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Recouping Funds from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025

To require that any sanctuary jurisdiction return any Federal funds provided to it during a particular period.

Introduced Jun 6, 2025

Latest action (Jun 6, 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.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Immigration
Issues
Immigration

Summary
  • Requires political subdivisions that restrict sharing immigration-related information with Federal agencies or complying with Department of Homeland Security detention requests to return unobligated Federal funds they received.
  • Applies the requirement only to Federal funds received beginning in the fifth fiscal year before this Act's enactment.
  • Exempts certain Federal funds provided under the Crime Control and Safe Streets Act from the return requirement.
  • Provides a 15-day grace period for jurisdictions to change their policies and avoid the requirement to return funds.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Beth Van Duyne’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $51,100
  • INSPERITY $14,800
  • AMERICAN AIRLINES $14,473
  • BANK OF THE WEST $14,200
  • CHARTER BROKERAGE LLC $13,862

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Beth Van Duyne → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 6, 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. · house
  2. Jun 6, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 205 — No Congressional Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 81%
  • HR 32 — No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • S 3921 — Sanctuary Jurisdiction Event Security Enhancement Act · Introduced Feb 25, 2026 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 5005 — Sanctuary Penalty and Public Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HR 611 — Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • S 185 — Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 22, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 6, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 6, 2025

Ms. Van Duyne 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

A BILL

To require that any sanctuary jurisdiction return any Federal funds provided to it during a particular period.

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 “Recouping Funds from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. RETURN OF FUNDS BY SANCTUARY JURISDICTIONS.

(a) In General.—Any political subdivision of a State shall return any Federal funds not obligated that were received during any period in which that political subdivision was a political subdivision of a State described in subsection (b).

(b) Political Subdivision Described.—A political subdivision of a State described in this subsection is any political subdivision of a State that has in effect a statute, ordinance, policy, or practice that prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from—

(1) sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging with any Federal, State, or local government entity information regarding the citizenship or immigration status (lawful or unlawful) of any individual; or

(2) complying with a request lawfully made by the Department of Homeland Security under section 236 or 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226 and 1357) to comply with a detainer for, or notify about the release of, an individual.

(c) Limitations.—Subsection (a) applies only with regard to Federal funds received by a political subdivision of a State only beginning for the fiscal year that is the fifth full fiscal year immediately preceding the effective date of this Act. Subsection (a) does not apply to any funds received under subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

(d) Grace Period.—In the case of any political subdivision that submits to the Attorney General a notice to remedy, and not later than 15 days thereafter takes such actions as may be necessary to no longer be a political subdivision described in subsection (b), the application of subsection (a) may be suspended. <all>

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