The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is amending the short sale price test under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"). The amendments are intended to provide a more consistent regulatory environment for short selling by removing restrictions on the execution prices of short sales ("price tests" or "price test restrictions"), as well as prohibiting any self- regulatory organization ("SRO") from having a price test. In addition, the Commission is amending Regulation SHO to remove the requirement that a broker-dealer mark a sell order of an equity security as "short exempt," if the seller is relying on an exception from a price test.