Stop the Scammers Act
Latest action · Jul 24, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedJul 24, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors 26
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 24, 2025 to Dec 3, 2025; 22 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-NJ | Andy Kim | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-MD | Angela D. Alsobrooks | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-NJ | Cory A. Booker | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-RI | Jack Reed | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-NV | Jacky Rosen | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-PA | John Fetterman | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-CO | John W. Hickenlooper | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-GA | Raphael G. Warnock | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Original | Jul 24, 2025 |
| D-DE | Lisa Blunt Rochester | Jul 31, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Mark R. Warner | Jul 31, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Tim Kaine | Oct 3, 2025 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Dec 3, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee | Referred Jul 24, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 24, 2025Introduced in Senate
- Jul 24, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48295 | The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Budget: Background, Trends, and Policy Options | Report | Jun 8, 2026 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to ensure the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection retains adequate resources to ensure fair, transparent, and competitive markets for financial products and services for consumers and to provide for whistleblower incentives and protection.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Stop the Scammers Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 24, 2025Introduced in Senate
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.