HR 259 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

No Funding for Illegal Migrant Billboards Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJan 9, 2025
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

No Funding for Illegal Migrant Billboards Act

This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from obligating or expending funds to advertise the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman or its functions to the general public. The office’s functions include investigating violations of the rights of individuals in immigration detention, inspecting immigration detention facilities, and providing assistance to individuals affected by the potential misconduct of DHS officers.

Cosponsors 2

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 9, 2025.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TNAndrew OglesOriginalJan 9, 2025
R-MDAndy HarrisOriginalJan 9, 2025

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 9, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Jan 9, 2025Referred 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 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  3. Jan 9, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 9, 2025Introduced in House

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