1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2005
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(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Title I—NATIONAL BANK PROVISIONS
Sec. 101. National bank directors.
Sec. 102. Voting in shareholder elections.
Sec. 103. Simplifying dividend calculations for national banks.
Sec. 104. Repeal of obsolete limitation on removal authority of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Sec. 105. Repeal of intrastate branch capital requirements.
Sec. 106. Clarification of waiver of publication requirements for bank merger notices.
Sec. 107. Equal treatment for Federal agencies of foreign banks.
Sec. 108. Maintenance of a Federal branch and a Federal agency in the same State.
Sec. 109. Business organization flexibility for national banks.
Sec. 110. Clarification of the main place of business of a national bank.
Sec. 111. Capital equivalency deposits for Federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.
Sec. 112. Enhancing the authority for national banks to make community development investments.
Title II—SAVINGS ASSOCIATION PROVISIONS
Sec. 201. Parity for savings associations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Sec. 202. Investments by Federal savings associations authorized to promote the public welfare.
Sec. 203. Mergers and consolidations of Federal savings associations with nondepository institution affiliates.
Sec. 204. Repeal of statutory dividend notice requirement for savings association subsidiaries of savings and loan holding companies.
Sec. 205. Modernizing statutory authority for trust ownership of savings associations.
Sec. 206. Repeal of overlapping rules governing purchased mortgage servicing rights.
Sec. 207. Restatement of authority for Federal savings associations to invest in small business investment companies.
Sec. 208. Removal of limitation on investments in auto loans.
Sec. 209. Selling and offering of deposit products.
Sec. 210. Funeral- and cemetery-related fiduciary services.
Sec. 211. Repeal of qualified thrift lender requirement with respect to out-of-state branches.
Sec. 212. Small business and other commercial loans.
Sec. 213. Clarifying citizenship of Federal savings associations for Federal court jurisdiction.
Sec. 214. Increase in limits on commercial real estate loans.
Sec. 215. Repeal of one limit on loans to one borrower.
Sec. 216. Savings association credit card banks.
Sec. 217. Interstate acquisitions by S&L holding companies.
Sec. 218. Business organization flexibility for federal savings associations.
Title III—CREDIT UNION PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. Privately insured credit unions authorized to become members of a Federal home loan bank.
Sec. 302. Leases of land on Federal facilities for credit unions.
Sec. 303. Investments in securities by Federal credit unions.
Sec. 304. Increase in general 12-year limitation of term of Federal credit union loans to 15 years.
Sec. 305. Increase in 1 percent investment limit in credit union service organizations.
Sec. 306. Member business loan exclusion for loans to nonprofit religious organizations.
Sec. 307. Check cashing and money transfer services offered within the field of membership.
Sec. 308. Voluntary mergers involving multiple common-bond credit unions.
Sec. 309. Conversions involving common-bond credit unions.
Sec. 310. Credit union governance.
Sec. 311. Providing the National Credit Union Administration with greater flexibility in responding to market conditions.
Sec. 312. Exemption from pre-merger notification requirement of the Clayton Act.
Sec. 313. Treatment of credit unions as depository institutions under securities laws.
Sec. 314. Clarification of definition of net worth under certain circumstances for purposes of prompt corrective action.
Sec. 315. Amendments relating to nonfederally insured credit unions.
Title IV—DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION PROVISIONS
Sec. 401. Easing restrictions on interstate branching and mergers.
Sec. 402. Statute of limitations for judicial review of appointment of a receiver for depository institutions.
Sec. 403. Reporting requirements relating to insider lending.
Sec. 404. Amendment to provide an inflation adjustment for the small depository institution exception under the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act.
Sec. 405. Enhancing the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions.
Sec. 406. Investments by insured savings associations in bank service companies authorized.
Sec. 407. Cross guarantee authority.
Sec. 408. Golden parachute authority and nonbank holding companies.
Sec. 409. Amendments relating to change in bank control.
Sec. 410. Community reinvestment credit for esops and ewocs.
Sec. 411. Minority financial institutions.
Title V—DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION AFFILIATES PROVISIONS
Sec. 501. Clarification of cross marketing provision.
Sec. 502. Amendment to provide the Federal Reserve Board with discretion concerning the imputation of control of shares of a company by trustees.
Sec. 503. Eliminating geographic limits on thrift service companies.
Sec. 504. Clarification of scope of applicable rate provision.
Sec. 505. Savings associations acting as agents for affiliated depository institutions.
Sec. 506. Credit card bank investments for the public welfare.
Title VI—BANKING AGENCY PROVISIONS
Sec. 601. Waiver of examination schedule in order to allocate examiner resources.
Sec. 602. Interagency data sharing.
Sec. 603. Penalty for unauthorized participation by convicted individual.
Sec. 604. Amendment permitting the destruction of old records of a depository institution by the FDIC after the appointment of the FDIC as receiver.
Sec. 605. Modernization of recordkeeping requirement.
Sec. 606. Streamlining reports of condition.
Sec. 607. Expansion of eligibility for 18-month examination schedule for community banks.
Sec. 608. Short form reports of condition for certain community banks.
Sec. 609. Clarification of extent of suspension, removal, and prohibition authority of Federal banking agencies in cases of certain crimes by institution-affiliated parties.
Sec. 610. Streamlining depository institution merger application requirements.
Sec. 611. Inclusion of Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision in list of banking agencies regarding insurance customer protection regulations.
Sec. 612. Protection of confidential information received by Federal banking regulators from foreign banking supervisors.
Sec. 613. Prohibition on participation by convicted individual.
Sec. 614. Clarification that notice after separation from service may be made by an order.
Sec. 615. Enforcement against misrepresentations regarding FDIC deposit insurance coverage.
Sec. 616. Changes required to small bank holding company policy statement on assessment of financial and managerial factors.
Sec. 617. Exception to annual privacy notice requirement under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Sec. 618. Biennial reports on the status of agency employment of minorities and women.
Sec. 619. Coordination of State examination authority.
Sec. 620. Nonwaiver of privileges.
Sec. 621. Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 amendment.
Sec. 622. Deputy director; succession authority for Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Sec. 623. Limitation on scope of new agency guidelines.
Title VII—BSA
COMPLIANCE BURDEN REDUCTION
Sec. 701. Exception from currency transaction reports for seasoned customers.
Sec. 702. Reduction in inconsistencies in monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting enforcement and examination requirements.
Sec. 703. Additional reforms relating to monetary transaction and recordkeeping requirements applicable to financial institutions.
Sec. 704. Study by Comptroller General.
Sec. 705. Feasibility study required.
Sec. 706. Annual report by Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 707. Preservation of money services businesses.
Title VIII—CLERICAL AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS
Sec. 801. Clerical amendments to the Home Owners’ Loan Act.
Sec. 802. Technical corrections to the Federal Credit Union Act.
Sec. 803. Other technical corrections.
Sec. 804. Repeal of obsolete provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956.
Title IX—FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT AMENDMENTS
Sec. 901. Exception for certain bad check enforcement programs.
Sec. 902. Other amendments.
<enum>I</enum><header>NATIONAL BANK PROVISIONS</header>
<section id="H286A0D20F81345E1B54F00D29096FB4F"><enum>101.</enum><header>National bank directors</header>
<subsection id="H538BD9A75CF24FE589CA37B37EAB1887"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5146 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 72) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H66318592BA424CCFAA70477C002B1C96"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Sec.</header-in-text> 5146. Every director must during</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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<section id="HC5E016EF34EB47C5AE2475BCD3FBA023"><enum>5146.</enum><header>Requirements for bank directors</header>
<subsection id="H306EB93C1CC544F088E9D347A59E3BBC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Residency Requirements</header><text>Every director of a national bank shall, during</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC2FD3F2224234FC8ADD75461D92E5C8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking “total number of directors. Every director must own in his or her own right” and inserting “total number of directors.</text>
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<subsection id="H57A5713E4EFD44FAB51028B22588C8BE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Investment Requirement</header>
<paragraph id="HD45263A7162A4951AFD700B7AF916ECE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Every director of a national bank shall own, in his or her own right,</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6CECEFB75D2F4D079605880163C1A51C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H91F9DA6DBFDF42A098F911EED9369E33"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception for subordinated debt in certain cases</header><text>In lieu of the requirements of paragraph (1) relating to the ownership of capital stock in the national bank, the Comptroller of the Currency may, by regulation or order, permit an individual to serve as a director of a national bank that has elected, or notifies the Comptroller of the bank’s intention to elect, to operate as a S corporation pursuant to section 1362(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, if that individual holds debt of at least $1,000 issued by the national bank that is subordinated to the interests of depositors and other general creditors of the national bank.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H55893B16108C498F8F902E15458382D2" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter one of title LXII of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 21 et seq.) is amended by striking the item relating to section 5146 and inserting the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">5146. Requirements for bank directors.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section>
<section id="H7916798308E24D29974284ADA3268DFB"><enum>102.</enum><header>Voting in shareholder elections</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5144 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 61) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H57B017DDA09D4098B429F891DBDFE14"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or to cumulate</quote> and inserting <quote>or, if so provided by the articles of association of the national bank, to cumulate</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7902198E6A9D47B2A8D7CD319439F3F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the comma after <quote>his shares shall equal</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H236CEA75D1344248B62B88CC94F8F46E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>The Comptroller of the Currency may prescribe such regulations to carry out the purposes of this section as the Comptroller determines to be appropriate.</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="HBDC5032312E74081AA9F00F3165B1736"><enum>103.</enum><header>Simplifying dividend calculations for national banks</header>
<subsection id="HDF8060036ABB42F7A196A351386E9C06"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 5199 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 60) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="HF6167A0CC828410E88B3373027E86780"><enum>5199.</enum><header>National bank dividends</header>
<subsection id="H8C2BB725E2B14EB79EC0668584998E07"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Subject to subsection (b), the directors of any national bank may declare a dividend of so much of the undivided profits of the bank as the directors judge to be expedient.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H33F0D923B45C4169A278B563EE7BA6A3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Approval Required Under Certain Circumstances</header><text>A national bank may not declare and pay dividends in any year in excess of an amount equal to the sum of the total of the net income of the bank for that year and the retained net income of the bank in the preceding two years, minus any transfers required by the Comptroller of the Currency (including any transfers required to be made to a fund for the retirement of any preferred stock), unless the Comptroller of the Currency approves the declaration and payment of dividends in excess of such amount.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H1E8B4BEA9FD942929DAB31EFB48730BF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical Amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter three of title LXII of the Revised Statutes of the United States is amended by striking the item relating to section 5199 and inserting the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">5199. National bank dividends.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="HA9717AC3AD9C4C3CB2C973D9C9DA1FFB"><enum>104.</enum><header>Repeal of obsolete limitation on removal authority of the Comptroller of the Currency</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8(e)(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1818(e)(4)) is amended by striking the 5th sentence.</text></section>
<section id="HC4A086E46DC64CB9AF00E6237296FC18"><enum>105.</enum><header>Repeal of intrastate branch capital requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5155(c) of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 36(c)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE99B3C187841440BB44B4FEE336225CC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the 2nd sentence, by striking <quote>, without regard to the capital requirements of this section,</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6070B8BE73924D2397B2BDD744918D1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the last sentence.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H2A6FDFB938D643288854A0A1E8E2E911"><enum>106.</enum><header>Clarification of waiver of publication requirements for bank merger notices</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The last sentence of sections 2(a) and 3(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="NMCMA">National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 215(a) and 215a(a)(2), respectively) are each amended by striking <quote>Publication of notice may be waived, in cases where the Comptroller determines that an emergency exists justifying such waiver, by unanimous action of the shareholders of the association or State bank</quote> and inserting <quote>Publication of notice may be waived if the Comptroller determines that an emergency exists justifying such waiver or if the shareholders of the association or State bank agree by unanimous action to waive the publication requirement for their respective institutions</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H3A3FD120CF204017A0F4059D1E2925AD"><enum>107.</enum><header>Equal treatment for Federal agencies of foreign banks</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The 1st sentence of section 4(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IBA78">International Banking Act of 1978</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 3102(d)) is amended by inserting <quote>from citizens or residents of the United States</quote> after <quote>deposits</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H419C5414121A4619BE7DE79FB7DBCACF"><enum>108.</enum><header>Maintenance of a Federal branch and a Federal agency in the same State</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4(e) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IBA78">International Banking Act of 1978</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 3102(e)) is amended by inserting <quote>if the maintenance of both an agency and a branch in the State is prohibited under the law of such State</quote> before the period at the end.</text></section>
<section id="HD782A448158A48108F20ED00C31CA396"><enum>109.</enum><header>Business organization flexibility for national banks</header>
<subsection id="HC409642D280E463C87787C8C9F4F51E5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Chapter one of title LXII of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 21 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 5136B the following new section:</text>
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<section id="H0CBBE1D504CA47C6AB1824CCB169D5F8"><enum>5136C.</enum><header>Alternative business organization</header>
<subsection id="HEEBC40746BD54083BC3C7F02AFEDD8CC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>The Comptroller of the Currency may prescribe regulations—</text>
<paragraph id="HD6534D7097054642B379B64E2577CDE6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to permit a national bank to be organized other than as a body corporate; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0ED0B9E620A7474AA3E5AE2FDDE6287F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to provide requirements for the organizational characteristics of a national bank organized and operating other than as a body corporate, consistent with the safety and soundness of the national bank.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H2D95B5146A3A48D18199004349C287E3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Equal Treatment</header><text>Except as provided in regulations prescribed under subsection (a), a national bank that is operating other than as a body corporate shall have the same rights and privileges and shall be subject to the same duties, restrictions, penalties, liabilities, conditions, and limitations as a national bank that is organized as a body corporate.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H2788B296F5A34D8F832E31D9002B67C7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendment</header><text>Section 5136 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 24) is amended, in the matter preceding the paragraph designated as the <quote>First</quote>, by inserting <quote>or other form of business organization provided under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller of the Currency under section 5136C</quote> after <quote>a body corporate</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H64262245172241A8BD2964C7FA4D296D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical Amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter one of title LXII of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 21 et seq.) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 5136B the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">5136C. Alternative business organization.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H8D73DDD8D9894CC7A984A09B723D596E"><enum>110.</enum><header>Clarification of the main place of business of a national bank</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Title LXII of the Revised Statutes of the United States is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8EAB62A71A2A4243B26C6D0068D381F2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the paragraph designated the <quote>Second</quote> of section 5134 (12 U.S.C. 22), by striking <quote>The place where its operations of discount and deposit are to be carried on</quote> and inserting <quote>The place where the main office of the national bank is, or is to be, located</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5BB41138EE564639A3EF2D831088F9A5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 5190 (12 U.S.C. 81), by striking <quote>the place specified in its organization certificate</quote> and inserting <quote>the main office of the national bank</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H13122AB11286477FB9C55DEA7400B96F"><enum>111.</enum><header>Capital equivalency deposits for Federal branches and agencies of foreign banks</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4(g) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IBA78">International Banking Act of 1978</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 3102(g)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H0A529AE3F44F407F8396B115975D783B"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Capital Equivalency Deposit</header>
<paragraph id="HA5131BB75F4D4253902F7000C43FE3C4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Upon the opening of a Federal branch or agency of a foreign bank in any State and thereafter, the foreign bank, in addition to any deposit requirements imposed under section 6, shall keep on deposit, in accordance with such regulations as the Comptroller of the Currency may prescribe in accordance with paragraph (2), dollar deposits, investment securities, or other assets in such amounts as the Comptroller of the Currency determines to be necessary for the protection of depositors and other investors and to be consistent with the principles of safety and soundness.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC74B5DA462C34C1399CADC9100D546C1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), regulations prescribed under such paragraph shall not permit a foreign bank to keep assets on deposit in an amount that is less than the amount required for a State licensed branch or agency of a foreign bank under the laws and regulations of the State in which the Federal agency or branch is located.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H4F00CCF46AE14B88ABA057B65E436E63" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header>Enhancing the authority for national banks to make community development investments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The last sentence in the paragraph designated as the <quote>Eleventh.</quote> of section 5136 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 24) is amended by striking <quote>10 percent</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>15 percent</quote>.</text></section>
<enum>II</enum><header>SAVINGS ASSOCIATION PROVISIONS</header>
<section id="H120A812235C04C35A1F4470090521E86"><enum>201.</enum><header>Parity for savings associations under the <act-name parsable-cite="SEA34">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</act-name> and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940</header>
<subsection id="HD415666797F644AD874B49A4233B4173"><enum>(a)</enum><header><act-name parsable-cite="SEA34">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</act-name></header>
<paragraph id="H76DCC03FE4A04319B9202471666E7D72"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of bank</header><text>Section 3(a)(6) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SEA34">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(6)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAD31243F357C4E37B6C98CF7C4CA94C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>or a Federal savings association, as defined in section 2(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name></quote> after <quote>a banking institution organized under the laws of the United States</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDC4A6609C18941329DF8B5B42A551C2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)—</text>
<clause id="H9E0456CDF0164BD791FE55923F6F11D5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or savings association as defined in section 2(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name>,</quote> after <quote>banking institution,</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H5954218DF211473096EA3616B06FA6D6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or savings associations</quote> after <quote>having supervision over banks</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5B4A901740D54C3C84C67E92598CA43B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Include ots under the definition of appropriate regulatory agency for certain purposes</header><text>Section 3(a)(34) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(34)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H632425195782428A826872AAED925DED"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<clause id="HE3802F23170245F4BDC7D7A1ABDA21C9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>(i) or (iii)</quote> and inserting <quote>(i), (iii), or (iv)</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H761AC4EE9C8E4F968EAB8088947E02D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (iii);</text></clause>
<clause id="H2D78DC9D099A4009B71240FF29D7C5E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (v); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H124625A906E449519CCD57F891C328BD"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by inserting the following new clause after clause (iii):</text>
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<clause id="H3FCB77741A054A2F9CC4D12E11307F9D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, in the case of a savings association (as defined in section 3(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(b))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a subsidiary or a department or division of any such savings association, or a savings and loan holding company; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE2EF32D15ED44A968D889BDC00A89F4C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text>
<clause id="HB4576D4EA9D441C798378C27E79D4619"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>(i) or (iii)</quote> and inserting <quote>(i), (iii), or (iv)</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H6C2EE6D06D4547D2BD75BE44FA0C2D0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (iii);</text></clause>
<clause id="H333D02E2E0A24FFF80E36F462BA95CD3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (v); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H9419023AC5C34D3D0021BC826E9D6433"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by inserting the following new clause after clause (iii):</text>
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<clause id="H8AF718C3264B421F8045952D68D3E93"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, in the case of a savings association (as defined in section 3(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(b))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or a subsidiary of any such savings association, or a savings and loan holding company; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB2C3104B33844238AFCB98C77E06D492"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)—</text>
<clause id="H10523AE7CC18410F9C859FB9BF88FBE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>(i) or (iii)</quote> and inserting <quote>(i), (iii), or (iv)</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="HCB8EA0951B824AFE948547060978D532"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (iii);</text></clause>
<clause id="H3C5D51B195BD4394A9A465C1D84BE07"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (v); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H3C125DC363514550B1561F107D56EC36"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by inserting the following new clause after clause (iii):</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H8D63EA9D2B2F4D04AF84DA025BDC9D2">
<clause id="HA76417887E8B4E34A000CED9FBBA300"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, in the case of a savings association (as defined in section 3(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(b))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a savings and loan holding company, or a subsidiary of a savings and loan holding company when the appropriate regulatory agency for such clearing agency is not the Commission; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H73F6B61D4C92488CAE7BD2D86B52325B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D)—</text>
<clause id="HD2D987D4A9194CC5B545C200C1AA764"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (ii);</text></clause>
<clause id="H0FE63CDE068E463E9EE01B392FFFE95B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H9A15E331CD0F43E5A2B4BEC0F75DC6E0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by inserting the following new clause after clause (ii):</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H3AD83748717444E5BE165BDC6DAAEBF">
<clause id="HC6FE8F2491004325A65595705232B579"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, in the case of a savings association (as defined in section 3(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(b))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF49CED79A82645BAB84B79971F7F13AC"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in subparagraph (F)—</text>
<clause id="HD57933506A0C4CCD9CE7165D970064C4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by redesignating clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) as clauses (iii), (iv), and (v), respectively; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HA1B9CB660C7048FBA464D8005B531E08"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting the following new clause after clause (i):</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="HB255FF4E6C3B4CB396AFA28E811DD0E7">
<clause id="HBD80D6AA023E4B6382F917A5375F4C78"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, in the case of a savings association (as defined in section 3(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(b))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF4839A668B9F433FB83DAB58222D4462"><enum>(F)</enum><text>by moving subparagraph (H) and inserting such subparagraph after subparagraph (G); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9916DECA6ED34CFB8FC44F7F098FE6A4"><enum>(G)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>As used in this paragraph, the term <term>savings and loan holding company</term> has the meaning given it in section 10(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1467a(a)).</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4DFD68C055D44E65AE8FB963F55D2915"><enum>(b)</enum><header><act-name parsable-cite="IAA40">Investment Advisers Act of 1940</act-name></header>
<paragraph id="HCA7BBC7457114BA6A0679D40F79BC3CF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of bank</header><text>Section 202(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IAA40">Investment Advisers Act of 1940</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 80b–2(a)(2)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD5DA309EC4FF4B0096A3558EB8ABEEBA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A) by inserting <quote>or a Federal savings association, as defined in section 2(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name></quote> after <quote>a banking institution organized under the laws of the United States</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAFA931C049224A9482B9D4DD5D544175"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)—</text>
<clause id="H3D3A6D6F17094C72B68EEF3E6B697F00"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, savings association as defined in section 2(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name>,</quote> after <quote>banking institution</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HC5DD642B3D864376A1DFFB5B957B34A8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or savings associations</quote> after <quote>having supervision over banks</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2A240F3F7DE3459AB860B8BD9B068981"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text>Subsections (a)(1)(A)(i), (a)(1)(B), (a)(2), and (b) of section 210A of such Act (15 U.S.C. 80b–10a), as added by section 220 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, are each amended by striking <quote>bank holding company</quote> each place it occurs and inserting <quote>bank holding company or savings and loan holding company</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H59FA85C96527454CAD1D0062C5ACAB00"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming Amendment to the <act-name parsable-cite="ICA40">Investment Company Act of 1940</act-name></header><text>Section 10(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="ICA40">Investment Company Act of 1940</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 80a–10(c)), as amended by section 213(c) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, is amended by inserting after <quote>1956)</quote> the following: <quote>or any one savings and loan holding company (together with its affiliates and subsidiaries) (as such terms are defined in section 10 of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name>)</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HF202B4DF736B492E86D00F83398FF5"><enum>202.</enum><header>Investments by Federal savings associations authorized to promote the public welfare</header>
<subsection id="HA1F4475BD14C4B7D952B3506AEB45049"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 5(c)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" act-name="Home Owners’ Loan Act" id="H3AF302C5F04B44F4AFF22F44EE452744">
<subparagraph id="HC1F3BA29A8AB403AAEB06CCCD70311CB"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Direct investments to promote the public welfare</header>
<clause id="HC33EAD0F5DEF4FAB9B811D1E35CDC33E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A Federal savings association may make investments designed primarily to promote the public welfare, including the welfare of low- and moderate-income communities or families through the provision of housing, services, and jobs.</text></clause>
<clause id="HDF38F8EAA6A7418380BE35A59DB7A686"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Direct investments or acquisition of interest in other companies</header><text>Investments under clause (i) may be made directly or by purchasing interests in an entity primarily engaged in making such investments.</text></clause>
<clause id="H13A0AD79086141A3A3EE99FD59D02918"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Prohibition on unlimited liability</header><text>No investment may be made under this subparagraph which would subject a Federal savings association to unlimited liability to any person.</text></clause>
<clause id="H82ED75C121A642B18F53AE890097F114"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Single investment limitation to be established by director</header><text>Subject to clauses (v) and (vi), the Director shall establish, by order or regulation, limits on—</text>
<subclause id="H94CC0C49C5FA455D982B2CB215B5F9F5"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount any savings association may invest in any 1 project; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HEE14D069F3954383ADDD7824B4125D93"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the aggregate amount of investment of any savings association under this subparagraph.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HC3ABB0BB025A477BBD47009DEC986F2C"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Flexible aggregate investment limitation</header><text>The aggregate amount of investments of any savings association under this subparagraph may not exceed an amount equal to the sum of 5 percent of the savings association’s capital stock actually paid in and unimpaired and 5 percent of the savings association’s unimpaired surplus, unless—</text>
<subclause id="H32796FCA8D084C4DB5593426008466AF"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the Director determines that the savings association is adequately capitalized; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H5B1B413019F54E77A5DB945EC2CA7CD4"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the Director determines, by order, that the aggregate amount of investments in a higher amount than the limit under this clause will pose no significant risk to the affected deposit insurance fund.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H55F588827D0E4E738330877FE0EE4BFC"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Maximum aggregate investment limitation</header><text>Notwithstanding clause (v), the aggregate amount of investments of any savings association under this subparagraph may not exceed an amount equal to the sum of 15 percent of the savings association’s capital stock actually paid in and unimpaired and 15 percent of the savings association’s unimpaired surplus.</text></clause>
<clause id="HD46A01D14D8E4FF2AB3C0702944DD127"><enum>(vii)</enum><header>Investments not subject to other limitation on quality of investments</header><text>No obligation a Federal savings association acquires or retains under this subparagraph shall be taken into account for purposes of the limitation contained in section 28(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> on the acquisition and retention of any corporate debt security not of investment grade.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H561B6630D97E48BF8623445C9E11AD55"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendment</header><text>Section 5(c)(3)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(3)(A)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HEDA98A3163C14EE4BF7EDAC00DB2E00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>[Repealed].</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="HD2EA282FB2AF430800CEFC15D3C786F"><enum>203.</enum><header>Mergers and consolidations of Federal savings associations with nondepository institution affiliates</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5(d)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(d)(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA165EEACA7B6443486D21D1053CEC214"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2B5F8F8DECE7471DAD3889EC9CA030B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="HC62A181E4705453A8CF5A00F6F013AC">
<subparagraph id="HE1CB2DCDAC404529B4B51B70CC189138"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Mergers and consolidations with nondepository institution affiliates</header>
<clause id="H638710B012EF4EFA9464BF1B523B48C1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Upon the approval of the Director, a Federal savings association may merge with any nondepository institution affiliate of the savings association.</text></clause>
<clause id="H1B795F4E528941BE9C5F42FF0877E7E0"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>No provision of clause (i) shall be construed as—</text>
<subclause id="H7D60C44B378846DAB9276C6EA501DB78"><enum>(I)</enum><text>affecting the applicability of section 18(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H9622F5B522474A93975DBE42B8D66E81"><enum>(II)</enum><text>granting a Federal savings association any power or any authority to engage in any activity that is not authorized for a Federal savings association under any other provision of this Act or any other provision of law.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H036C43934F554D77B1C05865005912F"><enum>204.</enum><header>Repeal of statutory dividend notice requirement for savings association subsidiaries of savings and loan holding companies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10(f) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1467a(f)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" act-name="Home Owners’ Loan Act" id="H300A48D8333A4FB2B2AF83A69D417C6F">
<subsection id="H8A883D103DA74F898C6BC6477781E07"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Declaration of Dividend</header><text>The Director may—</text>
<paragraph id="H3961B5ADF0294391B5AA77038CF2DB2B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>require a savings association that is a subsidiary of a savings and loan holding company to give prior notice to the Director of the intent of the savings association to pay a dividend on its guaranty, permanent, or other nonwithdrawable stock; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H00760267DC1F489ABA5638F48C6B7DA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>establish conditions on the payment of dividends by such a savings association.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H1A392ACD35164491B0FBA614A2F9705C"><enum>205.</enum><header>Modernizing statutory authority for trust ownership of savings associations</header>
<subsection id="H57146F608EEC42879B444C98529E01ED"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 10(a)(1)(C) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1467a(a)(1)(C)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2A78785E95644F489DA351D92D986E20"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>trust,</quote> and inserting <quote>business trust,</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1CDE93C2BAC44397841107B342476791"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or any other trust unless by its terms it must terminate within 25 years or not later than 21 years and 10 months after the death of individuals living on the effective date of the trust,</quote> after <quote>or similar organization,</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE7A9E23E1E4B45C6A53BD3E47EEF4E28"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendment</header><text>Section 10(a)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1467a(a)(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H3CC40343260C4A6B898298C3C8D38B20"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>does not include—</quote> and all that follows through <quote>any company by virtue</quote> where such term appears in subparagraph (A) and inserting <quote>does not include any company by virtue</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2606300BFD9B44129C8EEFC432AC338D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>; and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A) and inserting a period; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H964E22A0E39A4E47B07EDFC68E3472C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (B).</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HC163AD50FF2049E8AF9DDA64B9C534CC"><enum>206.</enum><header>Repeal of overlapping rules governing purchased mortgage servicing rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5(t) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(t)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H243E7449AC4B48C0AFBEEAB536B2C35E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H48ACC598BEF146E29BF287732FC2907D">
<paragraph id="H6D7EDC95F8404D5B8CBAA78C3409887C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>[Repealed].</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H90774A62A6BC40BE00657D51ACD7FAFC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (9)(A), by striking <quote>intangible assets, plus</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>intangible assets.</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H44BBA610C0474362803453BB4CBC63B4"><enum>207.</enum><header>Restatement of authority for Federal savings associations to invest in small business investment companies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subparagraph (D) of section 5(c)(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(4)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HCB06A55648A24E2AAB839B90A17D4D75"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Small business investment companies</header><text>Any Federal savings association may invest in 1 or more small business investment companies, or in any entity established to invest solely in small business investment companies formed under the <act-name parsable-cite="SBIA">Small Business Investment Act of 1958</act-name>, except that the total amount of investments under this subparagraph may not at any time exceed the amount equal to 5 percent of capital and surplus of the savings association.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H5DF5135ACBEC4657AD71C0538E00CE3D"><enum>208.</enum><header>Removal of limitation on investments in auto loans</header>
<subsection id="HC220D6B90DDE452CBAFC22CBB0548BB8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 5(c)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" act-name="Home Owners’ Loan Act" id="H7B9C992B543942EA91CDABEB46CE2B9F">
<subparagraph id="H0AE8C423B1F64549B239D5BFC36FDC23"><enum>(V)</enum><header>Auto loans</header><text>Loans and leases for motor vehicles acquired for personal, family, or household purposes.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H6AE031B209B240FDB586AE12B096BEB5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendment relating to Qualified Thrift Investments</header><text>Section 10(m)(4)(C)(ii) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1467a(m)(4)(C)(ii)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subclause:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" act-name="Home Owners’ Loan Act" id="HF563E8E6091A4D21B4681EFF4562237F">
<subclause id="H5388F274DE3C46EFB15BBA6E3C7B2710"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text>Loans and leases for motor vehicles acquired for personal, family, or household purposes.</text></subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H5432E1DFF3D0473EB695C9513DF6441B"><enum>209.</enum><header>Selling and offering of deposit products</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 15(h) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SEA34">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 78o(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H63AC7B005B43450C9F1D0302D8BFC0C7"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Selling and offering of deposit products</header><text>No law, rule, regulation, or order, or other administrative action of any State or political subdivision thereof shall directly or indirectly require any individual who is an agent of 1 Federal savings association (as such term is defined in section 2(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1462(5)) in selling or offering deposit (as such term is defined in section 3 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(l)) products issued by such association to qualify or register as a broker, dealer, associated person of a broker, or associated person of a dealer, or to qualify or register in any other similar status or capacity, if the individual does not—</text>
<subparagraph id="H222907FE123540CA94F053E11EC9CB56"><enum>(A)</enum><text>accept deposits or make withdrawals on behalf of any customer of the association;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3AFC6E6E88EA42DF83BEA243DC74329"><enum>(B)</enum><text>offer or sell a deposit product as an agent for another entity that is not subject to supervision and examination by a Federal banking agency (as defined in section 3(z) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(z)), the National Credit Union Administration, or any officer, agency, or other entity of any State which has primary regulatory authority over State banks, State savings associations, or State credit unions;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1118672B08D4432BB664384F1768B0E8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>offer or sell a deposit product that is not an insured deposit (as defined in section 3(m) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1813(m)));</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF1857A385F54457AB317331B4DB8AB5D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>offer or sell a deposit product which contains a feature that makes it callable at the option of such Federal savings association; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H265910E89CD949C7B0F20052D09F1719"><enum>(E)</enum><text>create a secondary market with respect to a deposit product or otherwise add enhancements or features to such product independent of those offered by the association.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HB8ED795B38CF47709E5BC57E68EFF803"><enum>210.</enum><header>Funeral- and cemetery-related fiduciary services</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5(n) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(n)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H88627BD16CDA480C9919A6D103C90184"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Funeral- and cemetery-related fiduciary services</header>
<subparagraph id="HFD9A65375997499AB1D32097C2BC74F5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A funeral director or cemetery operator, when acting in such capacity, (or any other person in connection with a contract or other agreement with a funeral director or cemetery operator) may engage any Federal savings association, regardless of where the association is located, to act in any fiduciary capacity in which the savings association has the right to act in accordance with this section, including holding funds deposited in trust or escrow by the funeral director or cemetery operator (or by such other party), and the savings association may act in such fiduciary capacity on behalf of the funeral director or cemetery operator (or such other person).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1E5EEAB8263E41B6BAE09CB6B6ACA55E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, the following definitions shall apply:</text>
<clause id="H46D3120DD84847FF99D4AA52E913D18"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Cemetery</header><text>The term <term>cemetery</term> means any land or structure used, or intended to be used, for the interment of human remains in any form.</text></clause>
<clause id="H6B6E373F61FC49A089D72137D5610A6"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Cemetery operator</header><text>The term <term>cemetery operator</term> means any person who contracts or accepts payment for merchandise, endowment, or perpetual care services in connection with a cemetery.</text></clause>
<clause id="HE2EE93AE88BE42FEBDA4BCDEA8A85000"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Funeral director</header><text>The term <term>funeral director</term> means any person who contracts or accepts payment to provide or arrange—</text>
<subclause id="H9BEFEC836AFA4A3B96B86D854EB3DCC8"><enum>(I)</enum><text>services for the final disposition of human remains; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD13B9209DDA54DEAAB4E00F889D8F49C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>funeral services, property, or merchandise (including cemetery services, property, or merchandise).</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H0F8835BCAD454AB9B851ED932693AD05"><enum>211.</enum><header>Repeal of qualified thrift lender requirement with respect to out-of-state branches</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5(r)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(r)(1)) is amended by striking the last sentence.</text></section>
<section id="HE79AEAADD1044A5096BF47C28FF417CB"><enum>212.</enum><header>Small business and other commercial loans</header>
<subsection id="HF58747EE382640009003AC0846CAC1C5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Elimination of Lending Limit on Small Business Loans</header><text>Section 5(c)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(1)) is amended by inserting after subparagraph (V) (as added by section 208 of this title) the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H2880321B772E405996DE00EE0336BDE"><enum>(W)</enum><header>Small business loans</header><text>Small business loans, as defined in regulations which the Director shall prescribe.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HB25C5CF062CD4482A3002BC5A35CD08D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increase in Lending Limit on Other Business Loans</header><text>Section 5(c)(2)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(2)(A)) is amended by striking <quote>, and amounts in excess of 10 percent</quote> and all that follows through <quote>by the Director</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HE18661C1D26A43DF8B65854F5C001FBF"><enum>213.</enum><header>Clarifying citizenship of Federal savings associations for Federal court jurisdiction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5 of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="H4874333DF3B44A6D98A93B47703D7800"><enum>(x)</enum><header>Home State Citizenship</header><text>In determining whether a Federal court has diversity jurisdiction over a case in which a Federal savings association is a party, the Federal savings association shall be considered to be a citizen only of the States in which such savings association has its home office and its principal place of business (if the principal place of business is in a different State than the home office).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HF2E1C13B28FF48BA9D84AD78C55E34D9"><enum>214.</enum><header>Increase in limits on commercial real estate loans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(2)(B)(i)) is amended by striking <quote>400 percent</quote> and inserting <quote>500 percent</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H8AF842417A4443E6B3F7B05DDEFC422"><enum>215.</enum><header>Repeal of one limit on loans to one borrower</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subparagraph (A) of section 5(u)(2) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464(u)(2)(A)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H1EF2FF44A34F4C9E94A7B7F731EEC423"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subclause (I) of clause (ii);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9E91A1001003468F94AA1593B7B41568"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subclauses (II), (III), (IV), and (V) of clause (ii) as subclauses (I), (II), (III), and (IV), respectively;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1E02C487532A4E9D822834BD094F04A5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in clause (i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBBDC78B8B3164300A5AAE2471F206750"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>for any</quote> and inserting <quote>For any</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDF66559A68E6423FBF752F2DEF6043F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>; or</quote> and inserting a period; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAA341C4BAEB1448485E0004BC9EF92ED"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking <quote>to develop domestic</quote> and inserting <quote>To develop domestic</quote>. </text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H00703713F7734E8382A451C72C857E56" commented="no"><enum>216.</enum><header>Savings association credit card banks</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1467a(a)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting <quote>and such term does not include an institution described in section 2(c)(2)(F) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 for purposes of subsections (a)(1)(E), (c)(3)(B)(i), (c)(9)(C)(i), and (e)(3)</quote> before the period at the end. </text></section>
<section id="H40C2A77DCB9F454AB5BCA5AA85CD675C"><enum>217.</enum><header>Interstate acquisitions by S&L holding companies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10(e)(3) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1467a(e)(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7CA35E532C61487FB1B6EF6B3C6EE3E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) as subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7B3C9CF0F26E4E04A4DEE1DEEBEE2436"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting before subparagraph (B) (as so redesignated) the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H4D2A2B70DA9749E184C82D1DF4A50792"><enum>(A)</enum><text>such acquisition would be permissible under section 3(d) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 if the savings and loan holding company were a bank holding company and any savings association to be acquired were a bank;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H9D23F17C751E4233A36E18908EE83D76" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>218.</enum><header>Business organization flexibility for federal savings associations</header>
<subsection id="HF8E069242AE24F2895577EE0B400536C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 5 of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464) is amended by inserting after subsection (x) (as added by section 213) following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="HE614CFE48B344E1AA8F5256463917FB1"><enum>(y)</enum><header>Alternative business organization</header>
<paragraph id="H8387982375F64C41A28F00DE30BA562D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director may prescribe regulations that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HFA1D1A3806EA400796AAA0BBEC3468"><enum>(A)</enum><text>permit a Federal savings association to be organized other than as a corporation; and </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0673AA4A135A41EDA901DC8721E26FD0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide requirements for the organizational characteristics of a Federal savings association organized and operating other than as a corporation, consistent with the safety and soundness of the Federal savings association.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC7DF8AE326FF4D5F9DD0677C003B7BBD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Equal treatment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise provided in regulations prescribed under subsection (1), a Federal savings association that is operating other than as a corporation shall have the same rights and privileges and shall be subject to the same duties, restrictions, penalties, liabilities, conditions, and limitations as a Federal savings association that is organized as a corporation.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H6876AE0183304E9EB6CCFC22421E98DD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="HD0887A346ADD464BB670C594DEC81003"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 5(a)(1) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464(a)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>organization, incorporation,</quote> and inserting <quote>organization (as a corporation or other form of business organization provided under regulations prescribed by the Director under subsection (x)),</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C15AE38982341129443650752275B4F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The last sentence of section 5(i)(1) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464(i)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>incorporated</quote> and inserting <quote>organized</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5AFE6B306D85454997578D42F2979663"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 5(o)(1) of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464(a)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>organization, incorporation,</quote> and inserting <quote>organization (as a corporation or other form of business organization provided under regulations prescribed by the Director under subsection (x)),</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<enum>III</enum><header>CREDIT UNION PROVISIONS</header>
<section id="H71B5144768724CC4AEDCAA5172B7DCDA"><enum>301.</enum><header>Privately insured credit unions authorized to become members of a Federal home loan bank</header>
<subsection id="H95424DEA1EC742DE9D7F288F1C5D27E1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 4(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FHLBA">Federal Home Loan Bank Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1424(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H9CAC2C0EB7AE406FBC6085D400F65142"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Certain privately insured credit unions</header>
<subparagraph id="H3252B4714B244BD1BDF328BA119D6547"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A credit union which has been determined, in accordance with section 43(e)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> and subject to the requirements of subparagraph (B), to meet all eligibility requirements for Federal deposit insurance shall be treated as an insured depository institution for purposes of determining the eligibility of such credit union for membership in a Federal home loan bank under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFFF3637863AC466EA46006318D46529C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Certification by appropriate supervisor</header>
<clause id="HC6D715ED697F450FB5A0583FEFFD2229"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph and subject to clause (ii), a credit union which lacks Federal deposit insurance and which has applied for membership in a Federal home loan bank may be treated as meeting all the eligibility requirements for Federal deposit insurance only if the appropriate supervisor of the State in which the credit union is chartered has determined that the credit union meets all the eligibility requirements for Federal deposit insurance as of the date of the application for membership.</text></clause>
<clause id="H86AC23220820485898D222C6F0CB49B"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Certification deemed valid</header><text>If, in the case of any credit union to which clause (i) applies, the appropriate supervisor of the State in which such credit union is chartered fails to make a determination pursuant to such clause by the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the application, the credit union shall be deemed to have met the requirements of clause (i).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H47C0B6D1A69F4A36BA0622394517408E"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Security interests of federal home loan bank not avoidable</header><text>Notwithstanding any provision of State law authorizing a conservator or liquidating agent of a credit union to repudiate contracts, no such provision shall apply with respect to—</text>
<clause id="HB95A77C509124E02B57F1DBFCDA7AE7D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any extension of credit from any Federal home loan bank to any credit union which is a member of any such bank pursuant to this paragraph; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HAF3387402C8C4348BC05289873B6F6E6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any security interest in the assets of such credit union securing any such extension of credit.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H2F599AE6253947CEB9C0F6916B7B4158"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Copies of audits of private insurers of certain depository institutions required to be provided to supervisory agencies</header><text>Section 43(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831t(a)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H86D21AA901AB47C5AB9EF826EA94BF3F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A)(i);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA0097D298C274057BF738C49A82391B7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD3F3BAB1B82D400885723EF5F0571EDF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting the following new clauses at the end of subparagraph (A):</text>
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<clause id="H721C7916F6A640C3B9196420D3C2B112"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in the case of depository institutions described in subsection (f)(2)(A) the deposits of which are insured by the private insurer, the National Credit Union Administration, not later than 7 days after that audit is completed; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HE825096C35074679967DEC5163F19533"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in the case of depository institutions described in subsection (f)(2)(A) the deposits of which are insured by the private insurer which are members of a Federal home loan bank, the Federal Housing Finance Board, not later than 7 days after that audit is completed.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBE7B1ACD5CE34A6AB62CB680AD00C446"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H4B21FFD2FD094DC2828F8E2BFD03F1A9">
<subparagraph id="H6063E8DAC30B4D3D945C20B7AD16E6E"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>The appropriate supervisory agency of each State in which a private deposit insurer insures deposits in an institution described in subsection (f)(2)(A) which—</text>
<clause id="H777DAFE8A16B4E74B340164E8433BCD2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>lacks Federal deposit insurance; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H0C72B6EFEBB841E3B19DBB626B4EEB6C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>has become a member of a Federal home loan bank,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">shall provide the National Credit Union Administration, upon request, with the results of any examination and reports related thereto concerning the private deposit insurer to which such agency may have in its possession.</continuation-text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H9A38A3A40DDC47349BF7500032B9C2B"><enum>302.</enum><header>Leases of land on Federal facilities for credit unions</header>
<subsection id="HBD1B03C7B8AC4AD0AC7E2F34E4B7DE37"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 124 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1770) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8F0252AE1312463ABFFB2975E284ACEC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Upon application by any credit union</quote> and inserting <quote>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon application by any credit union</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA60ABFFECDB6401B8ED88617A78554D7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>on lands reserved for the use of, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction of, the United States or</quote> after <quote>officer or agency of the United States charged with the allotment of space</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H846ADA7749C047ACA126ADFF6662DE2E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>lease land or</quote> after <quote>such officer or agency may in his or its discretion</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0C31F7612FB84A0787139D20EA4D2E15"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or the facility built on the lease land</quote> after <quote>credit union to be served by the allotment of space</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD1C70ACC49534BFFBA1E8265FC0018F0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical Amendment</header><text>The heading for section 124 is amended by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="traditional">or federal land</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="traditional">buildings</header-in-text></quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HB2D1FAA1DE2640CEB55378FECD7496ED"><enum>303.</enum><header>Investments in securities by Federal credit unions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1757) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAE36382A26944C7DA929F0195586A95B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking <quote>A Federal credit union</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) <header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">In general</header-in-text>.—Any Federal credit union</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H220E606C3FF84371B5F262D839191CC9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H640C85AA625448B7A1155235D2997E42">
<subsection id="HEEA5733B45DD42EC00C71430A6EE8E60"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional Investment Authority</header>
<paragraph id="H79F3D2F2A78A4D41A2AF87803FE7A13C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In addition to any investments otherwise authorized, a Federal credit union may purchase and hold for its own account such investment securities of investment grade as the Board may authorize by regulation, subject to such limitations and restrictions as the Board may prescribe in the regulations.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA1FBD6BB1A5340F8A991E3D7A9663F4B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Percentage limitations</header>
<subparagraph id="HE559AE7B3A1C4054A32CB068B1C5125E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Single obligor</header><text>In no event may the total amount of investment securities of any single obligor or maker held by a Federal credit union for the credit union’s own account exceed at any time an amount equal to 10 percent of the net worth of the credit union.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6FABE2352FF94E6CAAD8897E94BD466E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Aggregate investments</header><text>In no event may the aggregate amount of investment securities held by a Federal credit union for the credit union’s own account exceed at any time an amount equal to 10 percent of the assets of the credit union.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7823446C076A459585A5CE1FC86DB43E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Investment security defined</header>
<subparagraph id="HC3881DD5993D4703B5BF00EC5C293F5B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>investment security</term> means marketable obligations evidencing the indebtedness of any person in the form of bonds, notes, or debentures and other instruments commonly referred to as investment securities.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE51EB46548974B5B89AC082B99A62811"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Further definition by board</header><text>The Board may further define the term <term>investment security</term>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF283F1697D04476AA9001F1BED8173DA"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Investment grade defined</header><text>The term <term>investment grade</term> means with respect to an investment security purchased by a credit union for its own account, an investment security that at the time of such purchase is rated in one of the 4 highest rating categories by at least 1 nationally recognized statistical rating organization.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H852509551AE1400187588DD3B1E08D4"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Clarification of prohibition on stock ownership</header><text>No provision of this subsection shall be construed as authorizing a Federal credit union to purchase shares of stock of any corporation for the credit union’s own account, except as otherwise permitted by law.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="HA0AC382FD9CE4E66913EFE2200E0D407"><enum>304.</enum><header>Increase in general 12-year limitation of term of Federal credit union loans to 15 years</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(a)(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1757(5)) (as so designated by section 303 of this title) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6F24C39BD6F2409C86897B3B7EC7E3AC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>to make loans, the maturities of which shall not exceed twelve years except as otherwise provided herein</quote> and inserting <quote>to make loans, the maturities of which shall not exceed 15 years or any longer maturity as the Board may allow, in regulations, except as otherwise provided in this Act</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE3713369C23B40E6ADEA4E886CDD79BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD5CCBE13775F46968209EDC0F766273E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking clause (ii);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H720C499B188341DEAAE07B05C80007F9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating clauses (iii) through (x) as clauses (ii) through (ix), respectively; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDA9CB8FCDF664BD3A770B30032D46800"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end of clause (viii) (as so redesignated).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="H0A7EB30BDE984E3AB8FB892060C79F5F"><enum>305.</enum><header>Increase in 1 percent investment limit in credit union service organizations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(a)(7)(I) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1757(7)(I)) (as so designated by section 303 of this title) is amended by striking <quote>up to 1 per centum of the total paid</quote> and inserting <quote>up to 3 percent of the total paid</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="HCFBDE40DF3064BADB507869916DF9F6C"><enum>306.</enum><header>Member business loan exclusion for loans to nonprofit religious organizations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107A(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1757a(a)) is amended by inserting <quote>, excluding loans made to nonprofit religious organizations,</quote> after <quote>total amount of such loans</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H1FB36191604E429E9CD7608105AA67AA"><enum>307.</enum><header>Check cashing and money transfer services offered within the field of membership</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (12) of section 107(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1757(12)) (as so designated by section 303 of this title) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" act-name="Federal Credit Union Act" id="H1084AD2F828148B295AD666434E0B0A8">
<paragraph id="HD5D83D25484C4CA5B7D78EF57FD5917"><enum>(12)</enum><text>in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Board—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3CC1555C50A84D81968581357BC67BF3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to sell, to persons in the field of membership, negotiable checks (including travelers checks), money orders, and other similar money transfer instruments (including international and domestic electronic fund transfers); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCB2B3E8D62324158B576C8ACA2F55923"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to cash checks and money orders and receive international and domestic electronic fund transfers for persons in the field of membership for a fee;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H19B88A2EA7B849E2002BCDAEB6ED4BF"><enum>308.</enum><header>Voluntary mergers involving multiple common-bond credit unions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 109(d)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1759(d)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEFD4E243E4C94B368590059C57D81814"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of clause (ii) of subparagraph (B);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDFC9B7C3C06D4A1EAFC882FCACA83F42"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3F505DDBF3EA41FE9D939780B790B034"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H31A0A8FAF20242FBB629BBEC7DC1F64">
<subparagraph id="H38F0C41739F24ECBBBF574ACB0C55C34"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a merger involving any such Federal credit union approved by the Board on or after August 7, 1998.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H872AA91CB15E4A198DDADA4900006758"><enum>309.</enum><header>Conversions involving common-bond credit unions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 109(g) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1759(g)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HA7D56DF4267742C293D0D0646356D928"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Criteria for continued membership of certain member groups in community charter conversions</header><text>In the case of a voluntary conversion of a common-bond credit union described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (b) into a community credit union described in subsection (b)(3), the Board shall prescribe, by regulation, the criteria under which the Board may determine that a member group or other portion of a credit union’s existing membership, that is located outside the well-defined local community, neighborhood, or rural district that shall constitute the community charter, can be satisfactorily served by the credit union and remain within the community credit union’s field of membership.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H0059995696DB4B27AA40BE16EBB5D64"><enum>310.</enum><header>Credit union governance</header>
<subsection id="H82919E5AF57549DFB5932D7EFB241BB9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Expulsion of members for just cause</header><text>Subsection (b) of section 118 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1764(b)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H7FAA8622C49D4905BD2BF7214296513"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Policy and actions of boards of directors of Federal credit unions</header>
<paragraph id="H6BA7351D846D41DEB6E2A75F5F3EFCF1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Expulsion of members for nonparticipation or for just cause</header><text>The board of directors of a Federal credit union may, by majority vote of a quorum of directors, adopt and enforce a policy with respect to expulsion from membership, by a majority vote of such board of directors, based on just cause, including disruption of credit union operations, or on nonparticipation by a member in the affairs of the credit union.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD7105AA1BC26450F8CAAC2019E1C00B1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Written notice of policy to members</header><text>If a policy described in paragraph (1) is adopted, written notice of the policy as adopted and the effective date of such policy shall be provided to—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF5E2E62965794E7A85A5FD1500BDAAAE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>each existing member of the credit union not less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such policy; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4C2CD4084E7E46C19D66A2CFF3BCB5A2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>each new member prior to or upon applying for membership.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H064942B96F3843B985587BF862BC257E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Term limits authorized for board members of Federal credit unions</header><text>Section 111(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1761(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>The bylaws of a Federal credit union may limit the number of consecutive terms any person may serve on the board of directors of such credit union.</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H77AD78EEF0CE495E9396C78DF8E6A634"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Reimbursement for lost wages due to service on credit union board not treated as compensation</header><text>Section 111(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1761(c)) is amended by inserting <quote>, including lost wages,</quote> after <quote>the reimbursement of reasonable expenses</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H69C8D3AEE02A46A69808CE5EA5A186FA"><enum>311.</enum><header>Providing the National Credit Union Administration with greater flexibility in responding to market conditions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(a)(5)(A)(v)(I) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1757(5)(A)(vi)(I)) (as so designated by section 303 and redesignated by section 304(2)(B) of this title) is amended by striking <quote>six-month period and that prevailing interest rate levels</quote> and inserting <quote>6-month period or that prevailing interest rate levels</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H7C4261DC23534248ABEFA197BD4BBE5"><enum>312.</enum><header>Exemption from pre-merger notification requirement of the <act-name parsable-cite="CLAY">Clayton Act</act-name></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7A(c)(7) of the <act-name parsable-cite="CLAY">Clayton Act</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 18a(c)(7)) is amended by inserting <quote>section 205(b)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1785(b)(3)),</quote> before <quote>or section 3</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H0CB8DCE0A81C4701A8D5C9883EE59F95"><enum>313.</enum><header>Treatment of credit unions as depository institutions under securities laws</header>
<subsection id="H005D352D1F0E43EA9697C6739DEC89D1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition of bank under the <act-name parsable-cite="SEA34">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</act-name></header><text>Section 3(a)(6) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SEA34">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(6)) (as amended by section 201(a)(1) of this Act) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0253E53BA91548E6B434B5FE576190D1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>this title, and (D) a receiver</quote> and inserting <quote>this title, (D) an insured credit union (as defined in section 101(7) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name>) but only for purposes of paragraphs (4) and (5) of this subsection and only for activities otherwise authorized by applicable laws to which such credit unions are subject, and (E) a receiver</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3502392678CA48F3A977CCE8F6CA09ED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E) (as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>(A), (B), or (C)</quote> and inserting <quote>(A), (B), (C), or (D)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7018EBFF871A45669BC79FD52269AA3C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition of bank under the <act-name parsable-cite="IAA40">Investment Advisers Act of 1940</act-name></header><text>Section 202(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IAA40">Investment Advisers Act of 1940</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 80b–2(a)(2)) (as amended by section 201(b)(1) of this Act) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2CDE0F2D0DE7443993DA27FE00552E20"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>this title, and (D) a receiver</quote> and inserting <quote>this title, (D) an insured credit union (as defined in section 101(7) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name>) but only for activities otherwise authorized by applicable laws to which such credit unions are subject, and (E) a receiver</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB4BD913AEC8345ACA057059B57CDA5E5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E) (as so redesignated by paragraph (1) of this subsection) by striking <quote>(A), (B), or (C)</quote> and inserting <quote>(A), (B), (C), or (D)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE5B90474163B41BC99E708F89E947400"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definition of appropriate Federal banking agency</header><text>Section 210A(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IAA40">Investment Advisers Act of 1940</act-name> (15 U.S.C. 80b–10a(c)) is amended by inserting <quote>and includes the National Credit Union Administration Board, in the case of an insured credit union (as defined in section 101(7) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name>)</quote> before the period at the end.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H94FD7B99C40842F284A7451B003E8C52"><enum>314.</enum><header>Clarification of definition of net worth under certain circumstances for purposes of prompt corrective action</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subparagraph (A) of section 216(o)(2) of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1790d(o)(2)(A)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H421423B7D5114036A3ADD8B53C59F293"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>the</quote> before <quote>retained earnings balance</quote>; and </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3470DE1C8BEF4FD6876F481F3741EA29"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, together with any amounts that were previously retained earnings of any other credit union with which the credit union has combined</quote> before the semicolon at the end.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H3357ECC8EEB14915A7E06B2C14AAD727"><enum>315.</enum><header>Amendments relating to nonfederally insured credit unions</header>
<subsection id="H369CE98CD2B445558485579711204209"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Subsection (a) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HD6CEFA6AC7944E2D903EDB771500E13E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Enforcement by appropriate state supervisor</header><text>Any appropriate State supervisor of a private deposit insurer, and any appropriate State supervisor of a depository institution which receives deposits that are insured by a private deposit insurer, may examine and enforce compliance with this subsection under the applicable regulatory authority of such supervisor.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HF372A56327D44A68805D5CBFFB6BE077"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendment Relating to Disclosures Required, Periodic Statements and Account Records</header><text>Section 43(b)(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t(b)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>or similar instrument evidencing a deposit</quote> and inserting <quote>or share certificate</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9C7E1DF1AA784BBCB56C79485D61ACD5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Amendments Relating to Disclosures Required, Advertising, premises</header><text> Section 43(b)(2) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t(b)(2)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H5D237DBAFF7641F097FA7C0071C4B876"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Advertising; premises</header>
<subparagraph id="HD35E70F10ACE457A9673DC2BA2EC54EC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Include clearly and conspicuously in all advertising, except as provided in subparagraph (B); and at each station or window where deposits are normally received, its principal place of business and all its branches where it accepts deposits or opens accounts (excluding automated teller machines or point of sale terminals), and on its main Internet page, a notice that the institution is not federally insured.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE7D2414CDCF2444200AB95CB17E5F62B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>The following need not include a notice that the institution is not federally insured:</text>
<clause id="H47B4750D796B4CB2898F2F53E1C8C1B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Statements or reports of financial condition of the depository institution that are required to be published or posted by State or Federal law or regulation.</text></clause>
<clause id="HC76B461171694B369204F299A88CFDB7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Any sign, document, or other item that contains the name of the depository institution, its logo, or its contact information, but only if the sign, document, or item does not include any information about the institution’s products or services or information otherwise promoting the institution.</text></clause>
<clause id="H63AD78C2914F4B129B988B1B045200B2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Small utilitarian items that do not mention deposit products or insurance if inclusion of the notice would be impractical.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H22824A11E0FF44D5AB72093F29926845"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Amendments Relating to Acknowledgment of Disclosure</header><text>Section 43(b)(3) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t(b)(3)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H1BA8ACA65E87426F8EBC8438F9E499F5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Acknowledgment of disclosure</header>
<subparagraph id="H1EC8B37FC0E34BC3B9F37599ED45EDE7"><enum>(A)</enum><header>New depositors obtained other than through a conversion or merger</header><text>With respect to any depositor who was not a depositor at the depository institution before the effective date of the Financial Services Relief Act of 2005, and who is not a depositor as described in subparagraph (B), receive any deposit for the account of such depositor only if the depositor has signed a written acknowledgement that—</text>
<clause id="H370315E5A6D249429C265EDDF176EB60"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the institution is not federally insured; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H70EC9AC5A6A8429680F0DB570494824C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if the institution fails, the Federal Government does not guarantee that the depositor will get back the depositor’s money.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDA2265084A2B43229DEA26078D65C720"><enum>(B)</enum><header>New depositors obtained through a conversion or merger</header><text>With respect to a depositor at a federally insured depository institution that converts to, or merges into, a depository institution lacking federal insurance after the effective date of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2005, receive any deposit for the account of such depositor only if—</text>
<clause id="H80FA7EF51D23458DA187EF4C59F3902C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the depositor has signed a written acknowledgement described in subparagraph (A); or</text></clause>
<clause id="H784859B02E7C45EF8D535CCE3327FBD5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the institution makes an attempt, as described in subparagraph (D) and sent by mail no later than 45 days after the effective date of the conversion or merger, to obtain the acknowledgment.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE0B86CD7E9BD433D9913082900E7B02"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Current depositors</header><text>Receive any deposit after the effective date of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2005 for the account of any depositor who was a depositor on that date only if—</text>
<clause id="HDC9FA79E3942465C92875E4600FD683F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the depositor has signed a written acknowledgement described in subparagraph (A); or</text></clause>
<clause id="H566A48CE7D3A4E32AC06918F9E5227FB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the institution makes an attempt, as described in subparagraph (D) and sent by mail no later than 45 days after the effective date of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2005, to obtain the acknowledgment.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB1F812FDBE2746DB94DA99D700FD5047"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Alternative provision of notice to current depositors and new depositors obtained through a conversion or merger</header>
<clause id="H274DE5B8B93641ECAE03FA56C6FBF78B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Transmit to each depositor who has not signed a written acknowledgement described in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subclause id="H2DCA4C7734BD4CD49D2D0200CE33F8DA"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a conspicuous card containing the information described in clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A), and a line for the signature of the depositor; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HCE24F0CEF9624FF9B57D19F3F3A23113"><enum>(II)</enum><text>accompanying materials requesting the depositor to sign the card, and return the signed card to the institution.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H9C06FA07BD81444BBF00836776179400"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Repeal of Provision Prohibiting Nondepository Institutions From Accepting Deposits</header><text>Section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H76F9C1417F994594B8222639BFCD6057"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection (e); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF51EDCD7BC40440F82AF6CD8692C2FBB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H17649C427F8E47C1839B91BA6858FF1E"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Repeal of provision concerning nondepository institutions masquerading as depository institutions and clarification of depository institutions covered by the statute</header><text>Subsection (e)(2) (as so redesignated by subsection (e) of this section) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HA5D9F135DE5040869E9E41D5C3C59074"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Depository institution</header><text>The term <quote>depository institution</quote>—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8C528D815E3E471F009ED16401DA8CC6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>includes any entity described in section 19(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the Federal Reserve Act; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD18B9FB824CD4E02A2BABFC633004532"><enum>(B)</enum><text>does not include any national bank, State member bank, or Federal branch.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HA63DB3A2D42042F1A8CD9FE364F26F02"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Repeal of FTC authority to enforce independent audit requirement; concurrent State enforcement</header><text>Subsection (f) (as so redesignated by subsection (e) of this section) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="HDF1148DC7F0A49EE8871009286929219"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Enforcement</header>
<paragraph id="HA986DE90326241AFAA02367CD8894724"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Limited ftc enforcement authority</header><text>Compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c), and any regulation prescribed or order issued under any such subsection, shall be enforced under the Federal Trade Commission Act by the Federal Trade Commission.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24540B13A4A84A89AEF39F7E810D950"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Broad state enforcement authority</header>
<subparagraph id="HE399C443881E436B80719647FC0978D1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subparagraph (C), an appropriate State supervisor of a depository institution lacking Federal deposit insurance may examine and enforce compliance with the requirements of this section, and any regulation prescribed under this section.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H072F4764F4B04C2F845D6018DCBBCD74"><enum>(B)</enum><header>State powers</header><text>For purposes of bringing any action to enforce compliance with this section, no provision of this section shall be construed as preventing an appropriate State supervisor of a depository institution lacking Federal deposit insurance from exercising any powers conferred on such official by the laws of such State.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE51361BEE713495CAD67707677E1DB83"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation on state action while federal action pending</header><text>If the Federal Trade Commission has instituted an enforcement action for a violation of this section, no appropriate State supervisor may, during the pendency of such action, bring an action under this section against any defendant named in the complaint of the Commission for any violation of this section that is alleged in that complaint.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<enum>IV</enum><header>DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION PROVISIONS</header>
<section id="HB57E3AD7F703416595176276ADBA4517"><enum>401.</enum><header>Easing restrictions on interstate branching and mergers</header>
<subsection id="H99147FE2E5C54357BDC600A84F4C2D43"><enum>(a)</enum><header>De novo interstate branches of national banks</header>
<paragraph id="H1D4F69B039AA4E83BC7DEEE313F5E359"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 5155(g)(1) of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 36(g)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>maintain a branch if—</quote> and all that follows through the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>maintain a branch.</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA8BA06CAECF3427488A080D762ECA587"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The heading for subsection (g) of section 5155 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">State <quote>Opt-In</quote> Election to Permit</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H9FBA8E95C34348378F39B23997250057"><enum>(b)</enum><header>De novo interstate branches of State nonmember banks</header>
<paragraph id="H81A3AA6DA6824294A84DF1AFD7D32CB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 18(d)(4)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(d)(4)(A)) is amended by striking <quote>maintain a branch if—</quote> and all that follows through the end of clause (ii) and inserting <quote>maintain a branch.</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1DBC33E632CF4A9D9815250000F54347"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Interstate branching by subsidiaries of commercial firms prohibited</header><text>Section 18(d)(3)) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(d)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HF5BADAEA4BD9466A9DEA8992CC467B2"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Interstate branching by subsidiaries of commercial firms prohibited</header>
<clause id="H68357E992855473F93F79DD2249F9217"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the appropriate State bank supervisor of the home State of any industrial loan company, industrial bank, or other institution described in section 2(c)(2)(H) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name>, or the appropriate State bank supervisor of any host State with respect to such company, bank, or institution, determines that such company, bank, or institution is controlled, directly or indirectly, by a commercial firm, such company, bank, or institution may not acquire, establish, or operate a branch in such host State.</text></clause>
<clause id="H9300982CCE054FA689C05212E41612DB"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Commercial firm defined</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>commercial firm</term> means any entity at least 15 percent of the annual gross revenues of which on a consolidated basis, including all affiliates of the entity, were derived from engaging, on an on-going basis, in activities that are not financial in nature or incidental to a financial activity during at least 3 of the prior 4 calendar quarters.</text></clause>
<clause id="HABB64B8CB00C4985843BB600632E00C5"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Grandfathered institutions</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply with respect to any industrial loan company, industrial bank, or other institution described in section 2(c)(2)(H) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name>—</text>
<subclause id="H5C312BE16826473E9541F999226E6923"><enum>(I)</enum><text>which became an insured depository institution before October 1, 2003 or pursuant to an application for deposit insurance which was approved by the Corporation before such date; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H0CC8900C256E4F92BDDD3BA16193C443"><enum>(II)</enum><text>with respect to which there is no change in control, directly or indirectly, of the company, bank, or institution after September 30, 2003, that requires an application under subsection (c), section 7(j), section 3 of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name>, or section 10 of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name>.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HFE7E22BA5CAF49CE827C23BD01007705"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Transition provision</header><text>Any divestiture required under this subparagraph of a branch in a host State shall be completed as quickly as is reasonably possible.</text></clause>
<clause id="HE4D725C6025E471B867299AF02C99B8D"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Corporate reorganizations permitted</header><text>The acquisition of direct or indirect control of the company, bank, or institution referred to in clause (iii)(II) shall not be treated as a <quote>change in control</quote> for purposes of such clause if the company acquiring control is itself directly or indirectly controlled by a company that was an affiliate of such company, bank, or institution on the date referred to in clause (iii)(II), and remained an affiliate at all times after such date.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3375D8562D11403A831F146E71848537"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header><text>Section 18(d)(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(d)(4)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H84CBB94C20DA4EF6805CDE3984121E62"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A) by striking <quote>Subject to subparagraph (B)</quote> and inserting <quote>Subject to subparagraph (B) and paragraph (3)(C)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H056B99AC7B2E457B89293B7000A805B9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraphs (D) and (E), by striking <quote>The term</quote> and inserting <quote>For purposes of this subsection, the term</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H73CFD1E96C5E4F749ED87334F68F05DD"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The heading for paragraph (4) of section 18(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph">State <quote>opt-in</quote> election to permit interstate</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph">Interstate</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC0686E8F20CF4020AA1EA5AB53F80091"><enum>(c)</enum><header>De novo interstate branches of State member banks</header><text>The 3rd undesignated paragraph of section 9 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FRA">Federal Reserve Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 321) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentences: “A State member bank may establish and operate a de novo branch in a host State (as such terms are defined in section 18(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>) on the same terms and conditions and subject to the same limitations and restrictions as are applicable to the establishment of a de novo branch of a national bank in a host State under section 5155(g) of the Revised Statutes of the United States or are applicable to an insured State nonmember bank under section 18(d)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>”. Such section 5155(g) shall be applied for purposes of the preceding sentence by substituting ‘Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System’ for ‘Comptroller of the Currency’ and ‘State member bank’ for ‘national bank’.”.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9454975AD6F64C3EB044230200C84E2E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Interstate merger of banks</header>
<paragraph id="HD575D99AABB04B088200AFB8AB3817CB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Merger of insured bank with another depository institution or trust company</header><text>Section 44(a)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831u(a)(1)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H10DD2A094998438500BC2002B12F88"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Beginning on June 1, 1997, the</quote> and inserting <quote>The</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF79F00A02ED94CCF9B29A4D5945BD382"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>insured banks with different home States</quote> and inserting <quote>an insured bank and another insured depository institution or trust company with a different home State than the resulting insured bank</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HED1BB0908E6D439EB67013DA3E3BC0B6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>National bank trust company merger with other trust company</header><text>Subsection (b) of section 4 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NMCMA">National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 215a–1(b)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="HFDF21660683945B282E3718920E2BA72"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Merger of national bank trust company with another trust company</header><text>A national bank that is a trust company may engage in a consolidation or merger under this Act with any trust company with a different home State, under the same terms and conditions that would apply if the trust companies were located within the same State.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H738484528BA1435281A703E3BBFA00AA"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Interstate fiduciary activity</header><text>Section 18(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HF71C35DD7DB84DFC8047FF0DF1593B6"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Interstate fiduciary activity</header>
<subparagraph id="HFBE466F0E89146FB812084FBBD27EC73"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Authority of state bank supervisor</header><text>The State bank supervisor of a State bank may approve an application by the State bank, when not in contravention of home State or host State law, to act as trustee, executor, administrator, registrar of stocks and bonds, guardian of estates, assignee, receiver, committee of estates of lunatics, or in any other fiduciary capacity in a host State in which State banks or other corporations which come into competition with national banks are permitted to act under the laws of such host State.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3C36824F016348FC0003BDF55617998"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Noncontravention of host state law</header><text>Whenever the laws of a host State authorize or permit the exercise of any or all of the foregoing powers by State banks or other corporations which compete with national banks, the granting to and the exercise of such powers by a State bank as provided in this paragraph shall not be deemed to be in contravention of host State law within the meaning of this paragraph.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC93178AF2EA94E3BA74828281147D285"><enum>(C)</enum><header>State bank includes trust companies</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, the term <term>State bank</term> includes any State-chartered trust company (as defined in section 44(g)).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H076E0B50A8514A2300EF460093FFDF08"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Other definitions</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, the term <term>home State</term> and <term>host State</term> have the meanings given such terms in section 44.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H6ABC86264A6E413FBB18B89135B88C6F"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendments</header>
<paragraph id="HDF0344347BEB4EA7A2C9FC0042DF2542"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 44 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831u) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7030FAD0712F44D9B23DAFCC1420BD35"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<clause id="H1328AC920550436297111199C315CF9C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HE6A3C458D4024070A7D335CB10A072B2"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Treatment of branches in connection with certain interstate merger transactions</header><text>In the case of an interstate merger transaction which involves the acquisition of a branch of an insured depository institution or trust company without the acquisition of the insured depository institution or trust company, the branch shall be treated, for purposes of this section, as an insured depository institution or trust company the home State of which is the State in which the branch is located.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause>
<clause id="H02634CCB85F643628025223DB7F1CEF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (5) and (6) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HCBE72E5A649E4E699524EEBB50B3615"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Applicability to industrial loan companies</header><text>No provision of this section shall be construed as authorizing the approval of any transaction involving a industrial loan company, industrial bank, or other institution described in section 2(c)(2)(H) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name>, or the acquisition, establishment, or operation of a branch by any such company, bank, or institution, that is not allowed under section 18(d)(3).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAE1B713CAAFD40829B38DED51277B100"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<clause id="H3989089C58024CA3837C08319831BAEB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>bank</quote> each place such term appears in paragraph (2)(B)(i) and inserting <quote>insured depository institution</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H1A22794EED1C4DE9835F82D6B745E662"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>banks</quote> where such term appears in paragraph (2)(E) and inserting <quote>insured depository institutions or trust companies</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H872FA1285DE54231AAFBEB35CCAB4E81"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>bank affiliate</quote> each place such term appears in that portion of paragraph (3) that precedes subparagraph (A) and inserting <quote>insured depository institution affiliate</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="HB2C251D257F8408CBFDE39E200347C9E"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by striking <quote>any bank</quote> where such term appears in paragraph (3)(B) and inserting <quote>any insured depository institution</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="HF370AC0D26D347E18B75BB2CDF89B581"><enum>(v)</enum><text>by striking <quote>bank</quote> where such term appears in paragraph (4)(A) and inserting <quote>insured depository institution and trust company</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HFDF6968767094BFDBEBD61E4026E13D2"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>by striking <quote>all banks</quote> where such term appears in paragraph (5) and inserting <quote>all insured depository institutions and trust companies</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF96BB4E782984F9C9C00D0F17D75CCF9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(1), by striking <quote>any bank</quote> and inserting <quote>any insured depository institution or trust company</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H09C9AA09790946E7804E35AC7100C200"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<clause id="H460B21A74AD044D4A26388FAD3341FE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>1 or more banks</quote> and inserting <quote>1 or more insured depository institutions</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H614783679F024BC1A7422FC793C08EE7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>paragraph (2), (4), or (5)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (2)</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEF9F1B4B24E74D479D3C20A55DBB8174"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by striking clauses (i) and (ii) of subsection (g)(4)(A) and inserting the following new clauses:</text>
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<clause id="HC9052F13938245AD9B5E827430F80071"><enum>(i)</enum><text>with respect to a national bank or Federal savings association, the State in which the main office of the bank or savings association is located; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HC4FE53F1B387426686C0382032E23845"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>with respect to a State bank, State savings association, or State-chartered trust company, the State by which the bank, savings association, or trust company is chartered; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H434484D537BC4556A287A3B4F214C626"><enum>(F)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (5) of subsection (g) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HF7515D28CC4D493EA040847276A2E2C"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Host state</header><text>The term <term>host State</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC797EB9D86CC4F648F93F127BCF220EE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to a bank, a State, other than the home State of the bank, in which the bank maintains, or seeks to establish and maintain, a branch; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H57A6CFCEF69A4F7FA16229C30068FD54"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to a trust company and solely for purposes of section 18(d)(5), a State, other than the home State of the trust company, in which the trust company acts, or seeks to act, in 1 or more fiduciary capacities.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1BCF11BFF15F4E55B785A962C31CDE"><enum>(G)</enum><text>in subsection (g)(10), by striking <quote>section 18(c)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (1) or (2) of section 18(c), as appropriate,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H30FBFF114F7045278D083DF0B1F381A0"><enum>(H)</enum><text>in subsection (g), by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H36A1F0025AB64002AA84CC061010D6BB"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Trust company</header><text>The term <term>trust company</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H46D283162A0C4B3395472F897DA76C00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any national bank;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H858B4CA34A764D7585EAE07EA15E6BB4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any savings association; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4A3BA7BC60F54A7F9225C8E0F6B6DDF4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any bank, banking association, trust company, savings bank, or other banking institution which is incorporated under the laws of any State,</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">that is authorized to act in 1 or more fiduciary capacities but is not engaged in the business of receiving deposits other than trust funds (as defined in section 3(p)).</continuation-text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8A1EE59E71F4996BD94FADB550E00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 3(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1842(d)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7B45BD566FD541EA80E1A2862FF073C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="H86D7333A4F464401BCF2F7CD77AED4A3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H80715CA4DEA4474AB3F2937DA6D839B5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (B); and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H492B03232A8046AE9398CB7CCA0043F8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>subparagraph (B) or (D)</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (B)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF1F4EC93F9BD4A1DB768D83CBB3155AA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Subsection (c) of section 4 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NMCMA">National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 215a–1(c)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H6072E8AF517F4BF3A1F8616D64640000"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section, the terms <term>home State</term>, <term>out-of-State bank</term>, and <term>trust company</term> each have the same meaning as in section 44(g) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H7C7C02E2E1D54026B297656C3FF2B200"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Clerical Amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H69F447441965449D8078008B4C7DBC2B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The heading for section 44(b)(2)(E) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831u(b)(2)(E)) is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="traditional">banks</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">insured depository institutions and trust companies</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4BFBB2B270174B16BCE8F400AD243CB6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The heading for section 44(e) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831u(e)) is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">Banks</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">insured depository institutions</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H585C743D6609474285DC5C24E2690037"><enum>402.</enum><header>Statute of limitations for judicial review of appointment of a receiver for depository institutions</header>
<subsection id="H79AC98A45105433AB695A9CCDEC2927D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>National Banks</header><text>Section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="NBRA">National Bank Receivership Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 191) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H215401153B1F420AB46DC67C00324B6E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>SECTION 2. The Comptroller of the Currency</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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<section id="HF7BCC44DB11043AE002467CC38BBFEA4"><enum>2.</enum><header>Appointment of receiver for a national bank</header>
<subsection id="HDF56DAE1B94B410BAE84C4FE42C39457"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>The Comptroller of the Currency</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4BA5AB51D86A407E836CD2251D299734"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="HB0E26FC830F9420A88836076F4CBCDAD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Judicial Review</header><text>If the Comptroller of the Currency appoints a receiver under subsection (a), the national bank may, within 30 days thereafter, bring an action in the United States district court for the judicial district in which the home office of such bank is located, or in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for an order requiring the Comptroller of the Currency to remove the receiver, and the court shall, upon the merits, dismiss such action or direct the Comptroller of the Currency to remove the receiver.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HF15263AEA0F7490EA2FD56B84C5419"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Insured depository institutions</header><text>Section 11(c)(7) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1821(c)(7)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H9ABD3CADBF8D486C9400DC97E1F6F5D1"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><text>If the Corporation is appointed (including the appointment of the Corporation as receiver by the Board of Directors) as conservator or receiver of a depository institution under paragraph (4), (9), or (10), the depository institution may, within 30 days thereafter, bring an action in the United States district court for the judicial district in which the home office of such depository institution is located, or in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for an order requiring the Corporation to be removed as the conservator or receiver (regardless of how such appointment was made), and the court shall, upon the merits, dismiss such action or direct the Corporation to be removed as the conservator or receiver.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HCDB675EC9B2340AD86C3B86B8F21EA2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Expansion of period for challenging the appointment of a liquidating agent</header><text>Subparagraph (B) of section 207(a)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1787(a)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>10 days</quote> and inserting <quote>30 days</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H88C0293B346B4DF1B458668C236F5317"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall apply with respect to conservators, receivers, or liquidating agents appointed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HF42C35980D7446E4A922B17088346C11"><enum>403.</enum><header>Reporting requirements relating to insider lending</header>
<subsection id="H7090ADEB54AD4CB28E6B29A594AC5525"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Reporting requirements regarding loans to executive officers of member banks</header><text>Section 22(g) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FRA">Federal Reserve Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 375a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H34AA92D2CA1E4B37B1E6BCBEEB019594"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs (6) and (9); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H358050A9C9E141B8BDA8DA6BEFEA9A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (7), (8), and (10) as paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC35CD55C06DF4E4CAF9B6E857EBD2E94"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting requirements regarding loans from correspondent banks to executive officers and shareholders of insured banks</header><text>Section 106(b)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHCAA70">Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1972(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4439E2739E104315B984BEC082F4FAE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (G); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA5CC17EBE5274EB8AFF19DDEE0381B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (H) and (I) as subparagraphs (G) and (H), respectively.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HE4DB08C3D34F4448AE5925861FCB1938"><enum>404.</enum><header>Amendment to provide an inflation adjustment for the small depository institution exception under the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 203(1) of the Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act (12 U.S.C. 3202(1)) is amended by striking <quote>$20,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$100,000,000</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H689236E25D10418C9692D657006F0336"><enum>405.</enum><header>Enhancing the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions</header>
<subsection id="H7C7F7F3B3B574B500039FB24094E7E48"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Clarification relating to the enforceability of agreements and conditions</header><text>The <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1811 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
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<section id="H7D0A4A2241D940A3A8C2B4A3CE573478"><enum>49.</enum><header>Enforcement of agreements</header>
<subsection id="HA24F1885C03B42C985B0DF3BB6D5BEF9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding clause (i) or (ii) of section 8(b)(6)(A) or section 38(e)(2)(E)(i), an appropriate Federal banking agency may enforce, under section 8, the terms of—</text>
<paragraph id="H9BE746677ACC4481A2DEACEA929E2743"><enum>(1)</enum><text>any condition imposed in writing by the agency on a depository institution or an institution-affiliated party (including a bank holding company) in connection with any action on any application, notice, or other request concerning a depository institution; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H47D1C6610C9641A8AD25775EA7F5871"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any written agreement entered into between the agency and an institution-affiliated party (including a bank holding company).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6B4A3D1D88E349F9AFC82D315EEC648F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Receiverships and conservatorships</header><text>After the appointment of the Corporation as the receiver or conservator for any insured depository institution, the Corporation may enforce any condition or agreement described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) involving such institution or any institution-affiliated party (including a bank holding company), through an action brought in an appropriate United States district court.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HAF7F827DBF6D496D8D56D09D647279AA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Protection of capital of insured depository institutions</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 18(u) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(u)) is amended by striking subparagraph (B) and by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H1109751650AE4296896D29E8A015F03E"><enum>406.</enum><header>Investments by insured savings associations in bank service companies authorized</header>
<subsection id="HF3B98B83393D41BAA57B4FD3D859BF0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Sections 2 and 3 of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1862, 1863) are each amended by striking <quote>insured bank</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>insured depository institution</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD5E7F1082F754F24B03F4C19B8005BF9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H17F7FB21F8C54D05A625FC54B7FD75C2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 1(b)(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1861(b)(4)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H93683028605D495400EF112317C7CF6E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, except when such term appears in connection with the term <term>insured depository institution</term>,</quote> after <quote>means</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAA43B0C0D7684486925800B31631E9A6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Federal Home Loan Bank Board</quote> and inserting <quote>Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC353574AA2724E798459F2FEB530B6D4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 1(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1861(b)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBF99474F72D14932BB64DA48B600FE0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HDA65A757CBDA44FFA7EAABF322AE5D7F"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Insured depository institution</header><text>The term <term>insured depository institution</term> has the meaning given the term in section 3(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>;</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFB6894C1C807401CA3C9EFD37F498AC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (7);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H607184E83A9D4D0FB6519EA67354CA84"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end of paragraph (8) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H224EE2BDEE804EFAAEE7B11E446CBC7"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H2302AFE10705423C89009C62F278C5F9"><enum>(9)</enum><text>the terms <term>State depository institution</term>, <term>Federal depository institution</term>, <term>State savings association</term> and <term>Federal savings association</term> have the meanings given the terms in section 3 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB90D1B2DBBE242B0895DB3A89861E8A7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The 1st sentence of section 5(c)(4)(B) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(4)(B)) is amended by striking <quote>by savings associations of such State and by Federal associations</quote> and inserting <quote>by State and Federal depository institutions</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6127BE3A5A5B41E2BB0266EF8EBCF92"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Subparagraph (A)(ii) and subparagraph (B)(ii) of section 1(b)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1861(b)(2)) are each amended by striking <quote>insured banks</quote> and inserting <quote>insured depository institutions</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5AE9581389CF445595236EF67B2E6D73"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 1(b)(8) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1861(b)(8)) is further amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0DDEFD0FCE92487E929CBBE411F6463"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>insured bank</quote> and inserting <quote>insured depository institution</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD14CFF72F20146D1952EE1E6B9A0BFE9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>insured banks</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>insured depository institutions</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2C0B2321F38E438FA5386F29487D2F4C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the bank’s</quote> and inserting <quote>the depository institution’s</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H526B251115D44B52BC94678BD6A71BAD"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1862) is amended by inserting <quote>or savings associations, other than the limitation on the amount of investment by a Federal savings association contained in section 5(c)(4)(B) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name></quote> after <quote>relating to banks</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEB1132600E3E4C639CAAB4C4D161AC43" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 4(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1864(b)) is amended by inserting <quote>as permissible under subsection (c), (d), or (e) or</quote> after <quote>Except</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9221DD484E354553ABB371E21541D2A3"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Section 4(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1864(c)) is amended by inserting <quote>or State savings association</quote> after <quote>State bank</quote> each place such term appears.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H65A8CACC5FE941438E89012823AE7C11"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Section 4(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1864(d)) is amended by inserting <quote>or Federal savings association</quote> after <quote>national bank</quote> each place such term appears.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4062F9197C7247C686CC3545C19DEAAC"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Section 4(e) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1864(e)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H2FA0DE0FEFB64C11A7C44C6D5CA1D473"><enum>(e)</enum><text>A bank service company may perform—</text>
<paragraph id="H6E0CB154F2D6475AA1A3CF6C82CA223E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>only those services that each depository institution shareholder or member is otherwise authorized to perform under any applicable Federal or State law; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H02AC6C6C65DA48A8878CE13BDC4F16DF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such services only at locations in a State in which each such shareholder or member is authorized to perform such services.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7E91DEDE6A2A4B9EBF2D57AEF4A1BC9B"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Section 4(f) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1864(f)) is amended by inserting <quote>or savings associations</quote> after <quote>location of banks</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB3EB1CA277CA46F1BEC8FB03C525E33"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Section 5 of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1865) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1EEDA7CDB463420CACB17CFEF9A96EE9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<clause id="H87000DF7A5F544ABB5D4CC734ED19D12"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>insured bank</quote> and inserting <quote>insured depository institution</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H93B2800A6B7442D38C7C6FE69711072F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>bank’s</quote> and inserting <quote>institution’s</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1AD76BEF86474100B8E8472F82AD0000" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<clause id="H10FA04A908EC4FCEABC41B1ED5058333"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>insured bank</quote> and inserting <quote>insured depository institution</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="HACD122EF9F2245619CE3F89CC9252FF6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>authorized only</quote> after <quote>performs any service</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HB771143A11E747F08BB7A5BF47FE1AD"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>authorized only</quote> after <quote>perform any activity</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H79AB3ADC764246B59775707444EF7102"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<clause id="HA89B1392AA1E48EA9CE5E03446195F5C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the bank or banks</quote> and inserting <quote>any depository institution</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HEED7AEA48D0244A5BFFFACAC8D70A62F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>capability of the bank</quote> and inserting <quote>capability of the depository institution</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE8EFF8DD7E2948D6A0F037C53EB31D17"><enum>(13)</enum><text>Section 7 of the <act-name parsable-cite="BSCA">Bank Service Company Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1867) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5900781A05F0428EA117225D38E880FA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>insured bank</quote> and inserting <quote>insured depository institution</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H87A11FD1F7254FCC927628008F3585FC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<clause id="HAE3CDBA9A8E34564991D96C63C7740E4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>a bank</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>a depository institution</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H9AF9068356694A7098D2472C264D0329"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the bank</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>the depository institution</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H2FBF2CD32AA841519719B500F60155C"><enum>407.</enum><header>Cross guarantee authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subparagraph (A) of section 5(e)(9) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1815(e)(9)(A)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HAFD4401ED5244FE0A8AD000612117843"><enum>(A)</enum><text>such institutions are controlled by the same company; or</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H57A59F27D35B407DBBAE591D6B2ECAA"><enum>408.</enum><header>Golden parachute authority and nonbank holding companies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (k) of section 18 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(k)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H818A7A05AD134C1A99BBA58F41D2B1E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A), by striking <quote>or depository institution holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>or covered company</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE124CBD5611142758CC4555000A68F2E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) and inserting the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HEFE1E40B8A7545C2B4A27BB5B2CA4C85"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Whether there is a reasonable basis to believe that the institution-affiliated party is substantially responsible for—</text>
<clause id="H07B2BC306769412FAFBB7E41F000E520"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the insolvency of the depository institution or covered company;</text></clause>
<clause id="HDC7BB36740EB4F1FBA037B84E179101C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the appointment of a conservator or receiver for the depository institution; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H208BCE730EAD4C0780A4B87000F4678D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the depository institution’s troubled condition (as defined in the regulations prescribed pursuant to section 32(f)).</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2B3E9A38E51B4634B91313E4A9A99D08"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(F), by striking <quote>depository institution holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>covered company,</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HED8DB84F9A2B4B0CB946932F1663E309"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>depository institution holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>covered company</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBA3376071BF449E482DABE85631479FF"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(A), by striking <quote>holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>covered company</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF80BA67AC4784C9F902CCDD6F169E52"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)(A)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0D05A43CA69148019060480037768DCD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>depository institution holding company</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>covered company</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF3107534877E492C829F2FB08E96E2E0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>holding company</quote> each place such term appears (other than in connection with the term referred to in subparagraph (A)) and inserting <quote>covered company</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3F4EA537162B4DB7A0B063EB20354D48"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)(A), by striking <quote>depository institution holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>covered company</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEAD64D406A42425B90B278BF0545BA3"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HB8BD89BF2BD94DA898C42B259F46B958"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Covered company</header><text>The term <term>covered company</term> means any depository institution holding company (including any company required to file a report under section 4(f)(6) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name>), or any other company that controls an insured depository institution.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D67E1E6F3F94CB88E07004DF0DA019B"><enum>(9)</enum><text>in paragraph (6)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H9D012116437B4B55B6E6E868DABFD72E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>depository institution holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>covered company,</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEDFBA235F0B84FE3AE25A9AA88D92EEE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>or covered company</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="H051933F7182F4B0A9B8958F8F34B73D"><enum>409.</enum><header>Amendments relating to change in bank control</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7(j) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC80A8586C3724EBCAF577FAE704EA0F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(D)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3A4D471DF1D64095B4E1E1E4B318531E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking “is needed to investigate” and inserting “is needed—</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H61189548DC3C4D69A7BA522F00466BB0">
<clause id="HFBFC6B030F0E472091F58156B02FD034"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to investigate</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8ED4571E42D346C4884F9925F930B485"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>United States Code.</quote> and inserting <quote>United States Code; or</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA7EBC8B2DA8643CC816E9253C27BE232"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new clause:</text>
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<clause id="H0D274CD4E0A14E90BA694B37C3B2544B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to analyze the safety and soundness of any plans or proposals described in paragraph (6)(E) or the future prospects of the institution.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H69AFF4F65D0D4B7E8E5E4335E0E0D089"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (7)(C), by striking <quote>the financial condition of any acquiring person</quote> and inserting <quote>either the financial condition of any acquiring person or the future prospects of the institution</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H095B046BD3CF4F07899985BDD8B2CA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>410.</enum><header>Community reinvestment credit for esops and ewocs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 804 of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2903) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection—</text>
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<subsection id="H396DF4C3A589448DBAF9E26C4EA922C9"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Establishment of esops and ewocs</header>
<paragraph id="H710AB768B3804EB0B85FEEC9BF98C682"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In assessing and taking into account, under subsection (a), the record of a financial institution, the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency shall consider as a factor activities that support or enable the establishment of employee stock ownership plans or eligible worker-owned cooperatives, so long as the employer sponsoring the plan or cooperative is at least 51 percent owned by employees, including low to moderate income employees.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCF9333BAEF594D758D00FE6F4C85312F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the following definitions shall apply:</text>
<subparagraph id="H1BA7B34D90BA480B84B7A5BD05E6710"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Employee stock ownership plan</header><text>The term <quote>employee stock ownership plan</quote> has the same meaning as in section 4975(e)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0788697996BF4477977EA6FB75E6847"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Eligible worker-owned cooperative</header><text>The term <quote>eligible worker-owned cooperative</quote> has the same meaning as in section 1042(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HF86077C775C040E187D0FAEADE8CEE2E"><enum>411.</enum><header>Minority financial institutions</header>
<subsection id="H0D2DEED21A3B4CA0AA5C9DF07994AB00"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision shall provide such technical assistance to minority financial institutions affected by Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, and Hurricane Wilma as may be appropriate to preserve the present number of minority depository institutions and preserve the minority character in cases involving mergers or acquisitions of a minority depository institution consistent with section 308(a) of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H85C8D68E585D422FAE3DD19AD1A87D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Minority financial institution defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>minority financial institution</quote> has the same meaning as in section 308(b) of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>V</enum><header>DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION AFFILIATES PROVISIONS</header>
<section id="H293515DEE16B4176AADFC4233302D74"><enum>501.</enum><header>Clarification of cross marketing provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4(n)(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1843(n)(5)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6A1026AFD4CD4B209201CFC67DB8C86B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>subsection (k)(4)(I)</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (H) or (I) of subsection (k)(4)</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE85A9C931AEA40E80036CF13CF2049D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H6467D53974EB4695B828335707D65F18"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Threshold of control</header><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to a company described or referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of such subparagraph if the financial holding company does not own or control 25 percent or more of the total equity or any class of voting securities of such company.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="HBFEF162951B743B1A6CCD352E17B7703"><enum>502.</enum><header>Amendment to provide the Federal Reserve Board with discretion concerning the imputation of control of shares of a company by trustees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2(g)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1841(g)(2)) is amended by inserting <quote>, unless the Board determines that such treatment is not appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances of the case and the purposes of this Act</quote> before the period at the end.</text></section>
<section id="H965F6E79CEEB43B889E139A0A391A68B"><enum>503.</enum><header>Eliminating geographic limits on thrift service companies</header>
<subsection id="HEB5CF0409FC44930B1C74DF1417F2EF0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>The 1st sentence of section 5(c)(4)(B) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(4)(B)) (as amended by section 406(b)(3) of this Act) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0D7CE5A244DB475C8D9EB2F9D7A0E927"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>corporation organized</quote> and all that follows through <quote>is available for purchase</quote> and inserting <quote>company, if the entire capital of the company is available for purchase</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3C92B506C09D4285B2277EFAF69D93EE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>having their home offices in such State</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HB0D17A9E53F34EAE97BE52000058E178"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical Corrections</header>
<paragraph id="H0C06AAC2B4DD42EBBB53F278438D9F77"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The heading for subparagraph (B) of section 5(c)(4) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(c)(4)(B)) is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph">corporations</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph">companies</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFF255CE4126548C88FA40001ECEDB0BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The 2nd sentence of section 5(n)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(n)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>service corporations</quote> and inserting <quote>service companies</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5CD36E1BF8EC4B2100D33D9B16311831"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 5(q)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464(q)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>service corporation</quote> each place such term appears in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) and inserting <quote>service company</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4B8B591766BE44DB822842B8E009FFE7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 10(m)(4)(C)(iii)(II) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1467a(m)(4)(C)(iii)(II)) is amended by striking <quote>service corporation</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>service company</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H66436B8E1594416EBD89EEF5386CEE10"><enum>504.</enum><header>Clarification of scope of applicable rate provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 44(f) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831u(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:</text>
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<paragraph id="H27048E111B834DE2B88754C05DFC6B3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Other lenders</header><text>In the case of any other lender doing business in the State described in paragraph (1), the maximum interest rate or amount of interest, discount points, finance charges, or other similar charges that may be charged, taken, received, or reserved from time to time in any loan, discount, or credit sale made, or upon any note, bill of exchange, financing transaction, or other evidence of debt issued to or acquired by any other lender shall be equal to not more than the greater of the rates described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D45362802EB499A8217BCB4B2D7932E"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Other lender defined</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (3), the term <term>other lender</term> means any person engaged in the business of selling or financing the sale of personal property (and any services incidental to the sale of personal property) in such State, except that, with regard to any person or entity described in such paragraph, such term does not include—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCA34A043B2B647F3A526C988E01020C0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an insured depository institution; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFE0F73F5BF394DCC94AFDC86A6CBB0A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any person or entity engaged in the business of providing a short-term cash advance to any consumer in exchange for—</text>
<clause id="H8F26DE3DDC15438E94B948E7BFCD8BB9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a consumer’s personal check or share draft, in the amount of the advance plus a fee, where presentment or negotiation of such check or share draft is deferred by agreement of the parties until a designated future date; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HC372AFCD31E8461686008766BB535BA4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a consumer authorization to debit the consumer’s transaction account, in the amount of the advance plus a fee, where such account will be debited on or after a designated future date.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HA13917E800F24A94BC06C64F942F03E1"><enum>505.</enum><header>Savings associations acting as agents for affiliated depository institutions</header>
<subsection id="HEA5C4BF2DE984616B577E19E1EF6986"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 18(r) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1828(r)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA0B6E04FD28E417CBC305754EB9F8100"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD02BE41956274A5E8B695CB33554531F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>bank subsidiary</quote> and inserting <quote>depository institution subsidiary</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFED71DB89ADF407287FECAD7C8D447C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>bank holding company</quote> and inserting <quote>depository institution holding company</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB232D45BA70F47BFB7C565155EB77800"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>a bank acting</quote> and inserting <quote>a depository institution acting</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9521A9D9A19043DF860084EB24A8E57C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraphs (3) and (5), by striking <quote>or (6)</quote> each place such term appears in each such paragraph; and </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4E7E5EDA11C44DDE90B259E197C5EE34"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (6).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H57C94F9707974B2A9536DEA85C176336"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The heading for section 18(r)(2) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1828(r)) is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Bank</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Depository institution</header-in-text></quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H6C8F7DA5AD6B4BE1A9B8DB0A9364900" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>506.</enum><header>Credit card bank investments for the public welfare</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2(c)(2)(F) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841(c)(2)(F)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HD49F5C04B6D649DFAE76C222F0B1B002"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>engages only in credit card operations;</quote> and inserting </text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H43AB8AA5D1314C9300DDBE384E3CD942" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">engages only in—</text>
<subclause id="H38F3CC7375824D43A3AE134DCC9F114D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>credit card operations; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H07461E46C948474A94A3DA0703034177"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">making investments designed primarily to promote the public welfare, including the welfare of low- and moderate-income communities or families (such as by providing housing, services, or jobs), in the manner and to the extent permitted for national banks under the paragraph designated the <quote>Eleventh</quote> of section 5136 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and regulations prescribed under such paragraph, except that the last sentence of such paragraph shall be applied for purposes of this subclause by substituting <quote>5 percent</quote> for <quote>15 percent</quote> each place such term appears; </text></subclause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H511E509DDC14492EA1224560FCD4C776"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause (v), by inserting <quote>, other than making or purchasing loans for the purposes described in and to the extent permitted in clause (i)(II))</quote> before the period at the end.</text></paragraph></section>
<enum>VI</enum><header>BANKING AGENCY PROVISIONS</header>
<section id="H354CCDA7199E42BFB800D69DCA654540"><enum>601.</enum><header>Waiver of examination schedule in order to allocate examiner resources</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1820(d)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H09DB39EC47274AFA93905291A8E586D9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) as paragraphs (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), and (11), respectively;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCFCA080849004BA785C340322E935E69"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (4), the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H08793A3410CC4E43806D2FCF40A3BFDD"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Waiver of schedule when necessary to achieve safe and sound allocation of examiner resources</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4), an appropriate Federal banking agency may make adjustments in the examination cycle for an insured depository institution if necessary to allocate available resources of examiners in a manner that provides for the safety and soundness of, and the effective examination and supervision of, insured depository institutions.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5894C5D3F5EB44D7B3B042C1CC5539E1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraphs (8) and (9), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>paragraph (6)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (7)</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H4A3EA63481D74A93B947A9B8B4C98570"><enum>602.</enum><header>Interagency data sharing</header>
<subsection id="H91425ADB9D9544DD99C38DEBF1806569"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Federal banking agencies</header><text>Section 7(a)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1817(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" act-name="Federal Deposit Insurance Act" id="HD40B3B6B71F241C48C7C7D2F73CDA0E1">
<subparagraph id="H0DF6EA6FFF114B399BE4603DEABE4B8D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Data sharing with other agencies and persons</header><text>In addition to reports of examination, reports of condition, and other reports required to be regularly provided to the Corporation (with respect to all insured depository institutions, including a depository institution for which the Corporation has been appointed conservator or receiver) or an appropriate State bank supervisor (with respect to a State depository institution) under subparagraph (A) or (B), a Federal banking agency may, in the agency’s discretion, furnish any report of examination or other confidential supervisory information concerning any depository institution or other entity examined by such agency under authority of any Federal law, to—</text>
<clause id="H3BD97B6FCC444BE686F524EBA9954062"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any other Federal or State agency or authority with supervisory or regulatory authority over the depository institution or other entity;</text></clause>
<clause id="HEA2E08815F89421B8C37923FF1635D83"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any officer, director, or receiver of such depository institution or entity; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HF4DA2CCA62B845B5B801FCB4917DD42"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>any other person the Federal banking agency determines to be appropriate.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H15577E5B5FFB41B8BE567E4D8CFBFCB4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National Credit Union Administration</header><text>Section 202(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1782(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H8CFC846A105F4014A4F754D7E26D1296"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Data sharing with other agencies and persons</header><text>In addition to reports of examination, reports of condition, and other reports required to be regularly provided to the Board (with respect to all insured credit unions, including a credit union for which the Corporation has been appointed conservator or liquidating agent) or an appropriate State commission, board, or authority having supervision of a State-chartered credit union, the Board may, in the Board’s discretion, furnish any report of examination or other confidential supervisory information concerning any credit union or other entity examined by the Board under authority of any Federal law, to—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB3ADB32C456242DD84EB001353973C91"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any other Federal or State agency or authority with supervisory or regulatory authority over the credit union or other entity;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6FAD4007B49542249427E771001CF993"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any officer, director, or receiver of such credit union or entity; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEB6DDC852FB74411BDFA25B95C6CFFB5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any other institution-affiliated party of such credit union or entity the Board determines to be appropriate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="HCBCF9D01DE854385959876D1DB3BD219"><enum>603.</enum><header>Penalty for unauthorized participation by convicted individual</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 19 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1829) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="H94C5018804BE487D96165F6E72E00085"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Noninsured banks</header><text>Subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to a noninsured national bank and a noninsured State member bank, and any agency or noninsured branch (as such terms are defined in section 1(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="IBA78">International Banking Act of 1978</act-name>) of a foreign bank as if such bank, branch, or agency were an insured depository institution, except such subsections shall be applied for purposes of this subsection by substituting the agency determined under the following paragraphs for <quote>Corporation</quote> each place such term appears in such subsections:</text>
<paragraph id="H4709641EA879424490A1C8D3ABF22BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Comptroller of the Currency, in the case of a noninsured national bank or any Federal agency or noninsured Federal branch of a foreign bank.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7B3CA545310D455C8EAA70BF87B600CB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in the case of a noninsured State member bank or any State agency or noninsured State branch of a foreign bank.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H5BEEDA6C5C464379AF4105738905D7BF"><enum>604.</enum><header>Amendment permitting the destruction of old records of a depository institution by the FDIC after the appointment of the FDIC as receiver</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 11(d)(15)(D) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1821(d)(15)(D)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEB0EE5D3B04043489B8C50A58BEEBF56"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Recordkeeping requirement</header-in-text>.—After the end of the 6-year period</quote> and inserting </text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H8FC365CE0CE84ED48CA626A8D090B663" display-inline="yes-display-inline"><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Recordkeeping requirement</header-in-text>.—</text>
<clause id="HBEC3AD9A222B4E5E91F2D38E2D7FBB46"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in clause (ii), after the end of the 6-year period</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEF62B5D1BC6C40E2A8DB74AB75B065B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>to be unnecessary</quote> and inserting <quote>are unnecessary and not relevant to any pending or reasonably probable future litigation</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD8706B87D47641339D2093EB4F007177"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new clause:</text>
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<clause id="H96A9D8E2E8B04FAC9B3CC6BE96DE8D"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Old records</header><text>In the case of records of an insured depository institution which—</text>
<subclause id="H91C4CB98F09747F3A300DDF4E8A1E92C"><enum>(I)</enum><text>are at least 10 years old, as of the date the Corporation is appointed as the receiver of such depository institution; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H94023A0F39A0469F8C832660D60E5D4"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are unnecessary and not relevant to any pending or reasonably probable future litigation, as provided in clause (i),</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">the Corporation may destroy such records in accordance with clause (i) any time after such appointment is final without regard to the 6-year period of limitation contained in such clause.</continuation-text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H78B1E382DE3C476A829B94B4BCB1D72E"><enum>605.</enum><header>Modernization of recordkeeping requirement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (f) of section 10 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1820(f)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H4A9F57849BFC4F4E940171D4E2DB688D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Preservation of agency records</header>
<paragraph id="H19186D8580784A10A09CC0F2F7365B2C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A Federal banking agency may cause any and all records, papers, or documents kept by the agency or in the possession or custody of the agency to be—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8470B8BDC9FB4004B68ECAA7000800E7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>photographed or microphotographed or otherwise reproduced upon film; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H96F16EB7FB7C4618A34269F800391EC0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>preserved in any electronic medium or format which is capable of—</text>
<clause id="H93118C1D7CF5435489C408197359524E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>being read or scanned by computer; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HFA0A723243A0412A8CE700213CA109A4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>being reproduced from such electronic medium or format by printing or any other form of reproduction of electronically stored data.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H770F73C6EA494201BC52A17700E2AF24"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Treatment as original records</header><text>Any photographs, microphotographs, or photographic film or copies thereof described in paragraph (1)(A) or reproduction of electronically stored data described in paragraph (1)(B) shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, including introduction in evidence in all State and Federal courts or administrative agencies and shall be admissible to prove any act, transaction, occurrence, or event therein recorded.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFD3E9FE18E1646C1B1B211BE92D41E25"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Authority of the Federal banking agencies</header><text>Any photographs, microphotographs, or photographic film or copies thereof described in paragraph (1)(A) or reproduction of electronically stored data described in paragraph (1)(B) shall be preserved in such manner as the Federal banking agency shall prescribe and the original records, papers, or documents may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Federal banking agency may direct.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HDC57240B951D41819479C5D453947BAA" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>606.</enum><header>Streamlining reports of condition</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7(a) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(a)) is amended by adding the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" id="H6954FD09C54A419985367224A0A8484D" display-inline="no-display-inline">
<paragraph id="HA7A672CD1AB64EFF81391B7D07EEBA50"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Streamlining reports of condition</header>
<subparagraph id="H30B0C4C3325141F19268097F431EBC3E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Review of information and schedules</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2005 and before the end of each 5-year period thereafter, each Federal banking agency shall, in consultation with the other relevant Federal banking agencies, review the information and schedules that are required to be filed by an insured depository institution in a report of condition required under paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0D91F8A93276482500F1D81C1E9ECD8F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reduction or elimination of information found to be unnecessary</header><text>After completing the review required by subparagraph (A), a Federal banking agency, in consultation with the other relevant Federal banking agencies, shall reduce or eliminate any requirement to file information or schedules under paragraph (3) (other than information or schedules that are otherwise required by law) if the agency determines that the continued collection of such information or schedules is no longer necessary or appropriate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H44957EF83D4A4159AA73E326A8241B45"><enum>607.</enum><header>Expansion of eligibility for 18-month examination schedule for community banks</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (4)(A) of section 10(d) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1820(d)) is amended by striking <quote>$250,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,000,000,000</quote>. </text></section>
<section id="HDAA8C53E62204DA48B65F5D4E0F60327" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>608.</enum><header>Short form reports of condition for certain community banks</header>
<subsection id="HAB2458D9E8E24D6FBB006C6317ED6EDD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 7(a) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(a)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (11) (as added by section 606 of this title) the following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9A49C2C13629426E9F36D2CE61D27F5B">
<paragraph id="HC547A0234D7D44E291DF4DD743AB86CD"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Short form reports of condition for community banks</header>
<subparagraph id="H82BECA2449D44F0FA4FB89F2F25A628"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>With respect to reports of condition required under paragraph (3) for each calendar quarter, an insured depository institution described in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D) of section 10(d)(4) may submit a short form of any such report of condition in 2 nonsequential quarters of any calendar year.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEFF2919DB1B04B6FBE06F750DDD442B2"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Short form defined</header><text>The term <quote>short form</quote>, when used in connection with any report of condition required under paragraph (3), means a report of condition in a format established by the appropriate Federal banking agency, after notice and opportunity for comment, that—</text>
<clause id="H764424A9E9CD4ACEB9DD20106E00CEF1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is significantly and materially less burdensome for the insured depository institution to prepare than the format of the report of condition required under paragraph (3); and</text></clause>
<clause id="HE15CA65500BC4ECA8CD82334A19200F7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>provides sufficient material information for the appropriate Federal banking agency to assure the maintenance of the safe and sound condition of the depository institution and safe and sound practices.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H0F104465B65D48E2BD954CD832DC90E2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Any regulation required to carry out the amendment made by subsection (a) shall be published in final form before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H87A52B8168F54B469599BE24B1C11D06"><enum>609.</enum><header>Clarification of extent of suspension, removal, and prohibition authority of Federal banking agencies in cases of certain crimes by institution-affiliated parties</header>
<subsection id="H59D8AD752D704E8FB7329016F2BBF96"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Insured depository institutions</header>
<paragraph id="HB8E6385138874CF2AB60C17BC5612640"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 8(g)(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1818(g)(1)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC983410F204F407DABCB5BDAAA09481"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<clause id="H61937AEDF23C4764B4B0A0D135275EA1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>is charged in any information, indictment, or complaint, with the commission of or participation in</quote> and inserting <quote>is the subject of any information, indictment, or complaint, involving the commission of or participation in</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H821339E268334B2E8C2D753F856483B1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>may pose a threat to the interests of the depository institution’s depositors or may threaten to impair public confidence in the depository institution,</quote> and insert <quote>posed, poses, or may pose a threat to the interests of the depositors of, or threatened, threatens, or may threaten to impair public confidence in, any relevant depository institution (as defined in subparagraph (E)),</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H436ABC6252454BC39900B2C9A31220D9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>affairs of the depository institution</quote> and inserting <quote>affairs of any depository institution</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H02525F3C33D44A019B001E5C4EC0A119"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking <quote>the depository institution</quote> and inserting <quote>any depository institution that the subject of the notice is affiliated with at the time the notice is issued</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC2003292D7184D9B9D24E87EDBD8843B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)(i)—</text>
<clause id="H81F477FA46AB47EEBA0299356153A875"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>may pose a threat to the interests of the depository institution’s depositors or may threaten to impair public confidence in the depository institution,</quote> and insert <quote>posed, poses, or may pose a threat to the interests of the depositors of, or threatened, threatens, or may threaten to impair public confidence in, and relevant depository institution (as defined in subparagraph (E)),</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H0AF9EC1B410D4B38935C595CD1A5EB1D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>affairs of the depository institution</quote> and inserting <quote>affairs of any depository institution</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFA4196B0FE094AF28548AE8BEB23C95B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking <quote>affairs of the depository institution</quote> and inserting <quote>affairs of any depository institution</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H13B81CABA6E542FD847726E3B3399EF"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D)(i), by striking <quote>the depository institution</quote> and inserting <quote>any depository institution that the subject of the order is affiliated with at the time the order is issued</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF4713EC59F6E400CB7133100500088BF"><enum>(F)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H947A3D696A32439AA56C078244EE744E"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Relevant depository institution</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>relevant depository institution</quote> means any depository institution of which the party is or was an institution-affiliated party at the time—</text>
<clause id="HA7D407591BF84A78B927FAD9B6446E57"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the information, indictment or complaint described in subparagraph (A) was issued; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H69991A8240804CA780FCA7DF681F00A9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the notice is issued under subparagraph (A) or the order is issued under subparagraph (C)(i).</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H523BBE4B9AB643459116364600F2D4A8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The heading for section 8(g) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1818(g)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H64A1A05363324A1EA74077294D00EC00"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Suspension, removal, and prohibition from participation orders in the case of certain criminal offenses</header></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE0632E779C514EB4BAD00123CB035C1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Insured Credit Unions</header>
<paragraph id="H953F0F5251684EA29D8D7F8D1BCB601D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 206(i)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1786(i)(1)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H42865172AE004358BFA59E3907B380C0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the credit union</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>any credit union</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD24EEF0435594CC2A4CCFDC4272D034"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting <quote>of which the subject of the order is, or most recently was, an institution-affiliated party</quote> before the period at the end;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H89F8B62DA2B94FB59E80978E980979A0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)—</text>
<clause id="H21CA85EE0B2D4D76A589DA181BADE1D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the credit union</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>any credit union</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H997F0C13B671477BAAFA902CB1493DB1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the credit union’s</quote> and inserting <quote>any credit union’s</quote>; </text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC54F17718C1A47EDB68F73385791EE18"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D)(i), by striking <quote>upon such credit union</quote> and inserting <quote>upon the credit union of which the subject of the order is, or most recently was, an institution-affiliated party</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBA5003E2652E4C68BE86A862FCFD3966"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H0C86B0C0D202454A9CF87231234C8E28"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Continuation of authority</header><text>The Board may issue an order under this paragraph with respect to an individual who is an institution-affiliated party at a credit union at the time of an offense described in subparagraph (A) without regard to—</text>
<clause id="H76CE9F68764742799589ED7E99928628"><enum>(i)</enum><text>whether such individual is an institution-affiliated party at any credit union at the time the order is considered or issued by the Board; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HE71DCF277F464066B6BE42829B6FB23C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>whether the credit union at which the individual was an institution-affiliated party at the time of the offense remains in existence at the time the order is considered or issued by the Board.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA3B15674FD8E4FF4A301BDACCA82F75"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>Section 206(i) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1786(i)) is amended by striking <quote>(i)</quote> at the beginning and inserting the following new subsection heading:</text>
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<subsection id="H66306B7A92D64653BBA46E852295A3C5"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Suspension, removal, and prohibition from participation orders in the case of certain criminal offenses</header></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HBA0FB793745342C985CDCC53A927CD00"><enum>610.</enum><header>Streamlining depository institution merger application requirements</header>
<subsection id="HB7552C6B526247FFB2136CD382762183"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Paragraph (4) of section 18(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(c)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H034D8E853E8E4ABEBE36A357DFA72432"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Reports on competitive factors</header>
<subparagraph id="HAB6EF8E77E6B4C968E117C852DC2792D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Request for report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the interests of uniform standards and subject to subparagraph (B), the responsible agency shall, before acting on any application for approval of a merger transaction—</text>
<clause id="HF0854E104DB340D4A9F4608732C4523D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>request a report on the competitive factors involved from the Attorney General; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HA3040A92EBAE4A0087F68EDC85CB185C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>provide a copy of the request to the Corporation (when the Corporation is not the responsible agency).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H03B1BB1A11CC41B89C74E62771DC06B0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Concurrent consideration</header><text>The responsible agency shall not be required to make a request under subparagraph (A) before acting on an application for approval of a merger transaction if—</text>
<clause id="HBA246B2645434EAEA4E0A77BA8C5EB87"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the agency finds that it must act immediately in order to prevent the probable failure of a depository institution involved in the transaction; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H1BF0384E733348F1A561B9304FA37E70"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the transaction consists of a merger between an insured depository institution and 1 or more affiliates of the depository institution.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDABDB3BFE9E8495EB15B9B25D98D8C5D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Furnishing of report</header><text>The report requested under subparagraph (A) shall be furnished by the Attorney General to the responsible agency—</text>
<clause id="H14D80E63B634489AA15164CB12E13665"><enum>(i)</enum><text>not more than 30 calendar days after the date on which the Attorney General received the request; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H29E94D96DA96444F8D9BBDCC813D8C00"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not more than 10 calendar days after such date, if the requesting agency advises the Attorney General that an emergency exists requiring expeditious action.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H7806A440D8524631843DFAA75BF7686"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendment</header><text>Section 18(c)(6) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(c)(6)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2B748BAB1A4646EEB23E7BF3006F7664"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence by striking <quote>banks or savings associations involved</quote> and inserting the following: <quote>insured depository institutions involved, or if the proposed merger transaction is solely between an insured depository institution and 1 or more of affiliates of the depository institution,</quote> and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H64083E41BB6349129B6D11869DC14BCA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the penultimate sentence and inserting the following: <quote>If the agency has advised the Attorney General under paragraph (4)(C)(ii) of the existence of an emergency requiring expeditious action and has requested a report on the competitive factors within 10 days, the transaction may not be consummated before the fifth calendar day after the date of approval by the agency.</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H2397E8F13CC34EE7A87B3EA21BFE6840"><enum>611.</enum><header>Inclusion of Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision in list of banking agencies regarding insurance customer protection regulations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 47(g)(2)(B)(i) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1831x(g)(2)(B)(i)) is amended by inserting <quote>the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision,</quote> after <quote>Comptroller of the Currency,</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="HC040601DB0A94AABAE56A11B00EECCB1"><enum>612.</enum><header>Protection of confidential information received by Federal banking regulators from foreign banking supervisors</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 15 of the <act-name parsable-cite="IBA78">International Banking Act of 1978</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 3109) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="HC485160C89F8416784FC3FD09047F323"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Confidential information received from foreign supervisors</header>
<paragraph id="H45A989EBB4104BE3807C7F61134DBE4C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (3), a Federal banking agency shall not be compelled to disclose information received from a foreign regulatory or supervisory authority if—</text>
<subparagraph id="H69F52FEF25114C3BA36D0060E9A860D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Federal banking agency determines that the foreign regulatory or supervisory authority has, in good faith, determined and represented to such Federal banking agency that public disclosure of the information would violate the laws applicable to that foreign regulatory or supervisory authority; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7B8B5726553842F2B2AA57B9D103048"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the relevant Federal banking agency obtained such information pursuant to—</text>
<clause id="H4303BF9A797E4A9B9BE6E1D300BB65D8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such procedures as the Federal banking agency may establish for use in connection with the administration and enforcement of Federal banking laws; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HA2E75216A1A54FBF96706F23E136BA19"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a memorandum of understanding or other similar arrangement between the Federal banking agency and the foreign regulatory or supervisory authority.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4C2CAB6CC2794B938B8700618FFF5269"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Treatment under title <enum-in-header>5</enum-in-header>, united states code</header><text>For purposes of section 552 of title 5, United States Code, this subsection shall be treated as a statute described in subsection (b)(3)(B) of such section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H258182676F0942A2BCEE9BF4C85EAC2D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Savings provision</header><text>No provision of this section shall be construed as—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1308295E687A43A2A0639B2921B0C78"><enum>(A)</enum><text>authorizing any Federal banking agency to withhold any information from any duly authorized committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1EF28536C722439582D174446989FB03"><enum>(B)</enum><text>preventing any Federal banking agency from complying with an order of a court of the United States in an action commenced by the United States or such agency.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H04B562271044422E008CF162E700A58"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Federal banking agency defined</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, the term <term>Federal banking agency</term> means the Board, the Comptroller, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HE797177DF36745E7B063ED091C7CB4F4"><enum>613.</enum><header>Prohibition on participation by convicted individual</header>
<subsection id="H2FD170C8E4F84A448285F3A377D9A1D8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Extension of automatic prohibition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 19 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1829) is amended by inserting after subsection (c) (as added by section 603 of this title) the following new subsections:</text>
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<subsection id="H0159127670BC4555AFAA2B79CB3DD4AC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Bank holding companies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to any company (other than a foreign bank) that is a bank holding company and any organization organized and operated under section 25A of the <act-name parsable-cite="FRA">Federal Reserve Act</act-name> or operating under section 25 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FRA">Federal Reserve Act</act-name> as if such bank holding company or organization were an insured depository institution, except such subsections shall be applied for purposes of this subsection by substituting <quote>Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System</quote> for <quote>Corporation</quote> each place such term appears in such subsections.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H2EA909663AF54F77891D2CA052BB9741"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Savings and loan holding companies</header><text>Subsections (a) and (b) shall apply to any savings and loan holding company and any subsidiary (other than a savings association) of a savings and loan holding company as if such savings and loan holding company or subsidiary were an insured depository institution, except such subsections shall be applied for purposes of this subsection by substituting <quote>Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision</quote> for <quote>Corporation</quote> each place such term appears in such subsections.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H69ED7095BC674BE38E6D1839EBF56F27"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Enhanced discretion to remove convicted individuals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8(e)(2)(A) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1818(e)(2)(A)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H63D9062888034197BC9FD914FE1CC220"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of clause (ii);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H930D59A73EB8456098F3BB001949EF87"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the comma at the end of clause (iii) and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H485F4720970746DE9F55E6009423F7A2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new clause:</text>
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<clause id="H9D0A63EFF42649279536EE455F87EE58"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an institution-affiliated party of a subsidiary (other than a bank) of a bank holding company has been convicted of any criminal offense involving dishonesty or a breach of trust, or has agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion or similar program in connection with a prosecution for such an offense,</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HAD732F215C7F48F0ACB95B811594D8C0"><enum>614.</enum><header>Clarification that notice after separation from service may be made by an order</header>
<subsection id="H05FA4DADC27C4DF99EA30520679229D1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 8(i)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1818(i)(3)) is amended by inserting <quote>or order</quote> after <quote>notice</quote> each place such term appears.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HF7D2313F0AE14577A2C5A5B26F339166"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendment</header><text>The heading for section 8(i)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1818(i)(3)) is amended by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">or order</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">Notice</header-in-text></quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HADCB8575BD59442A89005D9D57FC4DC4"><enum>615.</enum><header>Enforcement against misrepresentations regarding FDIC deposit insurance coverage</header>
<subsection id="H20EB964B8FB44F73939F30AAF7006DFB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 18(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H7D62D9C09A634FACBD4E6C84F6A1C38D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>False advertising, misuse of fdic names, and misrepresentation to indicate insured status</header>
<subparagraph id="H2AD5C2B8AC134523A7EAA1C2723E9D8D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Prohibition on false advertising and misuse of fdic names</header><text>No person may—</text>
<clause id="HA11E7C525EFF403FACA07E274E98DCCB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>use the terms <term>Federal Deposit</term>, <term>Federal Deposit Insurance</term>, <term>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation</term>, any combination of such terms, or the abbreviation <quote>FDIC</quote> as part of the business name or firm name of any person, including any corporation, partnership, business trust, association, or other business entity; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H051433E7A2E24037A34CCAC100E518DE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>use such terms or any other sign or symbol as part of an advertisement, solicitation, or other document,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">to represent, suggest or imply that any deposit liability, obligation, certificate or share is insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, if such deposit liability, obligation, certificate, or share is not insured or guaranteed by the Corporation.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H17C1A6BC85B14ABDA885F905468B761F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Prohibition on misrepresentations of insured status</header><text>No person may knowingly misrepresent—</text>
<clause id="HCAB146C4C97943D084571F93F96C24A8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>that any deposit liability, obligation, certificate, or share is federally insured, if such deposit liability, obligation, certificate, or share is not insured by the Corporation; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H43B43E7218764A5B9700C0C400576F94"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the extent to which or the manner in which any deposit liability, obligation, certificate, or share is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, if such deposit liability, obligation, certificate, or share is not insured by the Corporation to the extent or in the manner represented.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF415D03DDA2B4BD58E512FA8A21B48CA"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Authority of fdic</header><text>The Corporation shall have—</text>
<clause id="H1ADB306E8DA94336B900CE62C4882713"><enum>(i)</enum><text>jurisdiction over any person that violates this paragraph, or aids or abets the violation of this paragraph; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H05C0EA222BD34A279FC68C4D100657B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for purposes of enforcing the requirements of this paragraph with regard to any person—</text>
<subclause id="H76925737B89D41838921068FDA359E95"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the authority of the Corporation under section 10(c) to conduct investigations; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H9FFC61C2E6E84936A3F0868F17997882"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the enforcement authority of the Corporation under subsections (b), (c), (d) and (i) of section 8,</text></subclause></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">as if such person were a state nonmember insured bank.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H98A051C0DF26402EAECC3E3666E5D4C4"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Other actions preserved</header><text>No provision of this paragraph shall be construed as barring any action otherwise available, under the laws of the United States or any State, to any Federal or State law enforcement agency or individual.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H29FF3F60668E472C94B6D300EF85F484"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Enforcement orders</header><text>Section 8(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1818(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H1574D5EC0108426B9231734D6D00916E"><enum>(4)</enum><header>False advertising or misuse of names to indicate insured status</header>
<subparagraph id="HAABBB6BAAAB243D1AA1314CDBCB2D6D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Temporary order</header>
<clause id="H7F9616BA797340E98DC6380087C20072"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If a notice of charges served under subsection (b)(1) of this section specifies on the basis of particular facts that any person is engaged in conduct described in section 18(a)(4), the Corporation may issue a temporary order requiring—</text>
<subclause id="HAA6BE0B44DA146CC9B99CCE76E3B17B3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the immediate cessation of any activity or practice described, which gave rise to the notice of charges; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H92CAFAEE51B04A3180246F651F52E1B1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>affirmative action to prevent any further, or to remedy any existing, violation.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H656BE569F2FA4BEE9741951FA7905E00"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Effect of order</header><text>Any temporary order issued under this subparagraph shall take effect upon service.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H575CE5E1C2A74DB8A1FF7B5EACF1882E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Effective period of temporary order</header><text>A temporary order issued under subparagraph (A) shall remain effective and enforceable, pending the completion of an administrative proceeding pursuant to subsection (b)(1) in connection with the notice of charges—</text>
<clause id="H6C7F1C15AFC94CE79FECEAC3DE88B154"><enum>(i)</enum><text>until such time as the Corporation shall dismiss the charges specified in such notice; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HA5D29C8FD9A04E56824C7325B9A2B275"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if a cease-and-desist order is issued against such person, until the effective date of such order.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF56263D0991D4B02955801790716FBC3"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Civil money penalties</header><text>Violations of section 18(a)(4) shall be subject to civil money penalties as set forth in subsection (i) in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 for each day during which the violation occurs or continues.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HAABE59DE18E447488578E023101D41A4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="HE7BEA8F599314A3DBFA500472524B594"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 18(a)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(a)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H11EAEF0CBA754EB4AFCB23A59660ABC1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the 1st sentence by striking <quote>of this subsection</quote> and inserting <quote>of paragraphs (1) and (2)</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HABA761E8C31047AB8DA4A21E0692B915"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the 2nd sentence; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF1CA3BF89C904C16A1105D81E64EA199"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the 3rd sentence, by striking <quote>of this subsection</quote> and inserting <quote>of paragraphs (1) and (2)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE729C2F61238464E9DFD18AACA07F546"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The heading for subsection (a) of section 18 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1828(a)) is amended by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">Insurance logo</header-in-text>.—</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection">Representations of deposit insurance</header-in-text>.—</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HEE02F98EB6A14565B999BFE3136F851B" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>616.</enum><header>Changes required to small bank holding company policy statement on assessment of financial and managerial factors</header>
<subsection id="H097B47860A8E49D789D7722D117B3744"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Small bank holding company policy statement on assessment of financial and managerial factors</header>
<paragraph id="HCBFF863D5A9942F3B9E13612CCAABDC2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall publish in the Federal Register proposed revisions to the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement on Assessment of Financial and Managerial Factors (12 C.F.R. part 225—appendix C) that provide that the policy shall apply to a bank holding company which has pro forma consolidated assets of less than $1,000,000,000 and that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA9D03360BDA7495782A1003FB661D07C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is not engaged in any nonbanking activities involving significant leverage; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCE5349B8388C410CBC7D26D92CFADBF"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not have a significant amount of outstanding debt that is held by the general public.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE3A8F34830474E858CB300479241F227"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Adjustment of amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall annually adjust the dollar amount referred to in paragraph (1) in the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement on Assessment of Financial and Managerial Factors by an amount equal to the percentage increase, for the most recent year, in total assets held by all insured depository institutions, as determined by the Board.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HF06A89D6689F4F84939786E6ED57AE5E" commented="no"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increase in debt-to-equity ratio of small bank holding company</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall publish in the Federal Register proposed revisions to the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement on Assessment of Financial and Managerial Factors (12 C.F.R. part 225—appendix C) such that the debt-to-equity ratio allowable for a small bank holding company in order to remain eligible to pay a corporate dividend and to remain eligible for expedited processing procedures under Regulation Y of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System would increase from 1:1 to 3:1.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HA4F9E9BFFB3C4780A7C0659432B7FF04" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>617.</enum><header>Exception to annual privacy notice requirement under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 503 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6803) is amended by adding the following new subsections:</text>
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<subsection id="H97065B928B8A4EB9B952F647FBB7B2BB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exception to annual notice requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A financial institution that—</text>
<paragraph id="H6DB4CB789F3C421EA04C9602EC85C18F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides nonpublic personal information only in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b)(2) or (e) of section 502 or regulations prescribed under section 504(b);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H938CB93562B549DF89273D5682797344"><enum>(2)</enum><text>does not share information with affiliates under section 603(d)(2)(A) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H72742F63982A4E3987DF018082FAF89E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has not changed its policies and practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic personal information from the policies and practices that were disclosed in the most recent disclosure sent to consumers in accordance with this subsection, </text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">shall not be required to provide an annual disclosure under this subsection until such time as the financial institution fails to comply with any criteria described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3).</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA4F06A5BB9EE45E98995D3879E4B6E15"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Exception to notice requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A financial institution shall not be required to provide any disclosure under this section if—</text>
<paragraph id="H50FFDBC156224575A9FD9789F300388B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the financial institution is licensed by a State and is subject to existing regulation of consumer confidentiality that prohibits disclosure of nonpublic personal information without knowing and expressed consent of the consumer in the form of laws, rules, or regulation of professional conduct or ethics promulgated either by the court of highest appellate authority or by the principal legislative body or regulatory agency or body of any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3C1658B9280C4C90BEEAFA1E2EA9D67F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the financial institution is licensed by a State and becomes subject to future regulation of consumer confidentiality that prohibits disclosure of nonpublic personal information without knowing and expressed consent of the consumer in the form of laws, rules, or regulation of professional conduct or ethics promulgated either by the court of highest appellate authority or by the principal legislative body or regulatory agency or body of any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H71C2CAF734514A1E88E7B93CACF43F54"><enum>618.</enum><header>Biennial reports on the status of agency employment of minorities and women</header>
<subsection id="HA33F2D432431417BB929F037CC13E347"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Before December 31, 2005, and the end of each 2-year period beginning after such date, each Federal banking agency shall submit a report to the Congress on the status of the employment by the agency of minority individuals and women.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9D7737FBF0E24E80AA08879240EFC2E8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Factors to be included</header><text>The report shall include a detailed assessment of each of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H4669EF3BE6C94914A67D4261FF00F3B5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The extent of hiring of minority individuals and women by the agency as of the time the report is prepared.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H45763124D2BA480DB43F78F33D02D895"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The successes achieved and challenges faced by the agency in operating minority and women outreach programs.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H30DA17414A7F4EE39DE10386A32499DD"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Challenges the agency may face in finding qualified minority individual and women applicants.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDBF156C99BB746BF94ED8869D980C114"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Such other information, findings, and conclusions, and recommendations for legislative or agency action, as the agency may determine to be appropriate to include in the report.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD622646C7CB3491AA1D81E12E34DE347"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:</text>
<paragraph id="HC15DA9210D004554B324BF56CE64D3E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Federal banking agency</header><text>The term <term>Federal banking agency</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="H213A988937844DAAA384A065F798785"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has the same meaning as in section 3(z) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE7420E1FF18D4FEF996BAF2DB5C5F6F4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes the National Credit Union Administration.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6A228EA3F2004D3DA9DB98FD633ED916"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Minority</header><text>The term <term>minority</term> has the same meaning as in section 1204(c)(3) of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H4384B1D15D8A4B32A8FA44509194C08F"><enum>619.</enum><header>Coordination of State examination authority</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10(h) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FDIA">Federal Deposit Insurance Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1820(h)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H04A3EF06BCB34C029500FF81748F3ED5"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Coordination of examination authority</header>
<paragraph id="H2278C01CF2DC4F39005C78682100CCA0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>State bank supervisors of home and host states</header>
<subparagraph id="H675730EB5F60485AA2CBD119E737B490"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Home state of bank</header><text>The appropriate State bank supervisor of the home State of an insured State bank has authority to examine and supervise the bank.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H92FD58B963C943AFB3FADA37D3B3D276"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Host state branches</header><text>The State bank supervisor of the home State of an insured State bank and any State bank supervisor of an appropriate host State shall exercise their respective authority to supervise and examine the branches of the bank in a host State in accordance with the terms of any applicable cooperative agreement between the home State bank supervisor and the State bank supervisor of the relevant host State.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H925131B6FF474A55AD30F18C008CAA02"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Supervisory fees</header><text>Except as expressly provided in a cooperative agreement between the State bank supervisors of the home State and any host State of an insured State bank, only the State bank supervisor of the home State of an insured State bank may levy or charge State supervisory fees on the bank.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC9D99904D2B5438CBDF49F4CF18CA303"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Host state examination</header>
<subparagraph id="H058AB720CF4D4AEDB3C007D31BB1A8D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>With respect to a branch operated in a host State by an out-of-State insured State bank that resulted from an interstate merger transaction approved under section 44 or that was established in such State pursuant to section 5155(g) of the Revised Statutes, the third undesignated paragraph of section 9 of the <act-name parsable-cite="FRA">Federal Reserve Act</act-name> or section 18(d)(4) of this Act, the appropriate State bank supervisor of such host State may—</text>
<clause id="H441486FA490641A49BDBC571B9FE27CB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>with written notice to the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State and subject to the terms of any applicable cooperative agreement with the State bank supervisor of such home State, examine such branch for the purpose of determining compliance with host State laws that are applicable pursuant to section 24(j) of this Act, including those that govern community reinvestment, fair lending, and consumer protection; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HA0D80C900036483C9E5C65980069FD20"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if expressly permitted under and subject to the terms of a cooperative agreement with the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State or if such out-of-State insured State bank has been determined to be in a troubled condition by either the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State or the bank’s appropriate Federal banking agency, participate in the examination of the bank by the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State to ascertain that the activities of the branch in such host State are not conducted in an unsafe or unsound manner.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H89F36F7D18D1493CA63D593B01C4A441"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notice of determination</header>
<clause id="H11695A5CCAD944BE82C3B2E093300A3"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The State bank supervisor of the home State of an insured State bank should notify the State bank supervisor of each host State of the bank if there has been a final determination that the bank is in a troubled condition.</text></clause>
<clause id="HC07A58C59E6F438BB8A953F4FE796229"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Timing of notice</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The State bank supervisor of the home State of an insured State bank should provide notice under clause (i) as soon as reasonably possible but in all cases within 15 business days after the State bank supervisor has made such final determination or has received written notification of such final determination.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5CE61706FC9C4806B894B72F00A0C041"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Host state enforcement</header><text>If the State bank supervisor of a host State determines that a branch of an out-of-State State insured State bank is violating any law of the host State that is applicable to such branch pursuant to section 24(j) of this Act, including a law that governs community reinvestment, fair lending, or consumer protection, the State bank supervisor of the host State or, to the extent authorized by the law of the host State, a host State law enforcement officer may, with written notice to the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State and subject to the terms of any applicable cooperative agreement with the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State, undertake such enforcement actions and proceedings as would be permitted under the law of the host State as if the branch were a bank chartered by that host State.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB65BC4CFF4334ED39E2C76073C31A5F2"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Cooperative agreement</header>
<subparagraph id="HC95DC60111AC484AA731DAAA8D68B44F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The State bank supervisors from 2 or more States may enter into cooperative agreements to facilitate State regulatory supervision of State banks, including cooperative agreements relating to the coordination of examinations and joint participation in examinations. For purposes of this subsection (h), the term <term>cooperative agreement</term> means a written agreement that is signed by the home State bank supervisor and host State bank supervisor to facilitate State regulatory supervision of State banks and includes nationwide or multi-state cooperative agreements and cooperative agreements solely between the home State and host State.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H73C228DED59745E5927D742BE47F7468"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Except for State bank supervisors, no provision of this subsection relating to such cooperative agreements shall be construed as limiting in any way the authority of home and host State law enforcement officers, regulatory supervisors, or other officials that have not signed such cooperative agreements to enforce host State laws that are applicable to a branch of an out-of-State insured State bank located in the host State pursuant to section 24(j) of this Act.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8FF157243544454F87767FC835B28EE3"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Federal regulatory authority</header><text>No provision of this subsection shall be construed as limiting in any way the authority of any Federal banking agency.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D89ABE2A60C49720005ECE5FFBCD448"><enum>(6)</enum><header>State taxation authority not affected</header><text>No provision of this subsection (h) shall be construed as affecting the authority of any State or political subdivision of any State to adopt, apply, or administer any tax or method of taxation to any bank, bank holding company, or foreign bank, or any affiliate of any bank, bank holding company, or foreign bank, to the extent such tax or tax method is otherwise permissible by or under the Constitution of the United States or other Federal law.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C9879F1362847979670FCBA7D89B89"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply:</text>
<subparagraph id="H3998A85468DF4AAAACA8B2EE790882AE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Host state, home state, out-of-State bank</header><text>The terms <term>host State</term>, <term>home State</term>, and <term>out-of-State bank</term> have the same meanings as in section 44(g).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB83C798B8750476782883E5EA986B517"><enum>(B)</enum><header>State supervisory fees</header><text>The term <term>State supervisory fees</term> means assessments, examination fees, branch fees, license fees, and all other fees that are levied or charged by a State bank supervisor directly upon an insured State bank or upon branches of an insured State bank.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA3EA0AF047424780BEEA0074D500E519"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Troubled condition</header><text>Solely for purposes of subparagraph (2)(B) of this subsection (h), an insured State bank has been determined to be in <quote>troubled condition</quote> if the bank—</text>
<clause id="H9A99EA1CF77F496E869FEE132E8FCD5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>has a composite rating, as determined in its most recent report of examination, of 4 or 5 under the Uniform Financial Institutions Ratings System (UFIRS); or</text></clause>
<clause id="H240179FDD82A4A6FB111FF53E932D1D3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is subject to a proceeding initiated by the Corporation for termination or suspension of deposit insurance; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H1B7ED5BD2D974E7BBF3CE7D3AB5D5000"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is subject to a proceeding initiated by the State bank supervisor of the bank’s home State to vacate, revoke, or terminate the charter of the bank, or to liquidate the bank, or to appoint a receiver for the bank.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H80AC9924B58B48F3A6A02353FC00C2A1"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Final determination</header><text>For the purposes of paragraph (2)(B), the term <term>final determination</term> means the transmittal of a report of examination to the bank or transmittal of official notice of proceedings to the bank.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H42FD56BD91794ACAAE21C81765EC002D"><enum>620.</enum><header>Nonwaiver of privileges</header>
<subsection id="H8B2C8BAA92C04CD58462BADBF9ECC61"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Insured depository institutions</header><text>Section 18 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1828) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="H0BF6C0C7DEDF44C38601D3D0116EE71E"><enum>(x)</enum><header>Privileges not affected by disclosure to banking agency or supervisor</header>
<paragraph id="H2442987466154495A8D9A58F9D085984"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The submission by any person of any information to any Federal banking agency, State bank supervisor, or foreign banking authority for any purpose in the course of any supervisory or regulatory process of such agency, supervisor, or authority shall not be construed as waiving, destroying, or otherwise affecting any privilege such person may claim with respect to such information under Federal or State law as to any person or entity other than such agency, supervisor, or authority.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0FD2C85451B747E381A305494172F300"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>No provision of paragraph (1) may be construed as implying or establishing that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5C584B71B08D4D97BD75C53B367B2083"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any person waives any privilege applicable to information that is submitted or transferred under any circumstance to which paragraph (1) does not apply; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2FEBAB8D2C574FD9AE9F957342514B25" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any person would waive any privilege applicable to any information by submitting the information to any Federal banking agency, State bank supervisor, or foreign banking authority, but for this subsection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HC084E5258FC0453AB09922A5675946EF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Insured credit unions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 205 of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C.1785) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="H829E30FAC3A149B9B4003DF2E2EAC30"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Privileges not affected by disclosure to banking agency or supervisor</header>
<paragraph id="HC9663A332E134504A8868C00B419F93E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The submission by any person of any information to the Administration, any State credit union supervisor, or foreign banking authority for any purpose in the course of any supervisory or regulatory process of such Board, supervisor, or authority shall not be construed as waiving, destroying, or otherwise affecting any privilege such person may claim with respect to such information under Federal or State law as to any person or entity other than such Board, supervisor, or authority.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE68F11E8A93148B8BE10B3A04F9FB52F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>No provision of paragraph (1) may be construed as implying or establishing that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H74A8634FABB940BFA487F1F6FEBDE1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any person waives any privilege applicable to information that is submitted or transferred under any circumstance to which paragraph (1) does not apply; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9925C1E433104F4CAAD9DCE5A7F937D7" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any person would waive any privilege applicable to any information by submitting the information to the Administration, any State credit union supervisor, or foreign banking authority, but for this subsection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H8665681C1C7B4BD1B85428B190A3069F"><enum>621.</enum><header>Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 amendment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 1101 of the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3401) is amended by inserting <quote>(including any lender who advances funds on pledges of personal property)</quote> after <quote>consumer finance institution</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H158766D8F6184F38B47D75CC3618B88F"><enum>622.</enum><header>Deputy director; succession authority for Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision</header>
<subsection id="HFAF48F5712D34AF091361633A07F4479"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment of position of deputy director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3(c)(5) of the Home Owners’ Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1462a(c)(5)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H3CB43B993E074A4900AF30B2C8D1E23"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Deputy director</header>
<subparagraph id="HEF2FF6466FCF4D2CA9F9005BD8DEA3D9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint a Deputy Director and may appoint up to 3 additional Deputy Directors.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC8BB62A8F08544208652A1D2D600D827"><enum>(B)</enum><header>First deputy director</header><text>If the Secretary of the Treasury appoints more than 1 Deputy Director of the Office, the Secretary shall designate one such appointee as the First Deputy Director.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0DECEBD3828B4C448D0283759CDDF8F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Duties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each Deputy Director appointed under this paragraph shall take an oath of office and perform such duties as the Director shall direct.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDA643C463B72435E87C778B810E93774"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Compensation and benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director shall fix the compensation and benefits for each Deputy Director in accordance with this Act.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HE831BFD2727A462CA8AB4832A95000DD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Service of deputy director as acting director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3(c)(3) of the Home Owners’ Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1462a(c)(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA82530BB5E3C4A41A90730B4AB880064"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Vacancy</header-in-text>.—A vacancy in the position of Director</quote> and inserting </text>
<quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H5EB6573F75254C1084EC7A429808F8E"><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Vacancy</header-in-text>.—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDF44DDFC5ECF40768274C38F7F007CA8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A vacancy in the position of Director</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H37DC2438BE9E4384867C57B13366D52D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HCEB261A2258A4506B9BD247E4FED41E5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Acting director</header>
<clause id="HC478F98BF4CC4C71BCBB57D146AC299E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the event of a vacancy in the position of Director or during the absence or disability of the Director, the Deputy Director shall serve as Acting Director.</text></clause>
<clause id="H84456ADBF05D4C52A9FF28AEF9A111AE"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Succession in case of 2 or more deputy directors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If there are 2 or more Deputy Directors serving at the time a vacancy in the position of Director occurs or the absence or disability of the Director commences, the First Deputy Director shall serve as Acting Director under clause (i) followed by such other Deputy Directors under any order of succession the Director may establish.</text></clause>
<clause id="H924085D73B834C6ABCF42451F8AE4276"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Authority of acting director</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any Deputy Director, while serving as Acting Director under this subparagraph, shall be vested with all authority, duties, and privileges of the Director under this Act and any other provision of Federal law.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HEDACD7CD2C474447ABF8963CBBC00297" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>623.</enum><header>Limitation on scope of new agency guidelines</header>
<subsection id="H752B9C8913584EC398F583000829B754"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The provisions of the multi-agency guidance Numbered 2003-1 issued by the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision that relate to minimum credit card payments and negative amortization—</text>
<paragraph id="HC5B35BB0436F491EA0409810481FF101"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall only apply to new credit card accounts established by a creditor for a consumer after the date of the enactment of this Act under an open end consumer credit plan; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H690F273CDEE14AB4AD74D7F649C5F96D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall not apply to any outstanding balance on any credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan as of such date of enactment.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H2B5955082A204DBF9E41D31432A5AA53"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section, the terms <quote>credit</quote>, <quote>credit card</quote>, <quote>creditor</quote>, <quote>consumer</quote> and <quote>open end credit plan</quote> have the same meanings as in section 103 of the Truth in Lending Act.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H1672F59DFA224EF9B584225D7F82A25C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Sunset provision</header><text>This section shall not apply after the end of the 3-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act .</text></subsection></section>
<enum>VII</enum><header><quote>BSA</quote> COMPLIANCE BURDEN REDUCTION</header>
<section id="H939112ED14384F269C1550CA4BF06EA5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>701.</enum><header>Exception from currency transaction reports for seasoned customers</header>
<subsection id="HAA6C94FDB4304BFA8239E863008B81B4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Congress finds as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="HA30A9E3B3FDE4919BE72EA77CE74F359"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The completion of and filing of currency transaction reports under section 5313 of title 31, United States Code, poses a compliance burden on the financial industry.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4A9F25D35B394E17BDF6F2EA3FAA2F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Due to the nature of the transactions or the persons and entities conducting such transactions, certain such reports as currently filed do not appear to be relevant to the detection, deterrence, or investigation of financial crimes, including money laundering and the financing of terrorism.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD44A264B914F4933AE40D580F224F9D2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>However, the data contained in such reports can provide valuable context for the analysis of other data derived pursuant to subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, as well as investigative data, which provides invaluable and indispensable information supporting efforts to combat money laundering and other financial crimes.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAE9450AA64ED46B2932F3813B02F2F70"><enum>(4)</enum><text>An exemption from the reporting requirements for certain currency transactions that are of little or no value to ongoing efforts of law enforcement agencies, financial regulatory agencies, and the financial services industry to investigate, detect, or deter financial crimes would serve to balance the burden placed on members of the financial services industry with the compelling need to produce and provide meaningful information to policy-makers, financial regulators, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8424068BD72C4BA6848D004BDF4CFFEE"><enum>(5)</enum><text>The Secretary of the Treasury has by regulation, and in accordance with section 5313 of title 31, United States Code, implemented a process by which institutions may seek exemptions from filing certain currency transaction reports based on appropriate circumstances; however, the existing exemption process has not adequately balanced the burden on the financial industry with the Government’s need for data to support its efforts in combating financial crime.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H44BB98589D1F44D887CC0F752D87CF"><enum>(6)</enum><text>The act of providing notice to the Secretary of the Treasury of designations of exemption provides meaningful information to law enforcement officials on exempt customers and enables law enforcement to obtain account information through appropriate legal process; the act of providing notice of designations of exemption complements other sections of title 31, United States Code, whereby law enforcement can locate financial institutions with relevant records relating to a person of investigative interest, such as information requests made pursuant to regulations implementing section 314(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8AF8BD12FABB4467000859C009E18FF"><enum>(7)</enum><text>A designation of exemption has no effect on requirements for depository institutions to apply the full range of anti-money laundering controls as set forth in subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, including the requirement to apply the customer identification program pursuant to Section 5326 of subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, and the requirement to identify, monitor, and, if appropriate, report suspicious activity in accordance with section 5318(g) of title 31, United States Code. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8CEEE196882941989E3F990684615786"><enum>(8)</enum><text>The Federal banking agencies and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network have recently provided guidance through the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual on applying appropriate levels of due diligence and identifying suspicious activity by the types of cash-intensive businesses that generally will be subject to exemption.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H29FDF516928544DE9B2525A19301977B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Seasoned customer exemption</header>
<paragraph id="H8376257474F24F658516C538A93861B0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5313(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H2FEC77C2E0074E1B92CD222BA0733E45"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Qualified customer exemption</header>
<paragraph id="H2D738269DA4845AB88567900D770A850"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations within 270 days of the enactment of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2005 that exempt any depository institution from filing a report pursuant to this section in a transaction for the payment, receipt, or transfer of United States coins or currency (or other monetary instruments the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes) with a qualified customer of the depository institution.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H648507CCC3084520819E21B7000390DB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualified customer defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <quote>qualified customer</quote>, with respect to a depository institution, has such meaning as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, which shall include any person that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0931D3FF8DCC4F04AA00A522D0A48100"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States or any State, including a sole proprietorship, or is registered as and eligible to do business within the United States or a State; </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9AC18A7EEA9E4AFBBDD79273BB4F5B49"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has maintained a deposit account with the depository institution for at least 12 months; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H040072CFD8A840EAB889E81B00008437"><enum>(C)</enum><text>has engaged, using such account, in multiple currency transactions that are subject to the reporting requirements of subsection (a).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6186A271A8C543EE9DBFFCB8B28F9BF4" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<subparagraph id="H069429EB6756442AAC14C131AC99FF81" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations requiring a depository institution to file a 1-time notice of designation of exemption for each qualified customer of the depository institution.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0EF71235E9EB4C749300CE93D9C27AC" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Form and content of exemption notice</header><text>The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe the form, manner, content, and timing of the qualified customer exemption notice; such notice shall include information sufficient to identify the qualified customer and its accounts.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE3FB8CA4EA394D16B0E08F33D7AAC861" commented="no"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Authority of secretary</header>
<clause id="HC57879EB7E374F6BA0C9924D17332421" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary may suspend, reject or revoke any qualified customer exemption notice, in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary by regulation.</text></clause>
<clause id="H5650E7A390C24EB9BB57625184E9836C" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may establish conditions, in accordance with criteria prescribed by regulation, under which exempt qualified customers of an insured depository institution that is merged with or acquired by another insured depository institution will continue to be treated as designated exempt qualified customers of the surviving or acquiring institution.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA63E0E3B8BA140DCA7EFD4323E3BB2E9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>3-year review and report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 3-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal banking agencies, the banking industry, and such other persons as the Secretary deems appropriate, shall evaluate the operations and effect of this provision and make recommendations to Congress as to any legislative action with respect to this provision as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate. </text></subsection></section>
<section id="H43499BC0FA324227A9F53101C2CEDD"><enum>702.</enum><header>Reduction in inconsistencies in monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting enforcement and examination requirements</header>
<subsection id="HAB54FC9E2D5B4C2B9E577C6EBDDC2400"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Sense of the Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the sense of the Congress that inconsistencies and redundancies among regulations implementing monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting enforcement programs under section 8 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, section 206(q) of the Federal Credit Union Act, and chapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal banking agencies—</text>
<paragraph id="H3B4C4F412711439292AEB83804DEAD6F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>increase the difficulty depository institutions have in complying with congressional intent in creating such enforcement programs,</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H469427C4BE6F4F2DAAA81501498BFDBF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>reduce the transparency and clarity of the regulatory regime;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0AC0AD38240E4586908D7C310006EFDC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increase the potential for conflict among the various regulations in the future; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H95219EABA605491C98FAAA98841B8EA0"><enum>(4)</enum><text>contribute to the perception that various agencies involved in the enforcement of the monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting requirements apply such requirements inconsistently.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA8F4BA7A98064F89BCB6976E001ECE16"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Agency coordination of monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting requirements</header>
<paragraph id="H5C8554D543EF45F3BB1000EDA6BB1EF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Enforcement programs</header>
<subparagraph id="HD67DE4ACC0FD4C759B8022E2DBF8E518"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Federal Deposit Insurance Act</header><text>Section 8(s) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1818(s)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H3AAAD794EC6F454E8191F3032B9DCAC4"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Coordination on uniform requirements</header><text>In prescribing regulations under paragraph (1), the Federal banking agencies, acting through the Financial Institutions Examination Council, shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3F576551C8844DFB815DC83EA8A896AB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consult with each other, the National Credit Union Administration Board, and the Secretary of the Treasury; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7962BA11C5294DCDA101A825513FB1D4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the requirements for procedures established pursuant to such regulations, and the examination standards for reviewing such procedures, are congruent and reasonably uniform (taking into account differences in the form and function of the institutions subject to such requirements).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H858210DA010F4C8AB804126257EF711F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Federal Credit Union Act</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 206(q) of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1786(q)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H8F1EBED8E06C428C87891FAA364C2FA6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Coordination on uniform requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In prescribing regulations under paragraph (1), the Board, acting through the Financial Institutions Examination Council, shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H35C111CEA8BB44AB9D4EDBED8866B42C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consult with the Federal banking agencies and the Secretary of the Treasury; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4E225AD7A13E436EAD808371FC978E85"><enum>(B)</enum><text>take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the requirements for procedures established pursuant to such regulations, and the examination standards for reviewing such procedures, are congruent and reasonably uniform (taking into account differences in the form and function of the institutions subject to such requirements).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB34609CC057548E582F4337B51BE470"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Examination standards and disputes</header><text>Section 1006 of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3305) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="HC914CA623C314D398D9F097701ECBD47"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting requirements</header><text>The Council and the Secretary of the Treasury shall jointly establish—</text>
<paragraph id="HC561AECAC25B4EDFB458AC175631964E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">uniform standards and principles applicable to the examination of financial institutions to ensure compliance with the requirements of subchapter II of chapter 53, United States Code, sections 8(s) and 21 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and section 206(q) of the Federal Credit Union Act; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1244CBC134D54FC9ADAD7425D75E5EB9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a clear policy statement on appropriate processes for resolving examiner-institution disagreements concerning the application of subchapter II of chapter 53, United States Code, sections 8(s) and 21 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and section 206(q) of the Federal Credit Union Act to financial institutions.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5CF8B91472D743EBAC32CCDD316D601D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The Federal banking agencies, the National Credit Union Administration Board, the Financial Institutions Examination Council, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall commence the discussions and consultations required under the amendments made by this subsection as soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HAC83F671E09B416D8CF389F232526CA1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Review of and report on additional regulatory or legislative changes</header>
<paragraph id="HBEB74951F07745649E9EB1C67F607DAF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Review required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall conduct a review of the potential inconsistencies in, or redundancies among, the regulations pertaining to the application of the requirements of subchapter II of chapter 53, United States Code, sections 8(s) and 21 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and section 206(q) of the Federal Credit Union Act to financial institutions.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01E2118C2BF94093A0331743E300E751"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report to congress and the financial institutions examination council</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon completion of the review under paragraph (1), the Secretary of the Treasury shall promptly submit a report on the findings and conclusions of the Secretary with respect to the review to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate, together with such recommendations for legislative and administrative actions as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate, and shall transmit a copy of such report to the members of the Financial Institutions Examination Council.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HAF840A9090B6453CB0A461F6C4114901"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reform of application of monetary transaction recordkeeping and reporting requirements to financial institutions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 9-month period beginning on the date of the submission of the report to Congress under subsection (c)(2), the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations implementing appropriate changes to regulations within the jurisdiction of the Secretary to remedy redundancies or inconsistencies identified in the review by, and included in the recommendations of, the Secretary under subsection (c).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HD35B0303C5D141D78971B871C454D794"><enum>703.</enum><header>Additional reforms relating to monetary transaction and recordkeeping requirements applicable to financial institutions</header>
<subsection id="H62ED0821507C4132BF0097491EA78F9B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Notification of officers and directors of financial institutions</header><text>Before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H071E76BF4C9943ECB273AA9C969E95E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">review any regulation, guideline, or guidance of the Secretary, any Federal banking agency, or the National Credit Union Administration Board that serves as the basis for any requirement to provide notice to any officer or director of a depository institution of any suspicious activity report submitted by the depository institution to the Secretary and any such agency or Board;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA4E9B542E87440BD969EF3DED9C642E9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">modify or eliminate any such requirement of the Secretary that the Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the purposes of section 5318(g) of title 31, United States Code; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBEC1F5EC770344AA9E1C3E47CC000048"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make a recommendation to any Federal banking agency or the National Credit Union Administration Board to modify or eliminate any such requirement of such agency or Board that the Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the purposes of section 5318(g) of title 31, United States Code.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H08B12DBAA21B4CF4B3367EDEB5F2DCD9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elimination of unnecessary verification requirements applicable to the purchase of financial instruments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 9-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H41428DD85F684BC68FFBDE559F1ADE4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>review all verification of customer identity requirements as they relate to the purchases of monetary instruments by customers of depository institutions, including the regulations codified in section 103.29(a)(ii) of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H54353AB4004A46BA92F7B8C8217C324D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>modify or eliminate any customer identity requirement related to the purchases of monetary instruments by customers of depository institutions codified in section 103.29(a)(ii) of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, that the Secretary determines is unnecessary.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFF625EEC69C649D6BB00CB2740771F9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Elimination of recurring filings of suspicious activity reports on a single transaction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before the end of the 9-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, as appropriate, shall prescribe regulations, or issue other forms of guidance, that eliminate the need for depository institutions to file recurring suspicious activity reports on the same transaction unless there has been a subsequent change in any pattern of activity involving any person who was connected with the transaction.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9E7B74FAE43F47FDB752FEB104FD4037"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Electronic acknowledgement of certain electronic filings</header><text>Before the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network shall put into effect a system for promptly furnishing an electronic acknowledgement of receipt to any institution that files a form with FinCEN under subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, through the Network’s electronic filing system.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H960B42ED4AB8468A98540013D27BBC39"><enum>704.</enum><header>Study by Comptroller General</header>
<subsection id="H41ADB3F51F8540338DC7C9D0E36F4C08"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on methods and practices which would—</text>
<paragraph id="HBB3769A7439F47E9AD2C56688B9DA113"><enum>(1)</enum><text>reduce the overall number of currency transaction reports filed with the Secretary of the Treasury under section 5313(a) of title 31, United States Code, while ensuring that the needs of the Secretary, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, law enforcement agencies, and financial institution regulatory agencies continue to be met;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC7D402489DCF4B0A92272302E07CA13E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">improve financial institution utilization of the current exemption provisions; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H324EF0E514B94462BDF664EBB9F836D6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>mitigate the difficulties in the current implementation of such exemption provisions that limit the utility of the exemption process for financial institutions.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC6756DC4D5504A8A92F41E76E2C4D16"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate on the findings and conclusions of the Comptroller General with respect to the study conducted under subsection (a) and such recommendations for legislative and administrative action as the Comptroller General may determine to be appropriate.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H972401CEB2C1493E83DBB9D519D3FED1" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>705.</enum><header>Feasibility study required</header>
<subsection id="H0C8754950E7749B6B282F0098138D88"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the purpose of simplifying, and increasing compliance with, the various recordkeeping and reporting requirements under subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, chapter 2 of title I of Public Law 91—508, and section 21 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and regulations prescribed under such provisions of law, the Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in this section referred to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>) shall conduct a study on the feasibility of developing and implementing interfaces and templates for use in electronic communications between financial institutions (as defined in section 5312 of title 31, United States Code) and the Secretary, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and other Federal financial institution regulatory agencies.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H53160F0CD0094D33009359B8194DF68F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Factors to Be Considered</header><text>In conducting the study required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall take into account—</text>
<paragraph id="HE63EE24F0D5B4691833152E7E7B52341"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any procedures required to be maintained by financial institutions under regulations prescribed pursuant to section 5318(a)(2) of title 31 of the United States Code and the manner in which the use of interfaces and templates which might be developed could lessen the burden of complying with such procedures; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2E9B4129080C4994A395A773163B472B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any exemptions prescribed by the Secretary under paragraph (5) or (6) of such section 5318(a) and the manner in which interfaces and templates which might be developed could be programmed to reflect any such exemption for a financial institution, transaction, or class of transactions.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6591B6B16B14401EA1CD07F1B3272"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Prototype and Report Required</header>
<paragraph id="H31CC92AB8AA04389B5889B5F2CFE58BD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Before the end of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress containing a detailed description of the findings and conclusions of the Secretary in connection with the study required under subsection (a), together with such recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2A0191AFF7CF4949A2009D91676CF7E8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Prototype</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any recommendation on the feasibility of developing and implementing interfaces and templates for use in electronic communications shall be accompanied by prototypes of such interfaces and templates that demonstrate such feasibility.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H5E80FAE35E144C07A5324412FE24A362"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:</text>
<paragraph id="HA04DDA9F8A7D45209700E81EDCD9928C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Interface</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>interface</quote> means the point and method of interaction between any 2 or more electronic data storage and communication systems that permits and facilitates active electronic communication between or among the systems, including any procedures, codes, and protocols that enable the systems to interact. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF36A272EDD3F4C339EFB91EBE191E1BA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Template</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>template</quote> means a preestablished layout model using word processing or other authoring software that ensures that data entered into it will adhere to a consistent format and content scheme when used by all parties engaged in electronic communications among each other.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H0646876EDC014BC38E885CB0CEBDA481" section-type="subsequent-section" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>706.</enum><header>Annual report by Secretary of the Treasury</header>
<subsection id="HB0F08831C0294D8F9929471654C1DA07"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>The Congress finds as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H653B2182D3B940B1BDDE00F9F98141F3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"> Financial institutions have too little information about money laundering and terrorist financing compliance in other markets. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB9B083BC52A74B2EBE6CDA6EDA8B6FA4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The current Financial Action Task Force designation system does not adequately represent the progress countries are making in combatting money laundering.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB479948F3BA84503A25B11FB10000000"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Lack of information about the compliance of countries with anti-money laundering standards exposes United States financial markets to excessive risk.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDD4BE495299743FBB15250F0C0FD2DDA"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Failure to designate countries that fail to make progress in combatting terrorist financing and money laundering eliminates incentives for internal reform.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB3CF07CB28114A7C959854A7AFF9C13D"><enum>(5)</enum><text>The Secretary of the Treasury has an affirmative duty to provide to financial institutions and examiners the best possible information on compliance with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing initiatives in other markets. </text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD878FB701E714BC3987EE240F33FE8A6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than March 1 of each year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the Congress a report that identifies the applicable standards of each country against money laundering and states whether that country is a country of primary money laundering concern under section 5318A of title 31, United States Code. The report shall include—</text>
<paragraph id="H8EC1D7EC0CA448CCB1F208008BBB2385"><enum>(1)</enum><text>information on the effectiveness of each country in meeting its standards against money laundering;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H886C5AFAB81F4713ACABEFF91AF298B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a determination of whether that the efforts of that country to combat money laundering and terrorist financing are adequate, improving, or inadequate; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0958F199C1A749F08BC1D05216D66F89"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the efforts made by the Secretary to provide to the government of each such country of concern technical assistance to cease the activities that were the basis for the determination that the country was of primary money laundering concern.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H50D785362BBD4614B9046129CDBA21FB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Dissemination of information in report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for incorporation into the examination process, in consultation with Federal banking agencies, and to financial institutions the information contained in the report submitted under subsection (a). Such information shall be made available to financial institutions without cost.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7BA75BE81ED84561A8EEBE9C5B8DC1F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <quote>financial institution</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 5312(a)(2) of title 31, United States Code.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H04FD8ABC35E24748BEB4001D42022F08" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>707.</enum><header>Preservation of money services businesses</header>
<subsection id="H75BE84013EF04D0A9623E2D46956A5DB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>The Congress finds as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H1C2E0D0E31A64965852BF01CF9FB64D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the USA PATRIOT ACT provided United States law enforcement agencies with new tools to combat terrorist financing and money laundering. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01AB197EA0914C25A7361F6B01003F46"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network in the Department of the Treasury (hereafter in this section referred to as <quote>FinCEN</quote> ) has defined money services businesses to include the following 5 distinct types of financial services providers as well as the United States Postal Service:</text>
<subparagraph id="H55AD931384144CE2B166DDBABA5D527F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Currency dealers or exchanges.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8B249ABC838946969DE18611E7000550"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Check cashing services.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD26622CDB2974B439D77573C9EADBC35"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Issuers of travelers’ checks, money orders, or stored value cards.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H09DD6EEBA6F54052A617425E91FF899D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Sellers or redeemers of travelers’ checks, money orders, or stored value cards.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7089B8B181B7470A80A5D2F80689F000"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Money transmitters. </text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7ECB413F79EF4920AFB2F43D1B6F8535"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Money services businesses have had more difficulty in obtaining and maintaining banking services since the passage of the USA PATRIOT ACT.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF6180082E3F44A7FABE85856119B26A8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>On March 30, 2005, FinCEN and the Federal banking agencies (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act) issued a joint statement recognizing the importance of ensuring that money services businesses that comply with the law have reasonable access to banking services. </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8AC50A6A93B84821833C77ECA4916B74"><enum>(5)</enum><text>On April 26, 2005, FinCEN offered guidance to money service businesses on obtaining and maintaining banking services by identifying and explaining to money services businesses the types of information and documentation they are expected to have, and to provide to, depository institutions when conducting banking business.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H44505D50630D4B49B33DDB6758DCB2A8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>At the same time, FinCEN and the Federal banking agencies have issued joint guidance to depository institutions to—</text>
<subparagraph id="H644A63276B9F43498D816DDA832C6965"><enum>(A)</enum><text>clarify the requirements of subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, and related provisions of law; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H21F7CAB237234B018F4453F0EF8C8568"><enum>(B)</enum><text>set forth the minimum steps that depository institutions should take when providing banking services to money services businesses.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDF499CCC10B04357BA1E7700A8C346DA"><enum>(7)</enum><text> It is in the interest of the United States and its allies in the wars against terrorism and drugs to make certain that the international transfer of funds is done in a rules-based, formal, and transparent manner and that individuals are not forced into utilizing informal underground methods due to a lack of services.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HF5AB0473A48840EA9688A74D17B8F11D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sense of the congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the sense of the Congress that depository institutions and money services businesses should follow the guidance offered by FinCEN for the purpose of giving money services businesses full access to banking services and ensuring that money services businesses remain in the mainstream financial system and can be full players in providing important financial services to their customers and be fully cooperative in the fight against terrorist financing and money laundering.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>VIII</enum><header>CLERICAL AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS</header>
<section id="H5DE01ECE59AF4EF29374AC7700DA5538"><enum>801.</enum><header>Clerical amendments to the Home Owners’ Loan Act</header>
<subsection id="HC8973B1CA49842819F66209286E301E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Amendment to table of contents</header><text>The table of contents in section 1 of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1461) is amended by striking the items relating to sections 5 and 6 and inserting the following new items:</text>
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<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 5. Savings associations.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 6. [Repealed.].</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HF49790476B0B432CAD0095E75FFE957D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical Amendments to Headings</header>
<paragraph id="HA0E62D51B3984BB6A931E374B692E855"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The heading for section 4(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1463(a)) is amended by striking <quote>(a) <header-in-text level="subsection">Federal Savings Associations</header-in-text>.—</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) <header-in-text level="subsection">General Responsibilities of the Director</header-in-text>.—</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H497958A4E484423FABD91D3642BF70D1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The section heading for section 5 of the <act-name parsable-cite="HOLA">Home Owners’ Loan Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1464) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="H34955D9FC13B42C7A5C3AEE5FCA1795"><enum>5.</enum><header>Savings associations</header></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H4AE0CAFF4F18415586298086CAB003F"><enum>802.</enum><header>Technical corrections to the <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The <act-name parsable-cite="FCUA">Federal Credit Union Act</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) is amended as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H0A9C8DB9162B4BE392CA5576FF9B05D3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>In section 101(3), strike <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA5DDC35328E24AEA9B8D0016CF00D1ED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In section 101(5), strike the terms <term>account account</term> and <term>account accounts</term> each place any such term appears and insert <quote>account</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4E910BCCBC5043E0885513C5931F4F00"><enum>(3)</enum><text>In section 107(a)(5)(E) (as so designated by section 303 of this Act), strike the period at the end and insert a semicolon.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9FA365907E6447A595E62B72DF071B1E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>In paragraphs (6) and (7) of section 107(a) (as so designated by section 303 of this Act), strike the period at the end and insert a semicolon.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2ED24910FC9941F2A727A2FEC5D1F24"><enum>(5)</enum><text>In section 107(a)(7)(D) (as so designated by section 303 of this Act), strike <quote>the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation or</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H65EA1FBE389D4F1AB8E88DAFECE836F"><enum>(6)</enum><text>In section 107(a)(7)(E) (as so designated by section 303 of this Act), strike <quote>the Federal Home Loan Bank Board,</quote> and insert <quote>the Federal Housing Finance Board,</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1969FB2612E4407200E9EB4829CE509"><enum>(7)</enum><text>In section 107(a)(9) (as so designated by section 303 of this Act), strike <quote>subchapter III</quote> and insert <quote>title III</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H361DFB0647634361801167F718FD8436"><enum>(8)</enum><text>In section 107(a)(13) (as so designated by section 303 of this Act), strike the <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC52F019C4EF343680049E0948382CDDC"><enum>(9)</enum><text>In section 109(c)(2)(A)(i), strike <quote>(12 U.S.C. 4703(16))</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6356044526794690A9D72015EAD94B64"><enum>(10)</enum><text>In section 120(h), strike <quote>the Act approved July 30, 1947 (6 U.S.C., secs. 6–13),</quote> and insert <quote>chapter 93 of title 31, United States Code,</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H885AF534200545660066F1F9E43C261"><enum>(11)</enum><text>In section 201(b)(5), strike <quote>section 116 of</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD0B690C1D6D547FA8BDBB137FCB00E2"><enum>(12)</enum><text>In section 202(h)(3), strike <quote>section 207(c)(1)</quote> and insert <quote>section 207(k)(1)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H02F95A7AE83D49F3B62DE793FE965C50"><enum>(13)</enum><text>In section 204(b), strike <quote>such others powers</quote> and insert <quote>such other powers</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCF78DC5E5DCD484B80D3165746CEBF55"><enum>(14)</enum><text>In section 206(e)(3)(D), strike <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H94703FC1B55A4EEF84A791D89D458B8D"><enum>(15)</enum><text>In section 206(f)(1), strike <quote>subsection (e)(3)(B)</quote> and insert <quote>subsection (e)(3)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H71ABE686DEBD4A13BD00BD80AA3F8DE5"><enum>(16)</enum><text>In section 206(g)(7)(D), strike <quote>and subsection (1)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD0AED234B9E148B2A25F8BFFC7492DE2"><enum>(17)</enum><text>In section 206(t)(2)(B), insert <quote>regulations</quote> after <quote>as defined in</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1B429D42D3224166874151008B0876C5"><enum>(18)</enum><text>In section 206(t)(2)(C), strike <quote>material affect</quote> and insert <quote>material effect</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HADE701C8E381462EAC2BF533F4DED01"><enum>(19)</enum><text>In section 206(t)(4)(A)(ii)(II), strike <quote>or</quote> after the semicolon at the end.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD82DB60192F44CF8B74C26911DCFFBE7"><enum>(20)</enum><text>In section 206A(a)(2)(A), strike <quote>regulator agency</quote> and insert <quote>regulatory agency</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1EB1862F65164BF5BAC66ED228B3A93"><enum>(21)</enum><text>In section 207(c)(5)(B)(i)(I), insert <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon at the end.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBF51652EBFF24386A2C4E6F8EE9D97B"><enum>(22)</enum><text>In the heading for subparagraph (A) of section 207(d)(3), strike <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph">to</header-in-text></quote> and insert <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph">with</header-in-text></quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4382871527454F8DA966EB2729CC2F77"><enum>(23)</enum><text>In section 207(f)(3)(A), strike <quote>category or claimants</quote> and insert <quote>category of claimants</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8F5B852F8684EC085E828067746B5BB"><enum>(24)</enum><text>In section 209(a)(8), strike the period at the end and insert a semicolon.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H068693EAC22245A987128F8F9D512DA5"><enum>(25)</enum><text>In section 216(n), insert <quote>any action</quote> before <quote>that is required</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H31713CD8DAD840B1A0C23E59D2EA002E"><enum>(26)</enum><text>In section 304(b)(3), strike <quote>the affairs or such credit union</quote> and insert <quote>the affairs of such credit union</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H02E0603BE81F47B70061EBADFCC19247"><enum>(27)</enum><text>In section 310, strike <quote>section 102(e)</quote> and insert <quote>section 102(d)</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="HEC8892BAD80D445D9708DC59CA7B7970"><enum>803.</enum><header>Other technical corrections</header>
<subsection id="HD90F3E0A329F4B269D81EAB2C27B229"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Section 1306 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>5136A</quote> and inserting <quote>5136B</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HF54909CE2CEA435A9427D712B83C6D79"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Section 5239 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C. 93) is amended by redesignating the second of the 2 subsections designated as subsection (d) (as added by section 331(b)(3) of the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994) as subsection (e).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H48E70E35236345F9ADF4894CAE50B5E5"><enum>804.</enum><header>Repeal of obsolete provisions of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name></header>
<subsection id="HB612F4F3FA664C4F8BA3CAE63B30C5F7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In General</header><text>Section 2 of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1841) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H58024D335D6943CB94EE65E772421D86"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(2), by striking subparagraphs (I) and (J); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCDEB89859CF24798B091D1B3D79C8E7F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsection (m) and inserting the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="H99365E9C32624343A645B2452E84D272"><enum>(m)</enum><text>[Repealed]</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H2C6FA1EB13BA484B931B912536AB5487"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and Conforming Amendments</header><text>Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 4(h) of the <act-name parsable-cite="BHC65">Bank Holding Company Act of 1956</act-name> (12 U.S.C. 1843(h)) are each amended by striking <quote>(G), (H), (I), or (J) of section 2(c)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>(G), or (H) of section 2(c)(2)</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>IX</enum><header>FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT AMENDMENTS</header>
<section id="HE7946129FE814422B184513BA279BBB2"><enum>901.</enum><header>Exception for certain bad check enforcement programs</header>
<subsection id="H9AE7EA7908B344D2BAD135EAEBB4CB56"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692 et seq.) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB8EEB74C7E584A8797B32D1AFDEF5DB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating section 818 as section 819; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H181F09CD99F34F72A1D1FA5FB50918C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after section 817 the following new section:</text>
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<section id="H747E7403185D4E2C98160012F2D2C6FD"><enum>818.</enum><header>Exception for certain bad check enforcement programs operated by private entities</header>
<subsection id="H3D5D4224002745199CC2DB4CAECCF7E9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If—</text>
<paragraph id="H5DF6812E6D22450B0087A69ECAC557C8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a State or district attorney establishes, within the jurisdiction of such State or district attorney and with respect to alleged bad check violations that do not involve a check described in subsection (c), a pretrial diversion program for alleged bad check offenders who agree to participate voluntarily in such program to avoid criminal prosecution and are not described in subsection (b);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAB520A325CB54D9D9EDB625F6F7FA8C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a private entity, that is subject to an administrative support services contract with a State or district attorney and operates under the direction, supervision and control of such State or district attorney, operates the pretrial diversion program described in paragraph (1); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0C3B6702C61549DF8D37778049F92FF2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the course of performing duties delegated to it by a State or district attorney under the contract, the private entity referred to in paragraph (2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF53DD30E095F47D5B5AA5130C65E6061"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">complies with the penal laws of the State;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H26D91B7FD0E048E5BF50A58C91005762"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conforms with the terms of the contract and directives of the State or district attorney;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0135A892F56D4D48BA5224B591E1DDF3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>does not exercise independent prosecutorial discretion; </text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCACB7973CEE042A9A7ABE44B803F4386"><enum>(D)</enum><text>contacts any alleged offender referred to in paragraph (1) for purposes of participating in a program referred to in such paragraph only—</text>
<clause id="HA18124C5739A445F84D44E871DFB543F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>as a result of any determination by the State or district attorney that sufficient evidence of a bad check violation under State law exists and that contact with the alleged offender for purposes of participation in the program is appropriate; or </text></clause>
<clause id="H9A7AAA232E424F79A59BD6F543F8DA7D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>as otherwise permitted in response to evidence of a bad check; </text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5D403CEDE44E4DFCA4791B1692517F76"><enum>(E)</enum><text>includes as part of an initial written communication with an alleged offender a clear and conspicuous statement that—</text>
<clause id="H2EE3114B60AB4B2AA938AE7FA4765841"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alleged offender may dispute the validity of any alleged bad check violation through a procedure established and supervised by the State or district attorney, together with an explanation of how such a dispute may be initiated; and </text></clause>
<clause id="HCA4721519C104E479549E95DF55F8F32"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>where the alleged offender knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that the alleged bad check violation is the result of theft or forgery of the check, identity theft, or other fraud that is not the result of the alleged offender’s conduct, the alleged offender may file a crime report with the appropriate law enforcement agency and have further contacts or restitution efforts suspended until the question of the theft or forgery of the check, identity theft, or other fraud has been resolved, together with clear instructions on how to file such crime report; and </text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF2ED3A68CA18485E8CC17D7CE8A38F70"><enum>(F)</enum><text>charges only fees in connection with services under the contract that—</text>
<clause id="HEF857366FA0E4ADAB534163E08902CA7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>have been authorized by the contract with the State or district attorney; and </text></clause>
<clause id="HD93C54AFC23746CF952728E5007454A3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>conform with the schedule of reasonable charges for such services which shall be established by the National District Attorney’s Association, after consultation with the Commission and representatives of interested business and consumer organizations,</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">the private entity shall be treated as an officer of the State and excluded from the definition of debt collector, pursuant to the exception provided in section 803(6)(C), with respect to the entity’s operation of the program described in paragraph (1) under the contract described in paragraph (2). </continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="H14AB0922A0AF4C029CE4581BF7BF88E8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Certain offenders excluded</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An alleged bad check offender is described in this subsection if a private entity described in subsection (a)(2) can determine from available records that such offender— </text>
<paragraph id="HFB3D6AF6CD73455DA7C22F50A51616BD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>was convicted of a bad check offense in the 3 years prior to issuing the bad check under consideration; or </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFFBF7ED2CFBD4A8EBA46AE006416E9E1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>participated in a pretrial diversion program in the 18 months prior to issuing the bad check under consideration.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD9A95B9FEA114D9700B058FDFBEC003C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certain checks excluded</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A check is described in this subsection if the check involves, or is subsequently found to involve—</text>
<paragraph id="HA03BEDAD591049E39D6E70BB00188F24"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a postdated check presented in connection with a payday loan, or other similar transaction, where the holder of the check knew that the issuer had insufficient funds at the time the check was made, drawn or delivered; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5BA61E99A772420DA56DE4FF5116063E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a stop payment order where the issuer acted in good faith and with reasonable cause in stopping payment on the check; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H77A6BDB650D54500AB9DBCFF29C0079B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a check dishonored because of an adjustment to the issuer’s account by the financial institution holding such account without providing notice to the person at the time the check was made, drawn or delivered; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H872EB29BB6B84CD2A695ED3400E0A500"><enum>(4)</enum><text>a check for partial payment of a debt where the holder had previously accepted partial payment for such debt; </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6984AA61A0794E8E83789ED92E6CE620"><enum>(5)</enum><text>a check issued by a person who was not competent, or was not of legal age, to enter into a legal contractual obligation at the time the check was made, drawn or delivered; or </text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7AC16C5D654F4336AC5E567F72C9DBB7"><enum>(6)</enum><text>a check issued to pay an obligation arising from a transaction that was illegal in the jurisdiction of the State or district attorney at the time the check was made, drawn or delivered.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA22BEB609CB84685BF4645E5004114BE"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H133EFAE4FB3445EB91CFD279852233F3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>State or district attorney</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>State or district attorney</quote> means the chief elected or appointed prosecuting attorney in a district, county (as defined in section 2 of title 1, United States Code), municipality, or comparable jurisdiction, including State attorneys general who act as chief elected or appointed prosecuting attorneys in a district, county (as so defined), municipality or comparable jurisdiction, who may be referred to by a variety of titles such as district attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, commonwealth's attorneys, solicitors, county attorneys, and state's attorneys, and who are responsible for the prosecution of State crimes and violations of jurisdiction-specific local ordinances.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H22D12E96B813425B985CBD13526BC92B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Check</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>check</quote> has the same meaning as in section 3(6) of the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4E31D57EAEBE4531883CEB00E86C221D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Bad check</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>bad check</quote> means any check that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8F8DB7977EA04D279C574525C763BE80"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the issuer knew, or should have known, would not be paid upon presentment because the issuer—</text>
<clause id="HE870A25000D14C3BB8007687CAE43347"><enum>(i)</enum><text>had no account with the drawee financial institution at the time the check was made, drawn, or delivered;</text></clause>
<clause id="H3EEE422A815F475C949B563C6500BA25"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>had closed the account upon with the check was made or drawn prior to the time the check was made, drawn, or delivered; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H0F210F22DBA04487B875E500B4F65F6F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>used a false or altered check, or false or altered check account number; or </text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H68C6A5E2F0B341DDAC729252E543477F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>was refused payment by the financial institution or other drawee for lack of sufficient funds and the issuer failed to pay the full amount of the check, together with reasonable costs as permitted by State law—</text>
<clause id="H6572B8653A884FB094305C5F2B40E8B5"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after receiving written notice from the holder of the check that payment was refused by the drawee financial institution to the extent that the timing and mode of delivery of such written notice is in compliance with the applicable State law for determining criminal liability for bad check offenses; or </text></clause>
<clause id="HE0CCD5117D57480BB7475BD6515C5C59"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a case in which there are no applicable State law requirements as described in clause (i), within 30 days of receiving written notice, mailed to the issuer by certified mail to the address printed on the check, or given at the time the check was made, drawn or delivered or, otherwise, at the address where the alleged offender resides or is found, from the holder of the check that payment of 1 or more checks was refused by the drawee financial institution.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC81E2933E99B43C7942DCF4530FEE592"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HD95B877D1DDE41DAABA8D7D796B9774F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating the item relating to section 818 as section 819; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H21E318F316A14569B74FB0AEEC9F13E1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after the item relating to section 817 the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">818. Exception for certain bad check enforcement programs operated by private entities.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HAC900CB5943E4B339EA3D2356741DD00" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>902.</enum><header>Other amendments</header>
<subsection id="H3FF5BA9617C345E09211B498636D3F79"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Legal pleadings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 809 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692g) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="HF267DB94535F4CF99C8500EAFE8F2033"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Legal pleadings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A communication in the form of a formal pleading in a civil action shall not be treated as an initial communication for purposes of subsection (a).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H9FE62BF7D933454295A3E8F9CA880562"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notice provisions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 809 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692g) is amended by adding after subsection (d) (as added by subsection (a) of this section) the following new subsection:</text>
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<subsection id="H88562E5B7BE246DAAAE9E2382279EBC"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Notice provisions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The sending or delivery of any form or notice which does not request the payment of a debt and is expressly required by any other Federal or State law or regulation, including the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, title V of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and any data security breach notice and privacy law shall not be treated as a communication in connection with debt collection. </text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H47BE083D22C4438D9FFBA8DED221B928"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Establishment of right to collect within the first 30 days</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 809(b) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692g(b)) is amended by striking <quote>If the consumer</quote> and inserting <quote>Collection activities and communications may continue during any 30-day period referred to in subsection (a). However, if the consumer</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
February 16, 2006
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed