Bill Details
HR.1751 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-27 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-27
Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Committees
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Cosponsors
6
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This bill would make it a federal crime to stalk someone by using a geotracking device that the person did not agree to. It updates current stalking law to clearly include secretly tracking a person’s location or movement with an electronic or mechanical device. The goal is to punish people who use tracking tools without permission to follow, monitor, or harass others.
- It adds “unauthorized geotracking device” to the federal stalking law.
- A geotracking device is defined as any device that can remotely determine or track a person’s location or movement.
- The device is considered unauthorized if the person being tracked did not consent, or if they took back their consent.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1751 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1751
To criminalize stalking using an unauthorized geotracking device.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 2025
Mrs. Sykes (for herself and Mr. Carey) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To criminalize stalking using an unauthorized geotracking device.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Electronic Stalking Act of
2025''.
SEC. 2. STALKING PENALTY.
Section 2261A of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking ``Whoever'' and inserting ``(a) In
General.--Whoever'';
(2) by inserting after ``uses the mail,'' the following:
``uses an unauthorized geotracking device''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) The term `geotracking device' means an electronic or
mechanical device that permits a person to remotely determine
or track the position and movement of another person.
``(2) The term `unauthorized' means, with respect to a
geotracking device, that the person on whom the geotracking
device is being used has not consented to such use or otherwise
revoked consent to such use.''.
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