[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 925 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 925

    To provide authority for women's business centers to enter into 
  contracts with Federal departments and agencies to provide specific 
   assistance to women and other underserved small business concerns.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 17, 1997

 Mr. Coverdell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide authority for women's business centers to enter into 
  contracts with Federal departments and agencies to provide specific 
   assistance to women and other underserved small business concerns.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WOMEN'S BUSINESS TRAINING CENTER CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.

    Section 29 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 656) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Contract Authority.--Upon the approval of the Assistant 
Administrator of the Office of Women's Business Ownership, a women's 
business center may enter into a contract with a Federal department or 
agency to provide specific assistance to women and other underserved 
small business concerns. Each approval shall be based upon a 
determination that the contract will provide assistance to small 
business concerns and that performance of the contract will not hinder 
the women's business centers in carrying out the terms of the grant 
received by the women's business centers from the Administration.''.
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