Lawless Cities Accountability Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Jun 11, 2025, with cosponsors, all Republicans
IntroducedJun 11, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 91 words.
Lawless Cities Accountability Act of 2025 This bill prohibits federal funding for a jurisdiction that is a lawless jurisdiction. The term lawless jurisdiction means a state or political subdivision of a state that does one of the following: forbids law enforcement from intervening to restore order during widespread violence or destruction, withdraws law enforcement protection from an area or structure that law enforcement officers are lawfully entitled to access, disempowers or defunds law enforcement agencies, or refuses to accept law enforcement assistance from the federal government amid widespread violence or destruction.
Context
- Committees
- House Judiciary Committee
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement: 118 of 4,553 bills became law, 113th–118th (2.6%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 183 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 308 words
- Latest action
- Jun 11, 2025: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]