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H.R.5024 / 109th Congress

Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2006

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Official summary

Version 36 · Passed House amended · Jul 25, 2006

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on July 17, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2006 - Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to provide oral testimony by their respective Chairpersons (or a designee), beginning in 2007, and annually for five years, to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives on their efforts to reduce the complexity in financial reporting to provide more accurate and clear financial information to investors.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Davis, Geoff [R-KY-4] · R–KY

Committees

  • Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
  • Financial Services Committee
8 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Actions

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  1. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

  2. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5754)

  4. Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5754)

  5. DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5024.

  6. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5754-5755)

  7. Mr. Davis (KY) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  8. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 321.

  9. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 109-565.

  10. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 109-565.

  11. Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

  12. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

  13. Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

  14. Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

  15. Introduced in House

  16. Introduced in House

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