[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1583 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1583

To amend the Small Business Act to clarify the requirements related to 
     small business contracts for services, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2015

  Mr. Hardy 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 clarify the requirements related to 
     small business contracts for services, 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 Contractor's 
Clarification Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO SMALL BUSINESS 
              CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES.

    (a) Procurement Contracts.--Section 8(a)(17) of the Small Business 
Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(17)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``any procurement 
        contract'' and all that follows through ``section 15'' and 
        inserting ``any procurement contract, which contract has as its 
        principal purpose the supply of a product to be let pursuant to 
        this subsection or subsection (m), or section 15(a), 31, or 
        36,''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(C) Limitation.--This paragraph shall not apply to a 
        contract that has as its principal purpose the acquisition of 
        services or construction.''.
    (b) Subcontractor Contracts.--Section 46(a)(4) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657s(a)(4)) is amended by striking ``for 
supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies'' and inserting ``which 
is principally for supplies from a regular dealer in such supplies, and 
which is not a contract principally for services or construction''.
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