# 119-hr-578: Sarah’s Law

119-hr-578, Sarah’s Law, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4] (R-IA); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-578
- Congress: 119
- Title: Sarah’s Law
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-21
- Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4] (R-IA)
- Cosponsors: 53
- Policy area: Immigration
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Requires mandatory detention and ongoing victim notification for non‑U.S. nationals charged with or admitting to acts that caused death or serious bodily injury.** It changes immigration law to add new inadmissibility and deportability categories and to require detainers and federal custody for those individuals. - Victims and families: DHS must obtain victim identity information and provide the victim or a close relative timely and ongoing updates, including the individual's name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, custody status, and any removal efforts. - Non‑U.S. nationals implicated in violent crimes: The bill creates a new detention pathway that renders such individuals inadmissible or deportable under specified Immigration and Nationality Act categories when they are charged, arrested, convicted, or admit to acts whose elements resulted in death or serious bodily injury. - Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice: DHS or DOJ must detain these individuals, issue detainers, and, if they are not already held by state or local officials, promptly take them into federal custody. - Victim rights preserved: The bill explicitly preserves any other legal rights crime victims already have under federal law, including those in 18 U.S.C. 3771.

## Cosponsors (53)

- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] (R-NY), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ciscomani, Juan [R-AZ-6] (R-AZ), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4] (R-KS), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bost, Mike [R-IL-12] (R-IL), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (R-NC), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-TX-22] (R-TX), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4] (R-TN), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1] (R-MN), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27] (R-FL), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4] (R-AL), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Miller, Mary E. [R-IL-15] (R-IL), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-NY-2] (R-NY), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5] (R-CA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1] (R-SC), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1] (R-MI), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9] (R-PA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1] (R-IA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3] (R-LA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-2] (R-IA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36] (R-TX), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Edwards, Chuck [R-NC-11] (R-NC), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Schmidt, Derek [R-KS-2] (R-KS), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tiffany, Thomas P. [R-WI-7] (R-WI), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14] (R-TX), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8] (R-AZ), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Evans, Gabe [R-CO-8] (R-CO), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Timmons, William R. [R-SC-4] (R-SC), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2] (R-MI), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] (R-CA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2] (R-TX), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8] (R-WI), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5] (R-TN), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Brecheen, Josh [R-OK-2] (R-OK), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3] (R-IA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ellzey, Jake [R-TX-6] (R-TX), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rulli, Michael A. [R-OH-6] (R-OH), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Downing, Troy [R-MT-2] (R-MT), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15] (R-PA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17] (R-TX), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McDowell, Addison P. [R-NC-6] (R-NC), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large] (R-SD), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Biggs, Sheri [R-SC-3] (R-SC), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McCormick, Richard [R-GA-7] (R-GA), 2025-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4] (R-UT), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5] (R-FL), 2025-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-9] (R-NC), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1] (R-MD), 2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19] (R-FL), 2025-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moore, Tim [R-NC-14] (R-NC), 2025-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-4] (R-MI), 2025-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. [R-NY-23] (R-NY), 2025-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Immigration case updates for crime victims: benefit, low. If enacted, crime victims would get ongoing updates from DHS about the noncitizen in the case. If the victim died, a parent, guardian, spouse, or closest relative would get the updates. DHS would share the person’s name and aliases, birth date, country, immigration and criminal status, custody chan…
- Detention of noncitizens tied to deadly crimes: cost, low. If enacted, DHS would have to detain some noncitizens tied to crimes causing death or serious bodily injury. It would cover people who entered without permission, used fraud, or lacked proper papers. It would also cover those with a revoked nonimmigrant visa, or who failed to keep visa status. It w…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-578 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/578)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-578 (as of 2025-12-21).