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Lawless Cities Accountability Act of 2025
To provide that Federal funds may not be made available to lawless jurisdictions, and for other purposes.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
Summary
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- 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.
- Jun 11, 2025 Introduced in House
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