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Introduced Session

Amends the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to revise the treatment of affiliate transactions that may be exempt from clearing requirements to authorize such an exemption only if the affiliate enters into the swap to hedge or mitigate the commercial risk of the person that is not a financial entity (as under current law), provided that an appropriate credit support measure or other mechanism must be used if the hedge or mitigation of commercial risk is addressed by entering into a swap with either: (1) a swap dealer or major swap participant, or (2) a security-based swap with a security- based swap dealer or major security-based swap participant.

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Gwen Moore (D)*,  Marcia Fudge (D),  Christopher Gibson (R),  Steve Stivers (R), 

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (on 12/10/2014)

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