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No DOT Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act

To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from entering into, extending, or renewing a contract with, or awarding a grant to, a sanctuary city, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 21, 2025

Latest action (Jul 21, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Referred to
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Policy area
Transportation and Public Works
Issues
Immigration

Summary
  • Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from providing grants, awards, or federal funds to any sanctuary city.
  • Defines sanctuary cities as states or political subdivisions that have policies prohibiting or restricting government entities from exchanging citizenship or immigration status information with other governments.
  • Defines sanctuary cities as including jurisdictions that prohibit or restrict compliance with Department of Homeland Security detainer requests or release notifications under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
  • Permits the Secretary of Transportation to waive the prohibition on a case-by-case basis if the Secretary certifies to Congress that the activity is in the national interest of the United States.
  • Requires the Secretary to submit any waiver certification to Congress at least 15 days before the applicable activity is carried out.

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)
13 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • Employer not reported $68,175
  • SANFORD HEALTH $31,000
  • STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA $28,050
  • AVERA HEALTH $18,200
  • VANTAGE POINT $15,205

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

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
  2. Jul 21, 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 79%
  • HR 3987 — No Community Development Block Grants for Sanctuary Cities Act · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 3861 — Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act · Introduced Jun 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HR 3827 — Recouping Funds from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 32 — No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 3881 — Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act · Introduced Jun 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jul 21, 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

July 21, 2025

Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Babin, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Harrigan, Ms. Tenney, Mr. McGuire, and Mr. McDowell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

A BILL

To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from entering into, extending, or renewing a contract with, or awarding a grant to, a sanctuary city, 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 “No DOT Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act”.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING TO SANCTUARY CITIES.

(a) In General.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Transportation may not provide any grant, award, or Federal funds to any sanctuary city.

(b) Waiver.—The Secretary may waive the prohibition under paragraph (1) on a case-by-case basis by submitting to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, not later than 15 days before the applicable activity is carried out, a written certification that the activity to which the provision applies and for which a waiver will be provided is in the national interest of the United States.

(c) Sanctuary City Defined.—In this section, the term “sanctuary city” means any State or 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. <all>

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