Lawless Cities Accountability Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3920 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3920

  To provide that Federal funds may not be made available to lawless 
                 jurisdictions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2025

Ms. Mace (for herself, Mr. Gill of Texas, and Mr. Wied) introduced the 
 following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that Federal funds may not be made available to lawless 
                 jurisdictions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lawless Cities Accountability Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR LAWLESS JURISDICTIONS.

    (a) In General.--No Federal funds may be made available to a 
jurisdiction that the Attorney General determines is a lawless 
jurisdiction.
    (b) Attorney General Determinations.--Not later than 30 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and not less than quarterly 
thereafter, the Attorney General shall make determinations on which 
jurisdictions are lawless jurisdictions, and shall make such 
determinations, and an explanation of each determination, publicly 
available.
    (c) Reinstatement of Federal Funds.--A jurisdiction that the 
Attorney General determines is a lawless jurisdiction may begin 
receiving Federal funds on the later of--
            (1) 180 days after the date on which the Attorney General 
        first determines that the jurisdiction is lawless; or
            (2) the date on which the Attorney General determines that 
        the jurisdiction is no longer a lawless jurisdiction.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``lawless jurisdiction'' means a State or 
political subdivision of a State that--
            (1) forbids a law enforcement agency from intervening to 
        restore order amid widespread or sustained violence or 
        destruction;
            (2) has withdrawn law enforcement protection from a 
        geographical area or structure that law enforcement officers 
        are lawfully entitled to access, but have been officially 
        prevented from accessing or permitted to access only in 
        exceptional circumstances, except when law enforcement officers 
        are briefly withheld as a tactical decision intended to resolve 
        safely and expeditiously a specific and ongoing unlawful 
        incident posing an imminent threat to the safety of individuals 
        or law enforcement officers;
            (3) disempowers or defunds law enforcement agencies; or
            (4) refuses to accept an offer of law enforcement 
        assistance from the Federal Government amid widespread or 
        sustained violence or destruction in the jurisdiction, during 
        which the jurisdiction has been unable to restore order.
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