[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4429 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4429

    To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise the 
 definition of a qualifying investment, for purposes of the exemption 
     from registration for venture capital fund advisers under the 
 Investment Advisers Act of 1940, to include an equity security issued 
   by a qualifying portfolio company and to include an investment in 
         another venture capital fund, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2025

 Mrs. Wagner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise the 
 definition of a qualifying investment, for purposes of the exemption 
     from registration for venture capital fund advisers under the 
 Investment Advisers Act of 1940, to include an equity security issued 
   by a qualifying portfolio company and to include an investment in 
         another venture capital fund, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Developing and Empowering our 
Aspiring Leaders Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    Not later than the end of the 180-day period beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission 
shall--
            (1) revise the definition of a qualifying investment under 
        paragraph (c) of section 275.203(l)-1 of title 17, Code of 
        Federal Regulations--
                    (A) to include an equity security issued by a 
                qualifying portfolio company, whether acquired directly 
                from the company or in a secondary acquisition; and
                    (B) to specify that an investment in another 
                venture capital fund is a qualifying investment under 
                such definition; and
            (2) revise paragraph (a) of such section to require, as a 
        condition of a private fund qualifying as a venture capital 
        fund under such paragraph, that the qualifying investments of 
        the private fund are either--
                    (A) predominantly qualifying investments that were 
                acquired directly from a qualifying portfolio company; 
                or
                    (B) predominantly qualifying investments in another 
                venture capital fund or other venture capital funds.
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