Sponsors (10)
The bill strengthens oversight and prioritization of corporate, cyber, and financial-crime enforcement to improve accountability and targeted victim services, but does so at the cost of higher litigation and compliance expenses, possible delays in victims' resolutions, and narrower program coverage that may disrupt some local services.
Victims, taxpayers, and the public: clearer congressional guidance plus required court review and supervision of DPAs/NPAs will increase accountability for corporate wrongdoing, making enforcement more transparent, improving chances of victim compensation, and strengthening deterrence.
Department of Justice and federal courts: excluding DPA negotiation time from Speedy Trial Act calculations lets prosecutors and courts complete complex corporate resolutions without triggering dismissal risks, reducing the chance that technical timing rules force premature case endings.
Law-enforcement and fraud victims: directing program and grant priorities toward cyber and financial crimes focuses investigative resources and clarifies victim program eligibility, likely improving specialized investigations and services for those offenses.
Businesses, customers, and taxpayers: stronger expectations for penalties plus added court supervision and procedural requirements will raise prosecution and compliance complexity, increasing litigation and enforcement costs that may be passed on to consumers or borne by taxpayers.
Victims seeking timely restitution: allowing DPA negotiation time to be excluded from Speedy Trial Act time could prolong final resolution of corporate cases, delaying compensation and closure for victims.
Employees and small entities tied to corporate conduct: restricting the availability of DPAs for certain serious offenses may force immediate criminal prosecutions, increasing trial burdens on courts and risking harsher outcomes for lower-level employees or small vendors.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Raises judicial standards and supervision for corporate DPAs/NPAs, defines corporate offenses, and renames "white collar crime" to "cyber and financial crime" in a statutory part.
Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance prosecution of corporate crime.
Introduced May 15, 2026 by Mary Gay Scanlon · Last progress May 15, 2026
Requires stricter judicial review and court supervision of deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements for corporate offenses, creates statutory definitions for "business entity" and "corporate offense," and narrows statutory language by replacing a statutory term for "white collar crime" with "cyber and financial crime." It directs courts to exclude certain DPA-related delay from speedy‑trial calculations only when the judge finds the agreement serves the public interest, holds the corporation accountable, compensates victims, prevents recidivism, and protects victim rights, and forbids DPAs in some serious cases or where prior corporate history makes a DPA inappropriate. Also adds an unspecified new material to Title 18 (text not provided) and updates a table of contents entry, and changes statutory terminology in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to replace "white collar crime" with "cyber and financial crime," which alters the scope of that part's coverage under current law.