Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors. The main policy domain is Criminal Justice, Government Operations, Immigration.
Who Benefits and How
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors 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, law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025.
- Section id3260133a12d14cedb4427daa49b2f894: 2. Findings and sense of Congress Congress finds the following: The dark web is made up of websites and other network services that leverage overlay networks...
- Section id761539ee25954c71a74564b87e850ef9: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term dark web has the meaning given the term in subsection (i) of section 401 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841),...
- Section id65d4b981d5324444b3caab390c5b7b5f: 4. Offenses involving the dark web Section 401 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841) is amended by adding at the end the following: In this...
- Section id393df20cffe44b349dc151c1cd4e33cd: 5. Joint criminal opioid and darknet enforcement task force There is established in the Federal Bureau of Investigation an interagency program that shall be...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Government Operations, Immigration
Primary Purpose
This bill, Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_treasury"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
- "secretary_of_homeland_security"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a portion of the internet in which there are hidden sites and services that—(A)are not indexed by an internet search engine
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