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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 1984
To amend title 23, United States Code, to limit certain Federal funding
to States that do not have a process to notify the Secretary of Homeland
Security of the release from custody or detainment certain aliens under
certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH10, 2025
Mr. C
RANK(for himself and Ms. BOEBERT) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, to limit certain
Federal funding to States that do not have a process
to notify the Secretary of Homeland Security of the
release from custody or detainment certain aliens under
certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Blocking Lawless Open 4
Border Cities and States Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘BLOC 5
Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY OF SANCTUARY JURISDICTIONS FOR 1
CERTAIN FEDERAL FUNDS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 6 of title 23, United 3
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-4
lowing: 5
‘‘§ 612. Ineligibility of sanctuary jurisdictions for cer-6
tain Federal funds 7
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 8
shall not obligate or award funds for any infrastructure 9
project, including for highway construction, to a political 10
subdivision of a State, nor shall any funds obligated or 11
awarded to a State, go to any political subdivision of a 12
State that does not have in effect not later than 1 year 13
after the date of enactment of the BLOC Act a statute, 14
ordinance, policy, or practice requiring an entity or official 15
of such political subdivision to notify the Secretary of 16
Homeland Security (or designee thereof) not later than 17
48 hours before of the release from custody or detainment 18
of an alien if— 19
‘‘(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security (or 20
designee thereof) has determined that such alien is 21
not lawfully present in the United States; 22
‘‘(2) not later than 48 hours before such re-23
lease, the Secretary of Homeland Security (or des-24
ignee thereof) has notified the sheriff or detaining 25
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entity of such State or political subdivision of the 1
legal status of such alien; and 2
‘‘(3) such alien has been in custody or detain-3
ment for not less than 48 hours before such release. 4
‘‘(b) D
EFINITION OFINFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT.— 5
In this section, the term ‘infrastructure project’ has the 6
meaning given such term in section 184.3 of title 2, Code 7
of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enact-8
ment of the BLOC Act).’’. 9
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap-10
ter 6 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by add-11
ing at the end the following: 12
‘‘612. Ineligibility of sanctuary jurisdictions for certain Federal funds.’’.
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