Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee Bills & Legislation

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Us Congress 2023-2024 Regular Session

Us Congress House Bill HB354

Introduced
1/13/23  
Refer
1/13/23  
Report Pass
5/8/24  
LEOSA Reform Act This bill broadens the authority for certain law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms across state lines. Specifically, the bill allows qualified active and retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms and ammunition (including magazines) in school zones; in national parks; on state, local, or private property that is open to the public; and in certain federal facilities that are open to the public. Further, the bill permits states to reduce the frequency with which retired law enforcement officers must meet certain qualification standards.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB38

Introduced
1/9/25  
Preserving Safe Communities by Ending Swatting Act of 2025
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB61

Introduced
1/9/25  
National Human Trafficking Database Act
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB74

Introduced
1/13/25  
Fair Play for Girls ActThis bill requires the Department of Justice to report to Congress on violence against females in athletics in the United States.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB112

Introduced
1/16/25  
Make the Migrant Protection Protocols Mandatory Act of 2025This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to remove certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) from the United States while such an individual's application for admission is pending.Specifically, if such an individual arrived by land from a foreign country bordering the United States and the individual is not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to admission into the United States, DOJ must return that individual to that bordering foreign country while the individual's application for admission is pending. (Currently, DOJ may choose to detain such an individual or return the individual to the bordering foreign country while the application for admission is pending.)
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB123

Introduced
1/16/25  
Handgun Permit to Purchase Act This bill authorizes a grant program for states, local governments, and Indian tribes to implement and evaluate handgun purchaser licensing requirements.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB149

Introduced
1/17/25  
Public Safety First ActThis bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. Specifically, DHS must detain an individual who (1) is unlawfully present in the United States or did not possess the necessary documents when applying for admission; and (2) has been charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admits to having committed acts that constitute the essential elements of burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB158

Introduced
1/21/25  
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens ActThis bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable.First, the bill establishes that a non-U.S. national is inadmissible if the individual has admitted to or is convicted of acts constituting the essential elements of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, a sex offense, conspiracy to commit a sex offense, a violation of certain protection orders, or domestic violence (including physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships).  Next, the bill establishes additional grounds for deportation. Under current law, a non-U.S. national is deportable for certain criminal convictions, including domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse. The bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation. The bill also expands the domestic violence crimes that make a non-U.S. national deportable to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB108

Introduced
1/16/25  
Protecting Higher Education from the Chinese Communist Party Act of 2025This bill prohibits certain members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their families from receiving an F (academic student) or J (exchange visitor) visa.Specifically, this prohibition shall apply to any CCP member who has served in any position in the CCP since this bill's enactment. The prohibition shall also apply to a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, niece, or nephew of such an individual.These prohibitions do not apply if an individual must be admitted for compliance with the United Nations headquarters agreement or other international obligations. The President may waive these prohibitions by certifying to Congress that the waiver is in the U.S. national interest.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB180

Introduced
1/22/25  
Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025 This bill expands the allowable uses of grant funds under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program administered by the Department of Justice.Specifically, the bill allows grants to be used for purchasing containment devices for first responders and training first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB167

Introduced
1/21/25  
Protect and Serve Act of 2025This bill establishes a new criminal offense for knowingly assaulting a law enforcement officer and causing serious bodily injury (or attempting to do so) in circumstances that affect interstate commerce.It imposes criminal penalties—a prison term, a fine, or both—on a violator.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB527

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2025
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB1096

Introduced
3/24/25  
Refer
3/24/25  
Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB331

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act or the HALT Fentanyl ActThis bill permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.Under the bill, offenses involving fentanyl-related substances are triggered by the same quantity thresholds and subject to the same penalties as offenses involving fentanyl analogues (e.g., offenses involving 100 grams or more trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison term).Additionally, the bill establishes a new, alternative registration process for certain schedule I research.The bill also makes several other changes to registration requirements for conducting research with controlled substances, includingpermitting a single registration for related research sites in certain circumstances,waiving the requirement for a new inspection in certain situations, andallowing a registered researcher to perform certain manufacturing activities with small quantities of a substance without obtaining a manufacturing registration.Finally, the bill expresses the sense that Congress agrees with the interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act in United States v. McCray, a 2018 case decided by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. In that case, the court held that butyryl fentanyl, a controlled substance, can be considered an analogue of fentanyl even though, under the Controlled Substances Act, the term controlled substance analogue specifically excludes a controlled substance.
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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB1041

Introduced
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act