House Bills on the Floor

This bill would make it so that certain devices designed to be non-deadly — like some TASERs — are no longer regulated under the same gun laws that cover regular firearms. To qualify, these devices must not fire projectiles faster than 500 feet per second, must be designed so they are not likely to kill or seriously injure someone, and must not accept ammunition magazines. The bill also requires the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to decide within 90 days whether a device meets this definition when someone asks them to review it.

6 votes · 1 comment · 2/12/2026

**What This Bill Does:** This bill would make it a federal crime for doctors or other providers to perform surgeries, procedures, or prescribe certain medications (like hormone treatments) to minors if the purpose is to change the minor's body to match a sex different from their biological sex. Anyone who breaks this law could face a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both. However, the bill would **not** punish the minors themselves — only the people providing the care. There are exceptions for treating individuals born with certain medical conditions, like having both ovarian and testicular tissue. The bill also expands an existing law against female genital mutilation (FGM) on minors by making it a crime for **any** person to help with or consent to FGM, not just a parent or guardian, while again protecting the minor from being arrested or prosecuted.

1 vote · 12/17/2025

This bill changes the rules for how the government handles children who arrive in the U.S. without parents or legal guardians and without legal immigration status. Currently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) places these children in the least restrictive setting that's best for them and checks out the adults who volunteer to take care of them. This bill would **require** HHS to consider whether a child could be a danger to themselves or others or might run away, and it would require children 13 or older who have gang-related tattoos or a history of gang activity to be placed in a secure facility. The bill also says HHS must collect detailed personal information — including immigration status — about all adults living in a potential sponsor's home, share that information with immigration authorities, and **cannot** place a child with any sponsor who is in the country without legal permission.

1 vote · 12/16/2025

This bill would undo a law passed by the Washington, D.C., city council that made changes to policing rules. That D.C. law included things like banning certain neck restraints by police, adding rules about body-worn cameras, and making police disciplinary records more available to the public. If this bill passes, all of those policing changes would be reversed, and the old rules that were in place before the D.C. law would be brought back.

1 vote · 11/19/2025

This bill would change how pretrial release works in Washington, D.C. If someone is charged with a violent crime or a dangerous crime, they would have to stay in jail while waiting for trial instead of having a chance to be released. For less serious crimes related to public safety or order, like stalking, rioting, or fleeing from police, a person could only be released before trial by paying a cash bail or putting up property. The bill would also require people already convicted of violent or dangerous crimes to stay in jail while waiting for sentencing or an appeal, instead of being allowed out if a judge decides they are not a flight risk or danger.

1 vote · 11/19/2025

This bill changes the rules about when police in Washington, D.C. can chase suspects who are fleeing in vehicles. Right now, D.C. law limits police chases to situations where the suspect was involved in a violent crime or poses a serious threat, and officers must consider the safety risks first. This bill removes those limits and instead says officers must chase fleeing suspects unless the chase would be pointless, too dangerous to bystanders, or if there's a better way to catch the suspect. The bill also requires the Department of Justice to report to Congress on the costs and benefits of using technology that would alert nearby members of the public when a police chase is happening.

0 votes · 9/17/2025

This bill would get rid of the group in Washington, D.C. that currently recommends people to serve as judges on D.C.'s local courts. Right now, that group suggests judge candidates to the President, who then need Senate approval, and the group also picks the chief judges for those courts. Under this bill, the President would take over the role of choosing the chief judges directly, and the nomination group would no longer be involved in the process.

0 votes · 9/17/2025

This bill changes the law in Washington, D.C., so that kids as young as 14 years old could be tried as adults for certain crimes. Right now, people 16 or older can be tried as adults for serious crimes like murder, robbery while armed, and certain sexual offenses, and those 15 or older can be tried as adults for other felonies if it serves the public interest and there's no good chance they can be rehabilitated. This bill would lower both of those age limits to 14 years old.

0 votes · 9/16/2025

This bill would take away the Washington, D.C. government's ability to change its criminal sentencing laws after the bill is passed. It would lower the age for being considered a "youth offender" from 24 to 18, and it would remove the option for D.C. courts to give youth offenders sentences that are lighter than the minimum required by law. The bill would also require the D.C. Attorney General's office to post crime data about youth offenders on a public website and update it every month.

0 votes · 9/16/2025

This bill reverses some changes made in 2023 to how police officers in Washington, DC, are disciplined. It brings back a 90-day time limit for starting disciplinary actions against officers or civilian employees of the DC police department and allows officer discipline matters to be part of union contract negotiations. It also removes the police chief's power to increase punishments recommended by the police trial board and eliminates the requirement that the department post information online about disciplinary hearings where an officer could be fired.

0 votes · 6/10/2025

This bill asks the Department of Justice to put together a report covering three things: attacks specifically aimed at law enforcement officers, whether information about those attacks could be added to crime reporting systems that already exist, and what mental health support is currently available to law enforcement officers.

0 votes · 5/15/2025

This bill would require the General Services Administration to create a program that lets federal law enforcement officers buy their retired service weapons from the agency they work for. Essentially, when a firearm is taken out of service, the officer who was issued that weapon would have the option to purchase it.

0 votes · 5/15/2025

This bill would let certain active and retired law enforcement officers carry hidden firearms in more places across state lines, including school zones, national parks, public areas on state or private property, and some federal buildings that are open to the public. It would also allow them to carry ammunition and magazines in those places. Additionally, the bill would let states reduce how often retired law enforcement officers need to pass certain qualification tests.

2 votes · 5/14/2025

This bill limits what federal trial courts can do when they issue orders (called injunctions) that stop someone from doing something. Under this bill, a court's order could only apply to the specific people or groups involved in that particular lawsuit, not to everyone across the country.

0 votes · 4/9/2025

This bill creates new federal crimes for driving a vehicle to flee from a Border Patrol agent or other law enforcement officer working with the Border Patrol, if this happens within 100 miles of the U.S. border. If someone is caught and the chase leads to death or serious injury, the bill requires a minimum prison sentence. The bill also says that non-U.S. citizens who are convicted of or admit to this crime can be denied entry into the country, deported, and blocked from receiving immigration protections like asylum.

0 votes · 2/13/2025

This bill permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances as schedule I drugs under federal law, meaning they are treated as having a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, and are subject to strict legal penalties. Punishments for offenses involving these substances would follow the same rules as those for fentanyl analogues — for example, having 100 grams or more could trigger a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. The bill also makes it easier for researchers to study schedule I substances by simplifying some of the registration and inspection requirements they must follow. Finally, the bill states that Congress agrees with a 2018 court ruling that said a specific fentanyl-related substance can be considered an analogue of fentanyl, even though the law normally excludes already-controlled substances from that definition.

0 votes · 2/6/2025

This bill sets rules for how doctors and other health care workers must treat a baby that is born alive after an abortion or attempted abortion. It requires that the baby receive the same level of medical care as any other baby born at the same stage of development and be taken to a hospital right away. Any health care worker or employee who knows these rules were not followed must report it to law enforcement, and those who fail to provide the required care or fail to report violations could face fines or up to five years in prison. The bill also says the mother cannot be charged with a crime under this law and allows her to sue health care workers or employees who violate it.

0 votes · 1/23/2025

This bill says that schools receiving federal funding cannot let individuals who were born biologically male compete in sports programs designated for women or girls. Under the bill, a person's sex is determined by their reproductive biology and genetics at birth. However, male individuals would still be allowed to train or practice with women's or girls' teams, as long as doing so doesn't take away opportunities from female athletes. The bill also requires a government report on what women and girls in single-sex sports would lose if males were allowed to participate.

0 votes · 1/14/2025