# 119-hr-4166: Strengthening Protections for Domestic Violence and Stalking Survivors Act of 2025

119-hr-4166, Strengthening Protections for Domestic Violence and Stalking Survivors Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] (D-MI); status introduced (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-4166
- Congress: 119
- Title: Strengthening Protections for Domestic Violence and Stalking Survivors Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-06-26
- Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6] (D-MI)
- Cosponsors: 14
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**Would expand who counts as an "intimate partner" and create a federal misdemeanor stalking offense.** The bill would broaden domestic-violence definitions to cover dating and similar relationships and add a new federal misdemeanor for stalking that can affect firearm rights. - Families and survivors: It would explicitly cover current and former dating partners and people similarly situated to a spouse, plus related people like parents, guardians, immediate family, co-residents, and even pets or service animals as potential targets of stalking or related harms. - People charged with stalking or misdemeanor domestic violence: It would define a "misdemeanor crime of stalking" as a course of harassment, intimidation, or surveillance that causes reasonable fear or emotional distress. Convictions would count for these federal rules only if the person had counsel or knowingly waived counsel and if there was a jury trial or a guilty plea with waiver. - Firearm owners and courts: It would add the new misdemeanor stalking offense to the federal firearm-disqualification rules in 18 U.S.C. 922 and clarify that expunged, set-aside, pardoned, or civil-rights-restored convictions do not disqualify someone unless the restoration expressly prohibits firearm-related rights.

## Cosponsors (14)

- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2025-06-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8] (D-VA), 2025-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5] (D-PA), 2025-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6] (D-OR), 2025-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25] (D-NY), 2025-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Elfreth, Sarah [D-MD-3] (D-MD), 2025-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2025-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10] (D-NY), 2025-12-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Min, Dave [D-CA-47] (D-CA), 2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1] (D-OH), 2026-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI-3] (D-MI), 2026-03-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26] (D-NY), 2026-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2] (D-NC), 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Craig, Angie [D-MN-2] (D-MN), 2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Broader intimate partner and dating rules: mixed, medium. The bill would widen who counts as an intimate partner. It would include current or former dating partners and people treated like a spouse under State or Tribal law. It would also treat someone dating the victim’s parent or guardian as covered for domestic-violence cases. The bill would replace "d…
- Gun limits after misdemeanor stalking: mixed, medium. This bill would define a "misdemeanor crime of stalking." It would bar gun transfers and possession for people with such convictions. The offense must involve repeated harassment, intimidation, or surveillance. It must cause fear for someone’s safety or emotional distress, including for family, co-…

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- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1589: American Dream and Promise Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-4166 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4166)

## Related
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- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-1589: American Dream and Promise Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1589)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4166 (as of 2026-09-21).