HR 8494 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.

Latest action · Apr 24, 2026 Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.

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. IntroducedApr 23, 2026
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Cosponsors 25

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 23, 2026 to Jun 15, 2026; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-AZAdelita S. GrijalvaOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-TXAl GreenOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-ORAndrea SalinasOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-MDApril McClain DelaneyOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-NYDaniel S. GoldmanOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-ILDanny K. DavisOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-ILDelia C. RamirezOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-ILJesús G. "Chuy" GarcíaOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-TXJoaquin CastroOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-MNKelly MorrisonOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-MIShri ThanedarOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-NYYvette D. ClarkeOriginalApr 23, 2026
D-TXGreg CasarApr 27, 2026
D-CALateefah SimonApr 27, 2026
D-CAMark TakanoApr 27, 2026
D-TXSylvia R. GarciaApr 27, 2026
D-MNAngie CraigApr 30, 2026
D-MDKweisi MfumeApr 30, 2026
D-FLFrederica S. WilsonMay 7, 2026
D-TXVeronica EscobarMay 12, 2026
D-MNBetty McCollumMay 14, 2026
D-WAPramila JayapalMay 19, 2026
D-ORVal T. HoyleMay 29, 2026
D-ILMike QuigleyJun 15, 2026

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseJudiciary Committee
Referred Apr 23, 2026
HouseHomeland Security Committee
Referred Apr 23, 2026
Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Subcommittee
Referred Apr 24, 2026

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 24, 2026Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
  2. Apr 23, 2026Introduced in House
  3. Apr 23, 2026Referred 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.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseDebate and remarks H3326Kelly Morrison D-MNApr 30, 2026

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 172, no. 72, April 23, 2026, page H3093.

Titles 1

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 23, 2026Introduced in House

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