S2547-119

In Committee

Kate's Law

119th Congress Introduced Jul 30, 2025

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, Kate's Law, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Criminal Justice, Healthcare.

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 HADAD9D9DD16E48378C651EFC307D5A7A: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Kate's Law.
  • Section HB40FAF79F324479B9F9FE1100AFDB1D3: 2. Commission of crimes by aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States Section 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325) is...
  • Section H7A740227EBE040FA81008EC8C304855E: 3. Increased penalties for reentry of removed alien Section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1326) is amended— by redesignating subsections...

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, Kate's Law, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Criminal Justice, Healthcare

Primary Purpose

This bill, Kate's Law, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Criminal Justice Healthcare

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
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federal implementing agencies: ,
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jul 30, 2025

Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Budd, Mr. Justice, and Mr. …

Jul 30, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Jul 30, 2025

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?

Domains
Immigration Criminal Justice Healthcare
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

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