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Union Calendar No. 584
114th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 1309
[Report No. 114–752]
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 4, 2015
Mr. Luetkemeyer (for himself, Mr. Stivers, Mr. Williams, Mr. Murphy of Florida, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, and Ms. Sinema) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
September 19, 2016
Additional sponsors: Mr. Hill, Mr. Schweikert, Mrs. Roby, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Fincher, Mr. Posey, Mr. Sessions, Mrs. Love, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Olson, Mr. Barr, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Curbelo of Florida, Mr. Messer, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Harper, Mr. Vela, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Dold, Mr. Hurt of Virginia, Mr. Babin, Ms. Graham, Ms. Meng, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Poliquin, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Ross, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Cleaver, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Wagner, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Blum, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Peters, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. Jolly, Ms. Granger, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Allen, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Mr. Lance, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Flores, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Carter of Texas, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Womack, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Ms. Jenkins of Kansas, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Royce, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Lucas, Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Young of Iowa, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Rothfus, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Neugebauer, Mrs. Hartzler, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Ashford, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Long, Mr. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Latta, Mr. Graves of Georgia, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Emmer of Minnesota, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Paulsen, Mr. Graves of Missouri, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Rokita, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Roskam, Mr. Hanna, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Coffman, Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois, Mr. Brat, Mr. Bishop of Michigan, Mr. MacArthur, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Katko, Mr. Turner, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Renacci, Mr. Duffy, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Simpson, and Mr. Cramer
September 19, 2016
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
To amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to specify when bank holding companies may be subject to certain enhanced supervision, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2015.
2.
Table of contents
The table of contents for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended by striking the item relating to section 113 and inserting the following:
Sec. 113. Authority to require enhanced supervision and regulation of certain nonbank financial companies and certain bank holding companies.
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3.
Revisions to council authority
(a)
Purposes and duties
Section 112 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5322) is amended in subsection (a)(2)(I) by inserting before the semicolon , which have been the subject of a final determination under section 113.
(b)
Bank holding company designation
Section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5323) is amended—
(1) by amending the heading for such section to read as follows: Authority to require enhanced supervision and regulation of certain nonbank financial companies and certain bank holding companies;
(2) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), and (i) as subsections (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j), respectively;
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
(c)
Bank holding companies subject to enhanced supervision and prudential standards under section 165
(1)
Determination
The Council, on a nondelegable basis and by a vote of not fewer than 2⁄3 of the voting members then serving, including an affirmative vote by the Chairperson, may determine that a bank holding company shall be subject to enhanced supervision and prudential standards by the Board of Governors, in accordance with section 165, if the Council determines, based on the considerations in paragraph (2), that material financial distress at the bank holding company, or the nature, scope, size, scale, concentration, interconnectedness, or mix of the activities of the bank holding company, could pose a threat to the financial stability of the United States.
(2)
Considerations
In making a determination under paragraph (1), the Council shall use the indicator-based measurement approach established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to determine systemic importance, which considers—
(A) the size of the bank holding company;
(B) the interconnectedness of the bank holding company;
(C) the extent of readily available substitutes or financial institution infrastructure for the services of the bank holding company;
(D) the global cross-jurisdictional activity of the bank holding company; and
(E) the complexity of the bank holding company.
(3)
GSIBs designated by operation of law
Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, a bank holding company that is designated, as of the date of enactment of this subsection, as a Global Systemically Important Bank by the Financial Stability Board shall be deemed to have been the subject of a final determination under paragraph (1).
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(4) in subsection (d), as so redesignated—
(A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking subsection (a)(2) or (b)(2) and inserting subsection (a)(2), (b)(2), or (c)(2); and
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking Subsections (d) through (h) and inserting Subsections (e) through (i);
(5) in subsections (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j)—
(A) by striking subsections (a) and (b) each place such term appears and inserting subsections (a), (b), and (c); and
(B) by striking nonbank financial company each place such term appears and inserting bank holding company for which there has been a determination under subsection (c) or nonbank financial company;
(6) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by striking subsection (e) and inserting subsection (f);
(7) in subsection (h), as so redesignated, by striking subsection (a), (b), or (c) and inserting subsection (a), (b), (c), or (d); and
(8) in subsection (i), as so redesignated, by striking subsection (d)(2), (e)(3), or (f)(5) and inserting subsection (e)(2), (f)(3), or (g)(5).
(c)
Enhanced supervision
Section 115 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5325) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking large, interconnected bank holding companies and inserting bank holding companies which have been the subject of a final determination under section 113;
(2) in subsection (a)(2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ; or at the end and inserting a period;
(B) by striking the Council may and all that follows through differentiate and inserting the Council may differentiate; and
(C) by striking subparagraph (B); and
(3) in subsection (b)(3), by striking subsections (a) and (b) of section 113 each place such term appears and inserting subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 113.
(d)
Reports
Section 116(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5326(a)) is amended by striking with total consolidated assets of $50,000,000,000 or greater and inserting which has been the subject of a final determination under section 113.
(e)
Mitigation
Section 121 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5331) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking with total consolidated assets of $50,000,000,000 or more and inserting which has been the subject of a final determination under section 113; and
(2) in subsection (c), by striking subsection (a) or (b) of section 113 and inserting subsection (a), (b), or (c) of section 113.
(f)
Office of financial research
Section 155 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5345) is amended in subsection (d) by striking with total consolidated assets of 50,000,000,000 or greater and inserting which have been the subject of a final determination under section 113.
4.
Revisions to Board authority
(a)
Acquisitions
Section 163 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5363) is amended by striking with total consolidated assets equal to or greater than $50,000,000,000 each place such term appears and inserting which has been the subject of a final determination under section 113.
(b)
Management interlocks
Section 164 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5364) is amended by striking with total consolidated assets equal to or greater than $50,000,000,000 and inserting which has been the subject of a final determination under section 113.
(c)
Enhanced supervision and prudential standards
Section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. 5365) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking with total consolidated assets equal to or greater than $50,000,000,000 and inserting which have been the subject of a final determination under section 113;
(2) in subsection (a)(2)—
(A) by striking (A) In general.—; and
(B) by striking subparagraph (B);
(3) by striking subsections (a) and (b) of section 113 each place such term appears and inserting subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 113; and
(4) in subsection (j), by striking with total consolidated assets equal to or greater than $50,000,000,000 and inserting which has been the subject of a final determination under section 113.
(d)
Conforming Amendment
The second subsection (s) (relating to Assessments, Fees, and Other Charges for Certain Companies) of section 11 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 248) is amended—
(1) by redesignating such subsection as subsection (t); and
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking having total consolidated assets of $50,000,000,000 or more; and inserting which have been the subject of a final determination under section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; and;
(B) by striking subparagraph (B); and
(C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B).
5.
Effective date; rule of application
(a)
Effective date
The Financial Stability Oversight Council may begin proceedings with respect to a bank holding company under section 113(c)(1) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as added by this Act, on the date of the enactment of this Act, but may not make a final determination under such section 113(c)(1) with respect to a bank holding company before the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b)
Immediate application to large bank holding companies
During the 1-year period described under subsection (a), a bank holding company with total consolidated assets equal to or greater than $50,000,000,000 shall be deemed to have been the subject of a final determination under section 113(c)(1) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
September 19, 2016 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed