Title: To temporarily provide for Federal insurance of transaction accounts during the COVID-19 emergency.
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
This bill temporarily removes deposit insurance limits for transaction accounts at depository institutions and credit unions. The limits are reinstated January 1, 2022.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6380 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6380

 To temporarily provide for Federal insurance of transaction accounts 
                     during the COVID-19 emergency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2020

 Mr. Green of Texas (for himself, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Meeks, Mr. 
  Cleaver, and Mrs. Beatty) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To temporarily provide for Federal insurance of transaction accounts 
                     during the COVID-19 emergency.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INSURANCE OF TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS.

    (a) Banks and Savings Associations.--
            (1) Amendments.--Section 11(a)(1) of the Federal Deposit 
        Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1821(a)(1)) is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) by striking ``The net amount'' and 
                        inserting the following:
                            ``(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), 
                        the net amount''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following new 
                        clauses:
                            ``(ii) Authorization for insurance for 
                        transaction accounts.--Notwithstanding clause 
                        (i), the Corporation may fully insure the net 
                        amount that any depositor at an insured 
                        depository institution maintains in a 
                        transaction account. Such amount shall not be 
                        taken into account when computing the net 
                        amount due to such depositor under clause (i).
                            ``(iii) Transaction account defined.--For 
                        purposes of this subparagraph, the term 
                        `transaction account' has the meaning given 
                        that term under section 19 of the Federal 
                        Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 461).''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``subparagraph 
                (B)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (B)(i)''.
            (2) Prospective repeal.--Effective January 1, 2022, section 
        11(a)(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 
        1821(a)(1)), as amended by paragraph (1), is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) by striking ``deposit.--'' and all that 
                        follows through ``clause (ii), the net amount'' 
                        and insert ``deposit.--The net amount''; and
                            (ii) by striking clauses (ii) and (iii); 
                        and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``subparagraph 
                (B)(i)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (B)''.
    (b) Credit Unions.--
            (1) Amendments.--Section 207(k)(1) of the Federal Credit 
        Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1787(k)(1)) is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``Subject to the provisions 
                        of paragraph (2), the net amount'' and 
                        inserting the following:
                            ``(i) Net amount of insurance payable.--
                        Subject to clause (ii) and the provisions of 
                        paragraph (2), the net amount''; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following new 
                        clauses:
                            ``(ii) Authorization for insurance for 
                        transaction accounts.--Notwithstanding clause 
                        (i), the Board may fully insure the net amount 
                        that any member or depositor at an insured 
                        credit union maintains in a transaction 
                        account. Such amount shall not be taken into 
                        account when computing the net amount due to 
                        such member or depositor under clause (i).
                            ``(iii) Transaction account defined.--For 
                        purposes of this subparagraph, the term 
                        `transaction account' has the meaning given 
                        that term under section 19 of the Federal 
                        Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 461).''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subparagraph 
                (A)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (A)(i)''.
            (2) Prospective repeal.--Effective January 1, 2022, section 
        207(k)(1) of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 
        1787(k)(1)), as amended by paragraph (1), is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``(i) net amount of 
                        insurance payable.--'' and all that follows 
                        through ``paragraph (2), the net amount'' and 
                        inserting ``Subject to the provisions of 
                        paragraph (2), the net amount''; and
                            (ii) by striking clauses (ii) and (iii); 
                        and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subparagraph 
                (A)(i)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (A)''.
    (c) COVID-19 Emergency Defined.--In this section, the term ``COVID-
19 emergency'' means the period that begins upon the date of the 
enactment of this Act and ends upon the date of the termination by the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency of the emergency declared on March 
13, 2020, by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 4121 et seq.) relating to the 
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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