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<dc:title>119 S2113 IS: End the Fed’s Big Bank Bailout Act</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. Senate</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2025-06-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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        <distribution-code>II</distribution-code>
        <congress>119th CONGRESS</congress>
        <session>1st Session</session>
        <legis-num>S. 2113</legis-num>
        <current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>
        <action>
            <action-date date="20250618">June 18, 2025</action-date>
            <action-desc><sponsor name-id="S348">Mr. Paul</sponsor> introduced the following bill;
                which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSBK00">Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs</committee-name></action-desc>
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        <legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
        <official-title>To amend the Federal Reserve Act to prohibit earnings on balances maintained
            at a Federal Reserve bank by or on behalf of a depository institution.</official-title>
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            <enum>1.</enum>
            <header>Short title</header>
 <text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>End the Fed’s Big Bank Bailout Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
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            <enum>2.</enum>
            <header>Prohibition on earnings</header>
 <text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 19(b) of the Federal Reserve Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/461">12 U.S.C. 461(b)</external-xref>) is amended by striking paragraph (12) and inserting the following:</text>
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                    <enum>(12)</enum>
                    <header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Earnings on balances</header>
 <text>No Federal Reserve bank may pay earnings on balances maintained at a Federal Reserve bank by or on behalf of a depository institution.</text>
                </paragraph>
                <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block>
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