I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6263 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and 
the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 
to limit eligibility for certain Federal law enforcement and public safety 
grants based on minimum pretrial public safety standards, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 
Mr. HARRIGAN (for himself and Mr. NEHLS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition 
to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 and the Implementing Recommendations 
of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 to limit eligibility 
for certain Federal law enforcement and public safety 
grants based on minimum pretrial public safety stand-
ards, and for other purposes. 
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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Free Pass for Fel-
ons Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Violent offenders released on unsecured or 
cashless bail pose a significant risk to public safety. 
(2) Federal funds should not subsidize policies 
that release repeat violent offenders without mean-
ingful judicial review. 
(3) The Supreme Court has upheld preventive 
detention 
as 
constitutional 
(United 
States 
v. 
Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987)). 
(4) Conditioning Federal grants on minimum 
public safety standards is a valid exercise of 
Congress’s spending power. 
SEC. 3. JUSTICE ASSISTANCE AND COPS GRANTS. 
(a) BRYNE JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT ELIGI-
BILITY.—The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10153 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 502(a), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(7) A certification that the applicant has in ef-
fect a law or policy that prohibits pretrial release on 
personal recognizance or upon execution of an unse-
cured appearance bond of a covered defendant, un-
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less a court first holds a dangerousness hearing and 
makes a written finding on the record that condi-
tions of such pretrial release imposed by the court 
will reasonably assure the appearance of such de-
fendant before the court and the safety of any other 
person and the community. 
‘‘(8) A certification that the applicant has a 
system to collect and publish, not less than annu-
ally— 
‘‘(A) data on determinations by judges in 
that jurisdiction to release defendants charged 
with covered violent offenses pending trial; 
‘‘(B) data on rearrests for covered violent 
offenses of such defendants; and 
‘‘(C) data on the failure of such defendants 
to appear, disaggregated by the type of pretrial 
release on which they were released pending 
trial.’’; 
(2) in section 502, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COVERED
DEFENDANT.—The term ‘cov-
ered defendant’ means an individual who is— 
‘‘(A) charged with a covered violent of-
fense; 
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‘‘(B) charged with any offense, in the case 
of an individual who has been convicted of a 
covered violent offense arising out of a separate 
course of conduct; or 
‘‘(C) charged with any offense while on 
probation, parole, or supervised release for a 
covered violent offense. 
‘‘(2) COVERED VIOLENT OFFENSE.—The term 
‘covered violent offense’ means an offense that has 
as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened 
use of physical force against the person or property 
of another. 
‘‘(3) DANGEROUSNESS
HEARING.—The term 
‘dangerousness hearing’ means a hearing consistent 
with subsections (e), (f), and (g) of section 3142 of 
title 18, United States Code.’’; and 
(3) in section 505, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(j) REDUCTION OF GRANT AWARD.—If the Attorney 
General determines that a State or unit of local govern-
ment has failed to meet the application requirements de-
scribed in section 502(a)(7) or (8), the Attorney General 
shall, after giving notice and the opportunity to cure, allo-
cate in an amount that is not more than 85 percent of 
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