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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 5249

To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small

Business Administration to establish a vocational and technical entrepreneurship development demonstration program.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 21, 2000

Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania (for himself and Ms. VELA ́

ZQUEZ) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business

A BILL

To amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish

a vocational and technical entrepreneurship development

demonstration program.

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 ‘‘Vocational and Tech5 nical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2000’’.
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1 SEC. 2. VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ENTREPRENEUR2 SHIP DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION PRO3 GRAM.

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Small Business Act (15

5 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended—

6 (1) by redesignating section 34 as section 35;

7 and

8 (2) by inserting after section 33 the following

9 new section:

10 ‘‘SEC. 34. VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ENTREPRENEUR11 SHIP DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION PRO12 GRAM.

13 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—In accordance with this sec14 tion, the Administrator of the Small Business Administra15 tion (in this section referred to as the ‘Administrator’)

16 shall establish a demonstration program under which the

17 Administrator may make grants to, or enter into coopera18 tive agreements or contracts with, small business develop19 ment centers described in section 21 to provide technical

20 assistance to secondary schools, or to postsecondary voca21 tional or technical schools, for the development and imple22 mentation of curricula designed to promote vocational and

23 technical entrepreneurship.

24 ‘‘(b) MINIMUM GRANT.—The Administrator may

25 make no grant under the demonstration program for an

26 amount less than $500,000.
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1 ‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—Each small business develop2 ment center seeking assistance made available under the

3 demonstration program shall submit to the Administrator

4 an application in such form as the Administrator may re5 quire, except that the Administrator shall require that

6 such application include information regarding the appli7 cant’s goals and objectives for the educational programs

8 to be assisted.

9 ‘‘(d) REPORT TO ADMINISTRATOR.—Not later than

10 1 year after receiving assistance made available under the

11 demonstration program, each small business development

12 center receiving such assistance shall transmit to the Ad13 ministrator a report describing how the assistance was

14 used.

15 ‘‘(e) EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS.—

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year in

17 which assistance is made available under this sec18 tion, the Administrator, in coordination with the

19 Secretary of Education, shall conduct an evaluation

20 of the vocational and technical entrepreneurship edu21 cation programs carried out with assistance made

22 available under the demonstration program.

23 ‘‘(2) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after

24 completion of an evaluation under paragraph (1),
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1 the Administrator shall transmit to the Congress a

2 report containing the results of the evaluation.

3 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be

5 appropriated $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years

6 2001 through 2003.

7 ‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated

8 under paragraph (1) shall remain available until ex9 pended.’’.

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