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Introduced April 10, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress April 10, 2025
The bill strengthens federal coordination and data-sharing to curb organized retail and supply‑chain theft—potentially reducing losses and improving enforcement—but it expands federal authority, raises privacy and cost concerns, and risks criminalizing conduct and disproportionately impacting vulnerable communities.
Law-enforcement agencies (federal, State, and local) will have clearer federal authority and a coordinated HSI-led center to pursue transjurisdictional organized retail and supply‑chain theft, improving case coordination and enforcement.
Retailers, transportation firms, and consumers may face fewer theft-driven supply‑chain disruptions, reduced losses, and potentially more reliable product availability and lower prices if coordinated investigations curb organized theft.
A centralized federal Center that aggregates intelligence, provides investigative support, and publishes annual trend reports can relieve State/local resource strains, improve transparency, and give businesses actionable data on crime patterns.
Expanded federal criminal authority and centralized coordination could federalize crimes previously handled by States, increase prosecutions/arrests, and disproportionately affect low-income and immigrant communities.
Increased information-sharing between private companies and federal law enforcement raises privacy and proprietary-data risks for businesses and potentially for consumers whose transaction data could be shared.
Establishing and operating the federal Center and participating (detailees, data reporting) may impose new federal expenditures and resource burdens on State/local agencies and private partners, potentially increasing costs for taxpayers and businesses.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federal Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center in HSI, broadens certain theft and money‑laundering statutes, and requires evaluations and reports to Congress.
Creates a federal coordination center inside ICE Homeland Security Investigations to fight organized retail and supply‑chain crime, directs agency reviews of training and grant programs, and amends federal criminal laws to broaden covered stolen‑goods and payment instruments. The bill sets deadlines for establishing the Center, for evaluation and reporting to Congress, and sunsets the Center after seven years, but it does not appropriate new funds.