Know Your American Customer Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Know Your American Customer Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers. The main policy domain is Finance, Immigration, Criminal Justice.
Who Benefits and How
financial institutions, investors, and borrowers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, financial institutions, investors, and borrowers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Know Your American Customer Act.
- Section id8c6f2ef2e86f48bca74a678bd69624ba: 2. Verification of citizenship and legal status Section 5318 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (r)Verification of...
- Section id9e4f9e4fae9f419a822a5492e333cdba: 3. Limitation on criminal penalties Section 5322 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (f)(1)In this...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Know Your American Customer Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Immigration, Criminal Justice
Primary Purpose
This bill, Know Your American Customer Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary_of_treasury"
- → Secretary of the Treasury
- "secretary_of_homeland_security"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
any natural person who— seeks to open an account at a covered institution
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