109 HR 5934 IH: HUBZone Improvement Act of U.S. House of Representatives 2006-07-27 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 109th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5934 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 27, 2006 Mr. Goode introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To amend the Small Business Act to revise the definition of a HUBZone with respect to counties that are highly rural but adjacent to urban areas.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the HUBZone Improvement Act of 2006.

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Definition of HUBZone qualified area

Section 3(p)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (C)Notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the term qualified nonmetropolitan county also includes a county located within a metropolitan statistical area if— (i)according to the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce— (I)the total population of that county is 80,000 or less; and (II)the population residing within urbanized areas of that county is 10 percent or less of the total population of the county; and (ii)the county meets either the median household income requirement of subparagraph (B)(ii)(I) or the unemployment rate requirement of subparagraph (B)(ii)(II). .