27. Financial Regulatory Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress

Repeal Dodd-Frank conflict minerals, mine safety, and pay ratio disclosures

Attempted

Printed page 832 27. Financial Regulatory Agencies

“Repeal the Dodd–Frank mandated disclosures relating to conflict minerals, mine safety, resource extraction, and CEO pay ratios.”

What has happened

May 21, 2026 Attempted
Executive action routing around one of the four. The SEC's filer-status proposal would extend the emerging growth company accommodations - which include exemption from pay ratio disclosure, the say-on-pay vote and pay-versus-performance disclosure - to every non-accelerated filer, and the release says this makes those accommodations permanent for the smallest issuers. That relieves a class of registrants of the pay ratio requirement rather than repealing it, leaves large accelerated filers subject to it, and is not final. Under playbook §3b, executive action that routes around a requires-Congress ask is attempted.
- SEC proposed rule: Enhancement of Emerging Growth Company Accommodations and Simplification of Filer Status for Reporting Companies
  Primary Executive branch May 21, 2026
Mar 19, 2026 Not started
The House Financial Services Committee reported H.R. 7085, which would repeal subsection (p) of section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act and strike section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act outright - the conflict minerals disclosure, one of the four the Quote names. It was placed on the Union Calendar on 2026-03-19 and has not been voted. Playbook §3b puts a bill reported to a calendar at not-started, however squarely it matches. No bill of the 119th Congress addresses the mine safety disclosure (Exchange Act section 1503), the resource extraction payments disclosure (section 13(q)) or the CEO pay ratio disclosure (Dodd-Frank section 953(b)), and none of the four has been repealed.
- H.R. 7085, to repeal the conflict minerals disclosure requirements of Exchange Act section 13(p) and Dodd-Frank section 1502, as reported in the House
  Primary Congress Mar 19, 2026

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Four objects, four different statutes, and none repealed.

Conflict minerals - Exchange Act section 13(p), Dodd-Frank section 1502. H.R. 7085 (Huizenga, introduced 2026-01-15) repeals both. Reported with an amendment and calendared 2026-03-19; no floor action. A quoted Federal Register full-text search of every SEC document in the window for “conflict minerals” returns zero, so the Commission has done nothing administratively either.
Mine safety - Dodd-Frank section 1503, Item 104 of Regulation S-K. Nothing. The only in-window Federal Register hit for “mine safety” is a NIOSH advisory-committee nominations notice.
Resource extraction payments - Exchange Act section 13(q), Rule 13q-1. Nothing; the quoted search for “resource extraction payments” returns zero.
CEO pay ratio - Dodd-Frank section 953(b), Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. The only in-window document mentioning it is the filer-status proposal cited above. Note also RIN 3235-AN60, “Executive Compensation Disclosure Reform”, on the 2026-08-14 regulatory agenda with an estimated proposal date of October 2026, which would “rationalize” Item 402; it is an intention and is not cited.
Why the first event is not started with Evidence attached. Playbook §3b’s rule that Congress moving on an ask still leaves the rung alone until a chamber votes; the citation is kept in the frontmatter so the page shows what was reported and when.

Action: repeal
Object: Dodd–Frank mandated disclosures (conflict minerals, mine safety, resource extraction, CEO pay ratios)
ID: 2143