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
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 22, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
May 22, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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