House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Know Your American Customer Act
Official title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to require certain financial institutions to verify the citizenship and legal status of individuals, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedMay 14, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 14, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8836.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SELF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 82, May 14, 2026, Page H3532):Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution such powers, pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clauses 3, 4, and 18 of the Constitution of the United States.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 14, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 321 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8836, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8836
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 6411 (119th) Preshevo Valley Discrimination Assessment Act
Related bills
- S. 4206 (119th) Know Your American Customer ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.