To repeal the Office of Financial Research, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-2743
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Budd, Ted [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2019-05-15
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation

Department of the Treasury

Executive agency funding and structure

Insurance industry and regulation
Latest action: action_date: 2019-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-05-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill eliminates the Office of Financial Research. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2743 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 15, 2019 Mr. Budd (for himself, Mr. Mooney of West Virginia , and Mr. Davidson of Ohio ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To repeal the Office of Financial Research, and for other purposes.

1. Repeal of the Office of Financial Research (a) In general Subtitle B of title I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( 12 U.S.C. 5342 ) is hereby repealed. (b) Conforming amendments to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( 12 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended— (1) in the table of contents in section 1(b), by striking the items relating to subtitle B of title I; (2) in section 102(a)— (A) by striking paragraph (5); and (B) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; (3) in section 111— (A) in subsection (b)(2)— (i) by striking subparagraph (A); and (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (E) as subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively; and (B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E) and inserting subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) ; (4) in section 112— (A) in subsection (a)(2)— (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking direct the Office of Financial Research to ; (ii) by striking subparagraph (B); and (iii) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (N) as subparagraphs (B) through (M), respectively; and (B) in subsection (d)— (i) in paragraph (1), by striking the Office of Financial Research, member agencies, and and inserting member agencies and ; (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking the Office of Financial Research, any member agency, and and inserting any member agency and ; (iii) in paragraph (3)— (I) by striking , acting through the Office of Financial Research, each place the term appears; and (II) in subparagraph (B), by striking the Office of Financial Research or ; and (iv) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking , the Office of Financial Research, ; and (5) in section 116, by striking , acting through the Office of Financial Research, each place the term appears. (c) Additional conforming amendments (1) Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 Section 1206(a) of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 ( 12 U.S.C. 1833b(a) ) is amended by striking the Office of Financial Research, . (2) Title 5 Title 5, United States Code, is amended— (A) in section 3132(a)(1)(D)— (i) by striking the Office of Thrift Supervision,, and inserting the Office of Thrift Supervision, ; and (ii) by striking the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and the Office of Financial Research and inserting and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection ; and (B) in section 5314, by striking Director of the Office of Financial Research. . (3) Title 44 Section 3502(5) of title 44, United States Code, is amended by striking the Office of Financial Research, .