- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 27
- Latest action
- Jul 24, 2025
What it does
The Stop the Scammers Act would amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to establish a whistleblower incentive and protection program within the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, offering awards of 10% to 30% of civil money penalties collected in enforcement actions exceeding $1 million, funded from the Consumer Financial Civil Penalty Fund. It would also increase the Bureau’s funding cap from 6.5 to 12 basis points of total assets of supervised institutions to ensure adequate resources for fair, transparent, and competitive financial markets. The bill includes protections for whistleblowers, including confidentiality, anti-retaliation safeguards, and prohibitions on…
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Where it stands
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Catherine Cortez Masto
- Amy Klobuchar
- Andy Kim
- Angela Alsobrooks
- Ben Luján
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles Schumer
- Chris Van Hollen
- Cory Booker
- Elizabeth Warren
- Jacky Rosen
- Jeff Merkley
- John Fetterman
- John Hickenlooper
- John Reed
- Kirsten Gillibrand
- Lisa Blunt Rochester
- Mark Warner
- Peter Welch
- Raphael Warnock
- Richard Blumenthal
- Richard Durbin
- Ruben Gallego
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Tammy Baldwin
- Timothy Kaine
- Tina Smith
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