I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5813 
To amend the Small Business Act to provide for the establishment of the 
Ports as Small Business Incubators Program to provide eligible small 
businesses with access to commercial real property, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 17, 2012 
Ms. HAHN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Small Business 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Business Act to provide for the estab-
lishment of the Ports as Small Business Incubators Pro-
gram to provide eligible small businesses with access 
to commercial real property, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ports as Small Busi-
ness Incubators Act of 2012’’. 
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SEC. 2. IN GENERAL. 
The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is 
amended by redesignating section 45 as section 46 and 
inserting after section 44 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 45. PORTS AS SMALL BUSINESS INCUBATORS PRO-
GRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of the Ports as Small Business 
Incubators Program Act of 2012, the Administrator shall 
establish the Ports as Small Business Incubators Program 
described in this section. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS.—Any port authority 
that submits an application in such form and containing 
such information as the Administrator may require is eli-
gible to be a participant in the Ports as Small Business 
Incubators Program. The Administrator shall, in the Ad-
ministrator’s discretion, select participants from among 
applicants. 
‘‘(c) GRANT
AWARDS.—The Administrator shall 
award to each participant in the Program a grant in an 
amount not less than $300,000 and not more than 
$500,000. The grant shall be for a term of 5 years. A 
participant who has received a grant and who has com-
plied with subsection (e) may, after the expiration of the 
grant term, apply, in such form and manner as the Ad-
ministrator shall require, for an additional grant. 
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‘‘(d) GRANT USES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A grant under subsection 
(c) may only be used for the costs of providing to 
eligible small business concerns access to commercial 
real property. In providing access under this sub-
section, the participant in the Program shall give 
priority to the following: 
‘‘(A) Small business concerns owned and 
controlled by women. 
‘‘(B) Small business concerns owned and 
controlled by veterans. 
‘‘(C) Small business concerns owned and 
controlled by socially and economically dis-
advantaged individuals. 
‘‘(D) Small business concerns that the par-
ticipant in the Program determines would cre-
ate green jobs. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS.— 
The Administrator shall by rule provide for criteria 
for an eligible small business concern. 
‘‘(3) GREEN JOBS.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the term ‘green jobs’ means jobs involving 
the development of clean energy and improving air 
and water quality. 
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‘‘(e) TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION.— 
A participant in the Program shall— 
‘‘(1) use the grant awarded under subsection 
(c) only for the uses enumerated in subsection (d); 
and 
‘‘(2) on January 1 of each year of the grant 
term, submit to the Administrator a report on how 
the grant was used and how many eligible small 
business concerns were provided with access to com-
mercial real property.’’. 
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