The composition of corporate boards — and specifically the inclusion of minorities, women, and veterans on corporate boards — is a matter of public interest. With this in mind, publicly traded companies should make information about their boards’ members publicly available.
This bill is duplicative with another bill, the Diversity in Corporate Leadership Act of 2019 (H.R.3279), that has also passed the House Financial Services Committee. Since these two bills address the same issues and have very similar provisions, they should be combined into one piece of legislation.