Bailout Prevention Act of 2015

To amend the Federal Reserve Act to reform the Federal Reserve System. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bailout Prevention Act of 2015 2. Discounts for individuals, partnerships, and corporations Section 13(3)(B) of the Federal Reserve Act ( 12 U.S.C. 343(3)(B) (ii) (I) The Board shall establish procedures to prohibit borrowing from programs and facilities by borrowers that are insolvent. A borrower shall not be eligible to borrow from any emergency lending program or facility unless the Board and all Federal banking regulators with jurisdiction over the borrower certify that, at the time the borrower initially borrows under the program or facility, the borrower is not insolvent. Solvency shall be assessed by examining the last 4 months of relevant financial data and determining whether the fair value of the borrower’s assets exceeds the fair value of the borrower’s liabilities, with appropriate adjustment for temporary illiquidity in relevant markets. (II) A borrower shall be considered insolvent for purposes of this subparagraph if the borrower is— (aa) in bankruptcy, resolution under title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( 12 U.S.C. 5381 et seq. (bb) a bridge financial company (as defined in section 201(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( 12 U.S.C. 5381(a) 12 U.S.C. 1813 (III) If the Board or any other banking regulator makes a certification of solvency, the Board or banking regulator, as applicable, shall issue a contemporaneous public statement providing a detailed explanation of the certification decision. (iii) A program or facility shall be considered a program or facility with broad-based eligibility only if not fewer than 5 companies are eligible to participate in the program or facility in a significant manner. . 3. Penalty rate requirement; Congressional approval requirement Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act ( 12 U.S.C. 343(3) (F) Any emergency lending under this paragraph shall be provided at an annual interest rate not less than 500 basis points greater than the cost of borrowing for the United States Treasury for a commensurate loan term. (G) (i) If the Board determines that the Board shall create an emergency lending program or facility that does not comply with the broad-based eligibility requirement described in subparagraph (B)(iii) or the penalty rate requirement described in subparagraph (F), the Board— (I) may create such a program or facility; and (II) not later than 3 days after the date on which a program or facility is created under clause (i), shall submit to Congress a report that describes the reasons why the Board is unable to comply with any requirement described in the matter preceding subclause (I). (ii) (I) A program or facility created under clause (i)(I) shall terminate on the date that is 30 calendar days after the date on which Congress receives a report described in clause (i)(II) unless there is enacted into law a joint resolution approving the program or facility not later than 30 calendar days after the date on which the report is received. Any loan offered through the program or facility that are outstanding as of the date on which the facility is terminated shall be repaid in full not later than 30 calendar days after the date on which the program or facility is terminated. (II) For the purpose of this section, the term joint resolution (aa) that is introduced not later than 3 calendar days after the date on which the report referred to in clause (i)(I) is received by Congress; (bb) that does not have a preamble; (cc) the title of which is as follows: Joint resolution relating to the approval of a program or facility created by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (dd) the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: That Congress approves the program or facility created by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on __________. (III) (aa) Upon receipt of a report under subsection (a)(3), the Speaker, if the House would otherwise be adjourned, shall notify the Members of the House that, pursuant to this section, the House shall convene not later than the second calendar day after receipt of such report. (bb) Any committee of the House of Representatives to which a joint resolution is referred shall report it to the House not later than 5 calendar days after the date of receipt of the report described in clause (i)(II). If a committee fails to report the joint resolution within that period, the committee shall be discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution and the joint resolution shall be referred to the appropriate calendar. (cc) After each committee authorized to consider a joint resolution reports it to the House or has been discharged from its consideration, it shall be in order, not later than the sixth day after Congress receives the report described in clause (i)(II), to move to proceed to consider the joint resolution in the House. All points of order against the motion are waived. Such a motion shall not be in order after the House has disposed of a motion to proceed on the joint resolution. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. The motion shall not be debatable. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is disposed of shall not be in order. (dd) The joint resolution shall be considered as read. All points of order against the joint resolution and against its consideration are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the joint resolution to its passage without intervening motion except 2 hours of debate equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent. A motion to reconsider the vote on passage of the joint resolution shall not be in order. (IV) (aa) Upon receipt of a report under clause (i)(II), if the Senate has adjourned or recessed for more than 2 days, the majority leader of the Senate, after consultation with the minority leader of the Senate, shall notify the Members of the Senate that, pursuant to this subparagraph, the Senate shall convene not later than the second calendar day after receipt of such message. (bb) Upon introduction in the Senate, the joint resolution shall be placed immediately on the calendar. (cc) (AA) Notwithstanding Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, it is in order at any time during the period beginning on the fourth day after the date on which Congress receives a report described in clause (i)(II) and ending on the sixth day after the date on which Congress receives the report (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, and all points of order against the joint resolution (and against consideration of the joint resolution) are waived. The motion to proceed is not debatable. The motion is not subject to a motion to postpone. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution shall remain the unfinished business until disposed of. (BB) Debate on the joint resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally between the majority and minority leaders or their designees. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the joint resolution is not in order. (CC) The vote on passage shall occur immediately following the conclusion of the debate on a joint resolution, and a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the Senate. (DD) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a joint resolution shall be decided without debate. (V) (aa) If, before the passage by one House of a joint resolution of that House, that House receives from the other House a joint resolution, then the following procedures shall apply: (AA) The joint resolution of the other House shall not be referred to a committee. (BB) With respect to a joint resolution of the House receiving the resolution— (CC) the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no joint resolution had been received from the other House; but (DD) the vote on passage shall be on the joint resolution of the other House. (bb) If one House fails to introduce or consider a joint resolution under this section, the joint resolution of the other House shall be entitled to expedited floor procedures under this section. (cc) If, following passage of the joint resolution in the Senate, the Senate then receives the companion measure from the House of Representatives, the companion measure shall not be debatable. (dd) If the President vetoes the joint resolution, the period beginning on the date the President vetoes the joint resolution and ending on the date the Congress receives the veto message with respect to the joint resolution shall be disregarded in computing the 30-calendar-day period described in subclause (I) and debate on a veto message in the Senate under this section shall be 1 hour equally divided between the majority and minority leaders or their designees. (ee) This subclause and subclauses (II), (III), and (IV) are enacted by Congress— (AA) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a joint resolution, and it supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and (BB) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House. . 4. Public disclosure of information related to credit facilities (a) Reports on GAO audits Section 714(f)(3)(C)(iii) of title 31, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking 1 year 60 days (2) by striking 24 months 60 days (b) Public disclosures by the Board of Governors Section 11 of the Federal Reserve Act ( 12 U.S.C. 248(s) (1) in the first subsection (s) (relating to transparency and the release of information)— (A) in paragraph (2)— (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 1 year 60 days (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking the last day of the eighth calendar quarter following the calendar quarter in which the date that is 60 days after the date on which (B) in paragraph (5), by striking 24-month 60 days (2) by redesignating the second subsection (s) (relating to assessments, fees, and other charges) as subsection (t).

Summary: Bailout Prevention Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Reserve Act, with respect to the discounting of obligations arising out of actual commercial transactions, to declare a borrower ineligible to borrow from any emergency lending program or facility unless the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and all federal banking regulators with jurisdiction over the borrower certify that, at the time the borrower initially borrows under the program or facility, the borrower is not insolvent. A borrower shall be deemed insolvent for such purposes if it is a bridge financial company (organized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC] to resolve a covered financial company) or a bridge depository institution (a new national bank or federal savings association organized by the FDIC to assume the deposits of one or more insured depository institutions that are in default or in danger of default). The annual (penalty) interest rate for emergency lending must be at least 500 basis points greater than the cost of borrowing for the United States Treasury for a commensurate loan term. The Board may create an emergency lending program or facility that does not meet the broad-based eligibility requirement (that at least five companies be eligible to participate in it) or this penalty rate requirement, but only if Congress enacts a joint resolution of approval within 30 days. The bill reduces from 1 year to 60 days after termination the deadline by which the Government Accountability Office must release a nonredacted version of any audit report on a credit facility of the Federal Reserve System whose authorization has been terminated by the Board. The Board must also disclose, 60 days (currently 1 year) after it has terminated the authorization of a credit facility, any information concerning its borrowers and counterparties. In the case of a covered transaction the Board must disclose similar information 60 days after the date on which the covered transaction was conducted (currently the last day of the eighth calendar quarter following the calendar quarter of such transaction). A credit facility, unless otherwise terminated by the Board, shall be deemed to have been terminated 60 days (currently 24 months) after the date on which it ceases to makes extensions of credit and loans.