Safe Access to Cash Act of 2025
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Safe Access to Cash Act of 2025
This bill specifies that robbery offenses involving ATMs and related cash constitute crimes under the federal bank robbery statute.
Currently, the federal bank robbery statute makes it a federal crime to take or attempt to take, by force and violence or by intimidation, money or other property belonging to or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of any bank, credit union, or savings and loan association.
However, federal circuit courts have split on whether forcing someone to withdraw money from an ATM constitutes an offense under the federal bank robbery statute. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that directly forcing a bank customer to withdraw money from an ATM does not constitute a federal bank robbery because the funds were in the possession of the customer, not the bank. In contrast, the Tenth and Seventh Circuits have held that directly forcing a bank customer to withdraw money from an ATM constitutes a federal bank robbery because the funds belonged to the bank when the withdrawal occurred.
This bill specifies that for purposes of the federal bank robbery statute, an ATM and any cash in transit to, being loaded into, or being unloaded from an ATM is in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank, credit union, or any savings and loan association, regardless of whether the ATM is located on the physical premises of such an institution or owned or operated by such an institution.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1631: Safe Access to Cash Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1631/
"H.R. 1631: Safe Access to Cash Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1631/.
H.R. 1631, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1631/.
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