Bill Targets Fireworks Trafficking and Money Laundering

What This Bill Does

This bill would treat unlawful interstate transportation of fireworks as a specified unlawful activity under federal money-laundering law. That would give prosecutors stronger tools to trace and punish profits tied to illegal fireworks trafficking.

For ordinary Americans, the bill is aimed at reducing illegal fireworks sales and the criminal networks that move them across state lines. It could help law enforcement disrupt dangerous trafficking that contributes to fires, injuries, and neighborhood disturbances around holidays and other celebrations.

Who This Bill Affects

For the general public, this would strengthen federal enforcement against illegal fireworks trafficking and the money flows behind it, potentially reducing unsafe and unregulated fireworks activity.

Latest Status

May 22, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.