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<dc:title>117 S3539 IS: Small Business Contracting Fairness Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2023-12-14</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>118th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 3539</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20231214">December 14, 2023</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S414">Mr. Ossoff</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSEV00">Committee on Environment and Public Works</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to remove the exclusion of certain small business concerns from the disadvantaged business enterprise program, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" id="HA447EBCE457D4D8A9F2173ABB463B4B1"><section section-type="section-one" id="HE1438D5A1BC5422BAFD6506289150A0A"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Small Business Contracting Fairness Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5d95dd4eb882420da9216fc721e5df3e" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header>Disadvantaged business enterprises</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 11101(e)(2)(A) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/117/58">Public Law 117–58</external-xref>; 135 Stat. 449) is amended to read as follows:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H032FE92D661141929822FE757681D461"><subparagraph id="H62B4A308830C435AA747FBBFD845D37F"><enum>(A)</enum><header><quote>Small business concern</quote></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>small business concern</term> means a small business concern (as the term is used in section 3 of the Small Business Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/632">15 U.S.C. 632</external-xref>)).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section></legis-body></bill> 

