Title: Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act of 2017
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act of 2017
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to revise the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over activities regulated by a state insurance regulator. The CFPB may not enforce the Act against any person regulated by a state insurance regulator and offering a consumer financial product or service, to the extent that person is engaged in the business of insurance. If a person engaged in the business of insurance is regulated by a state insurance regulator but otherwise subject to the Act, the CFPB must construe its authority narrowly.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3746 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3746

 To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to clarify the 
 authority of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with respect 
  to persons regulated by a State insurance regulator, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 2017

 Mr. Duffy (for himself and Ms. Moore) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to clarify the 
 authority of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with respect 
  to persons regulated by a State insurance regulator, 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 ``Business of Insurance Regulatory 
Reform Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE BUREAU WITH RESPECT TO 
              PERSONS REGULATED BY A STATE INSURANCE REGULATOR.

    Section 1027(f) of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 
(12 U.S.C. 5517(f)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``Description of activities.--
                Paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``Exceptions.--
    ``(A) Authority.--Paragraph (1)''; and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A) (as added 
                by this Act) the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) Limitation.--With respect to a person 
                regulated by a State insurance regulator--
                            ``(i) and if such person is offering or 
                        providing a consumer financial product or 
                        service, the Bureau may not enforce this title 
                        with respect to such person to the extent such 
                        person is engaged in the business of insurance; 
                        or
                            ``(ii) and if such person is subject to any 
                        enumerated consumer law or any law for which 
                        authorities are transferred under subtitle F or 
                        H, the authority of the Bureau to enforce such 
                        law with respect to such person shall be 
                        narrowly construed to the extent such person is 
                        engaged in the business of insurance.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Rule of construction.--The enforcement of this title 
        shall be broadly construed in favor of the authority of a State 
        insurance regulator with respect to a person regulated by a 
        State insurance regulator.''.
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