A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide a safe harbor for financial institutions that maintain a customer account or customer transaction at the request of a Federal or State law enforcement agency, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · May 22, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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.
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