BOP Release Card ID Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5152 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5152 To require the Bureau of Prisons to issue identification documents to prisoners being released from Federal custody, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 4, 2025 Mr. Moore of Alabama (for himself, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Rose, Mr. Harris of North Carolina, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Guest, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Fields, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Simon, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. McBath) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Bureau of Prisons to issue identification documents to prisoners being released from Federal custody, 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 ``BOP Release Card ID Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS FOR PRISONERS BEING RELEASED. (a) Prisoners Being Released From Federal Custody.--Section 4042 of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following: ``(d) Identification Documents.-- ``(1) Identification documents.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the BOP Release Card ID Act of 2025, the Director shall issue a photo identification release card that meets the minimum standards under section 202(b) of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (49 U.S.C. 30301(b) note) to each prisoner who is a citizen of the United States and is being released from custody from a facility of the Bureau of Prisons. ``(2) Period of v