Securities and Exchange Commission Authority Restoration Act of 2007

Securities and Exchange Commission Authority Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 with respect to the exemption from the requirement of registration for any investment adviser: (1) who has had fewer than fifteen clients during the course of the preceding twelve months; and (2) who neither holds himself out generally to the public as an investment adviser, nor acts an an investment adviser to any registered investment company or a company which has elected to be a business development company.

Authorizes the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: (1) limit the availability of this exemption; and (2) require the registration of any investment adviser by requiring that certain shareholders, partners, and beneficial owners of, or investors in, clients of the adviser be counted as clients themselves.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2586 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2586

     To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to authorize the 
  Commission to require the registration of hedge fund advisers under 
                               that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2007

 Mr. Capuano 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 authorize the 
  Commission to require the registration of hedge fund advisers under 
                               that Act.

    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 ``Securities and Exchange Commission 
Authority Restoration Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO LIMIT 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 new subsection:
    ``(l) Authority To Limit Exemption.--
            ``(1) Authority.--The Commission may, by rule or 
        regulation, limit the availability of the exemption provided by 
        subsection (b)(3), and require the registration under this 
        section, of an investment adviser by requiring that certain 
        shareholders, partners, and beneficial owners of, or investors 
        in, clients of the adviser shall also be counted as clients 
        themselves for purposes of such subsection, as the Commission 
        determines necessary in the public interest or for the 
        protection of investors.
            ``(2) Rule of construction.--The treatment of a 
        shareholder, partner, beneficial owner, or investor as a client 
        for purposes of registration under this section shall not 
        affect, and shall not be affected by, the treatment of such 
        persons not as clients for purposes of section 206 or any other 
        section of this title.''.
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