[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3190 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3190

 To reaffirm that the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997 does 
not limit a contracting officer's discretion regarding whether to make 
   a contract available for award pursuant to any of the restricted 
       competition programs authorized by the Small Business Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 26 (legislative day, March 25), 2010

  Ms. Landrieu (for herself and Mr. Durbin) 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 reaffirm that the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997 does 
not limit a contracting officer's discretion regarding whether to make 
   a contract available for award pursuant to any of the restricted 
       competition programs authorized by the Small Business Act.

    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 Programs Parity Act 
of 2010''.

SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING PROGRAMS PARITY.

    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''.
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