H.R. 5894

Summary

H.R. 5894, the RESTRAIN Act, was introduced in the House on Oct 31, 2025 by Rep. Dina Titus (D) with 28 co-sponsors. It last saw action on Nov 19, 2025: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4779-4780).

Record

Text

H.R. 5894 has 28 co-sponsors.

107 HR 5894 IH: Renewing Efforts to Suspend Testing and Reinforce Arms-control Initiatives Now Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-10-31
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 5894  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   October 31, 2025   Ms. Titus  introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Armed Services    A BILL
To amend the Atomic Energy Defense Act to prohibit explosive testing of nuclear weapons conducted by the United States, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Renewing Efforts to Suspend Testing and Reinforce Arms-control Initiatives Now Act   or the   RESTRAIN Act  .
2.
Prohibition on explosive testing of nuclear weapons conducted by the United States
Section 4210 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (division D of the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 ( Public Law 107–314 ;  50 U.S.C. 2530 )) is amended—
(1)
by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:
(a)
Prohibition on testing
No explosive testing of a nuclear weapon, or any other nuclear explosion, may be conducted by the United States.
 ; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following new subsections:
(c)
Limitation on availability of funds
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by an Act authorizing funds for fiscal year 2026 or otherwise made available for any fiscal year may be used—
(1)
to conduct explosive testing of a nuclear weapon; or
(2)
for any other nuclear explosion.
(d)
Rule of construction
(1)
In general
Nothing in this section may be constructed to limit the authority of the United States to conduct a subcritical nuclear test.
(2)
Subcritical nuclear test defined
In this subsection, the term  subcritical nuclear test  means a nuclear test of fissile materials that are not capable of sustaining an explosive nuclear chain reaction.
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To amend the Atomic Energy Defense Act to prohibit explosive testing of nuclear weapons conducted by the United States, and for other purposes.

Sponsors

Rep. Dina Titus (D) sponsors H.R. 5894, and 28 members have co-sponsored it.

Dina Titus

Rep. · D–NV-1 · Sponsor

Introduced Oct 31, 2025

John Garamendi

Rep. · D–CA-8 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 4, 2025

Eleanor Norton

Rep. · D–DC-0 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

Don Beyer

Rep. · D–VA-8 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

Joe Courtney

Rep. · D–CT-2 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

Lloyd Doggett

Rep. · D–TX-37 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

Sylvia Garcia

Rep. · D–TX-29 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

Ro Khanna

Rep. · D–CA-17 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

Ted Lieu

Rep. · D–CA-36 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

James McGovern

Rep. · D–MA-2 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 7, 2025

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Committees

H.R. 5894 went before 1 committee: Armed Services.

Armed Services

Armed Services

Referred To · Oct 31, 2025 · 581 Bills

Actions

H.R. 5894 has taken 3 actions since Oct 31, 2025, the latest on Nov 19, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 5894 has not gone to a roll call.

Titles

H.R. 5894 goes by 4 titles, 2 of them short titles.

• RESTRAIN Act — Display Title
• RESTRAIN Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• Renewing Efforts to Suspend Testing and Reinforce Arms-control Initiatives Now Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To amend the Atomic Energy Defense Act to prohibit explosive testing of nuclear weapons conducted by the United States, and for other purposes. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

4 clients hired 4 firms and 25 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 5894 in 14 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Budget/Appropriations, Agriculture, Defense, Foreign Relations, Immigration, Indian/Native American Affairs, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 25.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 5894 under Armed Forces and National Security, one of its 31 policy areas.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 5894’s is Armed Forces and National Security.

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 5894, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 182 (Friday, October 31, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Ms. TITUS:H.R. 5894.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution[Page H4567]

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