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S 947 112th Congress Senate Finance and Financial Sector Banking and financial institutions regulation Commodities markets Corporate finance and management Financial services and investments Securities

A bill to provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 11, 2011 See on congress.gov
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May 11, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
May 11, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to exempt from specified margin requirements: (1) swaps in which one of the counterparties is neither a swap dealer nor a major swap participant, (2) certain investment funds, (3) specified regulated entities, and (4) a commodity pool.

Exempts from such margin requirements, also, any swaps or security-based swaps entered into before the date on which final rules are required to be promulgated or published under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act or the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010, respectively.

What's happening now May 11, 2011

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

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 1610 Related bill Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2011
  • S 1650 Related bill Dodd-Frank Improvement Act of 2011
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Republican 4
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Crapo, Mike
Idaho · May 11, 2011
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Hoeven, John
North Dakota · May 11, 2011
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Moran, Jerry
Kansas · May 11, 2011
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Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · May 11, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 947: A bill to provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and for other purposes.. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-947/
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"S. 947: A bill to provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and for other purposes.." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-947/.
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S. 947, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-947/.
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