3.0.0 2902 2020-02-10T17:01:59Z 2020-02-10T17:01:59Z Senate S S 2008-04-23 110 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-04-29T23:36:07Z sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Discharged from 2008-04-29T23:35:47Z Referred to 2008-04-23T22:05:40Z 2008-04-29 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. IntroReferral 2008-04-29 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. Discharge 2008-04-29 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. Committee 14500 9 Library of Congress sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee 2008-04-23 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3308-3309) IntroReferral 2008-04-23 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3307-3308) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-04-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000663 Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] Olympia Snowe R ME J. N P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2008-04-23 True I000055 Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA] Johnny Isakson R GA 2008-06-25 False Commerce Administrative procedure Economics and Public Finance Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Law Regulatory impact statements Small Business Administration Small business Commerce 00 2008-04-23 Introduced in Senate 2008-07-15T21:08:53Z Independent Office of Advocacy and Small Business Regulatory Reform Act of 2008 - Requires the Office of Advocacy (Office) of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to carry out responsibilities concerning the analysis of regulatory functions, including regulatory flexibility analyses.

Requires: (1) each federal budget to include a separate statement of the amount requested for the Office, designated in a separate account in the General Fund of the Treasury; and (2) the SBA Administrator to provide the Office with appropriate and adequate office space, together with necessary equipment, operating budget, and communications facilities and services, and to provide necessary maintenance services for such offices and equipment.

Requires: (1) each federal agency to notify the SBA's Chief Counsel for Advocacy of any agency draft rules that may have a significant impact on a substantial number of small businesses; (2) each agency's final regulatory analysis of a final rule to include the agency's response to any comments of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy with respect to that rule, as well as changes made as a result of such comments; and (3) agencies to make final regulatory flexibility analyses available to the public, including on a website.

]]> Independent Office of Advocacy and Small Business Regulatory Reform Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Independent Office of Advocacy and Small Business Regulatory Reform Act of 2008 Display Title Independent Office of Advocacy and Small Business Regulatory Reform Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure the independent operation of the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration, ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on small entities of rules, and for other purposes. Reference Change Senate 2008-04-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2902rcs/xml/BILLS-110s2902rcs.xml Introduced in Senate 2008-04-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2902is/xml/BILLS-110s2902is.xml 2008-04-29 Referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.