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House vote: H.R. 1343 // April 4, 2017

Encouraging Employee Ownership Act of 2017

Sponsor: Randy Hultgren (R-IL)

Encouraging Employee Ownership Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase, from $5 million to $10 million, the 12-month sales threshold beyond which an issuer is required to provide investors with additional disclosures related to compensatory benefit plans.

Finance and Financial Sector Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Yea

331 votes, representing 191,251,462 people76.0%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Nay

87 votes, representing 50,238,567 people20.0%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 4.0% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
YeaWon33176.0%
NayLost8720.0%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken04.0%