3 October 2008
Hotel Lawyer: $700 billion financial rescue bill is signed! Full text of the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.”
In the coming days and weeks, we will have more thoughts to share on this landmark legislation and its implications for the hospitality industry, but here is the final text of the law signed today — October 3, 2008.
The “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008” is now law. The Senate-revised version of the Bush Bailout Bill was passed by the Senate on October 1 (by a vote of 74 – 25) and finally passed by the House of Representatives at 1:21 pm October 3, 2008 (by a vote of 263 – 171). Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed the bill at exactly 2 pm, and it was rushed to President Bush for his signature within an hour.
Now we just have to figure out what the law means and how it will implemented. Speaker Pelosi has announced that hearings will start next week to find the causes of the crisis and to determine “where we go from here.”
Click here for: EESA 2008 Full Text
Click here for: EESA 2008 Section-by-Section Analysis
This is Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com and hotel lawyer, signing off. We’ve done more than $87 billion of hotel transactions and more than 100 hotel mixed-use deals in the last 5 years alone. Who’s your hotel lawyer?
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