End the Fed’s Big Bank Bailout Act has not moved since its introduction on Jun 18, 2025, with one cosponsor
IntroducedJun 18, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 57 words.
End the Fed’s Big Bank Bailout Act This bill prohibits a Federal Reserve bank from paying earnings on balances maintained at a Federal Reserve bank by or on behalf of a depository institution. Currently, such balances may receive earnings at least once each quarter at a rate not to exceed the general level of short-term interest rates.
Context
- Committees
- Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee - Policy area
- Finance and Financial Sector: 53 of 3,256 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.6%)
- Sponsor
- 0 of 381 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 72 words
- Subjects
- Bank accounts, deposits, capitalBanking and financial institutions regulationFederal Reserve SystemWages and earnings
- Latest action
- Dec 11, 2025: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]