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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="1816" measure-id="id119hr1816" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-03-03" update-date="2025-05-30">
        <title>WOSB Accountability Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr1816v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-05-30">
            <action-date>2025-03-03</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>WOSB Accountability Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires that only women-owned small businesses that have been certified by a federal agency, state government, or national certifying entity approved by the Small Business Administration (SBA) are included when calculating whether a federal agency has met its contracting goals with respect to such businesses during a fiscal year.</p><p>Certain self-certified, women-owned small businesses that have filed an application for certification are deemed to have been certified until the SBA or national certifying entity makes a determination with respect to the certification of such business.</p><p>The SBA must provide a briefing each quarter about specified aspects of the process of certifying women-owned small businesses and implementing the requirements of the bill.</p>]]></summary-text>
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