- Create an Entrepreneur’s Visa for legal immigrants.
- Create a new STEM visa so that U.S.-educated foreign students who graduate with a master’s or a doctorate in science, technology, engineering or mathematics can receive a green card and stay in this country, launch businesses and create jobs.
- Eliminates the per-country caps for employment-based immigrant visas.
- making permanent the exemption of capital-gains taxes on the sale of certain small-business stock held for at least five years;
- creating a targeted research and development tax credit for businesses less than five years old and with less than $5 million in annual receipts;
- using existing federal funding to support taxpayer-funded university initiatives designed to bring research to the marketplace more quickly;
- requiring all government agencies to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of all proposed rules and regulations with an economic impact of $100 million or more.