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<dc:title>119 HR 787 : Plain Language in Contracting Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-06-04</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">IIB</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 787</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250604">June 4, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Received; read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSSB00">Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>AN ACT</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To require plain language and the inclusion of key words in covered notices that are clear, concise, and accessible to small business concerns, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" style="OLC" id="H08E334DE33B74B979672E5FC77A70996"><pagebreak></pagebreak><section id="HFD78DB638CAA425F846244AB20792545" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Plain Language in Contracting Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="HE3260779D20A4B6A992950E26723084D"><enum>2.</enum><header>Accessibility and clarity in covered notices for small business concerns</header><subsection id="HFC6E1B3C353A4E558B44F1655C09AF54"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each covered notice shall be written in a manner—</text><paragraph id="H2D53F669E95243C2989331C5EB6D9D1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>such that a small business concern can easily understand the intent of the covered notice; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9B2DBA2BE3474FB7A0561D70BEEC0C66"><enum>(2)</enum><text>that—</text><subparagraph id="H45E67DA084BD47E1AE7C21B5BB086BEA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is clear, concise, and well-organized; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6551F2363FE64D4F940D22D79510666D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to the maximum extent practicable, follows other best practices appropriate to the subject or field of the covered notice and the intended audience of the covered notice.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H928FDE1CBB3F49C0B1545E17191D80B4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Inclusion of key words in covered notices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each covered notice shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include key words in the description of the covered notice such that a small business concern seeking contract opportunities using the single, Government-wide point of entry described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code, can easily identify and understand such covered notice.</text></subsection><subsection id="HDC6C46B733F3476D853A891CB0E37908"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Rulemaking</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall issue rules to carry out this section.</text></subsection><subsection id="HDF137AA6D25B4154A1ACE0D51AFB4282"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="HFF1C0D283F3944E99FF1E349D842C7A3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered notice</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered notice</term> means a notice pertaining to small business concerns published by a Federal agency on the single Government-wide point of entry described under section 1708 of title 41, United States Code.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HE5D7861E1A154931BF7E66904BAFA1FB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Small Business Act definitions</header><text>The terms <term>Federal agency</term> and <term>small business concern</term> have the meanings given those terms, respectively, 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></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HF657DD2BCC33454EA7737883228668CE"><enum>3.</enum><header>No additional funds authorized</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">No additional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements of this Act.</text></section></legis-body><attestation><attestation-group><attestation-date date="20250603" chamber="House">Passed the House of Representatives June 3, 2025.</attestation-date><attestor display="yes">Kevin F. McCumber,</attestor><role>Clerk.</role></attestation-group></attestation></bill> 

