On October 27, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee (the “Committee”) voted 67-1 to approve the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act (the “Bill”), sponsored by Representative Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA). The Bill would require advisers to private funds (which would include advisers to hedge funds and private equity funds as defined by the SEC, but not advisers to venture capital funds) to register as investment advisers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended. The Bill would also impose various recordkeeping and disclosure requirements on advisers.