SMALL BUSINESS ACT

Articles and editorials

SBA Program Looks Sound, H4450 [14JN]

Bills and resolutions

Contracts: enhance section 8(a) program (see H.R. 4474), H11326 [8DE]

———increase the minimum Government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small businesses (see H.R. 2742), H4142 [26MY]

———modify contract consolidation requirements (see S. 137), S145 [24JA]

———provide a penalty for the failure by a Federal contractor to subcontract with small businesses as described in its subcontracting plan (see H.R. 2741), H4142 [26MY]

Credit: provide for increased access to capital for small businesses under the section 7(a) guarantee loan program (see H.R. 1868), H2646 [27AP]

Disasters: establish an energy emergency disaster loan program (see H.R. 4178), H9425 [28OC]

FCC: increase participation by small businesses in spectrum auctions (see H.R. 1661), H2101 [14AP]

SBA: establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (see S. 1411), S8384 [15JY] (see H.R. 230), H78 [4JA]

———expand the HUBZone program to include Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands (see H.R. 1148), H1023 [8MR]

———increase the maximum amount for which a loan can be made under the Microloan Program (see H.R. 194), H77 [4JA]

———permit business concerns owned by venture capital operating companies to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research Program (see S. 1263), S6740 [16JN] (see H.R. 2943), H4655 [16JN]

———permit women's business centers to recompete for sustainability grants (see S. 1517), S9158 [27JY]

Small business: amend the definition of disaster to include below average water levels in the Great Lakes for purposes of certain SBA loan programs (see S. 413), S1622 [17FE]

Remarks in House

FCC: increase participation by small businesses in spectrum auctions (H.R. 1661), E662 [15AP]

SBA: expand the HUBZone program to include Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands (H.R. 1148), E380 [8MR]

———7(a) guaranteed loan program funding, H4449-H4454 [14JN], H8975 [19OC], E1242 [15JN]

Remarks in Senate

Contracts: modify contract consolidation requirements (S. 137), S351-S353 [24JA]

Dept. of Energy: prevent the counting of subcontracts toward small business prime contracting goal, S4089 [21AP]

———small business subcontracting program requirements, S4842 [10MY]

SBA: establish a pilot program to provide regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses (S. 1411), S8385 [15JY]

———loan programs funding, S2947 [17MR]

———permit business concerns owned by venture capital operating companies to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research Program (S. 1263), S6758 [16JN]

———permit women's business centers to recompete for sustainability grants (S. 1517), S9198, S9199 [27JY]

Reports filed

National Small Business Regulatory Assistance Act: Committee on Small Business (House) (H.R. 230) (H. Rept. 109-208), H7556 [28JY]

Statements

Dept. of Energy Small Business Subcontracting Program: Representative Manzullo, Committee on Small Business (House) and Senator Snowe, Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Senate), S4843 [10MY], H3016 [5MY]

Texts of

S. 137, Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act, S353-S355 [24JA]

S. 1263, Save America's Biotechnology Innovative Research (SABIR) Act, S6759 [16JN]

S. 1411, National Small Business Regulatory Assistance Act, S8385 [15JY]

S. 1517, permit women's business centers to recompete for sustainability grants, S9199 [27JY]