Congress extends criminal-justice reentry programs through 2030, adds housing and addiction treatmen
S. 1843 — Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2025 · Filed by Shelley Capito (R-WV) · 12 cosponsors · Introduced May 21, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill extends federal funding for six existing criminal-justice reentry programs through 2030 (previously set to expire after 2023), and adds two new service categories—substance-use-disorder treatment with peer recovery and overdose-reversal medications, and reentry housing—to the state and local reentry demonstration projects. The bill benefits people returning from incarceration by ensuring continuity of job training, education, mentoring, family substance-abuse treatment, and housing support.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to extend and modestly expand existing federal reentry programs. It is a straightforward reauthorization with no hidden mechanisms or narrow beneficiaries—routine legislative housekeeping for public-safety infrastructure.
What the text implies
- Substance-use-disorder treatment and peer recovery services in reentry programs may reduce opioid-related deaths among formerly incarcerated populations, a public-health co-benefit not explicitly stated in the bill.
- Housing-services addition addresses a documented driver of recidivism; its inclusion signals legislative recognition that reentry success depends on material stability, not just job training.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill extends proven reentry programs that reduce recidivism and support successful community reintegration, and adds evidence-based substance-use treatment and housing services—both critical barriers to successful reentry. People returning from incarceration and their families are direct beneficiaries.
Who stands to gain
- nonprofit reentry service providers
- state and local criminal-justice agencies administering reentry programs
- community-based mentoring organizations
Named in the bill
Second Chance Act of 2007, Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, state and local reentry demonstration projects, nonprofit organizations, substance-use-disorder treatment providers
Where it stands
12 cosponsors: 7 Democrats, 5 Republicans.
- May 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- May 21, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the 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
8 lobbying clients named this bill on 13 disclosure filings across 3 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $54,950,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 20 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 88% of bills with at least one filing.
Shelley Capito, the sponsor, reported $2,021,591 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $54,660,000 on 3 filings
- Prison Fellowship Ministries — $170,000 on 2 filings
- Prison Fellowship Ministries — $60,000 on 2 filings
- National Alliance on Mental Illness — $20,000 on 1 filing
- Due Process Institute — $15,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 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 (1,825 characters) on Oct 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,388 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 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-21.
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