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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1839 

To amend the Small Business Act to improve SCORE, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 1, 2009 

Mr. BUCHANAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Small Business 

A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to improve SCORE, 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. EXPANSION OF VOLUNTEER REPRESENTATION 

4 AND BENCHMARK REPORTS. 

5 (a) EXPANSION OF VOLUNTEER REPRESENTA6 TION.—Section 8(b)(1)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 

7 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(i)’’ after 

8 ‘‘(B)’’ and by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(ii) The Administrator shall ensure that 

10 SCORE, established under this subparagraph, car11 ries out a plan to increase the proportion of mentors 


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1 who are from socially or economically disadvantaged 

2 backgrounds and, on an annual basis, reports to the 

3 Administrator on the implementation of this sub4 paragraph.’’. 

5 (b) BENCHMARK REPORTS.—Section 8(b)(1)(B) of 

6 the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B)), as 

7 amended, is further amended by adding at the end the 

8 following: 

9 ‘‘(iii) The Administrator shall ensure that 

10 SCORE, established under this subparagraph, estab11 lishes benchmarks for use in evaluating the perform12 ance of its activities and the performance of its vol13 unteers. The benchmarks shall include benchmarks 

14 relating to the demographic characteristics and the 

15 geographic characteristics of persons assisted by 

16 SCORE, benchmarks relating to the hours spent 

17 mentoring by volunteers, and benchmarks relating to 

18 the performance of the persons assisted by SCORE. 

19 SCORE shall report, on an annual basis, to the Ad20 ministrator the extent to which the benchmarks es21 tablished under this clause are being attained.’’. 

22 SEC. 2. MENTORING AND NETWORKING. 

23 Section 8(b)(1)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 

24 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B)), as amended, is further amended by 

25 adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(iv) The Administrator shall ensure that 

2 SCORE, established under this subparagraph, estab3 lishes a mentoring program for small business con4 cerns that provides one-on-one advice to small busi5 ness concerns from qualified counselors. For pur6 poses of this clause, qualified counselors are coun7 selors with at least 10 years experience in the indus8 try sector or area of responsibility of the small busi9 ness concern seeking advice. 

10 ‘‘(v) The Administrator shall carry out a net11 working program through SCORE, established 

12 under this subparagraph, that provides small busi13 ness concerns with the opportunity to make business 

14 contacts in their industry or geographic region.’’. 

15 SEC. 3. NAME OF PROGRAM CHANGED TO SCORE. 

16 (a) NAME CHANGE.—The Small Business Act is 

17 amended— 

18 (1) in section 8(b)(1)(B) (15 U.S.C. 

19 637(b)(1)(B)), by striking ‘‘Executives (SCORE)’’ 

20 and inserting ‘‘Executives (in this Act referred to as 

21 ‘SCORE’)’’; 

22 (2) in section 7(m)(3)(A)(i)(VIII) (15 U.S.C. 

23 636(m)(3)(A)(i)(VIII)), by striking ‘‘the Service 

24 Corps of Retired Executives’’ and inserting 

25 ‘‘SCORE’’; 


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1 (3) in section 20 (15 U.S.C. 631 note)— 

2 (A) in subsection (d)(1)(E), by striking 

3 ‘‘the Service Corps of Retired Executives pro4 gram’’ and inserting ‘‘SCORE’’; and 

5 (B) in subsection (e)(1)(E), by striking 

6 ‘‘the Service Corps of Retired Executives pro7 gram’’ and inserting ‘‘SCORE’’; and 

8 (4) in section 33(b)(2) (15 U.S.C. 657c(b)(2), 

9 by striking ‘‘the Service Corps of Retired Executives 

10 program’’ and inserting ‘‘SCORE’’. 

11 (b) ELIMINATION OF ACE.—Section 8(b)(1)(B) of 

12 the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)(B)), as 

13 amended, is further amended by striking ‘‘and an Active 

14 Corps of Executive (ACE)’’. 

15 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

16 Section 20 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 

17 note) is amended by inserting the following new subsection 

18 after subsection (e): 

19 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR

20 SCORE.—There is authorized to be appropriated 

21 $7,000,000 for SCORE under section 8(b)(1) for each of 

22 the fiscal years 2010 and 2011.’’. 

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