Bill Sponsor
BILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
Senate Bill 149
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Public Safety First Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in Senate on Jan 17, 2025
Overview
Text
Introduced in Senate 
Jan 17, 2025
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in Senate(Jan 17, 2025)
Jan 17, 2025
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
S. 149 (Introduced-in-Senate)


119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 149


To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 17, 2025

Mr. Cornyn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Public Safety First Act”.

SEC. 2. Detention of certain aliens who commit theft.

Section 236(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(c)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (1)—

(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking “or”;

(B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the comma at the end and inserting “, or”; and

(C) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:

“(E) (i) is inadmissible under paragraph (6)(A), (6)(C), or (7) of section 212(a); and

“(ii) is charged with, is arrested for, is convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting, or assault of a law enforcement officer offense, or any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury to another person,”;

(2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and

(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:

“(2) DEFINITION.—For purposes of paragraph (1)(E), the terms ‘burglary’, ‘theft’, ‘larceny’, ‘shoplifting’, ‘assault of a law enforcement officer’, and ‘serious bodily injury’ have the meanings given such terms in the jurisdiction in which the acts occurred.

“(3) DETAINER.—The Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a detainer for an alien described in paragraph (1)(E) and, if the alien is not otherwise detained by Federal, State, or local officials, shall effectively and expeditiously take custody of the alien.”.