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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 1190 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1190

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Saturday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-six


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to expand access to capital 
        for rural-area small businesses, 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 ``Expanding Access to Capital for 
Rural Job Creators Act''.
SEC. 2. ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR RURAL-AREA SMALL BUSINESSES.
    Section 4(j) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 
78d(j)) is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (4)(C), by inserting ``, rural-area small 
    businesses'' after ``women-owned small businesses''; and
        (2) in paragraph (6)(B)(iii), by inserting ``, rural-area small 
    businesses'' after ``women-owned small businesses''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.