[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9732 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9732

To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers with a 
  multi-class share structure to disclose certain shareholder voting 
                                results.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2026

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers with a 
  multi-class share structure to disclose certain shareholder voting 
                                results.

    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 ``Multi-Class Stock Company Voting 
Transparency Act.''

SEC. 2. SHAREHOLDER VOTING RESULTS DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT FOR ISSUERS 
              WITH MULTI-CLASS SHARE STRUCTURES.

    Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78n) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Shareholder Voting Results Disclosure Requirement for Issuers 
With Multi-Class Share Structures.--The Commission shall, by rule, 
require that an issuer with 2 or more classes of voting securities, 
with respect to each meeting during which the shareholders of the 
issuer vote as one class, disclose to such shareholders the following 
with respect to such vote:
            ``(1) The total number of votes cast for, against, or 
        withheld, disaggregated by class of voting security held.
            ``(2) The total number of abstentions and broker non-votes, 
        disaggregated by class of voting security held.''.
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