# H.R. 6260 (119th): Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025

Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025 This bill broadens the definition of the term business of insurance , for the purposes of federal crimes related to insurance fraud, to include the posting of monetary bail, criminal bail bonds, and federal immigration bail bonds. Under the bill, entities and organizations that pay cash bond or bail for defendants (e.g., charitable bail funds) are engaged in the business of insurance under federal law and subject to federal criminal provisions related to insurance fraud, as well as state licensing requirements and regulation by state insurance commissions.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: bail_bonds. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: criminal_justice. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federal_preemption. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: insurance_fraud. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: justice. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: public_safety. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 168: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 169: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a legitimate public-safety and anti-fraud aim with a regulatory expansion that may burden charitable bail funds and extend federal criminal reach into a state-regulated area. Neither the directly evil nor the directly restraining classification clearly fits from the summary, so a prudential mixed classification is the most accurate high-level judgment.
Theological note: The measure touches on public safety and the just ordering of criminal justice, which Scripture grounds in the state's duty to punish wrongdoing with equity. It also raises the question of how charitable aid to detained persons, such as bail funds serving the poor, should be treated under law, given the church's call to care for prisoners and the vulnerable. Federal extension of criminal and regulatory reach into state-supervised bail activity also bears on the principle of limited and proportionate authority. These are issues for prudential judgment rather than a clear moral verdict on the text as summarized.

## Recorded votes

Roll 168: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 210 · Nay 213 · Other 7.
Roll 169: On Passage. Yea 243 · Nay 179 · Other 8.

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