,i  #aafth ,,congress  #ast ,session    
,h4 ,r4 #dccc  ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of  
,,representatives  ,september #ac1      
#bjai,ms4 ,spanberger introduced the    
following bill2 which was referred to   
the ,committee on ,agriculture  ,a      
,,bill  ,to amend the ,commodity        
,exchange ,act to provide certainty for 
futures customers and market            
participants1 and for other purposes4   
#a4 ,certainty for futures customers and
 market participants ,section #bj7;a7 of
 the ,commodity ,exchange ,act 7#g      
,u4,s4,c4 #bd7;a77 is amended-- 7#a7 by 
striking and at the end of paragraph    
7#d72  7#b7 by striking the period at   
the end of paragraph 7#e7 and inserting 
2 and2 and  7#c7 by adding at the end   
the following3  7#f7 that cash1         
securities1 or other property of the    
estate of a commodity broker1 including 
the trading or operating accounts of the
 commodity broker and commodities held  
in inventory by the commodity broker1   
shall be included in customer property1 

subject to any otherwise unavoidable    
security interest1 or otherwise         
unavoidable contractual offset or       
netting rights of creditors 7including  
rights set forth in a rule or bylaw of a
 derivatives clearing organization or a 
clearing agency7 in respect of such     
property1 but only to the extent that   
the property that is otherwise customer 
property is insufficient to satisfy the 
net equity claims of public customers   
7as such term may be defined by the     
,commission by rule or regulation7 of   
the commodity broker4  4