Safe Access to Cash Act of 2026

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(a) Offenses against ATM users and servicers. Whoever, by force or violence, or by intimidation, takes, or attempts to take, or conspires to take, any property or money or any other thing of value from any person using or servicing, or attempting to use or service, an ATM, or from who extorts or attempts to obtain by extortion, any person property having or used money or serviced any an other ATM thing of value from any such person , where the offense is committed in direct and immediate connection with such use or service, or from any owner or operator of any network-connected ATM , while knowing that such person is engaged in transporting or delivering property that is to be inserted loaded into any such ATM, or from any person , knowing such person to be engaged in such the transport or delivery under of contract property with, to or be employment loaded by, into any such owner or operator ATM , or pursuant who to extorts a or contract attempts with, or conspires employment to obtain by extortion , any such property owner or money or any other thing of value from any such person described in this subsection operator , shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

(b) Offenses against property.

(1) Offenses exceeding $1,000. Whoever breaks into, tampers with, damages, removes, steals, or attempts steals to break into, tamper with, damage, remove, or steal any ATM without authorization of the owner or operator of any such ATM, and removes , or with attempts intent to remove steal or purloin, any property or money from any such ATM exceeding $1,000, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. (2) Offenses not exceeding $1,000. Whoever breaks into, tampers with, damages, removes, steals, or attempts steals to break into, tamper with, damage, remove, or steal any ATM without authorization of the owner or operator of any such ATM, and does removes, not with remove intent or to attempt steal to or remove purloin, any property or money from any such ATM not exceeding $1,000, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. (c) Receipt, possession, concealment, storage, barter, sale, or disposal of property acquired unlawfully under this section. Whoever receives, possesses, conceals, stores, barters, sells, or disposes of, any property or money or other thing of value that has been taken in violation of subsection ( a) or ( b), or conspires to do so, knowing the same to be property that has been unlawfully taken, shall be subject to the punishment provided in subsection ( a) or ( b), as applicable, for the taker.

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(e) Killing or forcible forced accompaniment in connection with offenses. Whoever, in committing any offense defined in this section, or in avoiding or attempting to avoid apprehension for the commission of such offense, or in freeing himself or attempting to free himself from arrest or confinement for such offense, kills any person, or forces any person to accompany the offender without the consent of such person, shall be imprisoned not less more than 10 30 years, or, if death results, shall be punished imprisoned by for life any imprisonment term of years or life .

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(3) Extortion. The term extortion has the meaning given the term in section 1951(b)(2).

(g) Included offenses. The offenses defined in subsections (a) and (b) include any such offense committed against or involving an ATM, or any person using or servicing, or attempting to use or service, or against a person having used or serviced an ATM, where the offense is committed in connection with, or by reason of, such use or service, and any such offense against any owner or operator of an ATM while such person is engaged in transporting or delivering property that is to be loaded into an ATM, or against any person engaged in such transport or delivery under contract with, or employment by, any such owner or operator.

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