Alleviating Stress Test Burdens To Help Investors Act

Bill: 117-hr-3412
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2021-05-20
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Latest action: action_date: 2021-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Alleviating Stress Test Burdens To Help Investors Act</b></p> <p>This bill exempts certain financial companies not primarily regulated by either a federal banking agency or the Federal Housing Finance Agency from requirements to conduct stress tests. These stress tests evaluate the ability of companies to absorb losses as a result of adverse economic conditions.</p> <p>However, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission may require exempted financial companies under their regulatory authority to conduct stress tests.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3412 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 2021 Mr. Loudermilk introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services , and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to provide relief to nonbanks from certain stress test requirements under such Act.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Alleviating Stress Test Burdens To Help Investors Act . 2. Stress test relief for nonbanks Section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( 12 U.S.C. 5365(i)(2) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking are regulated by a primary Federal financial regulatory agency and inserting: whose primary financial regulatory agency is a Federal banking agency or the Federal Housing Finance Agency ; (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking Each Federal primary financial regulatory agency and inserting Each Federal banking agency and the Federal Housing Finance Agency ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (D) SEC and CFTC The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission may each issue regulations requiring financial companies with respect to which they are the primary financial regulatory agency to conduct periodic analyses of the financial condition, including available liquidity, of such companies under adverse economic conditions. .