[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 15, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 57. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 5, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States 
with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       Beginning on page 3, strike line 9 and all that follows 
     through page 8, line 10, and insert the following:

     SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT BY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF A STATE.

       (a) Standing.--The attorney general of a State, or other 
     authorized State officer, alleging that firearms shipped, 
     transported, transferred, or otherwise disposed to another 
     person across the border of the United States in or otherwise 
     affecting interstate or foreign commerce, harms such State or 
     its residents shall have standing to bring an action against 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security on behalf of such State or 
     the residents of such State in an appropriate district court 
     of the United States to obtain appropriate injunctive relief.
       (b) Disposition of Civil Action.--The court shall advance 
     on the docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action 
     filed pursuant to subsection (a) to the greatest extent 
     practicable.
       (c) Harm Defined.--For purposes of this section, a State or 
     its residents shall be considered to have been harmed if such 
     State or its residents experience harm, including financial 
     harm in excess of $100.
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