| US | HB2534 | Intro | Insider Trading Prohibition Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-05
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB5084 | Engross | Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2019 This bill requires certain issuers of securities to disclose the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of their boards of directors and executive officers, as well as the status of any of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-20
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB4344 | Engross | Investor Protection and Capital Markets Fairness Act This bill provides statutory authority for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to seek disgorgement (i.e., repayment) as a remedy for unjust enrichment gained through a securities law viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB4818 | Intro | Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| US | HB5116 | Intro | Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act of 2019 This bill requires a proxy advisory firm to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and prohibits an unregistered proxy advisory firm from using interstate commerce to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | HB5083 | Intro | Debt Ceiling Alternative Act This bill establishes requirements and authorities for notifying Congress, issuing bonds, proposing rescissions, and selling assets if the debt limit will be reached. The Department of the Treasury must notify Congress if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-14
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB4773 | Intro | Livestock Risk Management and Education Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| US | HB5007 | Intro | Farmers' Access to Resources and Machinery Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to private activity bond financing for first-time farmers, to (1) increase from $450,000 to $524,200 (adjusted annually for inflation) the amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB3167 | Intro | National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 210. |
| US | HB1815 | Engross | SEC Disclosure Effectiveness Testing Act This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to assess the usefulness of certain disclosure rules to retail investors. Specifically, the SEC must make these assessments regarding both curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-21
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB3624 | Engross | Outsourcing Accountability Act of 2019 This bill requires an issuer that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose specified information related to the number of domestic and foreign employees of the issuer and its subsidi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-21
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB4762 | Intro | Fair Investment Opportunities for Professional Experts Act This bill modifies the definition of "accredited investor" for purposes of participating in private offerings of securities to include an individual whose net worth or joint net worth with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-18
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | HB4476 | Intro | Financial Transparency Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-11
To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| US | HB3088 | Intro | Shareholder Protection Act of 2019 This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase specified resubmission thresholds for shareholder proposals. (Current regulations allow the resubmission of a shareholder proposal that has been p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-27
ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Steil asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 3088, a bill originally introduced by Representative Duffy, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB4492 | Intro | Consumer Financial Choice and Capital Markets Protection Act of 2019 This bill allows a money market fund, under specified conditions, to elect to operate using a different method of valuation than is otherwise required. A money market fund that elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-25
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | HB4491 | Intro | Shareholder Protection Act This bill requires shareholder authorization of certain political expenditures by an issuer. A violation of this requirement shall be considered a breach of fiduciary duty, and the officers and directors who authorized the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-25
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | HB4277 | Intro | Department of Defense Ethics and Anti-corruption Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-25
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB4320 | Intro | Corporate Management Accountability Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 31 - 22. |
| US | HB4409 | Intro | People Empowerment Act This bill requires the government of Guam to obtain voter approval through a referendum for an issuance of municipal bonds in an amount greater than $25 million, an increase in a tax, or the imposition of a new tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-19
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| US | SB1441 | Intro | Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 169. |
| US | SB2386 | Intro | TIANANMEN Act of 2019 Targeting Invasive Autocratic Networks, And Necessary Mandatory Export Notifications Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB397 | Engross | Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 2019 This bill establishes the Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury and a related trust fund to make loans to certain multiemployer defined benefit pension plans....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-25
Received in the Senate. |
| US | SB2261 | Intro | Clean Energy Victory Bond Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| US | HB4041 | Intro | Clean Energy Victory Bond Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-25
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB3967 | Intro | Municipal Bond Market Support Act of 2019 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the limitations on deductions for interest expenses of financial institutions that hold tax-exempt bonds, to: permanently increase from $10 million ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-25
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB3886 | Intro | Fostering Innovation Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | HB3861 | Intro | Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for the financing of qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities. A "qualified carbon dioxide capture facility" is any equipment installed in an ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-19
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB3641 | Intro | Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2019 This bill increases civil and administrative monetary penalties for securities laws violations. The bill also adds a fourth tier of monetary penalties for violations by a person that, within the fiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-16
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 25. |
| US | HB3623 | Intro | Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-16
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 25. |
| US | HB1018 | Intro | Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2019 This bill requires certain issuers of securities to disclose the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of their boards of directors and executive officers, as well as the status of any of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-11
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 53 - 5. |
| US | HB3279 | Intro | Diversity in Corporate Leadership Act of 2019 This bill requires each issuer to disclose, in any proxy or consent solicitation material for an annual shareholders meeting, the gender, racial, and ethnic composition of its board of directors and nomin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-11
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 52 - 6. |
| US | HB2515 | Engross | Whistleblower Protection Reform Act of 2019 This bill expands the definition of a whistleblower with regards to securities law violations. Specifically, the bill extends protections from retaliation to individuals who assist in a Securities and Excha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-10
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB2919 | Engross | Improving Investment Research for Small and Emerging Issuers Act This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to report on investment research regarding small issuers, including emerging growth companies and companies considering initial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-10
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | SB2075 | Intro | Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-10
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HR456 | Intro | Emphasizing the importance of grassroots investor protection and the investor education missions of State and Federal securities regulators, calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to collaborate with State securities regulators in the prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB2790 | Intro | Our Obligation to Recognize American Heroes (OORAH) Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB3423 | Intro | National Green Bank Act of 2019 This bill establishes a U.S. Green Bank to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation projects at the state and local level by capitalizing regional, state, and municipal green banks. The Department of the Treasu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB3419 | Intro | HUMBLE Act Halt Unchecked Member Benefits with Lobbying Elimination Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-21
To House Administration Committee |
| US | HB3355 | Intro | Reward Work Act This bill prohibits issuers from purchasing their own securities on a national exchange. The bill also requires one-third of an issuer's board of directors to be elected by employees in order for the issuer to be allowed to register s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | SB1885 | Intro | Corporate Management Accountability Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | SB1854 | Intro | Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2019 This bill increases civil and administrative monetary penalties for securities laws violations. The bill also adds a fourth tier of monetary penalties for violations by a person that, within the fiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | SB1843 | Intro | Outsourcing Accountability Act of 2019 This bill requires an issuer that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose specified information related to the number of domestic and foreign employees of the issuer and its subsidi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | SB592 | Intro | Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2019 This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue final rules requiring a registered issuer to disclose in its mandatory annual report or annual proxy statement whether any member of its governing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| US | SB1763 | Intro | Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for the financing of qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities. A "qualified carbon dioxide capture facility" is any equipment installed in an ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| US | SB945 | Intro | Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-04
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| US | SB1044 | Intro | Fentanyl Sanctions Act This bill establishes programs to address illicit opioid trafficking and imposes sanctions on foreign individuals and entities involved in such activities. The President shall impose sanctions on foreign individuals and entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-04
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held. |
| US | SB1025 | Intro | VERDAD Act of 2019 Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 2019 This bill directs the President to take various actions to address the political situation in Venezuela. (The United States does not recognize Nicolas Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-03
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 101. |
| US | HB2483 | Intro | Fentanyl Sanctions Act This bill establishes programs to address illicit opioid trafficking and imposes sanctions on foreign individuals and entities involved in such activities. The President shall impose sanctions on foreign individuals and entitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-31
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | SB1587 | Intro | Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2019 This bill imposes an excise tax on the transfer of ownership in certain securities (covered transaction), including any share of stock in a corporation; any partnership or beneficial interest in a partnership or trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| US | HB2923 | Intro | Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2019 This bill imposes an excise tax on the transfer of ownership in certain securities (covered transaction), including any share of stock in a corporation; any partnership or beneficial interest in a partnership or trust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-22
To House Ways And Means Committee |
