Protect America Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Protect America Act, 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; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Protect America Act. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
- Section id7c8f999f5aac44318ac4d9c7637d6cf7: 100. Short title This title may be cited as the No Sanctuary Cities Act.
- Section idd7d3eff1c30d47f2a38603ffa8f740c1: 101. Finding; purposes; authority Congress finds that the conditions imposed by this subtitle are unambiguous, directly related to the Federal interest in...
- Section iddb92be316e184570aedb57d2cbc05766: 102. Definitions In this subtitle: The term covered Federal funds means any grant, cooperative agreement, loan, contract, or other form of Federal financial...
- Section id306d117995dd43d69727518310aeb079: 103. Condition for the receipt of covered Federal funds As a condition of receiving covered Federal funds, a covered jurisdiction shall certify that— it does...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Protect America Act, 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, Protect America Act, 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
Eric Schmitt
R-MO | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Schmitt introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
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?
- "secretary_of_homeland_security"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
officials of a covered jurisdiction knew, or reasonably should have known in light of the facts and circumstances, that— the individual was a removable alien
any grant, cooperative agreement, loan, contract, or other form of Federal financial assistance administered by— the Department of Justice
compliance with Federal laws governing information sharing, notification, and coordination with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including— communicating information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of individuals in custody
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