I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3920 
To provide that Federal funds may not be made available to lawless 
jurisdictions, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 11, 2025 
Ms. MACE (for herself, Mr. GILL of Texas, and Mr. WIED) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide that Federal funds may not be made available 
to lawless jurisdictions, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lawless Cities Ac-
countability Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR LAWLESS JURISDICTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—No Federal funds may be made 
available to a jurisdiction that the Attorney General deter-
mines is a lawless jurisdiction. 
(b) ATTORNEY GENERAL DETERMINATIONS.—Not 
later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
and not less than quarterly thereafter, the Attorney Gen-
eral shall make determinations on which jurisdictions are 
lawless jurisdictions, and shall make such determinations, 
and an explanation of each determination, publicly avail-
able. 
(c) REINSTATEMENT OF FEDERAL FUNDS.—A juris-
diction that the Attorney General determines is a lawless 
jurisdiction may begin receiving Federal funds on the later 
of— 
(1) 180 days after the date on which the Attor-
ney General first determines that the jurisdiction is 
lawless; or 
(2) the date on which the Attorney General de-
termines that the jurisdiction is no longer a lawless 
jurisdiction. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITION. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘lawless jurisdiction’’ means a 
State or political subdivision of a State that— 
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(1) forbids a law enforcement agency from in-
tervening to restore order amid widespread or sus-
tained violence or destruction; 
(2) has withdrawn law enforcement protection 
from a geographical area or structure that law en-
forcement officers are lawfully entitled to access, but 
have been officially prevented from accessing or per-
mitted to access only in exceptional circumstances, 
except when law enforcement officers are briefly 
withheld as a tactical decision intended to resolve 
safely and expeditiously a specific and ongoing un-
lawful incident posing an imminent threat to the 
safety of individuals or law enforcement officers; 
(3) disempowers or defunds law enforcement 
agencies; or 
(4) refuses to accept an offer of law enforce-
ment assistance from the Federal Government amid 
widespread or sustained violence or destruction in 
the jurisdiction, during which the jurisdiction has 
been unable to restore order. 
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