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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 2E — Omnibus Small Business Capital Formation

§ 80c. Liaison between Securities and Exchange Commission and Small Business Administration

Statutory text

(a)

Studies on needs, problems, and costs of businesses; availability

The Securities and Exchange Commission shall gather, analyze, and make available to the public, information with respect to the capital formation needs, and the problems and costs involved with new, small, medium-sized, and independent businesses.

(b)

Availability of studies to Small Business Administration

The Commission shall make the results of such studies available to the Small Business Administration and otherwise have regular communication and liaison with such Administration in these matters.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980

    Pub. L. 96–477 title V § 502 · 94 Stat. 2275

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 80c

    (Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 502, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2292.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 502, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2292.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 502. liaison between securities and exchange commission and small business administration (a) The Securities and Exchange Commission shall gather, analyze, and make available to the public, information with respect to the capital formation needs, and the problems and costs involved with new, small, medium-sized, and independent businesses. (b) The Commission shall make the results of such studies available to the Small Business Administration and otherwise have regular communication and liaison with such Administration in these matters.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 507, , 94 Stat. 2294, provided that: “Except as otherwise specified, the amendments made by this title [enacting this chapter and amending section 77s of this title] shall become effective January 1 of the year following the date of enactment of this Act [].”

Short Title

Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 501, , 94 Stat. 2291, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and amending section 77s of this title] may be cited as the ‘Omnibus Small Business Capital Formation Act of 1980’.”

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–477, title V, § 502, , 94 Stat. 2292.)

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