Sec. 2. Requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission impose fees and assessments to recover the cost of appropriations to the Commission
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Section 12 of the Commodity Exchange Act ( 7 U.S.C. 16 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the Commission shall, by order, impose a fee on each agreement, contract, or transaction that is a contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery, an option, or a swap, including an agreement, contract, or transaction transacted through the use of a foreign terminal, so that the total of the fees so imposed during each fiscal year is sufficient to recover the costs to the Government of the annual appropriation to the Commission by Congress for the fiscal year.
In subparagraph (A), the term foreign terminal means a technology, software, or device, which is located in the United States and used to execute an agreement, contract, or transaction on a foreign board of trade, or which is located outside of the United States and used to execute an agreement, contract, or transaction within the United States on a domestic board of trade. The Commission, by rule, may exempt any such agreement, contract, or transaction from any fee imposed under this paragraph, if the Commission finds that the exemption is consistent with— the public interest; the equal treatment of contract markets, derivatives clearing organizations, and market participants; and the operation of a nationwide market system.
The fees imposed under this paragraph on all transactions of the same kind shall be determined in a uniform manner. By March 1 of each fiscal year, the Commission shall determine whether, based on the fees collected under this subsection during the first 5 months of the fiscal year, the total of the amounts collected and to be collected under this subsection for the fiscal year is reasonably likely to be 10 percent (or more) greater or less than the costs described in subparagraph
(A)for the fiscal year. If the Commission so determines, the Commission shall by order, no later than March 1 of the fiscal year, adjust the fee rates otherwise applicable under this paragraph for the fiscal year so that the total of the amounts so collected and to be collected is reasonably likely to equal to the costs so described. Subject to paragraphs (2)(C) and (4), an adjusted rate prescribed under clause
(i)of this subparagraph in a fiscal year shall take effect on the later of— the 1st day of the fiscal year to which the rate applies; or 60 days after the date on which a regular appropriation to the Commission for the fiscal year is enacted. The Commission shall publish in the Federal Register notices of the fee rates applicable under this paragraph for a fiscal year not later than 30 days after the date on which a regular appropriation to the Commission for the fiscal year is enacted, together with any estimates or projections on which the fee rates are based. In exercising its authority under this paragraph, the Commission shall not be required to comply with section 553 of title 5, United States Code. A fee rate prescribed under this paragraph and published in accordance with subparagraph
(F)shall not be subject to judicial review. In the case of a contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery, an option, or a swap that is cleared by a derivatives clearing organization registered or exempt from registration under this Act, each party to the agreement, contract, or transaction shall pay the fee determined under paragraph
(1)to the derivatives clearing organization. In the case of a swap that is not cleared by a derivatives clearing organization registered or exempt from registration under this Act and that is accepted by a swap data repository registered under section 21, each party to the swap shall pay the transaction fee determined under paragraph
(1)to the swap data repository. The Commission shall collect the fees paid in accordance with clause
(i)in such manner and within such time as the Commission deems appropriate, except that if the Commission has not collected a fee paid in accordance with clause
(i)within 30 days after receipt by the derivatives clearing organization or swap data repository, as the case may be, the organization or repository, as the case may be, shall transmit the fee to the Commission. In the case of a swap that is not cleared by a derivatives clearing organization registered or exempt from registration under this Act and that is reported to the Commission pursuant to section 4r, each party to the swap shall pay the fee determined under paragraph
(1)to the Commission in a manner and within such time as the Commission deems appropriate. Except as provided in paragraph (4), a fee shall not be collected under this subsection for a fiscal year, except to the extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts. A fee collected under paragraph
(2)for a fiscal year shall be deposited and credited as offsetting collections to the account providing appropriations to the Commission. A fee collected under paragraph
(2)for a fiscal year shall not be deposited and credited as general revenue of the Treasury. If on the first day of a fiscal year a regular appropriation to the Commission has not been enacted, the Commission shall continue to collect (as offsetting collections) the fees imposed under paragraph
(1)at the rate in effect during the preceding fiscal year, until 60 days after the date such a regular appropriation is enacted. There is established in the Treasury of the United States a separate fund, to be known as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Reserve Fund (referred to in this subsection as the Reserve Fund ). The Commission shall impose and collect an additional fee, as provided in subsection (i), except that the total amount of the fees imposed and collected in each fiscal year shall not exceed an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which $50,000,000 exceeds the balance in the Reserve Fund as of the end of the preceding fiscal year, and paragraphs (2)(C) and
(4)of subsection
(i)shall not apply with respect to this subsection. Except as provided in this paragraph, all fees collected under this paragraph shall be deposited into the Reserve Fund. The balance in the Reserve Fund shall not exceed $50,000,000. The Commission may obligate amounts in the Reserve Fund, not to exceed a total of $50,000,000 in any 1 fiscal year, as the Commission determines is necessary to make long-term investments in information technology for use by the Commission and to cover unexpected expenses of the Commission (as determined by the Commission). Not later than 10 days after the date on which the Commission obligates amounts under this paragraph, the Commission shall notify the Congress of the date, amount, and purpose of the obligation. Amounts in the Reserve Fund shall remain available until expended. Amounts in the Reserve Fund shall not be construed to be Government funds or appropriated monies and shall not be subject to apportionment for the purpose of chapter 15 of title 31, United States Code, or under any other authority. .
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Requirement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission impose fees and assessments to recover the cost of appropriations to the Commission
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