[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8079 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8079

   To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to remove the 
  exclusion of certain small business concerns from the disadvantaged 
          business enterprise program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2022

Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. San Nicolas, Ms. Jackson Lee, 
 Mr. Cohen, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. 
 Bishop of Georgia, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Watson 
Coleman, Ms. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Carson, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, 
and Mr. Evans) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to remove the 
  exclusion of certain small business concerns from the disadvantaged 
          business enterprise program, 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 Contracting Fairness 
Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.

    Section 11101(e)(2)(A) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (Public Law 117-58) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(A) Small business concern.--The term `small 
                business concern' means a small business concern (as 
                the term is used in section 3 of the Small Business Act 
                (15 U.S.C. 632)).''.
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