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
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
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
- 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
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- Financial Services Committee (House)
Finance and Financial Sector
■ 2 R
2 Republicans