[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1489 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1489

 To amend the Small Business Act to create parity among small business 
             contracting programs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2009

   Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Small Business Act to create parity among small business 
             contracting 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 ``Small Business Contracting Programs 
Parity Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the terms ``Administration'' and ``Administrator'' mean 
        the Small Business Administration and the Administrator 
        thereof, respectively; and
            (2) the terms ``HUBZone small business concern'', ``small 
        business concern'', ``small business concern owned and 
        controlled by service-disabled veterans'', and ``small business 
        concern owned and controlled by women'' have the same meanings 
        as in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).

SEC. 3. CONTRACTING IMPROVEMENTS.

    (a) Contracting Opportunities.--Section 31(b)(2)(B) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657a(b)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``shall'' 
and inserting ``may''.
    (b) Contracting Goals.--Section 15(g)(1) of the Small Business Act 
(15 U.S.C. 644(g)(1)) is amended in the fourth sentence by inserting 
``and subcontract'' after ``not less than 3 percent of the total value 
of all prime contract''.
    (c) Mentor-protege Programs.--The Administrator may establish 
mentor-protege programs for small business concerns owned and 
controlled by service-disabled veterans, small business concerns owned 
and controlled by women, and HUBZone small business concerns modeled on 
the mentor-protege program of the Administration for small business 
concerns participating in programs under section 8(a) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)).
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