HR3381Passed House
Encouraging Public Offerings Act of 2025
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-05-14
Introduced
2
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Ann Wagner
Republican · MO · Representative
Votes with party: 97.8% (593 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/W000812
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (2)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
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Latest Action
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
2025-06-24
Source: Congress.gov
Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsReferred To · 2025-06-24
- House Committee on Financial ServicesReported By · 2025-06-03
Previously
- House Committee on Financial ServicesMarkup By · 2025-05-20
- House Committee on Financial ServicesReferred To · 2025-05-14
Plain-English Summary
Encouraging Public Offerings Act of 2025 This bill provides statutory authority for all issuers of securities to use certain offering procedures that are available to emerging growth companies. Specifically, the bill allows under statute issuers of securities to communicate with potential investors to ascertain interest in a contemplated securities offering, either before or after the filing of a registration statement (i.e., test the waters ). Additionally, issuers are allowed under statute to submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission, with respect to an initial public offering, initial registration, or follow-on offering, a confidential draft registration statement for review prior to public filing .
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
Finance and Financial Sector
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