On December 18, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules for the reporting of certain payments by resource extraction issuers (the “proposed rules”). The proposed rules represent the third attempt by the SEC to promulgate rules mandated under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which added Section 13(q) to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), directing the SEC to issue rules requiring resource extraction issuers to include in an annual report information relating to any payment made by the issuer, a subsidiary of the issuer, or an entity under the control of the issuer to a foreign government or the US federal government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals.