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Safe and Open Streets Act

To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal penalty for interfering with commerce by blocking public roads.

Introduced Jun 13, 2025

Latest action (Jun 13, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Issues
Criminal Justice

Summary
  • Establishes a federal crime for purposely blocking public roads or highways to obstruct or delay commerce, with penalties of up to five years imprisonment and/or fines.
  • Expands federal law to criminalize blocking public roads as a separate form of interference with commerce, distinct from offenses based on threats or violence.
  • Updates related federal law section headings, tables of contents, and cross-references to reflect the new road-blocking offense.

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 David Rouzer’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • COASTAL KIA $11,600
  • TRANS-GLOBAL SOLUTIONS, INC $9,900
  • RETIRED - NO EMPLOYER $9,700
  • STS INTERNATIONAL $7,000
  • DMM STRATEGIES, INC. $6,850

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

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 13, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Jun 13, 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.

  • S 2115 — Safe and Open Streets Act · Introduced Jun 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 91%
  • HR 4846 — ROAD Act · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 4831 — ENFORCE Act · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 5118 — Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act · Introduced Sep 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 3278 — Protecting Critical Infrastructure Act · Introduced May 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 4177 — COPS Act · Introduced Jun 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 13, 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 13, 2025

Mr. Rouzer (for himself and Mr. Edwards) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal penalty for interfering with commerce by blocking public roads.

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 “Safe and Open Streets Act”.

SEC. 2. CRIME OF INTERFERENCE WITH COMMERCE BY BLOCKING PUBLIC ROADS.

(a) In General.—Section 1951 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections

(c) and (d), respectively; and

(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:

“(b) Interference With Commerce by Blocking Public Roads.—

“(1) Offense.—It shall be unlawful to, in any way or degree, purposely obstruct, delay, or affect commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by blocking a public road or highway, or to attempt or conspire so to do.

“(2) Penalty.—Any person who violates paragraph (1) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.”.

(b) Conforming Amendments.—

(1) Section heading.—The heading of section 1951 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “by threats or violence”.

(2) Table of sections.—The table of sections for chapter 95 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 1951 and inserting the following:

“1951. Interference with commerce.”.

(3) Cross references.—

(A) Title 5, united states code.—Section 8332(o)(2)(B)(xx) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking “by threats of violence”.

(B) Title 18, united states code.—Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(i) in section 1961(1), by striking “, robbery, or extortion”; and

(ii) in section 2516(1)(c), by striking “by threats or violence”. <all>

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