A bill to clarify that certain banking entities are not required to divest from collateralized debt obligations backed by trust preferred securities under the Volcker Rule.

Bill: 113-s-1912
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2014-01-09
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation

Securities
Latest action: action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-09
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 regarding prohibitions on proprietary trading and certain relationships with hedge and private equity funds (Volcker Rule).</p> <p>Prohibits the construction of these prohibitions to require either a banking entity with total consolidated assets of less than $50 billion or a mutual holding company to divest from a collateralized debt obligation issued before May 19, 2010, if: (1) the primary purpose for the obligation was as a vehicle for trust preferred securities, and (2) the investment in the obligation was made on or before December 10, 2013.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 1912 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 9, 2014 Mr. Manchin (for himself and Mr. Wicker ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs A BILL To clarify that certain banking entities are not required to divest from collateralized debt obligations backed by trust preferred securities under the Volcker Rule.

1. Volcker rule clarification relating to collateralized debt obligations backed by trust preferred securities Section 13(g) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 ( 12 U.S.C. 1851(g) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (4) Trust preferred securities Nothing in this section shall require or be construed to require a banking entity having total consolidated assets of less than $50,000,000,000 or an organization that is a mutual holding company to divest from any collateralized debt obligation issued before May 19, 2010, if— (A) the primary purpose for any such obligation was as a vehicle for trust preferred securities; and (B) the investment in any such obligation was made on or before December 10, 2013. .