Civil Investigative Demand Reform Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Barr
Introduced
Summary
The Civil Investigative Demand Reform Act of 2025 would strengthen procedural protections for CID targets. It would force more factual detail in demands, set a clear time limit for issuing demands, and create new ways to challenge and review them.
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- Businesses or people who receive civil investigative demands would get a clearer deadline: a CID could not be issued later than six years after the alleged violation. They would also be able to argue a CID should be set aside for failure to follow the law, for constitutional or other legal rights, or because the demand is unduly burdensome or duplicative.
- Lawyers for respondents would gain more access and faster answers. An advising attorney could submit questions about CID scope and the Bureau would have to reply within 20 days or by the CID return date, and could extend return and petition deadlines when answering.
- Procedural checks would increase. Demands would have to cite particular facts as well as conduct, petition filings would be treated as confidential, and denials of petitions to modify or set aside CIDs would be subject to judicial review.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Six-year limit on consumer bureau demands
If enacted, the consumer bureau could issue a civil investigative demand (CID) only within six years of the alleged violation. The CID would also have to come before any case is started. A late CID could be challenged as untimely, which could reduce your burden.
Stronger rights to challenge consumer bureau demands
If enacted, the consumer bureau would have to tie a CID to specific facts, not just conduct. Your lawyer could send questions about the CID’s scope. The bureau would have to answer within the shorter of 20 days or the time left until the return date. When it answers, it could extend the return date and the deadline to file a petition. You would have broader reasons to ask to change or cancel a CID, and your petition would be confidential. If the bureau denies your petition, you could ask a court to review that denial.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Barr
KY • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Gonzalez, Vicente [D-TX-34]
TX • D
Sponsored 2/27/2025
Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-FL-23]
FL • D
Sponsored 2/27/2025
Timmons
SC • R
Sponsored 3/3/2025
Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
MO • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]
PA • R
Sponsored 6/26/2025
Moore (NC)
NC • R
Sponsored 7/16/2025
Roll Call Votes
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