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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1842 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 19, 2009 

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

Entrepreneurship 

AN ACT 

To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Small 

Business Administration’s entrepreneurial development 

programs, 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 ‘‘Expanding Entrepre3 neurship Act of 2009’’. 

4 SEC. 2. EXPANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP. 

5 Section 4 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 633) 

6 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

7 ‘‘(g) MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION.— 

8 ‘‘(1) PLAN FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOP9 MENT AND JOB CREATION STRATEGY.—The Admin10 istrator shall develop and submit to Congress a plan, 

11 in consultation with a representative from each of 

12 the agency’s entrepreneurial development programs, 

13 for using the Small Business Administration’s entre14 preneurial development programs to create jobs dur15 ing fiscal years 2010 and 2011. The plan shall in16 clude the Administration’s plan for drawing on exist17 ing programs, including Small Business Develop18 ment Centers, Women’s Business Centers, SCORE, 

19 Veterans Business Centers, Native American Out20 reach, and other appropriate programs. The Admin21 istrator shall identify a strategy for each Adminis22 tration region to create or retain jobs through Ad23 ministration programs. The Administrator shall 

24 identify, in consultation with appropriate personnel 

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1 ation, job retention, and job retraining goals, to 

2 evaluate the success of the Administration’s actions 

3 regarding these efforts. 

4 ‘‘(2) DATA COLLECTION PROCESS.—The Ad5 ministrator shall, after notice and opportunity for 

6 comment, promulgate a rule to develop and imple7 ment a consistent data collection process to cover all 

8 entrepreneurial development programs. Such data 

9 collection process shall include data relating to job 

10 creation, performance, and any other data deter11 mined appropriate by the Administrator with respect 

12 to the Administration’s entrepreneurial development 

13 programs. 

14 ‘‘(3) COORDINATION AND ALIGNMENT OF SBA

15 ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.— 

16 The Administrator shall submit annually to Con17 gress, in consultation with other Federal depart18 ments and agencies as appropriate, a report on op19 portunities to foster coordination, limit duplication, 

20 and improve program delivery for Federal entrepre21 neurial development programs. 

22 ‘‘(4) DATABASE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVEL23 OPMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS.—The Administrator 

24 shall, after a period of 60 days for public comment, 

25 establish a database of providers of entrepreneurial 


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1 development services and, make such database avail2 able through the Administration’s Web site. The 

3 database shall be searchable by industry, geography, 

4 and service required. 

5 ‘‘(5) COMMUNITY SPECIALIST.—The Adminis6 trator shall designate not less than one staff member 

7 in each Administration district office as a commu8 nity specialist who has as their full-time responsi9 bility working with local entrepreneurial development 

10 service providers to increase coordination with Fed11 eral resources. The Administrator shall develop 

12 benchmarks for measuring the performance of com13 munity specialists under this subsection. 

14 ‘‘(6) ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT POR15 TAL.—The Administrator shall publish a design for 

16 a Web-based portal to provide comprehensive infor17 mation on the Administration’s entrepreneurial de18 velopment programs. After a period of 60 days for 

19 public comment, the Administrator shall establish 

20 such portal and— 

21 ‘‘(A) integrate under one Web portal, 

22 Small Business Development Centers, Women’s 

23 Business Centers, SCORE, Veterans Business 

24 Centers, the Administration’s distance learning 

25 program, and other programs as appropriate; 


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1 ‘‘(B) revise the Administration’s primary 

2 Web site so that the Web portal described in 

3 subparagraph (A) is available as a link on the 

4 main Web page of the Web site; 

5 ‘‘(C) increase consumer-oriented content 

6 on the Administration’s Web site and focus on 

7 promoting access to business solutions, includ8 ing marketing, financing, and human resources 

9 planning; 

10 ‘‘(D) establish relevant Web content aggre11 gated by industry segment, stage of business 

12 development, level of need, and include referral 

13 links to appropriate Administration services, in14 cluding financing, training and counseling, and 

15 procurement assistance; and 

16 ‘‘(E) provide style guidelines and links for 

17 visitors to the Administration’s Web site to be 

18 able to comment on and evaluate the materials 

19 in terms of their usefulness. 

20 ‘‘(7) PILOT PROGRAMS.—The Administrator 

21 may not conduct any pilot program for a period of 

22 greater than 3 years if the program conflicts with, 

23 or uses the resources of, any of the entrepreneurial 

24 development programs authorized under section 


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1 8(b)(1)(B), 21, 29, 32, or any other provision of this 

2 Act.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives November 18, 

2009. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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