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<meta><dc:title>117 S 409 ENR: To provide for the availability of amounts for customer education initiatives and non-awards expenses of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Whistleblower Program, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>409</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="117">One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Sunday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty one</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To provide for the availability of amounts for customer education initiatives and non-awards expenses of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Whistleblower Program, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d21800e62" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION WHISTLEBLOWER PROGRAM.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e66" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/a" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is established in the Treasury a separate account (referred to in this section as the “account”), the amounts in which shall be available for the sole purposes of—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e74" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/a/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>carrying out the activities described in section 23(g)(2)(B) of the Commodity Exchange Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t7/s26/g/2/B">7 U.S.C. 26(g)(2)(B)</ref>) (referred to in this section as “customer education initiatives”); and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e82" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/a/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>funding the administrative, programmatic, and personnel expenses of the Whistleblower Office and the Office of Customer Education and Outreach of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (referred to in this section as the “Commission”) in carrying out section 23 of the Commodity Exchange Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t7/s26">7 U.S.C. 26</ref>) (referred to in this section as “non-awards expenses”).</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e90" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transfers From Fund Into Account</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e97" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commission shall transfer up to $10,000,000 from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Customer Protection Fund established under section 23(g)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t7/s26/g/1">7 U.S.C. 26(g)(1)</ref>) (referred to in this section as the “Fund”) into the account.</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e109" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability</inline>.—</heading><content>Amounts transferred under paragraph (1) shall be available for obligation without further appropriation and remain available until October 1, 2022.</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e117" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/b/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Remaining amounts</inline>.—</heading><content>Amounts remaining in the account that are unobligated on October 1, 2022, shall be returned to the Fund.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e125" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/c" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirement for Obligations</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission may make obligations from the account only when the unobligated balance of the Fund is insufficient to pay non-awards expenses and expenses for customer education initiatives due to awards that the Commission has ordered under section 23(b) of the Commodity Exchange Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t7/s26/b">7 U.S.C. 26(b)</ref>).</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d21800e137" identifier="/us/bill/117/s/409/s1/d" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports to Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall include in each report required under section 23(g)(5) of the Commodity Exchange Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t7/s26/g/5">7 U.S.C. 26(g)(5)</ref>) the same information with respect to the account as the Commission includes in the report with respect to the Fund, to the extent the information is relevant to the account.</content></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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