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LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.

15. General issue area code SMB

16. Specific lobbying issues

H.R. 12 American Jobs Act of 2011
To provide tax relief for American workers and businesses, to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing America, and to provide pathways back to work for Americans looking for jobs. NSBA is monitoring the legislation.

H.R. 25 Fair Tax Act of 2011
Legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and enact a national retail sales tax. NSBA supported.

HR 674 Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011
A bill to repeal the mandatory three-percent withholding requirement on all payments for goods and services made to federal, state and local contractors. NSBA supported.

H.R. 880 - Equity for Our Nations Self-Employed Act of 2011
The bill would allow self-employed individuals to fully-deduct the cost of their health insurance, thus eliminating the self-employed tax on health care. NSBA supported.

H.R. 942 American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011
Bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the research credit through 2012 and to increase and make permanent the alternative simplified research credit. NSBA supported.

H.R. 1070 Small Company Capital Formation Act of 2011
Bill would provide a Regulation A ceiling increase from $5 million to $50 million. NSBA supported.

H.R.1081 Consumers Payment System Protection Act
Bill would delay the implementation of the Durbin swipe-fee reform amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act. NSBA opposed.

H.R. 1137 Small Business Credit Card Act of 2011
Bill would amend the Truth in Lending Act to provide coverage for credit cards issued to small businesses. NSBA supported.

H.R. 1259 Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2011
Bill to repeal the estate tax. The effective date is the date of enactment, and the bill retains step-up basis. NSBA supported.

H.R. 1418 - Small Business Lending Enhancement Act of 2011
Bill would increase the cap for credit union lending from 12.25 percent to 27.5 percent of total assets of the credit union. NSBA supported.

H.R. 1663 Small Business Encouragement Act
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small business employers whose gross receipts in the preceding taxable year did not exceed $20 million, or who did not employ more than 100 full time employees, a work opportunity tax credit for hiring unemployed individuals as full-time employees during 2012 and 2013. NSBA opposed.

H.R. 1697 Communities First Act
Bill would provide community bank regulatory relief. NSBA supported.

H.R. 1812 Small Business Growth Act
Legislation would establish a federal contracting pilot program for mid-sized businesses. NSBA opposed.

H.R. 1827 Home Office Deduction Simplification Act
Bill would allow home-based businesses to take a standard $1,500 deduction for home office expenses. NSBA supported.

H.R. 2072 Securing American Jobs Through Exports Act of 2011
The bill reauthorizes the U.S. Export-Import Bank. It also would gradually increase the banks exposure cap from $100 billion to $160 billion; use a portion of its surplus to update information technology systems; establish clear guidelines on the content of goods and services for which it would provide financing; and require the bank to report to Congress if its default rate exceeded 2 percent. NSBA supported.


H.R. 2885 Legal Workforce Act
This bill would make the use of E-Verify Mandatory for all employers. NSBA opposed.

H.R. 2930 Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act
Bill would create a crowdfunding exemption from SEC registration requirements. NSBA supported.

H.R. 2940 Access to Capital for Job Creators
Bill would provide for general solicitation and general advertising for accredited investors. NSBA supported.

H. R. 2941 Startup Expansion and Investment Act
Bill would address Sarbanes Oxley internal control reporting for small entities. NSBA supported.

H.R. 3476 AGREE Act
Bill would address Sarbanes Oxley internal control reporting for small entities. NSBA supported.

H.R. 3630 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011
The bill extends the existing 2011 payroll tax holiday for one year, through 2012, at a 4.2 percent rate. NSBA supported.

S. 13 Fair Tax Act of 2011
Legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and enact a national retail sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services. It sets the sales tax rate at 23 percent in 2011, with adjustments to the rate in subsequent years. NSBA supported.

S. 89 Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011
It repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold three-percent of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities. NSBA supported.

S.164 Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2011
A bill to repeal the mandatory three-percent withholding requirement on all payments for goods and services made to federal, state and local contractors. NSBA supported.

S. 474 Small Business Regulatory Freedom Act
Bill would reform the regulatory process and ensure that job creation by small businesses is considered during the Federal legislative and rulemaking process. NSBA supported.

S. 509 The Small Business Lending Enhancement Act
Bill would amend the Federal Credit Union Act to advance the ability of credit unions to promote small business growth and economic development opportunities. NSBA supported.

S. 575 Debit Interchange Fee Study Act
Bill would delay the implementation of the Durbin swipe-fee reform amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act. NSBA opposed.

S. 727 Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011
Comprehensive tax reform legislation with provisions consolidating tax brackets for individuals and businesses while at the same time lowering federal tax obligations, in part through a single, flat 24 percent corporate rate. NSBA is monitoring this legislation.

S. 1289 Taxpayer Advocacy and Government Accountability Promotion Act
Bill targets noncompliant tax filers with provisions to improve tax forms and tax administration and decrease tax avoidance by contractors, as a way to reduce the tax gap. NSBA is monitoring the legislation.


S. 1544 Small Company Capital Formation Act of 2011
Bill would provide a Regulation A ceiling increase from $5 million to $50 million. NSBA supported.

S. 1547 Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2011
The bill amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to extend the termination of functions date for the Export-Import Bank of the United States to September 30, 2015. NSBA supported.

S. 1549 American Jobs Act of 2011
A bill to provide tax relief for American workers and businesses, to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing America, and to provide pathways back to work for Americans looking for jobs. NSBA is monitoring the legislation.

S. 1600 Communities First Act
Bill would provide community bank regulatory relief. NSBA supported.

S. 1660 American Jobs Act of 2011
The bill would have cut payroll taxes in half for both workers and employers in 2012, eliminated payroll taxes for businesses that hire individuals who have been unemployed for more than six months, extended unemployment insurance benefits, and provided $175 billion for transportation infrastructure and school modernization projects. NSBA is monitoring the legislation.

S. 1791 Democratizing Access to Capital Act of 2011
Bill would create a crowdfunding exemption from SEC registration requirements. NSBA supported.

S. 1831 Access to Capital for Job Creators Act of 2011
Bill would provide for general solicitation and general advertising for accredited investors. NSBA supported.

S. 1866 AGREE Act
Bill would address Sarbanes Oxley internal control reporting for small entities. NSBA supported.

S. 1970 Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act of 2011
Bill would create a crowdfunding exemption from SEC registration requirements. NSBA supported.

NSBA submitted comments to the House Ways & Means Committee on the international tax reform Discussion Draft released by the Committee on Oct. 26, 2011.

NSBA submitted a statement to the House Ways and Means Committee regarding Joint Committee on Taxation scoring of tax reform legislation. NSBA supports dynamic scoring.

Department of Labor
Regarding advice exception to Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA) contained in section 203(c) of the Act. Filed comments on proposed Department of Labor rule that would make substantial changes to the existing interpretation of the advice exception to the so-called persuader or advice rule or the persuader reporting obligations. NSBA opposed this rule and urged its withdraw.

National Labor Relations Board
NSBA opposed the new labor elections regulation and urged its withdraw.
NSBA opposed the new unionization rights poster requirement regulation and urged its withdraw.

Department of Health and Human Services
On October 31, NSBA filed comments regarding affordable health insurance exchange regulations governing eligibility and employer standards implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). NSBA provided recommendations about how to improve the rule.

Securities and Exchange Commission
NSBA supports reducing the regulatory burden on businesses raising capital. NSBA filed comments with the SEC on its proposed Retrospective Review of Existing Regulations. It also filed comments with the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. In those comments, NSBA endorsed a specific Advisory Committee proposal to relax restrictions on general solicitation in private securities offerings to accredited investors.

Office of Government Ethics
NSBA submitted comments in opposition to the new proposed gift rule limiting gifts from registered lobbyists and lobbying organizations.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), Federal Reserve System, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Natl Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Office of Government Ethics (OGE), Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office

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LOBBYIST UPDATE

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ISSUE UPDATE

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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

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FOREIGN ENTITIES

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