1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Risk-Based Capital Study Act of 2017 . 2. NCUA Study (a) In general The National Credit Union Administration shall conduct a study of the appropriate capital requirements for Federal credit unions and State credit unions (as such terms are defined, respectively, under section 101 of the Federal Credit Union Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1752 ) (hereinafter referred to as credit unions )). (b) Issues To be studied The study required under subsection (a) shall include— (1) an analysis of whether or not the National Credit Union Administration has the clear legal authority to prescribe separate risk-based capital thresholds for both adequately capitalized and well capitalized credit unions; (2) a discussion of the differences between credit unions and other types of depository institutions and reasons why they should have similar or different risk-weights for their capital requirements; (3) a discussion of the rationale behind the risk-weights assigned in the final rule of the National Credit Union Administration titled Risk-Based Capital (80 Fed. Reg. 66626; October 29, 2015)