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119-hr-10803119th CongressWALLET

Reimagining Safety Act

Sponsored By: Representative Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]

Introduced

Summary

Abolishes the Department of Homeland Security and would create a new Department of Community Safety that centers community-led, health-focused approaches to public safety and retools how immigration and emergency services operate. It would also move many DHS functions into other departments and sharply limit enforcement and surveillance authorities.

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  • Creates a Department of Community Safety that funds neighborhood disaster hubs, grants for transit and community safety, an Office of Community Violence Prevention, civilian border processing teams, and promotoras at the border. This gives families and local groups more funding and community-based help for disasters, violence prevention, transit safety, and immigrant support.
  • Ends many current immigration enforcement practices and custody rules. The bill would transfer immigration enforcement to the Department of Justice, require release of many detained noncitizens within months, ban federal funds for immigration detention after two years, remove ankle monitors after six months, and require congressional approval to execute removals.
  • Restricts federal surveillance and law enforcement support while shifting agencies. It bans many federal databases and bulk tracking, stops certain homeland grants and military‑style gear for local police, closes Guantanamo within 60 days with detainee release choices, and transfers TSA and Coast Guard functions to the Department of Transportation.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

12 provisions identified: 7 benefits, 0 costs, 5 mixed.

End Immigration Detention and Help Families

If enacted, the bill would require the Attorney General to release noncitizens in AG custody and remove ankle monitors within six months of enactment. It would require termination of existing immigration‑detention and monitoring contracts within two years and bar Federal funds for those programs after two years. The bill would create civilian border reception teams and immigrant assistance centers, and establish a Treasury Community Recovery and Support Fund to help families with reunification, lost income, housing, medical needs, and legal costs.

New National Social Service Corps

If enacted, the bill would create the National Social Service Corps to place members in community health, disaster resilience, housing, environmental remediation, violence-intervention, and care-work jobs. Members who complete a designated service term would get a living-wage stipend scaled to local cost of living, full or matching tuition help for higher education or vocational programs, and hiring preference for some federal jobs. The bill does not set stipend amounts, tuition limits, or the length of the required service term.

New Limits on Government Surveillance

If enacted, the bill would bar Federal agencies from buying or contracting for certain domestic tracking, real‑time geolocation monitoring, bulk profiling, and public‑space surveillance systems. It would require a probable‑cause warrant for agencies to obtain commercial data about a U.S. person. The bill would repeal several secret demand authorities, ban profiling databases based on origin or religion, and limit grant uses that would combine data to monitor First Amendment activity.

Congress and DOJ Must Approve Removals

If enacted, the bill would require a senior Justice Department official to authorize the start of removal or inadmissibility proceedings. The Attorney General could not carry out a noncitizen’s removal unless Congress enacts a joint resolution approving that removal, and Congress would use expedited procedures to consider such resolutions. The bill would also repeal one terrorism‑related inadmissibility ground and end the foreign terrorist organization designation authority one year after enactment, while recognizing Geneva Convention and human‑rights custody protections for people in U.S. custody.

End Homeland Security; Create Community Safety

If enacted, the bill would abolish the Department of Homeland Security and create a new Department of Community Safety led by a Senate‑confirmed Secretary. The Director of OMB would be authorized to transfer, wind down, or reassign DHS functions, contracts, assets, and records, and to terminate certain contracts within 60 days. Existing permits, grants, contracts, and pending applications would continue under their current terms after covered transfers.

Congressional Approval for Emergency Sanctions

If enacted, the bill would generally bar the President from using certain International Emergency Economic Powers Act authorities unless Congress enacts a joint resolution approving them. Some specified authorities could be used temporarily for up to 30 days; authorities already active at enactment could run up to 180 days unless extended by Congress. The bill also creates expedited procedures for Congress to consider approval resolutions.

FEMA disability and language access

If enacted, FEMA would have to make its communications, applications, relief hubs, and resources accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. FEMA would also have to provide materials and services in the primary languages spoken by affected people. These rules would take effect upon enactment, and the bill does not set a specific funding amount for them.

Grants for hospital violence recovery

If enacted, the Secretary of Community Safety would provide grants to Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs and trauma recovery centers. Grant funds would pay for wraparound support, mental health care, and conflict mediation for survivors of violence. The bill requires these grants but does not specify grant sizes or individual eligibility procedures.

Grants for Local Safety and Resilience

If enacted, the bill would fund local safety and disaster resilience programs. It would authorize $250 million each year for community violence‑prevention grants and create grant programs for transit safety teams, neighborhood emergency hubs stocked with power, food, water, and medical supplies, municipal preparedness grants, firearm safety education and voluntary buybacks, voting access work, and FEMA regional career liaison positions. Predisaster mitigation funds would be restored to fiscal year 2022 levels and mitigation may include climate harm prevention and extreme‑heat adaptation.

Cancel unused immigration enforcement funds

If enacted, the bill would permanently rescind all unobligated Department of Homeland Security immigration‑enforcement balances that exist on the date of enactment. The rescinded amounts would be deposited in the Treasury and could be appropriated only for a listed menu of domestic programs such as universal healthcare access, Housing for All, universal child care, free public education, healthy food access, climate justice, safe migration, and economic opportunity. This provision would not itself appropriate specific dollar amounts to those programs.

Limit Military Transfers and Detention

If enacted, the bill would repeal authorities that let Defense Department surplus gear and property be sold or transferred to state and local agencies. It would bar use of DoD funds to build or modify detention facilities in the United States (except for housing U.S. service members). Starting in fiscal year 2027, Federal funds would also be barred for border walls, fusion centers, and several violence‑prevention grant programs.

Community health promotoras program

If enacted, the bill would create a program to fund trusted community health workers called promotoras. Promotoras would provide cultural mediation, patient advocacy, health education, benefits enrollment help, and referrals. The bill does not set a funding level, eligibility formula, or end date for the program.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]

IL • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 10/13/2026

  • Rep. Grijalva, Adelita S. [D-AZ-7]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 10/13/2026

  • Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 10/13/2026

  • Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 10/15/2026

  • Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]

    MN • D

    Sponsored 10/15/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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