TPS Reform Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced
Summary
Creates a time-limited TPS designation process. This bill would rewrite Section 244 to set a three-part system for Temporary Protected Status that requires specific findings and fixed time limits for initial designations, extensions, and terminations.
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- Families and TPS holders: Would cap initial TPS designations at up to 18 months and allow extensions only by an Act for periods no greater than 12 months. This makes TPS stays explicitly short and tied to periodic reauthorization.
- Lawmakers and the designation process: Would require an initial designation to be enacted by an Act that finds armed conflict, disaster, or extraordinary conditions, notes if the foreign state requested designation, and includes an estimate of eligible nationals and their immigration status.
- Agencies and eligibility rules: Replaces statutory references to the Attorney General with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shifting the named agency to DHS. It also clarifies eligibility by adding that the alien "lacks a lawful immigration status."
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 1 mixed.
Congress would approve TPS decisions
This bill would require Congress to pass a law to create, extend, or end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a country. The first law could last up to 18 months. Any extension would need another law and could last up to 12 months. If Congress does not extend it, TPS would end when the set period runs out. Each law would need specific findings and an estimate of how many people could qualify and their U.S. status.
TPS would weigh lawful status
This bill would add a new listed condition for TPS decisions: whether a person lacks lawful immigration status. That could make some people less likely to get TPS or change how cases are decided. It would apply to TPS reviews under section 244.
DHS would run TPS program
This bill would move TPS authority in the statute from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security. DHS would oversee TPS processing and decisions under section 244. This shift would not itself change who qualifies, but procedures and timing could change.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
TX • R
Cosponsors
Tiffany
WI • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Rep. Gill, Brandon [R-TX-26]
TX • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Crane
AZ • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Rep. Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27]
TX • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Babin
TX • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
PA • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
MD • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Nehls
TX • R
Sponsored 12/12/2025
Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1]
AL • R
Sponsored 5/7/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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