Legislation· Mar 2024Sponsored by Mike Collins (R)
Laken Riley Act
Would have required to detain non-citizens charged with theft crimes and let states sue over immigration enforcement.
Tradeoff
Would have mandated detention of non-citizens arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. Would have also granted state governments legal standing to challenge federal immigration decisions in federal court.
What's in it
Costs between $0 and $1 million over the 2024-2029 period; spending subject to not estimated.
The $0-$1 million federal cost is just the administrative overhead for detention and court processing of the mandatory detention requirement; the policy's actual impact falls on non-citizens who meet the detention criteria and on states that now have legal authority to challenge federal immigration decisions.
The House passed this 251-170 on March 7, 2024. The bill expired with the 118th Congress without Senate action.
House
Introduced
(Mar 1, 2024)
House
Committee on the Judiciary(Mar 1, 2024)
House
Passage of the bill
Passed(Roll #66 · Mar 7, 2024)
251 yeanay 170Senate
Received from the House
Received(Mar 8, 2024)
- Steve Scalise (R-LA)
- Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)
- August Pfluger (R-TX)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT)
- Mark Alford (R-MO)
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY)
- Mary E. Miller (R-IL)
- Troy E. Nehls (R-TX)
- Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
- Rick W. Allen (R-GA)
- Nancy Mace (R-SC)
- Russell Fry (R-SC)
- Erin Houchin (R-IN)
- Keith Self (R-TX)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
- Austin Scott (R-GA)
- Lance Gooden (R-TX)
- Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
- Dan Bishop (R-NC)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- Richard McCormick (R-GA)
- Rudy Yakym (R-IN)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
- A. Drew Ferguson (R-GA)
- John W. Rose (R-TN)
- Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
- William R. Timmons (R-SC)
- Troy Balderson (R-OH)
- Brian Babin (R-TX)
- Laurel M. Lee (R-FL)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA)
- Mike Bost (R-IL)
- Jason Smith (R-MO)
- Roger Williams (R-TX)
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
- Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX)
- Ralph Norman (R-SC)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA)
- Daniel Webster (R-FL)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ)
- Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
- Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY)
- Beth Van Duyne (R-TX)
- Aaron Bean (R-FL)
- Zachary Nunn (R-IA)
- Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA)
- Bill Posey (R-FL)
- Morgan Luttrell (R-TX)
- Jake LaTurner (R-KS)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- Michael T. McCaul (R-TX)
- Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
- Randy Feenstra (R-IA)
- Barry Moore (R-AL)
- Debbie Lesko (R-AZ)
- Andrew Ogles (R-TN)
- Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA)
- Scott Franklin (R-FL)
- Brandon Williams (R-NY)
- Tom McClintock (R-CA)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA)
- Sam Graves (R-MO)
- Andy Barr (R-KY)
- Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT)
- Cory Mills (R-FL)
- John James (R-MI)
- Brad Finstad (R-MN)
- Victoria Spartz (R-IN)
- Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV)
- Ben Cline (R-VA)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)
- Ronny Jackson (R-TX)
- Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL)
- John Joyce (R-PA)
Passage votes· Mar 7, 2024· 118th Congress · 2023–2025