# 119-hr-6174: Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets Act 119-hr-6174, Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2] (R-TN); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6174 - As of: 2026-09-21 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-6174 - Congress: 119 - Title: Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets Act - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-11-20 - Sponsor: Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2] (R-TN) - Cosponsors: 1 - Policy area: Health - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-09-21 ## Summary **Restore civil commitment and redirect federal homelessness funding toward enforced treatment and encampment removal.** The bill would create a cross-agency plan that ties grants and federal resources to civil commitment, assisted outpatient treatment, and local enforcement standards across the Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation. - Families and children: HUD would be required to bar housing sex offenders from units with unrelated children and could impose treatment conditions on housing aid recipients with substance use or mental illness. - People experiencing homelessness: The bill would push states and localities to restore civil commitment paths, reverse certain legal limits, and increase transfers to inpatient psychiatric facilities when deemed necessary. - Local governments and law enforcement: Grants would favor jurisdictions that ban public drug use, urban camping, loitering, and squatting and that enforce assisted outpatient treatment; DOJ could fund and support encampment removals and assess arrested unhoused people for dangerousness. - Health and behavioral providers: HHS would direct the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to fund outcomes-based programs, offer technical help for outpatient treatment tied to housing, and require crisis services at clinics. - Program oversight and data: HUD and HHS would tighten accountability for homelessness programs, allow certain health-related data collection by HUD recipients, and authorize review of safe consumption sites for federal violations. ## Cosponsors (1) - Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1] (R-SC), 2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - Federal help to transfer to mental hospitals: benefit, medium. The bill would require HHS to coordinate with the Attorney General and other agencies to support transferring eligible people to mental hospitals or asylums. This explicitly includes people returned from other countries who have been legally adjudged insane. - Housing help for outpatient treatment: benefit, medium. The bill would require HHS to provide technical help to assisted outpatient treatment programs it runs. The help would focus on finding private housing and building support networks during and after any civil commitment process. - Stricter rules for homelessness programs: mixed, high. The bill would let HHS and HUD impose stricter rules on federal homelessness programs. They could end some "housing-first" support and hold grantees to higher effectiveness and safety standards. HUD could bar housing sex offenders from living with unrelated children. HHS would steer health center f… - Housing plans for people leaving prison: mixed, medium. The bill would require prisons and residential reentry centers under or funded by the Attorney General to prepare in-custody housing release plans. To the maximum extent practicable, released people would be expected to comply with those plans. The aim is to improve post-release housing stability. - Substance use grants tied to outcomes: mixed, medium. The bill would direct HHS to fund SAMHSA discretionary grants only for evidence-based programs that meet outcome standards. Programs described as "harm reduction" or "safe consumption" could lose funding if they fail to meet the Secretary's outcome criteria. This could change which local treatment… - Federal support for encampment removals: mixed, medium. The bill would require the Attorney General to review federally supported "safe consumption" sites for federal law violations. It would allow federal law enforcement funds to help remove encampments when public safety is at risk. The Attorney General would also promote civil-commitment, push for re… - Grants favor cities enforcing camping laws: mixed, medium. The bill would direct federal agencies to assess discretionary grants and, where lawful, give priority to states and cities that enforce anti-camping, anti-loitering, and public drug rules. The criteria include adopting assisted outpatient treatment or civil-commitment standards and mapping sex off… - New definitions for homelessness terms: mixed, low. The bill would add definitions used across the Act. Examples include "unhoused individual," "urban camping," "urban squatting," and "step-down treatment." These definitions would shape who other rules and enforcement actions apply to. ## Related bills - 119-hr-4706: Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act - 119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act - 119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act - 119-hr-5106: Restore Trust in Congress Act - 119-hr-5592: Childhood Genital Mutilation Prevention Act - 119-hr-8112: Preserving Social Security and Medicare for Citizens Act of 2026 ## Sources - [119-hr-6174 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6174) ## Related - [119-hr-4706: Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4706) - [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298) - [119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-21) - [119-hr-5106: Restore Trust in Congress Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5106) - [119-hr-5592: Childhood Genital Mutilation Prevention Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5592) - [119-hr-8112: Preserving Social Security and Medicare for Citizens Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8112) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6174 (as of 2026-09-21).