CLARITY Act timeline & status updates
This page is our running record of the CLARITY Act's progress through Congress — updated whenever its status changes. It's the page to bookmark or subscribe to (RSS feed) if you just want to know "what's happening right now."
The CLARITY Act has passed the House (294–134) and cleared the Senate Banking Committee (15–9), but has not yet passed a full Senate floor vote or been signed into law. The bill missed the August 7, 2026 recess deadline after briefly disappearing from the Senate's schedule in early August amid unresolved disputes; Majority Leader Thune has since filed a motion to proceed, and the Senate opened a first procedural stage of voting on August 8, 2026. Passage still requires 60 votes, meaning roughly seven to ten Democratic crossovers beyond the Republican caucus. As of this writing, only Sens. Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks have been confirmed as supportive Democrats, while others, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, remain opposed. A floor vote is now expected in September 2026, ahead of the midterm calendar.
When is the CLARITY Act Senate vote?
There is no confirmed date yet. As of August 19, 2026, the CLARITY Act missed the August 7 pre-recess deadline, and Senate leadership has not scheduled a specific floor vote date. A vote is expected in September 2026, but no exact day has been set. This page is updated the moment a real date is confirmed — check back here rather than relying on any specific date circulating elsewhere.
What is the CLARITY Act's current schedule status?
The bill has passed the House (294–134) and cleared the Senate Banking Committee (15–9), and is on the Senate's calendar awaiting a floor vote. It briefly dropped off the Senate schedule in early August 2026 amid unresolved disputes, then the Senate opened a first procedural stage of voting on August 8, 2026. Passage requires 60 votes, meaning roughly seven to ten Democratic crossovers beyond the Republican caucus.
The three disputes holding up a Senate vote
Presidential ethics
Democrats want conflict-of-interest provisions addressing the Trump family's crypto business interests. Republicans view such riders as designed to fracture GOP support and have resisted adding them.
DeFi developer treatment
The Senate Banking and Agriculture committees produced different draft language on whether software developers and front-end operators face registration requirements — a reconciliation problem before any floor vote.
Stablecoin yield
Banks oppose interest-bearing stablecoins as competition for deposits, while provisions referred to as Section 604 face separate objections tied to illicit-finance concerns.
Full timeline
H.R. 3633 introduced in the House
The Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act is introduced and referred to the House Financial Services Committee (and, for portions touching commodities, the Agriculture Committee).
House Financial Services Committee releases section-by-section summary
The committee publishes its official section-by-section breakdown of the bill ahead of floor consideration. See our own plain-English version.
Passes the U.S. House of Representatives, 294–134
A notably bipartisan margin for a financial-regulation bill, reflecting crossover support from both parties.
Senate Banking Committee advances the bill, 15–9
The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee votes the bill out of committee in a bipartisan vote, moving it to the full Senate calendar.
Placed on the Senate legislative calendar
The bill becomes eligible for a floor vote, but Senate leadership does not immediately schedule one.
Bill misses informal July 4 target
Reporting indicates the bill misses an informally floated July 4 target for Senate action as the three disputes above remain unresolved.
Word of a new consolidated Senate draft
Sources indicate a new merged Senate Banking/Agriculture draft, addressing the DeFi-treatment split, is imminent.
House Financial Services field hearing in New York
The committee holds "Building the Future of Finance: How CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation" — a field hearing intended to build public and market momentum ahead of a possible Senate vote, alongside reports that new consolidated text was circulating without confirmed Democratic support yet.
Senate floor vote still pending
No confirmed floor vote date has landed yet. Vote math still requires roughly seven Democratic crossovers beyond the two secured in committee.
Senate Banking releases updated bill text
An updated version of the Senate Banking Committee's text is released, continuing to work through the DeFi-treatment and stablecoin-yield disputes ahead of a possible floor vote.
Bill briefly drops off the Senate schedule
The CLARITY Act unexpectedly disappears from the Monday Senate floor schedule, triggering a scramble to save a pre-recess vote amid unresolved disputes over government-ethics restrictions, illicit-finance provisions, and stablecoin "rewards" language.
August recess deadline passes without a vote
The bill misses the widely watched pre-recess deadline. Majority Leader Thune subsequently files a motion to proceed to keep the bill alive for the fall.
Senate opens first procedural stage of voting
The Senate takes an initial procedural step toward floor consideration, giving the bill a chance to reach a full vote after the recess. Only Sens. Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks are confirmed as supportive Democrats at this stage; others, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, remain opposed.
Floor vote expected after recess
With the pre-recess window missed, a Senate floor vote is now expected in September 2026 — the last realistic window before midterm-year politics make passage harder. Cloture still requires 60 votes. This is the most current status we have verified — check back or see congress.gov for anything more recent.
What happens next
A Senate-passed bill would likely need reconciliation with the House-passed version (or a House vote to concur with Senate changes) before heading to the President. Rulemaking deadlines (80/180/270/360 days) would then begin running from enactment — see the section-by-section breakdown for what each deadline covers, or the coin-by-coin impact page for how classifications would shift once rules are final.
What to watch next
- Whether Senate leadership can lock in the 7–10 Democratic crossover votes needed for cloture ahead of a September floor vote.
- Whether any conflict-of-interest / presidential-ethics language gets added — or firmly rejected — as part of a deal to secure Democratic votes.
- Whether the stablecoin "rewards" language gets resolved, since it was a key reason the bill briefly fell off the Senate schedule in early August.
- How prediction-market odds move as whip counts firm up going into the fall session.