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BillShort TitleSponsorDate IntroducedPurposeCurrent StatusDate of Current Status UpdateRelevant Snippet
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HR 3650Safe Harbor for Taxpayers with Forked Assets Act of 2019Emmer, Tom (R-MN-6)7/9/2019To provide temporary safe harbor for the tax treatment of hard forks of convertible virtual currency in the absence of administrative guidance.Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means7/9/2019
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HR 2050Leverage to Enhance Effective Diplomacy (LEED) Act of 2019Gardner, Cory (R-CO)6/28/2019To require global economic and political pressure to support diplomatic denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations6/28/2019SEC. 411. BRIEFING ON ILLICIT USE OF VIRTUAL CURRENCIES BY THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA.
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall brief the appropriate congressional committees on the illicit use of virtual currencies by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

(b) Elements.—The briefing required by subsection (a) shall—

(1) to the extent possible, provide an estimate of the amount of fiat currency that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been able to generate as of the date of the briefing through conversion of virtual currency obtained by illicit means including cyberattacks;

(2) describe known pathways through which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea executes such conversions, with an emphasis on identifying virtual currency exchanges used by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or its agents; and

(3) cover any known instances of purchases of goods or services by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea using virtual currency without converting that currency to fiat currency before the purchases.
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HR 3407United States Export Finance Agency
Act of 2019		Waters, Maxine (D-CA-43)6/21/2019To strengthen the competitiveness of the United States, to modernize and reform the United States Export Finance Agency, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Financial Services.6/21/2019SEC. 111. SURVEY ON BLOCKCHAIN USE IN THE OPERATIONS OF UNITED STATES
EXPORTERS.

Within 360 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and
annually thereafter for the succeeding 5 years, the President of the
United States Export Finance Agency shall submit to the Committee on
Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a written report that
includes the following:
(1) A survey of United States exporters benefitting from
Agency support regarding the use of blockchain in their
operations, including their management of supply chains,
contracts, and payments.
(2) An assessment of the effects of blockchain on
reliability, transparency, and security in the operations.
(3) Any policy recommendations to improve the development,
use, and security of blockchain in the operations of United
States exporters.
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HR 3407United States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019Waters, Maxine (D-CA-43)6/21/2019To strengthen the competitiveness of the United States, to modernize and reform the United States Export Finance Agency, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Financial Services6/21/2019SEC. 111. SURVEY ON BLOCKCHAIN USE IN THE OPERATIONS OF UNITED STATES EXPORTERS.
Within 360 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for the succeeding 5 years, the President of the United States Export Finance Agency shall submit to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a written report that includes the following:

(1) A survey of United States exporters benefitting from Agency support regarding the use of blockchain in their operations, including their management of supply chains, contracts, and payments.

(2) An assessment of the effects of blockchain on reliability, transparency, and security in the operations.

(3) Any policy recommendations to improve the development, use, and security of blockchain in the operations of United States exporters.
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S 1589Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020Burr, Richard (R-NC)5/22/2019To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2018, 2019, and 2020 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 97.5/22/2019SEC. 732. REPORT ON POSSIBLE EXPLOITATION OF VIRTUAL CURRENCIES BY TERRORIST ACTORS.
(a) Short Title.—This section may be cited as the “Stop Terrorist Use of Virtual Currencies Act”.

(b) Report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to Congress a report on the possible exploitation of virtual currencies by terrorist actors. Such report shall include the following elements:

(1) An assessment of the means and methods by which international terrorist organizations and State sponsors of terrorism use virtual currencies.

(2) An assessment of the use by terrorist organizations and State sponsors of terrorism of virtual currencies compared to the use by such organizations and States of other forms of financing to support operations, including an assessment of the collection posture of the intelligence community on the use of virtual currencies by such organizations and States.

(3) A description of any existing legal impediments that inhibit or prevent the intelligence community from collecting information on or helping prevent the use of virtual currencies by international terrorist organizations and State sponsors of terrorism and an identification of any gaps in existing law that could be exploited for illicit funding by such organizations and States.

(c) Form Of Report.—The report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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HR 2858Finding Orphan-disease Remedies With Antifungal Research and Development (FORWARD) Act of 2019McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA-23)5/21/2019To support endemic fungal disease research, incentivize fungal vaccine development, discover new antifungal therapies and diagnostics, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce5/21/2019SEC. 8. BLOCKCHAIN PILOT PROGRAM FOR HOSPITAL DATA SECURITY FOR ENDEMIC FUNGAL DISEASE RESEARCH.
Part A of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

“SEC. 404O. BLOCKCHAIN PILOT PROGRAM FOR HOSPITAL DATA SECURITY FOR ENDEMIC FUNGAL DISEASE RESEARCH.

“(a) In General.—The Director of NIH shall carry out a pilot program to conduct, support, and facilitate auditable research on endemic fungal disease. In carrying out such program, the Director of NIH shall—

“(1) award a grant to an eligible entity to install a blockchain on the servers of, or otherwise provide blockchain services to, the National Institutes of Health, and provide support with respect to such a blockchain, which shall contain public, unalterable data which includes every query made through the procedure established under subsection (c), as well as the identity of the individual who asked such a question, without disclosing the results of such queries;

“(2) award a grant to an eligible entity—

“(A) to provide to not less than 3 qualified hospitals qualified software; and

“(B) to provide customer service to each such hospital with respect to such qualified software or any associated service;

“(3) provide to such qualified hospitals any necessary hardware in accordance with subsection (e); and

“(4) award grants to eligible entities to test the cybersecurity of such qualified hospitals by attempting to attack simulated data on the servers of such hospitals.

“(b) Eligible Entities; Application.—The Director of NIH shall determine whether an entity is eligible to receive a grant under this section and shall select hospitals to be qualified hospitals for purposes of this section. An entity seeking a grant under this section, and a hospital seeking to be so selected, shall submit to the Director of NIH an application in such form and manner and containing such information as the Director of NIH may specify.

“(c) Data Queries.—The Director of NIH shall establish, for purposes of allowing researchers to process data from a qualified hospital’s servers pursuant to this section, a procedure to determine—

“(1) who can ask queries of the servers;

“(2) which data the hospital must include on such servers; and

“(3) which questions may be asked of such servers, and what form of de-identification of the servers’ data is required to ensure privacy.

“(d) Request For Proposals.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Director of NIH shall publish in the Federal Register a request for proposals for grants under paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of subsection (a).

“(e) Provision Of Servers.—

“(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of NIH shall, in carrying out subsection (a)(3), provide to qualified hospitals hardware, including computer servers, sufficient to support qualified software.

“(2) CONDITION.—As a condition on the receipt of a computer server under paragraph (1), a qualified hospital shall agree not to use the qualified software on the server to store data from patients of the hospital until the Director of NIH determines that testing performed pursuant to subsection (a)(4) has determined that simulated data used in such software could not be extracted from the hospital’s servers.

“(f) Definitions.—In this section:

“(1) The term ‘blockchain’ means software that uses a distributed digital ledger of cryptographically signed transactions that are grouped into blocks, each of which—

“(A) is cryptographically linked to the previous block after validation and undergoing a consensus decision; and

“(B) when added as a new block, makes any older blocks more difficult to modify and is replicated across all copies of the ledger within the relevant network, with any conflicts in such blocks resolved automatically using established rules.

“(2) The term ‘endemic fungal disease’ means blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and sporotrichosis.

“(3) The term ‘qualified hospital’ means a hospital that is located in a region in which endemic fungal disease is endemic.

“(4) The term ‘qualified software’ means software that uses secure multiparty encrypted computing to allow researchers to perform computations on encrypted data supplied by qualified hospitals.

“(5) The term ‘secure multiparty encrypted computing’ means a form of cryptography in which parties can jointly compute a function of inputs while keeping those inputs private from each other, and from all other parties, such as multiparty homomorphic encryption, threshold encryption, and secure multiparty computation.

“(g) Authorization Of Appropriations.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2021, to remain available until expended.”.
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HR 2613Advancing Innovation to Assist Law Enforcement ActGonzalez, Anthony (R-OH-16)5/9/2019To require the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to carry out a study on the use of emerging technologies within the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and for other purposes.Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services5/9/2019(a) Study.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) shall carry out a study on—
(A) the status of implementation and internal use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (“AI”), digital identity technologies, blockchain technologies, and other innovative technologies within
FinCEN;
(B) whether AI, digital identity technologies, blockchain technologies, and other innovative technologies can be further leveraged to make FinCEN’s data analysis more efficient and effective; and
(C) how FinCEN could better utilize AI, digital identity technologies, blockchain technologies, and other innovative technologies to more actively analyze and disseminate the information it collects and stores to provide investigative leads to Federal, State, Tribal, and local law enforcement, and other Federal agencies (collective, “Agencies”), and better support its ongoing investigations when referring a case to the Agencies.
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HR 2144Token Taxonomy ActDavidson, Warren (R-OH-8)4/9/2019To amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to exclude digital tokens from the definition of a security, to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to enact certain regulatory changes regarding digital units secured through public key cryptography, to adjust taxation of virtual currencies held in individual retirement accounts, to create a tax exemption for exchanges of one virtual currency for another, to create a de minimis exemption from taxation for gains realized from the sale or exchange of virtual currency for other than cash, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means4/9/2019
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HR 2154Digital Taxonomy ActSoto, Darren (D-FL-9)4/9/2019To authorize additional appropriations to the Federal Trade Commission to prevent unfair or deceptive acts or practices relating to digital tokens and transactions relating to digital tokens, and to require a report to Congress on the Commission's actions related to digital tokens.Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce4/9/2019
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S 1025Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development (VERDAD) ActMenendez, Robert (D-NJ)4/3/2019to provide humanitarian relief to the Venezuelan people and Venezuelan migrants, to advance a constitutional and democratic solution to Venezuela's political crisis, to address Venezuela's economic reconstruction, to combat public corruption, narcotics trafficking, and money laundering, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations4/3/2019TITLE VII—CRYPTOCURRENCY SANCTIONS AND ENSURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UNITED STATES SANCTIONS

SEC. 701. SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA’S CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE PROVISION OF RELATED TECHNOLOGIES.
(a) Finding.—Executive Order 13827 (83 Fed. Reg. 12469), which was signed on March 19, 2018, established sanctions against the Maduro regime’s ability to issue a digital currency in an effort to circumvent United States sanctions.

(b) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) ENTITY.—The term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization.

(2) PERSON.—The term “person” means an individual or entity.

(3) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term “United States person” means any—

(A) United States citizen;

(B) alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the United States;

(C) entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including a foreign branch of any such entity); and

(D) any person physically located in the United States.

(c) Prohibition Of Certain Transactions.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—All transactions by a United States person or within the United States that relate to, provide financing for, provide software for, or otherwise deal in any digital currency, digital coin, or digital token, that was issued by, for, or on behalf of the Maduro regime are prohibited beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.

(2) APPLICABILITY.—The prohibitions under paragraph (1) shall apply to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this Act, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the date of the enactment of this Act.

(3) PROHIBITIONS.—Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this subsection is prohibited. Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this subsection is prohibited.

(d) Rulemaking.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is authorized to take such actions, including promulgating rules and regulations, to implement this section.

(2) DELEGATION.—The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of the functions described in paragraph (1) to other officers and executive departments and agencies of the United States Government. All agencies of the United States Government shall take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this section.


SEC. 702. REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF CRYP­TO­CUR­REN­CIES ON UNITED STATES SANCTIONS.
(a) Defined Term.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;

(2) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate;

(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and

(4) the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives.

(b) Reporting Requirement.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that provides an assessment on how digital currencies affect the effectiveness of United States sanctions around the world.

(c) Additional Elements.—The report submitted under subsection (b) shall—

(1) describe any global efforts, including efforts by states, state-sponsored actors, and non-state-sponsored actors, to utilize digital currencies to evade or circumvent United States sanctions, including through the direct or indirect use of products or services of United States based technology, software, or financial services firms; and

(2) include recommendations for new legislative and regulatory measures needed to strengthen the United States Government’s ability to prevent states, state-sponsored actors, and non-state-sponsored actors from using digital currencies to evade or circumvent United States sanctions, including through the direct or indirect use of products or services of United States based technology, software, or financial services firms.

(d) Form.—The report submitted under subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

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TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

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SEC. 801. CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.

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(k) Cryptocurrency Sanctions.—Not later than 15 days after a congressional committee listed under subsection (h)(2) requests a briefing regarding the implementation of section 701 or 702, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall provide such briefing to such committee.
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HR 1414FinCEN Improvement ActWexton, Jennifer (D-VA-10)2/27/2019To amend the duties of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to ensure FinCEN works with Tribal law enforcement agencies, protects against all forms of terrorism, and focuses on virtual currenciesPassed House, received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs3/12/2019SEC. 2. FINDINGS. . . . (4) Although the use and trading of virtual currencies are legal practices, some terrorists and criminals, including international criminal organizations, seek to exploit vulnerabilities in the global financial system and are increasingly using emerging payment methods such as virtual currencies to move illicit funds.
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SEC. 3. STRENGTHENING FINCEN. Section 310 of title 31, United States Code, is amended-- . . . (4) in paragraph (H), by striking "anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering initiatives, and similar efforts’’ and inserting ‘‘anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering initiatives, including matters involving emerging technologies or value that substitutes for currency, and similar efforts’’.
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HR 295End Banking for Human Traffickers ActFitzpatrick, Brian K. (R-PA-1)1/8/2019To increase the role of the financial industry in combating human traffickingReferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services
Foreign Affairs Committee agreed to seek consideration under suspension of the rules		3/7/2019(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall submit to the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the head of each appropriate Federal banking agency—
(A) an analysis of anti-money laundering efforts of the United States Government and United States financial institutions relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons; and
(B) appropriate legislative, administrative, and other recommendations to strengthen efforts against money laundering relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons.
(2) REQUIRED RECOMMENDATIONS.—The recommendations under paragraph (1) shall include—
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(E) recommended changes, if necessary, to existing statutory law to more effectively detect and deter money laundering relating to severe forms of trafficking in persons, where such money laundering involves the use of emerging technologies and virtual currencies.
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S 582FinCEN Improvement ActCortez Masto, Catherine (D-NV)2/27/2019To amend the duties of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to ensure FinCEN works with Tribal law enforcement agencies, protects against all forms of terrorism, and focuses on virtual currenciesReferred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs2/27/2019SEC. 2. FINDINGS. . . . (4) Although the use and trading of virtual currencies are legal practices, some terrorists and criminals, including international criminal organizations, seek to exploit vulnerabilities in the global financial system and are increasingly using emerging payment methods such as virtual currencies to move illicit funds.
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SEC. 3. STRENGTHENING FINCEN. Section 310 of title 31, United States Code, is amended-- . . . (4) in paragraph (H), by striking "anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering initiatives, and similar efforts’’ and inserting ‘‘anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering initiatives, including matters involving emerging technologies or value that substitutes for currency, and similar efforts’’.
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HR 1387Criminal Organizations’ Narcotics, Finances, Resources, Operations, and Networks Targeting (CONFRONT) ActKustoff, David (R-TN-8)2/27/19To require the President to develop a national strategy to combat the financial networks of transnational organized criminals, and for other purposesReferred to the Committee on Financial Services2/27/2019SEC. 3. CONTENTS OF NATIONAL STRATEGY [to combat the financial networks of transnational organized criminals].

The national strategy required under section 2 shall contain the following:
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(B) An assessment of methods by which trans­na­tion­al organized crime groups launder illicit proceeds, including money laundering using real estate and other tangible goods such as art and antiquities, trade-based money laundering, bulk-cash smuggling, exploitation of shell companies, and misuse of digital currencies and other cyber technologies, as well as an assessment of the risk to the financial system of the United States of such methods.
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HR 1361Blockchain Promotion ActMatsui, Doris O. (D-CA-6)2/26/2019To direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a working group to recommend to Congress a definition of blockchain technology, and for other purposesReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform2/26/2019
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S 553Blockchain Promotion ActYoung, Todd C. (R-IN)2/26/2019To direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a working group to recommend to Congress a definition of blockchain technology, and for other purposes.Referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation2/26/2019
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HR 922Virtual Currency Consumer Protection ActSoto, Darren (D-FL-9)1/30/2019To promote fair and transparent virtual currency markets by examining the potential for price manipulationReferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture
Referred to the (Agriculture) Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit		2/25/2019
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HR 923U.S. Virtual Currency Market and Regulatory Competitiveness ActSoto, Darren (D-FL-9)1/30/2019To promote United States competitiveness in the evolving global virtual currency marketplaceReferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture
Referred to the (Agriculture) Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit		2/25/2019
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S 410FIND Trafficking ActCortez Masto, Catherine (D-NV)2/7/2019To require the Comptroller General of the United States to carry out a study on how virtual currencies and online marketplaces are used to buy, sell, or facilitate the financing of goods or services associated with sex trafficking or drug trafficking, and for other purposesReferred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs2/7/2019
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HR 56Financial Technology Protection ActBudd, Ted (R-NC-13)1/3/2019To establish an Independent Financial Technology Task Force to Combat Terrorism and Illicit Financing, to provide rewards for information leading to convictions related to terrorist use of digital currencies, to establish a Fintech Leadership in Innovation and Financial Intelligence Program to encourage the development of tools and programs to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies, and for other purposesPassed House, received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs1/29/2019
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S 245Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019Burr, Richard (R-NC)1/28/2019To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.Referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence1/28/2019SEC. 732. REPORT ON POSSIBLE EXPLOITATION OF VIRTUAL CURRENCIES BY TERRORIST ACTORS.
(a) Short Title.—This section may be cited as the “Stop Terrorist Use of Virtual Currencies Act”.

(b) Report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to Congress a report on the possible exploitation of virtual currencies by terrorist actors. Such report shall include the following elements:

(1) An assessment of the means and methods by which international terrorist organizations and State sponsors of terrorism use virtual currencies.

(2) An assessment of the use by terrorist organizations and State sponsors of terrorism of virtual currencies compared to the use by such organizations and States of other forms of financing to support operations, including an assessment of the collection posture of the intelligence community on the use of virtual currencies by such organizations and States.

(3) A description of any existing legal impediments that inhibit or prevent the intelligence community from collecting information on or helping prevent the use of virtual currencies by international terrorist organizations and State sponsors of terrorism and an identification of any gaps in existing law that could be exploited for illicit funding by such organizations and States.
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(c) Form Of Report.—The report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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S 149Stop Senior Scams ActCasey, Robert P., Jr. (D-PA)1/16/2019To establish a Senior Scams Prevention Advisory CouncilReferred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation1/16/2019SEC. 2. Senior Scams Prevention Advisory Council
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(b) Members.—The Advisory Council shall be composed of the following members or the designees of those members:
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(5) Not more than 2 representatives from each of the following sectors, including trade associations, to be selected by the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission:
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(G) Financial services, including institutions who engage in digital currency.
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HR 528Blockchain Regulatory Certainty ActEmmer, Tom (R-MN-6)1/14/2019To provide a safe harbor from licensing and registration for certain non-controlling blockchain developers and providers of blockchain servicesReferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary1/14/2019
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HR 502FIND Trafficking ActVargas, Juan (D-CA-51)1/11/2019To require the Comptroller General of the United States to carry out a study on how virtual currencies and online marketplaces are used to buy, sell, or facilitate the financing of goods or services associated with sex trafficking or drug trafficking, and for other purposesPassed House, received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs1/11/2019
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HR 428Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists’ Use of Virtual Currencies ActRice, Kathleen M. (D-NY-4)1/10/2019To direct the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis to develop and disseminate a threat assessment regarding terrorist use of virtual currency
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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HR 41RESCUE Act for Black and Community BanksRush, Bobby L. (D-IL-1)1/3/2019To provide regulatory relief for Black and community banks, to codify the Minority Bank Deposit Program, and for other purposesReferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means1/3/2019(c) Blockchain study.—The Comptroller General of the United States shall carry out a study on blockchain technology and whether such technology could be used to increase investment by lower-income individuals in start-ups and other crowd-funded companies.
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HR 3963Virtual Value Tax Fix Act of 2019Budd, Ted (R-NC-13)7/25/2019To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow exclusion of gain or loss on like-kind exchanges of virtual currencyReferred to the Committee on Ways and Means7/25/2019
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