HR 3606 · 112th Congress · Finance and Financial Sector
Jumpstart Our Business Startups
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EnactedLatest: Became Public Law No: 112-106.(2012-04-05)
Recorded Votes
PassedSenate · 2012-03-22
Roll #55 ↗Yea 73Nay 26
PassedSenate · 2012-03-22
Roll #55 ↗Yea 73Nay 26
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Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act of 2011 - Amends the Securities Act of 1933 (SA) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (SEA) to define "emerging growth company" as an issuer that had total annual gross revenues of less than $1 billion during its most recently completed fiscal year. Amends SEA and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 to exempt emerging growth companies from the requirement for separate shareholder approval of executive compensation, including golden parachute compensation. Amends SA to state that an emerging growth company need not present more than two years of audited financial statements in order for its registration statement, with respect to an initial public offering of its common equity securities, to be effective. Amends both SA and SEA to state that, in any other registration statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an emerging growth company need not present financial data for any period before the earliest audited period presented in connection with its initial public offering. Authorizes the SEC to recognize, as generally accepted accounting p…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 3606, Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
Mar 2, 2012As posted on the Web site of the House Committee on Rules on February 27, 2012
Full CBO report ↗H.R. 3606, the Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act of 2011
Mar 5, 2012As reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on March 1, 2012
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office
Cosponsors (20)
7 Democrats13 Republicans