HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.
![handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxabaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO
U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-571
AMENDING THE DODD-FRANK WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER
PROTECTION ACT TO REPEAL CERTAIN DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
RELATED TO COAL AND MINE SAFETY
FEBRUARY 20, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HENSARLING, from the Committee on Financial Services,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 4289]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Financial Services, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4289) to amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act to repeal certain disclosure requirements
related to coal and mine safety, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill
as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. REPEAL OF COAL AND MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Con-
sumer Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 78m-2) is hereby repealed.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.-The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Dodd-
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is amended by striking the
item relating to section 1503.
PURPOSE AND SUMMARY
On November 7, 2017, Representative Alex Mooney introduced
H.R. 4289, to repeal Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act (P.L. 111-203), which re-
quires mining companies to include information about mine safety
and health violations, orders, citations, legal actions, and mining-
related fatalities in quarterly and annual reports filed with the Se-
curities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The disclosure require-
79-006](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrecreports/crptxabaw0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)