[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3539 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3539

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 14, 2023

  Mr. Ossoff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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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''.

SEC. 2. DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.

    Section 11101(e)(2)(A) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (Public Law 117-58; 135 Stat. 449) 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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