Charitable Bail Funds Regulation
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-09-04 — Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act: cross-connection with keep-violent-criminals-off-streets-act: Both reflect a legislative push to constrain non-cash and reduced-cash pretrial release mechanisms for defendants charged with serious offenses. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-05-18 — Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025: Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025 (introduced) would amend the federal definition of the ‘business of insurance’ to include posting monetary bail, criminal bail bonds, and federal immigration bail bonds—subjecting charitable bail funds and similar entities to federal insurance-fraud criminal provisions and state insurance licensing/regulation. (novelty: 3)