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S. 84119th CongressImmigration
Sarah's Law
Sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) · 34 active : 33 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Where it standsBefore the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSarah's Law
This bill requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain a non-U.S. national (
alien
under federal law) who is unlawfully present in the United States and has been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person.
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ICE must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the identity of any victims of the crimes for which the detained individual was charged or convicted. ICE shall provide the victim, or a relative or guardian of a deceased victim, with information about the detained individual, including name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, and a description of any related removal efforts.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReferred to
Subjects
No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 41Middle 30–70
- 50Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
34 activeShow all 34 cosponsors
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- John R. Curtis (R-UT)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
