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NEW START Act of 2019

Introduced: April 9, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Apr 9, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Apr 9, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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Necessary Entrepreneurship Workshops via the SBA to Transform and Assist Re-entry Training Act of 2019 or the NEW START Act of 2019

This bill establishes a pilot program for providing entrepreneurial development assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals.

Specifically, the bill requires the Small Business Administration to establish a pilot program whereby it awards grants to organizations or partnerships that create or support entrepreneurship programs for providing assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals. Such assistance shall be in the form of entrepreneurial development programming that includes the disbursement of microloans.

The Government Accountability Office must submit a report evaluating the (1) services that grant recipients provide to formerly incarcerated individuals, (2) oversight of the pilot program by the SBA, and (3) overall performance and impacts of the pilot program.

What's happening now April 9, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Kaine, Tim
Virginia · Jun 13, 2019
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Blumenthal, Richard
Connecticut · Jun 11, 2019
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Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Jun 4, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1077: NEW START Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1077/
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"S. 1077: NEW START Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1077/.
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S. 1077, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1077/.
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