To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise Regulation D relating to exemptions from registration requirements for certain sales of securities.
Private Placement Improvement Act of 2016
This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to 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.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 693.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Prior to Referral.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 26.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-726.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-726.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 562.
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