S 121 · in committee · significant
Recover Fraudulent COVID Funds Act
- criminal justice
What this bill does
- The bill extends the time limit for prosecuting COVID-19 relief fraud from 5 years to 10 years.
- This affects prosecutors and individuals accused of defrauding pandemic relief programs.
- The change applies immediately to fraud cases involving COVID-19 relief funds.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How might extending the prosecution window from 5 to 10 years affect the resources needed by federal prosecutors to investigate older fraud cases?
- 02
What evidence exists about how many significant COVID relief fraud cases currently fall outside the 5-year window that this extension would capture?
- 03
Should individuals accused of pandemic relief fraud face different statute of limitations than those accused of other federal crimes, and why?
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Sponsor · R-OK
James Lankford
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
16/ 100
Senators cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-01-16
Joining the bill
Christopher A. Coons
D-DE · original
Joni Ernst
R-IA · original
Marsha Blackburn
R-TN
Thom Tillis
R-NC
Josh Hawley
R-MO
Ron Johnson
R-WI
John Kennedy
R-LA
John Cornyn
R-TX
Jon Husted
R-OH
Lindsey Graham
R-SC
Richard Blumenthal
D-CT
Ashley Moody
R-FL
+ 4 more
Legislative timeline
2025-01-16 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-01-16 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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