Congress·In Committee·H.R. 216

SEC Act of 2025

Securities Enforcement: New Rules for Calculating Fines

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Part of: Financial Regulatory Reform and Oversight

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Stalled

No legislative action in over 90 days.

StalledNext up: A house committeeNo action in 18 months

The SEC Act of 2025 is currently sitting in the House Committee on Financial Services. Nothing has happened with this bill since January 2025, and it is considered stalled. The bill will not move forward unless the committee decides to take action.

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Legislative Progress

House

No action since January 2025

Senate

President

Law

Unlikely to pass

While this bill helps businesses by limiting fines, it faces a tough path in a divided Congress where reducing corporate penalties is often controversial.

Key Points

This bill changes how the government calculates fines for companies that break investment laws. Currently, the SEC can charge a company for every single time a mistake happens. This bill would group those mistakes together if they all came from the same original problem.
If a company makes the same wrong statement multiple times or has one ongoing issue, it would count as just one violation instead of many. This would likely lower the total amount of money companies have to pay in penalties for long running errors.
The goal is to provide more clarity on how much a company might be fined. Supporters believe this prevents the government from piling on excessive charges for a single oversight, while critics might worry it lets big corporations off the hook for repeated bad behavior.

Impact Analysis

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Milestones

2 milestones2 actions

Jan 7, 2025House

Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Jan 7, 2025

Introduced in House

The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.

No votes or news coverage recorded for this bill yet.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

SEC Act of 2025

Bill NumberHR 216

Congress119th Congress

ChamberHouse of Representatives

Latest ActionReferred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

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