US Congress · H.R. 2685 · In committee

Crime Doesn’t Fly Act of 2025

Introduced

Moved

Reached a final decision

Introduced 2025-04-07

Derived from the official record below.

Officially: “Crime Doesn’t Fly Act of 2025” Read the full text

Transportation and Public Works

What it does

The bill bars the Transportation Security Administration from accepting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest warrant or removal warrant as valid identification at airport security checkpoints. The one exception is for an alien who is actually being removed from the United States under immigration law, in which case those documents may still be used.

Written by AI from the complete official bill text and independently fact-checked against it. Not legal advice.

Read it in plain language

AI plain language2 sections

Written by AI from the complete official bill text and independently fact-checked against it. Not legal advice.

1Short title

This section says the Act may be called the "Crime Doesn't Fly Act of 2025."

Show official text

Official text, verbatim from the record

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Crime Doesn’t Fly Act of 2025 .

2Prohibition of use of ICE arrest warrants as identification at aviation security checkpoints

This section would bar the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from accepting a "prohibited document" as valid proof of identification at an aviation security checkpoint. A "prohibited document" means Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-200 (Warrant for Arrest of Alien) or Form I-205 (Warrant of Removal/Deportation), including any successor forms that replace them. The bar would not apply to an alien who is being removed from the United States in accordance with the immigration laws, using the definition of "immigration laws" in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101); for that alien, the document could still be accepted as identification at the checkpoint.

Show official text

Official text, verbatim from the record

2. Prohibition of use of ICE arrest warrants as identification at aviation security checkpoints (a) In general Except as provided in subsection (b), the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration may not accept a prohibited document as valid proof of identification at an aviation security checkpoint. (b) Exception Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to an alien who is being removed from the United States in accordance with the immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 )). (c) Prohibited document defined In this section, the term prohibited document means any of the following: (1) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I–200, Warrant for Arrest of Alien (or any successor form). (2) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I–205, Warrant of Removal/Deportation (or any successor form).

AI plain languageRead the whole bill in plain language, 2 sections

Where it is

Introduced · 2025-04-07

In the House.

Committee, then floor votes in both chambers · next · the next step

Official documents

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

official

The on-site text is shown verbatim from the GovInfo publication, captured 2026-07-12. The same version at GovInfo.

The numbers

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

sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass

Who is lobbying on this

CRH AMERICAS MATERIALS, INC.via FORBES-TATE

1 filing

PEABODY INVESTMENTS CORPvia PEABODY INVESTMENTS CORP.

1 filing

From 2 filings in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2025). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.

Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security. (2025-04-07).