HR 1799
Advanced toward a vote
Raises the dollar thresholds that trigger Treasury currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports, and requires periodic inflation adjustments to those thresholds.
Official title: Financial Reporting Threshold Modernization Act
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House
Introduced
03-MAR-2025
Referred
03-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
22-JAN-2026
Reported
19-MAR-2026
On the calendar
19-MAR-2026
- Directs the Treasury Secretary to raise the $10,000 currency transaction report threshold to $30,000 within 180 days, including the related threshold for coins and currency received in nonfinancial trades or businesses.
- Raises suspicious activity report thresholds from $5,000 to $10,000 and from $2,000 to $3,000 for agencies that issue those regulations, also within 180 days.
- Raises the money services business definition threshold in federal regulations from $1,000 to $3,000 within 180 days.
- Requires updates to all these thresholds every 5 years based on the Consumer Price Index, rounded to the nearest $500, and requires a Treasury review of reporting forms due within 360 days.
- Changes the look-back period in Section 5336(c)(11)(A) of title 31, United States Code, for testimony by the FinCEN Director from 5 years to 10 years.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to House, 19-MAR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Financial Services Committee (House)
Finance and Financial Sector
■ 19 R■ 1 D
19 Republicans
1 Democrat