After 2 Amendments, Senate to Vote on Jobs Bill The JOBS bill, which aims to make it easier and quicker for small companies to raise money from investors, is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday afternoon after the Senate considers two amendments to tighten rules on how companies raise financing online, and to strengthen other provisions approved by the House. A motion to end debate on the bill, which was postponed from Tuesday, passed 76 to 22 on Wednesday morning. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, then scheduled three votes for Wednesday afternoon. The first two will be on the amendments and require only a majority to pass. The third vote is on the entire bill, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. On Tuesday, 55 Senators supported making similar amendments to the bill, but those measures failed to receive the 60 votes necessary to end debate. If one or another of the amendments are approved, the House and Senate will need to work out their differences before sending it to President Obama. One amendment, offered by Senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, and Senator Scott P. Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, would set stricter limits on how much small investors can invest in a crowd-funding offering, an online sale of small amounts of shares to individuals Both the House bill and the Senate amendment would allow businesses to raise up to $1 million from an unlimited number of investors through crowd funding. The Merkley-Brown amendment would require companies to provide tax returns or financial statements to investors before the offering. In contrast, the House bill would allow companies to raise $1 million without providing any financial statements to potential investors. While the House bill would allow individual investors to invest up to $10,000, or 10 percent of their annual income, a year in crowd funding. The Merkley-Brown amendment would limit those investments to $2,000, or 5 percent of income in crowd funding, for individuals with annual income or net worth of less than $100,000, whichever is more. Investors with annual income or net worth of more than $100,000 could invest up to $100,000 or 10 percent of annual income, the amendment states. A second amendment, offered by Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, would tighten the definition of shareholders of record in a section of the bill that allows public companies to remove themselves from oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission if their number of shareholders falls below a certain level. After votes on the two amendments, the Senate will vote on the underlying bill, H.R. 3606, sent over from the House.