US Congress Senate Bill 3571 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 23 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-06-30 - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires Federal Reserve member banks to provide digital pass-through accounts (i.e., digital dollar wallets) to residents and citizens, and to businesses domiciled in the United States. Among other things, these accounts must provide specified banking services to eligible persons who elect to deposit funds into these accounts, including access to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) aid payments. These accounts may not charge fees or have balance requirements, and must provide a specified interest rate. In areas with limited access to Federal Reserve member banks, these banks must partner with postal retail facilities to provide services. Federal Reserve banks must permit state nonmember banks and credit unions to open master accounts for the purpose of offering digital pass-through accounts. Postal retail facilities and certain small banks must be reimbursed by the appropriate Federal Reserve bank for operational costs incurred by offering the accounts.

Banking for All Act

Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-06-30	Senate	Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
2020-03-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3571/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3571/BILLS-116s3571is.pdf