[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2748 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2748


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               August 3 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend the Small Business Development Center Program, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 21(c)(7) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 648) is 
amended by striking ``system which will'' and by inserting in lieu 
thereof the following: ``system. Subject to amounts approved in advance 
in appropriations Acts, the Administration may make grants or enter 
cooperative agreements with one or more centers to carry out the 
provisions of this paragraph. Said grants or cooperative agreements 
shall be awarded for periods of no more than five years duration. The 
matching funds provisions of subsection (a) shall not be applicable to 
grants to cooperative agreements under this paragraph. The system 
shall''.
    (b) Section 25(i) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 652) is 
amended by striking ``$8,000,000 for fiscal year 1993'' and by 
inserting in lieu thereof ``$2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1993, 
1994, 1995, and 1996''.
    (c) Section 223 of the Small Business Credit and Business 
Opportunity Enhancement Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 986) is amended by 
striking the last sentence of subsection (b).

            Passed the House of Representatives August 2, 1993.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.