Cashless Bail Reporting Act

What this does

This bill creates a reporting requirement and nothing more. It directs the Attorney General to publish, within one year of enactment and every year after, a list of each State and local government that permits release before trial on personal recognizance or an unsecured appearance bond for a covered offense. It defines a covered offense as a crime the Attorney General determines poses a clear threat to public safety, and lists examples including murder, rape, sexual assault, carjacking, robbery, burglary, assault, looting, vandalism, rioting, and fleeing a law enforcement officer. It does not ban, restrict, or condition any State or local bail practice, and it attaches no funding or penalty. It names and counts the jurisdictions; it does not change what they do.

House vote · 308-116

Democrats

96–114

Republicans

211–2

Independents

1–0

How we know · 6 sourced claims

The bill directs the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of each State and unit of local government that permits pretrial release on personal recognizance or unsecured appearance bond for a covered offense.Source: Sec. 2(a) Publication of cashless bail jurisdictions, In general
The list must be published no later than one year after enactment and annually thereafter.Source: Sec. 2(a): 'Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter'
A covered offense is a crime the Attorney General determines poses a clear threat to public safety and order.Source: Sec. 2(b) Covered offense defined
The listed examples of covered offenses include murder, rape, sexual assault, carjacking, robbery, burglary, and assault, and public-disorder offenses such as looting, vandalism, destruction of property, rioting or inciting to riot, and fleeing from a law enforcement officer.Source: Sec. 2(b)(1) and (b)(2)
The bill does not ban, restrict, or condition any State or local bail practice and attaches no funding or penalty; its only operative effect is publication.Source: Whole text: only Sec. 1 (short title) and Sec. 2 (publication + definition); no provision alters bail practice, no funding condition, no penalty
The bill is single-subject, with a short title section and one operative reporting section, and carries no rider or unrelated provision.Source: Sec. 1 Short title; Sec. 2 Publication of cashless bail jurisdictions

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Reported lobbying

At least

organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 7 quarterly reports filed by 4 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

The organizations named

MINNESOTA SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
THE BAIL PROJECT, INC.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS (NACDL)
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, INC.

Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.

Your representatives

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R211–2D96–114I1–0

Position

Party

State

Republicans

217

Democrats

212

Independents

YeaKevin KileyCA · District 3