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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2613 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

Urban Affairs 

AN ACT 

To require the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 

Network to carry out a study on the use of emerging 

technologies within the Financial Crimes Enforcement 

Network, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Advancing Innovation 

3 to Assist Law Enforcement Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINCEN STUDY ON USE OF EMERGING TECH5 NOLOGIES. 

6 (a) STUDY.— 

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Finan8 cial Crimes Enforcement Network (‘‘FinCEN’’) shall 

9 carry out a study on— 

10 (A) the status of implementation and in11 ternal use of emerging technologies, including 

12 artificial intelligence (‘‘AI’’), digital identity 

13 technologies, blockchain technologies, and other 

14 innovative technologies within FinCEN; 

15 (B) whether AI, digital identity tech16 nologies, blockchain technologies, and other in17 novative technologies can be further leveraged 

18 to make FinCEN’s data analysis more efficient 

19 and effective; and 

20 (C) how FinCEN could better utilize AI, 

21 digital identity technologies, blockchain tech22 nologies, and other innovative technologies to 

23 more actively analyze and disseminate the infor24 mation it collects and stores to provide inves25 tigative leads to Federal, State, Tribal, and 

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1 cies (collective, ‘‘Agencies’’), and better support 

2 its ongoing investigations when referring a case 

3 to the Agencies. 

4 (2) INCLUSION OF GTO DATA.—The study re5 quired under this subsection shall include data col6 lected through the Geographic Targeting Orders 

7 (‘‘GTO’’) program. 

8 (b) REPORT.—Not later than the end of the 6-month 

9 period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 

10 the Director shall issue a report to the Committee on 

11 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and 

12 the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Rep13 resentatives containing— 

14 (1) all findings and determinations made in car15 rying out the study required under subsection (a); 

16 (2) with respect to each of subparagraphs (A), 

17 (B), and (C) of subsection (a)(1), any best practices 

18 or significant concerns identified by the Director, 

19 and their applicability to AI, digital identity tech20 nologies, blockchain technologies, and other innova21 tive technologies with respect to United States ef22 forts to combat money laundering and other forms 

23 of illicit finance; and 

24 (3) any policy recommendations that could fa25 cilitate and improve communication and coordination 


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1 between the private sector, FinCEN, and Agencies 

2 through the implementation of innovative ap3 proaches, in order to meet their Bank Secrecy Act 

4 (as defined under section 5312 of title 31, United 

5 States Code) and anti-money laundering compliance 

6 obligations. 

7 (c) BANK SECRECY ACT DEFINED.—For purposes of 

8 this section, the term ‘‘Bank Secrecy Act’’ means— 

9 (1) subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, 

10 United States Code; 

11 (2) section 21 of the Federal Deposit Insurance 

12 Act; and 

13 (3) chapter 2 of title I of Public Law 91–508. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 19, 

2019. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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