Corporate Crime Database Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Scanlon
Introduced
Summary
Creates a national, searchable Corporate Crime Database that directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect, aggregate, analyze, and publish federal enforcement actions tied to business entities and individuals. It also standardizes what agencies must report and updates the Chief Data Officer Council to improve data sharing.
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- Publishes a public, downloadable record naming each business entity or individual in enforcement actions and listing employer and parent company where relevant, unique identifiers, offense types, statutes, and case outcomes.
- Requires the Bureau to issue guidance within 180 days, and to establish and publish the database not later than 1 year after enactment in a searchable, downloadable format. Federal agencies named in the guidance must submit information on past, current, and future enforcement actions.
- Forces regular analysis and oversight by requiring annual reports to Congress that describe the data, analyze recidivism and offenses, estimate impacts on victims and the public, and offer recommendations developed with the Attorney General.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Public database of corporate enforcement cases
If enacted, the Bureau of Justice Statistics would build a public Corporate Crime Database within 1 year. It would be searchable and downloadable and updated each time information is collected. It would include enforcement actions from before, on, or after enactment when information is available. Listings would name companies and people, employers and parent companies when relevant, the offense or alleged offense, statutes or rules, each agency, outcomes and documents, and unique identifiers. The bill would define what counts as a business entity, a corporate offense (including employee acts in their job and others the Director adds), and an enforcement action (including settlements, declinations, and deferred or non‑prosecution agreements).
Annual corporate crime report to Congress
If enacted, the Director would send Congress a report 1 year after the database is published and every year after. The report would analyze offenses, alleged offenses, enforcement actions, and repeat offenses. It would estimate impacts on victims and the public. It would also include recommendations, developed with the Attorney General, to improve how agencies monitor, respond to, and deter corporate offenses.
New reporting rules for federal agencies
If enacted, the Director would issue guidance within 180 days naming which federal agencies must submit corporate enforcement data. The guidance would set how, when, and how often agencies must send information. Agencies named in the guidance would be required to submit the data. The Chief Data Officer Council would identify ways to standardize how agencies collect, digitize, tabulate, share, and publish this information.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Scanlon
PA • D
Cosponsors
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Tlaib
MI • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Jayapal
WA • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Lee (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Roll Call Votes
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