US Congress · H.R. 2611 · In committee

HOUTHI PC SMALL GROUP Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-04-02

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Officially: “HOUTHI PC SMALL GROUP Act of 2025” Read the full text

Crime and Law Enforcement

What it does

The bill would make it a federal crime to knowingly communicate, share, or otherwise make classified information available through a mobile or desktop messaging app. Anyone convicted could be fined, imprisoned for up to 10 years, or both.

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1Short title

This section gives the Act its short title, the Homeland Operations and Unilateral Tactics Halting Incursions: Preventing Coordinated Subversion, Military Aggression and Lawless Levies Granting Rogue Operatives Unchecked Power Act of 2025, also called the HOUTHI PC SMALL GROUP Act of 2025.

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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Homeland Operations and Unilateral Tactics Halting Incursions: Preventing Coordinated Subversion, Military Aggression and Lawless Levies Granting Rogue Operatives Unchecked Power Act of 2025 or the HOUTHI PC SMALL GROUP Act of 2025 .

2Communication of classified information on mobile or desktop messaging application

This section would add a new crime to chapter 37 of title 18 of the United States Code, as new section 798B. Under this new crime, anyone who knowingly communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available classified information on a mobile or desktop messaging application would be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both. The section would also update the table of sections for chapter 37 to list the new section 798B by adding an entry for it after the entry for section 798A.

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2. Communication of classified information on mobile or desktop messaging application (a) In general Chapter 37 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 798A the following: 798B. Communication of classified information on mobile or desktop messaging application Whoever knowingly communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available any classified information on a mobile or desktop messaging application shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections for chapter 37 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item related to section 798A the following: 798B. Communication of classified information on mobile or desktop messaging application. .

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-04-02

In the House.

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Official documents

Full bill textread it on this site, version ih (Introduced in House), as published by GovInfo

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The numbers

of bills introduced became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=16,213)

sponsor, out of 218 needed to pass

Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (2025-04-02).