Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 16 - 14.
The bill, titled the End Endless Criminal Statutes Act, repeals a set of specified federal criminal provisions the text characterizes as unnecessary or antiquated and narrows one postal-uniform offense by adding an intent requirement. It removes or amends statutes addressing stamp removal, colored margarine restrictions, certain food and agricultural provisions, coin-making language, maritime and mail-related offenses, and a Capitol grounds protection provision.
Liberals emphasize civil-liberty gains and impacts on overpoliced communities
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly pursues substantive legal changes by repealing and amending named criminal provisions and gives a concise statement of the problem via Findings.
The bill, titled the End Endless Criminal Statutes Act, repeals a set of specified federal criminal provisions the text characterizes as unnecessary or antiquated and narrows one postal-uniform offense by adding an intent requirement.
It removes or amends statutes addressing stamp removal, colored margarine restrictions, certain food and agricultural provisions, coin-making language, maritime and mail-related offenses, and a Capitol grounds protection provision.
Content is narrow, non-ideological cleanup with low fiscal impact, increasing feasibility; legislative calendar and possible agency objections reduce probability.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly pursues substantive legal changes by repealing and amending named criminal provisions and gives a concise statement of the problem via Findings. It specifies the statutory targets for repeal and amendment, but it omits implementation detail commonly expected for changes to criminal statutes (effective date/savings, transition provisions, fiscal acknowledgement, and monitoring).
Liberals emphasize civil-liberty gains and impacts on overpoliced communities
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Liberals emphasize civil-liberty gains and impacts on overpoliced communities
Likely broadly supportive of removing criminal penalties for trivial or archaic conduct and tightening mens rea for the postal-uniform offense.
Would watch for effects on marginalized people who historically face disproportionate enforcement and want safeguards against new enforcement gaps.
Cautiously favorable toward repealing obviously obsolete criminal statutes, but wants clarity that public-safety and fraud protections remain intact.
Prefers measured fixes and oversight to ensure no unintended enforcement gaps.
Generally supportive as deregulatory and commonsense pruning of the federal criminal code that limits federal reach into trivial conduct.
Appreciates adding intent requirements to avoid overcriminalization.
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Content is narrow, non-ideological cleanup with low fiscal impact, increasing feasibility; legislative calendar and possible agency objections reduce probability.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals emphasize civil-liberty gains and impacts on overpoliced communities
Content is narrow, non-ideological cleanup with low fiscal impact, increasing feasibility; legislative calendar and possible agency objecti…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly pursues substantive legal changes by repealing and amending named criminal provisions and gives a concise statement of the problem via Findings. It specifies…
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