S3790-119

In Committee

Protect America Act

119th Congress Introduced Feb 5, 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 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

Criminal Justice Government Operations Immigration

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
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law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
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federal implementing agencies:
law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Feb 5, 2026

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Feb 5, 2026

Introduced in Senate

Feb 5, 2026

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?

Domains
Criminal Justice Government Operations Immigration
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

3 terms
"constructive knowledge" §id56ce3aa247f14191a350b63d3a9a697a

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

"covered Federal funds" §idd1842c6fee8a4a3e9e9e6c9f3ce338ff

any grant, cooperative agreement, loan, contract, or other form of Federal financial assistance administered by— the Department of Justice

"immigration enforcement cooperation" §iddb92be316e184570aedb57d2cbc05766

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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