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S. 1560

Referred to Committee

A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to provide end-users with a reasonable amount of time to meet their margin requirements and to repeal certain indemnification requirements for regulatory authorities to obtain access to swap data required to be provided by swaps entities.

Introduced 6/11/2015•114th Congress•Senate

Latest Action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

6/11/2015 • Senate

Summary

This bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to declare that any rules or regulations requiring a futures commission merchant (FCM) to maintain a residual interest in accounts held for the benefit of customers in amounts at least sufficient to exceed the sum of all the customers' uncollected margin deficits shall require an FCM to meet its residual interest requirement as of the end of each business day calculated as of the close of business on the previous business day.

The bill repeals the prerequisite to sharing by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with a specified entity of information on swaps cleared by derivatives clearing organizations that the entity agree to indemnify the CFTC for any expenses arising from litigation relating to that information.

The bill also:

  • repeals a similar prerequisite for information-sharing by a swap data repository, and
  • makes a similar and conforming amendment to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to a securities-based swap data repository.

States that this Act takes effect as if enacted as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on July 21, 2010.

Introduced in Senate • 6/11/2015

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Topics & Subjects

Administrative law and regulatory proceduresCommodities marketsCommodity Futures Trading CommissionSecurities

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Sponsor

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Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]

Republican • KS

Sponsored 6/11/2015

Cosponsors (1)

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Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]

D-ND

Joined 6/11/2015

Bill Journey

Originated in the Senate

Introduced

June 11, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Introduced in Senate6/11/2015

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Bill TypeS
Current StatusReferred to Committee
Cosponsors1