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S 286 113th Congress Senate Finance and Financial Sector Administrative remedies Civil actions and liability Financial services and investments Fraud offenses and financial crimes Securities

Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2013

Introduced: February 12, 2013 Introduced by: Reed, Jack Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
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Feb 12, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Feb 12, 2013
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S660)
Feb 12, 2013
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to increase the money penalties in administrative and civil actions involving securities laws violations.

Prescribes a fourth tier penalty of triple monetary penalties for noncompliance with certain enforcement actions if the violator, within the five-year period preceding the prohibited act, was criminally convicted for securities fraud or became subject to a judgment or order imposing monetary, equitable, or administrative relief in any Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) action alleging fraud by such violator.

Applies the treatment as a separate offense each day that a violation of an SEC cease-and-desist order is committed through continuing noncompliance to violation of any action to enforce a federal court injunction or certain SEC orders that bar, suspend, place limitations on the activities or functions of, or prohibit the activities of, a person.

What's happening now February 12, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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