The record

LegislationLegislation· Mar 2025
S 960 Passed Senate — in House

Sponsored by Chuck Grassley (R)

Justice for Murder Victims Act

Removes time limits for prosecuting federal murders, except death-penalty cases.

Tradeoff

Allows prosecutors to charge someone for a federal homicide decades or centuries after the crime occurred. Death penalty still requires the killing to happen within one year and one day of the act causing death.

What's in it

See official bill text

Passed the Senate by on March 11, 2025 — sitting in the House.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Mar 11, 2025)

  2. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Mar 11, 2025)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  3. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Mar 14, 2025)