1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019 . 2. Definitions In this Act— (1) the term appropriate climate principals means— (A) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; (B) the Secretary of Energy; (C) the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (D) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and (E) the head of any other Federal agency determined appropriate by the Commission; (2) the term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; (3) the term climate change means a change of climate that is— (A) attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere; and (B) in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods; (4) the term Commission means the Securities and Exchange Commission; (5) the term covered issuer has the meaning given the term in section 13(s) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as added by section 5; (6) the term 1.5 degree scenario means a widely recognized, publicly available analysis scenario in which human interventions to combat global climate change are likely to prevent the global average temperature from reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; (7) the terms appropriate climate principals and climate change have the meanings given those terms in section 13(s) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (8) the term baseline scenario means a widely recognized analysis scenario in which levels of greenhouse gas emissions, as of the date on which the analysis is performed, continue to grow, resulting in— (A) an increase in the global average temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius or more above pre-industrial levels; and (B) the realization of physical risks relating to global climate change