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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5340 
To prohibit the disclosure of records by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development of individuals for the purposes of immigration enforcement, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 
Mr. VARGAS (for himself, Mr. LICCARDO, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. GARCIA of 
Texas, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis-
sissippi, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. CLARKE of New 
York, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. SIMON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. COSTA, Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, Mr. LIEU, Ms. ANSARI, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. GOLDMAN of New 
York, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. LATIMER, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. 
DELBENE, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, Ms. RIVAS, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, 
Ms. NORTON, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, 
and Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit the disclosure of records by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development of individuals for the 
purposes of immigration enforcement, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. CONFIDENTIALITY OF DEPARTMENT OF HOUS-
ING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT RECORDS. 
(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 
section 
552a(b)(7) of title 5, United States Code, or any other 
law, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
(hereafter referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may not, for 
the purposes of immigration enforcement, disclose any 
record which is contained in a system of records by any 
means of communication to any person, or to another 
agency, except pursuant to a written request made in a 
language of proficiency by, or with the prior consent of, 
the individual to whom the record pertains, regardless of 
the immigration status of such individual. 
(b) PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.—The Secretary 
may not compel a public housing agency to disclose any 
record as described in subsection (a). 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Congress a report which contains— 
(1) a timeline for how the Secretary will comply 
with this Act; 
(2) a confirmation that the records described in 
this Act have been secured; 
(3) a description of how records described in 
subsection (a) have been shared before the date of 
the enactment of this Act; and 
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(4) a description of how the Secretary will en-
sure compliance with this Act. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 551 of title 5, 
United States Code. 
(2) IMMIGRATION
ENFORCEMENT.—The term 
‘‘immigration enforcement’’ means, with respect to 
an individual with an alleged immigration violation, 
any law enforcement action pursuant to title 8, 
United States Code. 
(3) PUBLIC
HOUSING
AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘public housing agency’’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 3(b) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)). 
(4) RECORD.—The term ‘‘record’’ means any 
item, collection, or grouping of information about an 
individual that is maintained by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development or a public hous-
ing agency. 
(5) SYSTEM OF RECORDS.—The term ‘‘system 
of records’’ means a group of any records under the 
control of the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment or a public housing agency from which in-
formation is retrieved by the name of an individual 
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or by some identifying number, symbol, or other 
identifying particular assigned to an individual. 
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