HR 3189 · 114th Congress · Finance and Financial Sector
FORM Act of 2015
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EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.(2015-12-17)
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Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization Act of 2015 or the FORM Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), within 48 hours after the end of a FOMC meeting, to submit to the appropriate congressional committees and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) a Directive Policy Rule, meeting specified criteria, accompanied by a statement identifying the FOMC members voting in its favor. A Directive Policy Rule shall describe the FOMC strategy or rule for the systematic quantitative adjustment of a Policy Instrument Target to: respond to a change in specified Intermediate Policy Inputs, and provide the basis for an Open Market Operations Directive to achieve a specified Policy Instrument Target presented by the FOMC to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to guide open-market operations. The GAO shall determine if a Directive Policy Rule has materially changed from the rule most recently submitted, and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) must testify within 7 legislative days before certain congressional committees as to why any noncompliance exists. The GAO must also,…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 3189, Fed Oversight Reform and Modernization Act of 2015
Nov 17, 2015As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on July 29, 2015
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Cosponsors (20)
20 Republicans