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The bill creates nationwide uniform standards that simplify rules and reduce litigation for federal officers, but it does so by restricting state and local authority — including limiting state prosecutions and local regulation of immigration-enforcement appearance — which may reduce accountability and local control.
Federal law-enforcement officers (including federal employees across jurisdictions) will face a single, nationwide set of uniform rules, reducing confusion and ensuring consistent dress standards when operating in multiple states.
Federal officers will face less risk of duplicative state prosecutions or legal uncertainty for conduct tied solely to uniform requirements, lowering litigation risk and administrative burden for those officers.
State and local governments will lose the ability to set local uniform standards tailored to community safety, identification, or local policy preferences, reducing local control over policing appearance and related rules.
State prosecutors and courts will be barred from continuing prosecutions (including some already begun) for conduct the state views as unsafe or unlawful when that conduct conflicts with the federal uniform rule, potentially limiting local accountability for officer behavior.
Immigrant communities and local officials may lose tools to regulate or require identification for immigration-enforcement employees because those officers are covered by the federal definition, limiting states' ability to respond to local concerns about immigration enforcement practices.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Preempts state uniform rules for federal law enforcement officers, defines covered officers to include immigration enforcers, and bars inconsistent pending state proceedings.
Preempts state laws that try to regulate the uniforms of federal law enforcement officers and blocks state legal actions that conflict with that rule. It defines the covered officers by referring to the federal definition of law enforcement officers and explicitly includes federal employees who enforce immigration laws. It also establishes a short title for the statute and prohibits continuation of any state-law proceeding pending on enactment that charges a federal officer with violating a state law inconsistent with the federal rule.
Introduced September 26, 2025 by Clay Higgins · Last progress September 26, 2025