Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025

Summary

Creates a new DHS-led Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center to coordinate investigations, intelligence sharing, training, and grant evaluations focused on organized retail theft and related supply-chain crimes; requires the Center to begin operations within 90 days, produce an initial report within one year, and sunset after seven years. The bill also amends several federal criminal statutes (including money-laundering and interstate transport of stolen goods provisions) to expand covered conduct and update statutory language to support prosecutions and asset-and-forfeiture authorities.

Key Points

• Creates a DHS-led Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center to centralize intelligence, investigations, training, and grant evaluation.
• Requires the Center to be operational within 90 days, deliver an initial report within one year, produce annual reports, and sunsets the Center after 7 years.
• Amends multiple provisions of Title 18 to expand or clarify criminal-law tools for prosecuting organized retail, cargo theft, and related money-laundering offenses.
• Directs evaluations and reporting on training and grants to improve state, local, and Tribal law enforcement capacity.
• Emphasizes information sharing across federal, state, local, Tribal, and private-sector actors while setting procedures for handling sensitive data.
• Does not include an explicit, dedicated appropriation within the provided text; implementation may require future funding actions.
• Aims to address cross-jurisdictional and transnational retail theft that affects supply chains, worker safety, and business losses.
• Includes a statutory sunset and reporting deadlines to ensure congressional oversight and assessment of effectiveness.

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