governmental organization, or other entity that is 
made available to the President. 
(b) BRIEFING.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall brief the appropriate congressional committees on the 
implementation of the strategy required under subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Financial Services, 
the Committee on the Judiciary, the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs, the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, the Select Committee on 
Intelligence, and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate. 
(2) APPROPRIATE
FEDERAL
BANKING
AGEN-
CIES.—The term ‘‘appropriate Federal banking agen-
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cies’’ has the meaning given the term in section 3 of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813). 
(3) BANK SECRECY ACT.—The term ‘‘Bank Se-
crecy Act’’ means— 
(A) section 21 of the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Act; 
(B) chapter 2 of title I of Public Law 91– 
508; and 
(C) subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, 
United States Code. 
(4) DIGITAL CURRENCY.—The term ‘‘digital cur-
rency’’— 
(A) means a digital representation of value 
that— 
(i) is used as a medium of exchange, 
unit of account, or store of value; and 
(ii) is not established legal tender, 
whether or not denominated in established 
legal tender; and 
(B) does not include— 
(i) a transaction in which a merchant 
grants, as part of an affinity or rewards 
program, value that cannot be taken from 
or exchanged with the merchant for legal 
tender, bank credit, or digital currency; or 
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(ii) a digital representation of value 
issued by or on behalf of a publisher and 
used solely within an online game, game 
platform, or family of games sold by the 
same publisher or offered on the same game 
platform. 
(5) FEDERAL
FUNCTIONAL
REGULATOR.—The 
term ‘‘Federal functional regulator’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 509 of the Gramm-Leach- 
Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6809). 
(6) FOREIGN
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an orga-
nization that is designated as a foreign terrorist orga-
nization under section 219 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 
(7) TERRORIST.—The term ‘‘terrorist’’ includes 
a person carrying out domestic terrorism or inter-
national terrorism (as such terms are defined, respec-
tively, under section 2331 of title 18, United States 
Code). 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to establish 
an Independent Financial Technology Task Force to 
Combat Terrorism and Illicit Financing, to provide re-
wards for information leading to convictions related to 
terrorist use of digital currencies, to establish a Fintech 
Leadership in Innovation and Financial Intelligence Pro-
gram to encourage the development of tools and pro-
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grams to combat terrorist and illicit use of digital cur-
rencies, and for other purposes.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 769 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5036 
[Report No. 115–984] 
A BILL 
To establish an Independent Financial Technology 
Task Force, to provide rewards for information 
leading to convictions related to terrorist use of 
digital currencies, to establish a FinTech Leader-
ship in Innovation Program to encourage the de-
velopment of tools and programs to combat ter-
rorist and illicit use of digital currencies, and for 
other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed 
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