SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT

Bills and resolutions

Investments: repeal certain indemnification requirements for regulatory authorities to obtain access to swap data required to be provided by swaps entities (see H.R. 4235), H1497 [21MR]

SEC: enable national securities exchanges to provide incentives to market-makers that increase liquidity and depth of capital markets and promote enhanced trading and price-discovery for smaller companies (see H.R. 6127), H4868 [13JY]

——— require annual disclosures relative to the compensation brackets in which an issuer’s minority and women employees reside (see H.R. 3791), H78 [18JA]

——— require disclosure of the total number of a company’s domestic and foreign employees (see H.R. 3875), S5085 [17JY] (see H.R. 3875), H374 [1FE]

——— require nationally recognized statistical rating organizations to certify that they monitor the accuracy of credit ratings issued by the organization (see H.R. 6512), H6275 [21SE]

Securities: amend laws to establish certain thresholds for shareholder registration (see H.R. 4088), H950 [24FE]

——— provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales (see S. 3480), S5870 [1AU]

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: clarify provisions relative to regulation of municipal advisors (see S. 3620), S6625 [21SE]

——— provide exemptions from municipal advisor registration requirements (see S. 3492), S5977 [2AU]

Remarks in House

SEC: change threshold number of shareholders for required registration, H1215, H1223, H1225, H1243 [7MR], H1278, H1279 [8MR]

Securities: amend laws to establish certain thresholds for shareholder registration, H1215, H1223, H1225, H1227, H1238, H1240–H1242 [7MR]

——— provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales (H.R. 2682), H1551–H1553 [26MR], E479 [28MR]

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: clarify provisions relative to regulation of municipal advisors (H.R. 2827), H6125–H6128 [19SE]

Remarks in Senate

Political campaigns: require shareholder authorization before a public company may make certain political expenditures (S. 1360), S5012 [16JY]

Securities: provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales, S3932 [12JN]

——— provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales (H.R. 2682), S2113 [27MR], S2115 [28MR]

Reports filed

Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act: Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 2682) (H. Rept. 112–343), H639 [8FE]

Repeal Certain Indemnification Requirements for Regulatory Authorities To Obtain Access to Swap Data Required To Be Provided by Swaps Entities: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 4235) (H. Rept. 112–471), H2565 [9MY]

Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 3283) (H. Rept. 112–477), H2662 [11MY]

Texts of

H.R. 2682, Business Risk Mitigation and Price Stabilization Act, H1551 [26MR]

H.R. 2827, clarify Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act provisions relative to regulation of municipal advisors, H6125 [19SE]