U.S. Marshals can help tribal nations catch people who break laws.
S. 3041 — Tribal Warrant Fairness Act · Filed by Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · 15 cosponsors · Introduced Oct 23, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill lets the U.S. Marshals Service help tribal nations execute warrants and find fugitives in Indian country when tribes ask for help. It also extends threat protection to tribal leaders under government law. Tribes can request U.S. Marshals help for cases. The help is voluntary and tribes must ask for it.
Who it affects
Tribal people and tribal police gain access to U.S. Marshals when they need help. Tribal leaders get the same threat protection as other government officials.
One thing to notice
Tribes must ask for help from U.S. Marshals. The bill does not set aside money or say how many marshals will work on tribal cases.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
15 cosponsors: 9 Democrats, 6 Republicans.
- Oct 23, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Oct 23, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary”
- May 14, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably”
- Jun 10, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S2723-2724, S2727; text of amendment in the…”
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 $40,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 24 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Catherine Cortez Masto, who sponsored the bill, received $287,134 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association — $40,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- warrants — court orders that let police arrest someone or search a place.
- fugitives — people who are running away from the law.
- Indian country — land where federally recognized tribes have authority.
- Marshals Service — government law officers who catch people and protect people.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,279 characters) on Jul 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 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 10, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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