# 119-hr-5683: Military Consumer Protection Task Force Act of 2025

119-hr-5683, Military Consumer Protection Task Force Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-5683
- Congress: 119
- Title: Military Consumer Protection Task Force Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-10-03
- Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Creates an interagency task force to identify and stop financial scams aimed at service members, veterans, and military families.** It would centralize federal data, surface new fraud patterns, and produce recommendations to improve prevention and enforcement across agencies. - Military members, veterans, and families: Would give federal officials a coordinated source of data and recommendations to fight scams that cost military communities hundreds of millions annually, including reported losses of about $584 million in 2024 and nearly 80,000 FTC complaints in 2024. - Federal agencies and oversight bodies: Would bring together the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, and the Postal Inspection Service plus three non-government representatives to coordinate detection, prevention, and policy reviews. - Private sector and local partners: Would require regular consultation with state and local law enforcement, financial services, technology and social media companies, and veterans service groups to evaluate emerging risks like buy-now-pay-later and digital payment schemes and to inform federal recommendations.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-DE-At Large] (D-DE), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5] (D-NJ), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Task force to fight military scams: benefit, medium. If enacted, this would set up an interagency task force within 90 days to fight financial scams against service members, veterans, and families. It would include DoD, VA, FTC, CFPB, DOJ, FCC, the Postal Inspection Service, and three outside members (at least one from a veterans group). The task for…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-5683 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5683)

## Related
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- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implem…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-1058)
- [119-hr-4245: GLOBE Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4245)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5683 (as of 2026-04-21).