S. 1843
119th Congress
Senate
Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to reauthorize the Second Chance Act of 2007.
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To President
Became law
May 21, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
May 21, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Plain-English summary
Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 various federal grants for state, local, and tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, and service providers to support individuals who reenter the community following a period of incarceration.
Specifically, the bill reauthorizes the following:
- grants for adult and juvenile offender reentry demonstration projects;
- grants for family-based substance abuse treatment programs;
- grants to evaluate and improve educational methods at prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities;
- grants for career training education;
- the offender reentry substance abuse and criminal justice collaboration program; and
- grants to nonprofit organizations for community-based mentoring and transitional services.
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Lobbying activity
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- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.
- THOMAS WALTERS & ASSOCIATES, INC.
- THE HAZEN COUNSEL, LLC
- PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
- BRIMLEY GROUP INC.
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
- White House Office
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1843: Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1843/
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