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S. 1816 (114th)

Community Bank Access to Capital Act of 2015

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Introduced

21 July 2015

Last action

23 June 2016 · Committee

Status

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-366.

Sponsors

Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD], Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO], Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]

Subjects

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Source updated

12 August 2025

Summary

Community Bank Access to Capital Act of 2015 This bill directs the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): (1) to each promulgate a regulation exempting community banks from regulations implementing "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems," and (2) to revise capital requirements as they determine appropriate in light of such required regulations. A community bank is defined as one whose consolidated assets are not greater than $50 billion. The bill also exempts from the internal control attestation requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 both an insured depository institution and a depository institution holding company with consolidated assets of not greater than $1 billion. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is prohibited from adjusting under Regulation D the $1 million net worth threshold and $200,000 and $300,000 income thresholds that define a natural person as an accredited investor. The SEC shall increase from 35 to 70 the number of purchasers of securities in transactions deemed not to involve a public offering and so are exempt from regulation under the Securities Exchange Act of 1933. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is amended to: (1) subject a savings and loan holding company to registration requirements for securities whose issuer has total assets exceeding $10 million and a class of non-exempt equity security held of record by 2,000 or more persons; and (2) apply the automatic termination of registration, and suspension of the duty to file supplementary and periodic information, to a savings and loan holding company whose securities are found to be held by less than 1,200 persons.

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Timeline

  1. 21 July 2015

    Introduced

    Introduced in Senate

    Source: IntroReferral

  2. 21 July 2015

    Introduced

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

    Source: IntroReferral

  3. 23 June 2016

    Committee

    Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-366.

    Source: Committee

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