the Department of Justice to publish annually a list of state and local governments that permit individuals who are charged with certain criminal offenses that pose a clear threat to public safety and order to be released pending trial on personal recognizance or upon execution of an unsecured appearance bond. Under the bill, the criminal offenses that pose a threat to public safety and order include criminal offenses involving a violent or sexual act (e.g., burglary, murder, or rape) and offenses that promote public disorder (e.g., looting or vandalism). On August 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that required the Department of Justice to submit to the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security a list of state and local jurisdictions that have substantially eliminated cash bail as a potential condition for pretrial release for crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order, including offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts, or burglary, looting, or vandalism.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: bail_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: criminal_justice. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: justice. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: public_safety. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 171: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a legitimate public-safety concern about violent and sexual offenders being released pending trial with a prudential mechanism that only publishes a list and does not itself restrain harm or directly advance moral evil. Bail policy is a contested governance question, so the measure falls under a mixed classification rather than a clear good or evil verdict.
Theological note: Scripture grants government a duty to restrain violence and protect the innocent (Romans 13:4), and the safety of the community is a legitimate concern of civil justice. Pretrial release policy, however, involves prudential judgments about how to balance public safety, the presumption of innocence, and the poor's access to liberty. The bill's relevance lies in its concern for protecting communities from violent offenders, while its method, a public reporting list, leaves the substantive bail question to ordinary prudential debate.

## Recorded votes

Roll 171: On Passage. Yea 308 · Nay 116 · Other 6.

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