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Sovereign States Bureau of Prisons Restructuring Act of 2025
To direct the Attorney General to structure funding issued to the Bureau of Prisons as State block grants.
Summary
This bill directs the Attorney General to develop a plan to restructure federal Bureau of Prisons funding and return it to fiscal year 2019 levels. Under the restructuring plan, 50 percent of Bureau of Prisons funds would be converted into block grants to states, 10 percent would support the DOJ office administering these grants, and 10 percent would fund the DOJ Office of Inspector General for oversight. The Attorney General must develop this plan within 270 days of enactment and implement it within one year.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3] (R-LA)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Clay Higgins’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $14,100
- SAFESOURCE DIRECT $10,500
- THE PICARD GROUP $8,300
- WINN CORRECTIONAL $6,666
- PHI, INC. $6,600
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Actions (2)
- May 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- May 13, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 13, 2025
Mr. Higgins of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To direct the Attorney General to structure funding issued to the Bureau of Prisons as State block grants.
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 “Sovereign States Bureau of Prisons Restructuring Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. STATE BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM FOR BUREAU OF PRISONS FUNDS.
(a) Development.—Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall take such steps as necessary to develop a plan to—
(1) return the amount of funding issued to the Bureau of Prisons to the amount issued to the Bureau in fiscal year 2019; and
(2) structure funding issued pursuant to paragraph (1) to the Bureau of Prisons in the following manner—
(A) 50 percent of Bureau of Prison funds shall be converted to block grants issued to the States;
(B) 10 percent of Bureau of Prison funds shall be provided to the office of the Department of Justice administering a block grants under subparagraph (A); and
(C) 10 percent of Bureau of Prison funds shall be provided to the office of the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General for oversight of the block grants under subparagraph (A).
(b) Implementation.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the plan developed under subsection (a) shall be implemented. <all>
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