Category: Securities fraud

Bills

109th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 2990	To improve ratings quality by fostering competition, transparency, and accountability in the credit rating agency industry.
S 256	A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.

108th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1533	To amend the securities laws to permit church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts.
H R 975	To amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.

107th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 3004	To combat the financing of terrorism and other financial crimes, and for other purposes.
H R 3763	To protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes.
H R 5118	To provide for enhanced penalties for accounting and auditing improprieties at publicly traded companies, and for other purposes.
S 1510	A bill to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes.
S 2673	An original bill to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for public companies, to create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the standard setting process for accounting practices, to strengthen the independence of firms that audit public companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the objectivity and independence of securities analysts, to improve Securities and Exchange Commission resources and oversight, and for other purposes.

106th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1714	To facilitate the use of electronic records and signatures in interstate or foreign commerce.
H R 4541	To reauthorize and amend the Commodity Exchange Act to promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives, and for other purposes.
H R 4577	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
S 761	A bill to regulate interstate commerce by electronic means by permitting and encouraging the continued expansion of electronic commerce through the operation of free market forces, and for other purposes.

105th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1689	To amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law, and for other purposes.
H R 3150	To amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.
S 1260	A bill to amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to limit the conduct of securities class actions under State law, and for other purposes.
S 1301	A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for consumer bankruptcy protection, and for other purposes.

104th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1058	An Act to amend the Federal securities laws to curb certain abusive practices in private securites litigation, and for other purposes.
H R 3005	To amend the Federal securities laws in order to promote efficiency and capital formation in the financial markets, and to amend the Investment Company Act of 1940 to promote more efficient management of mutual funds, protect investors, and provide more effective and less burdensome regulation.
H R 3610	Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
H R 4278	Making omnibus consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
S 240	A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to establish a filing deadline and to provide certain safeguards to ensure that the interests of investors are well protected under the implied private action provisions of the Act.

103rd Congress

Bill	Title
H R 2442	To reauthorize appropriations under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended, to revise administrative provisions of the Act to improve the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to administer grant programs, and for other purposes.
H R 868	To strengthen the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers in connection with sales made with a telephone, and for other purposes.

102nd Congress

Bill	Title
S 1699	A bill to prevent false and misleading statements in connection with offerings of government securities.

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