Advancing the Mentor-Protégé Program for Small Financial Institutions Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Advancing the Mentor-Protege Program for Small Financial Institutions Act amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989. It requires the Treasury Secretary to establish the Financial Agent Mentor-Protege Program. Under the program, a Treasury-designated financial agent or a large financial institution may mentor a small financial institution so the smaller institution can be prepared to perform as a Treasury financial agent or improve capacity to serve its customers. The Secretary must hold outreach events at least once a year to promote participation by financial agents, large financial institutions, and small financial institutions. Treasury must issue guidance or regulations for excluding participants from the program. Treasury's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion must include program participation and outreach-event data in its annual report to Congress.
Who Benefits and How
Small financial institution officers benefit from mentoring that can help them qualify for Treasury financial-agent work or improve customer-service capacity. Minority depository institution officers benefit because the program is tied to Treasury's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion reporting and outreach. Rural depository institution officers benefit from a path to capacity building with larger mentors. Large bank mentor staff benefit from a formal Treasury-sanctioned structure for mentoring smaller institutions. Small financial institution customers benefit if the program improves services and operational capacity.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of the Treasury must establish the program, prescribe guidance or regulations, hold annual outreach, define exclusion procedures, and report participation data. Treasury's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion must add program metrics to its congressional reporting. Large bank mentor staff must commit staff time and compliance resources. Small financial institution compliance officers must meet program requirements and respond to Treasury oversight. Excluded bank applicants lose access to the program if they fail the process established by Treasury.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Treasury Secretary to establish the Financial Agent Mentor-Protege Program.
- Allows designated financial agents and large financial institutions to mentor small financial institutions.
- Directs the program to prepare small institutions for Treasury financial-agent work or improve customer-service capacity.
- Requires annual outreach events promoting participation in the program.
- Requires Treasury exclusion guidance and congressional reporting through the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates a Treasury Financial Agent Mentor-Protege Program in which designated financial agents or large financial institutions mentor small financial institutions so they can serve as financial agents or improve customer-service capacity, with annual outreach, exclusion guidance, definitions, and congressional reporting through Treasury's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.
Key Policy Areas
Banking, Small Business, Financial Regulation
Primary Purpose
Creates a Treasury Financial Agent Mentor-Protege Program in which designated financial agents or large financial institutions mentor small financial institutions so they can serve as financial agents or improve customer-service capacity, with annual outreach, exclusion guidance, definitions, and congressional reporting through Treasury's Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.
Policy Domains
House resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Small financial institution officers
- Minority depository institution officers
- Rural depository institution officers
- Large bank mentor staff
- Small financial institution customers
Identified Costs
- Department of the Treasury
- Treasury Office of Minority and Women Inclusion
- Large bank mentor staff
- Small financial institution compliance officers
- Excluded bank applicants
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, …
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3356-3357)
Mr. Hill (AR) moved to suspend the rules and pass …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 168.
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Large financial institution mentors, Minority depository institutions, Rural depository institutions
Department of the Treasury, Treasury Office of Minority and Women Inclusion
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "omwi"
- → Office of Minority and Women Inclusion
- "treasury"
- → Department of the Treasury
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