H.R. 1057 — Safe Passage on Interstates Act of 2025

This section establishes the short title of the Act as the “Safe Passage on Interstates Act of 2025.”

This section establishes a new federal criminal offense for knowingly obstructing the free, convenient, and normal use of an interstate highway, defined as a highway on the Interstate System under 23 U.S.C. § 101(a). It prohibits, with intent to obstruct, (1) deliberately delaying traffic, (2) standing or approaching a motor vehicle, or (3) endangering the safe movement of a motor vehicle on an interstate highway, except for lawful activity conducted or authorized by the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. It sets penalties of a fine of not more than $10,000, imprisonment for not more than 15 years, or both, and increases the penalty to a fine of not more than $15,000, imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both, if the violation knowingly obstructs an authorized emergency vehicle. If the violation results in death, the offender may be fined up to the applicable amount under the offense or emergency-vehicle penalty and imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.