HR7449-119

In Committee

PLATE Act

119th Congress Introduced Feb 9, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, PLATE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Transportation, Trade.

Who Benefits and How

immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HDEADC504812C4EDC98EE1C7970F507F3: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting License-plate Access for Transparency and Enforcement Act or the PLATE Act.
  • Section HA1A5777EB8B846A6959E6523985C721C: 2. Limitation on use of funds by u.s. immigration and customs enforcement Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Federal funds made available to U.S....

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, PLATE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Transportation, Trade

Primary Purpose

This bill, PLATE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Transportation Trade

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Feb 10, 2026

Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.

Feb 10, 2026

Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.

Feb 9, 2026

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition …

Feb 9, 2026

Introduced in House

Feb 9, 2026

Ms. Pou introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Immigration Transportation Trade
Actor Mappings
"federal_implementing_agencies"
→ Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill

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