Access to Small Business Investor Capital Act

Bill: 116-hr-7375
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2020-06-25
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Business investment and capital

Business records

Financial services and investments

Licensing and registrations

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Access to Small Business Investor Capital Act </b></p> <p>This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to specify that a business development company is not considered an acquired fund for the purpose of certain fee and expense calculations as part of investment company registration statements. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7375 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 25, 2020 Mr. Sherman (for himself and Mr. Stivers ) 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 to exclude business development companies from certain Acquired Fund fees and expenses reporting, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Access to Small Business Investor Capital Act . 2. Excluding business development companies from certain Acquired Fund fees and expenses reporting (a) Revision to rules Not later than the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall revise any rule of the Commission relating to investment company registration statements to specify that, when calculating the fees and expenses of an Acquired Fund, the term Acquired Fund does not include a business development company. (b) Failure To issue rules If the Commission does not make the revisions required under subsection (a) before the end of the 2-year period described in subsection (a), any reference to an Acquired Fund in a rule of the Commission relating to investment company registration statements (including in any item in or instruction to Forms N–1A, –2, –3, –4, and –6) shall, when used in the context of calculating the fees and expenses of an Acquired Fund, be deemed to not include a business development company. (c) Business development company defined In this section, the term business development company has the meaning given that term under section 2(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ( 15 U.S.C. 80a–2(a) ). (d) Rules of construction Any reference in this section to— (1) a form means such form and any successor form; and (2) the terms Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses and Acquired Fund defined or otherwise used in such a form shall mean any successor terms or provisions adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.