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Commodity End User Relief Act
This bill reauthorizes through FY2021, and otherwise revises provisions related to, operations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
The CFTC is authorized to require that certain property of the bankruptcy estate of a commodity broker who is a debtor in Chapter 7 bankruptcy (also known as "liquidation" bankruptcy) be included in customer property to the extent that such property is insufficient to satisfy the net equity claims of the broker's public customers.
Before promulgating a regulation or issuing an order, the CFTC must publish an assessment of the costs and benefits of the action.
The heads of the CFTC's administrative units shall serve at the pleasure of the CFTC.
The bill establishes, within the CFTC, the Office of the Chief Economist.
The bill eliminates the CFTC's authority to lease space.
The bill modifies provisions related to the CFTC's Customer Protection Fund.
The duration of an omnibus order of investigation (authorizing the CFTC to issue subpoenas to multiple persons in relation to a particular subject matter area) shall not be indefinite.
The bill exempts specified entities from certain clearing requirements applicable to swaps.
With respect to swap dealer registration requirements, the bill: (1) prohibits the CFTC from modifying, except by affirmative rule or regulation, the threshold for de minimus (minor in quantity) swap dealing; (2) under certain circumstances, allows the use of specified financial models with respect to calculating capital requirements; and (3) modifies other provisions.
The bill exempts certain swap activities involving non-U.S. persons from U.S. swaps requirements.
In addition, the bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to direct registered futures associations to require their futures commission merchant members to meet certain procedural and reporting requirements.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 238 as passed House amended on Jan 12, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jan 12, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJan 12, 2017
House Jan 12, 2017 · the primary vote
Commodity End-User Relief Act
Passed
239 Yea 182 Nay 13 not voting
Party-line vote 8 of 421 voting members broke with their own party: 7 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
434 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 238 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 238 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
204 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.