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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2460 

To amend the Small Business Act to provide for the establishment of the 

Ports as Small Business Incubators Program to provide eligible small 

businesses with access to commercial real property, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 20, 2013 

Ms. HAHN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Small Business 

A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to provide for the establishment of the Ports as Small Business Incubators Program to provide eligible small businesses with access 

to commercial real property, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ports as Small Busi5 ness Incubators Act of 2013’’. 

6 SEC. 2. IN GENERAL. 

7 The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is 

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1 tions 46, 47, and 48, respectively and inserting after sec2 tion 44 the following: 

3 ‘‘SEC. 45. PORTS AS SMALL BUSINESS INCUBATORS PRO4 GRAM. 

5 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 

6 after the date of enactment of the Ports as Small Business 

7 Incubators Program Act of 2013, the Administrator shall 

8 establish the Ports as Small Business Incubators Program 

9 described in this section. 

10 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS.—Any port authority 

11 that submits an application in such form and containing 

12 such information as the Administrator may require is eli13 gible to be a participant in the Ports as Small Business 

14 Incubators Program. The Administrator shall, in the Ad15 ministrator’s discretion, select participants from among 

16 applicants. 

17 ‘‘(c) GRANT AWARDS.—The Administrator shall 

18 award to each participant in the Program a grant in an 

19 amount not less than $300,000 and not more than 

20 $500,000. The grant shall be for a term of 5 years. A 

21 participant who has received a grant and who has com22 plied with subsection (e) may, after the expiration of the 

23 grant term, apply, in such form and manner as the Ad24 ministrator shall require, for an additional grant. 

25 ‘‘(d) GRANT USES.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A grant under subsection 

2 (c) may only be used for the costs of providing to 

3 eligible small business concerns access to commercial 

4 real property. In providing access under this sub5 section, the participant in the Program shall give 

6 priority to the following: 

7 ‘‘(A) Small business concerns owned and 

8 controlled by women. 

9 ‘‘(B) Small business concerns owned and 

10 controlled by veterans. 

11 ‘‘(C) Small business concerns owned and 

12 controlled by socially and economically dis13 advantaged individuals. 

14 ‘‘(D) Small business concerns that the par15 ticipant in the Program determines would cre16 ate green jobs. 

17 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS.— 

18 The Administrator shall by rule provide for criteria 

19 for an eligible small business concern. 

20 ‘‘(3) GREEN JOBS.—For purposes of this sub21 section, the term ‘green jobs’ means jobs involving 

22 the development of clean energy and improving air 

23 and water quality. 

24 ‘‘(e) TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION.— 

25 A participant in the Program shall— 


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1 ‘‘(1) use the grant awarded under subsection 

2 (c) only for the uses enumerated in subsection (d); 

3 and 

4 ‘‘(2) on January 1 of each year of the grant 

5 term, submit to the Administrator a report on how 

6 the grant was used and how many eligible small 

7 business concerns were provided with access to com8 mercial real property.’’. 

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