STOP Identity Theft Act of 2014
Latest action · Sep 9, 2014 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 555.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 15, 2013
- Passed HouseSep 8, 2014
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 8, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2014 or the STOP Identity Theft Act of 2014 - Calls for the Attorney General to: (1) make use of all existing resources of the Department of Justice (DOJ), including task forces, to bring more perpetrators of tax return identity theft to justice; and (2) take into account the need to concentrate efforts in areas of the country where the crime is most frequently reported, to coordinate with state and local authorities to prosecute and prevent such crime, and to protect vulnerable groups from becoming victims or otherwise being used in the offense.
Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) include organizations as victims for purposes of prohibitions against identity theft or aggravated identity theft, and (2) subject an identity theft offense committed during and in relation to tax fraud to a fine and/or up to 20 years' imprisonment.
Directs the Attorney General to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on: (1) trends in the incidence of tax return identity theft, (2) recommendations on additional statutory tools that would aid in the effective prosecution of tax return identity theft, and (3) the status of implementing DOJ's March 2010 Audit Report 10-21 entitled "The Department of Justice's Efforts to Combat Identity Theft."
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 15, 2013 to Sep 9, 2013; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | Lamar Smith | Original | Feb 15, 2013 |
| D-IN | André Carson | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Patrick Murphy | Apr 9, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | May 8, 2013 | |
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | May 8, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Lois Frankel | Jun 19, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Frederica S. Wilson | Jun 28, 2013 | |
| D-FL | Joe Garcia | Sep 9, 2013 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 15, 2013Markup Jul 16, 2014Reported Sep 8, 2014 |
| Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee | Referred Apr 8, 2013Discharged Jul 15, 2014 |
Actions 14
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 9, 2014Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 555.
- Sep 8, 2014Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 113-576.
- Sep 8, 2014Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 427.
- Sep 8, 2014Mr. Goodlatte moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 8, 2014Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7267-7269)
- Sep 8, 2014DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 744.
- Sep 8, 2014Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7267)
- Sep 8, 2014Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jul 16, 2014Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jul 16, 2014Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Jul 15, 2014Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Discharged.
- Apr 8, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations.
- Feb 15, 2013Introduced in House
- Feb 15, 2013Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H7267–H7269Text printed H7267 | Bob Goodlatte R-VA, Debbie Wasserman Schultz D-FL, Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. D-GA, Lamar Smith R-TX | Sep 8, 2014 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jul 28, 2014H.R. 744, STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 16, 2014
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H597.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R43747 | Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): Frequently Asked Questions Archived | Report | Sep 30, 2014 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 149 | STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013 | Identical bill | Mar 6, 2014 |
Titles 7
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide effective criminal prosecutions for certain identity thefts, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2013
- STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2014
- STOP Identity Theft Act of 2014
- Short Titles as Passed House
- STOP Identity Theft Act of 2014
- Stopping Tax Offenders and Prosecuting Identity Theft Act of 2014
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 9, 2014Placed on Calendar Senate
- Sep 8, 2014Reported in House
- Sep 8, 2014Engrossed in House
- Feb 15, 2013Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
