§2.Corporate crime database at the Bureau of Justice Statistics
This section establishes a corporate crime database at the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) (i.e., a searchable, downloadable public database on BJS's website of federal enforcement actions—administrative, civil, criminal, declinations, settlements, deferred prosecution agreements, or non-prosecution agreements—for corporate offenses, defined as federal law violations by business entities or their employees in occupational roles, or as otherwise determined by the BJS Director). Beginning not later than one year after enactment of the Corporate Crime Database Act of 2026, the BJS Director must collect, aggregate, and analyze such enforcement action information—including business entities or individuals involved, employers or parent companies, offense types and violated statutes/regulations, enforcing agencies, outcomes and documentation, unique identifiers, and additional details as needed—and publish the database not later than one year after enactment, with regular updates; within 180 days of enactment, the Director must issue guidance requiring identified federal agencies (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 551) to submit relevant data on actions before, on, or after enactment, and agencies must comply. Not later than one year after database publication, and annually thereafter, the Director must submit to Congress a report analyzing collected data (including recidivism, offenses, and enforcement actions), estimating corporate offense impacts on victims and the public, and providing legislative or administrative recommendations developed with the Attorney General. This section also adds to the Chief Data Officer Council's duties under 44 U.S.C. 3520A(b) a requirement to identify ways for relevant federal agencies to improve data collection, digitalization, tabulation, sharing, publication, and standardization for this database.