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[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1312 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                  Union Calendar No. 61
115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1312

                          [Report No. 115-104]

To amend the Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 to require 
   an annual review by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the 
  annual government-business forum on capital formation that is held 
                         pursuant to such Act.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2017

  Mr. Poliquin (for himself and Mr. Vargas) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

                              May 1, 2017

                 Additional sponsor: Mr. Hollingsworth

                              May 1, 2017

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                                2, 2017]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
To amend the Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 to require 
   an annual review by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the 
  annual government-business forum on capital formation that is held 
                         pursuant to such Act.

 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Capital Formation 
Enhancement Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS FORUM ON CAPITAL 
              FORMATION.

    Section 503 of the Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 
(15 U.S.C. 80c-1) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) The Commission shall--
            ``(1) review the findings and recommendations of the forum; 
        and
            ``(2) each time the forum submits a finding or 
        recommendation to the Commission, promptly issue a public 
        statement--
                    ``(A) assessing the finding or recommendation of 
                the forum; and
                    ``(B) disclosing the action, if any, the Commission 
                intends to take with respect to the finding or 
                recommendation.
    ``(f) Forum Findings.--Nothing in this section shall require the 
Commission to agree to or act upon any finding or recommendation of the 
forum.''.
                                                  Union Calendar No. 61

115th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1312

                          [Report No. 115-104]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To amend the Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 to require 
   an annual review by the Securities and Exchange Commission of the 
  annual government-business forum on capital formation that is held 
                         pursuant to such Act.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 1, 2017

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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