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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 790 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 790

To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the disclosure 
   of the total number of a company's domestic and foreign employees.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2013

 Mr. Peters of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Bishop of New York, and Mr. 
  McNerney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL

 
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the disclosure 
   of the total number of a company's domestic and foreign employees.

    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 ``Outsourcing Accountability Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE OF NUMBER OF DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN 
              EMPLOYEES.

    Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(s) Disclosure of Number of Domestic and Foreign Employees.--
            ``(1) In general.--Beginning the first full fiscal year 
        that begins after the date of enactment of this subsection, 
        each issuer required to file reports with the Commission 
        pursuant to subsection (a) shall disclose annually to the 
        Commission and to shareholders--
                    ``(A) the total number of employees of the issuer 
                and each consolidated subsidiary of the issuer who are 
                domiciled in the United States and listed by number in 
                each State;
                    ``(B) the total number of such employees physically 
                working in and domiciled in any country other than the 
                United States, listed by number in each country; and
                    ``(C) the percentage increase or decrease in the 
                numbers required under subparagraphs (A) and (B) from 
                the previous reporting year.
            ``(2) Exemptions.--
                    ``(A) Newer public companies.--An issuer shall not 
                be subject to the requirement under paragraph (1) for 
                the first 5 years after the issuer is first required to 
                file reports with the Commission pursuant to subsection 
                (a).
                    ``(B) Smaller companies.--An issuer that had total 
                annual gross revenues of less than $1,000,000,000 
                during its most recently completed fiscal year shall 
                not be subject to the requirement under paragraph (1).
            ``(3) Regulations.--The Commission may promulgate such 
        regulations as it considers necessary to implement the 
        requirement set forth in paragraph (1).''.
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