[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2366 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2366

   To direct the Attorney General to identify and publish a list of 
            anarchist jurisdictions, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2025

  Mr. Sheehy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Attorney General to identify and publish a list of 
            anarchist jurisdictions, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Anarchists From Endangering 
Cities Act'' or the ``SAFE Cities Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF ANARCHIST JURISDICTION.

    In this Act, the term ``anarchist jurisdiction'' means a State or 
unit of local government that has refused to take reasonable steps to 
stop acts of violence and destruction of property in the jurisdiction 
of that State or unit of local government.

SEC. 3. IDENTIFICATION OF ANARCHIST JURISDICTIONS.

    (a) Publication.--
            (1) Initial publication.--Not later than 14 days after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 
        consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the 
        Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall publish 
        on the website of the Department of Justice a list identifying 
        each anarchist jurisdiction.
            (2) Updates.--The Attorney General, in consultation with 
        the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the 
        Office of Management and Budget, shall update the list 
        published under paragraph (1) not less frequently than once 
        every 180 days after the date of initial publication.
    (b) Considerations.--In identifying whether a State or unit of 
local government is an anarchist jurisdiction, the Attorney General, in 
consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, shall consider, as appropriate, 
whether a jurisdiction--
            (1) has a policy or practice that prevents or restricts a 
        law enforcement agency from intervening to restore order amid 
        widespread or sustained violence or destruction;
            (2) has prevented a law enforcement agency from policing a 
        geographical area or structure that law enforcement officers 
        are otherwise lawfully entitled to police, except in the case 
        of a tactical decision to temporarily withhold law enforcement 
        officers that is intended to resolve safely and expeditiously a 
        specific and ongoing unlawful incident posing an imminent 
        threat to the safety of individuals or law enforcement 
        officers;
            (3) has disempowered or defunded a law enforcement agency; 
        or
            (4) unreasonably refuses to accept offers of law 
        enforcement assistance from the Federal Government.
    (c) Guidance.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
issue guidance to the head of each Federal agency on restricting 
eligibility of, or otherwise disfavoring, to the maximum extent 
permitted by law, anarchist jurisdictions in the receipt of Federal 
grants that the Federal agency has sufficient lawful discretion to 
restrict or otherwise disfavor anarchist jurisdictions from receiving.
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