Pick one or more. We'll use your choices and the connected bills to help you send a message to your elected officials.
Answer the policy questions below or skip any that don't fit your view. We use only your answers and the bills they connect to for your message.
1 bill on this topic
“Congress should cancel the 2022 Labor Department rule about how fiduciaries for many employer-sponsored retirement plans choose investments and use shareholder voting rights.”
1 bill on this topic
“Brokers, dealers, and investment advisers should judge a customer's best interest mainly by expected investment risk and return. They could use personal values or other non-financial goals only after the customer gives informed written consent.”
1 bill on this topic
“Institutional investors should review proxy votes themselves instead of automatically following proxy advisers, and they should hand off voting decisions only to firms that have a legal duty to act in investors' best interest.”
1 bill on this topic
“Investment managers that use proxy advisers should report how they vote on shareholder proposals, how often they follow proxy advice, and how those votes serve shareholders financially. Managers with at least $100 billion in regulatory assets should also disclose a financial analysis for each shareholder proposal vote unless an exception applies.”
1 bill on this topic
“Proxy advisory firms should face securities-law liability for important false or missing facts in paid voting advice, and they may have to pay a company's costs if they back a shareholder proposal that passes and a court later rules that proposal illegal.”
1 bill on this topic
“Advisers to index funds and other passive funds should vote company shares only through approved methods, such as following investor instructions, a selected voting policy, the company board, abstention, or SEC-approved vote mirroring, and investors should be offered a way to choose a voting policy.”
2 bills on this topic
“Advisers to index and passive funds should have to follow owners' instructions, follow the company's recommendation, or abstain on certain votes, with legal protection for using those options and many corporate votes treated as routine.”
1 bill on this topic
“Proxy advisory firms that sell voting advice should register with the SEC, explain who owns them and how they make recommendations, disclose conflicts, maintain staff for accurate advice and complaints, publish yearly recommendation reports, and face SEC penalties for serious problems.”
1 bill on this topic
“Investment managers should have to explain and certify that shareholder-proposal votes were based only on shareholders' best economic interests, meaning investment returns over a time period that fits the fund.”
1 bill on this topic
“Shareholder proxy or consent votes should not be automatically cast or pre-filled to match a proxy advisory firm's recommendation unless the voter has independently reviewed the issue first.”
1 bill on this topic
“Proxy voting, passive fund voting, proxy advice, and personal investment advice should judge investors' best interest mainly by financial factors and investment returns for the relevant goals, time horizon, and risk level.”
1 bill on this topic
“The SEC should not be able to make public companies put shareholder proposals in the voting materials they send to shareholders, except under narrow existing proxy authority.”
1 bill on this topic
“Companies should have more ability to keep shareholder proposals out of proxy materials, including proposals that are repeated, already mostly addressed, overlapping with another proposal, or focused on environmental, social, or political topics.”
1 bill on this topic
“Public companies should be able to leave a shareholder proposal off the ballot when similar proposals failed to win enough support in the last 5 years, when the company has already mostly done what the proposal asks, or when another proposal on the ballot says nearly the same thing.”
1 bill on this topic
“States should be able to set rules for shareholder proposals, proxy materials, and written-consent materials without the SEC overriding those state rules under federal securities law.”
1 bill on this topic
“Investors, fiduciaries, and others should be allowed to abstain instead of being forced to cast proxy votes.”
One sentence is enough. Tell officials how this affects your family, work, bills, neighborhood, or values so the message sounds like you.
Example: My daughter's school closed twice last fall because of wildfire smoke.
Step 2 of 3 · Add your info next
Answer at least one question to continue
