US HB708 | 2025-2026 | 119th Congress
Status
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: Engrossed on March 11 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-03-11 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 11 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-03-11 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
To establish in the Department of Homeland Security a working group relating to countering terrorist, cybersecurity, border and port security, and transportation security threats posed to the United States by the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes.
Title
SHIELD Against CCP Act Strategic Homeland Intelligence and Enforcement Legislation to Defend Against the CCP Act
Sponsors
| Rep. Dale Strong [R-AL] | Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY] | Rep. Clay Higgins [R-LA] | Rep. Mark Green [R-TN] |
| Rep. Michael Guest [R-MS] | Rep. Morgan Luttrell [R-TX] | Rep. Gabe Evans [R-CO] | Rep. John Moolenaar [R-MI] |
| Rep. August Pfluger [R-TX] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-11 | Senate | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. |
| 2025-03-10 | House | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| 2025-03-10 | House | On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1049-1050) |
| 2025-03-10 | House | DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 708. |
| 2025-03-10 | House | Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1049-1051) |
| 2025-03-10 | House | Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. |
| 2025-01-23 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. |
| 2025-01-23 | House | Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| 2025-01-23 | House | Introduced in House |
Same As/Similar To
SB1625 (Related) 2025-05-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
