SMALL BUSINESS ACT

Amendments

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (S. 1499), S2331 [22MR]

Bills and resolutions

Contracts: increase the minimum Government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small businesses (see H.R. 3638), H82 [25JA]

———modify contract consolidation requirements (see S. 2466), S3953 [7MY]

———provide a penalty for the failure by a Federal contractor to subcontract with small businesses as described in its subcontracting plan (see H.R. 3637), H82 [25JA]

SBA: establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (see S. 2455), S3843 [2MY] (see S. 2483), S4064 [8MY]

———increase the maximum amount for which a loan can be made under the Microloan Program (see H.R. 3646), H103 [29JA]

Small business: allow certain concerns that have employee stock ownership plans to qualify as HUBZone small business concerns (see H.R. 5347), H6129 [9SE]

———allow certain Presidential interagency task forces to designate certain areas as HUBZones (see H.R. 4805), H2943 [22MY]

———provide additional grants to small business development centers in high unemployment districts (see H.R. 5004), H3859 [24JN]

Veterans: provide service-disabled veterans and other handicapped individuals who own small businesses a time-delimited preference in the award of Federal contracts (see H.R. 5583), H7737 [9OC]

Lists

Supporters of S. 1499, American Small Business Emergency Relief and Recovery Act, S2337 [22MR]

Remarks in House

Veterans: provide service-disabled veterans and other handicapped individuals who own small businesses a time-delimited preference in the award of Federal contracts (H.R. 5583), E1804 [9OC]

Remarks in Senate

Contracts: modify contract consolidation requirements (S. 2466), S3957-S3959 [7MY], S6223 [27JN]

SBA: authorize loans to small businesses and certain other businesses that suffered substantial economic injury as a result of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Somerset County, PA (S. 1499), S2335-S2338 [22MR], S4189 [10MY]

———establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (S. 2483), S4074 [8MY]

Reports filed

National Small Business Regulatory Assistance Act: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate) (S. 2483) (S. Rept. 107-308), S10222 [9OC]

Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate) (S. 2466) (S. Rept. 107-306), S10114 [8OC]

Texts of

S. 2466, Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act, S3958 [7MY]