Sponsors (207)
Introduced April 10, 2025 by David Joyce · Last progress April 10, 2025
The bill enhances federal and local capacity to disrupt organized retail and supply‑chain crime—potentially reducing theft, prices, and disruptions—while expanding federal criminal authorities and information sharing in ways that raise civil‑liberty, privacy, compliance, and budgetary costs.
Law enforcement and federal prosecutors would gain stronger, clearer tools (expanded statutes, interstate-commerce language, broadened forfeiture and money‑laundering definitions) to investigate and disrupt organized retail and supply‑chain crime.
State and local governments and law enforcement would receive coordinated federal assistance, training, and a federal information‑sharing center to improve cross‑jurisdictional investigations.
Retailers, transportation companies, and consumers would benefit from improved lead‑sharing and coordination that could reduce organized retail and cargo theft, lowering business losses, consumer prices, and supply disruptions.
Individuals accused of theft and related offenses (and taxpayers who fund prosecutions) would face increased prosecutions, broader use of asset forfeiture, and potentially harsher penalties and higher justice‑system costs.
Immigrant communities and marginalized groups could face increased scrutiny and civil‑rights risks if enforcement focuses on supply‑chain channels involving migrants or if information sharing is not carefully limited.
Small businesses and payment processors would likely incur higher compliance costs and greater exposure to investigations because prepaid/gift cards are swept into money‑laundering rules and companies may share more data with federal authorities.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Adds targeted technical amendments to Title 18 and creates an HSI-based Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center to coordinate investigations, info-sharing, reports, and training.
Creates a new federal coordination center inside Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to unify federal, state, local, Tribal, and private-sector efforts against organized retail and supply-chain crime, require regular reporting and evaluations, and add limited technical amendments to federal criminal statutes related to theft and money laundering. The bill directs HSI to stand up the Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center within 90 days, sets staffing and reporting rules, requires DHS and DOJ to evaluate and issue guidance on training/grants, and sunsets the Center after seven years.