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End Endless Criminal Statutes Act
To repeal certain unnecessary criminal offenses, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill eliminates nine federal criminal offenses that the sponsor considers outdated or unnecessary. The repealed offenses include writing checks for less than one dollar, illegally distributing colored margarine, removing stamps from mail, making decorative coins, wearing postal worker uniforms, boarding ships before they arrive, putting mail in mailboxes without postage, and sledding on Capitol grounds. The bill also repeals the law against improperly handling seamen's clothing and modifies the law against wearing postal uniforms to require the person act intentionally. These changes remove federal criminal penalties from conduct the sponsor views as no longer warranting prosecution.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5] (R-AZ)
1 cosponsor
- Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21] (R-TX)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Andy Biggs’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- SAULSBURY INDUSTRIES $9,900
- 21ST CENTURY HEALTHCARE $7,500
- ULINE $6,600
- TW LEWIS COMPANY $6,600
- LEE BENSON $6,600
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Andy Biggs → · Outside spending →
Actions (4)
- Jun 10, 2025 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 16 - 14. · house
- Jun 10, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
- Jan 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Jan 3, 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.
Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To repeal certain unnecessary criminal offenses, 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 “End Endless Criminal Statutes Act”.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that actions which may unnecessarily carry criminal penalties under Federal statues include the following:
(1) Writing a check for less than $1.
(2) Selling or possessing colored oleomargarine or colored margarine unless they are packaged and labeled or served in a triangular shape.
(3) Discarding produce without sufficient cause or making a false report concerning that produce.
(4) Removing a stamp from any mail matter.
(5) Making metal coins of original design or attempting to use such coins.
(6) Wearing the uniform of letter carriers of the Postal Service.
(7) Detaining a seaman’s clothing.
(8) Boarding any vessel about to arrive at her destination before such arrival is complete.
(9) Placing mailable matter in a mailbox without postage attached to it.
(10) Sledding on the Capitol grounds when the Capitol Police are directed to prevent any portion of the Capitol grounds from being used as a playground.
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF FEDERAL PROVISIONS.
(a) Section 336 of title 18, United States Code, is repealed.
(b) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 407 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 347) are repealed.
(c) Section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (7 U.S.C. 491; 44 Stat. 1355) is repealed.
(d) Section 1720 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “Whoever unlawfully and willfully removes from any mail matter any stamp attached thereto in payment of postage; or”.
(e) Section 486 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “or of original design.”.
(f) Section 11110 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by striking the second sentence.
(g) Section 2279 of title 18, United States Code, is repealed.
(h) Section 1725 of title 18, United States Code, is repealed.
(i) The Act entitled “An Act to protect the public property, turf, and grass of the Capitol Grounds from injury.” (2 U.S.C. 1963) is repealed.
SEC. 4. INTENT REQUIREMENT FOR OFFENSE RELATED TO UNIFORMS OF LETTER CARRIER.
Section 1730 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting after “to be worn by letter carriers” the following: “with the intent to commit an offense under this chapter”; and
(2) by striking the second undesignated paragraph. <all>
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