119th Congress
S. 455
Protecting Sensitive Locations Act
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- Richard Blumenthal(D-CT)
- Introduced
- Feb 6, 2025
- Policy area
- Immigration
- Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Official text
- Introduced in Senate · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (33)
Original cosponsors (21)
- Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
Added later (12)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · Feb 13, 2025
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR) · Feb 13, 2025
- Andy Kim (D-NJ) · Mar 5, 2025
- Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD) · Apr 9, 2025
- Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) · Sep 2, 2025
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE) · Nov 18, 2025
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) · Jan 15, 2026
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) · Jan 27, 2026
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · Jan 29, 2026
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) · Feb 5, 2026
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) · Jun 8, 2026
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT) · Sep 14, 2026
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in Senate” version
Protecting Sensitive Locations Act
This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location except in exigent circumstances, such as the imminent risk of death, violence, or physical harm to any person.
Sensitive locations include
• health care facilities;
• schools and school bus stops;
• places that provide assistance for people such as children, pregnant women, and abuse victims;
• child care facilities;
• places that provide disaster or emergency services;
• places of worship;
• courthouses and lawyers’ offices;
• facilities used as polling places;
• certain labor union facilities; and
• public assistance offices.
The prohibition shall apply to Department of Homeland Security officers and agents, as well as state employees pursuing immigration enforcement actions.
If an enforcement action is carried out in violation of this prohibition (1) no information resulting from the action may be entered into the record in a resulting removal proceeding, and (2) the affected individual may move to immediately terminate such a proceeding.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall annually report to Congress about enforcement actions taken at sensitive locations in the preceding year.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Feb 6, 2025 · Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. - Feb 6, 2025
Introduced in Senate