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H.R. 1723, Small Company Simple Registration Act of 2015 [i] (June 23, 2015)

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COST ESTIMATE
June 23, 2015
H.R. 1723
Small Company Simple Registration Act of 2015
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on May 20, 2015
H.R. 1723 would change the registration process for small businesses that file statements
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in order to sell securities to the
public. Specifically, for certain small issuers, the bill would reduce information that such
firms must provide to the SEC after filing a registration statement.
Based on information from the SEC, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1723 would
cost about $1 million in fiscal year 2016 to complete a rulemaking process as required
under the bill. Under current law the SEC is authorized to collect fees sufficient to offset its
appropriation each year; therefore, we estimate that the net cost to the SEC would not be
significant, assuming appropriation action consistent with that authority. CBO estimates
that enacting H.R. 1723 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore,
pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
H.R. 1723 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates
Reform Act (UMRA) and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.
If the SEC increases fees to offset the costs associated with implementing the bill,
H.R. 1723 would increase the cost of an existing mandate on private entities required to
pay those fees. Based on information from the SEC, CBO estimates that the aggregate cost
of the mandate would amount to about $1 million in 2016 and would fall well below the
annual threshold for private-sector mandates established in UMRA ($154 million in 2015,
adjusted annually for inflation).
The CBO staff contacts for this estimate are Susan Willie and Ben Christopher (for federal
costs) and Logan Smith (for the private-sector impact). The estimate was approved by
H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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