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\n\nIf you own shares in a company that trades off the stock exchange, selling them could get easier. Today, your state can require registration or set conditions on those trades. Under this change, states could not block, limit, or add conditions to them. The company must first make current information about itself public. It can do that with the small-offering reports the SEC already requires, or the basic company facts brokers collect before quoting a stock.\n\nStates would keep their power to investigate and sue over fraud in these trades. What they would lose is the power to set rules before a trade happens. The SEC would decide what counts as off-exchange secondary trading, so the reach is not yet set. A House committee approved the bill in March 2026. The full House has not voted.
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