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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5154" measure-id="id113hr5154" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-07-17" update-date="2014-09-04">
<title>Open Government Technology Work to More Businesses Act</title>
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<action-date>2014-07-17</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Open Government Technology Work to More Businesses Act - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to jointly make rules to: (1) streamline and simplify the registration system used by small businesses to be considered for an award of any federal contract, (2) establish procedures by which a small business may self-certify its eligibility for a federal contract under the Small Business Act, and (3) establish procedures by which a majority of small businesses may complete the registration process within four weeks after beginning it.</p> <p>Requires both Administrators to make the registration system available in a unified electronic format accessible through the Internet.</p>]]></summary-text>
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