FDIC Act

Bill: 116-s-3298
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2020-02-13
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital

Banking and financial institutions regulation

Public contracts and procurement
Latest action: action_date: 2020-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Financial Defense for Industrial Contractors Act or the FDIC Act </b></p> <p>This bill requires the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to begin proceedings for terminating the insured status of large depository institutions that deny banking services to federal contractors that otherwise qualify for such services. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3298 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 13, 2020 Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mr. Cramer , Mr. Cotton , and Mrs. Blackburn ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs A BILL To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to permit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to terminate the insured status of a depository institution that refuses to provide services to certain Federal contractors, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Financial Defense for Industrial Contractors Act or the FDIC Act . 2. Termination of insurance Section 8 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1818 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting or (x) after subsection (w) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (x) Termination of insurance relating to denial of services to Federal contractors (1) Definitions In this subsection— (A) the term contractor means an entity that— (i) is a party to a contract with the Federal Government; (ii) has complied with all applicable laws and regulations in fulfilling the responsibilities of the entity with respect to the contract described in clause (i); and (iii) satisfies traditional underwriting and credit standards with respect to the banking service sought by the entity under paragraph (2); and (B) the term covered institution means an insured depository institution that has more than $50,000,000,000 in total consolidated assets. (2) Notice of termination; pretermination hearing If a covered institution refuses to provide a banking service sought by a contractor, the Board of Directors shall— (A) issue to the insured depository institution a notice of its intention to terminate the insured status of the insured depository institution; and (B) schedule a hearing on the matter, which shall be conducted in all respects as a termination hearing pursuant to paragraphs (3) through (5) of subsection (a). (3) Temporary insurance of previously insured deposits Upon termination of the insured status of any depository institution pursuant to paragraph (2), the deposits of such depository institution shall be treated in accordance with subsection (a)(7). .