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Bill: 119-HR5625
Cashless Bail Reporting Act
Last action: 5-14-2026
Version: 2026012515
Current status: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
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Cashless Bail Reporting Act

This bill requires the Department of Justice to publish annually a list of state and local governments that permit individuals who are charged with certain criminal offenses that pose a clear threat to public safety and order to be released pending trial on personal recognizance or upon execution of an unsecured appearance bond.

Under the bill, the criminal offenses that pose a threat to public safety and order include criminal offenses involving a violent or sexual act (e.g., burglary, murder, or rape) and offenses that promote public disorder (e.g., looting or vandalism).

On August 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that required the Department of Justice to submit to the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security a list of state and local jurisdictions that have substantially eliminated cash bail as a potential condition for pretrial release for crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order, including offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts, or burglary, looting, or vandalism.

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1. Short title2. Publication of cashless bail jurisdictions

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the "Cashless Bail Reporting Act".

2. Publication of cashless bail jurisdictions

(a) In general - Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall make publicly available a list of each State and unit of local government that permits the release pending trial of a person charged with a covered offense on personal recognizance or upon execution of an unsecured appearance bond.

(b) Covered offense defined - In this section, the term "covered offense" means a criminal offense that the Attorney General determines poses a clear threat to public safety and order, including—

(1) an offense involving a violent or sexual act, such as murder, rape, sexual assault, carjacking, robbery, burglary, and assault; and

(2) an offense that promotes public disorder, such as looting, vandalism, destruction of property, rioting or inciting to riot, or fleeing from a law enforcement officer.

April 9, 2026Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed