§ 22. Research and information programs; reports to Congress

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1974

   Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974

   Pub. L. 93–463 title IV § 416 · 88 Stat. 1389

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 22

   (Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 18, as added Pub. L. 93–463, title IV, § 416, Oct. 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 1415.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 18, as added Pub. L. 93–463, title IV, § 416, Oct. 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 1415.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 416. The Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, is amended Research and information programs. 7 USC 22. by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “Sec. 18. (a) The Commission shall establish and maintain, as part of its ongoing operations, research and information programs to (1) determine the feasibility of trading by computer, and the expanded use of modern information system technology, electronic data processing, and modern communication systems by commodity exchanges, boards of trade, and by the Commission itself for purposes of improving, strengthening, facilitating, or regulating futures trading operations; (2) assist in the development of educational and other informational materials regarding futures trading for dissemination and use among producers, market users, and the general public; and (3) carry out the general purposes of this Act. “(b) The Commission shall include in its annual reports to Congress Reports to Congress. plans and findings with respect to implementing this section.”

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