List of international crowdfunding petition efforts

This page serves as an ongoing list of efforts to petition for regulatory changes which allow crowdfunding, in respective countries.  Please send me updates, whether they be online petitions, crowdfunded or other campaigns to create official regulatory body petitions, legislative hearings, etc.

U.S.A. (Federal / SEC):

• House overwhelmingly passes JOBS Act (6 previous capital formation bills rolled into 1) which includes previous crowdfunding bill (2012/03/08).
• Senate Hearing: Spurring Job Growth Through Capital Formation While Protecting Investors, Part II [video](2012/03/06).
• Sen. Brown on Crowdfunding and Access to Capital Roundtables (2012/02/29).
• Crowdfunding Bill Stuck in the Senate (2012/01/13).
• U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (2011/11/03).
• Startup Exemption online petition (ongoing).
• Congressional hearing#2,"Crowdfunding: Connecting Investors And Job Creators", [video]  (2011/09/15).
• Dylan Ratigan Show: Woody Neiss talks about crowdfunding (2011/09/14).
• White House Blog: "The President’s American Jobs Act: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship".  Point#1, "Boosting access to capital for high-growth companies" argues for crowdfunding (2011/09/08).
• Congressional hearing#1, "The Future of Capital Formation" related to Startup Exemption efforts (2011/05/10).
• Response from SEC chair Mary Schapiro (2011/04/06).
• Letter from Rep. Darrell Issa to SEC chair Mary Schapiro (2011/03/22).
• SEC petition from Paul Spinrad (comments page) (2010/07/01).
• Bulldog Investors comment letter to the SEC about the Reg D violation of the First Amendment (2007/09/05).

Papers/proposals:

• Crowdfunding Microstartups: It's Time for the Securities and Exchange Commission to Approve a Small Offering Exemption (2011/08/25) by Nikki D. Pope of Santa Clara University School of Law.
• Crowdfunding and the Federal Securities Laws (2011/08/24) by C. Steven Bradford, University of Nebraska College of Law.
• Proceed at Your Peril: Crowdfunding and the Securities Act of 1933 (2011/08/23) by Joan MacLeod Heminway and Shelden Ryan Hoffman, University of Tennessee College of Law.

U.S.A. (State):

• Washington:  SELC  petition to the Securities Division of the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions advocating a state level securities exemption (2011/08/15).

Canada:

• CATA Alliance: Powerful New “Crowd Funding” Model For Start-Ups -- Will Canada Keep Up with the U.S. (2012/01/31)?

Europe:

• UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) Crowd Funding Report - A Proposal to Facilitate Crowd Funding in the UK (2012/02/16).
• Bielsko-Biala Declaration on crowdfunding.  There's a related session at Agorada 2011, Friday Nov 18 from 13.45 - 16.00, entitled "Bielsko-Biala Declaration of Crowd Funding : Realising the full Potential of Crowdfunding Initiatives" (2011/11/18).