To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise Form S-3 so as to add listing and registration of a class of common equity securities on a national securities exchange as an additional basis for satisfying the requirements of General Instruction I.B.1. of such form and to remove such listing and registration as a requirement of General Instruction I.B.6. of such form.
Accelerating Access to Capital Act of 2016
TITLE I--ACCELERATING ACCESS TO CAPITAL
(Sec. 101) This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise Form S-3 (a simplified securities registration form for companies that have already met other reporting requirements) so as to permit securities to be registered pursuant to General Instruction I.B.1. of the form if: (1) the aggregate market value of voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant is $75 million or more, or (2) the registrant has at least one class of common equity securities listed and registered on a national securities exchange.
The SEC must remove a certain listing and registration requirement from General Instruction I.B.6. of Form S-3.
TITLE II--MICRO-OFFERING SAFE HARBOR
(Sec. 201) The Securities Act of 1933 is amended to exempt from specified prohibitions against the sale or delivery after sale of unregistered securities, among other things, transactions involving the sale of securities by an issuer of micro-offerings if:
The exemption shall not apply, however, to transactions involving a sale of securities if issuers, officers, beneficial owners, promotors, investment managers, or other specified persons would have triggered the SEC's "bad actor" disqualification standards for certain previous securities violations or criminal convictions. These bad actors are prohibited from participating in a micro-offering.
The bill also exempts such micro-offerings from state regulation of securities offerings.
TITLE III--PRIVATE PLACEMENT IMPROVEMENT
(Sec. 301) The SEC must revise the filing requirements of Regulation D (which provides exemptions from securities registration requirements) to require an issuer that offers or sells securities in reliance upon a certain exemption from registration (for limited offers and sales without regard to the dollar amount of the offering [Rule 506]) to file, no earlier than 15 days after the date of first sale of such securities, a single notice of sales containing the information required by Form D (used to file a notice of an exempt offering of securities under Regulation D) for each new offering of securities.
The SEC shall not: (1) require the issuer to file any notice of sales containing the information required by Form D except for this single notice; (2) condition the availability of the Rule 506 exemption upon the filing of a Form D or similar report; or (3) require issuers to submit written general solicitation materials in connection with a limited offering subject to Rule 506, except when it requests such materials pursuant to specified authority.
The SEC shall revise a specified rule, regarding a Rule 506 offering of a private fund, to characterize as an accredited investor a "knowledgeable employee" of that private fund or the fund's investment adviser.
The SEC shall not extend to private funds the requirements governing investment company sales literature.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 561.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 562.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 693.
Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-506.
Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-506.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 386.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 844 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2357 and H.R. 5424.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 844. (consideration: CR H5188-5201)
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2357 and H.R. 5424.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 844 and Rule XVIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable John J. Duncan, Jr. to act as Chairman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2357.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2357.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H5198)
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H5198)
Mr. Kilmer moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Financial Services. (consideration: CR H5198-5200; text: CR H5198-5199)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House forthwith with an amendment to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to condition the availablity of an exemption on the disclosure of cybersecurity risks to the SEC.
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H5199)
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 180 - 233 (Roll no. 492).
Roll Call #492 (House)Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 236 - 178 (Roll no. 493).
Roll Call #493 (House)On passage Passed by recorded vote: 236 - 178 (Roll no. 493).
Roll Call #493 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.