Safer Supervision Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Mike Lee
Introduced
Summary
This bill would require courts to use individualized supervised release assessments and create a presumptive early-termination pathway for some people leaving prison. It also would expand earned time credits, seek pay parity for probation officers, and mandate a comprehensive federal study of post-release supervision.
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- People on supervised release would get a clear chance to ask for early termination after the lesser of 1 year or 50% of their term if they show good conduct and pose no public-safety risk. Defendants must be notified of this option and may receive appointed counsel to pursue it.
- People in custody who are not sentenced to supervised release would see expanded earned time credits and a new authority allowing the Bureau of Prisons to release eligible individuals up to 12 months earlier based on those credits.
- Federal probation and pretrial services officers would get a 180-day report and proposal to extend availability pay equal to Federal criminal investigators, and the Comptroller General would study post-release supervision, reentry programs, and probation workforce and funding within one year.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Easier early end to supervised release
If enacted, courts would have to make case-by-case decisions about supervised release and say on the record why they impose or do not impose it. The courts and the U.S. Courts administration must give notice after the lesser of one year or 50% of the term. A presumption of early termination would apply after 66.6% of the term for certain offenses and after 50% for others if the person shows good conduct and the court finds public safety would not be endangered. The government may object and victims keep their rights. The bill would let a court appoint counsel to help people seeking termination.
GAO study on reentry and supervision
If enacted, the Comptroller General would start a study within one year and report to Congress on federal post-release supervision and reentry services. The report must count people on federal probation since 2019, review custody transitions, survey reentry programs and funding, assess probation officer staffing and overtime, and study the probation funding formula.
Pay study for probation officers
If enacted, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts would have to send a report within 180 days, with OPM input, proposing legislation to give Federal probation and pretrial officers availability pay like criminal investigators receive. The requirement is a report and proposal; any pay change would need later congressional action.
Up to 12 months earlier prison release
If enacted, the Bureau of Prisons Director would be allowed to release some prisoners earlier based on earned time credits. This would apply only to prisoners who were not sentenced to supervised release and could shorten custody by up to 12 months. The change would take effect on enactment.
Clearer rules for violations and revocation
If enacted, the statute would rename and recast prohibited conduct on supervised release to focus on drug distribution and firearm possession. It would define possessing drugs with intent to distribute and keep a prohibition on willfully refusing court-ordered drug testing. The change removes an older paragraph and updates cross-references in related rules.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Mike Lee
UT • R
Cosponsors
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 10/30/2025
Roger Wicker
MS • R
Sponsored 10/30/2025
Kevin Cramer
ND • R
Sponsored 10/30/2025
Thomas Tillis
NC • R
Sponsored 10/30/2025
James Lankford
OK • R
Sponsored 10/30/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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