In yet another unusual provision, Alibaba states that all the shares granted under "all our previous plans [that] have expired without being exercised" will be added to the pool for future grants.

阿里巴巴表示，所有“在已经到期的授股计划”中赠送但没有行权的股份都将纳入今后的授股行动，这又是一个不同寻常的规定。

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The provision expired at the end of 2009, but after passage of the 2010 Tax Act the provision became available again, retroactive to January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2011.

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The provision last expired at the end of 2011.

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Congress had previously been bound by a budget law which said that any new spending would have to be balanced by a cut in spending somewhere else, but that provision partly expired in November and has not been renewed.

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