Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2024
Latest action · Feb 6, 2024 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 6, 2024
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2024
This bill requires that, when appointing a president, a Federal Reserve Bank must interview at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity.
The bill amends numerous banking-, finance-, and trade-related acts to make references to officials (including those to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) gender-neutral.
Cosponsors 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 6, 2024 to Mar 12, 2024; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NC | Alma S. Adams | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-IN | André Carson | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-TX | Marc A. Veasey | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-GA | Nikema Williams | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-NY | Ritchie Torres | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Original | Feb 6, 2024 |
| D-FL | Frederica S. Wilson | Feb 13, 2024 | |
| D-LA | Troy A. Carter | Mar 12, 2024 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Feb 6, 2024 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2024Introduced in House
- Feb 6, 2024Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 21, February 6, 2024, page H503.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 9643 | Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2022 | Reintroduction of | Dec 21, 2022 |
| HR 9706 | Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2022 | Reintroduction of | Jan 3, 2023 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Federal Reserve Act to require Federal Reserve banks to interview at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one individual reflective of racial or ethnic diversity when appointing Federal Reserve bank presidents, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2024
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2024Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
