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S 65 116th Congress Senate Finance and Financial Sector Congressional oversight Executive agency funding and structure Federal Reserve System Federal officials Minority employment Racial and ethnic relations Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019

Introduced: January 9, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Jan 9, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Jan 9, 2019
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Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019

This bill requires that in making the appointment of a president, a Federal Reserve Bank must interview at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity.

The bill amends numerous banking-, finance-, and trade-related Acts to make references to officials (including those to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) gender-neutral.

What's happening now January 9, 2019

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

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Booker, Cory A.
New Jersey · Jan 9, 2019
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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Jan 9, 2019
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Warren, Elizabeth
Massachusetts · Jan 9, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 65: Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-65/
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"S. 65: Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-65/.
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S. 65, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-65/.
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