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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 238 (Introduced in House) — To reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to better protect futures customers, to provide end-users wi... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Table of contents

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The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Title I—CUSTOMER PROTECTIONS 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. Consideration by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of the costs and benefits of its regulations and orders. Sec. 203. Division directors. Sec. 204. Office of the Chief Economist. Sec. 205. Procedures governing actions taken by Commission staff. Sec. 206. Strategic technology plan. Sec. 207. Internal risk controls. Sec. 208. Subpoena duration and renewal. Sec. 209. Applicability of notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to guidance voted on by the Commission.
Sec. 210. Judicial review of Commission rules. Sec. 211. GAO study on use of Commission resources. Sec. 212. Disclosure of required data of other registered entities. Title III—END-USER RELIEF Sec. 301. Transactions with utility special entities. Sec. 302. Utility special entity defined. Sec. 303. Utility operations-related swap. Sec. 304. End-users not treated as financial entities. Sec. 305. Reporting of illiquid swaps so as to not disadvantage certain non-financial end-users.
Sec. 306. Relief for grain elevator operators, farmers, agricultural counterparties, and commercial market participants. Sec. 307. Relief for end-users who use physical contracts with volumetric optionality. Sec. 308. Commission vote required before automatic change of swap dealer de minimis level. Sec. 309. Capital requirements for non-bank swap dealers. Sec. 310. Harmonization with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. Sec. 311. Bona fide hedge defined to protect end-user risk management needs.
Sec. 312. Cross-border regulation of derivatives transactions. Sec. 313. Exemption of qualified charitable organizations from designation and regulation as commodity pool operators. Sec. 314. Small bank holding company clearing exemption. Sec. 315. Core principle certainty. Sec. 316. Treatment of Federal Home Loan Bank products. Sec. 317. Treatment of certain funds. Title IV—TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS Sec. 401. Correction of references. Sec. 402. Elimination of obsolete references to dealer options.
Sec. 403. Updated trade data publication requirement. Sec. 404. Flexibility for registered entities. Sec. 405. Elimination of obsolete references to electronic trading facilities. Sec. 406. Elimination of obsolete reference to alternative swap execution facilities. Sec. 407. Elimination of redundant references to types of registered entities. Sec. 408. Clarification of Commission authority over swaps trading. Sec. 409. Elimination of obsolete reference to the Commodity Exchange Commission.
Sec. 410. Elimination of obsolete references to derivative transaction execution facilities. Sec. 411. Elimination of obsolete references to exempt boards of trade. Sec. 412. Elimination of report due in 1986 . Sec. 413. Compliance report flexibility. Sec. 414. Miscellaneous corrections.
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