I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 742 
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange 
Act to repeal the indemnification requirements for regulatory authorities 
to obtain access to swap data required to be provided by swaps entities 
under such Acts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2013 
Mr. CRAWFORD (for himself, Ms. MOORE, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of 
New York, and Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to 
the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the 
Commodity Exchange Act to repeal the indemnification 
requirements for regulatory authorities to obtain access 
to swap data required to be provided by swaps entities 
under such Acts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Swap Data Repository 
and Clearinghouse Indemnification Correction Act of 
2013’’. 
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF INDEMNIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) DERIVATIVES CLEARING ORGANIZATIONS.—Sec-
tion 5b(k)(5) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 
7a–1(k)(5)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(5) CONFIDENTIALITY
AGREEMENT.—Before 
the Commission may share information with any en-
tity described in paragraph (4), the Commission 
shall receive a written agreement from each entity 
stating that the entity shall abide by the confiden-
tiality requirements described in section 8 relating to 
the information on swap transactions that is pro-
vided.’’. 
(b) SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES.—Section 21(d) of 
the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 24a(d)) is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT.—Before the 
swap data repository may share information with any enti-
ty described in subsection (c)(7), the swap data repository 
shall receive a written agreement from each entity stating 
that the entity shall abide by the confidentiality require-
ments described in section 8 relating to the information 
on swap transactions that is provided.’’. 
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(c) SECURITY-BASED SWAP DATA REPOSITORIES.— 
Section 13(n)(5)(H) of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m(n)(5)(H)) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(H) CONFIDENTIALITY
AGREEMENT.— 
Before the security-based swap data repository 
may share information with any entity de-
scribed in subparagraph (G), the security-based 
swap data repository shall receive a written 
agreement from each entity stating that the en-
tity shall abide by the confidentiality require-
ments described in section 24 relating to the in-
formation on security-based swap transactions 
that is provided.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this Act shall take effect as if enacted as part of the Dodd- 
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 
(Public Law 111–203) on July 21, 2010. 
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