{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/videos?ContentRecord_id=3D5F059E-7BA6-465D-BAA6-D4D1DE158AAE", "Heller Advances Start-up Legislation through Finance Committee", "2016-09-21", "2016", "2016-09", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Dean Heller", "H001041", "www.heller.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Also Leads Effort to Provide a Technical Fix for Renewable Technologies (Section 48)\r\n(Washington, DC) \u2013Today, U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) spoke at a United States Senate Committee on Finance markup in support of his legislation, Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership (EESO) Act, promoting employee ownership through stock options in privately held businesses. Senator Heller also spoke about his desire to provide parity across all renewable energy sectors, including commercial geothermal (Section 48 technologies).\r\nThe Senate Committee on Finance passed EESO during a committee markup earlier today.\u00a0\u00a0\r\nRemarks as prepared: \r\nI want to thank my friend and colleague, Senator Warner, for our legislation called the Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act (EESO Act).\r\nIn order to strengthen these growing businesses, I believe it is crucial that employers have the tools to retain talent by giving their employees an ownership stake in their company\u2019s success. Currently, cash-strapped privately held start-up companies provide stock options as a way to compensate employees and compete with more established firms. However, because these companies are private, there is generally not a market for employees to sell their shares to cover their tax liability.\r\nOur legislation would address this challenge by providing non-highly compensated employees the ability to defer their income tax liabilities.\r\nI was pleased to see the House Ways and Means Committee passed our companion bill last week and is expected to pass the full House this week.\r\nAnd finally Mr. Chairman, Nevada is a national leader on solar, geothermal and other innovative technologies. As a result of last year\u2019s solar tax deal, Nevada expects an additional $2 billion in solar will be invested in our state alone, expanding clean energy production and creating hundreds of good paying jobs.\r\nAs a leader on this issue, I believe it is crucial and critical that we provide parity across the renewable energy sectors so that all Section 48 technologies are treated equally.\r\nI am disappointed Section 48 parity is still an outstanding issue within the tax code.\u00a0 It should have been resolved last year.\r\nI appreciate my colleagues, specifically Senators Carper and Cantwell, that are here today raising this issue and remain committed to working with them and you, Mr. Chairman to resolve this issue before the end of the year.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/videos?ContentRecord_id=3D5F059E-7BA6-465D-BAA6-D4D1DE158AAE"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9733671322464943, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}