H.R. 2923 (119th)Bill Overview

To nullify certain interagency guidance related to climate-related financial risk management for large financial institutions.

Finance and Financial Sector|Finance and Financial Sector
Cosponsors
Support
Republican
Introduced
Apr 17, 2025
Discussions
Bill Text
Current stageCommittee

Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Introduced
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01 · The brief
Plain-English summaryWhat this bill actually does

The bill voids the October 24, 2023 interagency guidance titled "Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions" issued by the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC, and forbids those agencies from issuing substantially similar guidance.

Why people may split

Progressives stress lost climate-risk oversight and systemic risk.

Watch point

Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill provides a succinct statutory nullification of one named interagency guidance and a broad prohibition on issuing 'substantially similar' guidance, but it leaves important implementation, definitional, fiscal, and oversight elements unspecified.

The bill voids the October 24, 2023 interagency guidance titled "Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions" issued by the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC, and forbids those agencies from issuing substantially similar guidance.

Passage30/100

Content is narrow but ideologically charged; easy to advance in a supportive chamber, unlikely to clear a divided or supermajority-requiring Senate without compromise.

CredibilityPartially aligned

Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill provides a succinct statutory nullification of one named interagency guidance and a broad prohibition on issuing 'substantially similar' guidance, but it leaves important implementation, definitional, fiscal, and oversight elements unspecified.

Contention72/100

Progressives stress lost climate-risk oversight and systemic risk.

02 · What it does

Who stands to gain, and who may push back.

Likely benefits vs burdens50% / 50%
Likely helpedFederal agencies

These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.

Likely helped
  • Potential benefitReduces immediate compliance and documentation costs for large banks tied to the nullified guidance.
  • Potential benefitPreserves banks' discretion in lending and investment decisions without climate-focused supervisory expectations.
  • Potential benefitLimits issuance of additional supervisory expectations that firms could view as regulatory overreach.
Likely burdened
  • Federal agenciesWeakens federal supervisory tools for identifying and mitigating climate-related financial risks.
  • Potential burdenMay reduce transparency for investors and counterparties about institutions' climate risk governance.
  • Potential burdenCould increase long-term systemic and credit risks if climate exposures remain unmanaged.
03 · Why people split

Why the argument around this bill splits.

Progressives stress lost climate-risk oversight and systemic risk.
Progressive15%

Likely opposes the bill as removing supervisory tools to manage climate-driven financial risks.

Sees it as weakening oversight of large banks' exposure to climate and transition risks.

Likely resistant
Centrist45%

Mixed view: supports limiting unilateral agency policymaking but worries about leaving material risks unaddressed.

Prefers a legislative, evidence-based approach to supervisory expectations.

Split reaction
Conservative85%

Likely supports the bill as a check on regulatory overreach and politicized guidance.

Views the nullification as protecting banks from non-financial policy mandates.

Leans supportive
04 · Can it pass?

The path through Congress.

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Reached or meaningfully advanced

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Floor

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Passage likelihood30/100

Content is narrow but ideologically charged; easy to advance in a supportive chamber, unlikely to clear a divided or supermajority-requiring Senate without compromise.

Scope and complexity
24%
Scopenarrow
24%
Complexitylow
Why this could stall
  • Legal vagueness of "substantially similar" standard and enforceability
  • Absent cost estimate or agency impact analysis
05 · Recent votes

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06 · Go deeper

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Progressives stress lost climate-risk oversight and systemic risk.

Content is narrow but ideologically charged; easy to advance in a supportive chamber, unlikely to clear a divided or supermajority-requirin…

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Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill provides a succinct statutory nullification of one named interagency guidance and a broad prohibition on issuing 'substantially similar' guidance, but it leaves impor…

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