On Thursday November 3, 2011, the House of Representatives passed HR 2930 – known as the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”. This is the bill that establishes an exemption to the federal securities laws for certain “crowdfunding” offerings. We provided a detailed description of this bill in a previous post. Although the future for the bill is uncertain in the Senate, President Obama’s office has expressed support for the bill – which would seem to make passage much more likely as the bill enjoyed bipartisan support in the House.
Also on November 3, the House passed HR 2940 – known as the “Access to Capital for Job Creators Act.” HR 2940 would eliminate the ban on “general solicitation” under certain private securities offerings conducted under Regulation D. Like the crowdfunding bill, this bill enjoyed broad bipartisan support in the House. A description of HR 2940 can be found in a previous post.
-Wythe Michael
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