3.0.0 2747 2023-01-11T13:18:52Z 2023-01-11T13:18:52Z House H HR 2009-06-08 111 hssm00 Small Business Committee House Standing hssm23 Contracting and Infrastructure Subcommittee Reported by 2009-06-11T16:07:40Z Markup by 2009-06-11T15:13:41Z Referred to 2009-06-08T14:10:17Z Referred to 2009-06-08T16:32:41Z hssy00 Science, Space, and Technology Committee House Standing Referred to 2009-06-08T16:32:42Z 2009-06-11 hssm23 Contracting and Infrastructure Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote . Committee 2009-06-11 hssm23 Contracting and Infrastructure Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Committee 2009-06-08 Referred to House Science and Technology IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hssy00 Science, Space, and Technology Committee 2009-06-08 Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2009-06-08 Referred to House Small Business IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hssm00 Small Business Committee 2009-06-08 hssm23 Contracting and Infrastructure Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology . Committee 2009-06-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2009-06-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress H001044 Rep. Halvorson, Deborah L. [D-IL-11] Deborah Halvorson D IL L. 11 N Commerce Advanced technology and technological innovations Advisory bodies Business investment and capital Disability and paralysis Minority and disadvantaged businesses Product development and innovation Research administration and funding Research and development Rural conditions and development Small business Technology transfer and commercialization Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Women in business Commerce 00 2009-06-08 Introduced in House 2009-07-08T18:56:09Z Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act - Amends provisions of the Small Business Act relating to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to organizations to: (1) conduct outreach efforts to increase participation in such programs; and (2) provide application, entrepreneurial, and business skills support to prospective program participants. Requires organizations receiving such funds to direct activities toward small businesses: (1) located in areas that are underrepresented in SBIR and STTR programs; or (2) owned and controlled by women, service-disabled veterans, and minorities. Directs the Administrator to establish an advisory board to carry out authorized activities. Provides a two-year period for each grant award.

Requires federal agencies, in making SBIR and STTR grant awards, to prioritize applications so as to increase the number of recipients from rural areas.

Directs each federal agency conducting an SBIR program to: (1) receive consent to identify the small business applicant to appropriate local and state economic development organizations; and (2) encourage partnerships between SBIR awardees and prime contractors, venture capital investment companies, business incubators, and larger businesses for the purpose of facilitating the progress of SBIR awardees to the third phase of the program.

]]> Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act Display Title Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Small Business Act to improve outreach and support activities and to increase award recipients from rural areas with respect to the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Rural Technology Development and Outreach Act Introduced in House 2009-06-08T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr2747ih/xml/BILLS-111hr2747ih.xml 2009-06-11 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote . 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.