Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. (Photo: Bloomberg)
The House will vote Tuesday on an amendment to S. 488, the JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018, also known as House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling's "JOBS Act 3.0."
The bill is designed to modernize "our nation's securities laws and help small and midsize businesses get started, raise the capital they need to expand, innovate and hire new employees," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in commenting on the upcoming vote.
Hensarling, R-Texas, said in mid-May that the Dodd-Frank rollback bill — the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S.2155), which was signed into law by President Donald Trump on May 24 — didn't go far enough in its capital formation attempts, and that he'd be pushing for a Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act follow-up package to hit the House floor in the summer.
The bill passed in May "is essentially a community financial institutions regulatory relief bill — that's its major thrust," Hensarling said, "but it has a really small capital formation title."
So as good as S.2155 is, "it leaves 80% of bank assets untouched," he continued.
What he's hoping for "in this trailing bill is something that is going to be in the vein of the JOBS Act; JOBS 1.0 was signed into law by President Barack Obama, who at the time said, 'This is a an important step on the journey to remove barriers to entrepreneurs getting capital.'"
Hensarling and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member on the financial services committee, announced Monday that they had reached an agreement on the JOBS Act 3.0, which is a package of 32 bills that have "passed the committee or House this Congress with broad bipartisan support."
