3.0.0 1489 2023-01-11T13:18:14Z 2023-01-11T13:18:14Z Senate S S 2009-07-21 111 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-07-21T23:45:31Z 2009-07-21 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. IntroReferral 2009-07-21 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (S7792-7793) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-07-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000663 Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] Olympia Snowe R ME J. N M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2010-06-30 False Commerce Disability and paralysis Economic development Public contracts and procurement Small business Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Women in business Commerce 00 2009-07-21 Introduced in Senate 2009-10-26T14:59:14Z Small Business Contracting Programs Parity Act of 2009 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the HUBZone (historically underutilized business zone) program to authorize (current law requires) a contracting opportunity to be awarded under the program on the basis of competition restricted to qualified HUBZone small businesses if the contracting officer expects that not less than two qualified HUBZone small businesses will submit offers and that the award can be made at a fair market price.

Includes within HUBZone federal procurement small business contract participation goals small business subcontracting participation goals.

Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish mentor-protege programs for small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans and women, and HUBZone small businesses, modeled on the SBA mentor-protege program for small businesses participating in the 8(a) general small business development program.

]]> Small Business Contracting Programs Parity Act of 2009 Display Title Small Business Contracting Programs Parity Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Small Business Act to create parity among small business contracting programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Small Business Contracting Programs Parity Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2009-07-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s1489is/xml/BILLS-111s1489is.xml 2009-07-21 Read twice and 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.