Full-Body Restraint Prohibition Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7709 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7709

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the Secretary of
 Homeland Security from obligating or expending Federal funds for the
   acquisition of, or utilizing, full-body restraints, and for other
                               purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2026

 Mrs. Ramirez (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Goldman of New
 York, Ms. Simon, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Davis of
Illinois, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Velazquez, and Ms.
   Randall) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the Secretary of
 Homeland Security from obligating or expending Federal funds for the
   acquisition of, or utilizing, full-body restraints, and for other
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Full-Body Restraint Prohibition
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS ON THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WITH
              RESPECT TO FULL-BODY RESTRAINTS.

    (a) In General.--Title VII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6
U.S.C. 341 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new
section:

``SEC. 714. PROHIBITIONS WITH RESPECT TO FULL-BODY RESTRAINTS.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary may not--
            ``(1) obligate or expend Federal funds for the acquisition
        of, or
            ``(2) utilize,
a full-body restraint.
    ``(b) Saving Provision.--The prohibition under subsection (a)(1)
does not apply with respect to a contract or other similar type
agreement entered into on or before the date of the enactment of this
section.
    ``(c) Federal Service.--If an officer or employee of the Department
in the course of employment with the Department--
            ``(1) violates a prohibition under subsection (a), or
            ``(2) deceives Congress or departmental leadership, as
        described in section 454, on a matter related to such
        prohibition,
the Secretary, through the employee discipline and adverse action
programs referred to in section 704(b)(10), shall remove such officer
or employee, as the case may be, from Federal service.
    ``(d) Reports.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
        the enactment of this section and quarterly thereafter, the
        Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security
        and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
        Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
        Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the
        Senate a report that includes the following:
                    ``(A) Information relating to departmental
                compliance with the prohibitions under subsection (a).
                    ``(B) An accounting of the full-body restraints, if
                any, in the possession of the Department.
            ``(2) Contents.--If the prohibition under subsection (a)(2)
        is violated, the applicable report under paragraph (1) shall
        include, to the extent practicable, the following with respect
        to such violation:
                    ``(A) An identification of the following:
                            ``(i) The individual with respect to whom
                        personnel of the Department utilized a full-
                        body restraint.
                            ``(ii) If applicable, each field office to
                        which such personnel are assigned or deployed,
                        as the case may be.
                    ``(B) Information relating to the following:
                            ``(i) The reason for such utilization.
                            ``(ii) The age, sex, race, and ethnicity of
                        such individual.
                            ``(iii) The period of time for which such
                        restraint was so utilized.
                            ``(iv) The citizenship or immigration
                        status of such individual.
                            ``(v) Whether such individual was injured
                        in the course of being placed in such
                        restraint.
                            ``(vi) Whether subsequent to such placement
                        such individual was injured as a result of such
                        utilization.
                            ``(vii) The component of the Department
                        through which such utilization was carried out.
                            ``(viii) The location at which, or the
                        transportation route on which, such utilization
                        was carried out.
                            ``(ix) The language access services, if
                        any, available to such individual immediately
                        before and during such utilization.
                    ``(C) An identification of the officer or employee
                of the Department who is responsible for such
                utilization.
                    ``(D) Information relating to the following:
                            ``(i) Whether such officer or employee, as
                        the case may be, during such utilization was a
                        doctor, nurse, or other health professional,
                        qualified to determine whether such utilization
                        would injure such individual.
                            ``(ii) If clause (i) is answered in the
                        affirmative, such qualifications.
    ``(e) Full-Body Restraints Defined.--In this section, the term
`full-body restraints' means four-point and five-point restraints that
immobilize an individual.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 713 the following new item:

``Sec. 714. Prohibitions with respect to full-body restraints.''.
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