WASHINGTON—The possibility of delaying NCUA’s risk-based capital (RBC) rule will be discussed by the House and Senate this week.
The House and Senate are both in session and NAFCU and CUNA say they remain engaged with lawmakers as the chambers take steps to move to a conference committee to hash out details of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). NAFCU said it is pushing to include language to delay the NCUA's risk-based capital rule in the final legislation.
As CUToday.info reported, the House in June passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5841), which included a two-year delay of the RBC rule. The Senate version of this legislation was folded into its NDAA – a move urged by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis – and did not include the RBC delay. House and Senate leadership are expected to formalize members of the conference committee this week who will work out the differences between the two NDAA bills.
NAFCU Expresses Its Position
“NAFCU will continue to be a leader on the issue to ensure the RBC-delay provision is included in the final bill,” the trade association stated. “In addition, NAFCU will be monitoring a provision included in the House NDAA – but not the Senate's – dealing with land leases on military bases for banks. NAFCU recently clarified that this provision does not affect credit unions' nominal leases under the Federal Credit Union Act and believes there is a strong likelihood the House provision will be altered or dropped during conference consideration. The association has pledged to fight to ensure that the ability for credit unions to get nominal leases is not disadvantaged during consideration of the NDAA.”
Also on Agenda in DC
Other matters on Capitol Hill this week:
- The House Financial Services Committee should continue considering bills to be included in its next regulatory relief package – JOBS Act 3.0
- A Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday on credit bureaus and the Fair Credit Reporting Act
- A House Financial Services Committee hearing Thursday with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
- A House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing Thursday on countering the financial networks of weapons proliferation
- A House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing Wednesday on protecting customer proprietary network information