HR 940
Advanced toward a vote
Requires federal bank and credit union regulators to finish examinations within 270 days and issue final reports within 90 days, and lets institutions appeal material supervisory determinations to a new independent review board.
Official title: FAIR Exams Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
04-FEB-2025
Referred
04-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
21-MAY-2025
Reported
25-JUL-2025
On the calendar
25-JUL-2025
- Sets a 270-day limit for completing an examination, which an agency may extend by written notice giving specific reasons, and a 90-day deadline for issuing the final examination report.
- Creates a three-member Board of Independent Examination Review, appointed by the President with Senate consent, to investigate complaints and review examination practices.
- Lets institutions appeal material supervisory determinations, with de novo review of the record, an optional hearing, and a written decision within 60 days after the record closes.
- Prohibits regulators from retaliating against institutions that file appeals and requires written responses to permission requests within 30 days and determinations within 60 days.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (04-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 25-JUL-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Financial Services Committee (House)
Finance and Financial Sector
■ 8 R■ 2 D
8 Republicans
2 Democrats