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H.R. 2978119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
GUARD Act
Sponsored by Rep. Zachary Nunn (R-IA) · 54 active : 30 Republicans, 24 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 627.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedSep 15, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govGuarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act of 2026 or the GUARD Act of 2026
This bill allows state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and grantees that receive funds from certain law enforcement grant programs to use the funds to investigate general financial fraud, elder financial fraud, and pig butchering.
Pig butchering
refers to a confidence and investment fraud in which a victim is gradually lured into transferring increasing amounts of money, generally in the form of cryptocurrency, into a fake virtual investment.
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The bill allows federal law enforcement agencies to assist state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies and fusion centers in the use of tracing tools for blockchain and related technology tools.
Finally, the bill requires the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to report on efforts to combat general financial fraud, elder financial fraud, pig butchering, and scams, including an evaluation of any legislative recommendations to improve the efforts. The bill also requires FinCEN to report on the state of general financial fraud, elder financial fraud, pig butchering, and scams in the United States, including trends in the crimes.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Services · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- House Committee on the Judiciary · HouseReferred to
Subjects
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Congressional oversight
- Crime victims
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Intergovernmental relations
- Law enforcement administration and funding
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
54 activeShow all 54 cosponsors
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5)
- Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5)
- Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22)
- Jefferson Shreve (R-IN-6)
- Barry Moore (R-AL-1)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)
- Roger Williams (R-TX-25)
- Sarah McBride (D-DE-AL)
- Laura Gillen (D-NY-4)
- Josh Harder (D-CA-9)
- Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA-26)
- Andy Barr (R-KY-6)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6)
- John W. Mannion (D-NY-22)
- Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27)
- George Whitesides (D-CA-27)
- Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3)
- Derek Tran (D-CA-45)
- Gabe Vasquez
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.
