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S. 3394: SAFE Act
119th Congress · introduced 2025-12-09 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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Official title
SAFE Act
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Sentencing Accountability For Exploitation Act or the SAFE Act This bill directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and amend its guidelines and policy statements applicable to federal criminal offenses involving the production, receipt, transport, shipment, or distribution of child sexual abuse material to (1) account for the actual and potential harm from the offense and changes since the last amendments with respect to the typical offense behavior and modern technologies, and (2) better reflect the spectrum of offender culpability.
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Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] · 15 cosponsors
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- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119s3394.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/s>
Record fed-us-cong119-s3394 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills