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22 118THCONGRESS
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44 STSESSION S. 3286
55 To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to amend the rules
66 of the Commission relating to disclosures by advisers of private funds,
77 and for other purposes.
88 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
99 NOVEMBER9, 2023
1010 Mr. C
1111 ASEY(for himself and Mr. SCOTTof Florida) introduced the following
1212 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking,
1313 Housing, and Urban Affairs
1414 A BILL
1515 To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to
1616 amend the rules of the Commission relating to disclo-
1717 sures by advisers of private funds, and for other pur-
1818 poses.
1919 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
2020 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
2121 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
2222 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disclosing Investments 4
2323 in Foreign Adversaries Act of 2023’’. 5
2424 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
2525 In this Act: 7
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2929 (1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 1
3030 means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 2
3131 (2) C
3232 OUNTRY OF CONCERN .—The term ‘‘coun-3
3333 try of concern’’— 4
3434 (A) has the meaning given the term ‘‘cov-5
3535 ered nation’’ in section 4872(d) of title 10, 6
3636 United States Code; and 7
3737 (B) includes a jurisdiction that the Com-8
3838 mission, in consultation with the Secretary of 9
3939 State and the Secretary of the Treasury, deter-10
4040 mines to be subject to the political and legal 11
4141 control of a covered nation, as defined in sec-12
4242 tion 4872(d) of title 10, United States Code. 13
4343 (3) C
4444 OVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-14
4545 tity’’ means an entity or person that is required to 15
4646 file Form PF. 16
4747 (4) E
4848 XEMPT REPORTING ADVISER .—The term 17
4949 ‘‘exempt reporting adviser’’ means an investment ad-18
5050 viser described in section 275.204–4(a) of title 17, 19
5151 Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regu-20
5252 lation. 21
5353 (5) F
5454 ORM ADV.—The term ‘‘Form ADV’’ 22
5555 means the form described in section 279.1 of title 23
5656 17, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor 24
5757 regulation. 25
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6161 (6) FORM PF.—The term ‘‘Form PF’’ means 1
6262 the form described in section 279.9 of title 17, Code 2
6363 of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation. 3
6464 (7) P
6565 RIVATE FUND.—The term ‘‘private fund’’ 4
6666 has the meaning given the term in section 202(a) of 5
6767 the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 6
6868 80b–2(a)). 7
6969 (8) P
7070 RIVATE FUND ASSETS.—The term ‘‘private 8
7171 fund assets’’ has the meaning given the term in sec-9
7272 tion 275.204(b)–1 of title 17, Code of Federal Regu-10
7373 lations, or any successor regulation. 11
7474 SEC. 3. ENHANCED DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR AD-12
7575 VISERS OF PRIVATE FUNDS. 13
7676 (a) R
7777 EQUIREMENTS.— 14
7878 (1) I
7979 N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 15
8080 the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission 16
8181 shall amend Form PF and Form ADV, and the 17
8282 rules of the Commission governing the submission of 18
8383 Form PF and Form ADV, to, subject to paragraph 19
8484 (2), require each covered entity and each exempt re-20
8585 porting adviser to annually disclose when submitting 21
8686 Form PF or Form ADV, respectively, the total pri-22
8787 vate fund assets in countries of concern attributable 23
8888 to the private funds advised by the covered entity or 24
8989 exempt reporting adviser, as applicable, which shall 25
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9393 be broken down by the percentage of those assets in 1
9494 each country of concern. 2
9595 (2) A
9696 PPLICATION.—For the purposes of para-3
9797 graph (1), the Commission shall determine whether 4
9898 a private fund asset is in a country of concern based 5
9999 on— 6
100100 (A) the amount of capital that is invested 7
101101 in an entity (including a subsidiary of an enti-8
102102 ty)— 9
103103 (i) that has a physical presence or em-10
104104 ployees in that country of concern; or 11
105105 (ii) the plurality of the sales of which 12
106106 are from that country of concern; and 13
107107 (B) the proportion of the total assets and 14
108108 liabilities of an entity described in subpara-15
109109 graph (A) that are located in that country of 16
110110 concern. 17
111111 (b) R
112112 EPORTING BYCOMMISSION.— 18
113113 (1) P
114114 UBLICLY AVAILABLE REPORTS .— 19
115115 (A) I
116116 N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year 20
117117 after the date on which the Commission makes 21
118118 the amendments required under subsection (a), 22
119119 and not less frequently than annually there-23
120120 after, the Commission shall prepare and make 24
121121 publicly available a report containing a list of 25
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125125 covered entities and exempt reporting advisers 1
126126 that, for the period covered by the report, have 2
127127 disclosed more than 0 private fund assets under 3
128128 Form PF or Form ADV (as amended pursuant 4
129129 to that subsection) in at least 1 country of con-5
130130 cern, which shall be aggregated by the covered 6
131131 entity or exempt reporting adviser making that 7
132132 disclosure. 8
133133 (B) A
134134 DDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS .—Each 9
135135 report prepared and made available by the 10
136136 Commission under subparagraph (A) shall— 11
137137 (i) be aggregated by covered entity or 12
138138 exempt reporting adviser; and 13
139139 (ii) include the percentage of private 14
140140 fund assets disclosed by a covered entity or 15
141141 exempt reporting adviser, as applicable. 16
142142 (2) R
143143 ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in this 17
144144 subsection may be construed to permit the Commis-18
145145 sion to make available any information that appears 19
146146 on Form PF or Form ADV other than the informa-20
147147 tion that is included on Form PF or Form ADV as 21
148148 a result of the requirements under subsection (a). 22
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152152 SEC. 4. EXEMPTED TRANSACTIONS. 1
153153 (a) I
154154 NGENERAL.—The Securities Exchange Act of 2
155155 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.) is amended by inserting after 3
156156 section 13A (15 U.S.C. 78m–1) the following: 4
157157 ‘‘SEC. 13B. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO 5
158158 CERTAIN EXEMPTED TRANSACTIONS. 6
159159 ‘‘(a) D
160160 EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
161161 ‘‘(1) B
162162 ENEFICIAL OWNER .—The term ‘bene-8
163163 ficial owner’ means a person that is determined to 9
164164 be a beneficial owner under section 240.13d–3 of 10
165165 title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, or any suc-11
166166 cessor regulation. 12
167167 ‘‘(2) C
168168 OUNTRY OF CONCERN .—The term ‘coun-13
169169 try of concern’— 14
170170 ‘‘(A) has the meaning given the term ‘cov-15
171171 ered nation’ in section 4872(d) of title 10, 16
172172 United States Code; and 17
173173 ‘‘(B) includes a jurisdiction that the Com-18
174174 mission, in consultation with the Secretary of 19
175175 State and the Secretary of the Treasury, deter-20
176176 mines to be subject to the political and legal 21
177177 control of a covered nation, as defined in sec-22
178178 tion 4872(d) of title 10, United States Code. 23
179179 ‘‘(3) C
180180 OVERED EXEMPTED TRANSACTION .—The 24
181181 term ‘covered exempted transaction’ means an offer 25
182182 or sale of a security that is— 26
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186186 ‘‘(A) exempt from registration under sec-1
187187 tion 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 2
188188 77e); and 3
189189 ‘‘(B) structured or intended to comply 4
190190 with— 5
191191 ‘‘(i) section 230.506(b) of title 17, 6
192192 Code of Federal regulations, or any suc-7
193193 cessor regulation; 8
194194 ‘‘(ii) sections 230.901, 230.902, and 9
195195 230.903 of title 17, Code of Federal Regu-10
196196 lations, or any successor regulations; or 11
197197 ‘‘(iii) section 230.144A of title 17, 12
198198 Code of Federal Regulations, or any suc-13
199199 cessor regulation. 14
200200 ‘‘(b) R
201201 EQUIREMENT.— 15
202202 ‘‘(1) I
203203 N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 16
204204 provision of law, in the case of an issuer that con-17
205205 ducts a covered exempted transaction described in 18
206206 paragraph (2), that issuer shall provide to the Com-19
207207 mission, at such time and in such manner as the 20
208208 Commission may prescribe, the following informa-21
209209 tion: 22
210210 ‘‘(A) The identity of the issuer. 23
211211 ‘‘(B) The place of incorporation of the 24
212212 issuer. 25
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216216 ‘‘(C) Whether the issuer is associated with 1
217217 at least 1 consolidated entity, the plurality of 2
218218 the assets of which are in a country of concern. 3
219219 ‘‘(D) Whether the issuer is associated with 4
220220 at least 1 consolidated entity that is incor-5
221221 porated in a country of concern. 6
222222 ‘‘(E) The amount of securities sold pursu-7
223223 ant to the covered exempted transaction and 8
224224 the net proceeds to the issuer. 9
225225 ‘‘(F) The beneficial owners of the issuer. 10
226226 ‘‘(G) The intended use of the proceeds 11
227227 from the covered exempted transaction, includ-12
228228 ing each country in which the issuer intends to 13
229229 invest those proceeds, which shall be broken 14
230230 down by the percentage of net proceeds by in-15
231231 dustry within each such country. 16
232232 ‘‘(H) The exemption the issuer relies on 17
233233 with respect to the covered exempted trans-18
234234 action. 19
235235 ‘‘(2) P
236236 ARTICULAR COVERED EXEMPTED TRANS -20
237237 ACTION DESCRIBED .—A covered exempted trans-21
238238 action described in this paragraph is, with respect to 22
239239 the issuer offering or selling the security that is the 23
240240 subject of the covered exempted transaction, either 24
241241 of the following instances: 25
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245245 ‘‘(A) An offer or sale of securities in an 1
246246 amount that is not less than $25,000,000. 2
247247 ‘‘(B) An offer or sale of a security such 3
248248 that the offer or sale, together with all covered 4
249249 exempted transactions by that issuer during the 5
250250 1-year period preceding the date on which the 6
251251 issuer offers or sells the security, constitutes of-7
252252 fers or sales in the aggregate of an amount that 8
253253 is not less than $50,000,000. 9
254254 ‘‘(c) A
255255 UTHORITYTOREVISE AND PROMULGATE 10
256256 R
257257 ULES, REGULATIONS, ANDFORMS.—The Commission 11
258258 shall, for the protection of investors and fair and orderly 12
259259 markets— 13
260260 ‘‘(1) revise and issue such rules, regulations, 14
261261 and forms as may be necessary to carry out this sec-15
262262 tion; and 16
263263 ‘‘(2) issue rules to set conditions that limit the 17
264264 future use of covered exempted transactions for 18
265265 issuers that do not comply with the disclosure re-19
266266 quirements of this section. 20
267267 ‘‘(d) A
268268 PPLICABILITY.—This section shall apply with 21
269269 respect to any covered exempted transaction that occurs 22
270270 on or after the date that is 1 year after the date of enact-23
271271 ment of this section. 24
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275275 ‘‘(e) REPORTS.—The Commission shall, on a quar-1
276276 terly basis, prepare and make publicly available a report 2
277277 that includes all information submitted by an issuer under 3
278278 this section during the quarter covered by the report, if 4
279279 that issuer— 5
280280 ‘‘(1) is— 6
281281 ‘‘(A) incorporated in a country of concern; 7
282282 or 8
283283 ‘‘(B) incorporated outside of a country of 9
284284 concern and is associated with at least 1 con-10
285285 solidated entity— 11
286286 ‘‘(i) the plurality of the assets of 12
287287 which are in a country of concern; or 13
288288 ‘‘(ii) that is incorporated in a country 14
289289 of concern; or 15
290290 ‘‘(2) discloses in a filing made pursuant to this 16
291291 section that the issuer intends to invest the proceeds 17
292292 from a covered exempted transaction in a country of 18
293293 concern.’’. 19
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