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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act

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What this chapter is about

This law kills a rule. The OCC made the rule. It was about bank mergers. The rule no longer applies.

1 proposal indexed from this chapter.

The document says “shall notWho acts: CongressHow: statute 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to "Business Combinations Under the Bank Merger Act" (89 Fed. Reg. 78207 (September 25, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act,  1

A resolution of disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code, the Congressional Review Act. It names the rule by the title the agency gave it and by where the rule was published, and it states no reason. What the rule itself required is not described here, because that rule is not one of the documents this site has indexed.

What the document actually says

“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to "Business Combinations Under the Bank Merger Act" (89 Fed. Reg. 78207 (September 25, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.”

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act,  1
That sentence, in plain words

Congress votes down a rule about bank mergers. The rule now has no force.

What this is about

The OCC wrote a rule about bank mergers. Congress voted to undo it. The rule is dead. It binds no one now. Congress used a law that lets it undo a new rule within a set time.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

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  1. The document itself

    Comptroller of the Currency rule disapproved: the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act, Public Law 119-19, sec. 1, 139 Stat. 70 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ19/html/PLAW-119publ19.htm

  2. This page

    “Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act,” Comptroller of the Currency rule disapproved: the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act, provision 1. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-19/provision-1/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The one thing the resolution does: it names a rule and deprives it of force.

The rule being disapproved. It is an agency rule published in the Federal Register, not this law, and it is named here rather than summarized.

The resolution gives no reason for the disapproval, so none is recorded. Members' reasons, where they gave any, are in their floor remarks rather than in the law.