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The Epstein Files Transparency Act moved in two steps: the House passed H.R. 4405 on November 18, 2025, and the Senate passed it on November 19, 2025, before President Donald Trump signed it that same day. Congress.gov’s action log shows the House vote first, then Senate passage, then presentation to the president, followed by approval as Public Law 119-38. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405/history))

The law gives the attorney general 30 days from enactment to make public, in a searchable and downloadable format, unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials in Justice Department possession that relate to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, flight logs, named or referenced individuals connected to Epstein’s criminal activity, and other categories listed in the statute. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405/text/pl))

The release mandate is not unlimited. The statute allows redactions or withholding for personally identifiable information tied to victims, victims’ personal and medical files, child sexual abuse material, material that would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, images of death, physical abuse or injury, and information that is properly classified under an executive order. It also requires written justifications for redactions, directs declassification to the maximum extent possible, and calls for unclassified summaries when classified material cannot be released in full. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405/text/pl))

The point of the bill is not a same-day legislative sprint so much as a compressed finish: the House voted one day, the Senate voted the next, and the White House signed the bill on November 19, 2025. The result is now law, and the disclosure clock is running. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405/history))