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<dc:title>114 HR 4855 RH: Fix Crowdfunding Act</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. House of Representatives</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2016-03-23</dc:date>
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		<distribution-code display="yes">IB</distribution-code>
		<calendar display="yes">Union Calendar No. 512</calendar>
		<congress display="yes">114th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session display="yes">2d Session</session>
		<legis-num>H. R. 4855</legis-num>
		<associated-doc display="yes" role="report">[Report No. 114–661]</associated-doc>
		<current-chamber display="yes">IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber>
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			<action-date date="20160323">March 23, 2016</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="M001156">Mr. McHenry</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name added-display-style="italic" committee-id="HBA00" deleted-display-style="strikethrough">Committee on Financial Services</committee-name></action-desc>
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		<action><action-date>July 5, 2016</action-date><action-desc>Additional sponsor: <cosponsor name-id="S001183">Mr. Schweikert</cosponsor></action-desc></action><action>
			<action-date>July 5, 2016</action-date>
			<action-desc>Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the
			 Union, and ordered to be printed</action-desc>
			<action-instruction>Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic</action-instruction>
			<action-instruction>For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 23, 2016</action-instruction>
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		<legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
		<official-title display="yes">To amend provisions in the securities laws relating to regulation crowdfunding to raise the dollar
			 amount limit and to clarify certain requirements and exclusions for
			 funding portals established by such Act.<pagebreak></pagebreak></official-title>
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 <section id="HDF58A56B17744A6CA7DF9B8336802F1E" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Fix Crowdfunding Act</short-title></quote>.</text> </section><section id="HBA26C629B09347E6903444FC185BC170"><enum>2.</enum><header>Crowdfunding vehicles</header> <subsection id="H2632BB965FF64DE296B06FBD7A7DBE27"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Amendments to the Securities Act of 1933</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Securities Act of 1933 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/77a">15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
 <paragraph id="H5396E151257941C4AE8B74774227CE1F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 4A(f)(3), by inserting <quote>by any of paragraphs (1) through (14) of</quote> before <quote>section 3(c)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H510821FBFC4747C5AD55CCACC9B92EAF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 4(a)(6)(B), by inserting after <quote>any investor</quote> the following: <quote>, other than a crowdfunding vehicle (as defined in section 2(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940),</quote>.</text>
 </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2001FC7D36B5419884234D7DBC075000"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amendments to the Investment Company Act of 1940</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Investment Company Act of 1940 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/80a-1">15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H551AA52717B14CDE91415689124B192B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 2(a), by adding at the end the following:</text>
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 <paragraph id="H069E3A5D45EF418D8E30016A5DCEDFFE"><enum>(55)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>crowdfunding vehicle</quote> means a company—</text> <subparagraph id="H9CD9183B6B304B1A8374C39740BF66D5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whose purpose (as set forth in its organizational documents) is limited to acquiring, holding, and disposing securities issued by a single company in one or more transactions and made pursuant to section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933;</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6EE9D1E9155F4B58B614A5F2F87BFCBC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>which issues only one class of securities;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE274E2129AF94E58B844423455218AA5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>which receives no compensation in connection with such acquisition, holding, or disposition of securities;</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD96CE48781654A6CBEECC47077EB6B85"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">no associated person of which receives any compensation in connection with such acquisition, holding or disposition of securities unless such person is acting as or on behalf of an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB8E3E918F8D24DE9BCA5CB77073F53A7"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the securities of which have been issued in a transaction made pursuant to section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933, where both the crowdfunding vehicle and the company whose securities it holds are co-issuers;</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5C3D82138D2B4AFE82328F83AAA14C51"><enum>(F)</enum><text>which is current in its ongoing disclosure obligations under Rule 202 of Regulation Crowdfunding (17 C.F.R. 227.202);</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H08898E33167E430689579A7C26D7D338"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the company whose securities it holds is current in its ongoing disclosure obligations under Rule 202 of Regulation Crowdfunding (17 C.F.R. 227.202); and</text>
 </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H977FD3B1E3784DC69C3347ED7C2E0A1F"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is advised by an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB2CACEE51D274432B6AF96FA8B46EA9C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 3(c), by adding at the end the following:</text>
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 <paragraph id="H6E179134ACA34F59B95A3CE151A085C8"><enum>(15)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any crowdfunding vehicle.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H2ACD2A2912B641A9B841256B9ED2F41F"><enum>3.</enum><header>Crowdfunding exemption from registration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 12(g)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/78l">15 U.S.C. 78l(g)(6)</external-xref> is amended—</text>
 <paragraph id="HCAC13F70C8C947ADA063812B5D24F6F2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>The Commission</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="HBA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06F3EA0EB1094BE2BA0C7F06A544680D" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HCA72F38A9D5C453788BEF7EE422785A5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
 </paragraph><paragraph id="H9D499E2BEE5044A29C7C7C6250377B27"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 4(6)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 4(a)(6)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H01A8C0B64540409695D909EEE8FA4F11"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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 <subparagraph id="H681EEB62D6754ED6A739D9EE4B3A1322"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Treatment of securities issued by certain issuers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An exemption under subparagraph (A) shall be unconditional for securities offered by an issuer that had a public float of less than $75,000,000 as of the last business day of the issuer’s most recently completed semiannual period, computed by multiplying the aggregate worldwide number of shares of the issuer’s common equity securities held by non-affiliates by the price at which such securities were last sold (or the average bid and asked prices of such securities) in the principal market for such securities or, in the event the result of such public float calculation is zero, had annual revenues of less than $50,000,000 as of the issuer’s most recently completed fiscal year.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
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		<action-date>July 5, 2016</action-date>
		<action-desc>Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the
			 Union, and ordered to be printed</action-desc></endorsement>
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