Title: Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act of 2020
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
Business of Insurance Regulatory Reform Act of 2020
This bill revises the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over activities regulated by a state insurance regulator. The CFPB may not pursue enforcement 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 CFPB's enforcement authority, the CFPB must construe its authority narrowly.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4325 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4325

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2020

 Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Manchin) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                 on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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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 2020''.

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) in the paragraph heading, by striking 
                ``Description of activities'' and inserting 
                ``Exceptions'';
                    (B) by striking ``Paragraph (1)'' and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(A) Authority.--Paragraph (1)''; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (A), as so 
                designated, the following:
                    ``(B) Limitation.--With respect to a person 
                regulated by a State insurance regulator--
                            ``(i) if that person is offering or 
                        providing a consumer financial product or 
                        service, the Bureau may not enforce this title 
                        with respect to that person to the extent that 
                        the person is engaged in the business of 
                        insurance; or
                            ``(ii) if that 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 that 
                        law with respect to that person shall be 
                        narrowly construed to the extent that the 
                        person is engaged in the business of 
                        insurance.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(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 the 
        State insurance regulator.''.
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