HR 4149
108th Congress
House
Commerce
Administrative procedure
Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Industrial research
Labor and Employment
Law
Pension funds
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Venture capital
To amend the Small Business Act to permit business concerns that are owned by venture capital operating companies or pension plans to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 8, 2004
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
Apr 2, 2004
Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Apr 2, 2004
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Small Business Act to state that a business shall not be prevented from participating in the Small Business Innovation Research Program (a program under which a portion of Federal agencies' research and development efforts is reserved for award to small businesses) solely because the business is owned in part by: (1) a venture capital operating company managed and controlled by one or more U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens; or (2) an employee benefit or pension plan.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
Committees of jurisdiction
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