Encouraging Employee Ownership Act

Encouraging Employee Ownership Act

Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise regulations to require an issuer to furnish investors with additional specified disclosures regarding compensatory benefit plans if the aggregate sales price or amount of securities sold during any consecutive 12-month period exceeds $10 million (currently $5 million), indexed for inflation every five years.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 576 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 576

 To increase the threshold for disclosures required by the Securities 
and Exchange Commission relating to compensatory benefit plans, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 26, 2015

Mr. Toomey (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
                           and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To increase the threshold for disclosures required by the Securities 
and Exchange Commission relating to compensatory benefit plans, 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 ``Encouraging Employee Ownership 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED THRESHOLD FOR DISCLOSURES RELATING TO COMPENSATORY 
              BENEFIT PLANS.

    Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Securities and Exchange Commission shall revise section 230.701(e) 
of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, so as to increase from 
$5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the aggregate sales price or amount of 
securities sold during any consecutive 12-month period in excess of 
which the issuer is required under such section to deliver an 
additional disclosure to investors. The Commission shall index for 
inflation such aggregate sales price or amount every 5 years to reflect 
the change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers 
published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, rounding to the nearest 
$1,000,000.
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