Congress moves to end 85-year-old alien registration requirement
H.R. 2129 — No Round Up Act · Filed by Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) · 41 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill repeals the Alien Registration Act of 1940 and related provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act, eliminating the federal requirement that aliens register with the government and be fingerprinted. The bill removes sections 262, 263(b), 264(e), 265(b), and 266 of the INA, along with conforming amendments, effectively ending mandatory alien registration as a federal legal obligation.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is the repeal of a mandatory federal registration and fingerprinting requirement for non-citizens. This is a deregulatory measure that removes a longstanding compliance obligation and government surveillance/tracking authority.
What the text implies
- Eliminates fingerprint records and registration data that federal, state, and local law enforcement have used for criminal background checks, deportation proceedings, and identity verification.
- Removes a statutory basis for the government to maintain a centralized registry of non-citizen presence and location, potentially affecting immigration enforcement capacity.
- May create gaps in tracking aliens subject to deportation orders or criminal convictions, as the registration system has been a primary enforcement tool.
- The conforming amendment to section 237(a)(3)(B) removes a cross-reference to the repealed registration requirement; full effect depends on what that section currently provides.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Repealing mandatory alien registration removes a compliance burden and potential privacy/surveillance exposure for non-citizens, but eliminates a government tracking mechanism that law enforcement and immigration authorities have relied on for enforcement and public safety purposes. The civic balance depends on whether one weighs privacy/liberty against law enforcement capacity.
Named in the bill
Immigration and Nationality Act, Alien Registration Act of 1940, Chapter 7, Title II, INA, Section 262, 263, 264, 265, 266 INA, Section 237(a)(3)(B) INA, Attorney General, Department of Homeland Security (implied enforcement agency)
Where it stands
41 cosponsors: 41 Democrats.
- Mar 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 14, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $10,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 114 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Pramila Jayapal, the sponsor, reported $306,750 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Council of Jewish Women — $10,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (974 characters) on Oct 26, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,580 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-26.
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