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Main Subject: Finance and financial sector

Coordinating Oversight, Upgrading and Innovating Technology, and Examiner Reform Act of 2019 or the COUNTER Act of 2019

This bill generally revises requirements related to anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing laws.

Among other things, the bill

establishes new offices within financial regulatory agencies related to privacy and civil liberties;
creates programs within the Department of the Treasury to enable foreign and domestic outreach regarding these laws;
allows for increased information sharing between law enforcement, financial institutions, and financial regulators; and
revises whistleblower incentives related to actions brought by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

The bill also increases penalties for violations of anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing laws, requires antiquities and art dealers to comply with these laws, and requires the reporting of beneficial ownership information to FinCEN in certain commercial real estate transactions.

HR2613-116, HR4367-116, HR1039-116, HR2513-116,

Senate Actions

IntroReferral
Oct. 29 2019	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

House floor actions Actions

Floor
Oct. 28 2019	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8494-8501) DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2514. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8494-8503) Mr. Scott, David moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

Calendars
Oct. 21 2019	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 195.

Discharge
Oct. 21 2019	Committee on Ways and Means discharged.

Committee
Oct. 21 2019	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 116-245, Part I.

IntroReferral

May. 03
2019

Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Library of Congress Actions

Floor
Oct. 28 2019	Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8494-8501)

Committee
Oct. 21 2019	Committee on Ways and Means discharged. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 116-245, Part I.

IntroReferral
May. 03 2019	Introduced in House Introduced in House

House committee actions Actions

Committee
May. 03 2019	Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

House bill HR2514-116

COUNTER Act of 2019

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