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S 1038 115th Congress Senate Commerce Congressional oversight Disability and paralysis Economic development Minority and disadvantaged businesses Public contracts and procurement Small business Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Women in business

A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to submit to Congress a report on the utilization of small businesses with respect to certain Federal contracts.

Introduced: May 4, 2017 Introduced by: Ernst, Joni Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 2, 2017
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 198.
Aug 2, 2017
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Aug 2, 2017
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
May 4, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
May 4, 2017
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(Sec. 3) This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to report to specified congressional committees on determinations as to:

  • whether small business concerns and each category of covered small business concerns (specified below) are being utilized in a significant portion of the federal market on multiple award contracts, including whether awards are being reserved for one or more of those categories and whether each such category is being given the opportunity to perform on such contracts; and
  • whether current performance requirements for such contracts are feasible and appropriate for small business concerns.

The term "covered small business concerns" means:

  • HUBZone small business concerns,
  • small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans,
  • small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and
  • socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns receiving SBA procurement contracts.

In making such determinations, the SBA shall use information from multiple award contracts: (1) with varied assigned North American Industry Classification System codes, and (2) that were awarded by at least eight federal agencies.

What's happening now August 2, 2017

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 198.

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