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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3429 

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to carry out a 

study on procurement under the American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 26, 2010 

Mr. CASEY introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the Comptroller General of the United States 

to carry out a study on procurement under the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. STUDY BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL. 

4 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act— 

5 (1) the terms ‘‘HUBZone small business con6 cern’’, ‘‘small business concern’’, ‘‘small business 

7 concern owned and controlled by service-disabled 

8 veterans’’, and ‘‘small business concern owned and 

9 controlled by women’’ have the meaning given those 


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1 terms under section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 

2 U.S.C. 632); 

3 (2) the term ‘‘minority business enterprise’’ 

4 means a small business concern that is uncondition5 ally owned, controlled, and managed by an individual 

6 who is— 

7 (A) a Black American; 

8 (B) a Hispanic American; 

9 (C) a Native American, including an Amer10 ican Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, or Native Hawai11 ian; 

12 (D) an Asian Pacific American, including 

13 an individual having origins in any of the origi14 nal peoples of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, 

15 Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, China 

16 (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, Laos, Cam17 bodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, North Korea, 

18 South Korea, the Philippines, a United States 

19 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (including 

20 the Republic of Palau), the Republic of the 

21 Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Mi22 cronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern 

23 Mariana Islands, Guam, Samoa, Macao, Fiji, 

24 Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, or Nauru; 


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1 (E) a Subcontinent Asian American, in2 cluding an individual having origins in any of 

3 the original peoples of India, Pakistan, Ban4 gladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives Is5 lands, or Nepal; or 

6 (F) a member of another minority group, 

7 as determined by the Administrator of the 

8 Small Business Administration; 

9 (3) the term ‘‘qualified HUBZone small busi10 ness concern’’ means a HUBZone small business 

11 concern that is qualified under section 3(p)(5) of the 

12 Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(p)(5)); and 

13 (4) the term ‘‘small business concern owned 

14 and controlled by socially and economically disadvan15 taged individuals’’ has the meaning given that term 

16 in section 8(d)(3)(C) of the Small Business Act (15 

17 U.S.C. 637(d)(3)(C)). 

18 (b) STUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General of 

19 the United States shall carry out a study on the participa20 tion of small business concerns owned and controlled by 

21 socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, mi22 nority business enterprises, and small business concerns 

23 owned and controlled by women in procurement contracts 

24 awarded using funds made available under division A of 


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1 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

2 (Public Law 111–5; 123 Stat. 116), which shall include— 

3 (1) determining the percentage of all contracts 

4 awarded by Federal agencies and departments using 

5 funds made available under the American Recovery 

6 and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5) 

7 that were awarded to— 

8 (A) small business concerns owned and 

9 controlled by socially and economically dis10 advantaged individuals; 

11 (B) minority business enterprises; and 

12 (C) small business concerns owned and 

13 controlled by women; and 

14 (2) evaluating whether Federal agencies and de15 partments have met the Government-wide goals es16 tablished under section 15(g) of the Small Business 

17 Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) for procurement contracts 

18 awarded to small business concerns, small business 

19 concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled 

20 veterans, qualified HUBZone small business con21 cerns, small business concerns owned and controlled 

22 by socially and economically disadvantaged individ23 uals, and small business concerns owned and con24 trolled by women, with respect to procurement con25 tracts awarded using funds made available under diVerDate Mar 15 2010 00:05 May 27, 2010 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3429.IS S3429

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1 vision A of the American Recovery and Reinvest2 ment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5; 123 Stat. 

3 116). 

4 (c) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date 

5 of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall 

6 submit to Congress a report on the results of the study 

7 required under subsection (b). 

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