119th (2025–2027)
H.R. 8090
This bill requires the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) to study whether deposit insurance coverage limits should be increased specifically for business and organizational transaction accounts—such as checking accounts held by businesses, nonprofits, and municipalities. The agencies must complete their analyses within four to five quarters after the bill becomes law and examine several key issues, including how higher coverage limits would affect the banking and credit union systems, the safety of financial institutions, competition, and the distribution of insurance costs across small, medium, and large banks and credit unions. The bill also requires these agencies to determine how to prevent banks and credit unions from improperly reclassifying accounts to receive higher insurance protection. Finally, all data and findings from these analyses must be made available to the public, though the bill does not authorize any specific funding amount or mandate that insurance limits actually be increased—it only requires the study to inform future policy decisions.