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H.R.3179 / 115th Congress

Transparency and Accountability for Business Standards Act

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 473.

Official summary

Version 79 · Reported to House without amendment · Apr 5, 2018

Transparency and Accountability for Business Standards Act

This bill requires a federal banking agency to publish for notice and comment: (1) the agency's rationale for, and cost-benefit analysis regarding, the adoption of any prudential regulation that is substantively more stringent than a corresponding international prudential standard; and (2) a proposal for, or the agency's rationale for not proposing, the repeal or amendment of any prudential regulation that is effectively superseded by the implementation of an international prudential standard.

A federal banking agency must issue a report regarding any such final rule issued before the bill's enactment and on or after January 1, 2007.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Hollingsworth, Trey [R-IN-9] · R–IN

Committees

  • Financial Services Committee
15 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

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  1. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 473.

  2. Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-620.

  3. Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-620.

  4. Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 26.

  5. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

  6. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

  7. Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

  8. Introduced in House

  9. Introduced in House

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