I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3175 
To assure equity in contracting between the Federal Government and small 
business concerns, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2015 
Ms. BONAMICI introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To assure equity in contracting between the Federal Govern-
ment and small business concerns, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Assuring Contracting 
Equity Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL CONTRACTING GOALS. 
(a) 
INCREASE
IN
CERTAIN
GOALS.—Section 
15(g)(1)(A) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
644(g)(1)(A)) is amended— 
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(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘not less than 23 
percent’’ and inserting ‘‘not less than 25 percent’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘not less than 5 percent’’ each 
place that term appears and inserting ‘‘not less than 
10 percent’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘not less than 3 percent’’ each 
place that term appears and inserting ‘‘not less than 
6 percent’’. 
(b) LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF CATEGORIES FOR 
WHICH
A SMALL BUSINESS MAY QUALIFY.—Section 
15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF CATEGORIES 
FOR WHICH A SMALL BUSINESS MAY QUALIFY.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘specified category’ means small business 
concerns, small business concerns owned and 
controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified 
HUBZone small business concerns, small busi-
ness concerns owned and controlled by socially 
and economically disadvantaged individuals, and 
small business concerns owned and controlled 
by women. 
‘‘(B) LIMITATION.—Except as provided 
under subparagraph (C), a Federal agency may 
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include a business concern in not more than 2 
specified categories for purposes of determining 
whether the Federal agency has met the Gov-
ernmentwide goals under this subsection for the 
award of contracts to business concerns in spec-
ified categories. 
‘‘(C) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—A Fed-
eral agency may not include a small business 
concern that is participating in the program 
under section 8(a) in any specified category ex-
cept the category ‘small business concerns 
owned and controlled by socially and economi-
cally disadvantaged individuals’ for purposes of 
determining whether the Federal agency has 
met the Governmentwide goals under this sub-
section for the award of contracts to business 
concerns in specified categories.’’. 
SEC. 3. IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY TO ASSIST SMALL 
BUSINESS CONCERNS. 
Section 15(h)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 644(h)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (E)(viii)(VIII), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’ ; and 
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(3) by adding at the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(G) for the Federal Government, the per-
centage of participation by small business con-
cerns for the total value of all prime contract 
awards and subcontract awards for a fiscal 
year, including the value of each prime contract 
and subcontract awarded for the fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 4. COMPLIANCE WITH SMALL BUSINESS SUBCON-
TRACTING GOALS. 
The Administrator of the Small Business Administra-
tion shall consult with the heads of other Federal agencies 
to develop and implement standards for procurement offi-
cers to take into consideration the past compliance of po-
tential contractors with small business subcontracting 
goals when making contract awards. 
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