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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2608 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 27, 2011 

Received 

AN ACT 

To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small 

Business Investment Act of 1958, 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 ‘‘Small Business Pro3 gram Extension and Reform Act of 2011’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF AUTHOR5 IZATION OF PROGRAMS UNDER THE SMALL 

6 BUSINESS ACT AND THE SMALL BUSINESS IN7 VESTMENT ACT OF 1958. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1 of the Act entitled ‘‘An 

9 Act to extend temporarily certain authorities of the Small 

10 Business Administration’’, approved October 10, 2006 

11 (Public Law 109–316; 120 Stat. 1742), as most recently 

12 amended by section 2 of the Small Business Additional 

13 Temporary Extension Act of 2011 (Public Law 112–17; 

14 125 Stat. 221), is amended by striking ‘‘July 31, 2011’’ 

15 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2011’’. 

16 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

17 subsection (a) shall take effect on July 30, 2011. 

18 SEC. 3. REPEALS AND OTHER TERMINATIONS. 

19 (a) GENERAL PROVISIONS.— 

20 (1) EFFECTIVE DATE.—A repeal or other ter21 mination of a provision of law made by this section 

22 shall take effect on the date of enactment of this 

23 Act. 

24 (2) RULE.—Nothing in this section shall affect 

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1 anteed before the date of enactment of this Act 

2 under a provision of law repealed or otherwise termi3 nated by this section and any such grant, assistance, 

4 contract, cooperative agreement, or loan shall be 

5 subject to the applicable repealed or otherwise termi6 nated provision, as in effect on the day before the 

7 date of enactment of this Act. 

8 (3) APPLICABILITY OF TEMPORARY EXTEN9 SIONS.—A repeal or other termination of a provision 

10 of law made by this section shall have effect notwith11 standing any temporary extension of programs, au12 thority, or provisions under the Act entitled ‘‘An Act 

13 to extend temporarily certain authorities of the 

14 Small Business Administration’’, approved October 

15 10, 2006 (Public Law 109–316; 120 Stat. 1742). 

16 (b) POLLUTION CONTROL LOANS.—Paragraph (12) 

17 of section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 

18 636(a)) is amended— 

19 (1) by striking ‘‘(A) The Administration’’ and 

20 inserting ‘‘The Administration’’; and 

21 (2) by striking ‘‘research and development’’ and 

22 all that follows and inserting ‘‘research and develop23 ment.’’. 


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1 (c) SMALL BUSINESS INSTITUTE.—Subparagraph 

2 (E) of section 8(b)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 

3 U.S.C. 637(b)(1)) is repealed. 

4 (d) DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE GRANTS.—Paragraph 

5 (3) of section 21(c) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 

6 648(c)) is amended— 

7 (1) in subparagraph (R) by adding ‘‘and’’ at 

8 the end; 

9 (2) in subparagraph (S) by striking ‘‘; and’’ 

10 and inserting a period; and 

11 (3) by striking subparagraph (T). 

12 (e) CENTRAL EUROPEAN SMALL BUSINESS ENTER13 PRISE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.—Section 25 of the 

14 Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 652) is repealed. 

15 (f) PAUL D. COVERDELL DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE

16 PROGRAM.—Section 27 of the Small Business Act (15 

17 U.S.C. 654) is repealed. 

18 (g) PILOT TECHNOLOGY ACCESS PROGRAM.—Sec19 tion 28 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 655) is re20 pealed. 

21 (h) NATIONAL VETERANS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

22 CORPORATION.— 

23 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 33 of the Small 

24 Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657c) is repealed. 


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1 (2) CORPORATION.—Beginning on the date of 

2 enactment of this Act, the National Veterans Busi3 ness Development Corporation and any successor 

4 thereto may not represent that the corporation is 

5 federally chartered or in any other manner author6 ized by the Federal Government. 

7 (i) LEASE GUARANTEES AND POLLUTION CON8 TROL.—Part A of title IV of the Small Business Invest9 ment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 692 et seq.) is repealed. 

10 (j) ALTERNATIVE LOSS RESERVE.—Paragraph (7) of 

11 section 508(c) of the Small Business Investment Act of 

12 1958 (15 U.S.C. 697e(c)) is repealed. 

13 (k) SMALL BUSINESS TELECOMMUTING PILOT PRO14 GRAM.—Subsection (d) of section 1203 of the Energy 

15 Independence and Security Act of 2007 (15 U.S.C. 657h) 

16 is repealed. 

17 (l) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

18 (1) SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT ACT OF

19 1958.—Section 411(i) of the Small Business Invest20 ment Act of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 694b(i)) is amended 

21 to read as follows: 

22 ‘‘(i) Without limiting the authority conferred upon 

23 the Administrator and the Administration by section 201 

24 of this Act, the Administrator and the Administration 

25 shall have, in the performance of and with respect to the 


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1 functions, powers, and duties conferred by this part, all 

2 the authority and be subject to the same conditions pre3 scribed in section 5(b) of the Small Business Act with re4 spect to loans, including the authority to execute sub5 leases, assignments of lease and new leases with any per6 son, firm, organization, or other entity, in order to aid 

7 in the liquidation of obligations of the Administration 

8 hereunder.’’. 

9 (2) TITLE 10.—Section 1142(b)(13) of title 10, 

10 United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘and 

11 the National Veterans Business Development Cor12 poration’’. 

13 (3) TITLE 38.—Subsection (h) of section 3452 

14 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by strik15 ing ‘‘any of the’’ and all that follows and inserting 

16 ‘‘any small business development center described in 

17 section 21 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 

18 648), insofar as such center offers, sponsors, or co19 sponsors an entrepreneurship course, as that term is 

20 defined in section 3675(c)(2).’’. 

21 (4) VETERANS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND

22 SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1999.—Sec23 tion 203(c)(5) of the Veterans Entrepreneurship and 

24 Small Business Development Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. 

25 657b note) is amended by striking ‘‘In cooperation 


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1 with the National Veterans Business Development 

2 Corporation, develop’’ and inserting ‘‘Develop’’. 

3 SEC. 4. TERMINATION OF EMERGING LEADERS PROGRAM. 

4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Ad5 ministrator of the Small Business Administration may not 

6 carry out or otherwise support the program referred to 

7 as ‘‘Emerging Leaders’’ in the document of the Small 

8 Business Administration titled ‘‘FY 2012 Congressional 

9 Budget Justification and FY 2010 Annual Performance 

10 Report’’ (or any predecessor or successor document) and 

11 may not carry out or otherwise support any successor to 

12 that program with similar goals. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 26, 2011. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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