IIB
114th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1847
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 15, 2015
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
AN ACT
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act to repeal the indemnification requirements for regulatory authorities to obtain access to swap data required to be provided by swaps entities under such Acts.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Swap Data Repository and Clearinghouse Indemnification Correction Act of 2015
.
Repeal of indemnification requirements
Derivatives clearing organizations
Section 5b(k)(5) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 7a–1(k)(5)) is amended to read as follows:
Confidentiality agreement
Before the Commission may share information with any entity described in paragraph (4), the Commission shall receive a written agreement from each entity stating that the entity shall abide by the confidentiality requirements described in section 8 relating to the information on swap transactions that is provided.
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Swap data repositories
Section 21 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 24a) is amended—
in subsection (c)(7)—
in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking all
and inserting swap
; and
in subparagraph (E)—
in clause (ii), by striking and
at the end; and
by adding at the end the following:
other foreign authorities; and
; and
by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:
Confidentiality agreement
Before the swap data repository may share information with any entity described in subsection (c)(7), the swap data repository shall receive a written agreement from each entity stating that the entity shall abide by the confidentiality requirements described in section 8 relating to the information on swap transactions that is provided.
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Security-Based swap data repositories
Section 13(n)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 25 (15 U.S.C. 78m(n)(5)) is amended—
in subparagraph (G)—
in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking all
and inserting security-based swap
; and
in subclause (v)—
in subclause (II), by striking ; and
and inserting a semicolon;
in subclause (III), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and
; and
by adding at the end the following:
other foreign authorities.
; and
by striking subparagraph (H) and inserting the following:
Confidentiality agreement
Before the security-based swap data repository may share information with any entity described in subparagraph (G), the security-based swap data repository shall receive a written agreement from each entity stating that the entity shall abide by the confidentiality requirements described in section 24 relating to the information on security-based swap transactions that is provided.
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Effective date
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect as if enacted as part of the Dodd-
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 111–203) on July 21, 2010.
Passed the House of Representatives July 14, 2015.
Karen L. Haas,
Clerk