A bill, H.R. 3978, that includes various disparate measures passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 271 to 145. Among the measures included in H.R. 3978 are the Fostering Innovation Act of 2017, about which we have previously written, which amends Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404(b) attestation requirements extending the exemption available to EGCs for a longer period—until the earlier of ten years after the EGC went public, the end of the fiscal year in which the EGC's average gross revenues exceed $50 million, or when the EGC qualifies with the SEC as a large accelerated filer. In addition, H.R. 3978 includes the National Securities Exchange Regulatory Parity Act, which modernizes Section 18 of the Securities Act.
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