HR 1256 · 113th Congress · Finance and Financial Sector
Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act
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EnactedLatest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.(2013-06-13)
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Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to issue rules jointly governing the application of swaps requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act, respectively, in connection with swaps and security-based swaps transacted between U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. Requires such rules to address: (1) the nature of the connections to the United States that require a non-U.S. person to register as a swap dealer, major swap participant, security-based swap dealer, or security-based swap participant under each Commission's respective Acts and related regulations; (2) the extent to which U.S. swaps requirements shall apply to the swap and security-based swap activities of non-U.S. persons, U.S. persons, and their branches, agencies, subsidiaries, and affiliates outside the United States; and (3) the circumstances under which a non-U.S. person in compliance with the regulatory requirements of a foreign jurisdiction shall be exempt from U.S. swaps requirements. Directs the Commissions to exempt from U.S. swaps requirements any non-U.S. person in compliance w…
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Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 1256, Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act
May 7, 2013As ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on March 20, 2013
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2 Democrats1 Republican