[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1842 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1842

     To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Small Business 
 Administration's entrepreneurial development programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2009

 Mr. Luetkemeyer introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Small Business 
 Administration's entrepreneurial development programs, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Expanding Entrepreneurship Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

    Section 4 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 633) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Management and Direction.--
            ``(1) Plan for entrepreneurial development and job creation 
        strategy.--The Administrator shall develop and submit to 
        Congress a plan for using the Small Business Administration's 
        entrepreneurial development programs as a catalyst for job 
        creation for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. The plan shall include 
        the Administration's plan for drawing on existing programs, 
        including Small Business Development Centers, Women's Business 
        Centers, SCORE, Veterans Business Centers, Native American 
        Outreach, and other appropriate programs. The Administrator 
        shall identify a strategy for each Administration region to 
        create or retain jobs through Administration programs. The 
        Administrator shall identify, in consultation with appropriate 
        personnel from entrepreneurial development programs, 
        performance measures and criteria, including job creation, job 
        retention, and job retraining goals, to evaluate the success of 
        the Administration's actions regarding these efforts.
            ``(2) Data collection process.--The Administrator shall 
        develop and implement a consistent data collection process to 
        cover all entrepreneurial development programs. Such data 
        collection process shall include data relating to job creation, 
        performance, and any other data determined appropriate by the 
        Administrator with respect to the Administration's 
        entrepreneurial development programs.
            ``(3) Coordination and alignment of sba entrepreneurial 
        development programs.--The Administrator shall submit annually 
        to Congress, in consultation with other Federal departments and 
        agencies as appropriate, a report on opportunities to foster 
        coordination, limit duplication, and improve program delivery 
        for Federal entrepreneurial development programs.
            ``(4) Database of entrepreneurial development service 
        providers.--The Administrator shall establish a database of 
        providers of entrepreneurial development services and make such 
        database available through the Administration's Web site. The 
        database shall be searchable by industry, geography, and 
        service required.
            ``(5) Community specialist.--The Administrator shall 
        designate not less than one staff member in each Administration 
        district office as a community specialist who has as their 
        full-time responsibility working with local entrepreneurial 
        development service providers to increase coordination with 
        Federal resources. The Administrator shall develop benchmarks 
        for measuring the performance of community specialists under 
        this subsection.
            ``(6) Entrepreneurial development portal.--The 
        Administrator shall establish a Web-based portal that provides 
        comprehensive information on the Administration's 
        entrepreneurial development programs. The Administrator shall--
                    ``(A) integrate under one Web portal, Small 
                Business Development Centers, Women's Business Centers, 
                SCORE, Veterans Business Centers, the Administration's 
                distance learning program, and other programs as 
                appropriate;
                    ``(B) revise the Administration's primary Web site 
                so that the Web portal described in subparagraph (A) is 
                available as a link on the main Web page of the Web 
                site;
                    ``(C) increase consumer-oriented content on the 
                Administration's Web site and focus on promoting access 
                to business solutions, including marketing, financing, 
                and human resources planning;
                    ``(D) establish relevant Web content aggregated by 
                industry segment, stage of business development, level 
                of need, and include referral links to appropriate 
                Administration services, including financing, training 
                and counseling, and procurement assistance; and
                    ``(E) provide style guidelines and links for 
                visitors to the Administration's Web site to be able to 
                comment on and evaluate the materials in terms of their 
                usefulness.
            ``(7) Pilot programs.--The Administrator may not conduct 
        any pilot program for a period of greater than 3 years if the 
        program conflicts with, or uses the resources of, any of the 
        entrepreneurial development programs authorized under section 
        8(b)(1)(B), 21, 29, 32, or any other provision of this Act.''.
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