H.R. 1919House bill · 119th CongressIn progressFinance and Financial Sector

Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act

Sponsored byTom EmmerR-MN-6Introduced Mar 6, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Jul 17, 2025) Motion to reconsider Agreed to without objection.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Mar 6, 2025

This bill prohibits a Federal Reserve bank from offering products or services directly to an individual, maintaining an account on behalf of an individual, or issuing a central bank digital currency (i.e., a digital dollar). Further, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is prohibited from using a central bank digital currency to implement monetary policy or from testing, studying, creating, or implementing a central bank digital currency, with exceptions as provided by the bill.

Face Value

as passed the House
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out

What Congress did

1 recorded
  • decisive vote

    House · Jul 17, 2025

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

    219210

    Passed

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Who lobbied on this

3 organizations

These organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.

  • …Lenders Exempt from New Data and Excessive Reporting (Small LENDER) Act H.R. 940- Fair Audits and Inspections for Regulators Exams (FAIR Exams) Act H.R. 1919- Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act H.R. 3663- Digital Asset Market Clarity Act H.R. 5291- Merchant Banking Modernization Act H.R.6644 - 21st… filing ↗
  • Huntington Bancshares Inc.no position stated
    …deduction, auto loan interest deduction, energy tax credits impacting wind and solar, share repurchase tax, impacts of medicaid and SNAP changes H.R. 1919, Anti-CBDC Survelillance State Act, all provisions filing ↗
  • …1606 Making the CFPB Accountable to Small Businesses Act H.R. 1652 Rectifying UDAAP Act H.R. 1799 The Financial Reporting Threshold Modernization Act H.R. 1919 Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act H.R. 1944 10 Percent Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Act H.R. 2808 The Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act H.R.… filing ↗

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