[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3675 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3675

    To expand the HUBZone program for communities affected by base 
            realignment and closure, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 12, 2012

Ms. Collins (for herself and 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 expand the HUBZone program for communities affected by base 
            realignment and closure, 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 ``HUBZone Expansion Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING HUBZONE PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY BASE 
              REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE.

    Section 3(p)(4)(D) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
632(p)(4)(D)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and'';
            (2) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) as 
        subclauses (I), (II), (III), and (IV), respectively;
            (3) in the matter preceding subclause (I), as so 
        redesignated, by striking ``means lands within'' and inserting 
        the following: ``means--
                            ``(i) lands within''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) a geographic area that--
                                    ``(I) is--
                                            ``(aa) the municipality in 
                                        which the military installation 
                                        is located;
                                            ``(bb) the county in which 
                                        the military installation is 
                                        located; or
                                            ``(cc)(AA) the census tract 
                                        in which the military 
                                        installation is located; or
                                            ``(BB) the census tract in 
                                        which the military installation 
                                        is located and a census tract 
                                        contiguous to that census 
                                        tract; and
                                    ``(II) has a total population of 
                                not more than 50,000, as determined 
                                with reference to the most recent 
                                decennial census;''.
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