3.0.0 3516 2026-09-08T18:03:40Z 2026-09-08T18:03:40Z Senate S S 2025-12-17 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3516 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-12-17T16:12:38Z Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025 119 6822 HR 2025-12-17 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2025-12-17 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2025-12-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT N Commerce Commerce 2026-01-12T22:32:12Z 00 2025-12-17 Introduced in Senate 2026-09-01T14:13:31Z Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025

This bill makes it unlawful to use tools such as bots to circumvent a website's security or control measures related to purchasing limits or inventory management.

Specifically, the bill makes it unlawful to circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other technological control or measure that a website or online service uses to enforce posted purchasing limits or manage inventory.

The bill also prohibits the sale of certain products or services obtained through such a violation.

The bill provides for enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general or other authorized state officers.

]]> Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025 Display Title 45 Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025 2026-01-10T09:24:11Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Stopping Grinch Bots Act of 2025 2026-01-10T09:24:10Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to prohibit the circumvention of control measures used by internet retailers to ensure equitable consumer access to products, and for other purposes. 2026-01-10T09:18:37Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-12-17T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s3516is/xml/BILLS-119s3516is.xml 2025-12-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.