HR8513-119

In Committee

PROTECT Act

119th Congress Introduced Apr 27, 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, PROTECT Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Government Operations, Labor.

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 HA6CB1ABA0BC24848950AA01DFF514C08: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Providing Resources and Oversight to Ensure Confidentiality of Those who serve Act or the PROTECT Act.
  • Section H1D88DBA492DE49ED9012FF65F61E9EFC: 2. Dissemination of DHS guidance regarding certain best practices relating to the handling of personally identifiable information Not later than one year after...

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

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Government Operations, Labor

Primary Purpose

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

Policy Domains

Immigration Government Operations Labor

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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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
Apr 27, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Apr 27, 2026

Introduced in House

Apr 27, 2026

Mr. Hill of Arkansas (for himself and Mr. Goldman of …

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 Government Operations Labor
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

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