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S. 576 114th Congress Senate

Encouraging Employee Ownership Act

Official title: A bill to increase the threshold for disclosures required by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to compensatory benefit plans, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 26, 2015 See on congress.gov
Finance and Financial Sector Administrative law and regulatory proceduresEmployee benefits and pensionsFinancial services and investmentsSecuritiesSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
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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 Latest action 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.

 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.

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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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