Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8603
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hollingsworth, Trey [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2020-10-16
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Financial services and investments

Securities

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Latest action: action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act</b> <b>of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise venture capital investment regulations. Specifically, the bill allows investments acquired through secondary transactions to be considered as qualifying investments for venture capital funds. However, for a private fund to qualify as a venture capital fund, the investments predominately must be acquired directly. Under current law, non-qualifying investments&#8212;which include secondary transactions&#8212;may comprise up to 20% of a venture capital fund.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8603 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 16, 2020 Mr. Hollingsworth (for himself and Mr. McAdams ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise the definition of a qualifying investment to include an equity security issued by a qualifying portfolio company, whether acquired directly from the company or in a secondary acquisition, for purposes of the exemption from registration for venture capital fund advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act of 2020 . 2. Definitions Not later than the end of the 180-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall— (1) revise the definition of a qualifying investment under paragraph (c) of section 275.203(l)–1 of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, to include an equity security issued by a qualifying portfolio company, whether acquired directly from the company or in a secondary acquisition; and (2) revise paragraph (a) of such section to require, as a condition of a private fund qualifying as a venture capital fund under such paragraph, that the qualifying investments of the private fund are predominantly qualifying investments that were acquired directly from a qualifying portfolio company.