Romance Scam Prevention Act

Sponsored by Rep. David G. Valadao (R-CA) · 9 active : 5 Republicans, 4 Democrats

Latest action: Message on Senate action sent to the House.

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Where it standsBefore the House

Passed both chambers, awaiting the President

House: passedJun 23, 2025
Senate: passedSep 23, 2026
President: Awaiting action

43 representatives score as swing votes

Summary

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Romance Scam Prevention Act

This bill requires online dating service providers (i.e., mobile applications or websites) to provide users with a fraud ban notification if the user has established an account with the service and received a message through the service from a banned user of the service.

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The fraud ban notification must include (1) the username or other profile identifier of the banned user and the most recent time when the user who is receiving the notification sent or received a message through the service to or from the banned user, (2) a statement that the banned user may have been using a false identity or attempting to defraud other users, (3) a statement that the user should not send cash (or another form of currency) or personal financial information to another user, (4) information about avoiding online fraud (e.g., a link to another website or a disclosure) and (5) contact information for the provider's customer service department.

The bill provides for enforcement of these requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

43Swing 70–100
277Middle 30–70
108Entrenched 0–30
5Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 5 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 12.5 (needs 5.0).

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PassedShared subjects×1.0
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5

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PassedSame policy area

Cosponsors

9 active

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Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7)
Craig A. Goldman (R-TX-12)
Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3)
Josh Harder (D-CA-9)
Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6)
David P. Joyce (R-OH-14)
Susie Lee (D-NV-3)
Jefferson Shreve (R-IN-6)
Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.