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HR 4371

119th Congress

Latest action 2025-12-17: Received in the Senate.

This bill number also appears in other loaded Congresses: 118th, 117th, 116th, 115th, 114th, 113th, 112th, 111th, 110th, 109th, 108th (bill numbers are reused each Congress, so these are different bills).

Kayla Hamilton Act bill

sponsor
F000478
introduced
2025-07-14
policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
cosponsors
2
lobbying filings citing it
23
money facing its subject
the record
congress.gov
7 CRS legislative subjects, as written

Border security and unlawful immigration, Child safety and welfare, Detention of persons, Human trafficking, Immigration status and procedures, Juvenile crime and gang violence, Smuggling and trafficking

Actions: 24 on the record

The record's own timeline, word for word, newest first. An action that names a committee links to it.

datetypeaction, as writtencommittee
2025-07-14 IntroReferral Introduced in House
2025-07-14 IntroReferral Introduced in House
2025-07-14 IntroReferral Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-09-10 Committee Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-09-10 Committee Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 16 - 13. House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-10-17 Committee Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-345. House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-10-17 Committee Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-345. House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-10-17 Calendars Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 297.
2025-12-16 Floor Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 951 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632 and H.R. 4371. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, under a structured rule and H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632, and H.R. 4371 under a closed rule. The resolution provides one motion to recommit on each bill.
2025-12-16 Floor Rule H. Res. 951 passed House.
2025-12-16 Floor Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 951. (consideration: CR H5921-5927)
2025-12-16 Floor Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632 and H.R. 4371. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4776, under a structured rule and H.R. 1366, H.R. 845, H.R. 3616, H.R. 3632, and H.R. 4371 under a closed rule. The resolution provides one motion to recommit on each bill.
2025-12-16 Floor DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4371.
2025-12-16 Floor The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
2025-12-16 Floor Ms. Stansbury moved to recommit to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H5927) House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-12-16 Floor The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
2025-12-16 Floor POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate H.R. 4371, the Chair put the question on motion to recommit and announced that the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Stansbury demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
2025-12-16 Floor Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5933-5934)
2025-12-16 Floor On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 218 (Roll no. 339). House Committee on the Judiciary
2025-12-16 Floor Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 225 - 201 (Roll no. 340). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H5921-5922)
2025-12-16 Floor On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 225 - 201 (Roll no. 340). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H5921-5922)
2025-12-16 Floor Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2025-12-16 Floor The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
2025-12-17 IntroReferral Received in the Senate.

Cosponsors: 2

In order of signing; an original cosponsor signed on introduction day. A withdrawal stays on the record, marked, never deleted.

memberpartystatesigned
Barry Moore Republican AL 2025-07-14 original
Troy E. Nehls Republican TX 2025-07-14 original

Lobbying: 23 filings cite this bill

Filings whose specific-issues text cites the bill, as the filers typed it ("H.R. 4371", "H.R.4371"). The LDA does not disclose positions on a bill (support or oppose), so none appear here; a filing is attributed to a Congress by its filing year. Counts, never dollars. ‡ lobbying estimates

Money facing this bill

A giver's face is the list of subjects its organization lobbies Congress on, read from its own lobbying reports and spread by how often each subject comes up; a gift from someone who works there is spread the same way.

$3,891

measureMoney facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3

subjectCrime and Law Enforcement

members counted3

members with a candidacy in 20262

this row as datathe stored row

from individual donors whose organizations lobby on Crime and Law Enforcement, the bill's policy area, reached the 3 members who sponsor or cosponsor it, in the 2026 cycle, more than 32% of Crime and Law Enforcement bills. From PACs whose sponsors lobby on it: $10k, counted separately.

This is money tied to the bill's subject, not money given for or against the bill. It shows what an organization lobbies on, not what position it takes, and no gift is tied to a bill.

The members it reached, and who gave it

The organizations are each member's three largest on this subject. A group of organizations is shown by name only after a person has reviewed it.

Lobbying clients that named this bill in their filings
ClientFilingsIts face on Crime and Law Enforcement
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION 6
1%

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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 4
2%

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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION 3
27%

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FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM 3
10%

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KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE 3
4%

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CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY (CLASP) 1
1%

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COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION 1
2%

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MOVEON.ORG CIVIC ACTION 1
2%

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS 1
1%

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Money facing a bill's subject that reached its sponsors, version 3 · ‡ self-reported text ‡ small donors invisible ‡ lobbying estimates

Votes: 2 roll calls tied to this bill by the chambers' own documents

Tallies are the chambers' own published numbers. ‡ votes, not motives

datechamberquestionresultyeasnaysrecord
2025-12-16 house On Motion to Recommit Failed 208 218 the chamber's document
2025-12-16 house On Passage Passed 225 201 the chamber's document

Coverage: bills are loaded for Congresses 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119. We have not collected a Congress missing from that list, so its bills do not show here even though they exist. Lobbying citations cover the LDA years we collected; votes cover the loaded roll-call files. ‡ correlation, not purchase ‡ lobbying estimates ‡ votes, not motives