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116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 4257
To require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to establish an
Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to
establish an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF MINORITY AND
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WOMEN INCLUSION AT THE COMMODITY FU-
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TURES TRADING COMMISSION; INTERNSHIP
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PROGRAM.
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Section 2(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7
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U.S.C. 2(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
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lowing:
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‘‘(16) OFFICE OF MINORITY AND WOMEN INCLU-
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SION.—Within 6 months after the date of the enactment
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of this paragraph, the Commission shall comply with sec-
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tion 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Con-
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sumer Protection Act.
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‘‘(17) ANNUAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.—
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Executive Director
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shall establish a program to place an appropriate
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number of students attending qualified institutions
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in a semester-length internship within one of the
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Commission’s divisions.
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‘‘(B) FUNDING.—The Commission shall set
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aside an appropriate percentage of the funds allo-
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cated to the office of the Chairman to enable the se-
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lected interns identified in subparagraph (A) to af-
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ford living expenses, including rent and a per-diem,
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in the metropolitan areas where the Director identi-
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fies internship opportunities.
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‘‘(C) QUALIFIED
INSTITUTION
DEFINED.—In
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this paragraph, the term ‘qualified institution’
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means—
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‘‘(i) an 1890 Institution (as defined in sec-
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tion 2 of the Agricultural Research, Extension,
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and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C.
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7601));
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‘‘(ii) a 1994 Institution (as defined in sec-
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tion 532 of the Equity in Educational Land-
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Grant Status Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–
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382; 7 U.S.C. 301 note));
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‘‘(iii) an eligible institution (as defined in
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section 1489 of the National Agricultural Re-
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search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of
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1977 (7 U.S.C. 3361)); or
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‘‘(iv) a Hispanic-serving institution (as de-
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fined in section 1404 of the Food and Agri-
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culture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)).’’.
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