Title: To require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to establish an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
This bill establishes at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion and an internship program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4257 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4257

  To require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to establish an 
    Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2019

  Mr. David Scott of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to establish an 
    Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, 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. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF MINORITY AND WOMEN INCLUSION AT 
              THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION; INTERNSHIP 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 2(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 2(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(16) Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.--Within 6 months 
after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, the Commission shall 
comply with section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
Consumer Protection Act.
    ``(17) Annual Internship Program.--
            ``(A) In general.--The Executive Director shall establish a 
        program to place an appropriate number of students attending 
        qualified institutions in a semester-length internship within 
        one of the Commission's divisions.
            ``(B) Funding.--The Commission shall set aside an 
        appropriate percentage of the funds allocated to the office of 
        the Chairman to enable the selected interns identified in 
        subparagraph (A) to afford living expenses, including rent and 
        a per-diem, in the metropolitan areas where the Director 
        identifies internship opportunities.
            ``(C) Qualified institution defined.--In this paragraph, 
        the term `qualified institution' means--
                    ``(i) an 1890 Institution (as defined in section 2 
                of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education 
                Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7601));
                    ``(ii) a 1994 Institution (as defined in section 
                532 of the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act 
                of 1994 (Public Law 103-382; 7 U.S.C. 301 note));
                    ``(iii) an eligible institution (as defined in 
                section 1489 of the National Agricultural Research, 
                Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
                3361)); or
                    ``(iv) a Hispanic-serving institution (as defined 
                in section 1404 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 
                (7 U.S.C. 3103)).''.
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