[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2136 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2136

 To ensure small businesses in rural America have access to credit to 
   promote economic growth and job creation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2013

Mrs. Hartzler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure small businesses in rural America have access to credit to 
   promote economic growth and job creation, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Credit Availability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSIONS FROM FINANCIAL ENTITY DEFINITION.

    Section 2(h)(7)(C)(ii) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 
2(h)(7)(C)(ii)) is amended to read as follows:
                            ``(ii) Exclusion.--Such definition shall 
                        not include an entity that is a small bank, 
                        savings association, farm credit system 
                        institution, non-profit cooperative lender 
                        controlled by electric cooperatives, or credit 
                        union if the aggregate uncollateralized outward 
                        exposure plus aggregate potential outward 
                        exposure of the entity with respect to its 
                        swaps does not exceed $1,000,000,000.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall take effect as if it had been 
included in subtitle A of title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street 
Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION.

    The amendment made by this Act shall be implemented--
            (1) without regard to--
                    (A) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code; and
                    (B) the notice and comment provisions of section 
                553 of title 5, United States Code;
            (2) through the promulgation of an interim final rule, 
        pursuant to which public comment will be sought before a final 
        rule is issued, and
            (3) such that paragraph (1) shall apply solely to changes 
        to rules and regulations, or proposed rules and regulations, 
        that are limited to and directly a consequence of such 
        amendments.
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