Bill protects parents in custody of their kids during deportation.
H.R. 9745 — Orlin’s Law · Filed by Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) · 30 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells DHS to find parents who are locked up. It says DHS must let them go unless they are a clear safety risk. The bill sets up an Office of Detained Parent Coordination within ICE. It requires DHS to use programs that let people stay in their towns instead of being locked up. It requires DHS to report every three months on locked-up parents and their kids.
Who it affects
The bill protects kids from being split from their parents. It helps locked-up parents keep the right to care for their kids. It affects how DHS decides whether to lock up or let go parents.
One thing to notice
The bill lets separated parents ask the government to pay to bring families back together. Parents can take part in family court cases even after they leave the country.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
30 cosponsors: 30 Democrats.
- Jul 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 16, 2026 — 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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $6,100 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 11 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Pramila Jayapal, who sponsored the bill, received $281,250 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Center for Law and Social Policy (clasp) — $6,100 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- locked up — Held by the government and not allowed to leave.
- custody — The legal right to care for and make choices for a child.
- programs that let people stay in their towns — Ways to help people live in their towns instead of being locked up.
- ICE — The agency that handles immigration and customs enforcement.
- deportation — Being sent out of the United States to another country.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (16,155 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. 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 Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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