Subject Financial services and investments | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | HB1062 | SEC Regulatory Accountability Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), before issuing a regulation under the securities laws, to: (1) identify the nature and source of the problem that t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-20 |
| US | HB701 | Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to set October 31, 2013, as the deadline for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to add a class of domestic securities to those already exempted from regulation under that Act in accordance with specified te... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 |
| US | SB888 | A bill to provide end user exemptions from certain provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 67. |
| US | HB634 | Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act of 2013 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requir... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 59 - 0. |
| US | HB677 | Inter-Affiliate Swap Clarification Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, (as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), to exempt from certain regulatory requirements swaps an... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 50 - 10. |
| US | HB992 | Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to extend the exemption from the prohibition against federal government government assistance to (bailouts of) swaps entities to any major swap pa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 53 - 6. |
| US | SB866 | Patent Quality Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect to the transitional post-grant review program available to review the validity of covered business method paten... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-06 |
| US | HB1771 | North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | HB1800 | Small Business Credit Availability Act - Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to allow a business development company (BDC) to own or acquire securities or other interests in the business of a registered investment adviser or adviser to an inves... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-26 |
| US | SB824 | Shareholder Protection Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB1734 | Shareholder Protection Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB1750 | CLEAR Relief Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB1754 | Preserving American Homeownership Act of 2013 - Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Housing Commissioner each to establish a pilot program to encourage, through assistance provided under the Home Affordable Mod... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HB505 | Balancing Act - Title I: Repeal Sequester - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Controlled Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011, to repeal certain sequestration requirements for enforcemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB870 | Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund with two separate accounts for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, local governments,... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB1000 | Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund with two separate accounts for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB1200 | American Health Security Act of 2013 - Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB1626 | Focusing the SEC on Its Mission Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 |
| US | HB1627 | Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2013 - Declares the sense of Congress that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should increase the number and frequency of examinations of investment advisers. Amends the Investment Advisers ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 |
| US | SB737 | Basel III Impact Study Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-16 |
| US | HB1579 | Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-16 |
| US | SB731 | Basel III Commonsense Approach for Small Entities Act or Basel III CASE Act - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, before is... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-16 |
| US | HB1554 | Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1564 | Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) to deny the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board any authority to require that audits conducted for a particular issuer of securities in accordance with SOX sta... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | SB716 | Nullifies the effectiveness of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (STOCK Act) with respect to mandatory public, on-line financial disclosure reporting by congressional staff (except Members of Congress and congressional candidate... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 Became Public Law No: 113-7. |
| US | HB1566 | Consumer Credit Access, Innovation, and Modernization Act - Directs the Comptroller of the Currency to charter creditors which shall become Internet consumer credit corporations (Internet creditors) to offer financial products or services primarily t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HB1538 | National Financial Literacy Act of 2013 - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to require federal financial supervisory agencies jointly to prescribe regulations establishing: (1) minimum standards to be met by a community-based financial li... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-12 |
| US | SB710 | Municipal Advisors Relief Act of 2013 - Excludes from the identity of municipal advisor (subject to registration requirements) any person appointed to or volunteering on a board, commission, committee, or similar function of a municipal entity. Exemp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 |
| US | HB1517 | Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-11 |
| US | SB685 | Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) submit to Congress, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, a list of all commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies that the Se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB1415 | Innovative Technologies Investment Incentive Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for 25% of the equity investment (i.e., stock and capital or profits interest) in a small business concern that is ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB1450 | Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) submit to Congress, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, a list of all commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies that the Se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 |
| US | HB776 | Security in Bonding Act of 2013 - Revises requirements related to assets pledged by a surety. Declares that if another applicable law or regulation permits the acceptance of a bond from a surety that is not subject to specified federal law, and is ba... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB933 | Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 - Division A: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY2013 funds for th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-26 Became Public Law No: 113-6. |
| US | HR129 | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should refrain from considering or adopting any legislation that would: (1) tax or confiscate personal savings, including retirement accounts, certificates of deposit, or other persona... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| US | HB1197 | Provides that bond arbitrage requirements shall not apply to an issue of bonds that were partially defeased (made void) if: (1) such bonds are redeemed by the governmental issuer within 90 days of the sale of the escrow securities, and (2) any net pr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | HB1116 | End the Hijacking of Shareholder Funds Act - Deems expenditure to influence public opinion by the officers and directors of a public company on matters not related to company products or services to be a breach of fiduciary duty if such expenditure h... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | HB785 | Halt Index Trading of Energy Commodities (HITEC) Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to declare unlawful for: (1) a commodity index fund to engage in an energy commodity transaction if any person investing in the fund is an excluded investor, (2)... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | HB1105 | Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to exempt private equity fund investment advisers from its registration and reporting requirements, provided that each private equity fund has not bor... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | HB1031 | Social Security Protection and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2013 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 |
| US | SB474 | Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act - Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to extend the exemption from the prohibition against federal government government assistance to (bailouts of) swaps entities to any major swap pa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| US | SB451 | Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Technical Corrections Act of 2013 - Makes technical corrections to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, including certain Acts within it as well as other specified Acts, ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | HB886 | America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of certain small business stock, (2) carrybacks and alternative minimum tax rules rel... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SB20 | Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2013 - Repeals the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Revives or restores the provisions of law amended by such Act as if it had not been enacted. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| US | HB827 | Improving Security for Investors and Providing Closure Act of 2013 or Improving SIPC Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 with respect to any action in a U.S. district court by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SE... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 |
| US | HB790 | Outsourcing Accountability Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require registered securities issuers to disclose annually to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and to shareholders: (1) the total number of employees d... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-15 |
| US | HB797 | Municipal Advisor Oversight Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to permit a non-registered municipal securities advisor, on behalf of a municipal entity or an obligated person, to: (1) provide advice regarding either ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-15 |
| US | SB286 | Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to increase the money penalties in administrativ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-12 |
| US | SB268 | Cut Unjustified Tax Loopholes Act or the CUT Loopholes Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to impose restrictions on foreign jurisdictions or financial institutions operating in the United States that are of primary money laundering concer... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 |
| US | HB529 | Savings Enhancement for Education in College Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit for contributions to qualified tuition plans; and (2) allow an exclusion, up to $600, from the gross income of an employee for employer con... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
