House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
SHIELD Act of 2025
Official title: To provide that it is unlawful to knowingly distribute private intimate visual depictions with reckless disregard for the individual's lack of consent to the distribution, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson Van Drew R-NJWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 11, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 11, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1218.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VAN DREW, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 28, February 11, 2025, Page H646):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 11, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1218, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1218
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- December 5, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
14 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 7 Democrats, 1 independent
7 of 14 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Kevin Kiley (I-CA), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Jefferson Van Drew.
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- H.R. 1178 (119th) Alpha-gal Allergen Inclusion Act
- H.R. 1443 (119th) Public Safety Free Speech Act
- H.R. 7931 (119th) IDA Act of 2026
- H.R. 6604 (119th) Presidential Fitness Test Act of 2025
Related bills
- S. 516 (119th) SHIELD Act of 2023Related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.