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1 H.R. 4281, Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act 1 (2017)

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                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
       0                     COST ESTIMATE
                                                               December  4, 2017


                                 H.R.   4281
         Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act

         As  ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services
                              on November 15, 2017


H.R. 4281 would expand the function of the Office of the Advocate for Small Business
Capital Formation within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to include
identifying problems that small businesses in rural areas experience with securing access
to capital. The office would be required to summarize those issues within an existing
annual report.

Using information from the SEC, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 4281 would
cost less than $500,000 over the 2018-2022 period for the agency to broaden the scope of
its current activities. However, because the SEC is authorized to collect fees sufficient to
offset its annual appropriation and assuming that appropriation actions were consistent
with that authority, CBO estimates that the net effect on discretionary spending would be
negligible.

Enacting H.R. 4281 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-
go procedures do not apply.

CBO  estimates that enacting H.R. 4281 would not increase net direct spending or on-
budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

H.R. 4281 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates
Reform Act (UMRA).

If the SEC increased fees to offset the costs associated with implementing the bill,
H.R. 4281 would increase the cost of an existing mandate on private entities that are
required to pay those assessments. CBO estimates that the incremental cost of the
mandate would be small and fall well below the annual threshold for private-sector
mandates established in UMRA ($156 million in 2017, adjusted annually for inflation).

The CBO  staff contacts for this estimate are Stephen Rabent (for federal costs) and
Amy  Petz (for mandates). The estimate was approved by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy
Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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