On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022,” which enjoyed significant bipartisan support and contains, as Division U, the “Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act” (the “LIBOR Act”). The LIBOR Act provides a uniform national approach for replacing U.S. dollar LIBOR (“LIBOR”) as a reference interest rate in so-called “tough legacy” contracts (contracts that do not include effective fallback provisions, for example, because they have no provisions for a replacement benchmark or their fallback provisions would require the use of a LIBOR-based rate or a poll to determine a rate) for a time when LIBOR is no longer published or is no longer representative. Under the LIBOR Act, references to the most common tenors of LIBOR (the overnight, one-month, three-month, six-month and 12-month tenors) in these contracts will be replaced as a matter of law, without the need to be amended, to instead reference a benchmark interest rate that will be identified in regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”).