Anti-Open Data Bill Set for House Passage, Again | Data Coalition

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-03

Summary:

"The Coalition has long opposed Rep. Robert Hurt’s Small Company Disclosure Simplification Act (H.R. 1965), which would severely disrupt the SEC’s ability to collect open data financial statements from most public companies, and regress to only collecting the information as plain-text documents. H.R. 1965 is back on the House of Representatives’ agenda. It has been included in a package bill the House is scheduled for a vote this Wednesday. Since the Republican majority has endorsed the overall package already, the House will probably approve the package, sending it to the Senate, and taking H.R. 1965 along with it ..."

Link:

http://www.datacoalition.org/anti-open-data-bill-set-for-house-passage-again/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.usa oa.legislation oa.data oa.industries oa.negative

Date tagged:

02/03/2016, 12:39

Date published:

02/03/2016, 07:39