[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9148 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9148

 To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to provide an exemption 
 from the registration requirements under that Act to certain advisers 
               of private funds, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2024

Mr. Garbarino introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to provide an exemption 
 from the registration requirements under that Act to certain advisers 
               of private funds, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tailoring for Main Street's 
Investors Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION.

    Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b-
3) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(o) Exemption From Registration for Certain Private Fund 
Advisers.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Commission shall provide an 
        exemption from the registration requirements under this section 
        to any investment adviser of private funds, if--
                    ``(A) the investment adviser acts solely as an 
                investment adviser to private funds and has assets 
                under management in the United States of less than 
                $5,000,000,000;
                    ``(B) each of the investors in each such private 
                fund is--
                            ``(i) a qualified purchaser, as defined in 
                        section 2(a) of the Investment Company Act of 
                        1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-2(a));
                            ``(ii) an accredited investor, as defined 
                        in section 230.501(a) of title 17, Code of 
                        Federal Regulations, or any successor 
                        regulation; or
                            ``(iii) an investment professional that is 
                        licensed by a national securities association 
                        registered pursuant to section 15A(a) of the 
                        Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o-
                        3), if the Commission determines that the 
                        inclusion of such investment professionals 
                        would be appropriate; and
                    ``(C) none of those private funds offers any 
                investor of the private fund redemption or similar 
                liquidity rights, except in extraordinary 
                circumstances.
            ``(2) Reporting.--The Commission shall require investment 
        advisers exempted by reason of this subsection to maintain such 
        records and provide to the Commission every 2 years such 
        reports as the Commission determines necessary or appropriate 
        in the public interest or for the protection of investors, 
        except that the requirements under this paragraph shall be no 
        greater, and no more burdensome, than those under subsection 
        (m)(2).''.

SEC. 3. REPORTING FOR SMALLER ADVISERS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the 
        Securities and Exchange Commission.
            (2) Covered entity.--The term ``covered entity'' means an 
        entity that is required to submit Form ADV.
            (3) Form adv.--The term ``Form ADV'' means the form 
        described in section 279.1 of title 17, Code of Federal 
        Regulations, or any successor regulation.
    (b) Frequency of Filing.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law or regulation, beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a 
covered entity that has less than $1,000,000,000 in assets, as of the 
last day of the most recent fiscal year of the entity, shall be 
required to file Form ADV with the Commission not more frequently than 
once every 2 years.
    (c) Short Form.--Not later than 280 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Commission shall develop a short form 
version of Form ADV that a covered entity that has less than 
$1,000,000,000 in assets, as of the last day of the most recent fiscal 
year of the entity, may use to file Form ADV with the Commission.
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