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S 1592 116th Congress Senate Finance and Financial Sector Bank accounts, deposits, capital Banking and financial institutions regulation Business records Civil actions and liability Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2019

Introduced: May 22, 2019 Introduced by: Cotton, Tom Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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May 22, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
May 22, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2019

This bill limits a financial institution's liability for maintaining a customer account or a customer transaction in compliance with a written request by a federal, state, tribal, or local law enforcement agency. A federal or state agency may not take an adverse supervisory action against a financial institution with respect to maintaining an account or a transaction consistent with such a request.

What's happening now May 22, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 758 Related bill Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2019
  • S 2563 Related bill ILLICIT CASH Act
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1592: Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1592/
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"S. 1592: Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1592/.
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S. 1592, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1592/.
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