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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1909 
To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise rules relating 
to general solicitation or general advertising to allow for presentations 
or other communication made by or on behalf of an issuer at certain 
events, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2019 
Mr. CHABOT (for himself and Mr. SCHNEIDER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise 
rules relating to general solicitation or general adver-
tising to allow for presentations or other communication 
made by or on behalf of an issuer at certain events, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Helping Angels Lead 
Our Startups Act of 2019’’ or the ‘‘HALOS Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF GENERAL SOLICITATION. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act and the 
revision of rules required under this Act: 
(1) ANGEL
INVESTOR
GROUP.—The 
term 
‘‘angel investor group’’ means any group that— 
(A) is composed of accredited investors in-
terested in investing personal capital in early- 
stage companies; 
(B) holds regular meetings and has defined 
processes and procedures for making invest-
ment decisions, either individually or among the 
membership of the group as a whole; and 
(C) is neither associated nor affiliated with 
brokers, dealers, or investment advisers. 
(2) ISSUER.—The term ‘‘issuer’’ means an 
issuer that is a business, is not in bankruptcy or re-
ceivership, is not an investment company, and is not 
a blank check, blind pool, or shell company. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Securities and Ex-
change Commission shall revise Regulation D of its rules 
(17 CFR 230.500 et seq.) to require that in carrying out 
the prohibition against general solicitation or general ad-
vertising contained in section 230.502(c) of title 17, Code 
of Federal Regulations, the prohibition shall not apply to 
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a presentation or other communication made by or on be-
half of an issuer which is made at an event— 
(1) sponsored by— 
(A) the United States or any territory 
thereof, by the District of Columbia, by any 
State, by a political subdivision of any State or 
territory, or by any agency or public instrumen-
tality of any of the foregoing; 
(B) a college, university, or other institu-
tion of higher education; 
(C) a nonprofit organization; 
(D) an angel investor group; 
(E) a venture forum, venture capital asso-
ciation, or trade association; or 
(F) any other group, person or entity as 
the Securities and Exchange Commission may 
determine by rule; 
(2) where any advertising for the event does not 
reference any specific offering of securities by the 
issuer; 
(3) the sponsor of which— 
(A) 
does 
not 
make 
investment 
rec-
ommendations or provide investment advice to 
event attendees; 
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(B) does not engage in an active role in 
any investment negotiations between the issuer 
and investors attending the event; 
(C) does not charge event attendees any 
fees other than reasonable administrative fees; 
(D) does not receive any compensation for 
making introductions between investors attend-
ing the event and issuers, or for investment ne-
gotiations between such parties; 
(E) makes readily available to attendees a 
disclosure not longer than one page in length, 
as prescribed by the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, describing the nature of the event 
and the risks of investing in the issuers pre-
senting at the event; and 
(F) does not receive any compensation 
with respect to such event that would require 
registration of the sponsor as a broker or a 
dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934, or as an investment advisor under the In-
vestment Advisers Act of 1940; and 
(4) where no specific information regarding an 
offering of securities by the issuer is communicated 
or distributed by or on behalf of the issuer, other 
than— 
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(A) that the issuer is in the process of of-
fering securities or planning to offer securities; 
(B) the type and amount of securities 
being offered; 
(C) the amount of securities being offered 
that have already been subscribed for; and 
(D) the intended use of proceeds of the of-
fering. 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Subsection (b) may 
only be construed as requiring the Securities and Ex-
change Commission to amend the requirements of Regula-
tion D with respect to presentations and communications, 
and not with respect to purchases or sales. 
(d) NO PRE-EXISTING SUBSTANTIVE RELATIONSHIP 
BY REASON
OF EVENT.—Attendance at an event de-
scribed under subsection (b) shall not qualify, by itself, 
as establishing a pre-existing substantive relationship be-
tween an issuer and a purchaser, for purposes of Rule 
506(b). 
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