Preventing Payouts for Insurrectionists Act

This bill would change federal law so that people convicted of crimes tied to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, efforts to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election, or efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election cannot bring certain claims against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. This applies even if the person was later pardoned. The change would cover claims pending on or brought on or after January 20, 2025. People in this group who received federal payments or settlements on such claims between January 20, 2025, and the bill becoming law would have to return the full amount to the U.S. Treasury. State attorneys general could sue to recover the money, and courts would also order the person to pay the state an extra 25 percent of that amount.

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Sponsors

• Adam B. Schiff Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors