[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1742 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1742

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that sums in the 
 Thrift Savings Fund may not be invested in securities that are listed 
         on certain foreign exchanges, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2021

Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Young, 
and Ms. Ernst) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that sums in the 
 Thrift Savings Fund may not be invested in securities that are listed 
         on certain foreign exchanges, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Taxpayers and Savers Protection 
Act'' or the ``TSP Act''.

SEC. 2. INVESTMENT OF THRIFT SAVINGS FUND.

    Section 8438 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(i)(1) In this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `PCAOB' means the Public Company Accounting 
        Oversight Board; and
            ``(B) the term `registered public accounting firm' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 2(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley 
        Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 7201(a)).
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, no sums 
in the Thrift Savings Fund may be invested in any security that is 
listed on an exchange in a jurisdiction in which the PCAOB is prevented 
from conducting a complete inspection or investigation of a registered 
public accounting firm under section 104 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 
2002 (15 U.S.C. 7214) because of a position taken by an authority in 
that jurisdiction, as determined by the PCAOB.
    ``(3) The Board shall consult with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission on a biennial basis in order to ensure compliance with 
paragraph (2).''.
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