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106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 80

To establish the position of Assistant United States Trade Representative

for Small Business, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 19, 1999

Ms. SNOWE introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Finance

A BILL

To establish the position of Assistant United States Trade

Representative for Small Business, 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 ‘‘Small Business En5 hancement Act of 1999’’.

6 SEC. 2. ASSISTANT UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTA7 TIVE FOR SMALL BUSINESS.

8 The United States Trade Representative shall estab9 lish a new position of Assistant United States Trade Rep10 resentative for Small Business to promote exports by small
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1 businesses and to remove foreign impediments to the suc2 cess of such undertakings.

3 SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ANALYSIS.

4 (a) CBO ANALYSIS.—Title IV of the Congressional

5 Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) is amended

6 by inserting after section 407 the following new section:

7 ‘‘SMALL BUSINESS COST ANALYSIS BY CONGRESSIONAL

8 BUDGET OFFICE

9 ‘‘SEC. 408. (a) The Director of the Congressional

10 Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare for

11 each bill or resolution of a public character reported by

12 any committee of the House of Representatives or the Sen13 ate (except the Committee on Appropriations of each

14 House), and submit to such committee—

15 ‘‘(1) an estimate of the costs which would be in16 curred in carrying out such bill or resolution in the

17 fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in

18 each of the 4 fiscal years following such fiscal year,

19 together with the basis for each such estimate;

20 ‘‘(2) an estimate of the cost which would be in21 curred by small businesses in carrying out or com22 plying with any significant bill or resolution in the

23 fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in

24 each of the 4 fiscal years following such fiscal year,

25 together with the basis for each such estimate; and
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1 ‘‘(3) a comparison of the estimates of costs de2 scribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) with any available

3 estimates of costs made by such committee or by a

4 Federal agency.

5 The estimates, comparison, and description so submitted

6 shall be included in the report accompanying such bill or

7 resolution if timely submitted to such committee before

8 such report is filed.

9 ‘‘(b) For purposes of this section—

10 ‘‘(1) the term ‘small business’ has the same

11 meaning as the term ‘small-business concern’ in sec12 tion 3(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.

13 632(a)); and

14 ‘‘(2) the term ‘significant bill or resolution’

15 means any bill or resolution which in the judgment

16 of the Director of the Congressional Budget Office

17 is likely to result in an average annual cost to a

18 small business of $1,000 or more, or is likely to have

19 exceptional fiscal consequences for a geographic re20 gion or a particular industry segment.’’.

21 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con22 tents set forth in section 2(b) of the Congressional Budget

23 and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by in24 serting after the item relating to section 407 the following:

‘‘Sec. 408. Small business cost analysis by Congressional Budget Office.’’.

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