Bill Details
S.736 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2026-06-15 - Held at the desk.
Introduced Date
2025-02-26
Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Committees
View committees (1)
Sponsors
Cosponsors
View cosponsors (17)
- Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-Georgia]
- Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-Mississippi]
- Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-New Jersey]
- Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-Texas]
- Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-Idaho]
- Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-Florida]
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-Tennessee]
- Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-South Carolina]
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-Minnesota]
- Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-North Carolina]
- Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-Hawaii]
- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-Connecticut]
- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-California]
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-Vermont]
- Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-Illinois]
- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-Delaware]
- Sen. Lankford, James [R-Oklahoma]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would make it a crime with a tougher penalty to give or try to give a phone to someone in a correctional facility. If the banned item is a phone, the punishment could include up to 2 years in prison, a fine, or both. The bill also tells the Bureau of Prisons to review its rules within one year and update them if needed to better protect people in prison and prison staff from prohibited items.
- Raises the penalty for providing a phone as a prohibited item in a correctional facility.
- Sets the maximum penalty for that offense at up to 2 years in prison, or a fine, or both.
- Requires the Bureau of Prisons to review its policies on inmates making, having, getting, or trying to get prohibited items.
- Requires the Bureau of Prisons to update those policies if needed to improve safety for incarcerated people and staff.
Official Summaries
Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act
This bill increases federal criminal penalties for providing or attempting to provide a cell phone to an individual who is incarcerated at a prison.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 736 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 736
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To increase the penalty for prohibited provision of a phone in a
correctional facility, and for other purposes.
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 ``Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping
Prison Contraband Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITED PROVISION OF A PHONE.
Section 1791(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs
(5) and (6), respectively;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
``(4) in the case of a violation of subsection (a)(1),
imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both, if the object
is specified in subsection (d)(1)(F) of this section;''; and
(3) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, by inserting ``,
in the case of a violation of subsection (a)(2),'' before
``(d)(1)(F)''.
SEC. 3. REVIEW OF POLICIES.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall--
(1) conduct a review of the policies of the Bureau of
Prisons pertaining to inmates who make, possess, obtain, or
attempt to make or obtain a prohibited object, as defined in
section 1791(d)(1) of title 18, United States Code; and
(2) update those policies as needed to improve protections
for incarcerated individuals and staff.
Passed the Senate June 10, 2026.
Attest:
Secretary.
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 736
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To increase the penalty for prohibited provision of a phone in a
correctional facility, and for other purposes.