3.0.0 2693 2023-01-11T13:25:44Z 2023-01-11T13:25:44Z Senate S S 2014-07-30 113 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-07-30T18:05:02Z Women's Small Business Procurement Parity Act 113 2481 S 2014-06-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Related bill CRS SBA Intermediary Lending Program Act of 2014 113 2637 S 2014-07-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Related bill CRS Women's Small Business Ownership Act of 2014 113 5584 HR 2014-09-18 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. Identical bill CRS 2014-07-30 sssb00 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5138-5142) IntroReferral 2014-07-30 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5138) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2014-07-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA N C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2014-07-30 True S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2014-07-30 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2014-07-30 True B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2014-07-30 True W000818 Sen. Walsh, John E. [D-MT] John Walsh D MT E. 2014-07-30 True B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2014-07-31 False H001049 Sen. Hagan, Kay R. [D-NC] Kay Hagan D NC R. 2014-09-08 False H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2014-09-17 False B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2014-11-17 False S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2014-12-02 False Commerce Business education Business investment and capital Congressional oversight Disability and paralysis Employee hiring Government information and archives Government lending and loan guarantees Government studies and investigations Licensing and registrations Minority and disadvantaged businesses Public contracts and procurement Rural conditions and development Small business User charges and fees Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs Women in business Commerce 00 2014-07-30 Introduced in Senate 2014-09-30T19:59:06Z Women's Small Business Ownership Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Office of Women's Business Ownership within the Small Business Administration (SBA) to address issues concerning specified disciplines required for starting, operating, and increasing a small business.

Authorizes the SBA Administrator to provide annual training for women's business ownership representatives.

Authorizes the Administrator to provide financial assistance to qualifying entities to conduct projects designed to provide training and counseling meeting the needs of women business owners, especially socially and economically disadvantaged women business owners. Specifies assistance amounts of up to $250,000 per project year.

Directs the Administrator to seek advice, input, and recommendations for policy changes from any association of women's business centers to develop: (1) a training program for the staff of such centers, and (2) recommendations to improve the policies and procedures for governing the general operations and administration of the women's business center program.

Authorizes the Administrator, upon request by a recipient organization, to waive for a fiscal year (but not more than two consecutive fiscal years) the requirement to obtain matching non-federal funds for the organization's technical assistance and counseling activities carried out using financial assistance under the women's business center program.

Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to study: (1) the unique economic issues facing women's business centers located in predominately rural, urban, or insular areas; and (2) SBA oversight of women's business centers.

Authorizes a contracting officer to award a sole source contract under this Act to small businesses owned and controlled by women if each of the businesses is at least 51% owned by one or more women who are economically disadvantaged (and such ownership is determined without regard to any community property law), and meets specified additional criteria.

Authorizes a contracting officer to award a sole source contract to a small business owned and controlled by women meeting the same criteria in an industry in which such businesses are substantially underrepresented if the small business also meets specified certification requirements.

Extends indefinitely the SBA Intermediary Lending Program (ILP).

Replaces requirements governing ILP loan limits, including maximum amounts, with requirements that limit to: (1) $1 million a single loan to an eligible intermediary, (2) $5 million the total amount outstanding and committed to the intermediary by the Administrator under the ILP, and (3) $20 million the total amount of all ILP loans during each of FY2015-FY2017.

Revises requirements for the SBA microloan program (direct loans to eligible intermediaries for making fixed interest rate microloans to startup, newly established, or growing small businesses).

Increases the ILP's aggregate loan limit for intermediaries after their first year of participation from $5 million to $7 million. Eliminates limitations on an intermediary's use of funds from an accompanying marketing, management, and technical assistance grant to provide information and technical assistance to small businesses that are prospective borrowers.

Prohibits the Administrator from collecting the guarantee fee on a guaranteed loan unless amounts are made available to subsidize the cost of guaranteeing such loans for FY2016.

Expresses the sense of the Senate on access to capital for small businesses owned and controlled by women.

]]> Women's Small Business Ownership Act of 2014 Display Title Women's Small Business Ownership Act of 2014 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reauthorize the women's business center program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Women's Small Business Ownership Act of 2014 Introduced in Senate 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2693is/xml/BILLS-113s2693is.xml 2014-07-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5138-5142) 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.