REQUIRED REGISTRATION OF FLOOR TRADERS.

SEC. 207. REQUIRED REGISTRATION OF FLOOR TRADERS. (a) Requirement.— Section 4e (7 U.S.C. 6e) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 4e. It shall be unlawful for any person to act as floor trader in executing purchases and sales, or as floor broker in executing any orders for the purchase or sale, of any commodity for future delivery, or involving any contracts of sale of any commodity for future delivery, on or subject to the rules of any contract market unless such person shall have registered, under this Act, with the Commission as such floor trader or floor broker and such registration shall not have expired nor been suspended nor revoked. (b) Conforming Amendments.— The Act is amended— (1) in sections 4f(1), 4g(1), and 6d(1) (7 U.S.C. 6f(1), 6g(1), 13a–2(1)), by striking “or floor broker” and inserting “floor broker, or floor trader; (2) in section 6d(8)(A) (7 U.S.C. 13a–2(8)(A)), by inserting “, floor trader,” after “floor broker”; (3) in section 8a(1), (7 U.S.C. 12a(1)), by striking “and floor brokers” and inserting “floor brokers, and floor traders”; and (4) in sections 8a(2)(C)(i), 8a(2)(D)(ii), and 8a(3)(E)(ii) (7 U.S.C. 12a(2)(C)(i), 12a(2)(D)(ii), and 12a(3)(E)(ii)), by inserting “floor trader,” after “floor broker,”. (c) Regulations.— The amendments made by this section shall become effective one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall issue any regulations necessary to implement the amendments made by this section no later than one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act.