[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 234 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 234

  To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
 review and adjust the size standards used to determine whether or not 
enterprises in certain industry categories are small business concerns 
  for the purposes of competing for Federal contracting opportunities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

Mr. Riley (for himself, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Pickering, and 
 Mr. Hutchinson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to 
 review and adjust the size standards used to determine whether or not 
enterprises in certain industry categories are small business concerns 
  for the purposes of competing for Federal contracting opportunities.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Common Sense and 
Fairness Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW OF INFLATION ADJUSTMENT BY SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR.

    (a) Excluded Industries.--The Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration shall review the size standards of industries with the 
Standard Industrial Classification Codes of 15, 16, and 17, which were 
excluded in the 1994 Small Business Administration inflationary 
adjustment and adjust such standards for inflation for the purpose of 
deeming an enterprise in any such industry a small business concern.
    (b) 5-Year Review and Report.--
            (1) Review.--In a case in which the Administrator of the 
        Small Business Administration deems an enterprise a small 
        business concern for purposes of competing for Federal 
        contracting opportunities based solely on annual revenues, the 
        Administrator shall review the size standards of such industry 
        and adjust such standards for inflation not less than once 
        every 5 years.
            (2) Not less than once every 5 years the Administrator of 
        the Small Business Administration shall submit a report to the 
        Congress and the President which shall contain a detailed 
        statement of findings and conclusions of the review under 
        paragraph (1), together with his recommendations for 
        legislation and administrative actions.
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