# H.R. 1919 (119th): Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act

Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act This bill prohibits a Federal Reserve bank from offering products or services directly to an individual, maintaining an account on behalf of an individual, or issuing a central bank digital currency (i.e., a digital dollar). Further, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is prohibited from using a central bank digital currency to implement monetary policy or from testing, studying, creating, or implementing a central bank digital currency, with exceptions as provided by the bill.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: cbdc. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: censorship. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: due_process. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: financial_privacy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: monetary_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 201: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The title and operative text together indicate a restraint on a possible instrument of direct state financial monitoring. The operative provisions prohibit federal CBDC issuance and direct retail accounts, which restrains a potential surveillance power rather than advancing one. The bill is framed as anti-surveillance, but its text is mainly a monetary-policy prohibition, so the classification is provisional.
Theological note: The measure bears on the Christian concern that civil authority not gain unchecked power to monitor and control the ordinary economic lives of persons. Restraining a possible instrument of state financial surveillance relates to general equity, property, and the proper limits of government. The operative text addresses monetary policy and CBDC authority, so this is an issue-relevance note, not a final judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 201: On Passage. Yea 219 · Nay 210 · Other 3.

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