This bill changes 18 U.S.C. 4001. It adds a new subsection that says a person may not be imprisoned or otherwise detained solely because of an actual or perceived protected characteristic. The bill lists protected characteristics: race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. It also allows the Attorney General to add other protected characteristics. The bill says the Attorney General cannot remove the characteristics listed above (race through disability).
If this change becomes law, people in the United States could not be held in custody only because of a protected trait listed in the bill or one the Attorney General adds. The rule covers both imprisonment and other forms of detention and applies when the detention is based solely on that trait.
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The sponsors introduced the bill "to ensure due process protections of individuals in the United States against unlawful detention based solely on a protected characteristic." That is the stated purpose in the bill text and metadata.
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