[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5829 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5829

  To amend the Small Business Act to permit agencies to count certain 
                  contracts toward contracting goals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2012

  Mrs. Lummis (for herself and Ms. Tsongas) 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 permit agencies to count certain 
                  contracts toward contracting goals.

    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 Fairness Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. TEAMING ARRANGEMENTS AND AGENCY CONTRACTING GOALS.

    Section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Teaming arrangements and agency contracting goals.--
                    ``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph--
                            ``(i) the term `covered small business 
                        concern' means--
                                    ``(I) a small business concern 
                                owned and controlled by service-
                                disabled veterans;
                                    ``(II) a small business concern 
                                owned and controlled by socially and 
                                economically disadvantaged individuals, 
                                as defined in section 8(d)(3)(C);
                                    ``(III) a small business concern 
                                owned and controlled by women, as 
                                defined in section 8(d)(3)(D); or
                                    ``(IV) a qualified HUBZone small 
                                business concern; and
                            ``(ii) the term `teaming arrangement 
                        entity' means a prime contractor under a 
                        contractor team arrangement, as defined in 
                        section 9.601 of the Federal Acquisition 
                        Regulation, as in effect on October 1, 2009.
                    ``(B) Contracting goals.--If a covered small 
                business concern performs the obligations of a teaming 
                arrangement entity under a contract between the teaming 
                arrangement entity and a Federal agency, the head of 
                the Federal agency may deem the contract to be a 
                contract awarded to the covered small business concern 
                for purposes of determining whether the Federal agency 
                has met the goals established by the head of the 
                Federal agency under paragraph (2).''.
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