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H.R. 6048

NDO Fairness Act of 2025

📅 Sep 14, 2026
Summary:
• Amends title 18, United States Code, to modify delayed notice requirements for warrants, orders, or subpoenas seeking electronic communications or computing service records
• Establishes time limits for nondisclosure orders: up to one year for child pornography/sexual exploitation cases, and up to 90 days for all other investigations
• Requires government entities to notify customers/subscribers within 5 business days after nondisclosure orders expire and provide copies of disclosed information upon request
Additional Details:
• Requires courts to make written determinations based on specific facts that not granting nondisclosure requests would likely result in endangering safety, flight from prosecution, evidence destruction, witness intimidation, or jeopardizing investigations
• Allows service providers to challenge nondisclosure orders in court and permits disclosure to attorneys for legal advice and to persons necessary for compliance
• Mandates the Attorney General to publish annual reports detailing the number of warrants/orders issued, nondisclosure applications, grants/denials, and resulting arrests/convictions by federal judicial district

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