Protecting Sensitive Locations Act
Official title: A bill to amend section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations, to clarify the powers of im… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to amend section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations, to clarify the powers of immigration officers at sensitive locations, and for other purposes.
| Date | Chamber | What was voted on | Result | Yes–No | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 1994 | Senate · vote #90 | On Passage of the Bill S. 455 | Passed | 78–20 | See who voted → |
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Protecting Sensitive Locations Act
This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location except in exigent circumstances, such as the imminent risk of death, violence, or physical harm to any person.
Sensitive locations include
- health care facilities;
- schools and school bus stops;
- places that provide assistance for people such as children, pregnant women, and abuse victims;
- child care facilities;
- places that provide disaster or emergency services;
- places of worship;
- courthouses and lawyers’ offices;
- facilities used as polling places;
- certain labor union facilities; and
- public assistance offices.
The prohibition shall apply to Department of Homeland Security officers and agents, as well as state employees pursuing immigration enforcement actions.
If an enforcement action is carried out in violation of this prohibition (1) no information resulting from the action may be entered into the record in a resulting removal proceeding, and (2) the affected individual may move to immediately terminate such a proceeding.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall annually report to Congress about enforcement actions taken at sensitive locations in the preceding year.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- MASON CONSULTING, LLC
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC.
- FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- State, Dept of (DOS)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 455: Protecting Sensitive Locations Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-455/
"S. 455: Protecting Sensitive Locations Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-455/.
S. 455, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-455/.
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