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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3198 

To amend the Small Business Act to improve the entrepreneurial development 

programs of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 17, 2012 

Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself and Ms. SNOWE) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business 

and Entrepreneurship 

A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to improve the entrepreneurial development programs of the Small Business Administration, 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 ‘‘Strengthening Re5 sources for America’s Entrepreneurs Act of 2012’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXPANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP. 

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

8 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(g) MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) PLAN FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOP2 MENT AND JOB CREATION STRATEGY.— 

3 ‘‘(A) PLAN REQUIRED.—The Adminis4 trator, in consultation with a representative 

5 from each entrepreneurial development program 

6 of the Administration, shall develop and submit 

7 to Congress a plan for using the entrepreneurial 

8 development programs of the Administration to 

9 create jobs during fiscal years 2013 and 2014. 

10 ‘‘(B) CONTENTS OF PLAN.—The plan re11 quired under subparagraph (A) shall— 

12 ‘‘(i) include the plan of the Adminis13 trator for using existing programs, includ14 ing small business development centers, 

15 women’s business centers, the Service 

16 Corps of Retired Executives authorized by 

17 section 8(b)(1), veterans business centers, 

18 and programs of the Office of Native 

19 American Affairs, to create jobs; 

20 ‘‘(ii) identify a strategy for each re21 gion of the Administration to use programs 

22 of the Administration to create or retain 

23 jobs in the region; and 

24 ‘‘(iii) establish performance measures 

25 and criteria, including goals for job creVerDate Mar 15 2010 03:09 May 18, 2012 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3198.IS S3198

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1 ation, job retention, and job retraining, to 

2 evaluate the success of the plan. 

3 ‘‘(2) DATA COLLECTION PROCESS.— 

4 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator 

5 shall, after notice and opportunity for comment, 

6 promulgate a rule to develop and implement a 

7 consistent data collection process for the entre8 preneurial development programs. 

9 ‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—The data collection 

10 process developed under subparagraph (A) shall 

11 collect data relating to job creation and per12 formance and any other data determined appro13 priate by the Administrator. 

14 ‘‘(3) COORDINATION AND ALIGNMENT OF SBA

15 ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.— 

16 The Administrator, in consultation with other Fed17 eral departments and agencies as the Administrator 

18 determines is appropriate, shall submit an annual 

19 report to Congress describing opportunities to foster 

20 coordination of, limit duplication among, and im21 prove program delivery for Federal entrepreneurial 

22 development programs. 

23 ‘‘(4) DATABASE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVEL24 OPMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—After providing a 

2 period of 60 days for public comment, the Ad3 ministrator shall— 

4 ‘‘(i) establish a database of providers 

5 of entrepreneurial development services; 

6 and 

7 ‘‘(ii) make the database available 

8 through the website of the Administration. 

9 ‘‘(B) SEARCHABILITY.—The database es10 tablished under subparagraph (A) shall be 

11 searchable by industry, geographic location, and 

12 service required. 

13 ‘‘(5) COMMUNITY SPECIALIST.— 

14 ‘‘(A) DESIGNATION.—The Administrator 

15 shall designate not fewer than 1 staff member 

16 in each district office of the Administration as 

17 a community specialist whose full-time responsi18 bility is working with local providers of entre19 preneurial development services to increase co20 ordination with Federal entrepreneurial devel21 opment programs. 

22 ‘‘(B) PERFORMANCE.—The Administrator 

23 shall develop benchmarks for measuring the 


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1 performance of community specialists under 

2 this paragraph.’’. 

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