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This bill aims to make streets safer by pushing more treatment and tougher rules around drugs, camping, and housing programs. It tells federal agencies to help states use court-ordered treatment in facilities for people with serious mental illness who are dangerous or cannot care for themselves, and to roll back limits that block this approach. It gives grant priority to cities and states that enforce bans on open drug use, urban camping, loitering, and squatting, and that track homeless sex offenders on the registry. The Justice Department would check whether homeless people arrested for federal crimes are sexually dangerous, support clearing encampments when safety is at risk, and try to prevent releasing people with severe mental illness just because there aren’t enough hospital or jail beds; it would also require stronger release plans from prisons and reentry centers. Health and housing funds would shift toward evidence-based treatment and away from programs that mainly enable drug use; some program participants with addiction or serious mental illness could be required to use treatment to keep getting help. The bill targets drug-use sites by freezing certain housing funds and pursuing legal action where needed, allows women-and-children-only housing in some cases, and permits collecting limited health data to share with law enforcement when allowed, to connect people to care. It also says it does not create new rights to sue the government.
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Last progress August 5, 2025 (4 months ago)
Introduced on August 5, 2025 by Buddy Carter
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.