HR2056Passed House
District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act of 2025
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-03-11
Introduced
1
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Clay Higgins
Republican · LA · Representative
Votes with party: 90.8% (655 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/H001077
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Cosponsors (1)
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
2025-06-12
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsReferred To · 2025-06-12
Previously
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformUnknown · 2025-06-11
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformReported By · 2025-06-03
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMarkup By · 2025-03-25
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformReferred To · 2025-03-11
Plain-English Summary
District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act This bill prohibits the District of Columbia (DC) from limiting its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement activities, except for certain instances involving witnesses and victims of crime. Specifically, the bill bars DC from adopting a law, policy, or practice prohibiting DC governmental entities from sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual with a federal, state, or local government entity. Further, DC may not adopt a law, policy, or practice of not complying with lawful requests from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to comply with a detainer for, or notify about the release of, an individual from custody. (A detainer is a formal request from DHS that a state or locality hold an individual in custody for up to 48 hours after the individual would otherwise be released so that DHS may facilitate the individual's removal.) The bill provides exceptions allowing DC to adopt policies of not sharing information or complying with a detainer request regarding an individual who comes forward as a victim or a witness of a crime.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Immigration
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