[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 12063]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    PROTECT SMALL BUSINESS JOBS ACT

  (Mr. BENTIVOLIO asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BENTIVOLIO. Mr. Speaker, for the 89 percent of employers in 
America with fewer than 20 employees, there's an ever-present fear that 
they may be sanctioned or even put out of business for a violation of 
any one of the seemingly endless array of Federal regulations.
  The Protect Small Business Jobs Act offers a simple correction: if 
found to be in violation of a Federal regulation, a business is given a 
6-month grace period to correct the problem. If the problem is 
corrected at the end of the grace period, the sanction is waived. This 
way, no business is permitted to ignore regulations on an ongoing 
basis, but small companies are given a chance to become compliant 
without being hit by devastating fines.
  I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense approach to 
regulatory relief and pass the Protect Small Business Jobs Act.

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