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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2917 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to ensure protections of futures customers, to provide relie... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

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This Act may be cited as the . Commodity End-User Relief Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Consumer Protection Sec. 101. Enhanced protections for futures customers. Sec. 102. Electronic confirmation of customer funds. Sec. 103. Notice and certifications providing additional customer protections. Sec. 104. Futures commission merchant compliance. Sec. 105. Certainty for futures customers and market participants.
TITLE II—Commodity Futures Trading Commission Reforms Sec. 201. Extension of operations. Sec. 202. Clarification of exemptive authority. Sec. 203. Privilege retention. Sec. 204. Judicial review of Commission rules. Sec. 205. Report on status of any application of metals exchange to register as a foreign board of trade; deadline for action on application. Sec. 206. Predominantly engaged. Sec. 207. Public interest exemptions. TITLE III—End-User Relief Sec. 301. Transactions with utility special entities.
Sec. 302. Relief for grain elevator operators, agricultural producers, agricultural counterparties, and commercial market participants. Sec. 303. Relief for end-users who use physical contracts with volumetric optionality and treatment of Federal home loan bank products. Sec. 304. Study of swap dealer de minimis exemption level. Sec. 305. Models for non-bank swap dealers. Sec. 306. Bona fide hedge defined to protect end-user risk management needs. Sec. 307. Exemption of qualified charitable organizations from designation and regulation as commodity pool operators.
TITLE IV—Technical corrections Sec. 401. Correction of cross-references. Sec. 402. Elimination of obsolete references to derivative transaction execution facilities. Sec. 403. Elimination of obsolete references to electronic trading facilities. Sec. 404. Elimination of obsolete references to exempt boards of trade. Sec. 405. Elimination of obsolete reference to significant price discovery contract. Sec. 406. Clarifications of retail foreign currency. Sec. 407. Elimination of obsolete references to dealer options.
Sec. 408. Correction of references to designated contract markets. Sec. 409. Compliance report flexibility. Sec. 410. Reservations. Sec. 411. Flexibility for registered entities. Sec. 412. Elimination of obsolete reference to alternative swap execution facilities. Sec. 413. Elimination of redundant references to types of registered entities. Sec. 414. Clarification of Commission authority over swaps trading. Sec. 415. Elimination of duplicative reference to Commission. Sec. 416.
Miscellaneous corrections. Sec. 417. Elimination of report due in 1986.
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