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Send self-regulator fines to an investor fund or the Treasury

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 27, p. 836. Written by David R. Burton, Robert Bowes.

Send self-regulator fines to an investor fund or the Treasury

The document says “should”Who acts: Congress, SECHow: legislationIn: Securities and Exchange Commission and Related Agencies · David R. Burtonp. 836 in the PDF
What the document says

“Require that all SRO fines, including those imposed by FINRA, should go either to a newly established investor reimbursement fund or to the”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 836

The full sentence ends with the Treasury, and the part adds that self-regulatory organizations should not have a financial interest in imposing fines. It separately asks that arbitration and disciplinary hearings be open to the public and reported, and that arbitrators make findings of fact subject to review.

What the document actually says

“Require that all SRO fines, including those imposed by FINRA, should go either to a newly established investor reimbursement fund or to the”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 836
That sentence, in plain words

These fines should go to a fund for investors. Or they should go to the Treasury.

What this is about

A body that polices brokers keeps the fines it charges. The book says that gives it a reason to fine. The money should go elsewhere.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No candidate concerns where fines imposed by self-regulatory organizations go, or the openness of arbitration and disciplinary hearings. The candidates returned here cover federal building energy standards, the SBIR programs, a district court docket, a wildlife restoration fund and an import surcharge proclamation. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 836.
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    “Send self-regulator fines to an investor fund or the Treasury,” Project 2025, chapter 27, p. 836. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch27-sro-fines-to-treasury/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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