[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3561 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3561

 To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial 
 Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before 
 determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised 
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2019

      Mr. Foster (for himself, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. McAdams, and Mr. 
Hollingsworth) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial 
 Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before 
 determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised 
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 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 ``Financial Stability Oversight 
Council Improvement Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL.

    Section 113 of the Financial Stability Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5323) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``The Council'' 
                and inserting ``Subject to paragraph (3), the 
                Council''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Initial determination.--The Council may not vote on a 
        proposed determination with respect to a U.S. nonbank financial 
        company under paragraph (1) unless the Council first 
        determines, in consultation with the company and the primary 
        financial regulatory agency with respect to the company, that a 
        different action by the Council or the agency (including the 
        application of new or heightened standards and safeguards under 
        section 120), or by the company under a written plan that is 
        submitted promptly to the Council, is impracticable or 
        insufficient to mitigate the threat that the company could pose 
        to the financial stability of the United States.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``subsection (e)'' 
        and inserting ``subsections (a)(3) and (e)''.
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