S. 455 · 119th Congress

Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

Introduced on Feb 6, 2025 by Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). 33 cosponsors, all from the sponsor's party. Latest action (Feb 6, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 6, 2025
Cosponsors
33
0 from the other party
Policy area
Immigration
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to amend section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations, to clarify the powers of immigration officers at sensitive locations, and for other purposes.

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, Feb 6, 2025). Public domain.

Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location except in exigent circumstances, such as the imminent risk of death, violence, or physical harm to any person.

Sensitive locations include

  • health care facilities;
  • schools and school bus stops;
  • places that provide assistance for people such as children, pregnant women, and abuse victims;
  • child care facilities;
  • places that provide disaster or emergency services;
  • places of worship;
  • courthouses and lawyers’ offices;
  • facilities used as polling places;
  • certain labor union facilities; and
  • public assistance offices.

The prohibition shall apply to Department of Homeland Security officers and agents, as well as state employees pursuing immigration enforcement actions.

If an enforcement action is carried out in violation of this prohibition (1) no information resulting from the action may be entered into the record in a resulting removal proceeding, and (2) the affected individual may move to immediately terminate such a proceeding.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall annually report to Congress about enforcement actions taken at sensitive locations in the preceding year.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Richard BlumenthalD-CTSponsor

Democrats · 32

Independents · 1

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Feb 6, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Feb 6, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Committees

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Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. American Academy of Pediatrics6 reports
    $2.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS$442.6K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. Friends Committee on National Legislation6 reports
    $6M reported (all issues)
  3. National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners6 reports
    $144K reported (all issues)
  4. National Council of Jewish Women6 reports
    $60K reported (all issues)
  5. National League for Nursing6 reports
    $171K reported (all issues)
  6. THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK COMMITTEE5 reports
    $1.5M reported (all issues)
  7. Network4 reports
  8. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists3 reports
    $906K reported (all issues)
  9. Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)3 reports
    $12.1K reported (all issues)
  10. Epilepsy Foundation3 reports
    $210K reported (all issues)
  11. American Federation of Teachers2 reports
    $900K reported (all issues)
  12. CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS2 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  13. CONFERENCE OF PROVINCIALS OF NORTH AMERICA2 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  14. KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE2 reports
    $270K reported (all issues)
  15. MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY2 reports
    $110K reported (all issues)
  16. PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC.2 reports
    $74.1K reported (all issues)
  17. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.2 reports
    $285.5K reported (all issues)
  18. American Public Health Association1 report
    $34.9K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100%
  19. Disability Rights Education & Defense, Inc.1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)
  20. Global Refuge1 report
  21. Human Rights First1 report
    $67.5K reported (all issues)
  22. NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ACTION FUND1 report
    $75K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.