# 119-hr-5453: RRLEF Act of 2025 119-hr-5453, RRLEF Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Amo, Gabe [D-RI-1] (D-RI); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-04). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5453 - As of: 2026-11-04 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-5453 - Congress: 119 - Title: RRLEF Act of 2025 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-09-18 - Sponsor: Rep. Amo, Gabe [D-RI-1] (D-RI) - Cosponsors: 29 - Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-11-04 ## Summary **Tying JAG grant eligibility to firearm transfer limits** is the core aim of the Responsible Retirement of Law Enforcement Firearms Act of 2025. It would bar applicants for Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants from transferring firearms to or buying from licensed dealers the ATF links to rapid criminal traces and would expand public disclosure about those dealers. - State and local grant applicants would have to certify they do not transfer a firearm to, or purchase a firearm from, any licensed dealer on the ATF's published list of covered licensed dealers. - The ATF Director would have to notify a State or local law enforcement agency if a firearm transferred by that agency was traced as used or suspected used in a crime and would publish the covered licensed dealer list within 120 days and then annually. - A "covered licensed dealer" would mean a dealer traced to at least 25 firearms in at least 2 of the prior 3 years where those traced firearms had a "short time-to-crime" of 3 years or less. The bill also removes several prior limits in specific appropriations laws to broaden public access to ATF tracing data. ## Cosponsors (29) - Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-10] (D-CA), 2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-GA-4] (D-GA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Magaziner, Seth [D-RI-2] (D-RI), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Jackson, Jonathan L. [D-IL-1] (D-IL), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6] (D-MA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10] (D-NY), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Mullin, Kevin [D-CA-15] (D-CA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2] (D-IL), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13] (D-NY), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-14] (D-CA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] (D-WA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4] (D-PA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Frost, Maxwell [D-FL-10] (D-FL), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6] (D-IL), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4] (D-NC), 2025-09-19T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2] (D-NC), 2025-09-19T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12] (D-PA), 2025-09-23T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1] (D-NV), 2025-09-23T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5] (D-GA), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Randall, Emily [D-WA-6] (D-WA), 2025-10-17T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Cisneros, Gilbert Ray [D-CA-31] (D-CA), 2025-11-04T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13] (D-GA), 2025-12-03T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA), 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3] (D-OH), 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA), 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - ATF notifications and dealer list: benefit, medium. This bill would require the ATF Director to notify a State or local law enforcement agency, within 120 days after enactment and annually after that, if any firearm transferred by the agency was traced as used or suspected in a crime. The ATF would also publish a public list on its website of each c… - New rule for listing gun dealers: cost, medium. This bill would create a clear test for when a licensed gun dealer is put on an ATF public list. A dealer would be listed if, in at least two of the three calendar years before the list is published, ATF traced 25 or more "short time-to-crime" guns to that dealer in each of those years. "Short time… - Grant rule stops buying from listed dealers: cost, medium. This bill would add a certification rule for Justice Assistance grants. A grant applicant and every grantee or subgrantee under the applicant would need to certify they do not transfer firearms to, or buy firearms from, any dealer on the ATF's most recent covered-dealer list at the time of certific… ## Related bills - 119-hr-8800: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 - 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act - 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act - 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act - 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025 - 119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act ## Sources - [119-hr-5453 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5453) ## Related - [119-hr-8800: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8800) - [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973) - [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977) - [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51) - [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20) - [119-hr-5390: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5390) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5453 (as of 2026-11-04).