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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jul 19, 2018
Federal Employees Sustainable Investment Act
This bill establishes a new fund—the Corporate Responsibility Stock Index Fund—as an investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan.
The Corporate Responsibility Stock Index Fund must be invested in a stock portfolio designed to replicate the performance of a commonly recognized, passively managed index comprised of stocks that meet certain minimum criteria related to corporate responsibility.
People & committees
Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] · D–RI
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
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