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To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for enhanced penalties for officers and employees of the Department of Justice and the intelligence communities who conceal, remove, or mutilate Government records, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would increase criminal penalties for Department of Justice officers and intelligence community employees who conceal, remove, or mutilate government records. The penalty would be imprisonment for not less than 20 years or for life, plus potential fines. The bill amends existing federal law that already prohibits such record destruction, but establishes much harsher sentences specifically for DOJ and intelligence agency personnel.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Anna Paulina Luna’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- RED APPLE GROUP $14,652
- ULINE $13,200
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200
- SAULSBURY INDUSTRIES $9,900
- INTERACTIVE BROKERS $9,900
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Actions (2)
- Mar 14, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Mar 14, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 14, 2025
Mrs. Luna (for herself and Mr. Nehls) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for enhanced penalties for officers and employees of the Department of Justice and the intelligence communities who conceal, remove, or mutilate Government records, 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 “Stopping High-level Record Elimination and Destruction Act of 2025” or the “SHRED Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR CONCEALMENT, REMOVAL, OR MUTILATION OF GOVERNMENT RECORDS FOR OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
Section 2071 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(c) Whoever, being an officer or employee of the Department of Justice or of an agency or office of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4), commits an offense under this section, shall be imprisoned not less than 20 years or for life, fined under this title, or both.”. <all>
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