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S 576 114th Congress Senate Finance and Financial Sector Administrative law and regulatory procedures Employee benefits and pensions Financial services and investments Securities Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Encouraging Employee Ownership Act

Introduced: February 26, 2015 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 24, 2015
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-16.
Feb 26, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Feb 26, 2015
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now March 24, 2015

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-16.

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 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Warner, Mark R.
Virginia · Feb 26, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 576: Encouraging Employee Ownership Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-576/
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"S. 576: Encouraging Employee Ownership Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-576/.
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S. 576, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-576/.
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