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Immigrants and travelers
What our breakdowns say each bill would mean for you, from groups whose heading contains citizen
, noncitizen
, visa
, parole
, immigration
, border
, travel
, fly
, living abroad
or another country
. Newest official action first.
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H.R. 7008
Latest official action Sep 30, 2026 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review by two people
If you are a U.S. citizen living abroad
The military exception would not cover you
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H.R. 6500
Latest official action Sep 2, 2026 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review
If you travel abroad
A passport surcharge continues
- The State Department can keep charging an extra passport fee until December 11, 2026.
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This section extends through December 11, 2026, the authority of the Department of State to collect passport fees under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
[1] Official bill status record for H.R. 6500 · CRS summary (Public Law), Sec. 2017The authority to collect the surcharge provided under paragraph (1) may not be exercised after
[23] 22 U.S.C. 214 (U.S. Code, 2024 edition) · 22 U.S.C. 214(b)(2)
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S. 2
Latest official action Jun 10, 2026 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review by two people
If you are not a U.S. citizen
ICE has more money for arrests and removals
- ICE gets money to hire officers and to pay travel costs when people leave or are removed from the country.
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Hiring, paying, training, and equipping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and the personnel for all its directorates, including officers, agents, investigators, attorneys and support staff, to carry out immigration enforcement activities.
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(1)Funding for transportation costs and related costs associated with alien departure or removal operations.
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(2) - It also pays for government lawyers who handle removal cases.
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Hiring and paying attorneys and the necessary support staff within the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to represent the Department in immigration enforcement and removal proceedings.
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(7) - At least $350 million is for arrests and related work involving certain adults who are not citizens.
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Not less than $350,000,000 for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for necessary expenses, in accordance with existing law, of detainer management, detainer issuance, custodial transfer, release monitoring, transportation, and arrests of covered unlawful aliens encountered in jurisdictions that are not qualified cooperating jurisdictions
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(A)the term covered unlawful alien means an adult alien who
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(D) - It applies only in places the law does not count as cooperating jurisdictions.
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Not less than $350,000,000 for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for necessary expenses, in accordance with existing law, of detainer management, detainer issuance, custodial transfer, release monitoring, transportation, and arrests of covered unlawful aliens encountered in jurisdictions that are not qualified cooperating jurisdictions
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(A) - That group includes people charged with or convicted of improper entry, or of coming back after being removed.
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has been charged with or convicted of an offense described in section 275 or 276 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1325 or 1326)
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(D)(v)§1325. Improper entry by alien
[15] 8 U.S.C. 1325, U.S. Code 2024 edition (improper entry) · §1325 heading§1326. Reentry of removed aliens
[16] 8 U.S.C. 1326, U.S. Code 2024 edition (reentry of removed aliens) · §1326 heading - It also includes people who can be kept out or deported on criminal grounds under immigration law.
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is inadmissible under section 212(a)(2) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2))
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(D)(ii)is deportable under section 237(a)(2) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2))
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(D)(iii)Criminal and related grounds
[18] 8 U.S.C. 1182, U.S. Code 2024 edition (inadmissible aliens) · 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2) headingCriminal offenses
[19] 8 U.S.C. 1227, U.S. Code 2024 edition (deportable aliens) · 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2) heading - It also includes people named in a DHS hold, notice, or transfer request after they were arrested, charged, booked, or convicted for a crime.
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following an arrest, charge, booking, or conviction for a criminal offense under Federal, State, or local law, other than a minor traffic offense, is the subject of an immigration detainer, notice request, or custody-transfer request issued by the Department of Homeland Security
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(D)(iv) - A minor traffic offense does not count.
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following an arrest, charge, booking, or conviction for a criminal offense under Federal, State, or local law, other than a minor traffic offense, is the subject of an immigration detainer, notice request, or custody-transfer request issued by the Department of Homeland Security
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(D)(iv) - This money cannot be used to release these people, unless a law already on the books requires it.
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None of the funds appropriated pursuant to this paragraph may be used, except as required by existing law, to release, parole, place on alternatives to detention, transport for purposes of release, or otherwise facilitate the release into the community of any covered unlawful alien encountered.
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 202(9)(C)
If you cross the border or ship goods through a port of entry
Money for inspection and surveillance technology
- CBP gets $3.45 billion for border technology, air and marine craft, and fighting drug smuggling.
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to remain available until September 30, 2029, $3,450,000,000 for the following
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(a)Air and Marine operations’ upgrading and procurement of new platforms for rapid air and marine response capabilities.
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(a)(2)Enhancing border security by combating drug trafficking, including fentanyl and its precursor chemicals
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(a)(5) - This includes new inspection gear at ports of entry, including tools that use artificial intelligence.
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Procurement and integration of new nonintrusive inspection equipment and associated civil works, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, as well as other mission support, to combat the entry or exit of illicit narcotics at ports of entry
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(a)(1) - It also pays to set up technology for the biometric entry and exit system.
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Necessary expenses, including the deployment of technology, relating to the biometric entry and exit system
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(a)(4) - This $3.45 billion cannot buy or set up surveillance towers on the southwest and northern borders unless CBP has tested and accepted them as autonomous.
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to remain available until September 30, 2029, $3,450,000,000 for the following
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(a)None of the funds made available under subsection (a) may be used for the procurement or deployment of surveillance towers along the southwest border and northern border that have not been tested and accepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deliver autonomous capabilities.
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(b) - That means the towers can spot and track things in real time and adjust on their own, without constant human control.
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detect, identify, classify, and track items of interest in real time such that the system can make operational adjustments without the active engagement of personnel or continuous human command or control
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 103(c)
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H.R. 7148
Latest official action Feb 3, 2026 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review by two people
If you fly
Air traffic control
- The FAA's operations account gets $13,710,000,000.
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OPERATIONS (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration
[2] Enrolled Bill · Div. D, Title I, Federal Aviation Administration, Operationsthe lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $13,710,000,000
[2] Enrolled Bill · Div. D, Title I, Federal Aviation Administration, Operations - Rep. Steve Womack said the money will fully fund air traffic control and allow hiring 2,500 new controllers.
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These dollars will fully fund air traffic control operations and enable the hiring of 2,500 new controllers.
[16] Congressional Record, House, February 3, 2026: debate and vote on agreeing to the Senate amendments (roll 53) · H1963, Rep. Womack
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S. 1071
Latest official action Dec 18, 2025 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review by two people
If you fly in or out of the Washington, D.C., area
New rules for military helicopter training
- Crewed Defense Department helicopters may not fly training missions in the D.C. area's special flight zone unless they actively warn nearby airliners where they are.
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may not authorize any manned rotary wing aircraft of the Department of Defense to operate a training mission in a covered airspace unless such aircraft, while being operated, is actively providing warning of the proximity of such aircraft to nearby commercial aircraft
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(a) → inserted 10 U.S.C. 2654(a)The term covered airspace means the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Special Flight Rules Area
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(a) → inserted 10 U.S.C. 2654(d)(2) - The Army, Navy, or Air Force secretary can waive this if the Transportation Secretary agrees.
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The Secretary of a military department, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Transportation, may waive the limitation
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(a) → inserted 10 U.S.C. 2654(b) - A waiver must serve national security, and a risk check for airliners must be done first.
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such waiver is in the national security interests of the United States
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(a) → inserted 10 U.S.C. 2654(b)(1)(A)a commercial aviation compatibility risk assessment has been conducted with respect to the operation of the aircraft pursuant to the waiver
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(a) → inserted 10 U.S.C. 2654(b)(1)(B) - Waivers lasting more than 30 days must be reported to Congress.
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in the case of a waiver to be in effect for a period exceeding 30 days, submits to appropriate congressional committees notice of such waiver
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(a) → inserted 10 U.S.C. 2654(b)(2) - The Defense Department must report near misses between its aircraft and airliners.
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a report on the number of near misses that aircraft of the Department have had with commercial aircraft during the previous fiscal year
[2] S. 1071 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 373(b)(2)
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S. 260
Latest official action Nov 25, 2025 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review
If you fly with breast milk or baby formula
New TSA guidance on clean handling during extra screening
- If these items get a second or extra screening, TSA guidance must aim to lower the risk that they get contaminated.
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shall issue or update, as the case may be, guidance to minimize the risk for contamination of any breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3that is subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3 - This also covers infant water and juice, and the ice packs or gel packs that keep these items cool.
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shall issue or update, as the case may be, guidance to minimize the risk for contamination of any breast milk, baby formula, purified deionized water for infants, and juice
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3as well as ice packs, freezer packs, frozen gel packs and other accessories required to cool breast milk, baby formula, and juice
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3 - If extra screening calls for more testing, the guidance must make sure that testing follows hygiene standards. The TSA sets those standards after consulting nationally recognized maternal health groups.
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ensure adherence to hygienic standards, as established by the Administrator, in consultation with nationally recognized maternal health organizations
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3(2)ensure that, when any such re-screening or additional screening requires additional testing, such testing so adheres to such standards, to so minimize such risk
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3(3) - The inspector general's audit must include how often these items are turned away after extra screening. That means kept out of the secure area past the checkpoint, where people board planes.
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the rate at which such items are denied entry into the sterile area
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 4that is subject to re-screening or otherwise subject to additional screening
[2] Enrolled Bill · Sec. 2 → inserted Sec. 3a portion of an airport defined in the airport security program that provides passengers access to boarding aircraft and to which the access generally is controlled by TSA
[10] 49 CFR 1540.5, TSA definitions (Code of Federal Regulations, 2025 edition) · Sterile area
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H.R. 1
Latest official action Jul 4, 2025 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review by two people
If you send money to another country
A 1 percent tax on some transfers
- A 1 percent tax applies to remittance transfers made after December 31, 2025, but only when the sender pays with cash, a money order, a cashier's check or a similar physical instrument. The sender owes the tax.
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There is hereby imposed on any remittance transfer a tax equal to 1 percent of the amount of such transfer.
[6] H.R. 1 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 70604(a) → inserted C4475(a)The amendments made by this section shall apply to transfers made after December 31, 2025.
[6] H.R. 1 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 70604(c)The tax imposed under subsection (a) shall apply only to any remittance transfer for which the sender provides cash, a money order, a cashier's check, or any other similar physical instrument (as determined by the Secretary) to the remittance transfer provider.
[6] H.R. 1 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 70604(a) → inserted C4475(c)The tax imposed by this section with respect to any remittance transfer shall be paid by the sender with respect to such transfer.
[6] H.R. 1 as passed by both chambers (enrolled) · Sec. 70604(a) → inserted C4475(b)(1)
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S. 5
Latest official action Jan 29, 2025 · Drafted by AI, awaiting review by two people
If you are a noncitizen who came without permission or papers, used fraud, or falsely claimed citizenship
Some arrests now mean you must be held
- If you are arrested for or charged with theft, burglary, or shoplifting, immigration officers must hold you.
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is charged with, is arrested for, is convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, shoplifting
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 2(1)(C) → inserted (c)(1)(E)(ii)The Attorney General shall take into custody any alien who
[6] 8 U.S.C. 1226, U.S. Code 2024 edition (law before the Act) · (c)(1) - The same is true for assaulting a law enforcement officer, or for any crime that kills or badly hurts someone.
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or assault of a law enforcement officer offense, or any crime that results in death or serious bodily injury to another person
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 2(1)(C) → inserted (c)(1)(E)(ii) - You do not have to be found guilty. Admitting to the acts counts too.
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admits having committed, or admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 2(1)(C) → inserted (c)(1)(E)(ii) - Officers may let you go only in narrow cases tied to protecting witnesses.
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The Attorney General may release an alien described in paragraph (1) only if the Attorney General decides pursuant to section 3521 of title 18 that release of the alien from custody is necessary to provide protection to a witness
[6] 8 U.S.C. 1226, U.S. Code 2024 edition (law before the Act) · (c)(2), now (c)(4)by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 2(2) - What counts as theft or another listed crime depends on the law of the place where the acts happened.
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have the meanings given such terms in the jurisdiction in which the acts occurred
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 2(3) → inserted (c)(2) - Coverage turns on these grounds, not on programs such as DACA or TPS, which the law does not mention.
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is inadmissible under paragraph (6)(A), (6)(C), or (7) of section 212(a); and
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 2(1)(C) → inserted (c)(1)(E)(i) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) gave his reading of the law. He said a young person with DACA who is charged with shoplifting would have to be held, even if the charges are dropped.
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A young person in DACA who is with a group of friends when one of them is arrested for shoplifting and then all the kids get charged will be subject to mandatory detention and deportation even if the child was not shoplifting and the charges are dropped.
[14] Congressional Record, House debate, January 22, 2025 (H277-H284) · H280, Rep. Raskin - The entered-without-permission ground covers people here "without being admitted or paroled," and people who arrive at a time or place the government has not set for entry.
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An alien present in the United States without being admitted or paroled, or who arrives in the United States at any time or place other than as designated by the Attorney General, is inadmissible.
[9] 8 U.S.C. 1182, U.S. Code 2024 edition (who is inadmissible, and parole; law before the Act) · (a)(6)(A)(i)
If you came on parole or want a visa
States can now take some parole and visa choices to court
- Parole lets a person into the country for a time. It does not count as an admission.
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in his discretion parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe
[9] 8 U.S.C. 1182, U.S. Code 2024 edition (who is inadmissible, and parole; law before the Act) · (d)(5)(A)such parole of such alien shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien
[9] 8 U.S.C. 1182, U.S. Code 2024 edition (who is inadmissible, and parole; law before the Act) · (d)(5)(A) - The law says parole may be given only case by case. It may be given only for urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant public benefit.
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in his discretion parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit
[9] 8 U.S.C. 1182, U.S. Code 2024 edition (who is inadmissible, and parole; law before the Act) · (d)(5)(A) - A state that says parole broke those limits and harmed it can now sue.
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alleging a violation of the limitation under subparagraph (A) that parole solely be granted on a case-by-case basis and solely for urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant public benefit, that harms such State or its residents shall have standing to bring an action against the Secretary of Homeland Security
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(d)(2) → inserted (d)(5)(C) - Federal law already has a rule for a country that refuses, or unreasonably delays, taking back its own people. Once the U.S. Attorney General reports this, the State Department must stop some or all visas for people from that country.
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On being notified by the Attorney General that the government of a foreign country denies or unreasonably delays accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country
[8] 8 U.S.C. 1253, U.S. Code 2024 edition (law before the Act) · (d)the Secretary of State shall order consular officers in that foreign country to discontinue granting immigrant visas or nonimmigrant visas, or both
[8] 8 U.S.C. 1253, U.S. Code 2024 edition (law before the Act) · (d) - A state harmed when that does not happen can now sue the Secretary of State.
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alleging a violation of the requirement to discontinue granting visas to citizens, subjects, nationals, and residents as described in subsection (d) that harms such State or its residents shall have standing to bring an action against the Secretary of State
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(c) → inserted (e)
If your state says a federal immigration choice harmed it
Your state's attorney general can now sue
- A state attorney general can sue in federal court over a choice to release someone or to grant bond or parole. The choice must harm the state or its people.
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to release any alien or grant bond or parole to any alien that harms such State or its residents shall have standing to bring an action against the Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(b)(2) → inserted (f)in an appropriate district court of the United States to obtain appropriate injunctive relief
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(b)(2) → inserted (f) - For the other new suits, the state must say a specific rule was broken and that this harmed it. One example is the rule to hold people ordered removed.
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alleging a violation of the detention requirement under subparagraph (A) that harms such State or its residents shall have standing to bring an action against the Secretary of Homeland Security
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(e)(2) → inserted (a)(2)(B)During the removal period, the Attorney General shall detain the alien.
[10] 8 U.S.C. 1231, U.S. Code 2024 edition (law before the Act) · (a)(2) - Any harm to the state or its people counts, including money losses over $100.
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a State or its residents shall be considered to have been harmed if the State or its residents experience harm, including financial harm in excess of $100
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(b)(2) → inserted (f) - Courts must move these cases ahead and decide them as fast as they practically can.
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The court shall advance on the docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action filed under this subsection to the greatest extent practicable.
[4] S. 5 as passed by both chambers (enrolled), signed as Public Law 119-1 · Sec. 3(b)(2) → inserted (f)
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