HR 1256 · 113th Congress · Finance and Financial Sector

Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act

Introduced 2013-03-19· Sponsored by Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]· House

Bill Progress

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Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.(2013-06-13)

Recorded Votes

PassedHouse · 2013-06-12
Roll #218
Yea 301Nay 124
Democrats
73 Yea·122 Nay
Republicans
228 Yea·2 Nay
PassedHouse · 2013-06-12
Roll #218
Yea 301Nay 124
Democrats
73 Yea·122 Nay
Republicans
228 Yea·2 Nay
FailedHouse · 2013-06-12
Roll #217
Yea 194Nay 230
Democrats
192 Yea·2 Nay
Republicans
2 Yea·228 Nay

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Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] 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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H.R. 1256, Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act

May 7, 2013

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on March 20, 2013

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Cosponsors (3)

2 Democrats1 Republican