What is the text and current status of S.3283 (Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025) on Congress.gov?
Executive summary
The Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 (S.3283) is a Senate bill introduced December 1, 2025 that, in its text, would bar U.S. citizens from simultaneously holding foreign citizenship and would create procedures treating failure to renounce foreign citizenship as a relinquishment of U.S. citizenship (Congress.gov summary and bill text) [1] [2]. As of the latest official record, the bill has been read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and remains at that committee referral stage on Congress.gov [2] [3].
1. What the bill text says: a one‑paragraph core prohibition
The introduced text, available on Congress.gov and mirrored on GovTrack and LegiScan, opens with findings and definitions and then imposes a statutory prohibition on dual or multiple citizenship by declaring that U.S. citizens “shall owe sole and exclusive allegiance to the United States,” effectively making simultaneous foreign nationality incompatible with U.S. citizenship under the bill’s terms [2] [4] [5].
2. Operational mechanics in the bill: renunciation, recordkeeping, and treatment as non‑citizen
The bill’s operative sections require affected individuals to submit written renunciations or otherwise comply within a set period (the introduced text sets compliance processes and deadlines), and instructs the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate regulations, record relinquishments, and treat those deemed to have lost U.S. citizenship as foreign nationals under immigration law (these administrative duties and deemed expatriation language appear in the bill text and agency descriptions) [2] [6] [7].
3. How Congress.gov presents the bill and its current procedural status
Congress.gov’s entry for S.3283 provides the official short title, summary and links to the full introduced text and an “All Info” page; its procedural record shows the bill was read twice and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 1, 2025 and remains at that referral stage in the committee per the Congress.gov listing [1] [3]. External trackers such as LegiScan and GovTrack reproduce the text and the same first actions—introduced, read twice, referred to Judiciary—confirming no further floor votes or committee reported actions are recorded in the public legislative histories captured by those services [5] [2].
4. Immediate legal and political reactions recorded alongside the text
Public reactions and analyses available alongside the bill text emphasize that the statute’s core mechanism—deeming inaction to equal voluntary relinquishment—directly collides with Supreme Court precedent requiring voluntary and intentional relinquishment of citizenship (critics cite Afroyim v. Rusk and Vance v. Terrazas), and organizations such as Democrats Abroad have stated the proposal would strip U.S. citizenship from Americans holding second passports and be unconstitutional if enacted [8]. Journalistic summaries and policy trackers note the bill’s intent to eliminate dual citizenship and flag downstream consequences including administrative burdens and potential tax implications for those who lose citizenship under the bill’s procedures [9] [10].
5. Bottom line — text accessible, status dormant in committee, contested in law and politics
The full introduced bill text is publicly accessible via Congress.gov and mirrored on GovTrack, LegiScan and other trackers, and it clearly expresses a statutory prohibition on dual citizenship plus administrative steps to enforce that prohibition [1] [2] [11]; procedurally, Congress.gov shows S.3283 has been introduced and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee with no recorded advancement beyond that referral as of the available records [3]. Legal scholars and partisan groups have already signaled that, if the bill were to move, it would face immediate constitutional challenges and substantial political opposition, making its path to enactment uncertain notwithstanding the text’s clarity [8] [9].