Title: Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019
The bill requires the Financial Stability Oversight Council, prior to determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised by the Federal Reserve Board and therefore subject to certain prudential standards, to first determine that certain alternative actions would not mitigate the threat the company may pose to U.S. financial stability

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 603 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 603

 To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial 
 Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before 
 determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised 
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 28, 2019

    Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Jones, Mr. Tillis, and Ms. Sinema) 
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 Financial Stability Act of 2010 to require the Financial 
 Stability Oversight Council to consider alternative approaches before 
 determining that a U.S. nonbank financial company shall be supervised 
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 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 ``Financial Stability Oversight 
Council Improvement Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL.

    Section 113 of the Financial Stability Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5323) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``The Council'' 
                and inserting ``Subject to paragraph (3), the 
                Council''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Initial determination.--The Council may not vote on a 
        proposed determination with respect to a U.S. nonbank financial 
        company under paragraph (1) unless the Council first 
        determines, in consultation with the company and the primary 
        financial regulatory agency with respect to the company, that a 
        different action by the Council or the agency (including the 
        application of new or heightened standards and safeguards under 
        section 120), or by the company under a written plan that is 
        submitted promptly to the Council, is impracticable or 
        insufficient to mitigate the threat that the company could pose 
        to the financial stability of the United States.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``subsection (e)'' 
        and inserting ``subsections (a)(3) and (e)''.
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