[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5154 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5154

 To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and 
 the Administrator of General Services to make rules to streamline and 
 simplify the registration system used by small business concerns, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2014

   Mr. Peters of California introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Small Business

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and 
 the Administrator of General Services to make rules to streamline and 
 simplify the registration system used by small business concerns, 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 ``Open Government Technology Work to 
More Businesses Act''.

SEC. 2. REGULATIONS FOR BUSINESS REGISTRATION SYSTEM TO BE CONSIDERED 
              FOR FEDERAL CONTRACT.

    (a) Updating Registration System.--Not later than 6 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration and the Administrator of General Services shall 
jointly make rules--
            (1) to streamline and simplify the registration system used 
        by small business concerns to be considered for an award of any 
        Federal contract;
            (2) that establish procedures by which a small business 
        concern may self-certify its eligibility for a Federal contract 
        under section 8 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637); and
            (3) that establish procedures by which a majority of small 
        business concerns may complete the registration process not 
        later than 4 weeks after beginning such process.
    (b) Unified Electronic System.--Not later than 12 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration and the Administrator of General Services shall make the 
registration system described in subsection (a)(1) available in a 
unified electronic format accessible through the Internet.
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