House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act of 2025
Official title: To establish certain limitations on Federal immigration enforcement personnel.
Sponsor: Rep. Scott Peters D-CAWhere it went
- IntroducedNov 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5973.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. PETERS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 187, November 7, 2025, Page H4586):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record November 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5973, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5973
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 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 September 19, 2026). 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
112 cosponsors — 112 Democrats
0 of 112 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Ami Bera (D-CA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Herbert Conaway (D-NJ), J. Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Angie Craig (D-MN), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Danny Davis (D-IL), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Bill Foster (D-IL) and 82 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.