# Technical Amendment to Rule 19b-4: Filings With Respect to Proposed Rule Changes by Self-Regulatory Organizations
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2011-04-13 · Effective 2011-04-13 · 76 FR 20506
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-8919
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 20506
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 240
- **Publication date:** 2011-04-13
- **Effective date:** 2011-04-13
- **Docket:** Release No. 34-64251
## Abstract

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is amending Rule 19b-4(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") so that references to "business day" in Section 19(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 19b-4 thereunder refer to a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Federal holiday, a day that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management ("OPM") has announced that Federal agencies in the Washington, DC area are closed to the public, a day on which the Commission is subject to a Federal government shutdown in the event of a lapse in appropriations, or a day on which the Commission's Washington, DC office is otherwise not open for regular business.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/04/13/2011-8919/technical-amendment-to-rule-19b-4-filings-with-respect-to-proposed-rule-changes-by-self-regulatory)
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