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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 620 (105th)failed

An amendment, printed as amendment No. 2 in House Report 105-531, to permit all financial activities, except for insurance underwriting and real estate development, to be performed through a bank operating subsidiary structure. The amendment revises the consumer protection language under the bill to ensure that the stronger of state or federal consumer protection law prevails. The amendment also mandates that the Government Accounting Office conduct an annual antitrust study.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 981 (109th)passed

An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 109-491 to clarify the following: (1) what constitutes a franchise area; (2) that a person or group seeking authority to provide service under a national franchise must agree to comply with all requirements the FCC promulgates pursuant to the consumer protection and customer service provisions in the bill; (3) that anyone with a national franchise shall be subject to all the cable operator provisions of Title VI of the Communications Act except for the ones specifically excepted in the bill; and (4) that nothing in the legislation affects existing pole attachment law.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 539 (111th)failed

An amendment numbered 36 printed in House Report 111-370 to provide an alternative bill that establishes a new chapter of the bankruptcy code to resolve certain non-bank financial institutions; creates a consumer protection council comprised of existing Federal regulators to revise and promulgate model regulations to enhance consumer protection and improve disclosure; strengthens anti-fraud provisions; regulates over-the-counter derivatives markets; addresses executive compensation; removes statutory reliance on credit ratings; reforms the Government Sponsored Enterprises (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac); and creates a Federal Insurance Office.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 91 (111th)passed

An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 111-92 to require the Federal Reserve 1) to review the consumer credit card market, including through solicitation of public comment, and report to Congress every two years; 2) publish a summary of this review in the Federal Register, along with proposed regulatory changes (or an explanation for why no such changes are proposed). The amendment also requires the Federal banking agencies and the FTC to submit to the Federal Reserve, for inclusion in the Federal Reserve's annual report to Congress, information about the agencies' supervisory and enforcement activities related to credit card issuers' compliance with consumer protection laws.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 91 (112th)failed

An amendment numbered 506 printed in the Congressional Record to revise by reducing the amount made available for "Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Enforcement", and increasing the amounts provided in section 1517(a) for transfer from the Federal Reserve to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection for activities authorized to carried out by such Bureau under title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Consumer Protection Act.

United States · United States Congress

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