SMALL BUSINESS see also Business

Amendments

SBA: prepayment of loans made to State and local development companies (S. 437), 35806, 35810 [16DE], 36578, 36622, 36635 [19DE]

Analyses

Corp. for Small Business Investment Charter Act (H.R. 3392), 26049-26053 [1OC]

Corp. for Small Business Charter Act (S. 1929), 34330 [8DE]

Dept. of Defense Small Business Set-Aside Program, 25359 [26SE]

Minority Business Development Program Reform Act (S. 1993), 37823 [21DE]

Prompt Payment Act Amendments (S. 328), 1447-1449 [20JA]

Small Business International Trade and Competition Enhancement Act (S. 1344), 15080 [9JN]

Articles and editorials

Beating the Odds: Paul John and the Ritz-Craft Corp. of PA, Inc., Service Corps of Retired Executives, 6229 [18MR]

Beating Up on Small Business, 14432 [2JN]

Caucus & Co. Orients the East, 32559-32561 [17NO]

Feds Ought To Leave Well Enough Alone, 34098 [4DE]

Financing for Exports Grows Harder to Find for All but Big Firms, 14096 [28MY]

Giantism Doesn't Equal Competitiveness, 15391 [10JN]

Small Firms Brace for a Legislative Attack, 11869 [8MY]

Bills and resolutions

Bankruptcy: extend certain protections (see H.R. 1914)

Banks and banking: authorize refinancing of certain small business debentures (see H.R. 3718)

———mortgage on properties including day care centers (see S. 1300)

Contracts: local defense construction obligations (see H.R. 1873, 1874)

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish (see AS. 1929; H.R. 3392)

Data Protection Board: establish (see H.R. 638)

Dept. of Commerce: Minority Business Development Administration (see S. 1848)

Disasters: assistance loans (see S. 1957)

Economic conditions: fixed term participation period for socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses (see H.R. 2972)

Executive departments: minority and small business payments (see H.R. 1838)

Fair Labor Standards Act: amend portion relative to industrial homework (see S. 637; H.R. 1367)

Fish and fisheries: certain processing services are exempt from the definition of employee for Federal tax purposes (see S. 1821)

Foreign trade: access to trade remedies (see H.R. 1737)

———access to U.S. trade laws (see H. Con. Res. 76)

———expand authority of Trade and Development Program (see H.R. 1494)

———private initiative to enhance access to U.S. trade laws (see S. Con. Res. 45)

Indians: assistance to Indian owned business enterprises (see H.R. 2455)

Insurance: disclosure of certain data to SBA (see H.R. 3688)

Meat packing industry: protection of small business (see H.R. 253, 254)

Minority Business Development Program Reform Act: enact (see S. 1993)

Pensions: prohibit reversions to employers of residual assets upon termination of single-employer plans (see H.R. 1942)

———single-employer plan termination insurance program and pension plan premium costs (see H.R. 2063), 8667 [9AP]

SBA: authorize to purchase equity securities (see H.R. 433)

———status of Administrator (see H.R. 356)

Small Business Act: amend (see H.R. 1607, 1854, 1928, 2775)

———amend to enhance competition for international export markets (see S. 1344)

———authorize loans for economic injury caused by Federal action and establish criteria for economic injury (see H.R. 1804)

———program reform (see H.R. 2269)

———reform Capital Ownership Development Program (see H.R. 1807)

Small Business Export Innovation Program: establish to make competitive awards to small businesses for developing export trade strategies (see H.R. 1937)

Small Business Retirement and Benefit Extension Act: enact (see S. 1426)

State and local development companies: prepayment of loans (see S. 437; H.R. 3835)

Tariff: administrative procedure for certain noncontroversial suspensions (see H.R. 2430)

Tax Reform Act: amend to clarify study of source rules for sales of inventory property (see H.R. 1654)

Taxation: capital gains differential (see S. 1890)

———deduct expenses incurred in filing withholding certificates whether or not itemized (see H.R. 1347)

———election of taxable year (see H.R. 2977)

———installment sales rules (see S. 719)

———modify set-aside program (see S. 1559)

———nonelective deferred compensation (see H.R. 3312)

———reinstate 5% investment tax credit for productive property (see H.R. 246)

———restoring certain provisions changed by Tax Reform Act (see H.R. 809)

———treatment of self-insured workers' compensation funds (see H.R. 1709)

Textile industry: include in set-aside programs (see H.R. 2703)

Trade and Development Program: expand authority (see H.R. 1494)

Unemployment: demonstration program to allow compensation for purposes of self-employment (see S. 1624)

White House Conference on Small Business: permanent authorization (see H.R. 2690)

———permanent authorization (see S. 818)

Biographies

Minority businesspersons in Houston, 5103 [9MR]

William H. Wilson, 11950 [11MY]

Comments

Defense Acquisition Improvement Act: VA, 25362 [26SE]

Descriptions

Legislation affecting U.S. competitiveness in world markets, 10570 [29AP]

Examples

Loan prepayment penalties, 35809 [16DE]

Explanations

Difficulties of accomplishing requirements of Public Law 99-661, Dept. of Defense small business set-aside program, 25359 [26SE]

Modify Small Business Set-Aside Program (S. 1559), 21266 [28JY]

Payment clause for subcontracts under construction contracts, 27203 [9OC]

Hearings

Committee on Governmental Affairs: abuse and exploitation of young adults in door-to-door sales (testimony), D234 [6AP]

———Federal law regarding prompt payment on completion of contracts for service or delivery of property (S. 328): (testimony), D172 [19MR]

Committee on Indian Affairs (Select): Indian Financing Act and Buy Indian Act (testimony), D295 [29AP]

———SBA budget (testimony from public witnesses), D113 [4MR]

———liability insurance crisis (testimony), D264 [21AP], D292 [28AP], D298 [29AP]

———review existing small business programs for veterans (testimony), D323 [6MY]

———SBA budget, D121 [5MR]

———SBA budget (testimony from Charles Heatherly), D96 [26FE]

———SBA budget (testimony from John Moffitt), D150 [12MR]

———Small Business Act amendments (H.R. 1854) (testimony), D216 [31MR]

———trade and competitiveness issues confronting small and mid-sized businesses, D169 [18MR], D189 [24MR]

———trade and competitiveness issues confronting small and mid-sized businesses (testimony), D177 [19MR], D195 [25MR]

Committee on Small Business (Senate): cost and availability of health care benefits for small businesses and their employees, and proposals for federally funded mandated health benefits, D275 [23AP]

———enhance small business participation in export markets (testimony), D295 [29AP], D302 [30AP]

———review procedures of Federal contracts awarded to small businesses (testimony), D238 [7AP]

———rural and urban economies, focusing on performance (testimony from Frank S. Swain, Kenneth L. Deavers, Pat Choate, Charles C. Cook, Glen C. Pulver, Mark Drabenstott, Donald R. Peoples, Don Stringham and David E. Martin), D115 [5MR]

———SBA nominations (testimony from James Abdnor and Charles R. Gillum), D146 [12MR]

Letters

Defense Acquisition Improvement Act: Patricia A. Szervo, 25362 [26SE]

Dept. of Agriculture small business timber set-aside program: George S. Dunlop, 35317 [11DE]

Dept. of Defense small business set-aside program: Dept. of Defense, 25359 [26SE]

———Monika E. Harrison, 25360 [26SE]

———Susan Livingstone, 25361 [26SE]

Exercise equipment imports: Cal James, 9022 [10AP]

Health programs for small business: James E. Burke, 25624 [29SE]

Prompt Payment Act amendments: A. Kolbet Schrichte, American Logistics Association, 27194 [9OC]

———Charles E. Hawkins III, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., 27194 [9OC]

———Coalition for Prompt Pay, 1449 [20JA]

———Don Fuqua, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc., 27194 [9OC]

———J.P. Hoar, Dept. of the Navy, 27199 [9OC]

———Jack Gardner, National Small Business United, 27192 [9OC]

———James S. Hayes, Dept. of the Army, 27197 [9OC]

———John Ruehlin, Defense Logistics Agency, 27197 [9OC]

———John S. Satagai, Small Business Legislative Council, 27192 [9OC]

———R. Kenneth Misner, Association of Small Research, Engineering and Technical Services Companies, 27195 [9OC]

———R.F. Anderson, American Butter Institute and National Cheese Institute, Inc., 27200 [9OC]

———Virginia Littlejohn, Professional Services Council, 27193 [9OC]

SBA's credit programs: James Abdnor, 13778 [27MY]

Small business burden of Social Security tax on employees tips: Cormney, K.A., 6220 [18MR]

Small Business Investment Act: Edward M. Gramlich, CBO, 35810 [16DE]

Lists

Section 457 Task Force, 24910 [22SE]

Meetings

Committee on Governmental Affairs: nomination of Charles R. Gillum as Inspector General, SBA, D218 [1AP]

Committee on Small Business (House): organization, D87 [25FE]

———Small Business Act amendments (H.R. 1854), D222 [1AP]

Committee on Small Business (Senate): SBA nomination, D165 [18MR]

Memorials of legislature

Idaho, 9324 [22AP]

Kansas, 12827 [19MY]

Messages

State of Small Business: President Reagan, 29881 [29OC]

Papers

Equal Access to Business Opportunity Act (H.R. 2269), 11272 [5MY]

Polls of opinion

By Senator Pressler, 4574 [3MR]

Press releases

Commitment to international markets urged by leading entrepreneurial chief executive officers: American Business Conference, 32990 [19NO]

Recommendation

Prompt Payment Act implementation: White House Conference on Small Business, 27230 [9OC]

Remarks in House

Analysis Group, Inc.: tribute, 9671 [23AP]

Banks and banking: authorize refinancing of certain small business debentures (H.R. 3718), 34098 [4DE], 34399 [8DE]

———loan resources, 17614 [25JN]

Captive-Aire Systems: listed by Inc. magazine as excelling in growth, 34423 [8DE]

Committee on Small Business: hearings on Federal procurement, 25659, 25669 [29SE]

Competition Enhancement and Tax Relief Act: enact (H.R. 246), 932 [7JA]

Computer Intelligence, Raleigh, NC: listed by Inc. magazine as excelling in growth, 34423 [8DE]

Congress: support, 14431 [2JN]

Contracts: local defense construction obligations (H.R. 1873), 14514 [3JN], 14591 [3JN], 18704 [1JY]

———local Federal construction obligations (H.R. 1874), 14514 [3JN], 14592 [3JN], 18704 [1JY]

———progress on minority and small business awards, 12677-12679 [18MY]

Corp. for Small Business Investment: establish (H.R. 3392), 26048 [1OC]

Dept. of Defense: contracts relative to free electron laser at White Sands, NM, 12675-12677 [18MY]

Economic conditions: fixed term participation period for socially and economically disadvantaged small business (H.R. 2972), 25933 [30SE]

Employment: encourage retirement and fringe benefits (H.R. 2793), 17624 [25JN]

———forced expansion of employees' benefits, 15498 [11JN]

Exercise equipment: U.S. competitiveness, 9022 [10AP]

Fair Labor Standards Act: amend to facilitate industrial homework (H.R. 1367), 4717 [3MR], 5192 [10MR]

Foreign trade: competitiveness, 8543 [8AP], 15391 [10JN]

———export opportunity task force, 3472 [18FE]

———financing of export-related companies, 14096 [28MY]

———small business access to trade laws (H. Con. Res. 76), 5502 [11MR]

———successes by small corporations, 32990 [19NO]

Government procurement: interest on overdue payments (H.R. 1663), 6001 [17MR], 20834 [22JY]

Indians: assistance to Indian-owned business enterprises (H.R. 2455), 12743 [18MY]

Insurance: disclosure of certain data to SBA (H.R. 3688), 33769-33772 [2DE]

Minority Business Development Administration: establish in Dept. of Commerce to clarify relationship between such Administration and the SBA (H.R. 1769), 6627 [24MR]

Minority Enterprise Development Week: observance, 26726 [6OC]

National Small Business Week: observance, 11593 [6MY], 12559 [14MY]

100th Congress: legislative objectives, 2714 [4FE]

Pensions: prohibit reversions to employers of residual assets upon termination of single-employer pension plans (H.R. 1942), 8289 [7AP]

Rural areas: economic assistance to venture capital corporations, 3207 [5FE]

Santa Barbara County, CA: wineries, 12736 [18MY]

SBA: implementation of Minority Business Set-Aside Program, 15496 [11JN]

Self-Sufficiency for the Poor Act: enact (H.R. 910), 2501 [3FE]

Small Business Act: amend (H.R. 1854), 8068 [6AP]

———authorize loans for economic injury caused by Federal action (H.R. 1804), 6928 [25MR]

———program reform (H.R. 2269), 11272 [5MY]

———reform Capital Ownership Development Program (H.R. 1807), 33308 [1DE], 33322 [2DE]-33323 [1DE]

Small Business Competitiveness Act: enact (H.R. 1921), 7879 [2AP]

Small Business Week: observance, 11598 [6MY], 13304, 13314 [20MY]

Social Security: burden of tax on employees tips, 6220 [18MR]

South Africa: International Executive Service Corps, 23455 [7AU]

St. Joseph County, IN: small business advocacy network, 11739 [7MY]

Tax Fairness for Farmers, Ranchers, and Small Business Act: enact (H.R. 809), 2031 [28JA]

Tax Reform Act: amend to clarify study of source rules for sales of inventory property (H.R. 1654), 5977 [17MR]

Taxation: deduct expenses incurred in filing withholding certificates whether or not itemized (H.R. 1347), 21287 [28JY]

———election of taxable year (H.R. 2977), 20601 [21JY]

———investment tax credit and accelerated depreciation, 2663 [3FE]

———nonelective deferred compensation (H.R. 3312), 24700 [21SE], 24910 [22SE]

———treatment of self-insured workers' compensation funds (H.R. 1709), 6240 [18MR]

Texas: wine industry, 23380 [7AU]

Valley Stream, NY: Jules Rabin Associates anniversary, 33802 [2DE]

White House Conference on Small Business: congressional consideration of recommendations, 4715 [3MR]

———permanent authorization (H.R. 2690), 16810 [19JN]

Remarks in Senate

Abdnor, James: nomination as SBA Administrator, 6509 [20MR]

Banks and banking: mortgages on properties including day care centers (S. 1300), 14149 [29MY], 14350 [2JN]

Business: subcontractor payment clause under construction contracts, 27201 [9OC]

Corporation for small business investment: establish (S. 1929), 34329-34332 [8DE]

Dept. of Agriculture: small business timber set-aside program, 35317 [11DE]

Dept. of Commerce: Minority Business Development Administration (S. 1848), 30771 [4NO]

Economic conditions: annual report findings, 37885 [21DE]

Executive departments: payment to contractors, 1452 [20JA]

Fair Labor Standards Act: amend portion relative to industrial homework (S. 637), 4608 [3MR]

Fish and fisheries: certain processing services are exempt from the definition of employee for Federal tax purposes (S. 1821), 29447 [27OC]

Foreign trade: private initiative to enhance access to U.S. trade laws (S. Con. Res. 45), 8502 [8AP]

Minority Business Development Program Reform Act: enact (S. 1993), 37814 [21DE]

New Jersey: tribute to small business individuals, 13004 [19MY]

Prompt Payment Act: amend (S. 328), 1441-1445, 1450-1456 [20JA], 1668 [21JA]

SBA: disaster loans, 13888 [28MY]

———disaster loans (S. 1957), 35991 [17DE]

———prepayment of loans made to State and local development companies (S. 437), 35809 [16DE], 36578, 36579, 36635 [19DE]

Small Business Act: amend to enhance competition for international export markets (S. 1344), 15076 [9JN]

Small Business International Trade and Competition Enhancement Act: enact (S. 1344), 15415 [11JN]

Small Business Retirement and Benefit Extension Act: enact (S. 1426), 17575 [25JN]

Small Business Week: observance, 11996 [12MY]

State and local development companies: prepayment of loans (S. 437), 2605 [3FE]

Taxation: calendar year as tax year, 2763 [4FE]

———capital gains differential (S. 1890), 33137 [20NO]

———installment sales rules (S. 719), 5351 [11MR]

———modify set-aside program (S. 1559), 21265 [28JY]

———repeal transition rule relative to Tax Reform Act (S. 67), 528-531 [6JA]

White House Conferences on Small Business: permanent authorization (S. 818), 6640, 6651 [24MR]

Reports

Cost Estimate of Small Business Investment Act (S. 437): CBO, 35810 [16DE]

Long-Term Financing for North Dakota Businesses—A Planning Conference for Public and Private Officials: Columbia Institute, 34638-34640 [9DE]

Reports filed

Capital Ownership Development Program Reform (H.R. 1807) (H. Rept. 100-460), 33230 [30NO]

Interest on Overdue Payments: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 328), 13236 [20MY]

Prepayment of Loans Made to State and Local Development Companies: Committee on Small Business (S. 437), 35795 [16DE]

Small Business Act Amendment (H.R. 1854): Committee on Small Business (H. Rept. 100-38), 8017 [6AP]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Small Business in America, 13299 [20MY]

Resolutions by organizations

Prompt Payment Act implementation: Small Business Committee's National Advisory Council, 27230 [9OC]

Rosters

Coalition for Prompt Pay, 1450 [20JA], 27192 [9OC]

Small Business Legislative Council, 27192 [9OC]

Statements

Dept. of Defense Procurement Policy: GSA, 25357 [26SE]

Prompt Payment of Subcontractors by Prime Contractor: General Contractors of America, American Subcontractor Association, and Associated Specialty Contractors, 27204 [9OC]

Salute to Small Business: President Reagan, 11740 [7MY]

Surveys

Implementation of Federal Minority Business Programs: Committee on Small Business, 37822 [21DE]

Prompt Payment Act Implementation: American Subcontracting Association, 27232 [9OC]

Testimonies

Prompt Payment Act Amendment: Christopher R. Brewster, 1453 [20JA]

Defense Acquisition Improvement Act: Berton J. Roth, 25363 [26SE]

Texts of

H.R. 1875, International Education for a Competitive America Act, 7399-7401 [31MR]

S. 67, repeal transition rule relative to Tax Reform Act, 531 [6JA]

S. 328, amend Prompt Payment Act, 1445 [20JA]

S. 437, prepayment of loans made to State and local development companies, 36636 [19DE]

S. 637, amend Fair Labor Standards Act relative to industrial homework, 4608 [3MR]

S. 719, installment sales rules, 5351 [11MR]

S. 818, White House Conferences on Small Business permanent authorization, 6640 [24MR]

S. 1300, mortgages on properties including day care centers, 14149 [29MY]

S. 1344, amend Small Business Act to enhance ability of small businesses to compete for international export markets, 15078-15080 [9JN]

S. 1559, modify set-aside program, 21266 [28JY]

S. 1821, certain fish and fisheries processing services are exempt from the definition of employee for Federal tax purposes, 29448 [27OC]

S. 1890, capital gains tax differential, 33138 [20NO]

S. 1957, small business disaster assistance loans, 35991 [17DE]

S. 1993, Minority Business Development Program Reform Act, 37815-37821 [21DE]

S. Con Res. 45, initiative to enhance small business access to trade laws, 8502 [8AP]