The American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) is welcoming the introduction of a bill that could make a state insurance commissioner a voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC).
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The bill is the Primary Regulators of Insurance Vote Act of 2019 bill, PRIVA.
The Senate version of the PRIVA bill, S. 1298, was introduced by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Doug Jones, D-Ala.
The House version, H.R. 2479, was introduced by Reps. Denny Heck, D-Wash., and Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga.
Congress put the provision creating FSOC in the Dodd-Frank Act.
FSOC is supposed to help federal regulators keep track of organizations and trends that could affect the stability of the U.S. financial system.