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HR 5270 Advanced toward a vote

Requires the Federal Reserve to write rules spelling out the models, assumptions, and methods it uses in bank stress tests, and bars it from running climate-related stress tests under its stress test authority.

Official title: Stress Testing Accountability and Transparency Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
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House
Introduced 10-SEP-2025
Referred 10-SEP-2025
Approved by committee 16-SEP-2025
Reported 04-NOV-2025
On the calendar 04-NOV-2025
Key points
  • Requires the Federal Reserve to issue rules within 90 days setting out the models and methods used in stress tests that determine stress capital buffer requirements
  • Limits material changes to those methods to notice-and-comment rulemaking and requires no double-counting of capital requirements for the same risks
  • Requires the Federal Reserve to publicly disclose each stress test scenario at least 60 days before running the test, beginning in the first calendar year after enactment
  • Prohibits the Federal Reserve from subjecting nonbank financial companies or bank holding companies to climate-related stress tests under its stress test authority
  • Directs the Comptroller General to report every 3 years on the effectiveness of Federal Reserve stress tests
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to House, 04-NOV-2025).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Finance and Financial Sector

Sponsor Bill Huizenga (R-MI) Cosponsors · 2
■ 2 R
2 Republicans