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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4326 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 20, 2016 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 

Entrepreneurship 

AN ACT 

To amend the Small Business Act to expand the duties 

of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small and Disadvan3 taged Business Enhancement Act of 2016’’. 

4 SEC. 2. EXPANDING DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF SMALL AND 

5 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 15(k) of the Small Busi7 ness Act (15 U.S.C. 644(k)), as amended by section 870 

8 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

9 2016 (Public Law 114–92), is amended— 

10 (1) by striking ‘‘section 8, 15 or 44’’ and in11 serting ‘‘section 8, 15, 31, 36, or 44’’; 

12 (2) by striking ‘‘sections 8 and 15’’ each place 

13 such term appears and inserting ‘‘sections 8, 15, 31, 

14 36, and 44’’; 

15 (3) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘section 

16 8(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 8, 15, 31, or 36’’; 

17 (4) by redesignating paragraphs (15), (16), and 

18 (17) as paragraphs (16), (17), and (18), respec19 tively; 

20 (5) by inserting after paragraph (14) the fol21 lowing new paragraph: 

22 ‘‘(15) shall review purchases made by the agen23 cy greater than the micro-purchase threshold defined 

24 in section 1902(a) of title 41, United States Code, 

25 and less than the simplified acquisition threshold to 

26 ensure that the purchases have been made in compliVerDate Sep 11 2014 23:19 Apr 21, 2016 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4326.RFS H4326

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1 ance with the provisions of this Act and have been 

2 properly recorded in the Federal Procurement Data 

3 System, if the method of payment is a purchase card 

4 issued by the Department of Defense pursuant to 

5 section 2784 of title 10, United States Code, or by 

6 the head of an executive agency pursuant to section 

7 1909 of title 41, United States Code;’’; and 

8 (6) in paragraph (17) (as so redesignated)— 

9 (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

10 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

11 (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 

12 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

13 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

14 subparagraph: 

15 ‘‘(D) any failure of the agency to comply 

16 with section 8, 15, 31, or 36.’’. 

17 (b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 3(m) of the 

18 Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(m)) is amended to 

19 read as follows: 

20 ‘‘(m) SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD.—In 

21 this Act, the term ‘simplified acquisition threshold’ has the 


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1 meaning given such term in section 134 of title 41, United 

2 States Code.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives April 19, 2016. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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