Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
The bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act to add procedural limits and protections for recipients of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection civil investigative demands (CIDs). Key changes: a six‑year timing limit, a specificity requirement for alleged conduct, a formal attorney Q&A process with required Bureau responses and possible extensions, confidential treatment of petition contents, expanded grounds to set aside demands (including undue burden and duplicative requests), and judicial review of denied petitions to modify or set aside CIDs.
Liberals: worry bill weakens CFPB enforcement effectiveness
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a focused substantive reform of the civil investigative demand process that is largely well‑specified in statutory text but omits fiscal acknowledgment and leaves some legal standards and operational edge cases undefined.
The bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act to add procedural limits and protections for recipients of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection civil investigative demands (CIDs).
Key changes: a six‑year timing limit, a specificity requirement for alleged conduct, a formal attorney Q&A process with required Bureau responses and possible extensions, confidential treatment of petition contents, expanded grounds to set aside demands (including undue burden and duplicative requests), and judicial review of denied petitions to modify or set aside CIDs.
Technically modest and administrable but politically contested; likely to pass more easily in the House than the Senate absent broader agreement.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a focused substantive reform of the civil investigative demand process that is largely well‑specified in statutory text but omits fiscal acknowledgment and leaves some legal standards and operational edge cases undefined.
Liberals: worry bill weakens CFPB enforcement effectiveness
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Liberals: worry bill weakens CFPB enforcement effectiveness
Likely skeptical of the bill because it strengthens procedural protections for CID targets and limits Bureau investigatory flexibility.
They will worry these changes could meaningfully slow or weaken enforcement of consumer financial laws and favor stronger consumer protections over added protections for regulated entities.
Will view the bill as a set of reasonable procedural clarifications that balance agency investigatory power and targets' due process rights.
Support will depend on safeguards to prevent excessive delay and preserve effective enforcement.
Will generally welcome the bill as necessary limits on CFPB investigatory overreach and as protections for businesses and individuals facing broad agency demands.
Sees judicial review and specificity requirements as accountability measures.
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Technically modest and administrable but politically contested; likely to pass more easily in the House than the Senate absent broader agreement.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals: worry bill weakens CFPB enforcement effectiveness
Technically modest and administrable but politically contested; likely to pass more easily in the House than the Senate absent broader agre…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a focused substantive reform of the civil investigative demand process that is largely well‑specified in statutory text but omits fiscal acknowledgment and leaves…
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