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Andrew Kearse Accountability for Denial of Medical Care Act of 2025
A bill to require Federal law enforcement and prison officials to obtain or provide immediate medical attention to individuals in custody who display medical distress.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Andrew Kearse Accountability for Denial of Medical Care Act of 2025
This bill establishes a new federal criminal offense for failing to obtain medical attention for an individual in federal custody who displays medical distress.
Specifically, the bill requires federal law enforcement officers and the Bureau of Prisons' personnel to provide or obtain immediate medical attention for an individual in federal custody who displays medical distress. It criminalizes the negligent failure to obtain or provide such medical attention that results in unnecessary pain, injury, or death.
A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to one year, or both.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- May 22, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- May 22, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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