To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to clarify the venue for judicial review of Commission rules, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4246 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4246

 To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to clarify the venue for judicial 
          review of Commission rules, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2019

 Mrs. Kirkpatrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to clarify the venue for judicial 
          review of Commission rules, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF COMMISSION RULES.

    The Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 24. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF COMMISSION RULES.

    ``(a) A person adversely affected by a rule of the Commission 
promulgated under this Act may obtain review of the rule in the United 
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit or the 
United States Court of Appeals for the circuit where the party resides 
or has the principal place of business, by filing in the court, within 
60 days after publication in the Federal Register of the entry of the 
rule, a written petition requesting that the rule be set aside.
    ``(b) A copy of the petition shall be transmitted forthwith by the 
clerk of the court to an officer designated by the Commission for that 
purpose. Thereupon the Commission shall file in the court the record on 
which the rule complained of is entered, as provided in section 2112 of 
title 28, United States Code, and the Federal Rules of Appellate 
Procedure.
    ``(c) On the filing of the petition, the court has jurisdiction, 
which becomes exclusive on the filing of the record, to affirm and 
enforce or to set aside the rule in whole or in part.
    ``(d) The court shall affirm and enforce the rule unless the 
Commission's action in promulgating the rule is found to be arbitrary, 
capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with 
law; contrary to constitutional right, power, privilege, or immunity; 
in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or 
short of statutory right; or without observance of procedure required 
by law.''.
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