To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to adjust certain resubmission thresholds for shareholder proposals.

United States115th CongressHR-5756House of Representatives
Updated: Aug 24, 2018

Summary

This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise the vote percentage amounts below which a company may exclude, from its proxy materials, resubmission of a shareholder proposal that previously failed passage. (Shareholder proposals previously included in the issuer's proxy materials may be excluded by the company from subsequent proxy materials if the proposal received less than a specified percentage of the vote the last time it was included. The percentage varies depending upon the number of times the proposal has been submitted previously.)

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  1. Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 22.

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  2. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

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  3. Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-904.

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  4. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 700.

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