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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="2629" measure-id="id113hr2629" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-07-09" update-date="2013-09-20">
<title>Fostering Innovation Act of 2013</title>
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<action-date>2013-07-09</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Fostering Innovation Act of 2013 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to redefine &quot;accelerated filer&quot; with respect to issuers of securities required to meet accelerated deadlines for filing their Form 10-Q quarterly reports.</p> <p>Requires the SEC to include among accelerated filers any issuers of securities that have: (1) annual revenues in excess of $100 million, and (2) an aggregated worldwide market value between $250 million and $700 million of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates.</p> <BR>]]></summary-text>
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