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Bill · 119th Congress · S 1510
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Reauthorization Act
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Introduced 2025-04-29Topic: civil rights · governance ethics · criminal justiceSummary
AI-generated summary, report an errorThis bill changes a 2018 law that created a federal board to review and release government records about unsolved civil rights cases. It states that Congress believes federal, state, and local records on these cases should be presumed open for immediate release and eventually made public. It allows the board to fully repay state or local governments for the cost of digitizing, copying, or mailing these records to the National Archives. It also stops a federal privacy exemption from being used to withhold information in records created on or before January 1, 1990, and extends the board's term from 7 years to 11 years.
Sponsors
- Ted Cruz Republican sponsor
- 1 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | House | Held at the desk. | |
| 2025-12-16 | House | Received in the House. | |
| 2025-12-16 | Senate | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | |
| 2025-12-15 | Senate | Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8708; text: CR S8708) | |
| 2025-12-15 | Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. | floor pass | |
| 2025-12-15 | Senate | Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. | report |
| 2025-12-15 | Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. | report | |
| 2025-04-29 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. | refer |
| 2025-04-29 | Introduced in Senate | introduce |